Law of the Swarm

Chapter 124 Pupation

Once System has made up his mind, he will execute it immediately without hesitation, and will not procrastinate.

After returning to the lair, System immediately studied with the excavator how to dig a tunnel in the water.

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

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

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

System decided to let the ant people reduce or stop overkilling the rats, try to keep the surrounding food chain as normal as possible, and at the same time not expand the size of the ant people temporarily after the ant queen Linda broke out of the pupa.

Ola, the lord of the glacier, has turned into a butterfly, but winter still occurs in Lierte Forest and Warren Plain.

This winter will not be as severe as before, but it will also fluctuate above and below zero, and occasionally snow and ice will fall.

If we recklessly expand the size of the ant colony, when food is scarce in autumn and winter, the ants will surely fall into an inevitable crisis.

Shava and Black, who were receiving System's spiritual messages, nodded from time to time.

However, the two ants had obvious differences. The smart Black had generally understood the meaning of System's words, while Shava just followed Black's example and kept nodding.

System decided to hand over the matter after his pupation to Black, but Black's status in the nest is really not very high. After the ant queen Linda breaks out of the pupa, some differences are likely to arise, so West Sturm called Shava and asked Shava to follow Black's instructions completely.

Only in this way can the ant queen Linda obey his instructions completely.

Except for the queen ant Linda, the only unstable factors in the nest are the butterfly Ola and his son Xiaorouqiu.

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

However, Little Rouqiu is not very intelligent, and has a simple mind. Besides System, he is also very kind to Black and listens to Black very much.

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

As for Aura, a butterfly with an awkward personality, it was a bit tricky. After all, he possessed the frost power that System was also very afraid of.

But although Ola always does some things that he himself feels contradictory, Ola has his own principles.

It cannot be said that he is evil, nor can he be said that he is kind, but Aura is similar to System in one respect, he will not harm friendly troops.

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

And after activating the ability of [Severed Limb Regeneration] in Ola, System discovered that Ola'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 will sometimes unconsciously show affection towards him, just like Shava, which makes System feel very uncomfortable.

It already made System feel helpless to have Sawa who likes to play bondage games, and now it seems that this butterfly also likes it very much.

The dragon's nature is extremely obscene, this sentence is really good.

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

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

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After negotiating with Black and Shava about some matters after his pupation, System still couldn't feel completely at ease with Ola, and decided to have a personal talk with Ola.

The conversation with Ola went extremely smoothly. Ola's character was still bad, and she didn't promise anything clearly, but she surprisingly didn't sneer at System, and there was an extremely faint worry.

System knew that although Aura did not agree to anything on the surface, when the real crisis came to the lair, Aura would definitely not stand idly by.

At this point, System can think of the matter of the lair has been roughly resolved.

There was only one thing that System could do nothing about, and that was the lifespan of the ants themselves.

Perhaps after his pupation is over, most of the ants that did not enter the second pupation will die due to lifespan.

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

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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 groundwater areas.

In ten days, the excavator has opened up areas with a depth of more than 30 meters to more than [-] meters and reached a depth of [-] meters. The excavation speed of the excavator has also begun to further increase.

After ten days, half of the accumulated water on the grass on the Warren Plain has faded.

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

As for the Ratmen and Druids, they still didn't make any moves.

After the rain, there were fewer common mice in the grassland, but there were a lot more frogs and tadpoles, far more than the frogs that appeared during the rainstorm in the Lierte Forest. One or two appeared almost every few meters on the wet grassland. Active brown toad.

Perhaps due to the lack of snakes in the Warren Plains, these frogs that can eat rotting plants reproduce at a terrifying rate after the rain.

System found that many brown toads with larger heads would burrow deep into the mud after mating, and would never come out of the mud again, probably entering a dormant period.

System didn't know the name of this toad, but System could guess this toad's habit 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, toads will not lay eggs immediately, but wrap their bodies in mud to reduce water loss, and then enter dormancy that lasts for a year, waiting for the next rainy season to come before laying eggs.

System was amazed at the toad's unique way of living.

And these dormant toads hiding in the mud also provided System's ant people with a new source of food.

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

These dormant toads are like food with a shelf life of one year. System only needs to record the location of a few mud pits and tell Black that even if food is scarce in winter, his ant colony can still do it without catching mice. There will be plenty of food.

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Another ten days passed, and the stagnant water in the Warren Plain had basically receded, and the Ratmen and Druids still did not make any special moves.

At this time, the excavator had already dug 80 meters underground. System decided not to wait any longer. After arranging everything again, System began his third chrysalis towards a magical life.

(End of this chapter)