Law of the Swarm

Chapter 26
In the middle of the night, System dragged his bulging belly and jumped to the rock pile near the pitcher plant, and then jumped to a gap in the rock pile that he had chosen during the day.

Subtle movements appeared, a two-centimeter small cricket came out of the gap, and it quickly got into a narrow gravel gap next to it.

System didn't have any thoughts about his behavior of occupying the magpie's nest and the cricket's nest, and he didn't pay any attention to the little cricket that escaped.

He began to rest quietly...

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By swallowing [corroding mucus] into the stomach, System's digestion speed was further increased.

Two or three hours after the next morning, System's exhausted spirit fully recovered.

His balloon-like belly has also returned to its normal size, and the slime's jelly has basically been digested.

Crawling out from the crevice of the gravel, System jumped to the mud pit where the slime was last in yesterday.

The slime was still motionless in the mud, the ants in its body had basically melted, and System could no longer see the specific appearance of the ants in the jelly.

Perhaps it was because of eating slime jelly, System found that he had developed resistance to the herbaceous aroma emitted by the slime, and the effect of this herbal aroma on his spirit was already negligible.

System quickly grabbed a dead branch, and tried to tease the slime with the method yesterday.

The effect of throwing dead branches twice in a row is not ideal.

The dead branch was bounced off by the slime's outermost jelly, and the slime's body only trembled irregularly a few times before continuing to return to a still state.

This slime doesn't seem to care about the outside world.

It seems that in a short time, it is impossible to continue the tactic of driving away slimes and ants.

System didn't have the guts to face this slime head-on. Although the slime didn't have much reaction when he threw a branch twice, if he took the initiative to bite the slime's jelly, he would probably Jumped up and swallowed by the bursting slime...

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System left resolutely. Except for occasionally returning to this mud to see if the slime recovered, he continued to explore the surroundings, and at the same time did his old job - robbing ants.

There is reincarnation in the law of heaven, ants came to snatch him a few days ago, but now he is used to snatching ants.

Thirty meters away, System once again found an ant nest in a rotten tree. It was still the same kind of reddish-brown ant that fought against slime.

This dead wood ant nest is bigger than the one fighting the slime.

The reddish-brown ants were very fast. The first two or three times when System robbed it was not very smooth, and his body was bitten several times by the fangs of the ants.

In the process of snatching the second ant, half of the tentacles on his head were bitten off a quarter.

After the tentacles were broken, System's body balance became a little worse, but it didn't have much impact.

After hunting this reddish-brown ant three times in a row, System basically got used to the ant's sensitivity, and his subsequent snatch went much smoother.

Although he was still a little unaccustomed, System was never injured again, and as the number of robberies increased, his movements became more and more proficient...

Through observation, System discovered that the habits of the red-brown ants are slightly different from those of the dark-brown ants, especially in the aspect of food processing.

They don't chop the food completely, but like to cut the food into small pieces of three to five centimeters, and then several worker ants cooperate to carry the food back to the ant nest.

This habit of the reddish-brown ants is very convenient for System. He only needs to walk around three to five meters away from the ant nests to grab large pieces of food.

Every snatch can make him eat for a long time, and in the process of eating on the high branches, he can also pick the food that these ants will carry next.

Unknown giant eggs, butterfly larvae, plump plant seeds, earthworm corpses...

Although the red-brown ants are smaller in size, they obviously know how to hunt better than those dark-brown ants, and they catch a variety of prey.

The red-brown ants diligently carrying food reminded System of the feeling of eating a buffet in his previous life. There would always be a variety of food passing by not far from him, and he didn't know what to do.

System even snatched a 3cm-sized spider and a 4cm-long half-centipede from the hands of the ants. The corpses of these two insect hunters are very fresh, and it is not known how the ants hunted them.

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In the next few days, System spent snatching the ants, exploring the surroundings, and observing the slime.

There was basically nothing abnormal in the process of snatching the ants. During the exploration, System discovered seven more ant nests, a total of four types of ants.

In addition to the black-brown and red-brown ants that System is familiar with, there is also a large black ant with a body size of 2.5 cm and a small gray-brown ant with a size of 0.5 cm. These small ants have special attack methods. Its tail can spray acid from a long distance, and System suffered a lot when encountering it for the first time.

There are some differences in the food that several types of ants search for, so System's robber career is going smoothly these days, eating nearly a hundred different types of meat.

Unlike the smooth discovery of the ant nest, System's exploration was not very smooth these days. He found no other slimes within a few hundred meters nearby.

On the contrary, he encountered two more magical creatures, but when he saw these two magical creatures, he could only choose to avoid them.

One was a big blue-gray bird whose feathers were entwined with blue lightning. System hid in the grass after seeing it from a distance, so as not to be eaten by the bird as a snack; the other was a red bird he saw at night. Bloody bats. Bats are also a kind of hunter who likes to catch insects. Seeing that they were directly clinging to the ground, System gave up hunting for food that night.

However, compared to looking for other slimes, the slime System focused on regained its vitality after resting in the mud for three days.

It regained some of its shape, a little smaller than a football, and then continued to forage in the forest.

The slime and the ants are like sworn enemies. With only a little guidance from System, the slime started a fight with another nest of ants.

The result of the battle is exactly the same as last time. Although the types of ants are different, the appearance of the slime escaping from the ant nest is basically the same. The glue is full of ant corpses, and the glue is broken during the escape process. scattered all over the place.

System was also able to swallow this gelatinous food for the second time...

In nine days, System ate slime's jelly twice again in the same way.

Because of the large amount of experience provided by slime, System was upgraded to level 10 on the ninth day, and his body shape further increased to 10.5 centimeters.

The talent [Degeneration and Growth] has been upgraded to the full level of level 13 as he imagined, and at the same time, he also learned the conditions for the third transformation - the level reaches level 12.

It is undoubtedly good news for System to be able to undergo the third transformation at level 12.

It may be difficult for other grasshoppers, but it is easy for System who spends his days searching for meat.

Even if he doesn't deliberately pursue upgrade efficiency, and just by robbing these ants of food, System can easily reach level 30 within 12 days and complete the third molt.

(End of this chapter)