I Am the Swarm

As time passed, the armies of the East and West Routes also crossed mountains and mountains, crossed lakes and rivers, and pushed the territory of the insect swarm to the seaside. Only the army of the South Road continued to advance for thousands of kilometers after digesting the vast desert area, but there was still no trace of the ocean.

On land, the swarm has already dominated one side, and the next journey is the sea. Perhaps, when crossing the boundless ocean, in other parts of the planet, new continents can be discovered.

On the coastline at the edge of the swarm territory, naval bases rose up one after another. A large number of swarms of Pipi shrimp and crabs began to form troops, and began to explore the depth and breadth of the ocean at the same time.

Just when the swarm was about to march into the ocean, Rowan felt the opportunity again when he came into contact with the brood.

Only this time, it didn't appear to be blurry and paradoxical, but clear and distinct.

In an instant, Luo Wen had a glimmer of understanding.

The time has come!

A sharp neigh came from Rowan's mouth, and as the tentacles swayed violently, pheromones containing instructions permeated the surroundings.

All kinds of bugs around seemed to pause and freeze in an instant.

But in an instant, the picture came alive again.

The worms who received the order started to spread the new order crazily, and the transport worms rushed towards all directions carrying the messengers.

With the brood base as a dot, the branch bases that radiate outward began to receive new command information one after another.

Although this order is a bit strange, the swarm can be said to be Rowan's derivatives. They maintain absolute loyalty to Rowan and have no doubts about the order.

The type II queen ant in the base began to issue orders, and the surrounding aphid pastures were devastated.

The poor aphids used to live the lives of men, they were fed, and even their poops were cleaned up regularly.

But suddenly, the servants who took care of them turned their faces. Sharp jaws penetrate their bodies, and they are then coated in a mixture of syrup and saliva to prevent decay.

Pack it up, load it up, take it away.

The same happened to the underground plantations. They were harvested destructively without considering the long flow of water. Even the roots and seedlings were packaged and sealed.

The wild bugs in the territory were also unlucky, and they encountered carpet cleaning. Even a grasshopper with strong jumping ability and good escape ability cannot escape this kind of raid.

The bugs at the branch base, after finding all the food they could bring, started to head towards the brood base in a mighty way.

Looking at the ground from the air, on the vast land, branch bases were abandoned in all directions. The bugs abandoned their roosts, packed everything, and gathered towards the same spot.

The location where the mother nest base is located, as time goes by, more and more bugs gather.

At the beginning of the battle with the earthy yellow ants, 90% of the insects were wiped out, and then it only took more than two hundred days for the insect swarm to return to the number of hundreds of billions before the war.

But now, after such a long time, tens of thousands of the new version of the ant queen have been produced, and the number of bugs is even more numerous.

Although the bugs brought everything they had before coming to the brood base, such a large number of bugs would consume a lot of food every day.

And these foods, except for the area not far from the brood base, there are still some leftovers when they arrive here. In the rest of the distance, the food has basically been consumed on the road.

Fortunately, the bugs also have the talent of eating soil. Although they can't replenish much physical strength, they can maintain basic vital signs.

The dense piles of bugs covered the area around the brood base. Bringing this picture closer, the various details in it are believed to be quite friendly to patients with trypophobia.

The ground in this large area has been sunken for more than ten meters out of thin air. After the insects eat the soil, they will absorb a small amount of nutrients and excrete most of the rest.

Usually, these excretions are quite good fertilizers and will be transported by specialized worker ants to the surrounding trees.

But now tens of billions of bugs gather, and a mountain can be discharged every day, so naturally no bugs will bother to transport these things away.

Therefore, these things will basically be used again, and then twice, three times...

After more than a hundred days, among the insect swarm, apart from the marine species such as crabs, green shrimps, and pippi shrimps, even the sampan insects and diving insects gathered along the river to the lake next to the brood base.

The critical moment finally arrived.

On a sunny morning, Rowan took a deep breath, looked at the black worm mountains around him, turned around and crawled into the ground, and docked his tail to the brood after a long absence.

The bugs in the base were all driven to the ground.

He didn't want anyone else to see this shameful gesture.

Although, now is his full body.

After calming down, a sharp hiss pierced the ground.

A strange wave rising from Luo Wen's body, accompanied by hissing, quickly radiated in all directions.

The bugs swept by the strange fluctuations all took a roaring posture.

Although many of them are dumb units, at this moment, they are shouting with their souls.

As more and more bugs are added, the shouts range from faint to shocking.

A trace of unique energy rises from the bugs and gathers on Luo Wen.

A ray of white light gradually penetrated Luo Wen's worm eyes, and the white light became more and more intense, even shooting three feet away, illuminating the entire underground base.

As more and more energy was gathered, the quantitative change produced a qualitative change, and the dazzling white light gradually took on a strange and noble purple.

Slowly, the bugs closest to Rowan burned up their unknown energy, maintained a shouting posture, and were frozen in this moment forever.

Although most of the worms are small in size, the trillions of bugs still explode with incredible power.

The insect mountains fell into silence one by one, but Luo Wen's shriek became louder and louder.

Finally, the last bug also contributed everything.

At the same time, Rowan's hissing stopped abruptly.

The white-purple light that shot out of the eyes gradually converged and shrank back.

Rowan's consciousness was a little blurred at this moment, and his extreme exhaustion made him wish Lima could fall asleep.

This kind of exhaustion is not physical, but spiritual, so he has no way to resist, and he doesn't want to resist.

He now needs a long hibernation to digest this change.

The mother's nest had also shrunk and shriveled. Rowan broke the link with it, held on to his spirit, and exhausted his last strength. He crawled deep underground along the passage dug in advance.

This place was dug in advance, reaching 300 meters underground.

Although there is a room underground that is not spacious, it is large enough to accommodate Rowan. It has been reinforced countless times by worker ants and slime worms, enough to guarantee resistance to severe earthquakes and other natural disasters.

After Rowan arrived here, he destroyed the passage and sealed the cave entrance.

At this moment, he had already lost the protection of the insect swarm, and he didn't know how long he would sleep this time, so it was better to be careful.

After doing all this, Rowan couldn't bear the exhaustion of his soul anymore, and fell into a deep sleep.

Some liquid seeped out from his body, and gradually condensed into a cocoon to envelop him.