Law of the Swarm

Chapter 37 The King and the Knight

For some reason, Dasha, the soldier ant who had been distracted and guarded by him, returned here, and launched an attack on the intruder without hesitation.

Because of the continuous growth these days, the level of the soldier ant Dasha seems to have increased again. Its body is close to seven centimeters, twice the size of ordinary reddish-brown soldier ants.

System observed a wound on the mouse's hind leg due to Dasha's bite, producing some blood stains.

Perhaps because of the corrosiveness of formic acid to the wound, the mouse curled up and began to lick the wound with its tongue.

Soldier Ant Dasha took advantage of the chaos and moved directly in front of System, protecting System behind it.

"Now, attack it!"

System knew that the rats were licking their wounds, and this was an excellent opportunity.

If you want to attack this mouse, you can only take advantage of it now.

At the same time that System gave the order, Soldier Ant Dasha obeyed System's order without hesitation!
The soldier ant Dasha opened its huge fangs. When the fangs were fully opened, they were twice the size of its head.

The double blades of Dasha's fangs are six centimeters long, and it aimed at the head of the mouse licking the wound with its fangs and rushed towards it!

However, before Dasha rushed to the mouse and bit the head of the mouse...

The mouse's body is more flexible, it sensed Dasha's movements, the soldier ant, and swung his body first, knocking Dasha into the air first!

The mouse didn't stop, it ran directly towards the direction where Soldier Ant Dasha fell, and after biting twice, it threw Soldier Ant Dasha away again...

Bug hunters are good at one-hit ambushes, but they're clearly not suited for direct frontal charges.

Although Dasha, a soldier ant, has grown to seven centimeters, it looks huge, but the structure of the ant's body is very slender and light.

The soldier ant Dasha obviously suffered from the weight and agility of his body, so he failed to sneak attack, but was attacked by mice instead.

click... click...

The mouse held a black object and chewed it in its mouth. In the silent cave, there was a very ear-piercing chewing sound.

The soldier ant shook his head stupidly, the mouse's attack just now made it a little dizzy.

System found that the last leg on the left side of the soldier ant Dasha's body had disappeared??????

The limb was chewing in the mouse's mouth.

I don't know if it's a threat, a threat, or a mouse joke.

This mouse didn't give the soldier ant Dasha a fatal blow just now, but instead ate its limbs in front of the soldier ant Dasha.

System didn't feel any uneasiness or fear in the [spiritual connection] with the soldier ant Dasha.

Dasha the soldier ant had only two emotions in his heart, one was worry about System, and the other was anger at this mouse!
Dasha adjusted its body, and rushed towards the mouse again without waiting for System's order...

It's a pity that Dasha's charge this time is exactly the same as the last time.

This time it was the right front leg and the middle left leg. The mouse easily tore off Dasha's other two legs, and then threw Dasha into the air again.

click... click...

The mouse threw aside the half-eaten leg, and it picked up Dasha's new leg and began to chew on it.

System even heard the sound of the mouse sucking the flesh from the exoskeleton of the foot.

Even if the soldier ant Dasha was not injured at all, he would not be able to defeat the mouse, and Dasha, who had only three legs left, had no hope of defeating the mouse.

Dasha will only be eaten by the mouse in front of its face, one by one, and will be tortured to death by the mouse in the end.

"Dasha, come here."

System sent a mental message to the soldier ant Dasha, and he wanted to call Dasha over.

Dasha, a soldier ant who was a little dizzy from the rat attack, shook his head. It seemed that some cracks had been formed on its head by the rat's impact, and some white turbid liquid flowed out of it.

However, the vitality of insects is so tenacious. Even though he lost three legs and his skull was shattered, the soldier ant Dasha still came to System at a speed similar to his usual speed.

Dasha, the soldier ant, sent System a feeling of doubt. It obviously didn't know what System was going to do.

System saw the mouse not far away eating up one of Dasha's limbs, and picked up the other limb to continue eating.

System finally made a decision.

"Dasha, you hide behind me. When it attacks me, run away and return to your original ant nest. There is a real ant queen there. I am not an ant queen, but a grasshopper."

System sorted out the thoughts in his heart, and tried to convey the spiritual message to Dasha in a calm and sincere tone.

System felt very strange. He obviously felt terrible when he watched the life countdown, but when he was about to die, he looked away.

The dozen or so ant larvae around were having difficulty even wriggling, and it was almost impossible to escape. The only hope of escape was the soldier ant Dasha.

System hoped that the soldier ant Dasha would survive.

"..."

However, the soldier ant Dasha didn't respond to System's spiritual message, and just kept silent.

Since meeting System, Dasha disobeyed System's instructions for the first time. It suddenly turned its body around, using its three remaining legs to explode at an extraordinary speed.

Dasha shook the pair of huge fangs on his head, and charged at the mouse again! !

click... click...

The soldier ant Dasha was thrown away by the mouse again in the same way, and it lost two legs again, leaving only the last left foreleg that can move.

Dasha used his only remaining leg and his movable abdominal joint to writhe on the ground continuously, and he wanted to attack the mouse.

But it's already slow, very slow...

It was so slow that when the mouse ate up all of Dasha's limbs, Dasha couldn't move in front of the mouse.

The mouse seemed to have lost interest in this soldier ant Dasha. It came up to Dasha, flipped over with its two front legs, played with the disabled body of the soldier ant Dasha, and threw Dasha back and forth like a sandbag. After Dasha was exhausted from being tortured, it grabbed Dasha's body.

This mouse seems to be finishing Dasha's final act...

And at this moment, a miracle happened!

Chi-

A stream of translucent liquid mixed with red splashed out from the mouse's head.

Maybe it was the mouse's negligence, or maybe it was Dasha's long-planned attack.

Dasha's stinging needle miraculously pierced the mouse's eyes.

The mouse let out a shrill scream, and it rolled and jumped continuously in the cave, as if it was afraid of the pain of Dasha's needle, the mouse finally escaped...

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Dasha was thrown aside by the panicked mice and buried in the scattered soil, but he did not die.

It struggled to crawl out of the mud with its remaining left foreleg and movable abdomen, and then slowly moved towards System.

A few minutes passed, and the soldier ant Dasha finally crawled in front of System. It turned its body around, opened its huge fangs, and aimed them outside...

???A warm reminder, when mice fight with arthropods (such as spiders and crayfish), they really like to eat their limbs in front of each other.

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(End of this chapter)