Law of the Swarm

Chapter 10 Food from God

The torrential rain on the fourth day was slightly smaller than that on the third day, but the rain was still violent.

Raindrops the size of soybeans would feel slight pain even if they hit the human skin. Facing such rainwater, System felt like his body was being hammered non-stop by fists.

Just protruding half of his body from the gaps in the dead leaves, he was almost washed away by the violent rain, but fortunately, the hooks on his feet were still firm.

System's left body was blown away by the rain, but the bark on his right foot firmly grasped the wet bark, and then flipped to the lower end of the branch at an incredible angle.

There is no danger!

If his feet hadn't caught the bark just now, he would have fallen into the lake formed by the rainwater.

System was much less impacted by the rainwater while hanging upside down under the branch. Although the rainwater flowing from the top of the branch would pass through his body, it was enough for System to slowly move behind the branch.

System's derivative ability [Information Recording] passively records a lot of information, and he can recall all kinds of experiences in this world like watching a video.

In System's video, walking along this branch, there are a few new pine needle leaves near the end of the branch, which can be eaten even if they hide under the branch.

System didn't know if his fangs could move this kind of hard pine needle leaves, but he had no other choice.

If he couldn't eat the tender leaves of pine needles, he could only choose to jump into the lake where the currents converge, and seek a chance of life in a narrow escape.

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Against the violent rain, System finally ate the fresh and tender pine needles, and his fangs were just able to crush the young leaves of this plant.

The taste of this pine needle is slightly sweet and bitter, which has a certain growth effect on his body, but it also has a certain toxicity.

This tree made System feel uncomfortable perhaps because of this toxicity.

The poison of the pine needles made System's body functions sluggish, as if he was drunk, and he felt a slight pain in his abdomen.

However, the toxicity of this pine needle is not strong, far less than the distress caused by hunger. After feeling the effects of the toxicity for a while, System began to swallow the young leaves of this pine needle.

In the face of a life-and-death crisis, let alone nutritious meat, even this kind of poisonous food is something he would love to eat.

Because of the impact of the rain, it was very inconvenient for System to eat, and it had been several hours since he finished eating a dozen fresh pine needles.

The remaining relatively mature pine needles could not do anything to System's fangs, and System began to return to his nest of dead leaves.

As if it was God's blessing, when System returned to the nest, the rain was less, and he was able to withstand the impact of the rain and climb back to the front of the branches, and then hid in the nest of dead leaves.

And not long after System hid in the dead leaves, the rain became heavier again.

Since then, the rain has become stronger and weaker, and at the same time there is a roar of thunder and lightning in the sky from time to time, which is somewhat similar to a thunderstorm, but even the rain has never stopped completely.

Until the night of the fifth day, the violent rain stopped suddenly, and the dark clouds in the dark night sky quickly dissipated. System saw the moonlight penetrating through the gaps in the forest through the gaps in the dead leaves.

The rain finally stopped, there was no breeze in the whole forest, and there was no other sound in the whole forest except the ticking sound of water dripping from the leaves.

System was finally able to crawl out of his dead leaf lair again...

With the continuous dripping of the accumulated water on the leaves and the double moon starlight in the sky, the water surface under the trees appears sparkling.

The rain in the past two days has caused the water level to rise further, and the rainwater gathered in the forest is only about half a meter away from the branch where System is.

The rain in the forest has accumulated nearly one meter deep, and as far as the eye can see, apart from the trees, there are only some tall herbaceous plants standing on the top of the water.

Perhaps as long as the rain lasts for a few more days, his branch will also be flooded, but before being submerged, he will die of hunger and cold first.

Five consecutive days of rain kept the temperature in the forest dropping, and it got even colder after the rainstorm subsided.

Due to his body's stiffness and exhaustion, System slowly crawled on the wet branches with the hooks on his legs.

Fortunately, as a grasshopper, he has many kinds of food. Even poisonous pine needles can replenish his energy. If he is reborn as a carnivorous praying mantis, he may starve to death in this heavy rain.

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The rain in the forest subsides very slowly. In the early morning, the rain only subsided by about ten centimeters. It is estimated that it will take a few days for the rain near here to subside completely.

After eating overnight, System's physical strength recovered a lot.

Just a little dizzy from the poison of pine needles and a slight tingling in my abdomen.

Overnight, the stagnant water on the leaves in the forest stopped dripping, and the wet bark became just slightly damp. System, who had regained his physical strength, began to jump and move.

The morning after the heavy rain became very quiet, except for the occasional croaking of frogs in the distance, System did not see any active life.

However, as the sky became brighter, System found many signs of life, and ripples appeared from time to time on the calm water.

System saw many black shadows appearing underwater, some of which resembled tadpoles, and also saw many off-white things slightly smaller than the black shadows, which might be some kind of insect larvae or other aquatic organisms.

System bounced back and forth on the branches in the forest. He found that because of the different topography in the forest, although they were all flooded, the water level in some places was very shallow. The location is not flooded by rain at all.

It didn't take long for System, who recovered his strength, to find a vine plant surrounded by trees and jump over.

Compared with the leaves on trees, System's body obviously prefers grass plants. Although vines are worse than grass, they are still better than leaves.

The taste of this vine was very delicious, the leaves were soft and had a faint peach aroma, and System devoured it in big mouthfuls.

While System was devouring it, System noticed that there were slight ripples on the water surface under him, and a cyan-brown insect with a size of 5 centimeters and six legs crawled along the vine from under the water. come up.

The abdomen of this insect is slender, and its six strong legs are concentrated on its front half, covered with a layer of translucent carapace.

After crawling along the vines for ten centimeters, it hugged the branches of the vines and remained motionless, as if it had entered a state of dormancy unique to insects.

Although System didn't find any fangs in the insect's mouth, the insect was strong and covered in carapace. System didn't have any thoughts of fighting with it, and was still eating the leaves of the vine quietly.

Just like that, after more than ten minutes, System suddenly heard a strange sound. The brown insect made a sound like its carapace cracking, as if something had come out of the brown insect's body.

"A molting insect!"

System's worm head showed a greedy look, this molting insect was the food bestowed on him by the heavens!

(End of this chapter)