I Am the Swarm

After finding the new change, Rowan stepped on the mud at the bottom of the river and slowly moved towards the sea.

The seawater that was slowly becoming salty did not make Rowan feel the slightest difference, and his new underwater breathing system could perfectly filter out the salt in the seawater.

After exiting the sea estuary, they gradually entered the sea, but the underwater scene here made Luo Wen a little disappointed.

Maybe it's because of the cold, there are very few underwater plants, but there are quite a few shrimps and crabs lurking in the crevices of the reefs on the seabed. Some even wanted to take the opportunity to attack Rowan.

Rowan's chelicerae are still powerful weapons on the bottom of the sea, but the resistance in the water makes them more bulky, and it is difficult to get a good way against those small and flexible shrimp creatures.

But those crabs that also raised their pincers to protest at him were killed by him a lot. It's a pity that he doesn't have the ability to eat underwater now, and it's inconvenient to carry, so he can only discard these super fresh seafood for nothing.

As he continued to advance along the bottom of the sea, the sea became deeper and deeper, and the pressure on him became greater and greater. However, his exoskeleton armor seems to have a good ability to resist pressure naturally, so he didn't feel too much discomfort.

When Rowan dived to more than 300 meters, the sunlight on the sea surface could hardly reach this depth. While his unique eye structure allows him to see with a little light, his eyes are powerless against the situation if there is no light at all.

When the water depth was close to 400 meters, the surroundings were completely pitch black. Fear of the unknown made Luo Wen dare not go further. The air bag between his abdomen and the carapace began to inflate, leading his body to slowly float towards the surface of the sea.

As the altitude rose, the surrounding scenes began to retransmit to Rowan's mind.

At this moment, a Pippi shrimp-like creature suddenly sprang out from the darkness below, rushing towards him at an extremely fast speed.

However, its body, which is only more than ten centimeters long, does not make Luo Wen feel threatened, although he has no good way to deal with the flexible Pippi Shrimp.

Although Luo Wen can't keep up with Pippi Shrimp, he can see it clearly with a good dynamic visual capture system. This Pippi shrimp was different from what he remembered. The two forelimbs were not sharp "sickles" but a pair of small hammers.

Pippi Shrimp turned flexibly in the sea, and approached Luo Wen in a few strokes. Luo Wen clumsily stretched out his claws to drive it away. By the way, to see if the blind cat can touch the dead mouse, the Pippi shrimp bumped into his pincers by itself and lay down.

If Pippi Shrimp could talk, he would definitely complain: "You're thinking about farting!"

Suddenly, Pippi Shrimp was blocked by a big claw, and immediately rushed forward. Luo Wen saw a flash of light flashing across the corner of his eyes, and then felt that the claw was hit hard by a strong force.

Luo Wen knew that Pippi Shrimp attacked him with her hammer forelimb at this time, but with his previous invincible dynamic vision, he couldn't see clearly what happened just now.

At this time, Pippi Shrimp seemed to finally realize that Luo Wen was not easy to mess with, so he turned around nimbly and disappeared into the dark deep sea in a few strokes.

Since Rowan grew to such a large size, he has never been provoked like this, but looking at the dark and boundless sea, it is probably difficult to avenge this revenge.

After surfacing from the sea, Luo Wen identified the direction, and at this time he was already several kilometers away from the land. He raised the impacted claw and looked at it, and there was a small crack on it. Although the injury was not serious, it was extremely insulting, and he became even more angry for a while.

But after getting angry, Luo Wen was stunned again. His claws can be said to be the strongest part of his body armor. Coupled with the size gap between him and Pippi Shrimp, Pippi Shrimp's attack can actually cause damage to him.

This is not a sinister trick such as poisoning. Pippi Shrimp's tough fighting power simply breaks through the sky. If Rowan was about the same size as it, he might have to be pierced through the armor in one fell swoop.

Since Luo Wen only had a pair of swimming feet, his swimming speed was not fast. Fortunately, he was not in a hurry. There were all kinds of huge ice blocks around his body, which seemed to have floated from further north.

Suddenly, his eyes froze, and there was an oval, flat-bodied insect of unknown species frozen on the ice in front of him.

This was a surprise. Rowan had never seen this bug before, and eating it would definitely give him some new gene fragments.

Although I don't know if it works.

He climbed onto the ice, scraped through the ice with his claws, and dug out the worm.

I don't know if this bug is dead or alive, but it looks like it has been frozen for a long time, so it should have been a fart long ago. Fortunately, because it has been refrigerated, the freshness is not bad.

After eating some snacks, Rowan took a little more time and finally returned to land.

There is nothing to see here for the time being, and it is not a reliable thing to rely on him to explore the sea alone. And he doesn't like the environment here very much.

Although his cold resistance attribute is not bad, the cold can still stagnate his senses, which is very bad.

Therefore, after he ordered the team to continue to be stationed here, he began to return to the main base.

Go back to the general base and connect to the brood.

First, update the gene of the unproduced queen order, and load the new underwater breathing system into it.

At the same time, Rowan also learned about the gene of the unknown frozen bug. It has a special talent for dormancy. When it was dug out by Rowan, it was still hibernating.

Luo Wen smacked his mouth, recalling the taste of seafood. This talent is useless for the time being, so don't worry about it.

Dozens of days later, the first batch of new queen ant queens matured, and Rowan immediately sent them to the seaside development base.

More than a hundred days later, a killed Pipi shrimp was sent to Luo Wen.

But after traveling thousands of kilometers, the Pipi shrimp stinks to the sky, and the meat is rotten. Although Luo Wen is not so particular now, he still has no way to speak.

No way, in order to eat fresh seafood sashimi, Luo Wen traveled for dozens of days to the seaside base.

An ant queen has already settled here, and the scale of the base has expanded a lot. For Rowan's arrival, the base did not hold any grand welcome ceremony, but just rearranged his original "heating room".

After resting for a day, the Swarm Navy set off early the next morning under Rowan's watchful eyes.

Since there is only one type II queen ant in this base, the ability to lay eggs is not strong, so there are not too many insects that can enter the sea, and there are only two types.

One uses crab as a gene template, and the other uses freshwater shrimp as a template.

Both kinds of insects have their own advantages and disadvantages. The powerful claws and thick carapace of crabs endow them with a high offensive and defensive index, but their mobility is poor.

Although the attack and defense index of freshwater shrimp is not high, the way of catapulting and swimming endows them with changeable trajectory and fast movement speed.

The Pippi Shrimp moves nimbly and quickly, its defense is not weak, and its attack power is very strong, just like a tyrant in the sea.

Therefore, if you want to hunt Pippi shrimp with crabs and green shrimps alone, you also need some luck.