I Am the Swarm

When Luo Wen returned to the sub-base, he happened to see black ants crawling out of the cave one after another.

They not only hold the food in their mouths, but also carry out the eggs, pupae, and larvae, and they don't seem to have any intention of killing them.

"Do they still want to adopt these larvae?" Rowan was a little puzzled.

At the same time, he also discovered another strange phenomenon.

All the black ants were working, and the red ants were watching from the sidelines, not showing the slightest intention of helping, and seemed a little idle.

An irresistible thought emerged from Luo Wen's mind. Could it be that the joking thought just now was the truth of the matter?

He changed his pheromone and began to disguise his identity. He slowly approached the past while observing the reaction there, ready to run away at any time.

Fortunately, the pheromone camouflage was still effective on the red ants, and they did not respond to Rowan's approach at all.

But for some unknown reason, some red ants started fighting with each other.

More than a dozen red ants bit together like wrestling, and then began to wrestle, surrounded by a large circle of red ants outside.

"Is this their entertainment?"

The thinking of these little guys was a bit confused, and Rowan couldn't figure out their behavior patterns for the time being.

For the sake of caution, he didn't dare to go deep into the enemy's army rashly. If he met a brainless man who was big and wanted to compare his strength with him, he might be exposed.

It circled around the enemy army and found that these ants, no matter they were black or red, they all used the same identification.

This shows that they are a group, and the red ants are not some kind of reinforcements that have been invited.

This discovery further corroborated his guess just now.

After a while, the black ants finally emptied the branch base, and the army set off with the spoils, and Rowan immediately followed.

On the way, these thousands of red and black ants coalition joined a friendly army coming from other directions, and merged into an army of more than 10,000.

Then they left the nest territory, and on the way they turned to exterminate a black ant nest, emptying it of its supplies and larvae.

Now the black ants basically each carried something.

The coalition forces went back on the road, this time without turning on the way, all the way back to their old lair.

It is more than 500 meters away from the territory of the insect nest, and what greets the eyes is a towering mound, coupled with the huge hole, like a volcano.

Countless red and black ants crawled on the mound.

The coalition forces that had just returned entered the cave with their supplies, but Luo Wen stopped in his tracks.

He would not rashly enter the local cave until he figured out under what circumstances the red ant would look for an opponent to fight. The situation inside is unknown, if his identity is revealed, hundreds of thousands of red ants will surround him and poison him, he probably will confess to it inside.

Rowan sneaked into the ground and turned around. The structure of the ant nest underground was very large, far surpassing any black ant nest he had ever seen.

With such a large nest with the size of red ants, even if there are many black ants inside, the number of them is quite astonishing, at least tens of thousands.

This is an astonishing number. Even if the nest currently has more than 200,000 bugs, most of them are scattered to various bases to maintain the operation of the territory, and only tens of thousands can be drawn out to participate in the battle.

This is still not counting the transportation of supplies. If it becomes a protracted war, at least half of it will be allocated to transport supplies.

This battle is not easy to fight, but with the habits of both sides, one side must be eliminated.

Luo Wen crawled out of the ground, followed several teams to scout around, and even attacked a few red ants to satisfy their hunger.

After a few days of observation, he found that the behavior of red ants is more like that of bandits. They do not produce themselves, but live by robbery. They are much more numerous than those seen in their nests.

They have a lot of teams outside, and they will run a very long distance from the nest to sweep. The main target of attack is the nest of black ants. They will rush right into the nest and kill the queen inside.

Then for some unknown reason, after the queen dies, they gain the allegiance of most of the surviving black ants. After killing a small number of unwilling converts, they will order the surrendered black ants to carry supplies and larvae eggs.

Red ants form a team of two to three thousand, and usually bring back black ants that are several times their size when they return. After these black ants are brought back, in addition to taking care of the larvae and looking for aphid food around them, they are also the red ants' reserve food.

The group of red ants who attacked the sub-base of the insect nest at the beginning also returned early because they did not subdue the extra black ants in the sub-base, which led to a shortage of manpower.

Thinking of the larvae that were taken away in the sub-base, they are probably in danger. Although they look a lot like black ants, they are actually two completely different things.

They will not surrender to red ants, and the consequences can be imagined.

Rowan felt a little heavy, not only because of those larvae, but also because of the information he got.

Based on the team that Luo Wen saw these days, the number of red ants alone is more than one hundred thousand, and it is unknown how many have run too far and have not seen it.

In addition, there are black ants that are several times larger than the red ants.

Although they were captives, judging from the situation in the sub-base at the beginning, not only would they not resist, but they would even help the red ants attack.

Not to mention in their old nests, because most of the red ants are out to rob, so their number far exceeds the number of red ants left behind.

As long as there is no resistance at all, it seems that these black ants are determined to follow the red ants.

He thought about it for a while, maybe the situation is still variable, and he will have to wait until he returns to the brood to see if there is any secret in this aspect hidden in the gene fragment of the red ant.

The intelligence was almost collected, and Luo Wen hurriedly started to return. This time, the situation was a bit dangerous, and now he was not going to attack the red ants.

With their scale, Rowan has no ability to destroy them yet.

If you don't handle it well, maybe you will be counterattacked by them.

Speeding all the way, avoiding the teams of several red ants, Luo Wen entered his own territory.

Passing a sub-base on the road, dozens of communication teams were dispatched to order the bases to strengthen their defenses. When encountering the enemy, they immediately asked for help from the surrounding bases, and after driving away the enemy, they were prohibited from pursuing.

I don't know if it's because of the growth of the brood, or because of the mixture of multiple genes, the intelligence of the bugs has been greatly improved now.

Especially queen ants, maybe their queen templates have intelligence bonuses, they can already comprehend more complex commands, and they have a high priority in the swarm, and can command worker ants and soldier ants.

Rowan finally had the feeling of forming an army. If it was replaced by the IQ of Black Two and Black Three at the beginning, killing them would not understand what it means to help each other.