Legions Grow On My Phone

Episode

3 – Strange Apps (3)

“What. What’s wrong with your face? Can’t sleep?”

“…No, that’s not it.”

As soon as a close friend saw my face, I shouted.

It’s not like I couldn’t sleep at all. But there are a few things that bother me a little.

“I mean, it’s embarrassing.”

When people are talking and I am preoccupied with exams.

He took out his phone and lamented.

“Actually, I’m intimidated, so I play that weird game. What’s the benefit to me?”

I’m sure this guy said it would help me too, but after a bit of testing, it doesn’t seem to be at all.

Money costs money, time costs more money.

[Your children are still too young]

“Aha. So when they grow up, will you help me?”

[Maybe]

The answer that came to mind was surprisingly normal.

Of course, aside from what the hell I can do with these guys.

“I have a question. You said that there were others besides me.”

[Yes]

“They all start like this… isn’t it? Do they all have different abilities?”

It is clear that there are ‘players’ like me in the circumstances so far.

Then what is the purpose?

competition between us? There was too little information for that.

[You will find out sooner or later. For one thing, people like you are initially assigned to different races]

“So, it’s not a game that develops cells from the original level…”

“Good morning everyone.”

My words were interrupted by the professor who opened the door and entered.

The classroom became quiet, and the class began as students who had been outside rushed in.

[Reconnaissance failed 192 times in the area]

“…”

I was in the middle of class, and a text popped up on my phone.

He licked his tongue and secretly opened the phone.

This test failed. Others will see it as ruined by mobile phone games.

[The current system cannot break through. Needs to grow]

nodded.

Because I also agree with what he said.

The guy who kept blocking our way wasn’t a big deal.

It was a giant spider the size of a king crab, and the net it had spread was considerable.

It was a crazy net that applied attraction to the target passing through the net.

[For now, I think it is right to eat up all the small vegetation on the floor below it]

In my opinion, the first priority was to develop strength.

For example, the size. Or is it a different weapon?

“Hey. I’m going home today…where are you going?”

“It’s the midterm exam season, so it’s a little warm now. Have you ever been earning money at school?”

After class, I grabbed my motive and asked.

My brother-in-law blinked his eyes as if he was bewildered by the sudden search for a bee.

[Our soldiers have transformed themselves into their strongest form. Ant’s jaw, flea’s leg, etc.. Finding the most efficient and strongest model]

“Yeah yeah. I’ll be fine.”

My one and only class was over, but I didn’t go home, but rummaged through the grass near the building.

At this age, you’re collecting insects here.

However, thanks to this, I was able to capture various insects such as scarabs and butterflies on camera.

[The strong jaws of the soldiers bit and decomposed butterflies and scarabs. Meat is energy, and their genetic information has all become our property.]

Feedback was immediate.

Soldiers, now slightly larger than normal ants, spewed madly from the ever-growing nest.

The body of a colleague who was discarded or died, it was just a very good nutrient.

[The soldiers begin to act. The first priority was gathering food and hunting game. Our first target was a fungal colony nearby.]

According to the map, there was a place where mushrooms had grown near the pupil where our nest was located.

We are not the ones who were fighting against the cells of mushrooms.

Now we were targeting the ‘vertebrae’ living in the mushroom colony.

[That little salamander is the king of this mushroom colony. We’ll hunt him down]

“…just a slaughter in my opinion…”

[Our proud corps begins to march]

For some reason, the guy who became strangely empathetic relayed the scene passionately.

In fact, to me, to catch that little salamander, thousands of ants, or even monsters that can no longer be called ants, were flocking to me in droves.

[It was the first time I hunted a vertebrate. This will be recorded in our history […]

“Yes.”

I put down my phone and headed to the depths of the campus.

If I wasn’t here, I was just going to go home.

[What are you trying to catch?]

“punishment.”

I gave a simple answer.

I thought about it once.

How should I induce these guys?

In my opinion, it was right to preserve the military consciousness as much as possible.

So I was just… just thinking about it.

In my common sense, the most social insects were ants and bees.

In particular, bees had stingers and wings.

“Poison ants are not very common in Korea, but formic acid is not enough.”

