Law of the Swarm

Chapter 20
Accompanied by a mysterious green halo, the whining bird in the hands of the old druid gradually quieted down.

The old druid spoke an unknown language, and gently stroked the injured big bird with his hands.

Not long after, the big bird spread its brown-red wings with a happy chirp, flew up and circled above the old druid's head.

The old druid once again showed his natural aura, giving System a feeling of being immersed in the mother of nature.

System hesitated whether to jump in front of the old druid, show him his wisdom, and ask him how to prolong his lifespan******Tum hesitated.

Deep down in his heart, he felt that something was wrong with the old druid, but he couldn't figure out exactly what was wrong for a while.

While System was hesitating, the pheasant hovering in the sky flew away, and the old druid took slow but fast steps, and disappeared into the forest in two steps...

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"Why didn't I go there just now?"

It wasn't until the old Druid gradually disappeared that System came back to his senses.

Thinking of the two months he had left to live, System regretted that he hadn't been able to rush in front of the old druid just now.

From the first time he met the old druid picking up creatures in the water, to the look on his face when he just rescued the big bird, System felt that the old druid's kindness was not fake, and it was worth his gamble.

Maybe you can get a way to extend your life from the old druid.

But it was too late to go again now, System bounced towards the direction where the old druid had gone, only to find that the old druid had disappeared.

System could only jump back helplessly, came near the blood stain left by the pheasant just now, and decided to eat the blood left by the pheasant.

Near the blood of the pheasant, there were two twitching ants on the ground. They should have been accidentally run over by the struggling pheasant when these ants had just launched an attack on the pheasant, and they had become seriously injured at this time.

System also had no intention of eating these ants, and kicked the two unlucky ants away. System observed the surrounding situation and saw that other ants were eating another blood stain, so he sucked himself Blood in front of you.

The bird's blood tastes very good, similar to a rich milkshake, mixed with some tea taste similar to that of the previous life, even if you stop sucking blood, this taste will remain in your mouth, making System's endless aftertaste.

It is not as good as the taste of scorpions, but it tastes much better than other foods, and the experience provided is about 1.3 times that of chrysalis of the same weight.

It seems that the flesh and blood of birds is also a kind of food that conforms to the principle of System's delicious experience.

Birds, tadpoles, scorpions, insects, plants, System has eaten many kinds of food now, and he really can't figure out the reason why the previous lizard corpse had abnormal experience.

Without thinking too much, he continued to eat a few mouthfuls of blood, because it couldn't have an effect on [Molt Growth], System resolutely gave up this kind of food.

He hopped away and continued to look for the food that the ants could snatch for him...

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Three days passed.

System was promoted to level 9 as planned, his body shape grew from 6.5 cm to 8 cm, and his physical fitness was further improved.

Although the talent [Degeneration and Growth] from the bloodline has not been upgraded to level 13, System feels that it is only a step away. As long as the level is raised to level 10, his [Degeneration and Growth] will definitely grow to the limit, and then Get specific information about the third degeneration.

在这次升到9级后，西斯特姆的【昆虫适应力】（11/21）提升为【昆虫适应力】（12/21）。

System once again felt the mysterious picture from [Insect Adaptability] in his blood.

Countless grasshoppers are once again flying freely in the vast world.

同时因为这次升级，西斯特姆的衍生能力[断肢再生]（5/11）提升为[断肢再生]（6/11）；[黑暗视觉]（3/5）提升为[黑暗视觉]（4/5）。

而最为显著的改变则是他的[腐蚀粘液]（7/13）提升了2级，变为[腐蚀粘液]（9/13）。

The glands in System's mouth became even bigger, the corrosive power of the venom became stronger, and the total amount of liquid that could be secreted nearly doubled.

Not only that, the glands in System's mouth have undergone special changes. Through the newly formed muscles near the glands, System can squeeze the glands' venom to spray out.

Similar to a king cobra that spews venom, or a black dragon that spits corrosive venom in a fantasy world.

It's just that the liquid sprayed by System has a very short distance, currently only a few centimeters away.

But in any case, this can be regarded as System's only long-range attack method. Although he can grab some small stones with his feet and throw them from a long distance, it is very difficult to exert force, and it is difficult to even hurt a small ant. can't do it.

Excluding the upgrade changes, in the past three days, System has become more and more familiar with these dark brown ants, and his movements of snatching ants have become more and more proficient.

During these three days, he even used tricks to lure a single soldier ant into the muddy water, then kicked the soldier ant back into the water continuously, and finally killed the exhausted soldier ant without any damage.

Different from ordinary worker ants, the black-brown soldier ants have a thicker exoskeleton and a more irritable personality. They are also very organized in fighting. They will attack the vital points of the prey's body, and there is a stinging needle at the tail that can shoot acid.

Soldier ants are dangerous, but in some ways they're even dumber than worker ants.

The eyesight of soldier ants is obviously much better than that of worker ants, but they will still rush towards grass sticks covered with formic acid, even into muddy water.

System also took advantage of the stupidity of the soldier ants, and successfully used the stagnant water to kill a soldier ants.

The smell of soldier ant carcasses is stronger than that of ordinary worker ants, but the risk of hunting is too great, and the efficiency is far inferior to that of System robbing the food of ordinary worker ants, so System only tried to kill them sexually these three days. After losing a soldier ant, he chose to give up.

During the three days, System was fortunate enough to meet two distant relatives of his own grasshopper.

Unlike when it was a larva, after becoming an adult, it suddenly felt very kind to its own kind.

But after just a little contact, the two grasshoppers flew away far away.

In addition to grasshoppers, System discovered that there were many mosquito-like insects in the forest, which should be insects that bred in water during the larval stage.

Although this kind of bug can fly, it is not at the same level as a flexible fly. System can easily catch it while jumping.

And with the appearance of mosquitoes, System once again encountered several creatures that could put him in danger. It was the toad that System had escaped by using the stillness.

A few toads may be due to lack of food. In addition to eating mosquitoes, they have been hunting ants near the ant nest for several days.

Most of the toad's hunts are successful, and the small ants are completely helpless.

However, there was also a ten-centimeter-sized toad who came to the mound of the ant nest to seek death.

After being accidentally crippled by a soldier ant's stinger, the toad was sniped by four or five soldier ants. As expected, it was directly submerged by thousands of ants pouring out of the ant nest.

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At noon, System, who had hunted all night plus half the day, decided to return to the nest to rest.

In these few days, he did not meet the old druid again.

And at this moment, System felt his heart and blood tremble irregularly, and he felt an inexplicable feeling coming from his body.

It's just that System couldn't perceive what the emotion in his heart was for a while.

At this moment, accompanied by a special roar, a huge locust flew over him.

The huge locust was more than 20 centimeters long, and its body was brownish yellow. It turned around in the air and flew straight towards System...

(End of this chapter)