Laws of the Insect Hive

Once System has made up his mind, he will immediately execute it without hesitation, without dragging its feet.

Back in the lair, System immediately studied with the excavator how to dig tunnels down in the water.

At the same time, System also called in Black and Shava to plan the development of his pupated nest.

Because he was completely unable to move after turning into a chrysalis, System had only one tone for the nest, and that was low-key.

When encountering an unknown existence, try not to provoke unless the other party has obvious attack intentions.

System decided to let the ant people reduce or stop the excessive hunting of mice, try to maintain the surrounding food chain as normal, and at the same time refrain from expanding the size of the ant people after the ant queen Linda broke out of the chrysalis.

Aura, Lord of Glaciers, has turned into a butterfly, but winter will still appear in the Lilt Forest and Warren Plains.

This winter will not be as cold as before, but it will also float above and below zero, with occasional snow and ice.

Recklessly expand the scale of the ant population, until the autumn and winter seasons when food is scarce, the ants will inevitably fall into an inevitable crisis.

Shava and Blake, who received System's spiritual message, nodded from time to time.

However, the two ants were obviously different. The intelligent Blake had basically understood the meaning of System's words, while Shava just kept nodding like Blake.

System decided to leave the matter after his pupation to Black's sole discretion, but Black's position in the nest is not very high. After the ant queen Linda emerges from the pupae, there may be some disagreements, so West. Sturm called Shava and asked Shava to follow Black's instructions.

Only in this way can Queen Linda follow his orders completely.

Apart from the ant queen Linda, the only unstable factors in the nest are the butterfly Ola and his son, Little Meatball.

After these days, the little meatball has returned to the size of a basketball, and his strength has basically returned to the level that System first encountered. If he goes mad, there will be unimaginable consequences.

However, Little Meatball is not very intelligent and simple-minded. Besides System, he is also very kind to Blake and listens to Blake’s words very much.

As long as you don't leave the small meat balls alone to make them feel lonely, and take them outside to let the wind out from time to time, there is basically no problem.

As for Ola, the awkward butterfly, it was a bit tricky, after all, he possessed the frost power that System was also very afraid of.

But Ola has his own principles, although he always does things that he finds contradictory.

He couldn't be called evil, and he couldn't be called good, but there was one point that Ola was similar to System, he wouldn't hurt friendly troops.

He may act unreasonably, but he never abused his frost ability to freeze ordinary ants.

And after activating the ability of [Severed Limb Regeneration] in Aura's body, System found that Aura's attitude towards him had changed inexplicably in the past few days.

On the surface, Ola still treats him the same as before, but Ola sometimes unconsciously expresses affection towards him, just like Shava, which makes System feel very uncomfortable.

Shava, who likes to play bundling games, has already made System feel helpless, and now it seems that this butterfly also likes it very much.

Dragon nature is lewd, this sentence is really good.

System also didn’t know how to deal with the emotions of the female butterfly with the remnant soul of the male dragon.

In the end, System decided not to say anything and pretended to be ignorant. With Ola's character, he was probably very similar to Sharapova, and he would play tentacle games with him if he had something to do.

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After negotiating some matters with Black and Shava after he had pupated, System was still not completely at ease with Aura, and decided to talk to Aura in person.

The conversation with Ola went very smoothly. Ola’s personality was still not good, and he didn’t promise anything clearly, but surprisingly he didn’t ridicule System, and there was a very weak feeling of worry.

System knew that although Ola hadn’t agreed to anything on the surface, when it really came to a crisis in the nest, Ola would definitely not stand idly by.

At this point, System could think that the issue of the lair had been largely resolved.

There was only one thing that made System feel helpless, and that was the lifespan of the ants themselves.

Perhaps after his pupation, most of those ants that did not enter the second pupation would die because of their longevity.

System finally decided to let nature take its course. Even if he went to help these ants with low aptitude, it would be difficult for them to pupate a second time...

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After continuous excavation research with the big worker ant excavator, the excavator finally used the extruded solid and fine yellow-brown soil to make a waterproof channel, and the channel avoided most of the groundwater areas.

In ten days, the excavator has opened the area with a depth of more than ten meters to twenty meters and more water, reaching a depth of 30 meters, and the excavator's digging speed has begun to further increase.

And after these ten days, half of the water on the grass in Warren Plain has faded.

The vicinity of System's lair has basically dried up, and only the low-lying areas still have some stagnant water, forming many temporary lakes of varying sizes on the grassland.

As for the rat and the druid, there is still no action.

The grassland after the rain has fewer ordinary mice, but there are many more frogs and tadpoles, far more than the frogs that appeared in the Lierte Forest during the rainstorm. One or two will appear on the wet grass almost a few meters apart. Active brown toad.

Perhaps because of the lack of snakes in the Warren Plains, these rotting plant-eating frogs reproduce at a terrifying rate after the rain.

System found that many brown toads with larger heads would burrow into the depths of the mud after mating, and would never burrow out of the mud again, so they must have entered a dormant period.

System did not know the name of this toad, but System could guess the habits of this toad after a little thought.

Due to the unique climate of the Warren Plain, the growth of tadpoles into toads must be completed within a month of the rainy season, and the remaining dry climate toads are basically unable to survive.

Therefore, after mating, the toads do not lay eggs immediately, but wrap their bodies with silt to reduce water loss, and then enter a year of dormancy, waiting for the next rainy season to lay eggs.

The toad's unique way of survival made System amazed.

And these toads hid in the silt and dormant have also acquired a new food source for System's ant people.

Toads dormant in the mud often like to gather together and go to the same mud pit together. Basically, every mud pit will have dozens of large toads sleeping collectively.

These dormant toads are like food with a shelf life of one year. System only needs to record the location of a few silt pits and inform Black that even if food is scarce in winter, his ant people will not hunt for rats. will have enough food.

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Another ten days have passed, and the stagnant water in the Warren Plain has basically subsided, and the Rat Man and Druid still have no special movements.

The excavator at this time had already dug 80 meters deep underground. System decided not to wait any longer. After arranging everything again, System began to pupate for the third time towards a magical life.