Laws of the Insect Hive

For nearly a month, the wind and waves were almost calm, but the weather became more and more hot, and the Warren Plain has completely entered summer from late spring.

For insects, the hot summer months are not unbearable, but they also need to be treated with caution.

Grasslands without trees will face the scorching sun, and ordinary small insects will lose their lives if exposed to the sun.

System was also considering whether to adjust the foraging habits of the ant people from day to night.

A few days ago, Black managed to emerge from a second pupation.

Like Shava and the members of the Knights of Ants, Black has transformed into a centaur rider, but she still has the old black spot on her head.

Compared to the weapons formed by the ends of the forelimbs of other knights, Black's forelimbs formed fingers that could move freely and grasp things like humans.

It's just that Black's fingers have six, unlike humans' five fingers, and they appear to be similar in length.

Apart from staring at Black's fingers and his own tentacles occasionally, System did not envy Black's newly formed fingers at all.

Blake, who entered the second pupation, also heard the voice of the world, and because of her high intelligence, she also understood some information given by the voice of the world.

She also knew that the condition to achieve magical life is to break the level lock, and there is an extraordinary level of life above the magic.

Black also felt something that System didn't know, the law of the power that the voice of the world gave him.

It's a pity that Blake only felt a little bit about the law of the power of the world's voice, and she couldn't explain how to describe it.

And the ability given by the voice of the world, Black, like most ants, just acquired the ability, but he didn't know what the ability was, and it was more difficult to use.

Although the power of the second pupation cannot be used, but through the power of the deformed butterfly Aura, Black has changed his previous congenitally inadequate body and turned into an average body shape with that of the ordinary worker ant knights.

And I have mastered some ice-type power, and I can roll one or two ice balls or something.

Blake, who just emerged from the chrysalis, is still smaller. It is estimated that after a period of time, it will become similar to the shape of the ordinary worker ant knights, and it will grow to more than 20 centimeters.

According to Blake's feelings, her lifespan is about 10 years, which is similar to that of ordinary members of the Knights of Ants.

System had to sigh again, the lifespan of a grasshopper is too short. Even if he has the title of Xenogeneic Insect, his lifespan is only over 5 years.

And the soldier ant Shava, which is longer-lived than the worker ants, has a lifespan of more than 20 years.

As for Queen Linda, even without the second pupation, her lifespan would be fifteen years. After the second pupation, how could she have a life span of one hundred and eighty years.

However, Linda had a long lifespan, and her second pupation was also very slow. System estimated that it would take at least three or four months before she emerged from the pupae.

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Black's return has greatly eased System's usual work, and System has more time to do his own business.

After encountering a tawny slime again a few days ago, System began to raise two slime friends he found in the nest these days.

Because of the existence of the excavator that can control the soil, the two slime friends were easily trapped in the ground by the System, and the excavator controlled the soil only to leave a space for the slime to feed food, so that Shi Rhyme couldn't escape.

As some food such as nearby mice became less and less, in order to obtain a stable food source, System asked his ant people to imitate the leaf-cutter ants of the previous life, cutting and carrying some leaves of plants as feed.

But unlike leaf-cutter ants, which grow fungi from the leaves of plants, System uses plants only to grow slimes.

After a few days, the cultivation of slimes went smoothly.

However, his fifty-odd ant people had very little basic function, and carrying weeds for a whole day was not as long as System's tentacles for two or three hours.

But keeping slimes in this way also reduces a lot of trouble for System, preventing slimes from randomly jumping around.

Because of the hot weather, slimes like to jump and dive into some abandoned rat man caves. Every time System loses a slime, it takes a long time to find it.

...

After watching the slime eat for a while, System took Black to the dungeon in the corner of the underground lair.

In one month, the excavator has dug the underground nest more than ten meters deep, and has more than forty square rooms, the entire nest has begun to take shape.

Because of the continuous use ability and the enhancement of System, the excavator's ability has become much stronger. Its excavation speed is more than doubled than before, and the entire underground lair has been constructed by the excavator.

In addition, the excavator also led out the water source nearly 20 meters underground, which solved the inconvenience of the ant people going out to fetch water.

And this dungeon was where System imprisoned a rat man.

Seven days ago, System had caught a male rat man as he wished, but unfortunately the male rat man was still illiterate.

System also finally castrated the Rat Man he had been thinking about for a long time.

However, when the initial excitement of castration was over, all System felt was emptiness. After all, castrating this rat man would not solve his fundamental problem at all.

In order to prevent the Rat Man from being killed by his plague again, every time System uses the ability of [Teleportation] before interrogating the Rat Man, he carefully feels the germ emotion of his body, and whether there is anything suspicious on his body surface. Germs are present.

If suspicious germs exist, System will go to the river to wash his body, bask in the sun, and wait for a while before interrogating the Rat Man.

After several days of interrogation, although System and Black were unable to speak, the Rat Man himself was much smarter than System imagined.

After the Rat Man had spent the first two days of panic, he became very cooperative. System used his tentacles to make gestures and gestures, as well as using some items, so he had mastered some Rat Man language.

If System's understanding was correct, the lair he was in still allowed the Rat Man to discover some anomalies.

Rat people are timid and cautious by nature, and they have a special bond with ordinary rats, allowing them to communicate in simple terms.

Near System's lair, within a kilometer range, the large reduction in rats naturally attracted the attention of the Rat People.

And the Rat Man captured by System was the Rat Man warrior who came here to investigate from the Rat Man gathering place 100 kilometers away.

Because his grasp of the Rat Man language is very limited, System is interrogating the Rat Man gathering place these days for possible reactions.

I don't know how the rat-man gathering place will react. If he sends out a rat-man wizard like that self-destructing rat man, it is definitely not what System wants.

However, there was no progress in inquiring about the status of the Rat Man gathering place, but System asked about something else—the rainy season.

Every summer, there will be continuous heavy rainstorms in the eastern part of the Warren Plain and the western part of the Liert Forest, and many depressions will be flooded with rainwater.