Law of the Swarm

Chapter 175 Sure enough, IQ dropped

There are many stone gates inside the floating island to block the building passages. These gray stone gates of different sizes are basically liftable.

Most of the stone gates are inlaid with some blue spar, and are printed with unknown lines, and there are still some silver-white metals that have not completely decayed on the lines.

System speculates that these stone doors in the underground building of the floating island should belong to the high technology of the fantasy world. When the magic stone door is intact, it may not be automatically sensed, or it can be opened and closed remotely from a distance.

However, after so many years, these magic stone doors have not resisted the erosion of time after all, they have lost their original function and cannot be moved at all.

Fortunately, the excavator has the ability to manipulate soil and rocks. It only takes a few ten minutes for the excavator to destroy the mechanism that these stone doors are held up underground, allowing these gray stone doors that block the way to sink into the ground.

This time the excavator opened the stone door and found a strange magical item, to be precise, a staff made of blue crystals and red gems.

The excavator of this staff cannot be used, and the shadow can activate this staff, causing the gemstone on the top of the staff to emit a weak fluorescent light, which is brighter than the brightness of the fluorescent mushroom.

The reason why Ying thinks this crystal gem staff is very valuable is not because Ying feels that there is any strange ability inside the staff, but because this staff is unique enough.

Even after seeing this staff, System also discovered the extraordinaryness of this staff.

It's not about how exquisite the shape of this staff is, how fine the lines are carved on it, and how transparent and bright the diamond-shaped ruby ​​at the top of the staff is.

Instead, the staff was quietly suspended in midair. No matter how System moved the staff, the staff would return to its original upright state like a tumbler, about ten centimeters above the ground.

System fiddled with the staff for a while, and found that several of his abilities could not be activated by the staff.

From the lair of the Ratman to the temple of the evil god Rafal, most of the magic items that System got were useless for him.

By now, System had gradually gotten used to the embarrassing situation of being unable to use magic items.

And this staff has other uses besides magical ability.

By wrapping the staff with the tentacles, and then pulling out the tentacles holding the staff forcefully, the staff will rotate rapidly during the suspension process.

The spinning staff can spin for half an hour before slowly stopping.

I have to say that this wand is a very good decompression toy, just like a spinning top.

It's just a pity, with System's mentality, after turning this levitating staff a few times, he lost interest in this staff, and then handed this staff to Ying, so that when Ying was fine Try to activate the other hidden abilities of this staff.

At the same time, System also secretly informed Shadow with his [Spiritual Connection] ability not to let the snail next to him touch the staff.

After all, the power of the snail and the shadow belong to the same source, and this staff can also be activated.

Doing so can effectively prevent the snail Jess from using the staff to cause any trouble.

……

After disposing of the magic items, System once again came to the room where the ant queen Linda was ovulating.

Because of the huge amount of experience provided by the dragon bone marrow, the ant queen Linda has raised her level cap to level 16. As an ant queen, her level cap is higher than that of ordinary ants.

Today's queen ant has grown to nearly 4 meters in size, making it more inconvenient to move around. However, Linda's egg-laying ability has also been further strengthened. She can produce about 150 large ant eggs or nearly [-] small ant eggs every day. Ant eggs.

System also continued the previous strategy, still allowing the queen ant to produce large ant eggs to breed highly qualified ant offspring.

More than half of these ants with higher qualifications will naturally enter the secondary pupation.

Only these ants that have pupated twice can gain a firm foothold in such a cruel environment as the abyss.

And System came to Queen Linda's nest today because after nearly ten days, the first batch of ant eggs laid by Queen Linda after she came to the abyss had hatched.

System came here today precisely to inspect these newly born ant larvae.

More than a dozen of the first batch of ant eggs have hatched, and these newly hatched ant larvae appear to be much more active than those in the main world, wriggling back and forth on the gray stone bricks at an extremely fast speed. Then the slime controlled by Linda swallowed it.

Because before these ant eggs hatched, the queen used [Spiritual Connection] to instill the spiritual message that System is king, and in addition, the blood of ants is inherently obedient, so these ants have a strong affection for System. The mood is generally cordial.

But System still found some differences between these ant larvae and the ant larvae in the main world.

Just like the low-intelligence mosquitoes in the abyss, the breath of the abyss does have an impact on the ant larvae, and the ant larvae born in the abyss obviously have a much lower IQ.

Not only that, but the ant larvae born in the abyss also have the characteristics of most abyssal creatures, irritable and irritable.

These ant larvae are easy to get angry inexplicably during the process of biting the slime jelly, biting the slime frantically, and twisting their bodies violently at the same time.

Fortunately, the race of ants is extremely united. Even if ant larvae get angry, they will not attack other ants of the same kind, but will twist their bodies inadvertently to throw other ant larvae away.

Through further observation, System found that it seems to be related to the enlightenment education of the ant eggs by the queen ant with [spiritual connection]. Most instructions made.

If the ants in the main world are defined as the IQ of normal people; then the ants born in the abyss are probably equivalent to mildly retarded, some are stronger than mildly retarded, and some are worse than mildly retarded; while the mosquitoes in the abyss are equivalent to severe mentally retarded, and Fools make no difference.

And if there is a disadvantage, there is an advantage. Although the ant larvae in the abyss have a lower IQ, their physical fitness is also higher than that of the ants in the main world.

System estimated that if these ordinary worker ants enter the second pupa and become worker ant knights, their body size should reach more than 20 centimeters, which is much larger than the original worker ant knight's body size of about [-] centimeters.

However, due to the intelligence of these ants in the abyss, it may be difficult for these ants to understand the small video shared by Shava in [Spirit Network].

If the ratio of ant knights to big ants in the main world is four to one, then after reaching the abyss, the ratio may be reversed to one to four, or even lower.

……

After thinking about this change in the ant larvae in the abyss, System decided to let nature take its course for the time being.

Everything has to wait for the first batch of ants in the abyss to pupate for the second time, and System can only determine the future direction of the ants' breeding after inspection.

System didn't pay much attention to whether ants could become ant knights.

But if these ant larvae grow up in the abyss, their personalities become more irritable and chaotic, and they even kill each other.

System will transfer the ant queen Linda to the half-plane again, let the queen incubate the ant eggs in the half-plane, and send them back to the abyss after the ants grow up...

(End of this chapter)