Law of the Swarm

Chapter 7 Chrysalis and Flame

With the upgrade and molting, System's fangs have become much harder, and now he can easily chop the mature leaves of plants.

The 78g leaves that System chose to upgrade him tasted pretty good, similar to the watermelon from his previous life, but slightly harder and less flavorful.

With the consumption of this kind of leaves, the 78g information in [Information Reading] has changed to 93g. It seems that different individuals of the same plant have some differences, and the effects on his growth are different.

And the [information reading] ability needs to be improved, and more data needs to be collected.

In order to use [Information Reading] to play more roles, System decided to eat as much as possible of every plant in the future to improve his information base.

……

However, after continuing to eat four or five leaves to relieve his hunger, System suddenly felt a little unwilling.

Very unwilling.

Compared with these leaves, the taste of insect eggs is obviously much better.

After alleviating his hunger, these originally delicious leaves suddenly made it difficult for System to swallow.

If he was an ordinary grasshopper, he might eat the leaves peacefully according to his instinct, and then gradually grow and transform into an adult grasshopper.

But he is fundamentally different from the ordinary grasshopper.

It's not the talent [numerical code] that makes his body grow rapidly.

Compared with ordinary worms, his biggest difference is his intelligence, otherwise, no matter how strong his [numerical code] is, he will die in the face of that toad.

Wisdom not only brought him meticulous thinking, but also endowed him with greed and ambition.

System, who was eating the leaves, observed his surroundings from time to time. This time, he was not only looking at the hidden dangers around him, but also looking for and thinking about the meat that might exist around him.

He wants to eat meat...

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System thought about ways to find meat.

In the previous life, human beings could become the overlord of the earth, relying on wisdom, and the initial application of human beings to wisdom was to use tools and make fire.

System looked at his limbs, his worm head showed a complex expression, his limbs did not have fingers, making tools was very difficult, and even if he had fingers, he would not have any useful materials.

Is it necessary to learn from humans in the Paleolithic age to smash stones and use sharp stone blades as weapons?

Or learn how to grind stones and make stone-bladed weapons in the Neolithic Age?

impossible!
When he had time to use the stone blade, his fangs had already bitten at the opponent ten or eight times.

The only useful material that System could think of was the spider's silk thread, which can be used to make many traps or weapons.

But after thinking about it, System gave up, not to mention how he used his feet to cut off a piece of spider silk without being stuck by it, and how long it would take to cut dozens of spider silk to make a trap.

In the process of obtaining the silk, will the spider agree?

Maybe he will continue to grow in the future. After his strength improves, he can force the spider to agree to hand over the spider web, but at that time the spider is no longer his opponent. ?

……

In the end, System didn't think of any way to make a tool trap, at least with his current body, there was no way.

If he still wants to eat meat, the most effective way is to use his [information read] ability to search for eggs hidden in the forest.

The second is to prey on herbivorous insects that are weaker than him, just like the few insects that absorbed the juice of the plant wall he encountered last time.

It's just that [information reading] is a bit of a mental burden on him, so he can't use it for a long time.

After making up his mind, System continued to eat a few leaves, and then started jumping in search of meat.

After possessing the activatable ability [Information Read], System's actions became much bolder and more decisive.

Although the outline of the scene that is too far away is still blurred even with [Information Read], everything within one or two meters is clearly visible to his eyes.

As long as he occasionally activates [Information Read] for a few seconds, all the disguised insect killers around him will be invisible to him.

In just a few minutes, System found a praying mantis disguised as a dead branch, and a piebald spider disguised as a flower.

During the search, System found three of his kind, whose size and color were slightly different from his. They should be different species of grasshoppers, belonging to his distant relatives.System also found a few insects like flies and bees resting on the leaves, and saw dozens of ants eating the corpse of a dead dragonfly.

There are many kinds of bugs hidden in the jungle, but System didn't find the bug eggs and weak insects he needed in a short time.

It is obviously difficult to hunt and kill the same kind of similar size as himself, and it is not realistic to prey on flexible flies. As for rushing to the ant colony to snatch the dead dragonfly, it is no different from a zebra charging a group of hyenas, and he does not want to seek death.

System could only keep jumping, trying his best to use [information reading] to discover more things before his mental power was exhausted.

Ten minutes later, just when System was about to give up, he finally found a safe food, and there was a lot of it, enough for him to eat for more than ten days.

On the trunk of a gray-brown tree with very wrinkled skin and a strange shape, System found dozens of pupae of butterflies or moths. The color and shape of these pupae were very close to the bark. Take], he is difficult to find.

Each chrysalis has a size of 6 centimeters, which is three times the size of System. There are some silk threads attached to the chrysalis, so that these chrysalis are firmly attached to the bark.

It is a common method for butterflies to condense into chrysalis in the same place, and then to cocoon into butterflies in the same place. After all, these butterflies or moths are very fragile in the first few minutes after breaking out of their cocoons. Emerging from the chrysalis together with the butterflies greatly increases their chances of survival.

System's fangs drooled unconsciously. These protein-rich foods must be very delicious.

If he could eat all these chrysalis, his growth would undoubtedly be greatly improved and he would become an adult sooner.

System immediately used his fangs to bite towards a chrysalis!
The oval-shaped black-brown chrysalis made it impossible for his fangs to exert force at all, and even if he could successfully exert force, his fangs would not be able to work on these hard chrysalis shells.

After trying to bite for a few minutes, System's worm head showed an annoyed look in a humanized manner. It was obvious that he had found a large amount of nutritious and delicious food, but there was nothing he could do about it, which made System very uncomfortable.

"It seems that we can only find sharp stone blades to break the shell, but it is difficult for this body to grasp the stone."

"Should we wait until the moment these chrysalis break out of their cocoons and become butterflies before attacking?"

"But how long it will take for these chrysalis to turn into butterflies is simply unknown. Do I have to wait a month for them to turn into butterflies after a month?"

"So……"

boom! !

The loud sound in the distance interrupted System's thinking, and the moment the sound came out, System saw the dazzling fire in the dense forest dozens of meters away.

Strong vibrations and sounds gradually approached him from the distance where the flames erupted. Along with the continuous violent impact, System found that several trees in the distance seemed to have been knocked down.

After a few breaths, a creature covered in flames roared past System a few meters away along with the billowing heat...

(End of this chapter)