Law of the Swarm

Chapter 94 The Chrysalis of Frost

System's views on this chrysalis changed after only a few hours.

That night, when System took the time to check the chrysalis with [Spiritual Connection], System felt an abnormal spiritual message.

To be precise, the tone of this spiritual message made System feel unusually familiar

"Where is this, why am I trapped here? Forget it, I'm so trapped..."

This unusually familiar and fluent spiritual message surprised System very much.

However, when System sent a mental message and tried to communicate with the other party, the spirit inside the chrysalis seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep again, without any response.

It seemed to be telling System that the spiritual message he just felt was an illusion.

But the database in System [Tools Menu] clearly recorded everything before, and just now he felt that the spiritual messages sent by the chrysalis were all true.

The power of the ice and the familiar tone made System unconsciously associate the butterfly chrysalis with the former glacier lord.

But this is obviously impossible, such a powerful existence turned into a butterfly, System obviously felt that it was not real enough.

Maybe this is just a butterfly with a high IQ like the worker ant Blake, but with a slightly abnormal spirit.

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After System continuously used [Spiritual Connection] to connect with the butterfly chrysalis, System finally sensed the chrysalis' awakening again at noon of the next day.

After the chrysalis woke up, it once again expressed the feeling of being puzzled because it was trapped inside the chrysalis.

System sent a spiritual message to the chrysalis at the right time: "Who are you?"

"Who am I?" Chrysalis seemed to be thinking.

It seems that it can't remember who it is, and after thinking for a long time, it can't figure out who it is.

Soon the chrysalis gave up thinking about what it was, and sent a spiritual message to System: "Great being, can you let me get out of this dark space?"

"You want to come out?"

System gently shook the pupa with his tentacles a few times. The liquid inside the pupa was only slightly viscous, and it was obvious that there was still a long way to go before breaking out of the pupa.

If the chrysalis were broken open now and the juice inside the chrysalis flowed down, the chrysalis would undoubtedly die on the spot.

However, Sith waited for the chrysalis for a long time, and the chrysalis did not answer. It seemed that as he shook the chrysalis with his tentacles just now, the chrysalis' consciousness fell into a deep sleep again.

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Seven days passed, and System and his ant people successfully left the border of Lierte Forest and arrived at Warren Plain.

Although the border of the Warren Plain is also covered with a layer of ice and snow and black ash from volcanic eruptions.

But the moment System stepped out of the Lierte Forest, System clearly felt the change in temperature. The temperature that was more than 30 degrees below zero a moment ago rose to more than ten degrees below zero in an instant.

With a distance of less than ten meters, there was an extremely unscientific difference between the climate inside and outside the forest, and there was even less black ash falling on the ground.

During these seven days, after System communicated with the butterfly chrysalis two or three times, he had more guesses about the relationship between the butterfly chrysalis and the Glacier Lord.

System speculated that this butterfly chrysalis should be attached to something like the remnant soul of the Glacier Lord, and this remnant soul lost its memory.

Sometimes awake, sometimes asleep, not completely normal when awake, with obvious cognitive impairment to the surroundings, a bit silly.

Although the chrysalis doesn't remember anything, when System mentions words such as Lord of the Glacier, Will of Winter, and Aura, the chrysalis will show a dazed emotion and then express doubts.

And after System confirmed that this butterfly chrysalis might be something like the remnant soul of the Glacier Lord, he was very entangled in how to deal with this chrysalis.

The best way is undoubtedly to put this butterfly chrysalis aside, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

But to be honest, although Aura was the culprit who turned him into a tentacle monster, System has always had a good impression of Aura, the lord of the glacier.

If he or Shava, who joined the Winter Legion, is threatened, Aura will definitely help him solve the problem if he learns about it.

Now that Ola is in trouble and has become like this, and is met by him, he should also help her.

After all, the frost energy attached to the chrysalis is now, if the chrysalis is randomly placed, the place where it is placed will undoubtedly be covered with frost, which is easy to be discovered by the jackals.

Instead, he could bury the chrysalis deeply in the ground, so that nothing strange would appear around the chrysalis.

But in that case, the moment the butterfly breaks out of the chrysalis, it will definitely suffer unexpected disasters. Even if it survives and crawls out of the soil, the wings that cannot be fully extended will make it deformed.

In the end, System directly forwarded this question to Chrysalis herself.

System informed the other party that it was a chrysalis butterfly, and passed the image of the butterfly emerging from the chrysalis to the chrysalis, allowing him to choose what he would do in the future.

Do you want to break out of the chrysalis immediately and commit suicide, or find a place to stay quietly and wait for the chrysalis to come out, or follow him along the way.

Obviously, Chrysalis, whose intelligence is not low, chose to follow System, the "great being".

System also decided to carry this chrysalis until it breaks out of the chrysalis, and after it turns into a butterfly, let it leave and fly wherever it wants.

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Because of the departure of Frost Slime and the doubled food consumption of the ants during their journey, when System led the team of ants out of Lierte Forest, System clearly felt their food Not enough.

After all, with System's current conditions, it is impossible to make suitable tools to carry food.

He tried to use two pieces of smooth bark and some vines to make a simple sled cart more than ten days ago, but he only tried a few times, and the sled cart he spent a whole day to make fell apart up.

Therefore, System can only let the ants use the most primitive method of transportation, and let the ant people directly use their bodies to carry food and move.

The food consumption of the ants obviously exceeded System's expectation, because the food planned by System was enough for them to walk to the destination and there was still one third left.

This is because System took the initiative to share the work of carrying all the pupae. Queen Linda's pupae is nearly [-] centimeters in size, the pupae of two second-pupated soldier ants are [-] cm long, and there are other miscellaneous insects. pupa.

If it wasn't for his body growing to forty centimeters after reaching level 15, and Shava helping him carry the ant queen Linda from time to time, otherwise his body would be hard to bear.

Although the food decreased, the speed of the ants would increase a little, but it would take at least ten days to settle in the green grassland nearly [-] kilometers away.

The food carried by System's ant people can only last for four or five days.

"Is it only possible to dig out the ice and snow and eat some grass seeds or grass roots under the snow?"

Ants are omnivorous insects, and they can survive by eating some grass when they are hungry. Although System has not eaten plants for a long time, it is obviously not a problem for him to eat some plants as a grasshopper. As for his son, Little Meatball , it can even eat the black ash that fell from the volcano.

In fact, after discovering that the food might not be enough three days ago, System refused to give the little meatball any food, and only let it eat some soil or freeze-dried grass leaves under the snow.

Of course, System himself is also like this, eating some freeze-dried grass plants with the little meat ball for three days.

However, if this continues, eating hay will undoubtedly reduce the mobility of System's ants, and it will undoubtedly take double the time to go to the green grassland [-] kilometers away.

(End of this chapter)