I Am the Swarm

This is a question that Luo Wen has never thought of, and it belongs to his blind spot in thinking.

In addition to not seeing male ants, there is another point that it was not so much a matter of producing eggs in the mother's nest, and it could be produced directly without anything else.

Maybe the mother nest also knows that if it needs that process, it may not grow so big, and it will be killed by Rowan early.

Knowing the key to the problem, it absorbed the gene fragment of the male ant, and the brood then produced several eggs of the male ant.

After a period of time, the queen ants lay eggs smoothly.

But these eggs hatched out of pure ants, without any black technology.

However, fortunately, these little guys will still obey Rowan's command.

Moreover, in addition to having pheromone recognition, they are also considered brood products, so they also have two types of identification systems.

However, this was far from what Luo Wen expected.

He didn't come to raise ants. If the swarm couldn't grow stronger with him, then what's the point of collective energy?

After that, Rowan conducted several experiments.

Although the mother nest was born out of the queen gene of black ants, it has mutated later and has already become beyond recognition.

Rowan extracted some of his own genes and some of the brood's genes and tried various combinations, and finally he combined a barely passable solution.

The queen ants hatched by the new method have an operating mechanism closer to that of the mother nest, and can lay eggs on their own without the need for male ants.

And some optimized combinations of genes can be used to produce some special bugs, such as digging ants, spy ants and the like.

Of course, it also has some disadvantages, such as no way to update the gene pool.

From the moment it leaves the brood in the egg state, the gene fragments that can be used in the body are fixed, and it cannot be connected to Rowan at any time like the brood to keep the gene pool in sync.

Another example is that it can't separate the brood alone like Rowan. Limited by its food intake and time, it can't gobble up food for energy 24 hours a day like the brood. Therefore, its growth rate is relatively slow, and its egg production cannot be compared with that of the brood.

However, these flaws can be made up for in some ways.

For example, the first point can produce a batch of new queens at regular intervals to update their gene pool. The second point is that the output of a single unit is not enough, but they do not have the restriction that it is difficult for the brood to give birth to a second one, so they can win by quantity.

If one doesn't work, then two, if two don't work, then ten or a hundred.

The expansion speed of the insect nest suddenly accelerated, and at the same time, the first batch of ten queen ant eggs, which were used as experiments and observations, were also produced.

During the period of growth and development of the queen ant, the army of insect nests expanded wildly, and dozens of ant nests were cleared out in a short period of time.

None of the more than 30 ant nests that provided food for the insect nests were spared, and all of them were wiped out, and their sites were also taken over by the insect nests.

Unfortunately, due to the distance, although the new site has been established, it cannot be guarded and developed for the time being.

But this was only temporary, as the ten queen ants matured, it was time for them to play a role.

Luo Wen equipped each ant queen with 300 digging ants, 700 ordinary worker ants, and 50 soldier ants as their personal guards.

After the distribution and assembly were completed, the ten teams set off in different directions towards the front line.

They will serve as seeds to start branch nests in new territories and create more aphid pastures around them. At the same time, they also need to use the resources in the territory to continue to expand the number of ethnic groups, while ensuring the security of the territory, they must also protect the safety of the brood.

Rowan was a little excited. If the experiments with these seeds were really successful and feasible, then the growth rate of the bug swarm would climb several notches.

Suppressing the army of yellow ants and avenging the revenge of the year finally has a clue, ahem.

Although there is a branch queen, the production of the mother nest has not stopped.

After replenishing the troops assigned to the ten queen ants, the newly mature individuals were sent to the front to support the ten branch bases.

After all, the output of those queen ants is still too low for the time being, let them use the limited energy to develop themselves first.

With the support of the mother's nest, the sub-base slowly developed. As the number of insects in the sub-base increased, new aphid pastures appeared on the vegetation around the base.

Everything in the experiment went smoothly, so in the following period of time, the hive army continued to expand.

Successively, more than 20 ant queens rushed to the new territory with their personal guards, where they set up camp and built their branch bases.

With the dots of sub-bases all over this area, the range of activities of the bugs is also much larger.

These queen ants are not like black ants. After they are separated, they become a new independent group, using a new identity system and identification system.

The queen ants produced by the mother nest are more like some kind of extension after they go out, and each sub-base and the nest still share the identity system and identification system.

No matter which branch the bugs are, they can still enter and exit the nest and other branch bases, where they can get supplies and rest.

Rowan remains their supreme commander.

Time flies, and every few days, a new team of ant queens will set off to the front line to guard new territories.

The sphere of influence of the insect nest was backed by the cliff, and an army of 50,000 insect swarms rapidly expanded northward along the eastern lake shore. After reaching the end of the lake, the army divided into two groups, one continued to the north, and the other continued to turn east along the shore of the lake.

Afterwards, the army of the East Road was stopped by the small river flowing out of the lake, and they followed the direction of the river to advance northward, and then rejoined the army of the North Road.

On the other side, 30,000 bugs formed the West Road Army, all the way west.

When his strength was still relatively weak, Luo Wen had been hiding in the lake to the east, staying far away from there. When he was a human, he had an inexplicable fear of deep water.

After turning into a bug, his body shrunk, and even a small puddle seemed bottomless to him.

Moreover, out of fear of the unknown, he didn't know if there were any terrifying creatures hiding in the water.

Later, as the strength of the worm nest grew day by day, he also sent many younger brothers to patrol and investigate, and nothing happened. He also climbed on the tall vegetation very close to the shore, looking at the lake in the distance.

It's a pity that the lake has been calm and there is nothing abnormal, and he can't see the situation underwater.

As time passed, Rowan's defensiveness became less serious. Although he had been sending troops to patrol and investigate before, he never really expanded his sphere of influence there.

But now, the territory of the insect nest has already included half of the lake shore.

Now, Rowan hopes that something crawls out of the lake, maybe it can provide some new genetic fragments.

His gene pool has not been updated in a long time.

It's a pity that the creatures in the lake uphold the spirit of well water not violating river water, and there is no sign of going ashore.