Laws of the Insect Hive

The choice of where to build a new nest not only depends on System's subjective assumptions, but more importantly, it depends on the excavators of experienced geologists.

Although the excavator is not even very coherent in the transmission of spiritual information, it has an innate understanding of the site selection and structure of the nest.

Of course, if you ask the excavator why it chose this address, the excavator will never answer, it just thinks it is good, but it can't explain the specific good point.

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The forelimbs of the worker ants touched the soil on the ground, but they didn't see any special movements. The soil began to come alive like System's [Corrosive Slime], and gradually wriggled and formed a diameter of about half a meter and a depth of about ten centimeters. circular pothole.

There were some incompletely rotted plant stems and some other soil impurities left in the pothole. The other ant teams acted quickly under the instructions of System and Black to clean up and transport these impurities.

The excavator has certain limitations on the manipulation of sand, or its intelligence is not ideal for the manipulation of this ability.

It can control the movement of sand and small pieces of gravel, but it cannot move with some dead branches and leaves wrapped in the gel of [Corrosive Slime] like System.

Therefore, when the excavator controls the soil and gravel fragments, a lot of dead branches and leaves and soil impurities will fall down. Other ants need to clean up these things before the excavator can continue to use its ability.

With the ability of an excavator, a circular tunnel with a diameter of half a meter like this can be excavated about three meters in one day.

After all, the body of the excavator needs proper rest and eating to restore this energy. Otherwise, if the excavator is allowed to dig without stopping, it can create a tunnel of more than ten meters in a day.

Because the excavator has the ability to manipulate the sand and gravel, it can force the scattered sand and gravel together with the outer wall of the tunnel.

Not only can the inner wall of the tunnel be made firm and strong, but also the trouble of carrying the excess sand and gravel generated by the tunnel excavation is eliminated.

It only needs to be transported and cleaned up of the soil impurities that other ant people excavators cannot control.

As the big worker ants continuously displayed their abilities, an hour later, a pit nearly half a meter deep appeared in front of System.

Because of the increase in depth, the rotting grass stems and soil impurities below the grassland have been reduced a lot, and the speed of the excavator has been further accelerated. However, System estimates that after digging for about half a meter, the energy of the excavator will be exhausted, and it will take a few hours to rest. to fully recover.

Unlike System, which absorbs the free energy in the air from time to time, the excavator’s way of replenishing energy is simple and direct. It stretches its legs, allowing its body to touch the ground as much as possible, and absorb the power that appears in the ground.

While watching the digging progress of the big worker ants, System stretched out his tentacles and used the ability of [Growing Plants] near the newly built nest to catalyze some vine plants.

In the past few days, System has completely understood the ability of [Growing Plants], a Druid.

In the snow, the effect of [Growing Plants] is not ideal. There are reasons for his lack of power, but it is more related to the climate. Even if you have the ability to [Give Plants], you must meet the growth conditions of the plants.

Appropriate temperature, water, soil, and sunlight that plants need are indispensable. If some of them are lacking, the effect of [growing plants] will be greatly reduced.

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The five vines gradually grew under the power of System [Growing Plant], growing one centimeter every ten seconds, gradually disguising the potholes dug by the excavator.

After these days in the grasslands, System had basically figured out the food chain near the junction of Warren Plain and Liert Forest.

The ones at the absolute top of the food chain are the gnoll and the pig-headed man, but these days, System has only seen a pig-headed man dozens of kilometers away from a distance. What is the specific status of the pig-headed man, he will go further in the future Observed.

The status of the gnoll in this grassland is equivalent to the human in the previous world of System. It can be said that it exists beyond all species in the grassland, and other creatures in the grassland are under the rule of the gnoll.

On the next level of the food chain of gnolls and pig-headed people are the wolves that appear from time to time in the grasslands, the black eagles in the sky, and the wise rat people.

System was in such a hurry to catalyze the formation of vines from plants, so that he was prepared to prevent the black eagles in the sky from falling and attacking.

It wasn't that System was afraid of these eagles, but that these eagles kept circling in the sky, not knowing when they would fall, making System very irritable.

Compared with the eagles, which have no natural enemies in the air, the rat people and the wolves fight each other.

Just like the rat people and the mice they control, the wolves on the grassland are like the pets of the gnolls. When the wolves in the grasslands meet the gnolls, they will roll around in front of the gnolls as if to please them.

It was precisely because of the relationship between the wolves and the gnolls that System put the wolves and the rat people on the same level of the food chain. Otherwise, with the intelligence and strength of the rat people, they could be the upper level of the wolf pack.

Further down the food chain are the one-horned sheep and some snakes on the grasslands, followed by some small rodents such as rabbits and mice, and some poisonous arthropods such as scorpions and centipedes.

In terms of species, the food chain on the steppe is much simpler than that in the Liert forest.

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But these days, after System observed nearly ten Rat Men and killed three of them, System found that the more he knew about the Rat Man, the more intelligent creature he knew, the more he felt that he understood it. less.

Although the rat people are below the gnolls in the food chain, they are not as unresisted as the goblins of the past.

Although the living habits are extremely dirty, the rat people are obviously not low in intelligence, and they can make some simple tools and weapons.

System was even hit in the body by a simple bone bolt made by the Rat Man.

The bone arrows were stained with the feces of some rat people, with some plague-like germs attached.

If System hadn't possessed the ability of [Teleportation], and could sense the emotions of fungi and bacteria, he might have suffered a lot of damage from the Rat Man's arrow crossbow.

Not only that, but after constant inspections in the sky, System discovered that there seemed to be a Ratman settlement more than 100 kilometers south of him.

There are hundreds of rat burrows camouflaged in the grass there, where at least hundreds of rat people and tens of thousands of ordinary mice live together, it seems to form an underground rat-man village, or rat-man city.

Skaven attacks by wolves that stray into it are common.

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System’s nesting location was also influenced by the Rat Man underground city.

Although the wintering nest built in the Lierte Forest was five meters deep, with three forks, and more than a hundred empty rooms, System felt that it was too small.

He decided to follow the example of the Rat Man and build his underground lair a little bigger.

Perhaps in a short period of time, the size of his lair will not be comparable to that of the city.

But as time passed, System felt that he could take his ant people to build an underground city suitable for them to live here and live a comfortable life.