Law of the Swarm

Chapter 1 Freshmen
The last moment in his memory is very vague, he seems to be in the ward, and someone around him is talking about something, but he seems to have nothing to do with him, his eyes are out of focus, staring at the clouds outside the window...

"..."

He wanted to open his mouth to say something, but in the end nothing came out.

After that, his vision dimmed.

After an unknown amount of time, he seemed to pass through a long darkness, and appeared in this strange forest.

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Fiddled with the soft tentacles on the top of his head with his feet, he lifted his hind legs lightly, and staggered onto the young leaves of an unknown plant next to him.

Two or three hours had passed since he awoke.

He is not very used to the mosaic-like vision of insect compound eyes, because he can only see a distance of tens of centimeters and the screen is scattered, so the direction after take-off is not always controlled very well.

"Am I alive again?"

He seemed to have forgotten his original name, but if it was his current body, it should be called System.

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Race: Green-tailed Grasshopper (juvenile)
name: none
Name: System

Rank: none
Rating: 2/15
特殊天赋/技能：【数值代码】（1/1）、【蜕化生长】（10/13）、【昆虫适应力】（5/21）。

衍生技能：[自我信息生成术]（1/1）、[昆虫直觉]（2/5）、[断肢再生]（2/11）、[绿色伪装]（1/4）。

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He didn't know why he was called System, but after using the [Self-Information Generation Technique], this was the name that appeared on the light curtain, so he also called himself that.

[Self-information generation technique] seems to be his instinct, using it is as natural as lifting a leg.

System naturally used this derivative skill when the forest just woke up.

Further click on [Self Information Generation Technique] to display more detailed information.

For example, click on skills and talents, and detailed information on skills and talents will appear.

And if you click on his ethnic details, it will show his current body length and weight, and some other things.

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Length: 0.2 cm
Weight: 0.01 grams

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If the information description is accurate, he should be a grasshopper larva the size of a grain of rice now.

The tentacles on the top of the little grasshopper's head swung back and forth, carefully feeling the breath in the breeze.

Grasshopper larvae have a strong digestive ability, as long as they stop eating for a while, their body will become very hungry.

He moved to the edge of the young leaves and continued to look around. After seeing that there was no danger, he took a bite of the leaves under him.

The texture of this young leaf is very hard and tasteless like wood, it is difficult for him to have the desire to eat it.

System turned his head to look around, jumped to another unknown plant leaf, moved to the edge of the leaf again and observed the surrounding conditions, and then ate. This time, his worm head showed a satisfied look.

The leaf tasted like a sweet apple to him, and his body seemed to like it.

So he ate it in big mouthfuls.

Since waking up, his body has been very hungry, as if no matter how much he eats, he can't get enough.

One or two hours ago, after eating the young leaves that were several times the size of its body, his level was raised to level 2.

After the upgrade, his body became unscientifically bigger, and his physical fitness improved in all aspects.

It feels like playing a game to upgrade, but he is a real existence of flesh and blood, and there seems to be a magical power in his body.

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[Numerical Code] (1/1): It has the ability to quantify and calculate and analyze, and to improve growth efficiency.System's inherent talent.

[Molting Growth] (10/13): Gain the ability to grow further by molting, and molt at levels 5 and 8.A unique talent for some insects.

[Insect Adaptability] (5/21): A unique ability to adapt to the environment. The level can be improved by obtaining food. When the level is increased, there is a low probability of mutation, and there is a chance to obtain other talents or derived abilities.The unique talent of insects.

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If System guessed correctly, what made his body change like a game is because of the [Numerical Code] talent.

It is precisely because of this [numerical code] ability that he has a derivative skill [self-information generation technique], so that he will not know nothing after being reborn as a grasshopper larva.

However, this [numerical code] is completely out of his control, as long as he feels his spirit a little bit, he will feel as if he is in a digital ocean composed of 0 and 1, making his spirit seem to explode.

On the contrary, although he can't control the two talents of [molting growth] and [insect adaptability], he can clearly feel them, as if they are the flesh and blood of his body.

The former [molting and growing] is like the inheritance in the blood, allowing him to naturally understand how a green-tailed grasshopper larva like him can become an adult green-tailed grasshopper.

The latter [Insect Adaptability] is a mysterious power attached to his blood, which he cannot directly feel, but his derivative skills [Insect Intuition] and [Regeneration of Severed Limbs] are due to [Insect Adaptability] 】 And exist.

[Regeneration of severed limbs] gave System a feeling that even if his limbs were severed, they could regenerate within a few days.

As for [Insect Intuition], it is an ability similar to the sixth sense.

It was precisely because of this sixth sense that he successfully escaped the first crisis in this world.

At that time, he was happily nibbling the young leaves under his feet. That unknown young leaf was the most delicious one that System had eaten after waking up. It tasted like the big cherry from the previous life, which made him feel very happy.

But just when he was indulging in it, his tentacles felt a strange breath, and System was wondering, his body trembled unconsciously and suddenly jumped up...

Suddenly, a dead leaf-colored insect with two sickles crawled out from the back of the leaf. It was about one centimeter in size. It should be a praying mantis larva. As long as he jumped a little later, he would become the little praying mantis. delicious meal.

It was precisely because of that crisis that System's subsequent actions became much more cautious.

Every time you eat a leaf, you will move to the edge of the leaf, and carefully watch the back of the leaf for predators such as praying mantises or ants.

And because of that crisis, System recalled some content from "Animal World" in his previous life, and he remembered the strange insect predators in the documentary.

In the insect world, there are often hidden murderous intentions in the calm, and those real crises cannot be avoided even if he has [Insect Intuition].

Maybe next time he accidentally jumped onto the leaf mantis disguised as a leaf, and was directly eaten by prey.

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Carefully watching the surrounding scene, System kept eating the young leaves of various plants to relieve his hunger.

As a grasshopper larva, his fangs are very soft, and he can only eat the young leaves and leaf buds of plants. However, his body is also small, and he can eat even a small young leaf for a long time.

In this way, after System once again ate leaves that were about three or four times his own weight, he upgraded again.

After a burst of numbness, its body became bigger again.

Although in the process of eating, its body is also constantly growing, from 0.2 cm to 0.3 cm in a few hours, but after the level is upgraded to level 3, the change in his body shape is more obvious, directly growing from 0.3 cm to 0.5 cm.

并且因为升级，他的【昆虫适应力】（5/21）变为了【昆虫适应力】（6/21）；[绿色伪装]（1/4）变为了[绿色伪装]（2/4）。

The improvement of [Insect Adaptability] System didn't feel it very clearly, but the upgrade of [Green Camouflage] caused obvious changes in System's body, the color of his body became more emerald green, and the veins on his body The patterns are clearer and more realistic.

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Ps:

In order to avoid unnecessary slaps in the face, the author publishes some common sense at the end of Chapter 1.

All bugs have blood and a heartbeat.

Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects, but they also eat meat, and even their own kind if necessary.

Grasshopper larvae are not actually called larvae, they are called nymphs. Larvae are just the names of fully metamorphic insects hatched from eggs. Here, for the convenience of readers, they are collectively called larvae.

In addition, locusts, crickets and other Orthoptera insects, most of them will molt 5 times, but in this magical world, the author sets 2 molts for locusts, so don’t argue with the author.

(End of this chapter)