Law of the Swarm

Chapter 56 Strange Body
According to the rhythm of the blood in the body, System compared the blood of the chrysalis to try to activate the [Cold Resistance] contained in the [Insect Adaptability].

However, when he actually used the experience bar to activate [Cold Resistance], System found that the experience bar stored in his body was a little out of his control, which gave him a strange feeling.

System remembered the yawn of the Frost Dragon before he left, and it was that yawn that caused his current miserable state.

But that deep cold breath suddenly increased his experience bar a lot.

That cold and strange aura didn't disappear, but reappeared when System used the [Insect Ability Activation Technique] and started to play tricks.

System felt the blood of his body and the blood of the chrysalis produce an irregular rhythm, and his experience bar began to be consumed bit by bit, but he did not activate the ability of [cold resistance] at all, but began to activate some A kind of thing that he can't explain clearly, this kind of thing doesn't seem to exist in the blood of insects at all.

System felt a special kind of icy energy pouring out from the falling snowflakes around his body, and his body became stiff again. It didn't take long for his heart to gradually stop beating due to the freezing.

After that, System fell into a deep sleep...

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When System woke up again, he felt very dazed.

Fortunately, he has the timer function in the [Tools Menu], which let him know that he has been in a coma for five days.

System thought he would die because of this, but he unexpectedly survived miraculously, and was buried in the snow without feeling the slightest cold.

Without giving System any time to continue thinking, he felt extremely hungry in his abdomen.

This hunger can be said to be the strongest since System was reborn as a grasshopper.

Violently waving the fangs in his mouth, System sucked the surrounding ice crystal particles and filled his stomach with snow.

Swallowing ice and snow did not bring any discomfort to System. System could feel that the ice and snow in his stomach were mixed with gastric juice and slowly began to melt, alleviating his hunger.

Not only that, System actually tasted the taste from the ice and snow, instead of having no taste like drinking rainwater like before.

System tasted a faint salty taste from these ice and snow, somewhat similar to monosodium glutamate, and there was also a vague umami taste in the process of swallowing.

This was the first time System had tasted salty food since he came to this world. The food he ate before basically only had three flavors: sweet, sour and bitter.

Among them, the sweet and sour food is very fond of his body, and the other kind of bitter food is harmful to his body. Usually, the food that is toxic to his body will have a bitter taste.

Tasting the salty taste for the first time made System very excited, and he worked harder to devour the snow accumulated around him.

As he ate the snow, System felt a strange cold energy appearing in his stomach, rushing towards his throat.

There seemed to be a new organ in his throat, but System didn't feel it right now, he was so hungry, he devoured the ice and snow around him even harder...

However, it didn't take long for System to discover that swallowing this snow accumulation couldn't satisfy his hunger at all. When the ice and snow melted into water in the gastric juice, he could only feel a very empty feeling of fullness.

Then it won't be long before the melted snow water will be excreted by him, making him even hungrier.

System waved the tentacles of his body indiscriminately, rolled up some dead leaves and frozen weeds under his body, and chewed them in his mouth.

Compared with the salty ice and snow, dead leaves and weeds can fill System's stomach better.

And as the hunger gradually eased, System finally noticed his strange body.

The chrysalis before he passed out disappeared, and the remaining half of his thigh and left middle foot also disappeared——

System found a lot of debris in the snow under his body, including the shell of a chrysalis, and the green exoskeleton fragments of his legs...

System speculated that it was very likely that he ate the chrysalis while he was unconscious, and then ate his remaining limbs because of his body's hunger.

Perhaps it was due to the lack of nutrients in the body that [Regeneration of Severed Limbs] could not fully function. There was no sign of regrown limbs in the gaps in System's broken limbs. , some are three.

These tentacles add up to a total of fifteen.

Due to uneven nutrition, the fifteen tentacles are of different lengths and thicknesses. Some are long and some are short and thick. The longest one is nearly [-] centimeters, while the shortest is less than five centimeters.

Except for the newly grown tentacles, System found that his originally fat abdomen had shrunk to a quarter of its original size. It is estimated that all the energy stored in his abdomen had been basically exhausted these days.

Using his tentacles to continuously collect weeds and dead leaves in the snow and stuff them into his entrance, System's hunger subsided a lot, and he gradually regained his sanity and began to think about his current situation.

This heavy snowfall was obviously much worse than System's worst prediction. In just five days, the climate here has entered deep winter from early autumn.

The snow buried on his body was at least tens of centimeters, even if his longest tentacle touched upwards, he couldn't feel the air above.

Fortunately, for unknown reasons, he has mastered a strange frost power, otherwise even if he gains [cold resistance], he may not be able to survive this harsh weather.

This ability caused a new organ to form near his throat and caused special changes in his blood.

Although he is still a cold-blooded animal, there seems to be something special in his blood that makes his blood not freeze in the severe cold.

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[Frost Breath] (6/15): A derivative ability activated by [Insect Adaptability], [Numerical Code], [Data Compilation] and unknown energy.Breathes out icy breath through special glands.

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When the hunger in his stomach continued to ease, System tried to breathe out this [Frost Breath] with the newly formed glands in his throat.

From the new gland in his throat, he can spray out a stream of ice-blue gas. The gas is about as much as a Coke can in his previous life. He can spray it about three times in a row. It takes about five hours for him to fully recover after the spray.

However, the specific power of this breath was unknown to System, at least this [Frost Breath] ability had no effect on the snow buried on his body.

System used his tentacles to move his body in the ice and snow.

Although it was slow, as he fiddled back and forth with his tentacles, his body still rose little by little in the snow.

Being buried in ice and snow like this is not a solution after all. Tem decided to climb out of the snow.

Only by going to the ground can he see what the forest looks like due to the invasion of ice and snow. He can also climb up the trees with his tentacles to eat some frozen leaves.

(End of this chapter)