On the Swarm Network

The pain of his muscles gradually dissolving drove the Long-Face Beast into madness.

It could no longer hide and began to flee in all directions.

Unfortunately, its crisis originated within its own body; its attempts to escape were not only futile but also accelerated the spread of the venom.

After a short while, although its bones were still stubbornly resisting the invasion of the venom, a small portion of its muscles had already dissolved, and it could no longer support its heavy body.

The Long-Face Beast struggled to take a few more steps forward before collapsing to the ground with a thud, crushing a patch of weeds.

The Long-Face Beast that had fallen to the ground convulsed continuously for more than ten minutes before it slowly stopped.

After waiting a little while longer, Rowan Wen jumped down from the tree trunk and slowly approached his prey on the ground.

Seeing the Long-Face Beast's dull, lifeless eyes, I knew it was completely dead.

In fact, although the venom injected by Rowan was highly toxic, it could only dissolve a small portion of the Long-Face Beast's muscle, given its size.

However, Rowan's position was excellent. The back of his neck was densely covered with central nerves, which was the only connection between his head and body. If the muscles and nerve tissue here were damaged, even if the Long-Face Beast was still alive, it would lose its ability to move and be at the mercy of others.

Having confirmed that his prey was no longer a threat, Rowan moved closer and first sucked up the dissolved meat juices to fill his stomach.

But then he encountered a problem.

The Long-Face Beast is three meters long. Although its slender head and tail contribute significantly to its length, its main body is still about two meters long, plus its four short legs, making it quite a large piece of meat.

Even if Rowan ate some of it, the remaining amount still exceeded two hundred kilograms.

In the past, Swarm could digest this amount of food in no time. But now, let alone digest it, even storage is a problem.

The commotion caused by the Long-Face Beast's madness had alerted the Big-Headed Ant, and some scouts had already followed the tracks. This place was no place to linger; they should leave first.

First, they scattered some pheromones around to confuse the area, then they picked up the Long-Face Beast and quickly left.

Although the Long-Face Beast was several times larger than Rowan in both size and weight.

However, with Rowan's Exoskeleton Armor, moving this weight was no problem. After all, ants, which also have exoskeletons, can carry food hundreds of times their own weight.

When they were still a few dozen meters away from the base, Rowan stopped.

The cave entrance cannot be widened enough in a short time to move the entire Long-Face Beast inside.

However, cutting things up releases a lot of blood energy. In this primeval jungle, blood energy is like a signal for a feast, and most of the local inhabitants have not received basic education, so they are quite savage when fighting for food.

But it was absolutely impossible for Rowan to give up the food he had already obtained.

After much thought, Rowan finally came up with a good idea, but putting it into practice was a bit unethical.

He first found a downwind spot not far from the base.

Then they dragged the Long-Face Beast to this spot and buried it with mud and decaying leaves.

Finally, it bent over and unleashed a barrage of "Gatling" fire, sending "shells" flying everywhere...

The strong corrosiveness and high temperature of the "shell" are secondary; its main use here is for its side effects.

An unbearable stench spread out, masking the smell of the Long-Face Beast's wounds and effectively driving away other predators.

Furthermore, this odor can last for more than half a month.

And in less than half a month, Rowan was able to digest it.

After eating his fill, Rowan hunted down two Super Giant before ending his hunt early and returning to base.

After Super Giant ants to the Mother Nest, Worker Ant, and Insect Empress, Rowan lay to the side, idly watching the busy Hatching Room.

As he stared blankly at a Worker Ant, the mysterious energy in his mind, whose purpose he didn't know, suddenly became active.

Immediately afterward, Rowan's perspective shifted, as if his soul had traveled through time. A hungry larva suddenly appeared before him, its mouth agape, waiting to be fed.

The sudden change startled him; his teleportation was interrupted, his consciousness returned to his body, and his perspective returned to normal.

At that moment, the Worker Ant he was watching was feeding the larva in front of it with food from its mouth, and that larva looked so familiar.

Rowan was jolted awake. In that instant, it was as if a switch had been flipped and his talent activated, and he instantly understood some things.

A mysterious energy, tinged with purple and white, surged and churned, and each insect in the Hatching Room was like a node, lit up one by one in Rowan's mind.

In an instant, Rowan was connected to them, as if forming an invisible network, becoming one with them.

With a thought, a node is clicked, and the perspective instantly changes without the slightest delay.

A pair of ferocious, gigantic jaws, laden with a mixture of saliva and food, were hurtling towards him, the image growing ever larger.

Rowan quickly left that node and clicked on another one. This one was a Worker Ant carrying Insect Egg. Rowan's consciousness entering the node had no effect on it, and it continued to do its work.

In the blink of an eye, the energy output expanded instantly, and the Worker Ant abruptly stopped moving.

Then, as if it were rediscovering itself, it made some movements of raising its hands and kicking its feet, and finally even put the Insect Egg in its mouth aside and crawled half a circle around the Hatching Room.

Then, some of the insects in the Hatching Room began to make strange movements.

At first, we did it one by one, but later it developed into a group effort...

Rowan was somewhat excited. Was this the so-called "Swarm Real-Time Communication System"?

As the Swarm's territory continued to expand, Rowan was constantly troubled by communication problems, but he couldn't come up with a good solution.

Until the Swarm size exceeded a certain level, after a connection with the Mother Nest, he obtained some seemingly plausible information, an opportunity to solve the communication problem.

After a long period of development, the standard was finally met, which led to the sacrifice of trillions of Swarm and the subsequent long period of slumber.

Upon waking, he discovered an extra energy in his mind, but he had yet to figure out how to use it.

He had only just now successfully unlocked the new system and mastered some of its usage.

After experiencing it, Rowan was overwhelmed with joy.

He couldn't have imagined how that opportunity would solve the communication problem. Unexpectedly, the final step was perfect, directly creating an instant messaging system.

No wonder it requires such a complicated process and a long time.

After the continuous testing, Rowan has mastered some of the functions of this system.

For example, he can consciously descend upon a particular insect at any time and switch to its perspective. Furthermore, by increasing his energy output, he can even take over the insect's body. And it's all done with perfect ease, without any lag or delay.

As his energy output increases, he can even take over the bodies of all the insects in an area.

However, since he has not yet mastered the ability to multitask, although he can take over the bodies of many insects, he cannot make them perform complex actions on their own.

Therefore, this feature is currently somewhat of a gimmick.