Law of the Swarm

Chapter 46 Spider Venom Glands and Rat Killing

As night fell, System was looking for mice while trying a new attack method after his third molt.

The target that System chose to attack is a spider that is very common in the forest and likes to hover in the center of the spider web at night.

After the third molt, System obtained a brand new organ, which was his tentacles.

The tentacles were exceptionally flexible and strong, each tentacle could wrap around and lift a weight equal to his body weight, and the stretching distance was very long, a full ten centimeters.

This kind of tentacles have System's [Severed Limb Regeneration] feature, even if they are broken, they can grow again, and it is much easier than him to grow legs with exoskeletons.

Because of the characteristics of the tentacles, System tried to use them to hunt and kill spiders.

Even if his tentacles are bitten by the spider's fangs, he can take the initiative to bite off his tentacles to avoid poisoning himself.

Flapping his wings, System hovered directly in front of a spider web, silently staring at the spiders on the web.

This is a black-gray spider with five centimeters in shape when its legs are spread out. Judging from the color of the spider, this spider should not be very poisonous.

System slowly stretched out the tentacles on his legs, and wrapped the tentacles around the spider.

The spider didn't move at all, and it was unknown whether it didn't see System's movements, or it saw System's movements but didn't choose to ignore them.

Looking at the appearance of the spider, System recalled the memories of catching dragonflies in his previous life.

The dragonfly landed on the branches and leaves of the horsetail grass——

He walked towards the dragonfly cautiously, trying not to make a sound, and then slowly stretched out his hand.

His hand gradually moved closer to the dragonfly, and then closer...

Suddenly shot!

His hands pinched the wings of the dragonfly, and the dragonfly was completely unable to break free.

The picture of catching dragonflies in his memory overlaps with his current action of wrapping his tentacles around the spider...

When System's six tentacles were half a centimeter away from the spider's body, they suddenly exerted force!

Several legs of the spider were entangled by System's tentacles at the same time, and in an instant, the spider was torn off the spider web by System's tentacles.

The eight legs of the spider's body were tightly bound by System's tentacles, and it couldn't even struggle. It could only use the fangs on its head to bite the air continuously.

System flew to the ground with the spider. He pulled out a tentacle wrapped around the spider's body, and used the tentacle to pick up the hard thorns on a rose plant branch that he had prepared earlier.

Using the flexible and powerful tentacles, System easily pierced the weak part of the spider's skull with the hard thorns.

With the white juice flowing out, it didn't take long for the spider to be completely motionless and dead.

……

System tore off the spider's limbs with his tentacles and chewed them in his mouth.

After the third molting, his body's sense of hunger has weakened a lot, and he won't feel hungry even after a long time.

I don't know if it's because of the [Hunger Resistance Physique], or because his body's demand for food has decreased.

System found that a lot of delicious food, for him now, is a bit weaker, not so delicious, and the experience provided has also been reduced by nearly one-third.

Using his tentacles to tear at the spider's organs, System casually threw away some not-so-tasty meat and the gray fluff on the spider's body.

System used his tentacles to remove the poisonous glands connected to the spider's fangs. He was going to throw away the spider's poisonous glands as usual.

However, at this moment, System's body sent out a special reaction.

It is his strange ability [intuition] that he has acquired while listening to the voice of the world!

His [intuition] told him that the spider's venom glands were delicious and would not cause too much harm to his body, and would be very beneficial to his body.

System swung the spider's venomous gland with his tentacles, lightly dipped a little of the juice from the spider's venomous glands, and stretched the tentacles into his mouth...

But just as the tentacle was about to enter his mouth, System stopped.

To eat, or not to eat, you need to think carefully.

As for eating the poisonous glands of spiders, System felt like someone took a bag of rat poison, poured the rat poison into a water glass and mixed it with water in front of him, and then told him that it would be harmful to you if you dried up the potion. Great benefits for the body!

[Intuition] is a new wonderful ability that System has acquired, much stronger than his previous [Insect Intuition].

But is this ability really worth trusting completely?
System recalled the scene when he just woke up, he accidentally jumped in front of a toad, if he hadn't actively suppressed the [insect intuition] in his body, he might have died long ago.

Just eating it like this is undoubtedly using his life to experiment with this special ability of [intuition].

But what about not eating?
System was very unwilling. If his body after three molts could really resist this poison, and this poison did have a growth effect on his body, he would definitely regret it.

System fiddled with the spider's poisonous glands with his tentacles, thinking.

After a few minutes, the wisdom from humans allowed System to finally come up with a solution.

Tasting the spider venom directly in his mouth would naturally be extremely risky, but he could dilute the venom before tasting it.

If a small drop of spider venom is diluted thousands of times, and he still dies suddenly after tasting it, then he will die if he dies.

……

System was grasping the spider venom gland repeatedly with his tentacles and thinking, when he suddenly heard a special movement in his tentacles, which was the cry of a mouse.

Throwing away the spider's body and spreading its wings, System flew in the direction of the sound.

Behind a tree more than ten meters away, System found the rat that was making noise.

Rats dig and crunch the root of a vine with their paws.

The body of this mouse is dark gray, the right eye is closed tightly, and there are some blood scabs on the hair at the corner of the eye.

Not surprisingly, the rat was the one that nearly killed him and disabled Shava.

A flash of blue light appeared in System's compound eyes, and he scanned the surroundings.

Flapping his wings, System flew onto a vine of the same species three meters away.

[Color-changing camouflage] Activate!

After the third molt, System's [Green Camouflage] became [Color-Changing Camouflage]. His outer skin can imitate any plant color pattern like a chameleon.

Slightly adjusting his body, System's body twisted slightly, and it didn't take long before he was disguised like a vine branch.

Facing nimble rats, System still chose the ambush that insects are best at.

It wasn't that System was not sure about defeating the mouse, but that he was worried that he would attack rashly and let the mouse escape into the mouse hole, adding unnecessary trouble.

Five minutes later, after the mouse continued to eat an unknown fruit that fell from the tree, the mouse finally found the vine where System was.

The mouse started to dig the roots of the vines just like before, but obviously didn't find him.

System observed the mouse's movements, saw the right opportunity, and rushed towards the mouse!

His tentacles stretched out in an instant, aiming at the mouse's limbs and directly wrapping them around.

As System's body came into contact with the mouse, the mouse sensitively rolled over on the ground and began to jump as if frightened.

But System's ambush was well prepared. Before the mouse found him and was frightened, its limbs were already firmly entwined by the tentacles at the same time, and the rolling and jumping did not affect the tentacles at all, but almost knocked System down. Tom's body flew away.

System quickly adjusted, carried out the plan he envisioned, and flapped his wings with the greatest strength!

When the mouse found that its limbs were entangled by tentacles and began to bite the tentacles, System had already pulled the mouse away from the ground.

And when the mouse bit off the first tentacle wrapped around System, System had already flown to the top of the tree with it.

When the mouse struggled to bite off the three tentacles of System, System had already used his tired wings to fly the mouse to a height of [-] meters——

Without waiting for the mouse to continue biting and struggling, System let go of his remaining three tentacles, and his body became more relaxed.

Flying with the struggling rat was still a lot of work for his body.

(End of this chapter)