Law of the Swarm

Chapter 14
System shook his head lightly. It was obviously unrealistic to find that old druid.

Even if the old druid really has the ability to prolong his life, and is really willing to help him, but it is not easy to find the old druid in the huge forest.

System seems to have experienced a lot these days, but the range of activities is only a hundred meters.

And how much does 200 meters occupy in the forest?

It is obviously difficult to spend a lot of time and risk everything to find the old druid, and the old druid may have left the forest.

Didn't think of a good solution. Tem finally thought of his talent [degeneration and growth].

He still has a glimmer of hope, that is to carry out the third transformation.

The second time he molted he had already turned into an adult grasshopper, and the third time he molted would definitely bring about greater changes to his body.

There is also the sound of the mysterious and mysterious world in the process of transformation, which will definitely have a special effect on him.

Even if the third molting and the voice of that world can't prolong his lifespan, it can enhance his strength.

Even if he was still helpless at that time and his physical fitness improved, he would find the old druid faster and more efficiently.

……

After thinking everything through, System's expression became firm, and his immediate goal was to complete the third transformation as quickly as possible, leaving more time in his short lifespan for him to come. Make a selection.

As for the urge to mate with a female grasshopper that made him very irritable before, System found that he could easily suppress it now.

After all, as long as he mates once, he will only have 3 days left to live. The horror between life and death makes System's willpower to mate countless times stronger.

System quickly jumped to the tree full of chrysalis.

A few days passed, and the pupae of these lepidopteran insects were still the same as before, and none of the pupae had turned into butterflies and become empty shells.

The current season is late summer and early autumn, and I don't know whether these chrysalis will wait for next spring to break out, or they will turn into butterflies in the next few days and then mate and lay eggs, allowing the eggs to overwinter and hatch.

When he first came here, these 6 cm chrysalis were much bigger than his body, but now System's body is already bigger than these chrysalis.

System was not polite either, directly biting the chrysalis with his dark brown fangs.

After the second molt, System's fangs were two to three times stronger than those in the larval stage, both in terms of hardness and bite force.

But after biting, System found that even so, he still couldn't bite off the solid shell of these pupae, and only left tiny scratches on the shell of the pupae. It seems that these pupae are stronger than bark .

System recalled the experience of eating silkworm chrysalis in his previous life. The shell of fried silkworm chrysalis is very hard, even with human teeth, it is difficult to bite into it. Hard to eat.

The hardness of the shell of this chrysalis seems to be similar to that of the silkworm chrysalis that System ate in his previous life.

Because of System's bite, the chrysalis obviously felt threatened, and twisted slightly.

Seeing this, System no longer tried his fangs, and directly used the biochemical weapon he obtained after molting into an adult.

[Corrosive Slime] activate!

Corrosion-filled juice was secreted from the special gland in System's throat, and dripped down the chrysalis along his fangs.

Although the destructive power of this corrosive mucus is strong, System is still unfamiliar with it just now, and it can only secrete a small amount at a time, and it cannot kill the enemy in one blow like spider or scorpion venom.

However, this kind of mucus is really the most perfect weapon for this kind of chrysalis, which has super defensive power and cannot dodge.

The dark brown mucus and the tan shell of the chrysalis caused a wonderful chemical reaction. After more than ten seconds, the shell of the chrysalis gradually turned gray and white.

System's fangs poked at the right time, and along with the white slurry flowing out, the chrysalis trembled violently, and System also tasted the wonderful taste of the chrysalis, which was as mellow and sweet as hot chocolate .

System's fangs secreted corrosive mucus again, further expanding the gap in the pupae, and then accelerated the feeding.

It was softer than the molting leech eaten a few days ago. Nearly [-]% of the lepidopteran larvae in the pupa were sticky liquid. It was not so much eaten by System as it was eaten by System. System gradually drank it.

The structure of the Lepidoptera larva in the chrysalis is unknown, and its vitality is very tenacious. It was still trembling slightly after System drank a third of it, and it was completely motionless until System swallowed half of it.

This kind of chrysalis is very nutritious. If System becomes an adult grasshopper, perhaps he only needs to eat two of them to upgrade his level.

But after turning into an adult, System found that his experience bar was increasing very slowly. It was estimated that he would need to eat 12 pieces to reach level 9, a full six times that of the larva stage.

Fortunately, when he molted into an adult, System obtained [Corrosion Mucus]. This liquid can not only be secreted into his mouth, but also into his stomach, speeding up his digestion.

With [Corrosive Slime] his digestion ability has been increased by half, and System estimates that he can successfully digest two chrysalis before dark.

And after Heitian, System, who had been avoiding danger all this time, decided to continue devouring these pupae.

The forest at night may be more dangerous, but his remaining lifespan is running out, if he doesn't fight at this time, he will have no chance in two months.

There are 42 pupae remaining here.

Excluding the necessary rest time, System should be able to eat three and a half chrysalis during the day and night, and be able to rise to level 3 within 4 days.

After reaching level 9, his stomach capacity and digestion speed will be further improved, and it shouldn't be a problem to eat 5 eggs a day.

因为升级所需经验的梯度上升，8级到9级需要12枚虫蛹，西斯特姆推测9级到10级需要25枚虫蛹左右，这42枚虫蛹应该只够他升到10级稍多一点。

After careful calculation, after 10 days, he could eat all these pupae, and then raise the level to level 10.

System's worm head showed a contemplative look, he opened the light curtain of [Self-Information Generation Technique], and looked at his level - 8/15.

15 is his level cap, representing the limit that the species of green-tailed grasshopper can reach, while 8 represents his current level.

There were 63 days left in his lifespan. After more detailed calculations, System's wormhead expression gradually became gloomy.

Suppose he has enough and nutritious chrysalis to eat without stopping, and exclude any unfavorable dangerous unfavorable situation.

It takes 9 days to upgrade to level 3.5, and it takes about 10 days to reach level 5, and the speed of level improvement will become slower and slower. If calculated according to this speed, the speed of each upgrade will be slower by half of the time about.

Then the time from level 9 to level 15 can be roughly guessed.

3.5天、5天、7.5天、11.5天、17天、25天、37天，一共106天。

Even if there is enough food, he promises to rest every day except eating and digesting. It will take 15 days for him to reach level 106.

He had been dead for over a month by then.

If his [Molting Growth] reaches the full level, the inheritance information from the bloodline tells him that he needs to be level 14 or 15 to undergo the third molting.

If there is no miracle, even if he dies, he will not be able to meet the conditions for the third transformation.

……

The tentacles on System's head kept shaking, and he fell into deep thought again.

The top priority is to try to increase the level of [Molt Growth] to level 13. Only in this way can he know the specific information of the third molt.

Fang **** Temu, who has rapidly improved [Molt Growth], has already noticed from the vague information in the blood, that is, try to eat different types of insects or other creatures that can molt or pupate.

System, who was eating chrysalis, made a new decision after contemplation. He decided not to eat this kind of food after eating two chrysalis, but to hunt other small insects instead.

Only by eating a variety of food can the [Molt Growth] level be raised to level 13 the fastest, so that he can know earlier how many levels the third molting will take.

If the third transformation required too high a level to complete, he had better make other preparations earlier.

(End of this chapter)