Law of the Swarm

Chapter 133 The Flying Ant's Vision

After eating for three consecutive days and consuming experience points, System strengthened the ant queen Linda's [chrysalis] talent from level 13 to level 15, and increased the talent level by 2 levels, reaching Linda's [chrysalis] talent level cap.

However, the ant eggs produced by Queen Linda have not changed much.

Except for a very small number of ant eggs with extraordinary talents who inherited the queen's high-level [Pupation], most of the ant eggs' [Pupation] talents are still concentrated around level 6 to 8, and still need to consume a lot of slime Colloids are required for secondary pupation.

However, compared to ordinary ants who generally have a [Pupation] talent of 3 to 5, the ant eggs produced by Queen Linda have made great progress.

At least there will be no individuals born with a deficiency like the worker ant Black.

Considering the relatively cold winter and lack of food, System finally asked the queen ant Linda to produce a thousand ant eggs first.

If the food is abundant, continue to produce some, if the food is not enough, stick to the expansion of the ant colony after the food is abundant in spring.

At that time, both bugs and grass plants will be very rich on the grassland.

Ants are naturally good at storing food. In the process of expanding the size of the ant colony in summer, without his management, the ants will actively collect enough food for them to survive the winter.

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In the process of strengthening the ant queen Linda, System suddenly had an idea, and once this idea appeared, it was out of control.

All System thought of was flying.

If his ant people have the ability to fly, it will be extremely convenient to collect food, find prey for siege, or long-distance migration.

In fact, both female and male ants have the ability to fly, but when the female and male ants mate, their wings fall off and never grow back.

As for worker ants and soldier ants, due to the genetics of ants, they are born without wings.

However, this does not mean that worker ants and soldier ants do not have blood vessels with wings, but this blood vessel will not be stimulated and manifested. Worker ants and soldier ants have the possibility of growing wings again.

It's a pity that System used his tentacles to "perceive" for a long time, but he didn't find out how to activate the blood veins of the wings in Queen Linda's body. There seems to be a big difference between the blood veins of the wings of an ant and that of a grasshopper.

The rest of the worker ant knights and ant egg System also found nothing when they sensed.

For this reason, System decided to look for male and female ants with wings in the Warren Plain, and compare them with the bloodline of Queen Linda.

Although there are much fewer ant nests in the Warren Plain than in the Lierte Forest, there are still some ant nests.

Even after the rainy season in summer, some of these ants will survive tenaciously.

During the three days when System was free to strengthen the queen Linda's [chrysalis] talent, he would take the excavator to dig other ant nests together, looking for possible female or male ants.

After one and a half years, the excavator can be said to be the fastest-growing one among the many ants of System.

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Species: Great worker ants (renameable)
Rating: 14/14
Length: 0.26 meters

Weight: 17kg
Estimated combat power: 12-16
Special: [Pupation] (12/12), [Insect Adaptation] (9/19)

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The Great Worker Ant excavator may have absorbed the power of the earth. Its level has reached the full level of 14, the same as that of Shava. The carapace of its body is covered with a thick layer of earth armor, which is very heavy.

Today's excavators can quickly drill a tunnel underground for him to pass through, just like escaping from the ground, he can dig a distance of nearly half a meter every second.

If it wasn't for the excavator's [chrysalis] talent level, which was really difficult to improve, it might have entered its third chrysalis half a year ago.

With the help of such powerful digging experts, it is naturally very easy to dig up several ant nests.

With the help of the excavator, System destroyed five ant nests in a row, and harvested a lot of food stored in these ant nests.

It's a pity that most of the ants in these ant nests are in a dormant state in winter. Even the queens in the depths of the ant nests were found by System one after another, but the female ants or male ants were not found by System at all. half.

Obviously, no ants will choose to mate at this stage in the deep winter, so there are no females and males at all.

System's idea of ​​creating flying ants has no choice but to temporarily shelve it. It is estimated that he will not be able to find some flying female or male ants until after spring, and then compare it with the blood in Queen Linda's body.

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For three days, System did not find any flying female ants or male ants, nor did he find any small animals.

But in an inadvertent look in the sky, System found the fire and the blurry scene hundreds of kilometers away in the northwest direction.

If it weren't for the sudden bright light, it would be difficult for System to detect the movement in the distance.

A dense variety of zombies gathered together, including wild wolves and antelopes with their limbs lying on the ground, as well as dwarf men and tall jackals.

There are as many as 10,000+ zombies gathered, and they seem to be attacking a town with stone walls.

System saw red flames explode among the zombies, and he didn't know whether he used a spell or a magic item similar to a bomb.

Because the distance was so far away, System's view was very blurry, and he couldn't tell whether it was the zombies or the gnolls in the town who had the upper hand.

So System flew down from the sky after watching for a few minutes.

"It would be great if the shadow was here..."

System, who couldn't see the distant scene clearly and didn't know anything about what happened in the Warren Plain, remembered the shadow, the grasshopper beast that went to assassinate the old druid to avenge Kun.

Ying, who has invisibility and hidden aura, is naturally suitable for spying on intelligence, and after she failed to assassinate the old druid, she escaped from the old druid's hands, and she will have no problem facing most situations.

If Yingneng is here, he will definitely find out what happened in the Warren Plain, so that he will not be in a state of enlightenment after coming to this world for more than two years like now.

During the long pupation process, System felt the shadow's breath was indeed real.

According to Black, the shadow who failed to assassinate the old druid successfully found his lair a few months ago, stayed in his lair for a few days, and then left again.

The shadow that left this time did not recklessly go to assassinate the old druid again, but decided to return to the No. 20 sixth floor of the abyss. She wanted to rescue some former bug beast partners and bring them to System.

Knowing that System wants a low-key development, Black persuaded Ying, wanting to let Ying stay here and not cause trouble, and make plans after System wakes up.

However, Ying is obviously a guy who will not change his mind no matter how others persuade him after he has made up his mind.

Shadow, who made up her mind, eventually left, but before she left, she accepted Black's suggestion.

He promised that Black would try his best to be careful in the process of rescuing the bug companion, so that her former master would not notice, and he would not cause any trouble to System's lair.

(End of this chapter)