Law of the Swarm

Chapter 31 Ant Rape
"Queen, eggs."

Compared with ordinary insects, soldier ant Dasha is actually very smart, because it is difficult for ordinary insects to use [mental connection] to sort out words.

After only one afternoon, Dasha was able to send a brief message to System. Although he was much worse than the queen, he was still considered a bug with superior intelligence.

It's not so much that he is stupid and stupid, but that he is simple-minded and single-minded, and it is easy to trust others with conviction.

Dasha, the soldier ant, firmly believed in the identity of the ant queen fabricated by System.

It thought that it was System's child, so it would meticulously complete all the instructions given to System.

"Go catch me an ant larva."

Taking an ant egg from Dasha's mouth, System continued to conduct new tests on Dasha.

Snatch the food of ordinary worker ants, enter the ant nest to steal food, bring out ant eggs and larvae from the ant nest...

System's test on Dasha, the soldier ant, was upgraded step by step.

He found that even after making Dasha commit suicide, or go to the depths of the ant nest to assassinate ants, the soldier ant Dasha would do it without thinking.

However, the last two items were just issued by System, and he immediately stopped them.

It is impossible for Dasha to commit suicide, and the assassination of the queen in the ant nest will not be of any benefit to System, let alone Dasha's success alone.

After choosing a crevice in the gravel, System ordered Dasha to carry food to the crevice, and he jumped away from the ant nest.

……

The sky gradually became dark, and System explored around the forest in the dark.

Because of [Dark Vision] and the newly acquired ability [Keep Vision], System's vision in the dark is now better than his original vision in the daytime.

And inheriting the spiritual power of the Grasshopper Queen, System's [Information Read] can be used continuously for more than ten minutes, which is more than three times higher than before.

In fact, although System has gone out for food in the dark in the past, this is the first time that he has truly explored.

At night, there are many more mosquitoes in the forest, and they fly together in groups, as if they are performing a mating ceremony.

Every few meters, there will be spiders on the spider webs waiting in full force, and one or two toads with bulging abdomens will appear on the ground from time to time. They stick out their tongues to catch mosquitoes in the air.

The forest at night looks dangerous and mysterious.

Not long after, a small bat appeared in the sky and shuttled back and forth. System tensed his nerves, preparing to avoid this insect-eating hunter.

However, before System could make a move, he found that the little bat seemed to have noticed him, and dodged far away before him.

System was stunned.

The bat, which was about the same size as him, did not regard him as prey at all, but chose to keep a distance from him, obviously very afraid of him.

He is no longer the little grasshopper he used to be.

Ignoring the bat, System continued to explore the surroundings.

There are many options for System to hunt at night, but most of them are not what System wants. If he only hunts these bugs, the efficiency of snatching them from the hands of ants is undoubtedly higher.

The target that System was looking for was still a magical creature like slime that he could eat.

While inheriting the power of the Grasshopper Queen, System also obtained many memory images of the Grasshopper Queen.

The Grasshopper Queen obtained [Psychic Transmission], the memory about the sounds of the world is very vague, but the memory of the plant that made the Grasshopper Queen grow rapidly is very clear.

It was only after she ate the light blue fruit that the grasshopper queen began to walk a different path from ordinary grasshoppers.

……

However, System's idea was good, but searching for magical creatures in the forest was like finding a needle in a haystack. System didn't get anything all night.

However, when the exploration failed in the early morning and returned to the ant nest where the soldier ant Dasha was located.

System made an astonishing discovery, he found a way to survive the winter with peace of mind.

With this easy way to survive the winter, Temu no longer has to look for magical creatures to improve his strength as soon as possible. After all, looking for a blue fruit that is eaten by the grasshopper queen is like buying a lottery ticket.

He just needs to prepare with peace of mind, steadily increase his experience bar, and perform the third molt in ten days or so. After that, he can easily spend the whole winter, even if there will be two or three months of snow in winter, he doesn't have to worry about it.

This astonishing discovery came from the soldier ant Dasha. After a whole night, Dasha had already filled the rock crevice that System randomly selected yesterday with food.

The crevice in the rock designated by System is very large for an ant, and its capacity is about the size of a can of Coke in the previous life.

The soldier ant Dasha filled this gap with food in just one night, not because Dasha is so strong. In fact, ordinary soldier ants are just bigger, and their ability to carry objects is not even as good as that of ordinary soldier ants. worker ants.

Dasha is similar to ordinary soldier ants, and their ability to carry food is also poor. Even if ten of them carry the food overnight, it is impossible to fill the gaps in the rocks.

The reason why Dasha filled the gaps in the rocks with food was because it mobilized a large crowd of worker ants!

When System came back from a distance, nearly a hundred worker ants came and went near the rock crevice he designated.

Under Dasha's command, these worker ants orderly dropped the food in their mouths into the crevices of the rocks.

The gap has been filled, and these worker ants continue to pile up on the food in the gap, while Dasha at the side walks among the worker ants in a dignified manner, guiding the moving worker ants from time to time.

Dasha's performance far exceeded System's expectations.

Asking the soldier ants to direct the worker ants to carry the food was something System had never thought of even with human intelligence, and he didn't expect the soldier ants Dasha to think of it by himself.

Knowing that Dasha could mobilize ordinary worker ants, System immediately thought of countless possibilities, among which was the plan to use these worker ants to build overwintering nests.

With these ants who are good at digging, he can not only easily build underground nests, but also build underground nests very luxuriously.

He originally planned to dig a simple cave two meters deep underground, which would be enough for him to shelter from the winter cold.

Now he can rely on these industrious worker ants to dig a five-meter-deep cave, and then dig rooms in the cave as granaries.

System only needs to use Dasha, the soldier ant, to instruct these worker ants to dig the cave wider so that he can come in and out freely.

As for filling the granary, these industrious worker ants can also be collected. If the collection of food is too slow, these ants can also be allowed to carry it directly from the warehouse of their own ant nest.

After entering winter, not only does he not have to remain motionless like hibernating, but he can also keep eating underground, further improving his strength.

(End of this chapter)