Law of the Swarm

Chapter 68 Half a Year

Like the thoughts of all the intelligent beings in the Lierte Forest, after the return of the Glacier Lord, the winter in the Lierte Forest has never ended.

The bitter cold wind has kept the temperature in the forest dropping, but in the past two months, the degree of this cold wind has weakened a bit, and the severe winter climate in the Lierte Forest has also stabilized, at least the temperature will not continue to drop.

During the past few months, many ice and snow creatures appeared in Lierte Forest.

Snow-white foxes, light blue frost slimes, butterflies with blue patterns and some strange insects.

The leaves of the original trees in the forest have basically dried up, and most of them have fallen with the ice and snow, but some special plants have grown on the branches of some trees, which are green and yellow moss.

These moss plants can secrete special juices that have the ability to dissolve ice and snow, and the interior of the moss cannot be frozen by the cold.

This special moss and a snow-like mushroom have become the basis for the rejuvenation of the Lierte forest in winter.

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The sunny weather in Lierte Forest has lasted for half a month. In the white world of ice and snow, just the moonlight and starlight at night will make this place not dark.

In a cave in the snow, a white mouse gradually woke up from a sweet sleep.

Like the nocturnal habits of the rats in Leertsen in warmer climates, the white-furred rats also forage in the wild at night.

The white mouse has only been born for two months, and it will never know how favorable the living conditions of its predecessors in warm climates are.

At that time, there were plants everywhere in the forest, and you could find a variety of food just by walking a few steps, digging through the piles of rotting dead leaves, and eating delicious and nutritious earthworms and centipedes.

But every advantage has a disadvantage.

Although there is a lack of food in the snow forest, the dangers in the snow forest are also much less.

The white mouse also could never imagine how frightened its predecessors were every time they went out to look for food in the snowy forest.

Sniffing with a sensitive nose, the idea of ​​the white mouse is very simple. On the one hand, it is searching for moss and white mushrooms in the forest, and on the other hand, it is looking for the smell of female mice.

A few days ago, it clearly found the cry of a female mouse, and also found the feces left by the female mouse in the snow, but it couldn't find the female mouse in the past two days. Female mice have left the same.

The white mouse suddenly smelled a delicious aroma and followed the smell. The white mouse soon found green moss and mushrooms piled up in the corner of a tree.

The two kinds of food were mixed together, as if they had been crushed. Even though they were far away, the white mouse could still smell a strong sweet smell.

The white mouse seemed to feel something was wrong, but it couldn't figure out what was wrong with its IQ. After hesitating for a while, the white mouse moved over and started eating because of its hunger.

The eating white mouse suddenly had an idea.

It is clear that the sight outside in the daytime is better and it is easier to find food, so why does it go out for food at night?
The white mouse's head showed a thoughtful expression, and it found that its body seemed a little stiff, and its two forelimbs grasping the food twitched uncontrollably.

The white mouse fell to the ground uncontrollably, its body seemed to be paralyzed, and it was not under its control at all.

The icy cold wind was blowing on its hairless belly, and the white mouse tried to turn over to warm its belly, but found that it couldn't do it.

Not long after, a few strange insects with a size of four centimeters and a grayish white body were found in the eyes of the white mouse.

The white mouse had never seen this kind of insect much, but its survival instinct told it what this kind of insect was. It was a slightly larger ant, and it was a kind of food that it could eat.

Saliva flowed out of the white mouse's mouth involuntarily.

Since birth, he has only eaten moss and mushrooms, and has never eaten other food except the milk of the mother mouse.

In the sight of the white mouse, two ants crawled up in front of it, and opened their fangs, as if they were biting at its throat.

It didn't feel any pain, and the blood gurgling out didn't seem to be its own.

The white mouse only felt that its body was very cold, especially the cold wind blowing on its belly became even colder, and it wanted to turn over...

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After five large gray-white ants killed the white mouse, seven worker ants of the same size came one after another in the snow.

The twelve ants first shared the blood gushing from the mouse's neck, and then cooperated with each other to lift the mouse's body and carry it to their nest.

These ants appear to have higher intelligence than ordinary ants.

Unlike some ants who also like to carry large pieces of food in summer, those ants always have some mentally retarded ants doing useless work in the process of carrying food, and may even drag the food in the opposite direction to hinder their legs.

Twelve ants took almost the same steps. They carried the mouse's body over the rugged ice and snow road, as if walking on flat ground. After ten minutes, they carried the mouse to the entrance of the five-meter-deep wintering burrow. place.

There are not many ants in this overwintering crypt, only about 100 or so.

Near the entrance of the wintering crypt, there are two soldier ants with a size of 10 cm. When the soldier ants saw the worker ants returning from hunting, they made way to communicate with these ants with their antennae...

Not long after, a dozen or so ants crawled out of System's overwintering nest, and these twenty-odd ants cooperated with each other to carry the mouse corpse to an empty room in the nest where meat was stored.

Successfully catching a rat with a trap containing paralytic toxin is clearly no small feat.

To catch this kind of large prey, if their king or Shawar doesn't make a move, it will basically take a few days to catch it once.

Although more than [-] worker ants have higher IQs than ordinary ants, there are obvious differences in their IQs.

Among them was a worker ant with a black spot on its forehead, named Black by System, who possessed extraordinary intelligence.

In addition to the name Black, it is often called Xiao Hei by Wang.

Black's body is slightly smaller than ordinary worker ants, although it is much larger than ordinary dark-brown worker ants, but it is a stunted worker ants in this nest.

But as Wang said, after God takes away one thing from it, it will give it another thing.

According to Wang, its body has the possibility of activating a strange ability. After possessing this ability, it can have the ability to transmit spiritual messages just like Wang.

In the entire nest, except for the king and the queen Linda, he is the only one who has the possibility of receiving spiritual messages.

Black moved back and forth in the five-meter-deep lair, and after being discovered by the king that it had good wisdom, it was given a special task by the king——

I usually patrol the lair, and when some big and small things happen, I will find the king to report.

However, Black searched all over the empty room where the king often lived in the five-meter-deep lair, but still did not find the king, not even the knight Shava.

According to Blake's guess, the king at this time should have gone out with Shava again...

(End of this chapter)