The problem is that the guys who seemed like a normal person can’t see well.

I just stopped here and turned back to go home.

“…Where do you fly drones?”

It was then that I heard a buzzing sound that was completely different from the motherfucking hyacinth sound characteristic of a mother-to-be.

For a moment, I got goosebumps.

There must be some crazy guy flying drones here.

[take a picture]

“Aww!”

I picked up my phone.

At that moment, something struck me.

A huge bubbling lump.

It’s usually a long-lived wasp! If you do, it’s just a wasp, a drone! If you do, it’s called a longevity wasp.

The long-lived wasp seemed to have targeted me.

“Oh please!”

After being stung once when I was young, I was especially afraid of bees, as I touched other insects with my bare hands.

I pressed the shutter like crazy.

Then did heaven help?

At some point, the buzzing sound stopped.

[Admittedly, this external enemy was a formidable one. But we couldn’t miss that wasp]

Toward the sent long-lived wasp, a capture group with developed leg power rushed in.

After several hundred attempts, only two or three were successful in attracting them.

However, some of them that died in an instant by the sting of the stinger fell down.

[The power is strong. But now, most invertebrates can’t deal with us]

The most powerful soldier stepped forward.

It is a salamander-like creature with a hard carapace on its body.

The strength was similar, and the stinger did not penetrate the carapace.

No matter how long-lived wasps were, they could not stop them from attacking from all directions.

[Disassemble, evolve]

The bee was disbanded on the spot.

The acquired genetic information is stored throughout the colony and transmitted to the nest, the production plant.

The nested fungus develops rapidly and creates new soldiers.

[Soldiers with spines, wings of bees, and stingers are made]

“…Ginger.”

I can’t say it’s good.

And the biggest problem, again, is that the energy is low.

[All cave creatures have their own way of obtaining energy, but this cave is too low in energy in the first place]

“Ha ha…”

Again, I had to eat.

They tried to find a way, but the environment itself was too barren.

“After all, you can’t stop prey. The more you develop and grow, the bigger you get.”

Now there are soldiers the size of three fingers, and there is no way to solve it with a piece of bread.

I tried to feed him food waste as soon as possible, but this time he objected.

That logic made sense.

[It takes energy to digest food. What does that mean if you spend more energy on digestion than you absorb?]

In the end, it was a matter of efficiency.

The only thing that was recovered was the corpse of a dead pigeon on the side of the road.

“…it’s okay if it’s like this. But what’s the difference between this and it’s ugly?”

[Yes]

Fortunately, it wasn’t a corpse.

Obtaining pigeon genes is a bonus, but mass production of such a large size was inefficient now.

“Hey, I’m the bread…”

[Bread was a very good nutrient]

The door that my brother had closed without a word slammed shut.

I’m used to the contemptuous eyes, but I can’t believe it’s because of bread.

I sighed and just entered the room.

It was a plate where I had to buy another bread to soothe my sprain.

“You don’t give it to me anymore.”

[The lowest floor is now our complete territory]

listen or not

In any case, the expansion is steep.

Now, all of the cavities in the basement, which are not very large, have become our territory.

In just one day, in just two days.

But growth comes with side effects.

Even though they had slaughtered everything that lives there, including microorganisms and mushrooms, it was impossible to achieve even half of self-sufficiency.

“Is expansion the answer after all?”

If you don’t get any food, you starve to death.

And growth that has already ignited cannot be stopped.

The only remaining answer was to go all the way to the end.

[Our growth does not stop. And in order to grow, the war had to go on.]

The legion was assembled.

The bees I saw in the documentary looked cute.

All-around soldiers with carapaces in the air, flapping wings, and poison stingers in their tails.

On the floor, crawling soldiers maximizing their strength.

At least thousands or even tens of thousands of such people.

[In the cave, things get better even if you go up one floor. Our target is now the creatures upstairs. As a result of reconnaissance, the strongest of those living upstairs was a snake.]

“Honestly, don’t you think you’ll lose?”

I wonder if it was that distant upper stairway where reconnaissance was blocked and king crab-sized spiders live.

Now, we were a threatening corps even if we pretended to be.

The small animals had to run wild a little, and it was almost impossible to stop them.