Law of the Swarm

Chapter 9 Rainstorm
System has encountered ants many times since he came to this world, and each time he sees different types of ants, black, dark red, dark brown, regardless of color and size.

Apparently these different species of ants thrive in this forest.

Encountering ants running away in embarrassment several times made System feel resentful, and he wished to take revenge on these ants immediately.

But after calming down, Sith knew it was hard.

Even if he grows into a big grasshopper in the future, it will be difficult for him to defeat the ant colony head-on, and there are too many types of ants in the forest, even if he takes revenge, he will not be able to find a target for revenge.

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After jumping continuously, System returned to the tree with many butterfly pupae attached to it.

After a few hours, the unlucky bug corpses on the path of the flames had most likely been searched for by creatures like an ant colony, and System didn't waste time continuing to search for such corpses.

For System, the most stable source of food is still these chrysalis, which are enough for him to eat for more than ten days.

As long as he finds a way to destroy the pupae, he won't have to worry about looking for meat for the next ten days, and he can also safely undergo the second molt to become an adult grasshopper, and it's not even right to rely on these pupae to complete the third molt. impossible.

System waved his fangs, aiming at the thread that fixed the chrysalis on the bark, and soon a chrysalis fell from the bark.

System obviously didn't expect the dropped pupae to be broken, he just tested whether he could get these pupae to the ground.

The shell of the chrysalis is even tougher than the strongest head exoskeleton of a katydid corpse. After System has been upgraded, there is still no way to break open the chrysalis.

But System didn't think of nothing, he thought of a very sinister approach.

Relying on this method, these chrysalis are not much worse than annihilation of the whole army.

The method System thought of was to bury these fallen pupae with dead branches and broken leaves.

Like a seed buried in the soil.

A chrysalis is buried in the spring and a butterfly or moth is harvested in the fall.

System's idea seemed very naive and stupid, and it was also very ridiculous.

But it is very fatal to these butterflies. The butterflies that break out of the chrysalis will be very fragile in the first few minutes. One can imagine the consequences of encountering mud and dead leaves with their unstretched wings.

There is a nearly [-]% possibility that after they break out of the pupa, their wings will become deformed due to the attachment of soil and broken leaves, thus completely losing the possibility of continuing to survive.

However, this kind of insidious method is obviously harmful to others and not beneficial to oneself. Burying these chrysalis will obviously waste a lot of time for System, and waiting for the chrysalis to hatch will bring the problem back to the original point.

Could it be that he had to wait a few months for these butterflies to emerge from their cocoons in a few months?
After trying to attack the chrysalis several times with the found wooden thorns to no avail, the sun set again.

System bounced back to the lair he found when he molted.

As night approached, System saw another kind of insect hunter—a fast-flying bat in the dense forest.

The sudden appearance of these bats made System resolutely give up his plan to forage at night. Although he has [Dark Vision] and [Information Reading] to assist him, his vision is still much more limited than during the day, and his A lot of mental power has been consumed, and [information read] can't be used for too long.

Facing the dark night full of dangers, it is not a wise choice to go out for food.

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It has been a few days since he became a grasshopper, and System has become more and more familiar with the control of his body. He put his body into a dormant state with great ease, and his spirit soon entered a half-sleep and half-awake state. status.

Today's night was unusually hot, and System, who had entered a dormant state in the first half of the night, was awakened three or four times because of the stuffy heat.

After waking up, he accelerated his abdominal breathing a few times before System's body returned to normal.

System's tentacles felt the moist and sultry atmosphere in the air.

"Low air pressure and sweltering heat, is it rainstorm coming?"

As System guessed, it didn't take long for sporadic raindrops to fall, and then the speed of the raindrops accelerated, and the sweltering weather quickly turned cloudy and cold.

System's shelter was washed away by the torrential rain, and the dead leaves kept shaking with the impact of the rain. Fortunately, the wind was not strong in the rainy night, and the dead leaves stuck in the gaps in the bark were also very firm. Sith Tem's lair is in no danger of collapsing.

Feeling the firm dead leaves above his head, System gradually felt at ease, and he soon entered a dormant state again.

However, as time passed, System's worm head gradually revealed a dignified look.

Faint light came through the gaps between the dead leaves and branches, and it was dawn, but the heavy rain showed no signs of stopping...

Although he didn't face the heavy rain directly, the splashing rain still made System's whole body wet under the dead leaves. Amid the still violent rainstorm, System heard the sound of running water below.

The violent torrential rain gathered into a flowing stream. Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, System, who was hiding in the dead leaves, could imagine the scene of the rainwater gathering outside.

He was very thankful that he didn't hide under a dead leaf on the ground like the first night he woke up. If he did that, he would be washed away by the rain in all likelihood, and then he could only live or die.

On the second day after the rainy night, the torrential rain continued, but there were signs of gradually weakening.

However, as the evening approached, the torrential rain intensified again, as if it was playing a joke on System, who was hiding under the dead leaves.

As time went by, System could no longer hear the sound of rainwater hitting the ground except for the sound of rainwater washing against the branches and leaves of the trees. Apart from the sound of rainwater hitting the trees, he could only hear the sound of continuous dripping water.

The tree where System was located should have turned into a small lake, and the sound of rushing water had completely disappeared.

Usually, severe rainstorms last for a short period of time, usually ending in a few hours, but the rainstorm in the forest where System is located has lasted for three days and there is no sign of abating.

On the third day of the torrential rain, System's stomach was already extremely hungry, and because of the continuous rain, the temperature dropped, and System felt his body became very stiff.

System could only be forced to move his body properly, so as not to cause the blood in his body to coagulate due to the low temperature, causing necrosis and disability.

But moving the body will make System's abdomen more hungry, and in order to relieve the hunger, System has to keep his body still to reduce his physical energy consumption...

The cold brought by the rain and the inability to go out for food undoubtedly plunged System into an unimaginable vicious circle.

The hunger in his abdomen drove System to use his fangs to bite the bark that had been softened by the rain, but this was useless. Even if the bark was soaked in rain, his fangs could not handle it.

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On the fourth day of the heavy rain, System, who was hiding under the dead leaves, finally decided to brave the rain to find food.

Based on his body, he might be able to last for another day or two, but by then his physical strength could no longer support him to go outside to find food, so he could only wait passively among the dead leaves for the end of the rainstorm.

System is not going to hand over his life to God to decide...

(End of this chapter)