Law of the Swarm

Chapter 47 Communication with Slime

To hunt the mice, System's original plan was to use [Corrosion Slime] to sneak attack the eyes of the mice first. After the mice lost their vision, he kept harassing the mice with dead branches and gravel. After the mice were exhausted, he would use his own The gnaws of the mouse were knotted.

But after System tested his flying strength and found that he could fly with his tentacles grasping a half-meter-long wooden stick, he adopted the method just now.

Take the mouse to a high altitude, then let the mouse fall to its death.

However, although the weight of the mouse is slightly lighter than that of the wooden stick, the struggling mouse is obviously much more difficult to handle than the wooden stick, and it takes more effort to fly.

Fortunately, the previously conceived plan has basically been achieved, and the mouse successfully fell from a high altitude.

……

Perhaps because of the fallen leaves and dead branches in the forest, the mouse that fell from a high altitude did not die immediately, but its body twitched continuously on the ground, and it had lost its ability to move.

Some blood flowed from the corner of the mouse's mouth. When it saw System coming, its only remaining eye showed a look of fear.

"Huh? After suffering such a serious injury, you still haven't lost consciousness?"

System opened his gnaws, wanting to put an end to the mouse, but he quickly stopped.

System remembered the way the mouse ate Sawa's feet before. He dipped the blood from the mouse's mouth with the remaining three tentacles, and tasted its blood in front of the mouse.

The taste of the mouse's blood was similar to that of the bird's blood he had tasted a long time ago. After the taste of milk, there would be a tea-like taste, which left an endless aftertaste in his mouth.

Only after tasting the blood on the three tentacles in a row, System discovered that the taste of the blood on the three tentacles was not the same.

One of the tentacles had a very strong coffee smell. While tasting this coffee taste, he felt a slight tingling in his stomach and an inexplicable sense of comfort.

The experience of the blood on this tentacle is four times that of other tentacles.

"Why is there such a smell?"

System dipped the blood from the corner of the mouse's mouth with three tentacles again, and then put it in his mouth to taste one by one.

System found that the smell of blood on the previous tentacle was still different, and there was a coffee smell, but this time the coffee smell was much weaker than last time.

System stared at the mouse's eyes that were gradually losing light, and he suddenly figured out the reason why he could taste the coffee.

System's body trembled unconsciously.

Although it has been decided before that it should be treated with caution.

However, he accidentally ingested the liquid in the spider's venom gland through the mixture of the tentacles and the mouse's blood.

He even had a feeling that he had swallowed rat poison by mistake and was about to die.

Fortunately, as far as his body feels now, it's hard to say more poisonous spider venom, but no matter how much he takes this black-gray spider venom, it won't cause problems, and it will bring a lot of benefits to his body.

……

Looking at the rat's body that had stopped twitching, System grabbed the rat's corpse and began to return to the temporary nest.

If System were to choose the most suitable person to eat this mouse, it would definitely be the soldier ant Sawa.

But when System expelled the worker ants patrolling near the nest, and tried hard to stuff the mice into the nest.

Shava still hasn't woken up from a deep sleep. It seems that he used his tentacles during the day to consume a lot of Shava's energy, and she will have to rest for a while.

System moved the mouse body to an empty room, checked the condition of Shava's body, and then he came out of the temporary nest again.

Spreading its wings, System flew towards the direction of the swamp he remembered during the day, where there were two slimes.

During the process of cleaning the shimmering mushrooms in the lair, System suddenly had an idea.

Now he can perceive the emotions of mushrooms, so can he perceive the emotions of slimes?
Slime can split into several individuals, and each individual has independent consciousness.

System thinks that slime is essentially a collection of fungi or bacterial organisms, theoretically, his [psychic transmission] can perceive emotions.

Maybe even communicate.

System flew fast, as if looking at the swamp from the clouds during the day, System found the slime waiting quietly in the swamp.

The jelly of this slime's body is dark green, a little different from the brown slime that System used to have.

System continued to look around, but he didn't find the other slime he saw at that time, and he didn't know where it went.

After the search was fruitless, System gave up the search and returned to the mud where the slime was.

Grabbing a dead branch from the ground, System flew directly above the slime and threw it down.

System wanted to test the slime's reaction.

The same reaction as that of System's old slime friend, the jelly of the slime's body trembled violently, swallowing the wooden stick dropped by Systemtum.

As the slime swallowed the branch, System felt the emotion of wanting to swallow the food from the slime.

It seems that using the ability of [Mind Teleportation] and [Spiritual Connection], he can indeed feel the emotions of slimes.

The emotions produced by slimes seem to be a collection of many tiny consciousnesses, which interact with each other to form a common emotion.

Obviously, slime should be a collection of life like fungi, bacteria or microorganisms.

Compared with mushrooms, the mood swings emanating from slimes are stronger and more concentrated. It is an emotion integrated by countless weak consciousnesses, unlike fungi in mushrooms, which have no overall consciousness.

System continued to throw a few branches to test the slime.

He found that life like slime seemed simpler than he imagined.

When swallowing the branch, the slime obviously felt excited, and this excited emotion lasted for about 3 seconds before disappearing.

After a few seconds, the slime will feel that there is a foreign body in the body, and after a while, the slime will expel the indigestible dead branches from the body.

System discovered that creatures like slimes have even lower intelligence than insects, and only act according to their body's instincts.

After continuing to test the slime for a while, System began to try to communicate with the slime.

"bounce!"

As System delivered the spiritual message, after two seconds, the slime really jumped up.

This slime is completely a replica of Soldier Ant Dasha back then. When System sends out mental commands, the slime will respond to System's commands.

But unlike Soldier Ant Dasha who simply believed him at the beginning, Slime's obedience to System's orders was only tending to its instinctive reaction.

The slime's body is similar to the collection of many tiny life consciousnesses. When System transmits spiritual information to the slime, as long as one of the slime's many consciousnesses responds, the other consciousnesses will be affected, and then form a A chain reaction completes the message that System conveyed.

So System can use [Mind Teleportation] to control slime.

However, controlling slimes in this way is not so ideal.

A life like slime can't understand System's overly complicated commands, and System can only make it move and jump.

Moreover, the slime seems to have only a few seconds of memory. Even if the slime is ordered to move in one direction, the slime will automatically stop after three to five seconds due to memory loss.

(End of this chapter)