I Am the Swarm

After only one day of the long-awaited expedition to the bottom of the lake, Rowan regretted hatching a hundred thousand diving army.

There is no way, a small part is left to occupy the lake bottom world, and the rest are all sent to the river, maybe they can find something if they go down the river.

After the arrangements were made, Rowan no longer paid attention to this place, and instead focused on the operation of the swarm.

Time flies, and hundreds of days and nights have passed in a blink of an eye. Now Rowan has found a new pleasure, that is, watching the number of insect swarms continue to increase gives him a strange sense of satisfaction.

The territory of the swarm continued to expand, and the bases had expanded to tens of thousands. The average number of worms in each base was around 100,000. That is to say, the number of swarms had reached more than one billion.

This is because the hatching of the queen ants cannot keep up with the expansion of the territory, and the density of branch bases in all the territories occupied in the later period is far from what it was at the beginning.

Correspondingly, the number of bugs in each base has increased significantly, from 30,000 to 100,000, and this number is still increasing.

However, Rowan was not satisfied.

The swarm now masters the two black-tech industries of breeding and planting. The food problem that restricted the development of the swarm at the beginning has been solved.

What restricts the development of the insect swarm now is that the production capacity cannot keep up. Only the mother nest can hatch for the queen ant, and the mother nest has grown to the maximum due to the structure, and the production capacity has been fixed.

In the early stage, the mother nest that could produce hundreds of queen ants could not keep up with the progress.

The production capacity of queen ants is even worse. Due to their size, their egg production is limited. Even if they work non-stop, their efficiency will not be much higher.

There is no way to improve the brood for the time being. Rowan originally considered whether it is possible to increase the size of the queen ants to increase their egg-laying efficiency.

But at present, Rowan has mastered the genes that can make the body bigger, except for a set of genes that improve the oxygen supply system, the rest are to strengthen the muscle structure to increase the body size.

And these genes have a little effect on the oxygen supply system, and the rest only increase the muscle density and body shape of the queen ant, and have no effect on the improvement of the queen's production organs.

In this regard, Rowan has no good solution. It can only be accumulated slowly over time.

Fortunately, the swarm is advancing now, and has not encountered any decent opponents yet.

The big-headed ant nests that had fought with the swarm at the beginning had also encountered several nests during this time.

When history repeated itself, as regional overlords, their leaf-picking troops were intercepted. Later, when millions of troops were mobilized and rushed to support, the results turned upside down.

This time the swarm did not fight and run because of the inferior force. The 2 million troops back then had increased to 20 million. The army directly surrounded and wiped out the millions of big-headed ants.

Although the battle damage exceeded one million, is this loss a big deal for a swarm of over one billion bugs?

Moreover, the insect swarm has already spread branches and leaves on the east bank of the lake and river, but due to insufficient support, it has only developed hundreds of bases to serve as bridgeheads.

The situation on the other side is similar to this side, after all, it is not far away.

The basic types of bugs are still those, there is nothing to emphasize, anyway, as long as they are touched by the bug swarm, they will be recycled into protein.

On the other side, several species of small aquatic insects were also found in the diving insects going down the river. It's a pity that their talents are similar, and they didn't bring any surprises to Luo Wen.

But the east is not bright and the west is bright. Just now, news came from the army in the middle that a squad of 500,000 people was completely wiped out by an unknown enemy. The army ant queen did not act rashly, and at the same time she suspended the advance, she sent a messenger to report to Luo Wen.

Hearing this news, Luo Wen was not angry, but excited. Finally, some decent enemies came out and took two steps. I don’t know if they have any unique talents. Let’s discuss and exchange ideas.

At the same time, he lamented that the IQ of the new version of the ant queen has improved again, and he already knows how to do what he likes, knowing that he is bored, and knowing that when he encounters good things, he knows to leave them to solve.

Because the marching range of the army in the middle is too wide, the number has increased to tens of millions, and the advance is usually scattered. Therefore, all kinds of road sign pheromones along the way were messed up.

Because he disliked the slow speed of the communication soldiers, Luo Wen went out alone and searched for a long time. It was not until noon the next day that he found the camp of the army in the middle. This was because his observation distance was far enough, otherwise he would not know how long it would take to search.

These guys have been out of touch with the forward position for a long time, but he didn't suspect that there were any traps or that the central army was wiped out by the enemy as he did a long time ago. Because the times have changed, there is no force that can quietly eat up tens of millions of troops without missing a trace.

Moreover, since the annihilated team can let the queen find clues, it means that although the enemy may be strong, they are not too strong.

However, it's superfluous to think about it now, he's already at the place, and he'll be able to see what's going on with the other party right away.

Under the leadership of the scouts, Rowan came to the place where the team disappeared. There are pheromones full of messy information everywhere here, and there are still some arthropods on the scene that may not have been cleaned up because of too little meat.

What surprised Rowan was that there were many black and corrosive marks on the ground. They are not caused by formic acid solution, but rather like burnt marks, and there is an indelible stench around them.

This is a bit strange, since Luo Wen was reincarnated, he has never seen such a thing as a flame. If he hadn't been well-informed, an aborigine would really not be able to recognize what caused the scorched blackness.

But it's outrageous to have such traces in this original ecological environment. Everyone is fighting hand to hand. At most, spray some formic acid. Who the fuck started playing with fire? This is a little too much.

Following these remaining traces, Rowan quickly found the residence of the fire player. Because it is too conspicuous here, it has more features than the nest of big-headed ants.

This is a tall earthen fortress, 20 meters high, which is higher than many nearby trees. So much so that people can't ignore it at a glance.

However, although the fortress is very high, it does not occupy a large area, only a few square meters. From a distance, it looks like a rocket about to be launched, and it looks like a corn cob stuck in the ground.

As the distance draws closer, the material of this "corn cob" is densely porous soil cement, which seems to be the masterpiece of some social insect, or it may be a brand new ant species.

Moreover, he was so talented that Luo Wen's eyes lit up.

However, they didn't seem to welcome the "neighbors" who came to ask for explanations. Rowan had already walked to the door, but no one came out to greet them.

However, it doesn't matter, Luo Wen has quite a lot of experience in how to call the door.