Law of the Swarm

Chapter 172 The Snail's Plan

In this world, the only way to survive is to become strong.

Snail Jess once believed in this sentence.

Snail Jess couldn't remember exactly who said this sentence. The person who said this sentence in his memory seemed to be a passing lizard man.

But he didn't know Abyssal language at that time, so it's very likely that Jess spoke it to himself.

Before he became a magical being, he had always regarded this sentence as his creed.

The smelly snail, that is, the race of Jess, the smelly snail usually grows to a size of about five centimeters when it is an adult.

They belonged to the bottom-level organisms of the abyss level, and they lived by eating some rotting plants and larvae that were about to burst out of the pupa near the swamp.

Similar to the mosquitoes in the abyss, the smelly snails will also lose their lives within a short time after mating.

Because of an accident after birth, Jess climbed onto the lap of a lizardman and was taken to a small swamp without a snail colony.

Relying on the intelligence that is inherently higher than that of ordinary snails, coupled with the desire for survival, and the lack of female snails for him to mate.

Jess gradually grew up to the upper limit of level 18 by devouring mosquito larvae during countless near-death experiences.

Finally, by chance, he came across a damaged flying dragon egg.

It is the egg of this extraordinary creature that allows the snail to break through the level lock and hear the voice of the world.

From a mortal, he crossed the stage of transformation, and directly became a magical life.

Because he broke through the level lock, he possessed higher wisdom and the ability of magical creatures. It was after that that Snail named himself Jess.

The phantom ability possessed by Jess is very weak, without any ability to attack.

But through an accidental use, Jess discovered its weak ability, playing with the powerful lizardman between applause.

At that time, Jess transformed into a phantom of a flying dragon, which made the lizardman he could only look up to prostrate on the ground, trembling.

It was also after that that Jess doubted that only by becoming strong can he survive, and gradually forgot this sentence in his mind.

In Jess's view, it is the right choice to play with the low-intelligence creatures of the abyss with applause by virtue of his outstanding intelligence.

With its outstanding intelligence, it has even controlled a lizardman tribe over the years, and indirectly lured a tyrant slime to act as a thug for the lizardman tribe.

However, everything Jess the snail possessed was shattered after meeting the strange creature named System.

God knows why such a strange magical creature suddenly appeared in the Monad Swamp, and it was able to face the tyrant slime and retreat unscathed.

And that strange creature possessed a higher intelligence than him, as if he could see through what he was thinking.

After being caught by the other party and failing to use lies, Jess the snail had no choice but to make false claims with the other party, while thinking about the plan to escape from here.

After these days of dormancy, the snail has gradually grasped the appearance and part of the strength of System's five subordinates.

The six creatures, including the magic lord, all seem to be of different races. The snail has never seen these strange creatures in the abyss for more than [-] years.

And among these six creatures, there are actually four magical ranks, and these four magical rank creatures surprisingly did not fight with each other, and they have always been very harmonious.

You must know that even in the lizardmen tribe ruled by the extraordinary rank lizardmen, the magical rank lizardmen will fight with each other, especially in this neutral area where magical creatures often change territories.

The snail really couldn't figure out why these magical creatures didn't resist System.

Especially when he learned that System had let his subordinates replace him to release breath around the territory to mark the territory, Jess the snail was even more surprised.

Doesn't this magical creature occupying the territory have the dignity of being a magical creature?

……

After these days of observation, Snail already knew that his phantom could be seen through by System, and he would also be discovered by the magical creature named Shadow. It was obviously unrealistic to escape from the hands of the two by relying on phantoms.

The snail's crawling speed is not fast, and since he is several hundred meters deep underground, it will undoubtedly take a very long time to escape. Even if he escapes by luck, he may be attacked by other abyssal creatures, so the plan to escape directly has also been rejected. The snail gave up.

All Snail could think of was to use System's men to help him escape by fooling those creatures with low IQs.

However, after these days of contact, Jess the snail gradually gave up on this idea, and he didn't even dare to tell any lies to these System's subordinates.

Because the snail knew that as long as he lied to these guys one moment, these guys would tell System his lies intact the next moment.

All his lies will have nowhere to hide.

After that, he would undoubtedly be eaten by System as a snack.

After these days, Jess had no doubts about System's brutality, and he would kill and eat even the abyssal creatures in the territory who surrendered to him without hesitation.

And Jess discovered that System actually has the ability to control giant slimes in magical ranks, which made the snails even more afraid.

All Snail Jess can do is to hide his inner emotions and continue to hibernate, waiting for the chance to escape.

……

However, on such a day, as the magical creature that System called a butterfly activated a magic item, nearly a thousand creatures that System called ants appeared.

At first, Jess the snail didn't take these ants seriously, because in the eyes of the snail, these ants were too weak.

Only those soldier ant knights around fifty centimeters in length have a certain strength, but there are less than thirty of those soldier ant knights.

These ants can't make any waves in the abyss.

However, as the snail Jess continued to observe these ants, Jess discovered the difference of these ants, and he also changed from the initial surprise to the later shock.

These ants are fundamentally different from ordinary abyssal creatures. They will not kill each other in order to compete for resources. They know how to cooperate with each other, and their actions are even more efficient than the lizardmen.

And the queen ant named Linda can lay hundreds of ant eggs every day, just like mosquitoes, and new ants will be born after ten days.

Jess the Snail knew that unless the extraordinary lizardmen of Monad Swamp wiped out System immediately, the queen ant and these ants under System's control would undoubtedly rule Monad Swamp in the future.

And when you think about it carefully, letting the extraordinary lizardmen immediately annihilate System is nothing short of a dream.

Leaving aside whether the extraordinary lizard man could notice System, even if the extraordinary lizard man really wanted to destroy System, it would be difficult for the lizard man to break into the narrow cave more than 1000 meters underground.

As long as System does not commit suicide, the ants he leads will sooner or later occupy the Monad Swamp.

Snail Jess knows that if he wants to escape, he must do so as soon as possible, otherwise he will never be able to escape...

(End of this chapter)