Law of the Swarm

Chapter 4
The blood of insects is cold, and they are often called cold-blooded animals.

System felt that his personality had changed unconsciously after his rebirth.

Not long ago, when he realized that there was no threat, he snatched the plant juice collected by a few small insects as a matter of course, and he noticed a change in his personality.

Facing these live insect eggs with a diameter of one or two millimeters, the thoughts in System's mind were also different from his original one——

What would these eggs taste like?

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The full eggs are expected to hatch within a few days. System watched the fresh little life in the eggs slide from time to time in the translucent mucus of the eggs. Judging from the shape, they should be the larvae of butterflies or moths.

The human soul made System feel a little nauseous, but he still bit a tender egg with his fangs without hesitation.

The mucus from the broken eggs gave off a faint fishy smell. System took a mouthful of the mucus, and aimed his fangs at the Lepidoptera insect larvae struggling in the mucus.

The slime tasted like sweet milk, and the fresh and tender larvae in the eggs gave System the feeling of tasting mellow milk ice cream.

"It might taste better if it can be chilled."

System, who was devouring the eggs, had a strange idea.

This protein-rich meat food has greatly helped System, far exceeding any plant leaves that System ate.

System could feel subtle changes in his body, the exoskeleton on his limbs became stronger little by little, and the fangs in his mouth gradually became harder and sharper.

After waking up, he kept eating young leaves and leaf buds, but no matter how much he ate, System felt his stomach was empty. After eating four or five eggs, he felt full for the first time in his stomach.

The body numbness came again, and in the process of carefully guarding the surroundings and enjoying the delicious food, System's experience bar unknowingly reached the threshold of level up.

This upgrade, the feeling of numbness in the body is much stronger than that at level 1 and level 2. System did not find the reason in the data of [Self-Information Generation Technique], but he knew that it must have something to do with the food he ate related to worm eggs.

How can the growth brought about by eating only green vegetables and meat and vegetables with balanced nutrition be the same? Anyone who is not a fool can understand.

Even if you go to the gym to exercise, it must be accompanied by nutrient-rich beef or protein powder. Otherwise, radish and vegetables every day, a year of hard training will not be as effective as others for a month or two.

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After upgrading to level 4, System's body shape has grown from 0.7 cm to 1 cm, his body's exoskeleton has become much harder, and the fangs in his mouth have become stronger and sharper, and it is estimated that he can already handle the previously difficult to crush Mature leaves.

Compared to the growth on the surface of the body, the growth in System's blood was even greater.

【蜕化生长】（10/13）成长为【蜕化生长】（11/13），由10级提升为11级。

A strange picture came from his blood, and System felt that the appearance of the adult grasshopper he would become in the future became more ferocious and stronger.

Not only that, but System felt the inheritance information in his blood. As long as [Molt Growth] is raised to level 13, his body can undergo a third molt. After level 5 and level 8, he A whole new metamorphosis can also be carried out.

And after completing the third molt, he can even hear the voice of the world once.

However, about what the voice of the world is, System did not find any more information in his blood, only knowing that it was an extremely mysterious thing.

Through this upgrade, System's talent [Insect Adaptability] (6/21) has also grown, becoming [Insect Adaptability] (8/21), which has been directly increased by two levels.

System felt that the blood in his whole body became more active, and his body seemed to become more sensitive, and he also acquired a brand new derivative skill [Dark Vision].

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[Dark Vision] (2/5): A derivative skill obtained from [Insect Adaptability].As long as it has a weak fluorescence, it can detect the surrounding things in the dark.

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System can somewhat feel the effect of the derived skill [Dark Vision], but the specific effect cannot be determined until it is actually used at night.

If the effect of this [Dark Vision] is not ideal, System will still give up eating at night, because there are more forest insect hunters at night, it is not worth his risk.

After clicking on the light curtain of [Self-Information Generation Technique] for a while, System gave up on checking and continued to taste the eggs in front of him.

Because of the increase in level, his body size became larger, and System felt his body was hungrier. At the same time, the speed of devouring insect eggs was also significantly increased, fully doubling as fast.

