Law of the Swarm

Chapter 6

The irregular rhythm from the blood vessels during the transformation seemed to convey a voice to System, asking him to make a choice.

What to choose?
System kept thinking, and carefully felt every rhythm in his throbbing blood, but he still didn't find any more information.

But as the body continued to transform, the voice gradually became clearer, and System gradually understood the meaning of the voice.

The data on [Self-Information Generation Technique] also shows the content of this voice.

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[Molt growth mode]: The mode that some insects enter when they molt. They metamorphose according to the power in their blood, and they can choose an ability to strengthen.The unique mode of the talent [Degeneration and Growth].

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Choose a physical ability to enhance.

It can strengthen one's fangs, one's strong hind limbs, and one's natural talents or derived skills.

His options are many.

Compared with ordinary grasshoppers without intelligence, which generally strengthen their fangs, hind limbs, wings, and carapace hardness, System has a deeper understanding of this strengthening.

The first thing System thought of was to use this power to strengthen the talent [Molt Growth], if he could strengthen the talent [Molt Growth] to the top level 13, then he would have the third chance to molt.

If he molted to the third time, not to mention the mysterious and mysterious listening to the voice of the world, his body will definitely be greatly improved. Even if he faces some insect hunters like praying mantises, he should be able to fight.

But System immediately thought of the talent [numerical code] that was more important than the talent [degeneration and growth].

[Numerical code] It is rarely felt and used by System, but System can rely on this talent to grow rapidly by leveling up.

The information from the [Molting Growth] bloodline allowed System to naturally understand the law of the growth of ordinary grasshoppers.

Life in this world generally has the concept of levels, and ordinary grasshoppers also have levels, and their levels will also increase through eating.

However, compared to System's level up, ordinary grasshopper leveling up is a slow process.

Ordinary grasshoppers will not upgrade immediately after their experience bar reaches the threshold, but will upgrade slowly by eating. Usually, each upgrade will take a day, and as the level increases, this time will become longer .

So even if an ordinary grasshopper is diligent and eats day and night, it will take five or six days to reach level 5 for the first molt. molt.

Of course, because ordinary grasshoppers upgrade slowly, they won't feel extremely hungry after System's upgrade.

But this kind of shortcoming does not hide its merits, [Numerical Code] is definitely the most potential and most unique ability possessed by System at present.

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After making a decision, System channeled the power in his blood into the ocean of 0 and 1 in his mind.

Accompanied by the transmission of power in the blood, while System was feeling the talent [numerical code] for the first time, his spirit didn't feel like exploding, only a slight tingling.

In the ocean of numbers, System felt that his spirit was like a pure white ball of light, and around him was a sphere composed of numbers, like a planet around a star .

System is familiar with this digital planet, because this is the derived skill [Self-Information Generation Technique] that he possessed after waking up.

With the injection of blood power generated by [Degeneration and Growth], System discovered that the entire digital ocean composed of 0 and 1 has become wider, and these digital oceans have also become thicker.

System found that the numbers not far from him surged violently, gradually converging and forming a brand-new digital planet, which is dozens of times larger than the one of the [Self-Information Generation Technique] .

The planet quickly found its own orbit, and it began to slowly revolve around System.

Just when the planet was stabilized, the blood power of [Degeneration and Growth] suddenly began to fade, severe pain hit, and System's spirit exploded in the digital sea.

System fainted...

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When System woke up, there was a bright light shining through the cracks in the dead leaves, and it was obvious that the night when he molted had turned into daylight the next day.

The hunger after the molting is obviously stronger than the hunger after the upgrade, just like he has been hungry for several days.

There was a rustling sound, and the worm slough attached to the movable body of System shattered, revealing the brand new exoskeleton inside.

After a round of molting, his body shape grew from 1.6 cm to 2.3 cm, the tentacles on the top of his head became more slender and sensitive, his exoskeleton and fangs on his head became stronger, and his foot that was bitten off by ants It is also growing well at this time.

A pair of wing buds grew out of System's back, and as he continued to grow, he would soon master the power to fly.

Compared with the body, through the power of [Degeneration and Growth], System's [Numerical Code] (1/1) broke through the upper limit of the talent level and increased to [Numerical Code] (2/2).

And because of the improved [Numerical Code], he obtained a brand new talent [Data Storage], and based on this [Data Storage], he obtained two derivative abilities [Information Entry] and [Information Read].

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[Data Storage] (1/2): A special talent obtained from [Numerical Code] and [Degeneration and Growth].Unique talent for recording and simply analyzing data.System's unique talent.

[Information Entry] (1/1): A derivative ability obtained from the talent [Data Storage].passive ability.Possesses the ability to record the things that System touches.

[Information Read] (1/1): A derivative ability obtained from the talent [Data Storage].Ability to activate.Possess the ability to summarize and read the information after [Information Entry].

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These newly acquired abilities belonged to auxiliary abilities, and System thought it was a bit tasteless at first, but after he got out from under the dead leaves of the pine tree, System understood the power of these abilities.

The effect of the derivative skill [Information Recording] is not very obvious, it just passively records the things that System touches, but after consuming mental power to activate the derivative skill [Information Reading], he finds that the whole world has changed in his eyes .

Although the distant things in the compound eyes are still blurry, the outlines of all things emit a faint light. After he activates [Information Read], any insect hunters hiding around will be invisible.

Not only that, [Information Reading] can also obtain information about the plants he has eaten. If he has eaten this plant, he will recognize it as long as he sees it from a distance.

System, who just jumped off the branch, instantly used this [Information Read] to identify three nearby plants that he had eaten, and checked the information of these plants.

Not only the taste and hardness of these plants, but also the estimation of how many leaves he can eat to raise him to level 6.

The weights required for the three plants to upgrade him are 1028g, 225g, and 78g respectively.

This [information reading] ability is somewhat similar to the digital optical brain in the science fiction novels of System's previous life, which helps humans process and analyze information.

However, System's [Information Read] is obviously less intelligent, and his calculation ability is almost non-existent, and his mental power will quickly fade as soon as he uses it for a while. It is estimated that he will have to rest after five or six minutes of continuous use.

But even so, this derived skill still helped System enormously.

He quickly followed the screen displayed by [Information Read], circled around and jumped to the plant that could upgrade him by eating 78 grams.

A praying mantis disguised as a plant branch was easily avoided by him...

(End of this chapter)