Law of the Swarm

Chapter 65 Logging Giant Goblins
If it wasn't for System's powerful eyesight after his third molt, he wouldn't be able to notice these little things in the air at all.

Before the ice and snow came, System had never seen this kind of insect. It seemed that this was a small insect suitable for surviving in the cold.

This white insect was very small, less than 0.1 mm in size. Even when System just woke up, his body was dozens of times the size of this small insect.

The white insects have two pairs of wings, resembling flies, and hundreds of them gather together, looking from a distance like ice and snow being blown up by the cold wind.

System tried to inspect these small insects with his tentacles, but this insect was too small and smooth, even if he rolled it up with his tentacles, he couldn't feel it, so he couldn't use [Perception] to inspect it at all.

Reluctantly catching them and putting them in his mouth, System didn't taste any special taste. It is estimated that he should be able to taste the taste after swallowing dozens of them, but it is too difficult to catch them that way.

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Although this tiny insect encountered in the ice and snow did not provide any substantial help to System, it gave System the hope of survival.

Just like the rainstorm for five consecutive days, the life in the forest gradually recovered after the rainstorm. In this icy and snowy world, the forest will definitely not die out, even bugs can survive.

If it doesn't work, he can also go to the azure lake hundreds of kilometers away to catch some fish and shrimp like the white bear that Nellis's former contractor did.

Using the tentacles to continue climbing on the trees, Sith once again swung forward between the branches with the tentacles.

Not far from here in my memory, there is a tree where butterfly chrysalis hang slowly, which should be the same species as the butterfly chrysalis that System found before molting for the second time.

At the beginning, because he had many ants to support him, he didn't need to worry about food at all, so he only detected two of these butterfly pupae with his tentacles after he found them, and ignored the others. Now they can be used as his food reserves.

A few minutes later, System fulfilled his wish and came to the tree covered with butterfly pupae. There were more than 50 densely packed pupae.

Through the touch of the tentacles and the use of [Mind Teleportation], System found that most of the more than 50 chrysalis had died due to the severe cold, and only three were still alive.

Moreover, two of these three are already extremely weak, and it is estimated that they will die soon, leaving only one butterfly chrysalis with abundant vitality in its body.

Picking off this chrysalis rich in vitality and using its tentacles to [perceive], Sith discovered that this chrysalis possessed a kind of frosty energy. System could not check out what it was for a while, but it was undoubtedly Can survive in the ice and snow.

After trying to communicate with this chrysalis for a while with [Mind Teleportation], and finding it difficult to communicate, System decided to take this chrysalis back to the temporary nest, and study it slowly in the future.

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And just as System used his tentacles to transport more than a dozen of them back to the lair and returned again, System felt strange footsteps in the wind and snow with his tentacles, and soon he noticed the uninvited guest in the distance. A two-meter-tall humanoid with white skin and ice-blue armor.

The white-skinned humanoid was extremely ugly, with a bald head and pointed ears. Judging from its appearance, System felt somewhat similar to the goblins he had seen before, just like the giant goblins.

This giant goblin held a huge ice crystal ax in both hands, and he kept looking around, as if searching for something.

A few minutes later, the giant goblin found its target. He went straight to a tall tree with many branches, and swung the ax in his hand.

"Cut down trees? What is it doing?"

System put the butterfly chrysalis held in his tentacles into his mouth. While eating the ice cream-like chrysalis, he watched the giant goblin's movements from afar.

Just as System is not good at digging, this giant goblin who only uses an ax is not good at logging.

Even System, who had never cut a tree before, knew that to cut a tree, he had to continuously swing towards the same part, instead of hitting the tree with an axe.

"Is this goblin going to use this tree to practice his axe?"

System watched the goblin giant's slashing action from a distance, but felt that it didn't look like it. It seemed that the goblin giant was simply chopping down trees.

Although the goblin giant's logging methods were poor, relying on its strong physique, it took about an hour for the goblin giant to bring down the big tree.

System thought that the goblin giant would do something by cutting down the trees, but he didn't expect that the goblin would abandon the felled trees, pick up the ax and start searching around again.

Seeing the goblin giant leave, System used his tentacles to move and landed on the felled tree.

System has seen this kind of felled tree several times in the forest. The leaves of the tree are broad and oval-shaped, and this kind of tree also grows some oval-shaped green nuts about two centimeters in length.

The trees gave off a very strange smell. Every time he saw it, System would feel a little familiar, but he still couldn't figure out where it was familiar.

System used his tentacles to pick off a green nut from a tree branch. Except that the skin of this nut was a little harder, the fruit inside was pretty good, which was similar to the experience provided by mushrooms of the same weight, and it was also a good food. reserve.

System waved his tentacles, continued to pick a few fruits of this tree, and chewed them in his mouth.

The continuous sound of axes colliding with trees came out again...

System, who was nibbling nuts, found the giant goblin about 30 meters away from the tree, and continued to chop with his axe.

System climbed up the tree again and watched from a distance. He found that the two kinds of trees that the goblin was chopping were exactly the same.

"Could it be that this kind of tree hides some secret?"

System was thinking while eating the nuts of this kind of tree. This kind of tree exudes a certain smell, which he always feels very familiar with, but he just can't recall it clearly.

As far as the shape of the tree and its fruit are concerned, it is somewhat similar to the oak tree that System remembered from his previous life.

"oak?"

System's worm head showed a puzzled expression, and it didn't take long for System's puzzled expression to become clear.

He finally figured out why the smell from this tree was so familiar. This smell-like thing was not a plant, nor some kind of insect or animal, but came from the old druid.

There must be some special connection between the goblin giant who chopped the oak tree, and the old druid who smelled of the oak tree.

And just as System was thinking about it, accompanied by a faint sound in the wind and snow, a leopard-like creature with golden hair and black spots appeared from a distance, making System's [intuition] alert.

【Frost Form】Activate!
System immediately transformed into [Frost Form] and used his tentacles to climb to the top of the nearby tree...

(End of this chapter)