Law of the Swarm

Chapter 24 Slime and Ant Colony
The fearless ants army and the low-intelligence slime fought each other, and System felt that there was a high possibility that both sides would suffer.

Slime's jelly will devour countless ants, but a steady stream of ants can also seriously damage slime's jelly.

System could not predict the outcome of the outcome of both sides.

It should also depend on the size of the ant colony. As long as the size of the ants is large enough, the slime will definitely be submerged by the flood of ants.

I just don't know what the IQ of a magical species like slime is.

After suffering danger, will it choose to fight to the end with the ant colony?
Or do you just leave it at the meeting, eat some ants and bounce away?

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The slime is not very far from the red-brown ant nest, only about 12 meters away.

System has a way to attract slimes to move, he can throw dead branches to lure slimes.

Through the previous tests, System found that the slime's behavior pattern is very simple, as long as there is an abnormal slight vibration around it, it will move in that direction.

If the slime had maintained the state just now and would not run around randomly, System would be sure to attract the slime to the ant nest by throwing dead branches about a hundred times.

System made up his mind and acted quickly.

Just now, he almost fell into the slime's scent trap, which made System somewhat annoyed, so even though it would waste a lot of time to throw dead branches continuously, System did so resolutely.

Search for a suitable dead branch, bring the dead branch to the obliquely above the slime, and cast it at the right angle...

System repeated his actions like this.

Slime's IQ is indeed very low, as he expected to move to the ant's nest step by step.

However, the moving speed of the slime is slightly different from System's estimate. Usually, every time he throws a branch, the slime will only move about 5 cm. In addition, the terrain of the forest is complicated, and System estimates that it will take More than 200 votes will lead the slime to the ant nest.

More than 200 times of throwing dead branches, if completed, it will take at least seven or eight hours, and the sky will be dark by then.

The pitch-black sky, coupled with the mental exhaustion up to that time, made System feel like giving up.

But if you miss today, this slime may be lost.

System thought for a while, and finally decided to continue. He tried his best to make his movements more agile and efficient.

It was very difficult to attract slime in the first half, but when it was close to noon, the action of guiding slime made unexpected progress——

Several red-brown worker ants appeared not far from the slime, and they explored in the direction of the slime.

The slime jumped and devoured several worker ants into the jelly of its body.

Not long after that, the worker ants crawled out of the ant's nest to investigate again, and the slime continued to jump and devour the ants, and it was getting closer and closer to the ant's nest...

After noon, System basically didn't need to do anything, because these ants would actively attract slimes to their nests.

System discovered that ants and slimes should be part of the food chain in this forest.

Even if he doesn't take the initiative to seduce the slime, this slime is destined to fight the ant colony.

However, System couldn't figure out who was at the upper level of the food chain, the slime or the ants. Although it seemed that the slime was devouring the ants step by step, it might be the bait used by the ants to attract the slime.

As the slime gradually approached the ant's nest of the rotten tree, more and more ants came and went, and the slime's devouring movements became more and more frequent, approaching the ant's nest more quickly.

System could see small reddish-brown dots appearing in the jelly of the football-sized slime, which were the corpses of ants. Obviously, the slime could not completely digest the ants in a short time.

As the slime approached the ant nest step by step, when the slime was about half a meter away from the ant nest, the ants in the nest suddenly rushed out like a flood and charged the slime! !

The reddish-brown ants have slightly smaller fangs than the dark-brown ones, and their bodies are thinner and thinner, but their speed is much faster than the dark-brown ants.

The slime jumped and rolled, swallowed hundreds of ants easily, but as the slime kept rolling, thousands of ants had stepped on their companions and crawled all over the slime's gelatinous body...

The slime was still devouring more ants, but System saw that many worker ants were already carrying gelatin the size of rice grains back to the nest.

The battle between the ants and the slime was very fierce. Half an hour later, because the slime swallowed too many ants, the viscosity of the slime jelly was greatly reduced, and many ant corpses and the slime jelly began to stop. scattered.

It didn't take long, perhaps due to the instinct of survival, the slime did not choose to continue fighting with the ants to the end.

It bounced away from the ant nest, and with the continuous bounce, more jelly and ant corpses would fall from the slime's body.

It was the size of a football when it came, and it devoured countless ants when it left. The slime was still the size of a football. Obviously, the slime's gelatinous body was carried a lot by the ant colony.

Although the ant colony plundered a large amount of slime, it also paid the lives of tens of thousands of ants.

The battle between the two is obviously a lose-lose situation.

Under the guidance of the huge soldier ants, the remaining worker ants near the ant nest began to carry the corpses of their companions, clean up the glue on their companions and carry them to the ant nest. The movements of the ant colony appeared to be orderly...

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System didn't watch the ants, he chased them in the direction the slime was fleeing.

There will be a lot of jelly and ant corpses scattered on the path of slime's escape. You can let him try to taste the slime's jelly, or let him eat these ant corpses to fill his stomach.

The slime bounced away because of the scattered gelatin. After fleeing for more than ten meters, its size continued to shrink by nearly one-third. Finally, it bounced into the mud of a puddle and stopped.

Seeing where the slime stopped, System began to try to eat the scattered slime.

These gums scattered from the slime's body, and they didn't die immediately, but squirmed slowly on the ground, as if they were about to gather together.

However, except for a few large pieces of glue that can successfully aggregate, small pieces of glue will completely lose their movement within a few minutes of leaving the slime's body.

"Is this a way of dividing and multiplying?"

System looked at the jelly balls that gathered in front of him, 5 cm in size and slightly trembling. He felt that he had a better understanding of the magical creatures like slimes.

System pointed the worm head at the jelly and sucked it.

This group of small jelly seemed to have a new life, and as System's fangs touched the jelly, this group of jelly tried to bounce and devour System.

But this group of jelly was too small and its strength was weak, so it was easily crushed by System's forelimbs, and then the scattered jelly continued to gather.

The taste of the gelatin is not bad, exuding a strong yogurt taste, similar to the taste of mushrooms, but more intense.

The smell of jelly is slightly stronger than that of chrysalis, but the experience provided is fully three times that of chrysalis.

As System sucked the jelly, System could feel the jelly trembling gently in his stomach.

The quivering jelly in his stomach didn't make System feel uncomfortable, but made him feel very comfortable. These swallowed jelly seemed to be massaging his abdomen.

Not only that, as the abdominal jelly was gradually digested, System discovered that the slime's jelly had an extraordinary effect on his talent [degeneration and growth].

(End of this chapter)