I Am the Swarm

Deep in the ground, a black worm with a badly damaged body and most of it was disabled lay there motionless, as if it were dead.

Suddenly, some viscous liquid slowly seeped out from its body, on its eyes, in its mouthparts, and from the roots of the fluff that covered its entire body.

Under the influence of these liquids, whether it is the black head, the weak eyes, the delicate mouthparts, the eroded abdomen or the hard shoulder armor and back armor, magical chemical reactions have taken place, as if melted.

Some white foam appeared, expanded, and then slowly hardened, and finally formed a cocoon that looked like a black worm and swelled several circles around it.

Rowan's consciousness was ups and downs in the dark, he felt as if he was drowning, and he was twisted into a paste in the water, so uncomfortable that he couldn't breathe. He began to struggle hard, trying to break free from his current situation.

Outside, the small black worm-like cocoon trembled, as if something trapped within it was about to break free. As the tremors became larger and faster, the top of the cocoon suddenly cracked a gap in the middle.

A skin looks smooth, supple and transparent, as if it will shatter with a poke, and you can even see the yellow-white worms inside the internal organs, sticking out their heads from the gaps. Then, as he struggled hard, slowly a pair of digging feet broke free.

With the external support of the pair of digging feet, this tender worm quickly pulled its entire body out of the cocoon.

It may be that this round of breaking free has exhausted its whole body's physical strength, and the worm lies on the cocoon and rests for a while.

At this moment, its original yellow-white tender body quickly turned black and hard, and the outermost skin became an exoskeleton covering the whole body.

In a blink of an eye, it turned into a black bug.

Rowan checked his body and found that his overall size had shrunk several times. The body that was about to grow to the size of a fingernail returned to the size when it was just "born".

There are no new organs or limbs on the body, but the previous damage to the body has been completely repaired. Including the dark spots in the previous field of vision, the image screen has been restored.

The tentacles swayed, and two tentacles with the same length stretched out in front of Rowan's eyes, which made him feel a lot more comfortable with some obsessive-compulsive disorder.

This kind of achievement is also due to the white worm that was eaten. This time the activated pupation talent, most of the gene fragments came from it. Coupled with some gene fragments carried by Rowan himself, after the juncture of life and death, the fusion and improvement after stimulating the potential has become what it is now.

It's just a simple piece of some limbs and organs of other insects, it's just a four dissimilarity. Fusion, improvement and evolution of them is the ultimate manifestation of Efi Ash's ability.

It's a pity that Rowan is still a larva. He can't even choose some gene fragments to activate, let alone fusion improvement. This time, it was just a fluke of the instinctual stimulus that life was about to disappear.

Even if there is a great benefit, Rowan doesn't want to try it a second time. He doesn't have any goals that he is eager to accomplish, so he spends time until he matures, and naturally he has to acquire these abilities in order to be on the right track. In order to speed up the acquisition of abilities, madly dying is not a choice he should have.

However, although the whole body was repaired at this time, the energy reserves in the body also began to alarm. The lack of energy to repair this time even burned part of his body tissue, causing his overall size to shrink.

He must now find food supplements as soon as possible, otherwise all his survival tactics will be empty talk.

The excavation started, and he found a random direction to drill through. Now he is in an unfamiliar territory, and it is the same for him in either direction.

Rowan's digging speed is very fast, but in fact he feels that he can be faster.

But with the newly evolved 360-degree viewing angle, the eyes of the big light bulb can see farther. But he is basically underground now, which not only has no effect on his eyes, but he has to devote his energy to protecting them when digging, which seriously slows down the speed.

However, after thinking about it, it's better to slow down, this is not his original one-third of an acre. He doesn't know where he is now, and he doesn't know if there is any hidden danger underground here. Better still be careful.

So, he slowed down a little bit, while the tentacles and fluff worked at full load.

With the shortage of supplies in the desert, Rowan was lucky to be able to find suitable food nearby as soon as he was "born".

But that luck doesn't seem to have been inherited until now. Rowan has been advancing for an unknown amount of time, and the little energy left is about to be exhausted. Still no sign of food was found.

Forced to do so, he simply dug down vertically. Gradually, some large rocks appeared around him. Continuing down the crevices of these stones, the large stones slowly congealed together to form a rock layer.

Strong tremors came through the rocks. The tentacles also felt the rich moisture around them, and heard the sound of water.

Rowan determined that there might be an underground river beneath the rock.

Following the rock layer, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com crawled towards the place where the water vapor was more dense. Soon after, a small crack was found in the original rock layer, and a clearer sound of water flow came from it.

Relying on his small figure, Rowan climbed in along the crack. With the gradual deepening, the rock walls on both sides gradually turned black and gradually became moist, which was the liquid that re-condensed after some water vapor hit the rock walls.

Moreover, there were gradually more black spots on it, which seemed to be some kind of plants, and looked like moss, but this was not the hometown, and the color was wrong, so Rowan couldn't judge what it was.

The digging feet were basically useless here, and Rowan used the hooks on the other six arthropods to hook the potholes on the rock surface to fix his body.

Then he stretched out his mouthparts, and the mushroom-shaped front end pressed against the rock surface to describe a disc-like structure, and the fine fluff and uvula hidden inside quickly slid to scrape the water on it.

The cold groundwater enters the esophagus and flows into the body, and the rich minerals and microorganisms in it are quickly digested, filling the dried up energy reserves a little.

Just like that, Rowan licked until he couldn't drink anymore, and then found a place to rest beside him. Wait for it to digest, then get up and continue drinking.

However, the efficiency of drinking water to replenish energy is too slow, and Rowan almost vomited. And from "birth" to the present, he, who has never excreted, has been urinating for the first time ever.

He never urinated when he drank rhizome juice every day.

Of course, the experience of draining water for the first time is also very novel.

However, that's not what he cared about.

Based on his experience as a human being, or as a man, drainage requires certain organs.

As for the first drainage of worms, of course he had to check it.

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