Law of the Swarm

Chapter 40 The Third Degeneration
It's just a pity, because it lost the perception of the outside world during the degeneration process.

Sith couldn't use [Ability Strengthening Technique] to test other targets, otherwise System wouldn't mind using this ability to try to strengthen the soldier ant Shava.

"I don't know if Shava will have the ability to [regenerate severed limbs]."

If Shava has [Regeneration of Broken Limbs] like a grasshopper and can be strengthened by his [Ability Enhancement], then the disabled Shava will grow new limbs more quickly.

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System's degeneration was far longer than he imagined. After a few wild thoughts, he continued to tinker with his newly invented ability [tool menu].

The more System uses this ability produced by [Data Compilation], the more functions he can discover.

He can add various functions similar to those in the game in the [Tools Menu].

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Ding!Your level increases.

Ding!Your [Tools menu] ability level has increased.

Ding!You gain 58 units of experience.

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He can add a voice reminder function to his body just like a virtual game.

When he upgrades, his skill level increases, or he gains experience through eating, a sound will automatically sound to remind him.

This voice prompt can also be replaced by a text message, which appears in his line of sight, and he can also add a time module and a direction module in his line of sight to display time and direction.

This simple function can be continuously activated, and it only consumes very little mental power. System feels that he can never turn it off and keep it on, and it will basically not affect his spirit.

System found that he was transforming himself into an online game more and more.

As long as the blood bar, mana, and small maps near the corners are added, it is basically the same as ordinary online games.

If System had the current [Tools Menu] when he woke up, there is a [-]% probability that he would think that he was reborn into a game world.

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System continued to manipulate the [Tools Menu].

After [Tools Menu] was integrated, it was divided into several functional modules by System and renamed.

They are: My Information, Database, Reading Analysis, and Practical Gadgets.

My information corresponds to the [Self-Information Generation Technique], the [Information Entry] function between the database and the [Information Entry] function is the same, the reading analysis is the same as the [Information Reading] ability, and the practical gadgets are some created by System Miscellaneous small abilities.

System found that the ability to read and analyze the outline of surrounding objects can be transformed to become more practical.

After System made a simple idea, he immediately took action. He used the images stored in the database to conduct experiments, and began to transform the ability of reading and analyzing.

System's ability to analyze things has no way to strengthen it, but the function of making the outlines of surrounding things shimmer was quickly upgraded and optimized by System.

According to the different types of objects observed, System distinguished the colors of the shimmering light generated by reading analysis. He set the non-dangerous things as green shimmering, and the less dangerous things as green shimmering. Yellow, and things that are very dangerous or have never been seen are set by him as red shimmer.

In this way, after activating the [Read Analysis] function, the dangers and things in the external environment will be clearer in his eyes.

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System kept studying the various usages of the [Tool Menu], he even forgot that his body was degenerating.

And it was in the process of System researching the [Tools menu].

System suddenly heard a buzzing roar, this sound is like a mosquito flying around your ear when you are sleeping, making you restless.

While System was looking for the source of the sound, he suddenly found himself in a strange place.

Surrounded by a vast expanse of white, as if there is nothing.

Not even himself, he felt as if he had become a cloud of air, or a speck of dust invisible to the naked eye.

System found that he seemed to hear a voice, but it was not so much a voice, it was more like his spiritual message from [Mind Transmission], but it was completely different from [Mind Transmission].

It seemed that this sound was acting directly on his soul.

"Could this be the voice of the world that appeared in the third molting in the inheritance of [Degeneration and Growth]?"

"But I don't understand at all?"

Suddenly, System felt some inexplicable power coming from the void, and this power merged into his soul.

System felt his vision gradually dimming, and then he fell into a deep sleep...

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Along with stretching his body, there was a crackling sound from System's body.

After System woke up, his third transformation had been successfully completed.

After the third molt, System's body grew to about 25 centimeters, with tentacles as slender as a grasshopper queen, and an unknown complex pattern appeared on his green outer skin.

I don't know what kind of plant this kind of pattern is, it is very strange, very similar to the pattern on the Queen's body, but completely different.

System moved his body to clean up the decomposed dregs left on the skin.

System suddenly discovered that his two front limbs had undergone special changes. Near the barbs of the first two limbs, there appeared a very conspicuous circular gap, and there seemed to be some brown holes in the gap. Things vibrated from time to time.

System exerted a little force, and a few dark brown granulation sprouts suddenly sprang up near the circular gap. These granulation sprouts continued to grow and elongate like tentacles, until they reached the limit of about 10 centimeters.

Three such tentacles emerged from each circular opening. The tentacles were about two millimeters thick, very flexible, and could be freely controlled by System, just like humans manipulate fingers.

System easily used this tentacle to grab an ant larva next to it, and then used the tentacle to tear off a nearby shimmering mushroom and put it in the ant larva's mouth.

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After being reborn as a grasshopper, System missed the nimble fingers of humans very much.

The benefits of fingers can only be realized after losing them.

There are many things that he can easily accomplish with only his fingers, but it is difficult for him to do with the feet of a grasshopper.

Perhaps it was precisely because of his obsession with fingers that System evolved this specious finger during his third molt.

However, although these tentacles are as useful as fingers, they are ugly. System feels that such tentacles can't be more awkward when they appear on a grasshopper.

System frantically controlled the small tentacles on his feet, and suddenly, he seemed to sense something——

System shook his body and moved half a centimeter to the left in the cave. A second later, a piece of scattered soil fell from above, clinging to System's head.

System suddenly remembered the mysterious voice of the world, the ability that the voice of the world gave him, and some information that suddenly appeared in his mind...

(End of this chapter)