Law of the Swarm

Chapter 135 Ghosts

After continuing to use this [numerical template] ability on the ant eggs of the ant people, System discovered that the consumption of this template was higher than that of plant seeds.

The consumption of endowing ordinary [data templates] is not too much, not much different from the seeds of plants, and it will only consume about 3% of the experience.

However, if the template of an ant egg growing into an ant larva is copied and given to another ant, the consumption of System's experience points will increase several times to dozens of times.

[Data Template] The higher the level of the copied ant becomes, the more experience it consumes.

Although the proportion of these experiences will gradually decrease after System's level is increased, but for now, unless there are many zombies to send experience, it will take at least a few days for System to accumulate these experiences.

Except for extremely talented ants, it is basically impossible for System to use this ability.

Moreover, if one ant's growth template is forcibly applied to another ant, it may not be completely applicable, and there may be thankless results.

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However, although the special ability of [Data Template] consumes too much, the [Tool Menu] attached to the ordinary [Data Template] is still very useful for intelligent ants.

System was not stingy either, and began to bestow this ability on Shava, Blake, and a dozen second-pupated ants.

The [Tool Menu] possessed by the Ant People is much simpler than System's [Tool Menu].

There is no ability to store images, watch videos, or view self-information. There are only some small functions compiled by System with [Data Compilation], such as time, direction, length measurement, thermometer, calculator, and System is pupating. Some small games compiled because of boredom.

System originally thought that these small games would make his ant people feel curious and try to play them.

But in fact, except for the clever Blake, other ants basically don't try to play these games. Their intelligence is still very limited, and it is difficult to understand even the time clock, let alone these complicated small games.

As for the other Shava who is smart enough to play and understand these games, the reason why she doesn't play these games is that Shava found a treasure of hers from the [Tools Menu] - a calculator.

Ever since she figured out the principle of the calculator, Shava often pestered System, asking her to ask her questions about addition and subtraction other than 6, which made System extremely annoying.

For this reason, System decisively increased the difficulty of the question, turning the direct addition and subtraction problem into a relatively complicated mathematical application problem, and then asked Shava.

For example, there are 31 grass seeds, 5 are eaten today, 8 are found tomorrow, 15 are eaten, 3 are lost, and how many are left.

As long as a few steps are added to the problem, Savoy can't calculate the result even with a calculator.

As for this question about grass seeds, Shava thought hard for an hour, and finally answered to System: "If it takes another day, I will eat up all these grass seeds!"

At this point, Shava no longer showed off her rapidly advancing mathematics level to System, but began to pester Black or Ola Butterfly to show off her calculation ability.

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The winter in the Warren Plain was very calm, and it was still the same as before. Occasionally, one or two wandering zombies would come near System's lair and actively contribute experience to System.

After seven days, the first batch of eggs produced by the queen Linda finally hatched one after another, and they began to scramble to eat the jelly of the slime controlled by the queen Linda.

After a simple inspection, System estimated that in four or five days, these ant larvae would turn into pupae and then become adults.

And in these few days, System finally met and captured a living gray mouse, nearly [-] centimeters in size.

It also captured what Shava called a black bird, a carrion crow.

Through intimate contact with live mice and zombie mice, System finally understood why Warren Plain had undergone such earth-shaking changes in this year, and why there were so many undead creatures.

Different from the indifference of zombie mice to insects, when the zombie mice are close to the distance of ten meters from the live mice, the zombie mice will rush towards the live mice like crazy and bite.

And when a zombie mouse bites a live mouse, the live mouse will be infected with plague bacteria and a special energy that emits a rotten smell.

After more than ten hours, the living mouse gradually died of purple-black pus and blood from its body due to the plague bacteria. After a day or so, the dead mouse transformed into a zombie mouse and struggled to get up from the ground .

The deadly effect of the plague bacteria and the death toxin attached to the zombies are perfectly combined, making up for each other's shortcomings. It is precisely this way that the plague bacteria and undead creatures can spread to such an extent in the Warren Plain.

As for the other crow caught by System, it was another creature in the Warren Plain that was not affected by the plague and the breath of death except for bugs and reptiles.

Although this crow will also be attacked by zombie mice, its body is completely immune to the effects of plague germs, and the zombie flesh and blood containing the breath of death will not affect it, but will become its food.

If System hadn't caught the crow, the crow would have been eating carrion around here for a long time.

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After observing the time on the [Tools Menu] for a while, System fiddled with the crow held on the tentacles for a while, and tied the crow with straw rope again, deciding to eat the crow as a midnight snack after a while Lose.

"It's about this time."

At around 11:15, in the past three days, every time around this time, there will be a strange and eerie cry in the nest.

In fact, it can't be called a cry, it's more like a kind of spiritual ability similar to his [Spiritual Connection], and there are some disturbing, gloomy and desperate mental fluctuations.

This strange mental fluctuation made System's ant knights a little confused and angry, while the newborn ant larvae produced by the ant queen Linda appeared anxious and restless.

According to the eyewitness image transmitted by a worker ant knight using [spiritual connection], the thing that emits this kind of mental fluctuation should use a white spirit body similar to a ghost.

According to Black's words, this white spirit body had appeared half a year ago, and it appeared for more than ten days. Later, because it appeared in Aura's room, it was dispelled by Aola.

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Although it was the first time he had encountered such a ghost, System did not feel any fear, but instead felt very irritated.

This kind of noise-making ghost was like a buzzing fly, and what System thought of was to catch the strangely screaming fly, and if he couldn't catch it, he would find a way to kill it.

This white spirit body seems to be hidden in his nest. For the past three days, every time this time comes, it will appear near his secondary pupated ants. After arousing the anger of the ants, it will shuttle through the dirt wall , and then hide.

System thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out why this kind of ghost sneaked into the nest to find trouble for the ants.

But just after communicating with Black today, and recalling the regularity of the appearance of the ghost half a year ago.

System discovered that it was nothing else that attracted this ghost, but the wisdom born from these ants that pupated twice.

(End of this chapter)