I Am the Swarm

In addition, he felt that a lot of changes had taken place in his body, and he seemed to be different from before.

If Rowan's knowledge of entomology is richer, he may be able to guess based on the spider's body structure that the support system in his body has also been updated. However, he will soon be able to find this gene fragment through the brood.

The new oxygen system can support his growth to a larger size.

But he didn't have the ability to spin silk, so it's normal to think about it. That creature just looked like a spider. For convenience, Rowan named it in a way he could understand, but who knew what it was.

Moreover, its hunting method is to pretend to be a stone and sneak attack, and it has not shown any talent in weaving nets.

Luo Wen didn't feel any regrets for not gaining the ability to spin silk.

This time, just relying on these six legs and fangs, I have already made a lot of money. The rest are side details, and if they are there, they are just icing on the cake.

The vengeance was avenged, and Luo Wen also temporarily lost the mind to work hard. As a result, this area ushered in a period of peaceful development.

With the help of four ant nests, the number of bugs in the nest is increasing day by day. Relying on the ant nest alone has gradually been unable to meet the daily consumption of the insect nest.

However, some time ago, the big-eyed scout ants sent out found three new ant nests. The new transport channel is ready to start excavation. I believe that the supply of a total of seven ant nests will be able to support the development of the insect nest for a period of time.

Hundreds of days and nights passed in a blink of an eye, and Rowan didn't know how long a year was on this planet, and the climate change in his area was not obvious. It seems to be like this every day, and the plants germinate and lose leaves irregularly, and it is impossible to tell the difference between spring, summer, autumn and winter.

After such a long time, the insect nest is now connected to thirty-five ant nests around it, supporting a huge colony of more than 10,000 worker ants and hundreds of soldier ants.

As far as this number is concerned, it is the result of Luo Wen's intentional control, otherwise the number of bugs will at least double.

The specific reason is that the transportation line is too long.

The farthest ant nest was nearly one kilometer away from the insect nest. When the transport engineer ran to the storage room where the food was stolen, his physical strength was basically exhausted. After eating less than half of the food prepared in the storage room, transport the rest back, and eat some on the way... By the time they returned to the insect nest, there was not much food left.

If you use quantified data as an example. Every morning, a transport worker ant eats one unit of food before departure, then arrives at the storage room of the ant nest No. 35, eats one unit of food, and transports two units of food back.

After returning, eat half a unit of food, rest for one night, eat a unit of food the next morning and set off, repeating the cycle.

It can be seen from the data that the cost of transporting two units of food back by a transporter ant is actually consuming 2.5 units of food, which is not worth the loss.

And each ant nest can steal food every day has a certain upper limit, if the upper limit is exceeded, the normal operation of the ant nest will be affected, and the food they can provide will gradually decrease. Therefore, for the sake of sustainable development, their reserves cannot be exhausted.

Therefore, since dozens of days ago, the insect nests have stopped expanding, and even the ant nests numbered after 30 have rarely sent transport teams there. Only some spy ants were left to eat and drink there.

Rowan also thought about eating dirt for all the staff, but after the experiment, it was found that the energy conversion obtained by eating dirt alone was too low. The soil-eating skill is only suitable for use when avoiding extreme danger, keeping everyone silent, and maintaining the lowest survival loss.

To put it simply, eating soil can only ensure that you will sleep all day long, do not work, and do not starve to death without physical exertion, and cannot maintain the daily consumption during normal work.

Now the development of the worm nest has entered a bottleneck period. To continue to expand the scale, Rowan thought of several methods. One is to improve transportation efficiency. Although ants are strong men, they can carry food several times their own weight. It's a pity they don't have the means of transport at hand to use their talents.

With their jaws alone, if the food itself is not divided, it can carry a little more. Unfortunately, most of the food smuggled out of the ant nest has been ground to pieces.

They are now like cars with a load of one ton, but there is only one front and no rear bucket, and the cab can only load tens or hundreds of kilograms each time.

So, if there is any way to increase their cargo capacity, to the potential they should have. Then how can the sphere of influence of the insect nest be expanded several times.

It's a pity that Luo Wen doesn't know how to build a car body, so he can only hope to encounter a bug with a car body to extract its gene fragments. But when you can encounter this kind of bug depends on fate, and it's hard to say whether there is such a bug.

The second solution is to relocate the insect nest. The position of the insect nest is now backed by the cliff. When the strength of the early insect nest was still very weak, the advantage of this position is that you only need to guard against possible enemies that may appear in the front. Don’t worry too much Will be attacked from behind.

But now the strength of the insect nest is already very strong, if the insect nest is moved to a location where a large number of ant nests can be radiated around. So with the current transportation capacity of the insect nest, the number of ant nests that can be connected will at least double.

There are more ant nests in China Unicom, which means that there are more food that can be stolen, and the problems we are facing now are naturally solved.

But this method only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. The fundamental problem has not been solved, but it is simply alleviated. Now the size of the insect nest is also very large, and it is not so easy to move it once.

And even if they moved to a new location, the passage to connect to the ant nest would not be completed in a day or two, and there was no way to solve how to spend this time.

The third solution is to clean up the ant nests near the current nests, occupy a piece of land on the ground, and obtain some food independently.

Now there are four ant nests that are very close to each other. In order not to conflict with them, the bugs usually don't wander around on the ground.

The current food supply of the insect nest depends on the transportation of each ant nest. It can be said that except for the soldier ants, all the members are transportation teams. This ecological model is too deformed and too dependent.

Therefore, if a piece of land on the surface can be obtained, then some food can be produced independently. For example, if you raise the little green bugs on the leaves, you can also rely on his wisdom to expand the breeding scale. Although the production methods of those foods are somewhat criticized, they can be eaten by the younger brothers.

Compared with the previous two options, the third option is the most feasible.

However, the surrounding ant nest tool bugs did a good job, and it was hard work to bear the burden of hard work. Coupled with Rowan's lazy thinking and lack of aggressiveness, the matter was delayed like this.

Until a few days ago, some mutations occurred.