Law of the Swarm

Chapter 92 First Encounter
For half a month, the temperature in the Lierte Forest has not changed significantly, but the black smoke and dust from the volcanic eruption seems to have produced the effect of snow melting agent.

The ice and snow in the Lierte Forest had melted a little bit, making it look a little muddy, which made the migration of ants a little troublesome.

System's tentacles are holding all the chrysalis, including the queen Linda, flying in the air with the small meat balls, while Shava and other members of the Ant Knights are carrying ordinary ants below. Some jerky food.

In front of the dozens of ants, there was a blue-gray slime bouncing forward under the control of System from time to time.

Because of the muddy ice and snow, the Frost Slime inevitably absorbed a lot of this black smoke and dust. After walking for a few hours, the ice-blue slime had turned blue-gray, and it is estimated that after a while, it will be completely turns black.

System is considering whether to abandon this slime friend. After all, the slime glue stained with these black ash will be quite toxic if eaten directly, and most ants cannot eat this kind of food.

System, who was on the move, once again noticed the sounds and figures in the forest. More than two hours later, System once again encountered a team of seven gnolls about one kilometer away.

Unlike the dozen or so gnolls two hours ago, these seven gnolls set up a fire and formed a simple camp, probably resting.

System had no intention of contacting these gnolls, so he flew down from the sky, and System notified his ant people to change direction and decided to bypass the gnoll camp.

The speed of System and the ant team is not too slow. They can walk about two kilometers in an hour, which is similar to the walking speed of human beings.

Half an hour later, System's team was successfully separated from the simple camp of the Wolf Man without any twists and turns.

But just after System and the Gnoll camp staggered, System's tentacles suddenly detected the continuous screams in the Gnoll camp a hundred meters away.

The screams from the wolf man were so loud that even ordinary ants could clearly hear them. They all stopped and looked around, becoming a little uneasy.

System flew into the sky again, and he found three Jackals in the former simple camp of Jackals lying beside the fire. There were round blood holes in their necks, and they were dead at this moment.

Of the remaining four Gnolls, two were waving sticks in their hands, looking a little irritable, and the other two were checking their companions.

System observed for a while, but did not find out how the three jackals died. He decided to take the ants away from this place of right and wrong.

But when System fell into the ant team from the sky, System found a vague and strange shadow about half a meter high in front of his ant team.

It is said to be a blurry shadow, but it is actually a creature with a completely transparent body, as if invisible. If it weren't for the powerful vision of [System's Eye], System would not be able to notice what was in front of him at all.

The blue light in System's eyes flickered away.

After using the object recognition ability in the [Tools Menu], the outline of the blurry shadow before System's eyes was completely outlined.

It is a half-meter-high humanoid life form. It has four arms on its upper body, two of which have conical spikes, and the other two have human-like palms. It seems to have a carapace on the surface of its body and a Wings that hang down covered by a carapace.

Gently shaking the tentacles on the top of his head, System found that he couldn't sense any aura of creatures two meters away from him.

His [intuition] brought him a sense of danger, and those two conical spikes could pierce his brain in an instant and kill him in an instant.

However, just as System was about to notify Shava, who was still looking around at the Gnoll camp behind him, to prepare for battle.

System suddenly felt a familiar force from the creature in front of him.

The creature on the opposite side actually sent him a spiritual message, which is the ability of [Spiritual Connection].

"The vigilance is very good. Are you the new worm beasts of Fistantin? You found me."

This spiritual message was very fluent, even more fluent than Blake's. It was a female voice, and it was very pleasant to hear. It made System feel as if he was facing Queen Kun.

"You are, Shadow?"

After the other party sent a spiritual message, System felt the familiar breath of insect blood. He knew that the other party was also an insect, and it was an insect that had completed four molts.

Not only that, but System found that although the insect blood in the other party's body was somewhat confused, her blood was a grasshopper, a distant relative of a grasshopper of the same race as System.

With a series of questions about the predecessor of the little meat ball, and the blurred image left by the Grasshopper Queen, System can easily guess the identity of the other party, and the other party should be Shadow.

Hearing System's spiritual message, Ying's mood seemed to become a little joyful, and she quickly asked: "You know me? Are you number 95? Or 107? No, they can't have your wisdom .”

"Is the Fistantin you mentioned just now a druid of the swarm?"

System did not answer Shadow's question, but asked about the doubts he had after eating the golden acorn. In his opinion, the former owner of the meat ball should be the swarm druid who drove the worms. He just couldn't be sure.

"Yes, Fistantin is the druid of the swarm. Aren't you the worms that Fistantin studies? As far as I know, only he will send the worms here from the abyss."

Ying quickly answered System's question, and with just a few words, System also got a lot of information.

There's the Abyss, and there's the Swarm Druids.

System did not continue to answer Shadow's question, he first disconnected the other party's [spiritual connection] power, and then used his own [spiritual connection] power to connect with the other party.

In the process of Ying expressing surprise, System passed several images to the other party, including the image of the grasshopper queen Kun, and the image of the conversation between the predecessor of the little meatball and him.

"It turns out that you are the grasshopper that Kun mentioned. Unexpectedly, she died..." Ying's spiritual message contained some melancholy emotions.

"Are you here to find her?" System asked after listening to Ying's spiritual message.

"Yeah, I'm here to look for her." Shadow's transparent body gradually emerged, revealing the black-purple carapace covering her body. She paused for a while and continued: "I always wanted to be free, but I didn't expect to be truly free. I didn't know what to do, but now that I've found my target, I'm going to kill him."

"You are not his opponent." System reminded Ying, remembering the old Druid's aura of harmony between man and nature.

Ying didn't answer, but just shook his head lightly. It seemed that System's persuasion had no effect at all, and Ying was determined to assassinate the old Druid.

And at this moment, Shava finally found the figure of Ying, she quickly moved in front of System, and confronted Ying.

"It's okay, Sawa, she's not an enemy."

System explained to Shava while continuing to communicate with Ying...

(End of this chapter)