Law of the Swarm

Chapter 270 Three Years of Pupation

In a daze, System had already forgotten how many times he fell asleep and then woke up.

As the pupation progressed, System could feel that the liquid inside the pupa became more and more viscous, as if it had a tendency to turn into a solid, and as his body became viscous, System also felt I became more and more confused.

I was dizzy when I fell asleep, and I was also dizzy when I woke up. It seems that there is no obvious difference between falling asleep and waking up.

He was like Alzheimer's in his previous life, the first two years of pupation were fine, but then he felt like his brain was like a paste.

Sometimes it is impossible to calculate a math problem like 11 by 12, and you have to use the [Tools menu] calculator.

System felt that if he continued like this, he might become a fool like Shava, who needed to use a calculator for addition and subtraction with more than a hundred digits.

Not only is his mind fuzzy, but his memory has also become poor like that of an Alzheimer's patient.

It's probably like holding a key in your hand, and then looking for the key in a hurry, unable to open the door of your own house.

Although he has the [Tools menu] to record his memory in the form of video, it is obviously not very realistic to expect an elderly dementia patient to watch the video to find his memory.

System always forgot the contents of the previous videos after watching the memory videos for a while.

After that, System would even forget why he watched the video.

But it's strange, in this kind of dazed process, System always inexplicably recalled a lot of things, including the memory of raising bugs in his previous life, and some experiences when he was a little grasshopper.

System remembered the third chrysalis before, as if his memory was a bit poor during the last days of the third chrysalis.

But it seemed less obvious then than it is now.

It may be related to his transformation into a higher-level extraordinary creature, so his reaction to pupation is greater.

……

Then, just as System was thinking about how long this dazed state would last, suddenly there was another buzzing roar, and the voice transformed by the will of the world finally appeared.

The appearance of the voice of the world also indicated that System's pupation was almost at its final juncture.

And System's drowsy mental state also became sober at the moment when the voice of the world appeared.

System discovered that at some point in time he came to that very familiar white space again...

Floating and wandering in the white space for a while, System quickly received the message from the voice of the world—what exactly is the extraordinary creature.

In fact, the little butterfly Ola had already told him what an extraordinary creature was more than three years ago.

Interpreting the voice of the world this time is only equivalent to confirming what Aura once told him.

In addition to being more powerful, the so-called extraordinary life forms have been upgraded again. They can absorb all kinds of energy, and then transform these energies.

However, most extraordinary creatures can only convert the energy absorbed from the outside world into their own original energy, unless they use special means like Aura.

System's original ability this time remains unchanged, and it is still the two auxiliary abilities of [Perception] and [Teleportation].

And System knew that his [Perception] ability would be improved again after the pupation was over, and it would be promoted to an extraordinary ability.

……

The sound of the world soon ended, and System's consciousness returned to reality from that boundless white space.

This time, the time lapse of the white space has exactly the same ratio as the real time, and it also took three hours.

System could feel the mucus inside his chrysalis began to vibrate and squirm, and a part of the mucus had begun to transform into a solid.

It didn't take long for System to feel his body trembling slightly, his heart seemed to have successfully condensed and began to beat.

It seems that the time for his body to emerge from the chrysalis is extremely close.

"I don't know if I can grow fingers this time."

Perhaps because of some kind of obsession, during the process of his body gradually becoming solid from mucus, System once again thought of Black's palm and those nimble fingers.

If you say you don't envy it, you must be deceiving yourself. Although the tentacles are very convenient, System actually really wants the human-like palm.

This idea existed before he pupated for the third time, but after System's third pupation, the palm did not appear.

System knew that it was because there was one thing that made System more afraid than the so-called envy and obsession with the palm.

System was afraid that his generated palm would appear where it shouldn't be, such as on his tentacles.

Originally, the tentacles all over his body were already strange enough. If a palm grew from the end of each tentacle, System would feel his scalp go numb just by imagining the picture of the thousand-handed grasshopper.

"It's better not to grow palms."

System said to himself, but soon System lost his mind to think about it, because the speed of the mucus inside his chrysalis accelerated again.

System could feel the muscles and blood vessels of his body begin to take shape rapidly, and his flesh and blood were being rapidly formed.

This change brought a strong sense of excitement to System.

On the one hand, System felt that his body became very itchy, but on the other hand, it seemed that something was scratching these itchy places, which made him feel relieved and very refreshed.

In the overshoot of this feeling, System received a series of prompts from [Tools Menu].

Ding!Your [Perception] talent limit is increased.

Ding!Your [Insect Adaptability] talent limit has been increased.

Ding!Your [Body Transformation] talent limit has been increased.

Ding!Your [Super Speed ​​Regeneration] talent limit has been increased.

Ding!you……

……

The prompts sounded continuously, and most of the boosted sounds were System's original ability level upper limit breakthrough, but there were also some new derivative abilities.

For example, the palm and fingers that System had dreamed of, seemed to be finally available to him.

Perhaps because of obsession, or because of other reasons, System's [Body Transformation] was unexpectedly upgraded to a supernatural ability reaching level 21 after this pupation, and he also obtained the derived ability [ Skeuomorphism] (24/24).

His derivative abilities [Dragon Scale Spikes], [Dragon Armor Armor], [Body-Gel Transformation], [Tentacles-Foot Transformation] have also been integrated into [Mimicry Transformation], which should be similar to the meat ball. ability to transform.

System did not experience the newly acquired ability, because as the flesh and blood of his body coagulated, System felt that the space inside the chrysalis became extremely narrow and extremely stuffy.

It's time to break out of the chrysalis.

As if stretching, System's 120 eight tentacles swayed casually, and sharp spikes appeared at the end of each tentacle.

The next moment, the seemingly solid chrysalis was easily torn apart by System, and he also successfully broke out of the chrysalis...

(End of this chapter)