Law of the Swarm

Chapter 72 The Demon Insect from the Abyss
System raised his head, and a flash of blue light appeared in his eyes.

System quickly flew up, the tentacles on his body intertwined to form a streamlined shape, and his flying speed further accelerated.

For nearly a month, he has been feeling uneasy for no reason, but on this day, he finally discovered something unusual.

Because of strengthening the talent of [Perception], the derivative ability [Eye of System] has also been improved, and System is now able to see some unusual things, for example - frost energy floating in the air.

It is not perceived by the body, but actually seen with the eyes.

Because of the power of frost in his body, System can see the free frost energy in the Lierte Forest even if he is thousands of meters away; in addition, System can also see another kind of infinite Color energy, this energy is closely related to his [Mind Teleportation] and [Perception] abilities.

Just now System inadvertently discovered a strange swirl of frost energy in the forest a hundred meters away, and with the appearance of this swirl, the frost energy there decreased a bit.

The whirlpool is not very big, only a few tens of centimeters in size. When System flew to the whirlpool, the frost energy whirlpool hadn't completely dissipated, and he immediately noticed that it was unusual.

System's tentacles felt a strange smell of sulfur, and also felt a strange aura that was hot and made him slightly distracted.

This scorching heat energy is incompatible with the free frost energy in the air. Once the two energies come into contact, they will annihilate each other, and the ice-blue whirlpool is obviously formed because of this.

"How can there be such a scorching energy breath in the ice and snow?"

System transformed into [Frost Form] in mid-air, and asked Nellis, the halo above his head.

Nellis seemed to be very familiar with this strange breath, and immediately replied to System: "This is the breath of the abyss."

"abyss?"

"Ah."

System hovered in mid-air, and scanned the forest for a while, until the sulfur smell in the air completely dissipated, and he didn't find any trace of abyssal creatures below.

The so-called abyss, System has heard it more than once from Nellis' words in the past six months.

However, Nellis didn't know exactly what the abyss looked like. She just said that her former contractor, the white bear, had fought several times with the demons from the abyss.

From a long time ago, Lierte Forest seemed to have an unknown connection with the abyss, and there would always be some abyssal creatures invading here.

System once asked the goblin giant what the abyss was, but the goblin giant who lost his power and suddenly regained it was also not very clear. They didn't know as much as Nellis.

"My lord, have you found anything?"

Seeing that System suddenly flew into the sky and hovered for a while, and his expression became a little dignified, Shava immediately approached System to ask.

"Nothing for now."

System replied to Shava, although there were no traces of abyssal creatures, System felt that his uneasiness came from this breath.

Maybe after a while, he will encounter monsters from the abyss.

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In System's nest, traps were set up and mice were killed. After eating and resting for a while, the five worker ants left the nest again.

They are to retrieve the paralysis traps used to set up the rats earlier.

Since only one soldier ant in the entire nest possesses the ability of this [paralyzing toxin], each time it secretes this toxin, it takes a long time to recover before secreting it again.

Therefore, these toxin-containing baits need to be recovered and let the soldier ant eat and absorb them, otherwise the [paralysis toxin] on this poisonous bait will lose its effectiveness after a long time.

Ants are born with a keen sense of smell. These dark brown ants turn gray and white, and their sense of smell becomes even more sensitive as they become larger.

The five worker ants shook their antennae at the same time. They used the antennae on their heads to touch and communicate with each other. Obviously, they found some unusual smell.

Several worker ants gave up collecting the toxin bait, and followed the fishy smell in the air, and gradually moved behind a tree nearly 30 meters away from System's nest.

Behind the tree, several ants found a half-cut butterfly larva corpse, about five centimeters left.

A few ants explored the situation near the dead butterfly larvae for a while. After a while, two of the ants cooperated with each other and worked together to carry the dead butterfly larvae back to the nest.

Although actively hunting the butterfly larvae has been banned by the king, there is no reason for them not to recycle the dead body of the butterfly larvae.

However, before the five soldier ants could transport the butterfly larvae two meters away, a strange and uninvited guest appeared in front of them.

The pink flesh was exposed, like an oval meatball the size of a watermelon. This meatball kept shaking in the snow, and exuded a slightly scorching bloody smell.

Although the IQ of the worker ants bred by System is higher, they still inherit the fearless character in the ants' bones.

Several worker ants moved towards the meat ball, and they wanted to find out what the fishy smelling meat ball was.

As the worker ants approached, the vibrating speed of the meat ball became faster and faster.

When a worker ant is about to touch the meat ball, the meat ball changes suddenly.

A giant white butterfly larva about fifteen centimeters grew out of the meat ball within a few seconds, and a hair-thin dark-brown thread appeared at the tail of the butterfly larva and connected to the meat ball.

This giant butterfly larva looks like a real butterfly larva. It squirmed towards a worker ant and rushed over, wrapping the worker ant tightly with its bloated body like a snake.

Despite its huge size and overwhelming strength, butterfly larvae are not good at fighting by nature. The entangled worker ant kept waving its fangs on its head and caused a lot of damage to the butterfly larvae. The other worker ants also tacitly understood With their cooperation, they launched an offensive against the butterfly larvae, biting the butterfly larvae all over their bodies.

One of the several worker ants suddenly discovered something. This worker ant did not continue to bite the butterfly larva, but launched an attack on the thin thread connecting the butterfly larva's tail to the meat ball.

The thin wire is very hard, but the fangs strengthened by System are obviously stronger and sharper.

In less than half a minute, as the thin thread was bitten off by the worker ants, the struggling white butterfly larva instantly lost its ability to move and suddenly became motionless.

Several ants decided to move the giant butterfly larva back to the nest...

But a few ants obviously didn't notice that the pink meat ball not far from them had changed its shape.

A twenty centimeter round mouthpart appeared on the meat ball, and the mouthpart was covered with white and brown sharp teeth.

In an instant, this meat ball ate five worker ants and the giant butterfly larva that grew out of its body...

Not long after, the surface of the meat ball began to squirm again, and an ant nearly eight centimeters grew out from the surface of the meat ball. There was also a thin thread connected to the meat ball near the ant's tail.

(End of this chapter)