不过相比进食的速度，提升到5级所需的虫卵也变得更多，西斯特姆3级到4级所需的虫卵为6枚，而4级到5级所需的虫卵则为30枚。

But in any case, the hundreds of eggs in front of him are enough for System to successfully rise to level 5 before night, and even if he swallows all these eggs, it is not impossible for him to rise to level 6.

After the level was raised to level 4, the hooks on System's legs became sharper and could easily hang upside down on the back of the leaves, making it easier to eat insect eggs.

After more than an hour again, System ate more than a dozen fresh and delicious insect eggs one after another, and his body shape gradually grew, from 1 cm to 1.1 cm.

As long as he continues to eat more than a dozen eggs, he will be promoted to level 5, and his physical fitness will be further improved.

But at this moment, System, who was devouring the eggs, found an unexpected guest.

Perhaps smelling the faint fishy smell of broken eggs, a dark red ant appeared on the trunk of the plant where System was, and crawled towards the branch where System was. It seemed that the ant's goal was this Insect eggs on a leaf.

The dark red ant is about 0.8 centimeters long, slightly smaller than the black ants that System first saw, but the fangs in its mouth are larger than those of the black ants, and its biting ability may be stronger than those black ants.

System immediately climbed from the back of the blade to the front, and went up to the red ant.

After observing the ant climbing up to his branch from the lower end of the plant branch, System immediately thought of the consequences of the arrival of the dark red worker ant.

As long as the worker ant confirms that there are dozens of eggs here, there will be a steady stream of ants.

Facing the army of ants, it is obviously not a problem to escape with his powerful hind legs, but these eggs will be handed over to the ants in vain.

Having tried these high-protein delicious foods and realized how these foods can help his body grow, System will never hand over these bug proteins.

Although the ant colony is strong, a single ant, System, is not afraid, especially this small ant.

After upgrading, System is bigger than this ant, and without the sharpness of his fangs, System is stronger than this ant.

And what System had to do was not a desperate fight, he just needed to use his strong hind legs to kick the red ant off the branch of the plant.

The branches of this plant were hard and slender, and System soon encountered the dark red ant.

System controlled the barbs on his feet and climbed to the side of the branch. The dark red ant seemed to have discovered System's existence. It hesitated for a while, but seeing that System moved out of the way, he continued Crawl along the branches of plants following the fishy smell in the air.

The herbivorous grasshopper larva did not arouse the ant's excessive vigilance, and the ant ignored System, who was on the side of the branch, and crawled towards the leaf with the eggs...

Seeing the ants crawling, System, who found the right angle, directly released his long-stored hind legs!
In the blink of an eye, because he had never kicked with his hind limbs before, System's attack angle was slightly off from his expectation, and he only kicked the ant's forelimbs.

The ant's forelimbs drove its body almost overturned, but the hooks on the rest of its legs allowed it to stay on the branch, and immediately counterattacked System.

System continued to charge his hind limbs, ready to kick for the second time, but the dark red ant rushed over in an instant, and bit one of his forelimbs with its fangs. Strong formic acid is released in the teeth.

As gregarious social insects, ants' attacks are very rough. They don't know how to attack the enemy's vital points. They will only die after biting the opponent. If it is replaced by a praying mantis or a spider, System's head or neck will definitely be damaged. be attacked first.

The severe burning sensation on the forelimbs came into System's mind, and several limbs tore at the ants that were entangled with him indiscriminately. He endured the severe pain and used his hind legs that had accumulated energy again, this time He successfully kicked the ant in the head!

Chi-

As the dark red ants fell from the branch, cloudy translucent juice splashed out from System's forelimbs, and the powerful force from his hind legs instantly tore his forelegs that were bitten by the dark red ants to death. broken……

The battle between System and the dark red ants lasted less than two seconds, and ended with System's disability, but he also protected his eggs.

He still took the battle between insects too much for granted, thinking that this time his opponent would be the same as the little white bug last time, and let him bully him.

There is a big gap between herbivorous insects and carnivorous insects in their fighting instincts.

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Enduring the burning sensation of the severed forelimb, System crawled behind the leaves covered with insect eggs again, and began to eat at the fastest speed.

If the ants are attracted again because of the fishy smell of these eggs, he can only choose to escape at that time, so he must eat these eggs as quickly as possible.

(End of this chapter)