Chapter 84: Corncob
The long-awaited underwater exploration only lasted a single day, leaving Luo Wen regretting the decision to hatch a 100,000-strong aquatic army.
With no other choice, he left a small contingent to occupy the underwater world, while the rest were sent downstream to explore the rivers. Perhaps they might discover something of interest along the way.
Having made these arrangements, Luo Wen shifted his focus back to the operations of the swarm.
Time flowed on, and hundreds of days and nights passed. Luo Wen had found new joy in watching the swarm’s numbers continuously grow, giving him a peculiar sense of satisfaction.
The swarm’s territory expanded rapidly, with over 10,000 bases now established. Each base housed an average of about 100,000 insects, bringing the swarm’s total population to over a billion.
This figure was limited only by the fact that the Queen Ants’ hatching rates couldn’t keep up with the pace of territorial expansion. In newly occupied regions, the density of branch bases was far lower than in earlier stages of development.
Consequently, the average population per base skyrocketed from 30,000 to 100,000 and continued to rise.
Yet Luo Wen was still unsatisfied.
The swarm now controlled two major technological industries: farming and cultivation. The food shortages that had once constrained the swarm’s growth were no longer an issue.