I Am the Swarm

The improvement of crops is not a high priority, so I will study it later when I have free time.

As the scale of the swarm gradually grows, it will soon come to the front and face various challenges.

Therefore, what Rowan urgently needs to do now is to first determine the main battle arms for a period of time.

So now the question comes again, what kind of biological template should be chosen?

If the ant's template is still used, it is not impossible to replace it with an advanced enemy search system, add a surging heart, replace the support system, and enhance its mobility. But there is a very serious problem that cannot be solved.

That's their exoskeleton armor.

Not only does the exoskeleton armor make the ant a powerhouse, it also enhances its defenses.

Success is also an exoskeleton, and failure is also an exoskeleton.

Although exoskeletons have various benefits, they also limit the size of ants. If they want to continue to enlarge their size, they need to constantly molt.

For example, the giant among them, the super giant, grows to a complete body and needs to go through two molts. This is only twenty or thirty centimeters in size. If it was like Rowan, he couldn't even remember how many times he had pupated and shed his skin before it grew to sixty centimeters in length.

And molting is a very energy-intensive and risky behavior.

The solution is also simple, and that is to prolong their time in the larval stage. Directly adding genes to allow the larvae to grow to the corresponding body size, and then pouring them into shape at one time, can save the trouble of constant molting.

But how much time and resources does it take to make the larvae grow to a distance of half a meter? You must know that the larvae have no production capacity at all, and their fighting ability is also extremely poor. They even need the assistance of worker ants to eat.

Maybe in the future, the swarm can raise such baby bugs, but with the current size of the swarm, it is impossible to raise a few.

And the insect swarm relies on insect sea tactics. What effect can a few large soldier ants do?

But apart from the ant template, other small dinosaur templates? Tail fat mouse template? Long-faced beast template? They do not have the limitations of exoskeleton armor, but their combat effectiveness is not proportional to the consumption they generate.

Leopard template? This is okay, but with the resources of the insect swarm, it is impossible to raise a few.

What Rowan needs is a unit with strong combat power and at the same time, low cost.

After thinking about it, he thought of the transport bug. These arms produced with cliff spiders as templates, of course, become auxiliary arms because of their fast action and high load.

But in fact, these guys are quite powerful in combat, and they have made great achievements in many battles. Their piercing attack is a reaper for small combat units.

Their multi-joint feet can cross various obstacles, and have strong gripping force, which can walk on smooth rock cliffs as smooth as mirrors, and can meet most of the harsh battlefield environments.

Although they also have exoskeleton armor, they also need to manage a molting process during the growth process. However, Rowan can modify their genes to remove the exoskeleton from their main body, leaving only the exoskeleton armor on the feet.

At the same time, their main body will not be without the slightest defense. Rowan will add some genes such as tough skin and steel wool protection to enhance their defense.

Also, they don't fight alone. When hunting, there will be many similar species assisting each other, and a little loss of defense should not cause much problem.

In this way, their bodies will no longer be restricted by exoskeleton armor. Without the exoskeleton of the body's main body, they are more mobile due to the reduced load.

With the growth of the body size, it is only necessary to replace the exoskeleton armor on the walking feet regularly, which greatly reduces energy consumption and risk.

At the same time, Rowan will also add a small poison gland at the end of each foot, and hide a stinger. In this way, their attack power is not only not reduced, but also greatly strengthened.

In addition, Rowan also added an echolocation system to them, so that this new type of spider warworm can find enemies faster and more accurately in the jungle, so as to better utilize their abilities.

And, Rowan will also modify their dietary system, changing them from a carnivorous to an omnivorous one. This is what he wanted to do a long time ago, but unfortunately he was a little lacking in ability at that time, and now he has finally succeeded.

In addition, they will be added dormant genes and tail fat genes.

In Rowan's vision, these new spider worms are maintained at about 30 centimeters in size. A small part usually eats omnivorous food to maintain consumption and maintain the daily vigilance of the insect colony. Large units either eat soil or simply go dormant and wake up during wartime. Only in high-intensity wars do they supplement meat consumption for consumption.

And the tail fat gene allows them to carry more supplies under certain circumstances to complete some special war needs.

Originally, Rowan also wanted to add an optical stealth system to them, but after inquiring, the cost of this system was surprisingly high. It essentially adds a layer of special nanostructures to the biological surface, so it is equivalent to whole-body transformation, which consumes astonishing energy.

After thinking about it, the spider war worm, as the main arm of the battle for some time in the future, is faced with group battles, and it seems that it is not necessary to be invisible.

In the end, Rowan prepared another template of the spider war bug (modified) ~www.readwn.com~ added an optical stealth system, produced in small quantities, as a supplement to special operations.

The main arms of the battle have been determined. Among the remaining auxiliary arms, some super giants with ants as templates still need to be produced, and their size can be enlarged to half a meter to one meter.

After all, the defense ability of the spider war bug is insufficient. If you encounter an opponent who needs to be tough and frontal, you still need some "heavy armored infantry" to support the scene.

The ground arms are basically done, and the next step is the air force.

This is a new unit that the Insect Swarm is about to build. He has no previous experience. Fortunately, Rowan has seen a lot recently, and he already has a spectrum in his heart.

There are only three optional templates for the Air Force for the time being, the flying insect gene, the flying beetle gene and the flying bird gene.

First, the flying beetle genes were removed. Their body structure makes flying extremely inefficient. Rowan suspects that they evolved the ability to fly, not for combat, but simply because their clumsy bodies are inconvenient to walk.

However, their flying ability and technological content are the highest. Rowan believes that there will always be times when they shine, but not now.

Second, the bird genes were also abandoned. As the old saying goes - value for money. Maybe they can easily kill a flying bug in a heads-up. However, the cost of a flying bird with a body length of 30 cm is enough to make more than ten or even dozens of flying insects with a body length of about ten cm.

And a flying bird is definitely no match for ten flying insects. Maybe it can buy most of the flying insects, but if ten flying birds face a hundred flying insects, they may not even be eligible for shopping.

Although their flight ability and endurance are stronger, they are not needed for the time being. Moreover, compared to the flight and endurance of these birds, Rowan has better choices in the future.

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