I Am the Swarm

Slight structural changes took place on Rowan's body, there was an extra air bag between the carapace and abdomen.

When he dived into the water, the air bag was like an oxygen tank, and the air bag was connected to a valve on the abdomen. There are some steel wools growing on the mouth of the valve, which is like a "filter" that allows air to pass through and filter out impurities.

This impurity also includes water, which ensures that he can breathe underwater.

When the air in the "oxygen tank" was about to run out, Rowan could forcefully squeeze the airbag out from between the carapace and abdomen.

Because there is a lot of dissolved oxygen in the water, and the pressure is also strong, the oxygen in the water will seep into the bubbles, and he can continue to breathe.

When he wants to move underwater, the airbag can be retracted, and the oxygen in the airbag can still supply him with activities for a period of time.

This is really a novel ability.

While it's not true underwater breathing like a fish, and has to stop frequently to replenish oxygen, this ability makes it possible for Rowan to explore the underwater world.

It seems that the water army of the swarm will add new troops. The previous sampan worms can only paddle on the water surface, but have no ability to dive.

In addition, Rowan's eyes have also gained a new ability.

When underwater, the surface of his eyes will secrete a liquid, which is like a film covering the eyes, allowing Rowan to see normally underwater.

He climbed out of the pool, then stepped into the lake, his body gradually sank into the lake.

Looking at the dark bottom of the lake in the distance, Luo Wen thought for a while, but in the end he didn't rush to go deep.

I don't know if there is any danger at the bottom of the lake. If he goes deep alone, if he is in danger, he will not even have a bug to help him. He is too careless and does not fit his cowardly personality.

Simply wait for a few more days, and his swarm "submarines" will launch one after another. The lake has not been explored for such a long time, and it is not in a hurry now.

After convincing himself, Luo Wen was very satisfied, he climbed ashore, turned and left gracefully.

Under Rowan's special attention, after the new version of the ant queen matured at the general base, it was given priority to build a base by the lake.

In fact, Rowan is not very eager to explore the underwater world. However, this period of time was too boring, and he entered the state of wanting to find something to do to die.

After this period of development, the average number of members in the swarm base has nearly doubled to fifty thousand. However, as the army of the North Road assembled eight million troops a few days ago and went back on the road, they took the lead in cleaning up the red ant nests around the big-headed ant nests.

Rowan didn't even have any interest in watching the completely crushing battle. Although nearly one million troops were lost in direct confrontation, it didn't take long for new soldiers to be replenished.

Afterwards, the army on the North Road dispersed into dozens of teams and advanced forward.

When encountering a large ant nest, they regroup to destroy each other, and then disperse again after the battle. This forward mode greatly increases the efficiency of expansion.

The more than 2,000 ant queens gathered near the general base were also sent to the front line one after another to develop and guard new territories. The number of bases of the swarm is close to 4000.

Due to the rapid expansion, the average number of members of a single base dropped from fifty thousand to forty thousand, but the total number of members of the swarm still exceeded 150 million.

Recently, Luo Wen also expanded the army of the West Route and the Army of the Middle Route. Before, the number of these two armies was less than 100,000, which was too shabby compared to the army of the North Route.

Although the swarm was absolutely loyal, they never questioned Rowan's orders, and even if they were treated differently, they would not complain to him. But Luo Wen himself felt embarrassed and felt that he should pay more attention to them.

With the gradual replenishment of soldiers, the two armies also began to advance in a dispersed manner, and the expansion progress was accelerated at once.

Although Luo Wen had accumulated a group of ant queens without a base before, there is still some surplus, but at this rate, all these ant queens will be dispatched immediately.

Moreover, after a while, the newly formed swarm water army will carry the army of the East Road, cross the river and lake, and go to the opposite bank to occupy and develop new territories for Rowan.

However, the East Road Army now only has a number, and the soldiers are not yet in place. The number of queen ants that were originally abundant became insufficient again.

Therefore, the mother nest no longer produces other arms, and has begun to hatch the queen with all its strength.

Time passed day by day, and due to the sharply increased strength of several armies and new advance methods, the progress of expansion was too fast. The army gradually lost touch with the rear territory, and the supplies gradually couldn't keep up. As a last resort, Rowan had no choice but to let them slow down again.

The ant queens who were originally gathered near the main base for concentrated production have all been sent out, and they all have their own bases. Now the resources of the swarm ant queen are extremely scarce, and even the old version of the retired ant queen is full of production tasks.

But even with such tight human resources, Rowan still hatched a team of 100,000 diving bugs.

The day was sunny, breezy and cloudy.

By the lake, the 100,000 diving troops have all assembled. When Luo Wen gave an order, the diving bugs lined up and plunged into the water. The scene was quite spectacular for a while.

Rowan then also dived into the water. Since the weather is good today, the lake here is not polluted by the scary upright ape, and the lake water is very clear. Therefore, the underwater vision environment is not bad, and the viewing range is very wide, which makes Luo Wen breathe a sigh of relief. In such an environment, security has been greatly enhanced.

Under Rowan's command, the diving bugs surrounded Rowan and slowly headed towards the bottom of the lake.

As it went deeper, the light that could reach here became less and less, and the surroundings began to gradually darken.

Soon, the swarm reached the bottom of the lake, which was about twenty meters above the water.

After wandering for a while without finding any danger, the diving insects surrounding Luo Wen's body scattered and swam towards the surroundings.

The bottom of the lake is full of black silt, and occasionally some stones are hidden in it, and the exposed stone surface is smooth with some strange patterns.

It's a pity that Luo Wen is not a fan of strange stones and is not interested in them.

There are also some dark green aquatic plants growing in the mud, and some algae are attached to the leaves of the aquatic plants. Some prototypes of diving bugs are hiding among the aquatic plants, but the water bubbles behind their buttocks are quite eye-catching underwater.

It turned out that these guys had been hiding deep in the bottom of the lake. No wonder Rowan found nothing when he explored by the lake.

It took a day for Rowan to search the bottom of the lake. The deepest part of the lake is just below the waterfall, and the water depth is only about 30 meters.

There are no giant beasts hidden below, no treasures, not even fish.

While this may be the best outcome, at least there is no threat in the lake.

But to be honest, Rowan didn't know why he was disappointed, maybe he expected to find something to break the current boring life.