New Primary Combat Species, Part One

The fall from that height wouldn't be fatal for Leopard, but Rowan's venom would be.

After landing, the Leopard tried to get up and escape, but the pain in the back of its neck gradually intensified. Its muscle tissue was dissolved, its nervous system was damaged, and it gradually lost control of its body. It could only lie helplessly on its side on the ground, howling in agony.

To avoid attracting other competitors, Rowan didn't let it suffer for long. He swooped down from the air, extended his Pincer Limb, and silenced the Leopard forever.

After a great deal of effort and a long time, Rowan finally managed to deliver the leopard and the bird to the village where they would live and fight.

Having eaten his fill, Rowan temporarily lost interest in watching the excitement, so the rest of the journey was uneventful, and he returned to the base smoothly.

The number of adult insects in the base has exceeded one million. However, the number of Insect Egg and larvae is close to ten million.

This is because the second batch of fifty Type III Ant Queen matured later, and the first batch of larvae they produced were not yet mature and would take a few more days.

However, Rowan's main purpose in returning this time was not them, but this batch of Type III Ant Queen. Although they are not Type I Ant Queen specialize in command, they are still more intelligent than other insects and can help test other functions of the Swarm Network.

Since the advent of Swarm Network, Rowan discovered that the intelligence of the insects had increased significantly, especially the Ant Queen.

Perhaps it's because communication within Swarm Network is more like telepathy; things that were previously incomprehensible can now be understood with a little intuition.

Perhaps this is something that can only be understood intuitively and cannot be explained in words.

The number of nodes in Rowan Wen's mental space has increased hundreds or even thousands of times compared to before.

Suddenly, one of the nodes became dazzling and flickered. Rowan's heart stirred, and he connected with this node. Immediately, his consciousness descended, and he scanned left and right. Sure enough, it was the perspective of the Ant Queen from the previous test.

Subsequently, Rowan conducted several more tests and replaced multiple Ant Queen without any errors, achieving 100% accuracy in node calls.

The Swarm Network truly lives up to its name as Interaction System; aside from the inability to set a ringtone, it's almost identical to a video phone.

At the same time, he also discovered another important piece of information: the Ant Queen do not now naturally gain command over other insects.

Since this batch of Type III Ant Queen is mainly responsible for production, and given the current small number of insects and the fact that there is only one base, Rowan personally directs and issues most of the orders.

Therefore, this message remained undiscovered. If it were a Type I Ant Queen, it might have already sensed something was wrong.

This doesn't mean the Ant Queen can no longer command the insects; rather, they need Rowan's "authorization."

Rowan can set up various levels within the Swarm Network, with each level gaining partial access to the Swarm Network.

Within a given area, a higher-level insect can command all insects of lower levels. Furthermore, it can issue commands directly through the Swarm Network.

This is far more efficient and faster than the Ant Queen's previous method of conveying commands through pheromones. Furthermore, it is also a unique friend-or-foe identification system.

Rowan guessed that this was an upgraded version of the enemy-or-foe identification system from the previous Mother Nest. This meant that no other creatures could take advantage of the chaos within the Swarm in the future.

However, Rowan did not intend to abandon other friend-or-foe identification systems. After all, the Swarm Network also needed some external cover.

Perhaps in the future, when some self-important individuals use those overt friend-or-foe identification systems to infiltrate Swarm, basking in their own smugness, little do they know that the surrounding insects have already clearly identified them. Just imagine the scene—it would be utterly hilarious.

Although, in retrospect, Rowan's thinking about these things seems a bit like a battle of wits with thin air, who knows what the future holds? After all, lifespan is no longer Rowan's constraint, and he has a long life ahead of him.

He granted all the Type III Ant Queen low-level privileges, a privilege only one level higher than that of ordinary insects. While the hierarchical system of the Swarm Network could help Rowan build a more effective management system, this feature was somewhat too advanced for the current Swarm.

The current Ant Queen is just a product off the assembly line, closer to intelligent AI, but without its own subjective consciousness, so setting only one level is sufficient for now.

This setup returns us to the familiar Swarm command system, except that the swarms are now equipped with "telephones."

At the same time, while there aren't many Zerg warriors in the Swarm yet, the Swarm's unit composition needs careful consideration.

Previously, everyone was a two-dimensional soldier, and they were all tiny. Soldier Ant that were only twenty or thirty centimeters long could be called Super Giant.

However, nowadays, animals are often over a meter in size, with some even reaching 30 meters in length, Diplodocus. Soldier Ant, with their slow movement and outdated detection systems, are no longer suitable for the development of Swarm.

If it can grow to the size it was before it went to sleep, then it will naturally sweep all the way through. Unless these guys on land can go to the sky and the sea and never return to the shore, they will all become food.

However, back then, when we encountered enemies, apart from the top-tier ants like the Earth-Yellow Ant, most of the "powerful enemies" were Big-Headed Ant Nest, with millions of them, which was already quite remarkable.

However, the Big-Headed Ant Nest is currently only at the bottom of the food chain. The creatures that Rowan has discovered so far, such as various birds, Long-Face Beast, Fat-Tail Rat, all have Big-Headed Ant on their menu.

Therefore, relying solely on the ant template to dominate the world is now significantly more difficult. Moreover, since he has already "cleared the level" once using the ant template, there's no point in repeating the original approach.

Rowan doesn't have any grand ambitions now. Years of being alone have left him with nothing to do but find ways to amuse himself and distract himself, just in case he develops mental problems or one day does something rash and kills himself.

Getting back to the main point, to summarize all that, Rowan needs to update his Swarm units to better suit the current environment.

His long slumber had allowed him to grow to an extremely powerful level. Autonomous gene evolution was merely a basic operation; he could not only collect genes from various insects, but also from amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. As long as they didn't fundamentally conflict, he could combine them arbitrarily.

In addition, he can even collect genes from various plants and fungi. However, the genes of animals and plants are difficult to be compatible, so he is not yet able to fuse them together.

Rowan, however, can fuse the genes of plants and fungi, and these genes have strong compatibility.

In other words, if he is willing to spend time experimenting, he can improve the crops inside the Ant Nest and enhance certain of their properties.

For example, making them more productive and more adaptable.

Thank you for the Book Guest Good Brother Shuke.