I Am the Swarm

Luo Wen first took them to find some food. The ants didn't seem interested in the roots, but just added some water.

I didn't expect these guys to be quite picky eaters, which made Luo Wen complain a little bit, your master is eating tree roots, and you are still picking and choosing, which makes him very embarrassed, you know?

The two ants couldn't understand such a complicated meaning and ignored it.

Luo Wen secretly sighed in his heart, a sense of loneliness enveloped his heart.

After eating and drinking enough, Rowan bit off three tree roots and gave the command, "Bring them back to the nest."

As a result, he still overestimated the IQ of the ants. They don't choose to use reasonable angles to drag larger tree roots like Rowan. They will only pick up the tree roots arrogantly, pull them hard, and often get stuck in the roots.

In order to take care of them, the roots that Rowan let them carry are already very small, but there are still various problems. They got stuck in the passage and couldn't move after climbing out.

Bitten off the tree root in half again, and now it's finally okay. It's just that the total amount of tree roots carried by the two ants is less than one-tenth of the root that Rowan dragged.

After returning to the nest, Rowan distributed some roots to the black beetle, and then replenished the rest to the brood.

Taking advantage of the brood's absorption, Rowan named the two of them.

He named one of them Black Two and the other Black Three. As a result, after some testing, it was found that it was a waste of time. They can only understand the vague meaning of you, me and him, they have no concept of the name, and they can't understand the meaning at all.

Although the result was not ideal, Rowan was also happy about it. This saves trouble, and saves his brain cells from being exhausted just thinking of names when there are many younger brothers in the future.

Afterwards, Rowan led them to dig out a room not far from the nest. This was an incubation room dug out specially to guard against black beetles.

At this time, the brood also recovered some vitality, and Rowan gave an order to produce an egg.

After the eggs were ejected, Rowan carefully blocked the black beetle's path of action, and then instructed the two ants to take care of the eggs.

The ants quickly understood the meaning of the words, and one of them picked up the eggs. Then, under Rowan's leadership, they came to the hatching room and laid down the eggs.

Originally, Luo Wen thought to ignore them and wait for a while to see the results. Then came the thought of an egg, one ant was enough to take care of, and there was another one for the experiment.

I gave one of the ants the command to "find food". Unexpectedly, the ant really understood and took action. It crawled towards a passage.

Rowan followed curiously to see where it was going to find food.

Two worms were crawling in the passage, which was the passage where Rowan took them to gnaw on tree roots just now.

Rowan already had some guesses.

Sure enough, the ants crawled all the way to the root of the tree, bit off a piece of bark, and began to suck.

After a while, a ball of water droplets appeared on the two big teeth at the corners of its mouth.

Luo Wen was amazed. He couldn't figure out how the ants operate. They were able to coil a drop of water from a tree root and hold it in their mouths.

In order to see clearly, Rowan had already approached the ant and was discovered by it. Luo Wen didn't care about this, he didn't hide himself on purpose.

However, what happened next was a bit embarrassing.

After realizing Luo Wen's position, the ant turned around and sent the water drops from its teeth to Luo Wen's mouth.

Luo Wen was stunned for a moment, but only after he realized that the ant was going to feed him. This made him a little dumbfounded, why is there such a corrupt treatment?

Although it was already a bug, Rowan still couldn't accept another bug to feed him. So he issued the command to "search for food and bring it back to the nest".

After a while, the ant returned to its old nest with the water drop in its mouth.

Luo Wen secretly sighed that this is a bit troublesome, the number of bugs is still small now, what should I do if the number increases in the future? At that time, there is no way to follow behind and give instructions at any time to instruct them what to do.

I followed the ants all the way back to the old nest, and found that the foraging ants fed the water drops to the left-behind ants without Rowan's instructions.

Rowan's eyes lit up, which showed that they had some kind of instinct.

Subsequently, Rowan began various experiments.

After half a day, I tried various instructions. Luo Wen discovered that there is actually no need for detailed instructions at all, as long as they are not given instructions such as "stand guard" or "stay here", they will start looking for work by themselves after a while.

When he is hungry, he will find food by himself, and he will deal with the dryness and humidity of the incubator. Anyway, Rowan doesn't need to worry about it at all.

Now that Luo Wen has a spectrum, he uses the mother nest to hatch another 10 eggs, which is the maximum daily output without damaging the mother nest itself.

In the next few days, the mother nest will produce 10 eggs and two small mature ants every day.

And Rowan himself was as tired as a dog, busier than ever. Because ants can't survive by drinking water alone, and because they are only small mature bodies, they can't beat the black ants in the neighbor's house. So he can only hunt and kill a certain number of black ants by himself every day to drag them back.

These prey will give priority to supplying the needs of the mother nest, ensuring the nutrition supply of the mother nest, so as to ensure that it can complete the planned production tasks every day.

And the rest is to feed the black ants produced by these mother nests. As the number of two increases every day, their consumption is also increasing.

Luo Wen's workload is getting heavier and heavier, and now he just gnaws some tree roots to make ends meet every day, and he hasn't eaten much ant meat, which also causes his body to only grow a little in a few days, basically Can't see the change.

There is no way to continue like this, he is the boss, so it's fine if the younger brother doesn't pay him tribute. Now, instead, the younger brothers are eating and drinking every day, while he himself is eating bran and drinking water, and the direction of the plot development is not right.

This reminded him inexplicably of the tool bug Baichong'er back then. It's impossible to go on like this, and he must find a way to quickly turn the situation around.

Fortunately, the first black two black three developed very quickly, and with a sufficient supply of ant meat, their body size grew rapidly. Now I can go out hunting with him. Of course, it is Luo Wen who does the work, and the two younger brothers are only responsible for transportation.

However, this can also save him a lot of effort and time. However, this is only temporary. With the increase of two adult worms every day, and the possible hatching of eggs in the future, I think my head is getting bigger.

Rowan also thought about letting them go to the surface to find food by themselves, but the current adults are all reduced versions, their body size is not fully developed, and they have also been produced with great effort.

Now the number is still so small, it will take a long time to feel distressed if one dies, let's wait for them to grow and grow. As long as they survive the hard times in the early stage, when they can forage independently, life will be much easier.

After another two days in this way, the first batch of eggs finally began to hatch.