Law of the Swarm

Chapter 18

Under a few vines, as far as System could see, thousands of ants densely appeared. The types of these ants were exactly the same as those that System killed in the morning, and they should be from the same nest of ants.

It seems that the heavy rain a few days ago did not hurt the nest of ants.

As System jumped to the vicinity of the vine, the picture in his compound eyes gradually became clear. It turned out that these ants were dismembering a lizard carcass among the dead branches and leaves.

This lizard may have drowned unfortunately due to the heavy rain these days. At this time, the ant colony transported the lizard's minced meat back and forth to the nest.

System looked at the lizard corpse and suddenly had an idea.

A means of obtaining food, a costless business.

Because of the utility of [Information Reading], System's observation ability is very strong, but compared to the ant's sense of smell, System is far inferior.

These ants can easily search for food hidden in the mud of broken leaves after a heavy rain.

As long as he pays attention to the movement of these ant colonies, he can snatch food from the hands of ants.

When encountering smaller food to lure the ant colony away, he can grab the food and leave directly, and when encountering a huge meat like this lizard, System can also snatch the meat in the worker ant's mouth.

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After a short thought, System acted immediately. He picked an ant with a huge piece of meat on the edge of the ant colony and rushed over.

Practice makes perfect, System found that the reflexes of grasshoppers are much more sensitive than humans, and he became more and more proficient at attacking these ants.

He can even predict how the ants will react after an attack.

After easily snatching the meat from the ant's mouth, System kicked some enlightened ants half a meter away with his hind legs, and then repeatedly jumped onto a nearby vine.

Ants are very powerful and can lift objects dozens of times their own weight, but usually ants do not move such heavy objects.

The piece of meat that System snatched was a little smaller than the weight of an ant, and he grabbed the piece of meat and began to chew quickly.

The taste of this kind of meat is similar to the fragrant milk biscuit, which tastes very good, but it is not as good as the chrysalis.

But looking at the experience bar, System found that the experience of this food was nearly twice as high as that of the chrysalis.

This was the first food that violated System's delicious principle, but System continued to eat a few mouthfuls, and did not find the reason for the abnormal experience.

If he keeps eating this food, it is possible for him to reach max level 15 before his lifespan ends.

"Could it be that the evolution of reptiles is higher than that of insects? It's a pity, if we snatch some tadpole corpses in the morning, we can analyze more results."

System continued to eat a few bites of the lizard's meat and observed the changes in the experience bar, then threw the meat away.

This kind of meat was very helpful for him to improve his level, but it had no effect on his talent [Degeneration and Growth]. System continued to eat a few bites before discarding the pieces of meat on his legs.

Although level improvement is very important, the first thing he needs to do now is to improve his talent [Degeneration and Growth].

Jumping along the direction of these ants, it didn't take long for System to find a half-meter-high mound more than ten meters away, which was the nest of this group of dark brown ants.

This is an obviously large ant nest. System feels that this ant nest can hold at least hundreds of thousands of ants, but he doesn't know how much damage this heavy rain has caused to it.

There was an endless stream of ants coming and going. In addition to ordinary worker ants, System also saw some large ants with a size of three to four centimeters shuttling back and forth among the worker ants. They should be soldier ants guarding the ant nest.

The heads of these soldier ants are huge, occupying half of the entire body, and they have huge fangs. System believes that these huge fangs can disembowel him in an instant, and even bite off his thick hind legs.

Not only that, but the abdomens of these soldier ants are a bit strange. Through observation, System found that the abdomens of these soldier ants have stinging needles, and they spray out some liquid from time to time to command ordinary worker ants to move.

With sharp and huge fangs, coupled with tail stings and long-range attack methods, System has no plans to fight these soldier ants. If he accidentally falls near the ant nest, he will be submerged by the torrent of ants.

Following a tributary where ants gathered, System continued to jump and move, and he began to observe the range of activities and the food hunted by this group of ants.

Not long after, System successfully snatched the corpse of a half-centimeter small tadpole.

Because of the heavy rain, although the forest suffered disasters, after the stagnant water subsided, there was also a lot of food, and there were not many such unlucky tadpoles.

However, these tadpoles are usually trapped in the mud, and it is difficult for System to find them by sight, so he can only snatch them from the hands of the ants.

The taste of tadpoles is pretty good, similar to that of lizards, both of which taste like thick milky biscuits.

But unlike the huge amount of experience provided by the lizard's meat quality, the meat quality of this tadpole follows System's delicious principle, and the experience it produces is slightly lower than that of a pupa of the same weight.

Lizards belong to reptiles, and tadpoles are amphibians. The degree of evolution between the two should be similar, and System's previous guess was also declared wrong at this time.

System's theory of taste should still be correct, the better-tasting food can bring him more growth, but that lizard must be hiding something different.

System thought for a while, but didn't find any clues, so he began to concentrate on eating the dead tadpoles held by his legs.

Tadpoles cannot molt like insects, but their meat quality is very effective for the talent [Molt Growth], even better than ants and crickets.

It seems that the transformation of amphibians from aquatic to terrestrial forms is similar to the morphological changes of insects.

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System kept patrolling around the nests of this group of ants. On the one hand, he observed what food these ants had for him to snatch, and on the other hand, he was looking for a new nest nearby for him to rest at night.

System found a spacious tree hole in a slightly dry tree, but the tree hole was too close to the ant's nest, and ants would often visit the hole, so he had no choice but to give up this ideal nest.

When the sun went down, System didn't find a nest suitable for him to rest, but he snatched a few small tadpole carcasses carried by ants, which could be used as his supper in the dark.

And during the time when the sun was setting and the sky was still dark, System had a new harvest.

Near a pile of rubble, System found a useful food for him because of these ants???a [-]-centimeter-long scorpion corpse.

The body of this scorpion is pure black, because the outer shell has been slightly discolored due to the rainwater, and there is a lot of mud on the body.

The corpse of the scorpion has not been fully discovered by the ant colony, only a "exploration team" consisting of a dozen worker ants is investigating. If it is determined that the scorpion can be used as food, they will leave a scent to attract thousands of ants .

When System saw these dozen or so ants constantly wandering around the scorpion, he suddenly had a wonderful idea. If he succeeded, he could take the scorpion's body as his own.

He can lure these dozens of ants away, and then use his [corroding slime] full of pungent smell??????

Draw the ground for prison!

(End of this chapter)