I Am The Swarm

Chapter 142: The Door

The revered scholar, former head of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and mentor to the queen, Morgan, met with an unexpected tragedy. While climbing a ladder to retrieve materials in the library, he fell and passed away at the age of 56.

Upon hearing the news, the queen was devastated. She ensured Morgan was given a grand funeral and declared a day of national mourning.

Although Morgan had long retired from the frontlines of re

As an extension of Luo Wen’s talents and abilities, the Swarm Network naturally inherited these traits. Luo Wen’s bond with the Brood Nest meant the nest also shared these capabilities.

The civilization of the rat folk had unknowingly carried remnants of this connection. Their ancestors had once been Luo Wen’s experimental subjects, leaving them with subtle Brood Nest markers in their biology.

For instance, Luo Wen could establish telepathic connections with rat folk and dinosaur people but not with other species, partly due to these markers.

As the intelligence of the rat folk advanced, some individuals began exhibiting extraordinary mental capabilities.

The Brood Nest marker granted them a kind of identity verification, while their burgeoning mental strength served as the “key” to use it.

However, having a key wasn’t enough; they needed to find the “door.”

Finding the “door” was relatively straightforward. It required resonating with Luo Wen or the Swarm Network—a complex interplay of emotions, including longing, belief, and reverence.

When these feelings reached a threshold, the “door” became apparent.

Simply put, when a rat person died, the physical cessation often triggered a brief surge in mental energy. In their final moments, the sublimation of emotions allowed them to sense the “door.”

The “door” was, in fact, the outer security and identification system of the Swarm Network.

The Brood Nest marker gave rat folk the right to knock on this door. What Luo Wen had previously dismissed as “unknown biological intrusions” was merely their attempt to gain entry.

Once Luo Wen granted access, the entity would enter the network, its mental form restructured to serve as a node. This process would integrate it into the Swarm Network and equip it with a friend-or-foe recognition system.

As a Swarm Network node, the entity would pledge unwavering loyalty to Luo Wen. Other than this allegiance, their personality and consciousness would remain unchanged.

Whether they were still the same individual post-transformation was a philosophical question Luo Wen chose not to dwell on.