I Am The Swarm

Luo Wen deftly navigated to the hatchery deep within the ant nest. After a hearty meal, he selected a corner rarely traversed by ants and began digging.

Once he had created a small hole, he turned back to seal the opening connecting it to the hatchery. Then he continued digging outward.

Pheromones were truly a miraculous tool. After mastering their basic uses, Luo Wen had developed several extended applications.

For instance, using marking pheromones as coordinates was not a novel idea—Black Ants had long employed such a method. However, while they could only detect these markers by physically touching them with their antennae, Luo Wen could sense his pheromone coordinates from a distance.

At this moment, he was digging toward one of his marked coordinate points. This was the labor of the past two days with the transport team: the underground passage.

As the passage had initially been very close to the ant nest, Luo Wen quickly connected his newly dug tunnel to it.

Crawling into the underground passage, he summoned the waiting transport team. Together, they cleared the soil from the new tunnel. Luo Wen used his saliva to reinforce the fresh tunnel and carved out a temporary storage chamber near where the passage approached the nest. He ordered the transport team to stand by in the passage and sealed off the storage chamber’s entrance to the passage, carefully erasing the pheromones left by the transport team.

With everything in place, Luo Wen returned to the hatchery and began transporting food to the temporary storage chamber.

Although a few Worker Ants passed by during this time, Luo Wen’s legitimate identity prevented them from showing any concern.