I Am the Swarm

The new queens will be of three types.

The first type of ant queens has the smallest number. They are mainly responsible for going out with the army and acting as the commander of the army. Because they basically do not need to lay eggs, their ability to lay eggs has been weakened, their muscles and body size have been strengthened, and their ability to move and protect themselves has been slightly improved.

The second type of queen is the standard queen before the swarm. Their abilities are relatively average. They can not only lay eggs, but also can evacuate the base at any time at critical moments, or be transferred to the army. At the same time, their number is also the largest.

The third type of queen is the one that has implanted the newly acquired gene and alienated the egg-laying organ in the abdomen. They are incapacitated for greater and rapid spawning. But also because of this, they will be arranged in the hinterland of the swarm territory.

Luo Wen will build several breeding bases, and each base plans to arrange hundreds of these three types of queens to concentrate on breeding larvae. They will mass-produce certain types of bugs according to Rowan's orders.

For example, in normal times, their main task is to breed all kinds of worker ants, and after the larvae mature, they are transported to various parts of the territory. In wartime, these bases are large troop dispatch points.

Dozens of days later, the three types of ant queens gradually matured, and the number of insect swarms began to explode.

And for such a long time, the swarm has also mastered the "mushroom" planting method. This new crop can effectively clean up the dead branches and leaves in the territory, and it is easy to grow and has sufficient quantity, so it has been widely promoted.

At the same time, the bug swarm did not completely imitate the architectural style of the yellow bug, but tried to adopt the construction layout of the big-headed ant with multiple cooling holes.

After experimenting in several bases and observing a growth cycle, the "mushroom" grew well and was not affected in any way, and it was also promoted.

Hundreds of days and nights have passed, and the territory of the swarm has expanded hundreds of kilometers, with a total of more than 30,000 bases in the territory. In the later period, the distance between the various bases was very large, and it was no longer the scene of dozens of bases in the first few hundred square meters.

Later, Rowan even re-planned the first few thousand bases, leaving only a few hundred queen ants to take care of these bases, and the rest were all transferred to the new territory to guard.

Although there are thousands more bases without queen ants, these bases have not been abandoned. Their underground planting systems are already very complete, and there will be no problems without queen ants.

Although the base is limited by the production capacity of the brood, the increase is not much. But the number of bugs in each base has doubled. On average, each base gathers millions of bugs of various kinds.

Roughly calculated, the total number of insect swarms exceeds 30 billion.

With so many subordinates, he has always been stuck in his throat. When he was relatively weak, he was seriously injured by a powerful enemy. Rowan felt that it was time to touch them.

Thinking of this, Luo Wen was very excited. He is not a person who holds vengeance. Revenge is secondary. The most important thing is that there is finally something to look forward to.

But it is a pity that it will take at least two hundred days before the yellow ants hunt to the top of the cliff again.

Very early on, Rowan sent scouts to station on the cliff. Through observation, it has been calculated that it takes more than four hundred days for the yellow ants to hunt around.

More than a hundred days ago, when the yellow ants safaried to the top of the cliff, Luo Wen didn't have any thoughts about them at that time, because he felt that he was not strong enough.

But he greatly underestimated the speed of the swarm's storm. With the accumulation of the number of queen ants, the speed of the storm increased exponentially.

However, just over a hundred days later, Luo Wen's thoughts changed. At the current speed, when the yellow ants come next time, the swarm may have hundreds of billions.

It's completely possible to just have a fight with the yellow ants.

As a result, the following days passed extra slowly in Rowan's expectation, which made him experience a feeling of living like years.

Finally, there are only dozens of days until the yellow ants come again, and the swarm has already begun to prepare for the upcoming battle.

Soldiers and horses move ahead without food and grass!

At a place about one kilometer away from the cliff, Rowan built several storage bases here, and a large number of transport bugs shuttled between the territories, continuously transporting various resources here.

Not far from these storage bases, there are several incubation bases, where a large number of soldier ant eggs are hatched. It is estimated that by the time of the war, these hatching bases can replenish tens of millions of soldier ants of various types for the insect swarm every day.

There were still more than ten days before the calculation time, and several armies began to return. Subsequently, some bases farthest from the cliff began to send troops.

As time went by, each base began to send troops in a hierarchical manner. If you look at it from above, you can see that in the territory of the insect swarm, black lines of soldiers are converging towards the bottom of the cliff.

According to Rowan's prediction, the swarm army will be assembled three days before the calculation date.

After more than 200 days of development, the total number of insect swarms has reached 100 billion ahead of schedule. For this large-scale war, Rowan mobilized almost all available soldiers.

Under the condition of ensuring the normal operation of the farms and plantations in the territory, fully half of the bugs were called to the front line.

These more than 50 billion bugs will consume a lot of supplies every day they stay. Therefore, Rowan arranged for them to arrive three days in advance, which is also the limit of the swarm's burden.

However, seven days before the date of calculation, the scouts on the cliff had already discovered the vanguard of the yellow ants.

According to the law, there are still two days at most, and the follow-up army will definitely arrive. But at this time, most of the troops of the swarm were still on the road, and even after two days, only about half of them could be assembled.

Unexpectedly, this time, for some unknown reason, the yellow ants would come early. But fortunately, there were not many ahead of time, and Rowan had expected this to happen before.

Now there is no need to worry about the material problem, as long as the two sides fight, a lot of food will be produced.

What needs to be considered now is how to hold back the army of yellow ants for two days.

It didn't take two days for the army of yellowish ants to arrive. Maybe they noticed some abnormalities, after all, their vanguard has not sent back news for a long time.

The army of swarms leaned against the cliff, and were already preparing for battle. The composition of the army this time is still dominated by various soldier ants. After all, the opponent also has acid-resistant armor, and the role of worker ants is not great.

Natural yellow ants can know how aggressive they are from the way they live in safari.

When he found the insect swarm in front of him, without any hesitation, he immediately launched the ejection and rushed up.

These guys are the source of the genetic template for the ejection start, so it is naturally handy to use this trick. But the soldier ants of the swarm were not at all timid, and they also ejected and started to meet them.

The war has officially begun.