Law of the Swarm

Chapter 27 Locusts Transit

Because of continuous eating of slime jelly before leveling up, System's [Corrosive Slime] (10/10) was upgraded to [Corrosive Slime] (15/11) after the level rose to level 15.

As System has always deduced, ability level 10 and level 11 are completely different levels.

His [Corrosive Slime] has all increased in terms of spray distance, slime capacity, viscosity, and corrosiveness.

And the most significant improvement of [Corrosive Slime] is the activity that occurs only after swallowing slimes.

After the level rises to 11, the [corrosion slime] secreted by System's glands can really move. Although it can't bounce like slime, System can control this slime to move slowly on the ground , about the same speed as a snail crawls.

This mucus is like an extension of his body organs, and System can manipulate this mucus just like manipulating his hands and feet.

However, System also had many limitations in manipulating these slimes.

The mucus can't be too far away from him, more than twenty centimeters he can't control, and the mucus loses activity after more than 1 minute from the glands in his throat, and can no longer be controlled.

All in all, the activity of mucus alone is not enough to be an effective means of attack.

But even without relying on the activity of the slime, his [Corrosive Slime] can be used as his hunting tool at this time.

Through continuous spitting of mucus and the powerful mobility of the grasshopper, System successfully hunted and killed an eight-centimeter-sized piebald spider disguised as a yellow-and-white flower after reaching level 10.

The hunting process lasted about an hour.

System is very cautious. Usually, after each spit, in order to prevent the spider from getting angry, he will keep a distance of half a meter away from the spider. He will continue to approach the spider at a distance of [-] centimeters when the spider's mood calms down. Breathe from a distance.

In this way, at first the spider still had the heart to fight with him, but then the spider would just keep running away, and even shrunk into a ball and played dead on the ground.

It wasn't until an hour later, after spewing out several times, throwing dead branches and gravel several times and seeing that the spider did not respond, that System confirmed the death of the spider.

The spider's body is obviously resistant to [Corrosion Slime]. System wasted a lot of slime in order to hunt and kill this spider, and even eating all of this spider could not make up for his consumption.

So System only tried it once, and then decided to concentrate on robbing ants instead of hunting spiders.

But no matter what, being able to kill the highly poisonous spider without any injuries, System undoubtedly climbed up the food chain in this forest.

…………

At noon, System visited his old friend, Slime, who was recuperating in the mud in a dark corner.

He jumped to the top of the tallest nearby tree.

After estimating the time, System glanced at his [Self-Information Generation Technique], and he had 51 days left to live.

Randomly flipping through other information of [Self-Information Generation Technique], System found that his estimated combat power had changed to 0.8 at some point.

From 9 at level 0.4 to 10 at level 0.7, and at noon today, his estimated combat power has increased again to 0.8.

Regarding the combat power in the [Self-Information Generation Technique], System has never had any real feeling. He doesn't know how this combat power is calculated.

And besides himself, he has no idea what the combat power of others is.

Every time his combat power was improved, System only knew that he had become stronger. As for how much stronger he had become, he himself did not know.

Shaking his head, System glanced at the sun in the sky, and at the same time looked far away in one direction.

is coming--

Since three days ago, at this time every day, System could feel a faint breath fluctuation.

Sure enough, not long after, the blood vessels in System's body trembled slightly.

This time he came to the top of the tree and felt more clearly.

This is a strange and familiar breath, which resonates with the grasshopper's blood, and seems to be calling him, making him unconsciously want to fly in that direction.

"is it you?"

A familiar figure appeared in System's mind, his kind, the grasshopper queen.

From this breath, System felt something familiar. It seemed that the grasshopper queen was calling the grasshoppers.

She wants to be like the pictures in the blood of grasshoppers, leading the grasshoppers to fly over mountains and lakes to explore this vast world.

System was at the top of the branch. With his compound eyes, he saw twenty or thirty vague figures flying out of the nearby trees, which should be his kind.

These grasshoppers flew over the forest and flew towards the source of the breath.

At the same time, with a few ear-piercing chirps, a big brown-red bird sprang out from the forest and started chasing the grasshopper flying in the sky...

……

"Is it really worth it? Even so, I still have to explore this world..."

Watching the fleeing birds being chased by the same kind, System silently jumped down from the top of the branch, suddenly feeling very uncomfortable in his heart.

System couldn't explain exactly where he felt uncomfortable.

Jumping off the branch, System continued to do his old job of robbing ants.

It seems that as long as he robs the ants, he can feel better...

Two days ago, System found a tree hole high up in a thicker tree. The tree hole was not too big to accommodate his body.

However, because the tree hole is higher than the ground, ants rarely pass by, so this tree hole has become a warehouse for System to store food.

Usually he grabs some non-perishable food from the ants, and System will store the food in the tree hole, and then plug the hole with the leaves of the plant and his mucus, in case of emergency.

The weather has become cooler these days, and System can often see scattered leaves falling among the trees.

Autumn is getting closer.

System found that the plants in this forest were very strange. Some were obviously tropical plants, and some were subtropical plants. He also couldn't analyze the climate here, and whether it would snow in winter.

System knew that he had to make more preparations, otherwise, even if he completed the third molt, his blood without temperature would turn into a lump of ice in the world of ice and snow.

System can think of a way to dig a hole underground. As long as there is a hole two meters deep underground, it can effectively resist the severe cold in winter.

Although the grasshopper does not have the ability to hibernate in some creatures, the hibernation state of the insect itself is not bad. When the time comes, he will bring some food to the burrow, and it should not be a problem to survive the winter.

And if the forest doesn't freeze in winter, that would be great, and he can continue to go out for food in winter.

……

After deciding on the wintering plan, System would study the structure of the ant's nest from time to time in his free time when he was robbing the ants of food, and prepared to choose a suitable location to dig a burrow for the winter.

Five days passed again, and because [Degeneration and Growth] had reached its full level, System was much less picky about food.

His experience bar has increased by half, and it is estimated that he will be able to rise to level 11 in five days.

Unfortunately, the old friend Slime, who had been with System for more than ten days, finally collapsed and shattered during a fight with ants, was drowned by ants gushing out of the ant nest, and died completely...

During these five days, the special breath from the Grasshopper Queen became more and more intense.

And in the early morning of this day, System, who was robbing the ants, found that the Grasshopper Queen had flown not far from him...

(End of this chapter)