I Am The Swarm

The T-Rex was slumbering in its lair. As a massive creature, its energy expenditure was substantial, requiring over a hundred kilograms of food daily just to survive.

However, successful hunts were not guaranteed. To mitigate this, the T-Rex could consume up to a tenth of its body weight in one sitting, storing the surplus as reserves. It minimized activity to conserve energy, spending most of its time sleeping. Even fighting was a rare luxury.

When intruders came knocking, it reluctantly stirred, letting out a mighty roar to showcase its vocal prowess before leisurely pacing about to warm up its body.

To the T-Rex, these intruders were mere small fries—hardly worth its attention if not for their numbers. Although small, they might at least serve as a decent meal with some effort.

The T-Rex had reason to feel confident. Among its kind, it was considered above average in size. A long-time adult, its battle-scarred body bore testimony to its many victories.

Some scars were left by prey in desperate resistance, but most came from skirmishes with other apex predators. Two stood out in particular. The first was a set of deep claw marks stretching across half its head, inflicted by a rival T-Rex during a fierce fight. The claws narrowly missed gouging out its eye. The T-Rex had retaliated with a tail strike that nearly shattered its opponent’s skull, forcing it to retreat, worse for wear.

The second was a massive bite mark encircling its neck, earned during its youth in a battle for dominance. The opponent’s powerful jaws had nearly suffocated it. Only its superior strength and resilience had allowed it to break free and counter with a fatal throat bite, ultimately securing its current territory.

Luo Wen, however, cared little for the T-Rex’s scars or its storied past. The only thing that might have piqued his interest was if the T-Rex were missing a leg—that much meat, about a ton, would be worth investigating.

From the Swarm’s ranks emerged several boar-shaped insect beasts, the “Anti-T-Rex Impact Injector Beasts.” These were specialized units designed to tackle massive dinosaurs and beasts.

However, due to their size, these beasts had exceptionally durable defenses. Their outer layers—whether keratin armor, fur, feathers, or tough leathery skin—were highly resistant. Survival demanded nothing less in their brutal environment of constant clashes and scrapes.

This made direct attacks ineffective. The modified spider combat bugs lacked the venom reserves to deliver fatal doses, even if they managed to strike weak points like the eyes. And though the self-destruct bugs were effective against pythons—whose primary attack method was constriction—they struggled against dinosaurs and large beasts with additional offensive capabilities like stomping, tail strikes, and clawing.

Recognizing these challenges, Luo Wen developed the boar battle insects. Standing about two meters long and one meter tall at the shoulder, these creatures had formidable short-range burst speed and decent defensive capabilities.

Their design incorporated genes from the golden-armored beetle, granting them a half-meter-long spiral horn on their foreheads. The hollow horn was connected to a large venom sac located behind the neck. Functionally, the horn acted as an oversized syringe. Its sharp tip, combined with the boar insect’s explosive charge, could penetrate the defenses of most dinosaurs and beasts.

These boar battle insects were a stopgap measure. Luo Wen had envisioned an ideal template based on a herd of triceratops he had once glimpsed on the forest’s outskirts. Lacking the means to harm these armored giants and with no immediate need, Luo Wen had not acquired their genetic material. When he later sought them out, they had vanished, leaving him to rely on the boar template for the time being.

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Type II flying bugs initiated the assault, leveraging their aerial advantage to pepper the T-Rex’s eyes with concentrated fire. The T-Rex, helpless against the nimble aerial attackers, attempted to roar in defiance but immediately recoiled in pain as projectiles filled its mouth. The corrosive payload burned fiercely, reducing the T-Rex’s roars to pained whimpers. It kept its mouth shut, emitting low groans, appearing pitifully distressed.

While the Type II flying bugs provided cover, the spider combat bugs advanced swiftly. Agile and tenacious, they clambered onto the T-Rex’s massive body. Though unable to inflict significant damage, they effectively distracted it.

The T-Rex thrashed its head and tail in an attempt to dislodge the spider bugs, but their sticky claws and barbed hairs clung tenaciously. No matter how violently it twisted, more spider bugs swarmed its body.

As the T-Rex struggled, three boar insect beasts began their charge. Their explosive acceleration quickly brought them to top speed, and they barreled toward the T-Rex with their heads down.

Distracted by the flying bugs and spider combat bugs, the T-Rex couldn’t see the charging boar insects. Although it heard the thundering hoofbeats, it wasn’t accustomed to relying on its ears for hunting.

In its blind attempts to evade, the boar insects’ spiral horns struck true, driving deep into its hind legs. Blood sprayed as the powerful impact embedded the horns within the T-Rex’s flesh.

The venom sacs in the boar insects’ necks activated, their fiber-reinforced muscles contracting to forcefully expel venom through the long horns and into the T-Rex’s body.

The T-Rex’s agonized roar echoed through the forest, coinciding with the venom’s injection.

However, the boar insects were now stuck, unable to retreat. Enraged, the T-Rex, now flooded with adrenaline, ignored the encroaching paralysis. Unable to deal with the small creatures on its body, it turned its fury on the boar insects lodged in its legs.

With a single crushing bite, the T-Rex tore one of the boar insects to pieces, then repeated the process with the second. The third boar insect managed to wrench its horn free at the last moment, narrowly escaping with its life.

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