Laws of the Insect Hive

With a gray light and the same vertigo that came to the Temple of Shadows.

System returned to his lair with thirteen jars of dragon bone marrow, some magic props, and hundreds of magic candles. After possessing these magic candles, System would not have to laboriously cultivate fluorescent mushrooms, and could use these magic lamps to complete the lighting of the underground lair.

Unlike System, a pragmatist, Ola the Butterfly and Shava brought back two chests of gold coins and gems respectively.

Rather than storing the treasures in the temple, the two bugs obviously wanted to move the treasures back to their lair.

Even Ola does.

Although she obtained the ownership of the half-planet shadow temple from the evil god Rafal, Aura had no sense of belonging there, so she brought back the treasures of the shadow temple and planned to use these gold coins to decorate her empty room.

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But not long after System returned, System's tentacles smelled blood.

There was the smell of the blood of ants, and there was a smell of blood similar to sulphur, which made System feel uneasy after a long time.

Could it be an abyss creature?

System murmured softly, since before he pupated for the third time, after the gnoll failed to invade Lilte Forest, the abyss demon that fought with the gnoll disappeared as if it had lost a trace.

According to the information told him by the shadow office, the gnoll should have taken refuge in the abyss lord Organ, that is, the dragon brother who made Ora the culprit of the butterfly.

So when System pupated for the third time and found that the entire Warren was occupied by undead creatures, something was always wrong in System's heart.

The source of this injustice is the abyss.

System had always thought that it might be the purgatory dragon Organ who abandoned the gnoll and the Warren Plain.

But it may not be that simple.

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System quickly moved in the direction of the smell with Shava, and in the tunnel of the cave, System quickly encountered an injured worker ant knight.

The carapace on the worker ant knight's chest shattered, but fortunately, only some blood flowed out, and there was not much danger. System placed the worker ant knight and continued to follow the breath of the abyss creature.

System's tentacles gradually heard the crashing sound near the entrance of the cave, and also smelled a stronger abyss breath. It should be his ant people who were fighting abyss creatures.

Just as System and Black were about to arrive near the entrance of the cave, the sound became much quieter, and the battle seemed to be over.

When System arrived, he saw the meat ball transformed into a huge mouth full of ring-shaped serrated teeth, biting off the head of a one-meter-long giant centipede.

After discovering System's return, his son Meatball immediately spit out the centipede head in his mouth, and at the same time approached System affectionately.

Meatball can be said to be System's strongest combat power other than Shava, and he used [Exploration Analysis] on Meatball again.

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Species: Amoeba (can be renamed)

Grade: 42/130

Diameter: 0.53 meters

Weight: 41kg

Estimated combat power: 180—260

Special: [Pupation] (20/22), [Insect Adaptability] (30/30)

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It can be said that if the meat ball continues to grow like this and enters the fourth pupation, it should not be a problem.

After rubbing the flesh ball's body with his tentacles, System looked at the dead centipede corpse.

Because the body of the severed centipede was still shaking slightly, there was a lot of dark red blood flowing on the ground, and it exuded a more intense abyss atmosphere.

It didn't take long for Blake to appear.

After expressing his joy and doubts about System's return, Black quickly told what happened in his half-month lair where he disappeared.

In fact, this one-meter-long giant centipede is not the first to appear. In the past half month, three giant centipedes have appeared one after another, and this centipede is still the smallest and the most ordinary one.

Moreover, the three large centipedes that appeared were all actively invading System's nest, rather than encountering System's ant people outside the nest.

After getting the news from Black, System immediately realized the seriousness of the situation.

Under the leadership of Black, System quickly saw the corpses of the previous large centipedes, and saw the original strange centipede with hairy arms.

This strange creature made System feel as if he had encountered the white spider, the predecessor of Little Meatball.

But after tasting the flesh and blood of this creature, System noticed something different.

These abyss creatures also have the bloodline of insects, but unlike the meatballs in the past, although the bloodlines of the meatballs were mixed with the blood of demons, the main body of the bloodballs was still insects.

And these centipede-like creatures are mainly based on the blood of the devil, supplemented by the blood of insects and some arthropods.

In fact, it is a different kind of demon.

Reminiscent of the insect swarm Druid that Shadow once mentioned for System, and the insect swarm Druid is a member of Organ's command.

If System's inference is correct, these centipede demons were researched by the swarm druids.

After inspecting several injured Ant Knights, using [Healing Power] for proper treatment, and visiting Ant Queen Linda.

System took Shava out to investigate.

Although his [intuition] did not give him any warning that these giant centipedes were not a big threat to him, System decided to investigate these abyssal creatures immediately.

System wanted to further determine the reason why these abyss creatures appeared, and why they invaded his lair to avoid any trouble, but he did not take precautions in advance.

After all, although his [intuition] is useful, most threats will only give him a warning when it comes to the end.

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After half a month, the climate of Warren Plain has not changed much, and the temperature is still around zero.

In the past two days, there may have been a light snow on the Warren Plain, and a layer of light white snowflakes appeared on the ground. It may be that the snowflakes have not completely melted because of the cold weather.

And it was this thin layer of snow that made it easier for System to observe the situation on the ground.

System soon saw a gnoll zombie corpse two kilometers away from him, and a large centipede that was eating the flesh and blood of the zombie.

This centipede is about 1.2 meters in height. In addition to the centipede-like shape, some strange white spikes grow on the brown carapace on the back of the centipede, and the shape is very similar to the fangs of a jackal.

System found that as the centipede quickly devoured the flesh and blood of zombies, its body grew at an extremely fast rate. Basically, every two or three minutes, the centipede would grow about one centimeter in size.

After observing this centipede in the sky for more than ten minutes, System moved with Shava and decided to investigate this large centipede from the abyss at close range.

The big centipede's alertness seemed to be very high. When System moved to a distance of about thirty meters from it, the centipede suddenly gave up eating the flesh and blood of zombies, and rushed towards System. come over.

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Species: Centipede Demon (can be renamed)

Length: 1.07 meters

Weight: 15-25 kg

Estimated combat power: 5-20

special:-

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System had to ask Shava to implement the previously agreed plan in advance, give up observing the centipede up close, and let Shava cut off all the legs of the big centipede, making it incapacitated.

And while Shava was fighting the centipede, System found that he seemed to be able to feel the emotions emanating from this abyss creature...