Laws of the Insect Hive

There were only 14 second-pupated ants left in the entire nest, one common soldier ant, plus him, Little Meatball, and Aura.

In addition, the only living creatures in the lair are a dozen of his old friend slimes.

After a year and a half of excavation by the excavator, the entire underground lair has covered an area of ​​nearly 200 meters, with well-developed passages and countless empty rooms everywhere.

According to Blake's description, the ability of the excavator has increased more than ten times in the past year and a half, so the progress of digging through the nest has become so great.

At this time, the huge lair seemed extremely empty at this time.

Because of the ability of [spiritual connection], Queen Linda replaced the role of System's original breeder, feeding some slimes from time to time.

System remembered that although Linda had the ability to [mental connection] in the past, her ability level was very low, and she couldn't communicate with fungi at all except with insects.

It seems that after the emergence of the ant queen Linda's chrysalis, the ability of [spiritual connection] has increased, and she can already control these slime friends like him.

...

System quickly followed Black and several ant knights to Queen Linda's empty room.

After the second pupation, Queen Linda's body shape is similar to before, with a small head and chest and an extremely huge abdomen.

But compared to before the second pupation, the size of the queen ant has increased by nearly ten times. Her head and chest are nearly half a meter, which is about the size of the soldier ant knight Xiaoqiang. Together there are already close to 3 meters.

When System first arrived at Queen Linda's empty room, Queen Linda was playing with his old friend Slime.

Linda lay on the ground bored, controlling the four slimes to keep splitting and combining, and then let these slimes bounce around a small mound.

System could feel some pleasant emotions from Queen Ant Linda. Even after playing with slimes like this for more than a year, Queen Ant Linda still found these slimes very interesting.

But when Queen Ant Linda saw System, these old slime friends were immediately thrown aside by her.

Wang, seeing you. I am happy.

Similar to most ant knights, Queen Linda's spiritual message is still not smooth, it is stronger than before the second pupation, but it is also limited.

It seems that Queen Linda's second pupation did not improve her intelligence much.

Seeing the arrival of System, Queen Ant Linda moved her bloated body and wanted to lean towards System, but her body was too bloated and it was difficult to move.

Seeing this, System leaned towards Queen Ant Linda, and at the same time touched Queen Ant Linda's head with his tentacles.

While stroking Queen Ant Linda's head, System keenly noticed that Queen Ant Linda was expressing a hint of hostility.

The target of this hostile emotion was not System, but Black next to System.

System soon discovered that it was not only Queen Ant Linda who was hostile to Blake, but Black also had a hint of hostility towards Queen Linda.

It was clear that something must have happened between Blake and Linda during this year and a half.

What happened to you and Blake? Is it because of spawning? It's my order to keep you from spawning for a while, and Blake just obeyed my order.

After thinking for a while, System sent a spiritual message to Queen Linda.

However, things were obviously not what System imagined. Queen Linda sent a spiritual message: It's not laying eggs, no, it's Black, she won't let me see you.

The Queen Ant's mental message seemed very aggrieved, and System also understood the reason for the Queen Ant's hostility to Black.

Although the passageway 80 meters deep underground is narrow, it is easy to expand the passageway to the extent that the queen ants can pass through with the ability of the excavator today.

In addition, Xiaoqiang, the soldier ant knight with the talent of [Stronger Physique], transporting the ant queen Linda, who has limited mobility, to visit him, is not difficult in theory.

System looked at Black, who didn't make any excuses, and answered directly and clearly: Only she has the ability to [mental connection] and can sense the emotions in your drowsiness, none of us have, so I I don't want her to see you.

The logic in Black's words surprised System.

If he can use his jealousy as a reason and say it with confidence, it is estimated that only Black is the only one.

Although System had known before that Black had some jealous feelings towards the queen ant, System did not expect that after Black had gained power, she would bully the queen ant Linda like this.

Perhaps relying on Black's wisdom, even without him asking Shava to help, Queen Linda would not be able to dominate the lair again.

System has always been partial to the intelligent Black, except for Shawa, System is usually most concerned about Black.

But this time, when he looked at the aggrieved Queen Ant, System finally sighed helplessly, criticized and educated Black, and corrected Black's three views.

In fact, if Queen Linda is allowed to go to the empty room where he pupates a few times, it may be connected to him when he is awake with [mental connection].

In this way, System would not be ignorant of the outside world during the third pupation process.

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However, System criticized Black for only a short while before he heard something wrong from Black's spiritual message.

After further questioning, System put aside the criticism of Black.

During the year and a half that he had pupated, the Warren Plains seemed to have become a little unusual. Through the images of spiritual messages sent to him by Black, System discovered that there were many strange wild wolves in the Warren Plains. , Skaven, and some weird gnolls.

Is this... a zombie? System sent a puzzled spiritual message.

I don't know, Ola said she was familiar with those guys, but she also forgot what they were. Shava and Meatball caught a few times, their rotten meat is poisonous to us, only Meatball can eat them casually. thing.

When did they start appearing? System demanded.

Black thought for a while and replied, Last winter, after a snowfall, there was a wild wolf like that wandering around here, and was killed by a small meatball.

System did not continue to think, and soon took Shava to the ground to investigate.

...

For a year and a half, the Warren Plain has entered the deep winter season, but the weather is not particularly cold, only about zero degrees.

There is no snow on the ground, and although grasses are obviously not as lush as summer, they have not completely died.

System's tentacles smelled a faint smell of decay, like the long-term decay of a corpse.

And System, who flew into the sky, quickly turned his attention to the east of Warren Plain, in the direction of Lilte Forest.

A thin layer of green mist covered the Liert Forest, making it difficult for System to see the interior of the Liert Forest. Spiky giant vine.

These giant vines are intertwined with each other, like a wall, completely blocking the Lilt Forest from the Warren Plain...