Law of the Swarm

Chapter 115 Tempest
The past month has been almost calm, but the weather has become hotter and hotter, and the Warren Plain has completely entered summer from late spring.

For insects, the hot summer months are not unbearable, but they need to be treated with caution.

Grasslands without trees will face the scorching sun, and ordinary small insects will lose their lives if they are exposed to the sun.

System is also considering whether to adjust the foraging habits of the ant people from daytime to nighttime.

A few days ago, Black successfully emerged from the pupa after pupating for the second time.

Black, like Shava and the members of the Ant Knights, has become a centaur knight, but she still has a black spot on her head.

Compared with the weapons formed at the ends of the forelimbs of other knights, the ends of Black's forelimbs formed fingers that could move freely and grasp things like humans.

It's just that instead of humans having five fingers, Black has six, and they appear to be about the same length.

Except for occasionally staring blankly at Black's fingers and his own tentacles, System didn't envy Black's newly formed fingers at all.

Black, who entered the second chrysalis, also heard the voice of the world, and because of her higher intelligence, she also understood some information given by the voice of the world.

She also knew that the condition for achieving magical life was to break the level lock, and there was an extraordinary level of life above magic.

Black also felt something that System did not know, the law of the ability given by the voice of the world.

It's a pity that Black can only feel a little bit about the law of the world's voice empowerment, and she can't explain how to describe it specifically.

And the ability bestowed by the voice of the world, Black, like most ants, only obtained the ability, but he didn't know what the ability was, and it was even more difficult to use.

Although the power of the second pupation cannot be used, through the power of the deformed butterfly Aura, Black changed his previous congenital deficiency into an average body shape of ordinary worker ant knights.

And he has mastered some ice-type powers, so he can play one or two ice hockey pucks or something.

Blake, who has just emerged from the chrysalis, is still a little smaller. It is estimated that after a period of time, it will become about the same size as an ordinary worker ant knight, growing to more than 20 centimeters.

According to Blake's feelings, her lifespan is about 10 years, which is about the same as that of ordinary members of the Ant Knights.

System had to sigh again, the lifespan of a grasshopper is really too short, even with the title of "exotic insect", his lifespan is only more than 5 years.

The soldier ant Salva, which has a longer lifespan than worker ants, has a lifespan of more than 20 years.

As for the ant queen Linda, even without the second pupation, her lifespan is 15 years. After the second pupation, how can she have a lifespan of 80 to [-] years.

However, Linda has a long lifespan, and her second pupation is also very slow. System estimates that it will take at least three or four months before she breaks out of the pupa.

……

Black's return greatly reduced System's daily work, and System also had more time to do his own things.

After encountering a tawny slime again a few days ago, System began to raise the two slime friends he found these days in the nest.

Because of the existence of an excavator capable of manipulating soil, the two slime friends were easily trapped underground by System, and the soil was manipulated by the excavator to leave only a gap for slime to feed food, allowing System to Lyme cannot escape.

As some food such as mice in the vicinity became less and less, in order to obtain a stable food source, System asked his ant people to imitate the leaf-cutter ants in the previous life, cutting and carrying the leaves of some plants as feed.

But unlike leafcutter ants who use plant leaves to grow fungi, System uses plants only to grow slimes.

After a few days, the cultivation of slime went smoothly.

However, his more than 50 ant minions basically had little effect, and moving weeds for a whole day was not as much as System's tentacles for two or three hours.

But raising slimes in this way also saves System a lot of trouble and prevents slimes from jumping around at will.

Because of the hot weather, slimes like to jump and sneak into some abandoned ratman caves. Every time System loses slimes, he has to look for them for a long time.

……

After watching the slime eat for a while, System took Black to the dungeon in the corner of the underground lair.

In one month, excavators have dug the underground nest to a depth of more than ten meters, and with more than 40 square rooms, the entire nest has begun to take shape.

Because of the continuous use ability and the strengthening of System, the excavator's ability has become much stronger. Its excavation speed is more than doubled than before, and the entire underground lair has been built by the excavator.

And the excavator also led out the water source close to 20 meters underground, which solved the inconvenience of the ant people going out to fetch water.

And this dungeon was where System imprisoned a rat man.

Seven days ago, System captured a male rat man as he wished, but unfortunately, this male rat man was still illiterate.

System finally performed the castration of the rat man that he had wanted for a long time.

However, after the initial excitement of castration ended, System felt nothing but emptiness, after all, castrating the rat man would not solve his fundamental problem at all.

In order to prevent the Ratman from being killed by his plague again, System will use the ability of [Mind Teleportation] every time before interrogating the Ratman to carefully feel the germs in his body and feel whether there are suspicious signs on his body surface. Germs are present.

If there were suspicious germs, System would go to the river to wash his body, bask in the sun, and wait a while before interrogating the Ratman.

After several days of interrogation, although System and Black were unable to speak, the Rat Man himself was much smarter than System had imagined.

After the Rat Man passed the first two days of panic, he became very cooperative. System used his tentacles to make gestures and used some objects, so he mastered some Rat Man language.

If System's understanding is correct, the Rat Man still found some abnormalities in his lair.

Rat people are timid and cautious by nature. They have a special relationship with ordinary mice and can communicate simply.

Nearly one kilometer away from System's lair, the drastic reduction in rats naturally aroused the attention of the Ratmen.

And the ratman captured by System was a ratman warrior who rushed here from a ratman gathering place a hundred kilometers away to investigate.

Because of his limited grasp of the Ratman's language, System is interrogating the Ratmen's gathering place for possible reactions these days.

I don't know how the ratman gathering place will react. If a ratman wizard like the self-destructed ratman is sent out, it is definitely not the result System wants.

However, there was no progress in asking about the conditions of the Ratmen's gathering place, but instead, System asked about something else—the rainy season.

Every summer, there will be continuous heavy rainstorms in the east of the Warren Plain and the west of the Lierte Forest, and many depressions will be flooded by rain.

(End of this chapter)