Law of the Swarm

Chapter 64 Molt and Pupation

To strengthen the [cold resistance] in the body of ordinary ants, System does not consume a lot of experience points. It seems that the ant pupa is very suitable for this ability.

Using only about 5% of the experience points, System used the [Ability Enhancement Technique] to strengthen the [Cold Resistance] of the two chrysalis a lot.

Different from System's body due to his talent [Numerical Code], ordinary ants have certain limitations when enhanced by [Ability Enhancement], and they cannot be enhanced too much at once.

After each ability has been strengthened to a certain extent, they all need to rest for a period of time before they can continue to receive System [Ability Enhancement Technique].

Otherwise, it will only encourage the growth of the seedlings, causing problems in the ability of the ants to be promoted.

System speculated that after two days of rest and strengthening again, the [cold resistance] of these two chrysalis would reach its limit.

I just don't know what the effect is, but for now, the [cold resistance] effect of the two chrysalis is much better. At least in this temporary nest, the two chrysalis no longer feel cold.

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After strengthening the two chrysalis, System continued to give additional enhancements to the female chrysalis.

Although there is no paired male ant, this female ant is still the object of System's special care and is the queen in the future ant nest.

After spending about 10% of the experience, System also strengthened the [Pupation] talent of the female ant pupae. The growth cycle of ants is not long. If you don't strengthen it at this time, it may take a few days. Only the female ant will break out of the pupa and lose the effect of strengthening the talent [Pupation].

By strengthening the [Pupation] ability, although the female ant pupa did not have the earth-shaking changes like Shava, the brown skin of the pupa became obviously smoother.

And as System continued to be busy with the two ants and pupae, the cold fluctuations from the outside world from time to time gradually subsided.

But at this moment, System had already forgotten about that strange wave of frost and cold.

System entangled the female ant chrysalis for a while with his tentacles, and Sawa for a while with his tentacles, and finally entangled himself with his tentacles slowly.

System discovered that when he probed himself with the [perception] power attached to the tentacles, he would also have a desire to mate, as well as a strange sense of comfort in his body.

But System didn't use his tentacles to touch himself to experience his magical tentacles, but to discover the talent [degeneration and growth] in his blood.

[Molting growth] and [chrysalis] are the fundamental powers in the blood of insects. If there is no such peculiar power, insects will no longer be insects.

There are many kinds of insects. Although their appearances are very different, there is no fundamental difference in the blood flowing in their bodies. This point was discovered by System a long time ago.

Today, when System used the [Ability Enhancement Technique] to continuously strengthen the talent [Pupation] for Shava and the female ant, System had a deeper understanding of [Pupation], and at the same time discovered that [Molting] Growth] is more related to [Pupation].

System suddenly came up with an idea, this kind of idea* Tem couldn't wait to start acting as soon as he thought about it.

Since the effects of [Molting Growth] and [Pupation] are similar, and [Pupation] is obviously stronger than [Molting Growth].

Then can he activate the talent of [chrysalis]?
Accompanied by this thought, the blood in System's whole body trembled slightly, his [intuition] brought him a feasible premonition, and if he could successfully carry out the [chrysalis], his body would definitely gain Unexpected growth.

"It seems that performing [chrysalis] is indeed better than performing [molting growth]."

System ignored the refreshing feeling of the tentacles on his body, and concentrated on analyzing the [molting growth] in his blood and comparing it with the [pupation] in several chrysalis.

System found that it was basically impossible to directly activate the talent of [Pupation] in his blood. The two talents of [Pupation] and [Molting Growth] had a natural conflict and could not exist in the same insect body at the same time.

But he can use another method, which is to completely transform the talent of [Molting Growth] into [Pupation]

talent.

Theoretically speaking, he can completely transform these two abilities by using [Insect Ability Activation] and [Ability Enhancement].

However, he doesn't have much experience left in his body now, and he can't stand the consumption of transforming from [molting growth] to [chrysalis].

And System didn't know how likely he was to succeed in doing so.

……

After continuing to wrap his tentacles around his body and feel it for a few ten minutes, System reluctantly let go of the tentacles wrapped around his body.

Transforming [Molting Growth] into [Pupation] is definitely worth a try, but he still needs to wait for a while to store enough experience points.

And as System lowered his tentacles, Sith noticed that the smaller worker ant pupae began to tremble unnaturally, and conveyed some uneasy emotions to System.

System, who has bred many ants, knows that this worker ant will emerge from its pupa within a few hours and become a worker ant.

Use [Mind Teleportation] to appease the uneasy emotions of the worker ants, and when the emotions of the worker ants gradually stabilized, System moved out of the passageway of the temporary nest.

Since the cold winter can no longer stop his pace of action, he must also find more means of survival in the severe winter.

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The bitter cold wind kept blowing on the ground, and when System came to the ground, he found that snowflakes began to fall in the sky again.

Different from the clear sky and snowfall last time, the sky this time looked very gloomy, and it was a normal snowfall.

System caught two snowflakes with his tentacles and put them in his mouth to taste.

Although there is still a slight salty taste, compared with the previous snow, the salty taste of this natural snowflake is much worse, and it does not have the umami taste of MSG.

System changed into [Frost Form], controlling the frost energy floating in the air to condense into snowflakes and put them in his mouth.

In contrast, System found that his own condensed snowflakes tasted much better, even better than accumulated snow.

System suddenly thought of something. He manipulated the free frost energy in the air to gradually condense. After a few minutes, these frost energy finally formed a blue ice bead the size of a soybean.

Putting this ice bead into his mouth and chewing, System found that the taste of the ice bead was very delicious, not very salty, but very fresh, just like eating shrimp or fish, but the taste was a bit crunchy, which was very strange .

Ice beads of the same weight can provide experience points thousands of times that of ordinary snow, which can provide about 2% of System's current experience.

However, this kind of ice bead System can only condense in [Frost Form], and it takes 3 minutes to condense one. In the limited [Frost Form] time, he can only condense three to four.

System once again condensed an ice bead and released the [Frost Form].

Although this kind of ice beads is rich in experience, it can't actually relieve his hunger, and it can't be used as food for the ant people. At most, it can be regarded as an additional means for him to gain experience.

System looked around and kept scanning. In a short time, his food sources were abundant, and even these leaves and weeds in the snow were enough to fill his stomach.

But within a month or two at most, these leaves and weeds will dry out and lose their edible value.

And just as System continued to look around, he discovered some special little things in the surrounding air.

It is an extremely tiny white insect that flies in the air...

(End of this chapter)