Law of the Swarm

Chapter 177 The Mutation of the Devil's Nest

"Wang, 3 worker ant knights patrolling the territory today are missing, 11 are dead, and 33 common ants are dead."

Blake, who was in charge of statistics, reported to System on the Crystal Throne, and at the same time sent a form to System in the form of a spiritual message.

Blake's form was created through the [Tools Menu] function attached to the [Data Template].

Under Black's suggestion, System further modified the [data template] given to Black, adding some office software functions.

The smart Blake learned the use of these office software easily, and he has become more and more handy these days.

Black also made a map of the underground space of the floating island for System, and kept track of the progress of the excavator's exploration of the floating island.

"There are more casualties today. It seems that the environment in the abyss is indeed much harsher. Even the second-pupated ant knight will suffer a lot of casualties. It would never have happened in the Warren Plain."

Although he regretted the death of the ants, System knew that as long as the ants were to expand in the abyss, such casualties would be unavoidable.

"If it wasn't for the recent expansion of the territory, the casualties would have been reduced by two-thirds. This is where these ants died and disappeared." Black sent a mental message to System, and at the same time sent the location of the ants' death to Sith. Tem sent it.

After receiving Black's spiritual message, System nodded. It seems that after a while, the casualties of the ants will decrease.

Due to System's instructions, the meatball expanded its territory from 200 meters above the ground to 500 meters, directly increasing its area by five times.

Although most of the threatening creatures in the territory have been cleaned up by Meatball, Shava and Shadow, there will always be some abyssal creatures who hid and escaped unharmed.

Most of these hiding creatures are chameleons in swamps and purple poisonous snakes that like to hide in swamps.

After the relatively weak ants pass by, the hidden abyssal creatures will appear and attack the ants.

If the ant knights cooperate with each other, most of these abyssal creatures that suddenly attack can be dealt with by the ants.

But inevitably, the ants will also suffer a lot of casualties.

However, System knew that as long as these carnivorous abyssal creatures were cleaned up in the territorial area, the threat to the ants would become less and less.

……

And just as System and Black were further discussing the foraging route of the ants, logically speaking, they should be outside to mark the territory. The breath ball suddenly flew in front of System, expressing a very resentful emotion. .

Could it be that he met the tyrant slime again?

Ever since Meatball failed to attack the extraordinary tyrant slime, Meatball seemed to have a slime phobia, and felt timid when seeing slimes.

It wasn't until System's continuous enlightenment in the past few days that the shadow in Rouqiu's heart gradually disappeared, and he dared to face ordinary slimes and giant slimes of magical ranks.

However, after receiving Rouqiu's mental message, System discovered that it turned out that the reason Rouqiu came to him was Ying.

The character of Meatball has always been like this, it likes to fly outside and hates being alone.

Ying, who always likes to make his own decisions and act without authorization after being invisible, is obviously not a good teammate for Rouqiu, and will often leave the team quietly.

System has no good solution for this, and it is difficult to discipline System, a grasshopper beast like Ying.

The best ant with Meatball should be Black, but it is difficult for Black to spare time to manage the ants.

System decided to let the worker ant knight Hook, who also had a good relationship with the meat ball, go out to mark the territory together.

However, after some communication, System found that he had obviously underestimated Meatball's determination this time.

This time, Rouqiu insisted that System go out with him, no matter how much System persuaded and fooled him, Rouqiu would never let go.

In Meatball's words, what System said seemed to make sense, but he couldn't understand it at all. He just wanted System to accompany him on the flight.

In desperation, System agreed to accompany Rouqiu to go out for inspection every five days.

Gently shaking his head, System looked at the leaving meatball and sighed. These days, he really stayed in the underground floating island for too long.

If he doesn't go out again, he will be no different from the dead house butterfly Aola.

In fact, it's good to go out and have a look once in a while.

Using his tentacles to pick up a piece of blood-red carapace with flesh and blood left behind by the meat ball, System put it in his mouth and tasted it.

Although Meatball is not very intelligent, it is like System will share with the ants when he gets good things, and Meatball will bring back some delicious food to System when he catches it.

It seems that what Meatball brought this time was a piece of breast meat of a mosquito beast, but after tasting, System found that the mosquito beast brought by Meatball should belong to a insect that had pupated three times.

It is a creature of great research value to System.

System sighed again, and at the same time he said to himself: "I have told Meatball several times that when encountering magical monsters, they will be caught alive. Why can't I always remember?"

It seems that it is still necessary to go out to inspect the territory with Meatball.

……

After discussing with Black for a while about the ants in the territory, System came to a relatively airtight room in the underground building of the floating island, and there was a soldier ant knight specially sent by System to guard outside the room .

In this room, there is a nest of devil insects the size of a human fist, and there are more than 30 eggs beside the nest of devil insects.

In fact, System moved this devil's nest here precisely because the devil's nest had a mutation that allowed it to lay eggs.

After these days, the original devil's nest has been split and planted by System, forming five devil's nests.

And just three days ago, System suddenly discovered a special change in one of the devil's nests, and began to produce some three-centimeter eggs.

However, System was greatly disappointed.

Although the Demon Insect Nest has a certain connection with him because of the power of [Growing Plants], the emotions produced by these eggs are very unfriendly to him.

For this reason, System cut off all the fleshy roots of this mutated devil's nest, and at the same time wiped out most of the flesh and blood of this devil's nest, to prevent this devil's nest from continuing to produce worms. eggs, causing unnecessary trouble.

System only left thirty eggs for research.

And during System's daily observation, one of the more than 30 eggs hatched.

Different from the egg hatching of ordinary insects, after the eggs of the devil's nest hatch, there is no experience from larva to pupa, and then from pupa to adult.

The adult insect hatched from this egg looks exactly like a mosquito, that is, the mosquito demon.

Mosquito demons behave in the same way as centipede demons, spider demons, and praying mantis demons. Before their bodies harden after birth, they use their own straws to suck the eggs of demon insects next to them and start killing each other...

(End of this chapter)