Law of the Swarm

Chapter 146 Hostile Species

Maybe it's because the centipede demon's body contains the blood of insects and some arthropods, and System can slightly feel the emotions of this creature.

Although it was not very clear, System could still feel the chaos and madness in this creature's emotions.

Unlike System, who can feel the emotions of most creatures, the emotions produced by this giant centipede are fundamentally different.

Not to mention life with wisdom.

Plants, fungi, slimes, and various bugs.

There are many species that System can feel the emotions of life. They generally have low intelligence, and the behaviors they produce are also strange, and their emotions are also different.

The roots of these emotions can be roughly divided into two types, one is for their own survival, and the other is for the continuation of the race.

Whether it is a slime who likes to roll in the mud, or a butterfly larva that is always looking for leaves to eat, or a bee or ant that guards the nest regardless of its own life, they are all like this.

And this big centipede with obvious low intelligence, the thing contained in the depth of emotion is destruction.

The meaning of its survival is to kill the living beings around it.

There was no reason, the big centipede simply sensed the breath of System and Shava, and wanted to tear System and Shava to pieces.

But after feeling it carefully, System discovered another emotion of this giant centipede besides destruction.

This big centipede had a unique desire for his and Shava's flesh and blood, and wanted to devour him and Shava's flesh and blood.

I don't know if it's because of the insect blood in him and Shava, or because he and Shava are living creatures.

System found that the centipede seemed to be more interested in him and Shava than the flesh and blood of the gnoll zombie.

……

Accompanied by some emotions of pain and anger, the centipede demon from the abyss began to be cut off by Shava little by little.

"It seems that the pain caused by the amputated limbs is much weaker than that of ordinary creatures. Don't you fear pain..."

While observing the centipede demon attacked by Shava, System tried to use the ability of [Spiritual Connection] to communicate with this creature, which means lying.

For example, tell this big centipede that the flesh of him and Shava has deadly toxin; he and Shava are already destroyed; or he and this big centipede are of the same kind...

It's a pity that System's lies to this centipede were even worse than when he lied to the adult ants. The big centipede didn't react to what he said at all, and couldn't communicate at all.

In order to prevent the centipede demon from struggling too violently, System ordered Shava to speed up the chopping speed, trying to make the centipede quieter.

As Shava accelerated further, the centipede demon's legs were gradually chopped off by Shava, rolling and struggling on the ground like a snake.

However, the centipede whose legs were cut off was not a snake after all. Although its body was still very active, after its legs were cut off, it could only toss about non-stop on the ground, basically not taking half a step away from where it was.

Not long after, when Shava cut off the chelicera on the centipede's head, System also flew down from the sky.

“1、2、3、4……37、38、39、40。”

Basically the same as the ordinary little centipede in Lierte Forest, this centipede demon also has 20 pairs of legs, and even the chelicerae on the centipede's head that act as fangs are the same.

It seems that this kind of centipede demon, although the body is a demon, but the body contains a lot of centipede blood, so the body shape maintains the appearance of a centipede.

System picked up a severed centipede leg, put it in his mouth again and tasted it.

It tasted similar to the three centipede corpses eaten in the lair. Because of the blood of the abyss, the flesh and blood of these centipedes still tasted sweet and spicy.

However, it is different from when it ate demon corpses before the third pupation.

Today's System no longer finds this kind of food unpalatable, but instead thinks it tastes okay.

Although there will be some confusion in the body and slight abnormalities in emotions, this feeling is not serious.

It's like children are generally sensitive to spicy taste, but when they grow up, their perception of spicy taste will be much worse. System feels that he himself is almost the same.

……

Ten minutes later, System and Shava ate most of the centipede's legs in front of the centipede demon.

For this kind of food, sawa is also okay to eat, and eating a little will not cause any problems.

However, this kind of food will still have a lot of side effects on other ant knights, and it will even have serious consequences on the ordinary ants that Linda just produced.

Only by relying on slime for secondary digestion can it be used as food for ordinary ants.

After more than ten minutes, although the centipede's emotions were still chaotic and tyrannical, but because the centipede lost too much blood due to the broken leg, the extent of the centipede's tossing has been greatly reduced.

System also took this opportunity to wrap his tentacles around the centipede's body to perform [perception].

Recalling the centipede in the cave with ratman arms and the centipede with gnoll fangs on its exoskeleton, System felt that this centipede demon should have a meatball-like [swallowing mutation] in its body. 】Ability.

It's a pity that after [perceiving] for a while, System was unable to detect this ability at all, just like when he used his tentacles to [perceive] the meat ball.

But without [perceiving] this ability, System discovered something special about this centipede demon.

Normally, as long as System's tentacle's [Perception] is activated, it will have an aphrodisiac effect on creatures.

Even his son Meatball would have a similar reaction, and it was precisely because of this that System was able to know that Meatball was a male worm.

However, this centipede didn't react to System's tentacles at all, which was very strange.

This reminded System of his old friend Slime. Slime should be one of the few who could resist the aphrodisiac effect of his tentacles.

"Could it be that this big centipede is also asexual like slime? But if that's the case, how can this kind of centipede reproduce?"

System stared at the centipede, which was getting weaker and weaker due to excessive blood loss, and fell into deep thought.

And at this moment, the big centipede under System's tentacles suddenly began to tremble irregularly.

Like an insect's [pupation] or [molting growth], the centipede's body began to twitch violently, and the exoskeleton and flesh on the body surface shrank violently like an insect's molt, but the magnitude was obviously more intense.

There was a loud bang...

Within a dozen or so breaths, the dross of the exoskeleton on the body surface of the giant centipede began to fall off, and the shape of the giant centipede in System's tentacles had changed, with an oval brown sarcoma nearly half a meter high appearing.

Soon, the half-meter-high brown sarcoma began to wriggle violently.

Accompanied by the pungent sulfur smell, the sarcoma began to shatter, and an abyssal creature that looked like an imp appeared on System's tentacles.

Using his tentacles, System ripped off one of the little devil's arms and put it in his mouth to taste...

(End of this chapter)