I Am the Swarm

Both sides of the battlefield came and went. To Luo Wen's surprise, although the Red Ant's mixed army had a steady stream of reinforcements, it was still beaten and retreated.

The soldier ants in the new species of ants have big heads, so we call them big-headed ants for the time being.

Compared with the reckless players like the red and black coalition, the big-headed ant is more tactical.

All types of soldier ants are covered with large and small worker ants to defend the backs of the soldier ants.

Whenever red ants approach the soldier ants, these worker ants will rush down from the soldier ants' backs to wrap around the red ants, and the soldier ants will look for opportunities to kill them with one blow.

To deal with poisoning players like red ants, it is difficult to threaten soldier ants only by relying on the weapons and equipment of black ants. The soldier ants' jaw teeth, which grow with their body size, can easily deal with black ants.

Although the two sides invested almost the same amount of troops, one side's main combat arm was restrained by tactics, and it was almost impossible to rely on the auxiliary worker ants to win.

The direction of the war was exactly as Luo Wen predicted, the vital forces of the red and black coalition forces were constantly being eroded, and the battle loss ratio far exceeded that of the big-headed ants.

Faced with such a situation, the big-headed ants did not rush for quick success, but still proceeded steadily and slowly.

This battle lasted for two days, and the battlefield was changed several times. Most of them ended with the Red Ant side losing tens of thousands of insect corpses and retreating in defeat. There was only one time when the red ants attacked a small group of big-headed ants and won by absolute numbers.

It's just that for some reason, when cleaning the battlefield, many remains of soldier ants were inexplicably lost. Especially the corpses of those two super giant soldier ants, not a single one was left behind.

The lost wreckage was naturally taken away by Luo Wenshun, who approached the battlefield disguised as a stone. After picking and picking, he put the harvest on his back, and then left the battlefield with his eight long legs traversing a few times. It can be said that he came and went without a trace.

This super-giant soldier ant can grow to such a large size using an ant template, so there must be something unique about it. Now that I have the gene, I will study it later when I have time.

He is not in a hurry to go back to the mother's nest right now. He needs to figure out where the new big-headed ant came from first.

Three days later, after the red ants successively lost more than 100,000 troops, although they were still fighting high, they refused to retreat. But the big-headed ants already felt that the harvest was full, and they would not have the troops to transport the spoils they got if they continued to fight.

So, very abruptly, when the red ants gathered another large army to fight against the big-headed ants, they found that their opponents had disappeared.

The red ants didn't know what was going on, but Luo Wen, who had been keeping an eye on the battlefield, was not negligent. The hundreds of thousands of big-headed ants retreated with their spoils, which was considered a large-scale operation.

Without cover, it is impossible to escape Rowan's long-distance monitoring.

Their way of returning is somewhat similar to that of insect swarms. Various types of soldier ants and some large and medium-sized workers act as transport vehicles, while worker ants below the size of small workers climb on their backs, saving physical exertion and at the same time By the way, help fix the loot.

As far as the joint battle between the infantry and tanks they showed before and the current transportation mode, the big-headed ants are a lot more advanced than other ant species.

The return speed of the big-headed ants was unexpectedly fast, because they had already returned to the nest after traveling less than two kilometers.

This made Luo Wen quite surprised. You must know that the swarm can now control a territory with a radius of more than ten kilometers. And the ant nest that can mobilize so many large combat units, even if it is not as good as the swarm, the area they control should not be so small.

"Could it be that the territories in other directions are longer?" Then Rowan shook his head. According to his contact with these ant species, their territories should radiate evenly in all directions.

If no special factors intervene, their nests should be in the very center of the territory.

There are many special factors, such as obstacles that cannot be crossed in one direction, such as rivers and cliffs. Another example is that scouts in a certain direction continue to disappear...

"Could it be because of the red ants' nest?" However, Luo Wen immediately denied this idea. With the fighting power shown by the big-headed ants army, if they really want to expand, the red ant nest can't stop them at all.

Luo Wen shook his head, giving up and continuing to think. There is too little information available now to analyze too many things. And before resolving the red ant nest between the two, the two sides will not be able to have a conflict.

Therefore, he still has plenty of time. When he observes the big-headed ants and obtains more information, he will naturally be able to analyze something.

The ant nest of the big-headed ant is also different from other ant species. Luo Wen was also very surprised when he first saw it.

It was a small mound covering an area of ​​20 to 30 square meters. There was a circle of holes in the middle of the mound, and there were very obvious signs of trampling in front of each exit door.

The army of hundreds of thousands of big-headed ants that Rowan was tracking was divided into several teams and carried the spoils into the nest from several adjacent holes.

If it's just this, it's just a few more exits than other ant nests.

But apart from these passage openings, on the top of this small mound, there are also many small protrusions densely built, with holes in the middle of the protrusions, shaped like small chimneys.

Moreover, there are no traces of trampling around these "chimneys", which are obviously not imports and exports. However, ants are pragmatists and will never make useless decorations. These "chimneys" must have their special functions.

But what is it for, Luo Wen can only sigh, if he is still the petite body before, he can easily sneak in to see what's going on.

However, Rowan has no regrets. With his current size, there are few things that can threaten his life. Compared with my own life, everything else is secondary.

You can't understand it just by looking at it, and you can't get in if you sneak in. It's a waste of time to stay here any longer.

Glancing at those "chimneys" again, suppressing the curiosity in his heart, Rowan turned and ran in other directions.

Luo Wen just ate some high-protein food, so he walked very fast. In just one day, he walked around the big-headed ant nest.

The strange thing is that the territory of big-headed ants is really not big.

In other directions, Luo Wen also found traces of ants in other ant nests at about two kilometers away.

This is easy to distinguish from the pheromones. Rowan found at least eleven pheromone residues of different identities on the border of the big-headed ant nest with a radius of two kilometers.

This shows that the bighead ant has the same custom as other ant species, and the nest is placed in the center of the territory.

But this is strange, with such a small territory, how to support such a huge base of troops?