Laws of the Insect Hive

With a mysterious green halo, the whining bird in the hands of the old Druid gradually quieted down.

The old Druid spoke an unknown language and gently stroked the injured bird with his hands.

Before long, with a chirping of joy, the big bird spread its reddish-brown wings, and it took off and circled over the old Druid's head.

The old Druid once again showed his natural aura, making System feel like he was immersed in the natural matrix.

System hesitated whether to jump in front of the old Druid, show him his wisdom, and ask Fang ******* to prolong his life.

Deep in his heart, he felt that something was wrong with the old Druid, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong for a while.

While System was hesitating, the pheasant circling in the sky flew away, and the old Druid took a seemingly slow and fast pace, disappearing into the forest in three steps...

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Why didn't I go just now?

It was not until the old Druid gradually moved away that System came back to his senses.

Thinking that he only had two months of life left, System regretted not being able to rush to the old Druid just now.

From the first time he met the old Druid picking up the creatures in the water, to the look on his face of rescuing the big bird just now, System felt that the old Druid's kindness didn't seem like a fake, and it was worth his gamble.

Maybe you can get a way to prolong your life from the old druid.

But it was too late to go again. System jumped to the direction where the old Druid had gone, only to find that the old Druid had disappeared.

System could only jump back helplessly, came near the blood stain left by the pheasant just now, and decided to eat the blood left by the pheasant.

Near the blood of the pheasant, there were two ants that fell to the ground and twitched. It should be that when these ants attacked the pheasant, they were accidentally run over by the struggling pheasant, and they had become seriously injured.

System didn't plan to eat these ants either. He kicked the two unfortunate ants into the air. System observed the situation around him and saw that other ants were eating another blood stain, so he sucked himself. blood in front of you.

The blood of birds tasted very good, similar to a fragrant milkshake, mixed with some taste similar to a certain tea in the previous life, even if he stopped sucking blood, this taste would remain in his mouth, which made System unforgettable.

It doesn't taste as good as scorpion, but it tastes much better than other foods, and the experience provided is about 1.3 times that of the same weight of worm pupae.

It seems that the flesh and blood of birds is also a food that conforms to System's delicious experience principle.

Birds, tadpoles, scorpions, insects, plants, System had eaten many kinds of food now, and he really couldn't figure out the reason for the abnormal experience of the lizard corpse before.

Without thinking too much, he continued to eat a few mouthfuls of blood. Because it could not have any effect on [Degeneration and Growth], System resolutely gave up this kind of food.

He hopped away, continuing to search for food the ants could snatch him...

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Three days passed.

System has been upgraded to level 9 as planned, his body size has grown from 6.5 cm to 8 cm, and his physical fitness has been further improved.

Although the talent [Metamorphosis Growth] from the bloodline has not been upgraded to level 13, System feels that it is only a step away. As long as the level is raised to level 10, his [Metamorphosis Growth] will definitely grow to the limit, and then Get specific information on the third molting.

After rising to level 9 this time, System's [Insect Adaptation] (11/21) has been upgraded to [Insect Adaptation] (12/21).

System once again felt the mysterious image sent to him by the [Insect Adaptability] in his blood.

Countless grasshoppers are flying again and again in the vast world.

At the same time, because of this upgrade, System’s derivative ability [Severed Limb Regeneration] (5/11) has been raised to [Severed Limb Regeneration] (6/11); [Dark Vision] (3/5) has been raised to [Dark Vision] ] (4/5).

The most notable change is that his [Corrosive Slime] (7/13) has been increased by 2 levels, becoming [Corrosive Slime] (9/13).

The glands in System's mouth became larger, the venom corrosive ability became stronger, and the total amount of liquid that could be secreted nearly doubled.

Not only that, the glands in System's mouth had undergone special changes. Through the newly generated muscles near the glands, System could squeeze the venom from the glands.

Similar to the venom-spraying king cobra, or the black dragon spewing corrosive venom in the fantasy world.

It's just that the distance of the liquid sprayed by System is very short, and currently it can only spray a distance of a few centimeters.

But no matter what, this is System's only long-range attack method. Although he can also use his feet to grab some small stones for long-distance throwing, it is difficult to exert force, and even the little ants are injured. Can't do it.

Apart from the upgrade changes, in the past three days, System became more and more familiar with these black and brown ants, and his movements of snatching ants became more and more proficient.

During these three days, he even used a trick to attract a single soldier ant into the muddy water, and then repeatedly kicked the soldier ant back into the water, and finally killed the exhausted soldier ant unscathed.

Different from ordinary worker ants, the black-brown soldier ants have a very thick exoskeleton, and have a more violent personality. They also have a well-organized battle. They will attack the key points of the prey's body, and there is a stinger in the tail that can shoot acid.

Soldier ants are dangerous, but in some ways, they're even more foolish than worker ants.

Soldier ants have significantly better eyesight than worker ants, but they still rush to formic acid-coated straw sticks, even into muddy water.

It was also the stupidity of the soldier ants that System took advantage of, and successfully used the stagnant water to kill a soldier ant.

The smell of soldier ants' carcasses is stronger than that of ordinary worker ants, but the risk of hunting is too great, and the efficiency is far less than that of System robbing the food of ordinary worker ants, so System has only tried sexual killing for the past three days. After losing a soldier ant, he chose to give up.

During the three days, System was fortunate enough to meet two distant relatives of his own grasshopper.

Unlike the larvae, when it becomes an adult, it suddenly feels friendly to its own kind.

But with just a little contact, the two grasshoppers flew far away.

In addition to grasshoppers, System found that there were many mosquito-like insects in the forest, which should be insects that breed in water as larvae.

Although this kind of bug can fly, it is not at the same level as a nimble fly, and System can easily catch it while jumping.

And with the emergence of mosquitoes, System once again encountered several creatures that could put him in danger. It was the toad that System had escaped by using stillness.

A few toads may be due to lack of food. In addition to eating mosquitoes, they have been coming to the ant nest to hunt ants in the past few days.

Most of the toad hunts were successful, and the smaller ants were helpless.

However, a ten-centimeter-sized toad came to the mound of the ant's nest to seek death.

After being accidentally crippled by a soldier ant's stinger, the toad was attacked by four or five soldier ants. As a result, it could be expected that it was directly submerged by the flood of thousands of ants pouring out of the ant's nest.

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At noon, System, who had been hunting for a whole night and half a day, decided to return to the nest to rest.

In the past few days, he did not meet the old Druid again.

At this moment, System felt an irregular tremor in his body’s heart and blood, and he felt an inexplicable sensation from his body.

It’s just that System couldn’t realize what this emotion was in his heart for a while.

At this moment, with a special roar, a huge locust flew over him.

The huge locust was more than twenty centimeters long, and its body was brownish-yellow. It turned around in the air and flew straight towards System...