Law of the Swarm

Chapter 161 The Food Chain of the Abyss
System stretched out his tentacles and continued to use the power of [Perception] on the mosquitoes and insects.

It's a pity that after feeling it for a while, System didn't find any difference between the bloodline of the mosquitoes in the abyss and the mosquitoes in the main world.

And like the mosquitoes in the main world, although this big mosquito couldn't be affected by System's lies, it was successfully reacted by the aphrodisiac tentacles, and became strange from angry and crazy emotions.

It seems that the mosquitoes in the abyss, like the mosquitoes in the main world, reproduce by mating, and they are not a life that relies on the devil's nest for asexual reproduction like the insect demon.

Turning his head to look to the side, System soon discovered that there were two or three similar corpses of mosquitoes and beasts under Shava who was practicing chopping.

It seems that the level of the abyss is different from the main world, and the number of mosquitoes and beasts seems to be quite a lot.

I don't know if it's because the mosquitoes here are too dense, so the secondary pupated insects appear frequently, or because the abyss itself is easy for insects to be born.

Since there are a lot of mosquitoes and beasts in the abyss, System has no plan to keep this beast for research.

After wringing off the head of Mosquito Beast with his tentacles, System quickly put the body of Mosquito Beast into his mouth and began to chew...

The taste is similar to the mosquitoes in the main world. The exoskeleton of the mosquitoes smells like chocolate, while the meat of the mosquitoes smells like milky fragrance. It probably tastes like chocolate cake, which is not bad.

But at this moment, System keenly noticed something was wrong, and then took out a mass of flesh with fleshy roots from the bag on his body.

It was the nest of monsters collected in the Warren Plain, System quickly broke off a small piece, and then put it in his mouth to taste.

"Sure enough, after becoming an abyss life, my sense of taste has changed."

The flesh and blood roots that used to taste sweet and spicy, but now System can't feel the spicy taste, only the milky taste.

System knew that the change in taste was just an appearance, and the real change was the change in his intake of experience points.

The flesh and blood roots of the same weight can provide System with 1.5 times the experience in the main world.

It seemed that after he transformed into an abyssal creature, the things he could digest also changed.

"I don't know how the skeleton warhorse with the blue fire will taste now..."

System made a sound unconsciously, for some reason, System once again thought of the skeleton warhorse that had disappointed him so much, and wanted to taste it again***** **Tum quickly shook his head, stopped his wild thoughts, and at the same time sent a spiritual message to Shava, who was tilting his head and showing a strange expression, asking Shava to accompany him to explore the surroundings.

Because the place is always in a smoky environment, System's powerful eyesight can't be used. Although [System's Eye] has a certain ability to see through, it can only see through a few centimeters of dirt, just like in the previous life. Like X-rays, they cannot see through endlessly.

And under such a thick purple smog, System could only see things 50 meters away clearly, and it would become more and more blurred if it was further away.

System found that the density of creatures at this level of the abyss was much higher than that of the Lierte Forest in summer, and there were countless mosquitoes in the surrounding sky at a glance.

Mosquitoes that are closer to him will attack him and want to draw blood from his body, but mosquitoes that are farther away from him will use the straw on their heads to swing back and forth in the air in addition to mating with mosquitoes of the opposite sex. Breathe the moist mist of the air.

Obviously, these lavender mist are the key to the breeding of these mosquitoes in this world to such an extent.

And near the swamp more than ten meters away, System saw a large number of purple-black toads. There was only one type of these toads, but there were big and small ones.

The large toad is nearly half a meter high, while the small one is only a few centimeters in size.

Perhaps in order to cope with the large number of fierce mosquitoes in this world, these purple-black toads have evolved a layer of wrinkled and very hard horny on the surface of their bodies, which is difficult for mosquitoes to pierce through.

……

System casually tore off the hind leg of a toad pierced by [Dragon Scale Spike], put it in his mouth and began to chew.

Compared with mosquitoes, although these toads are at the upper level of the food chain, they are much more timid than mosquitoes.

After seeing the toad captured by System making a tragic death cry, the other toads either jumped and fled immediately, or jumped straight into the mud and disappeared.

Soon, the toads ten meters near System escaped one after another, and even the huge half-meter-tall toad also escaped.

It seems that these abyssal toads should have a higher IQ than mosquitoes. When encountering unknown and mysterious creatures, they at least know how to choose to escape instead of fighting each other to the end.

Throwing the half-eaten toad aside, System moved to the side of the swamp where purple bubbles emerged.

These swamps emitting purple miasma seem to be hot, but the temperature is the same as the surrounding environment. In addition to the first plants that resemble aquatic plants growing on the swamps, System also felt that there were a large number of them in the swamps, and they were extremely hot. weak emotions.

There seemed to be a lot of microorganisms and germs in this swamp, and the density was even similar to that of the plague culture fluid of the ratman wizard Lance.

In addition to these germs, there are countless larvae in the swamp, that is, the larvae of mosquitoes. Every moment, many larvae will emerge from the pupa in the mud. After waiting for more than ten minutes for their wings to harden, they will spread their wings and then fly into the sky.

It seems no coincidence that mosquitoes can breed on such scale here, feeding on germs and microbes in the mud and then swallowing a poisonous purple mist in the air.

……

But just as System observed for a while and was about to leave the swamp and return to the ground, System's [intuition] suddenly sent out a weak induction.

The joints of System's legs and tentacles quickly charged and released, and his body instantly moved sideways and jumped a few meters away.

puff! !

A giant black snake with the thickness of a human thigh and a length of nearly ten meters suddenly drilled out of the ground, and opened its bloody mouth towards the position where System was just a moment ago...

Unfortunately, because of the [intuition] of the giant black snake's attack, System had already dodged ahead of time and climbed onto an unknown strange plant not far away.

Obviously, as an abyss, the level of danger here is much higher than that of Liertliert Forest.

The scales of the giant black snake's body are crystal clear, even if it drilled out of the ground, it didn't stick to the soil, and it looked very beautiful. However, the beautiful body and the fierce snake head still looked a little ferocious.

The giant snake seemed to have spotted him. Although System had dodged the snake's first attack, the giant snake quickly turned around and continued to rush towards System.

It's a pity that this time, there was already a figure blocking the path of the giant snake ahead of time.

boom! !

Accompanied by a strong impact sound, the giant snake was thrown several meters away, and several blood-stained snake scales were scattered around...

"King, as long as I'm here, you don't have to worry."

Shava faced System, and finally said again the classic lines that she liked very much, but hadn't had the chance to say for a long time.

(End of this chapter)