Law of the Swarm

Chapter 173

Using the tentacles to pick up two small ant eggs, and then picked out one, System got another female ant egg.

What System was playing with was not the ant eggs of Queen Linda, but the ant eggs laid by the queens he caught in the Warren Plain.

System's research on flying ants has always been in his heart.

For the reason of migrating to the abyss, System also sent the captured four ant queens of different species to the demiplane, and handed them over to Black to take care of them and feed them.

It wasn't until recently that his ant people returned from the demiplane that the four ant queens were able to come to the abyss for him to continue his research.

It's a pity that the environment of the abyss is somewhat different from that of the main world. After the arrival of the four ant queens, three of them died within two days due to unacceptable water and soil conditions. Even the druid's [Healing Power] could not save the lives of these ants .

As a result, out of four queens, only one survived.

Similarly, some of System's ant people who did not enter the second pupation also showed symptoms of acclimatization, became listless, and finally died.

However, after the second pupation of the queen Linda, the ant eggs produced generally had a good physique, and only a dozen of the more than 400 adult ants died. After that, the ants all returned to normal.

As for the remaining more than 500 ants that have completed the second pupation, they were not affected by the change in the environment.

In other words, the humid and warm climate at the level of the abyss made the ants feel very comfortable. The ants quickly adapted to the environment here, and then began to get busy.

Some worker ants help excavators clean up the underground floating island, while others go out to hunt and store food.

System did not let the ants attack those large prey immediately, but only hunted and killed the very common mosquitoes, tadpoles in the swamp, and those pupating larvae in the territory of the meat ball.

Although the mosquitoes in the abyss are very aggressive, ants are born with strong carapaces. These mosquitoes attacking ants are undoubtedly sending themselves to the dining table.

The only thing that can threaten the ants are those mosquitoes and beasts that are more than ten centimeters to thirty centimeters, but once such mosquitoes and beasts appear, the soldier ant knights who are nearly half a meter high will rush forward.

If there are no soldier ant knights nearby, these worker ant knights with a size of more than ten centimeters will cooperate with each other to fight mosquitoes and insects.

The Mosquito Beast has only a slightly hard needle, and it has basically no fighting ability under the siege of a few worker ant knights.

Just like ordinary mosquitoes are invincible to ants, mosquitoes and beasts are no threat to ants, even though these mosquitoes and beasts are larger than worker ant knights.

……

Through these days of observation and statistics, System found that among the more than 500 large ants and ant knights that had pupated twice, about [-] of them had mastered special abilities.

In fact, when he was in Warren Plain, System discovered that more than a dozen second-pupated ant knights possessed special abilities.

But at that time, System had been preparing to go to the abyss, so he didn't pay too much attention to the abilities of the ants.

After these days of detailed observations, System discovered that the abilities mastered by these fifty ants are all very similar, and are basically related to controlling airflow.

Send out a breeze; release a strong airflow; launch wind bombs for bombardment; use the airflow to float the body; control the wind to form a rotation to form a cyclone...

The ants have different abilities to control the airflow, but all of them are inseparable from the airflow.

And through questioning and communicating with these ants, System also learned that the sounds of the world heard by these ants in their second pupation seemed to be somewhat different from those of him, Shava, and Black.

It can be said that these ants did not really hear the voice of the world, nor were they truly empowered by the will of the world, but only awakened the bloodline given to them by the ant queen Linda.

In other words, after the second pupation, the ant queen Linda, who still doesn't know what ability she has mastered, actually gained the ability to control airflow, that is, the ability to control wind.

All the secondary pupation has not stimulated the ability of the ants in the body, and in fact all they have mastered are the abilities of the wind.

Although in this way, the ants will not have a variety of abilities, but in this way, System has clearly learned that the ability of the ants is wind.

By allowing the ants who can use their abilities to use their abilities near the ants who cannot use their abilities, the ants who were originally unable to master their internal abilities will gradually master the ability to control airflow.

In fact, in the past few days, there will be two or three ants that have secondly pupated every day, so they have obtained this ability to control airflow.

But in reality, the wind-related abilities acquired by the ants basically have no obvious effect. The controlled airflow is generally weak, and they can't even be used to assist in combat.

Among the many ants, only one worker ant knight has a unique talent for controlling the airflow. It can suspend its body to float freely by manipulating the airflow, and it can even launch compressed wind bombs that can explode.

Whether it is the strength of the ability or the degree of control over the ability, it is dozens of times that of other ants.

System also named this talented ant knight—Jet.

As far as the use of abilities is concerned, the jet is even much more proficient than the original excavator.

It's just that this ability to control the wind is far less practical than the ability of an excavator, and System doesn't know what to do with the jet.

For now, the jet can only use its air cannons to fight mosquitoes outside.

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After eating the common ant eggs harvested, System transferred the newly obtained female ant eggs to a relatively safe location in the room.

Because of low intelligence and the fact that the ant queen had been imprisoned by System, the ant queen's emotions became a little disturbed.

If System didn't transfer the ant eggs, after a while, the queen ant would eat the ant eggs it produced.

After binding and fixing the queen's feet with strings of plant fibers, System took the snail Jess away from the stone building of the underground floating island.

The snail Jess who followed System also complimented: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, for obtaining another special ant egg."

In fact, until now, the snail didn't know why System collected these ant eggs, let alone System's desire to study flying ants.

Hearing the snail's compliment, System was noncommittal, grabbed the snail Jess and continued to walk along the stone passage inside the floating island.

The crawling speed of this snail is really too slow.

After excavating the underground floating island these days, System has a better understanding of the appearance of the floating island, and has already transferred his lair to this underground building.

The entire floating island is circular, and there is a huge blue crystal tree in the center of the floating island, which is the one that the original shadow failed to activate.

There are many stone buildings on the surface of the floating island. Most of these buildings have been damaged and buried in the soil, and the excavators cannot sort them out in a short time.

However, after these days of excavation, the excavator found many spaces inside the floating island.

It was precisely because of this that System moved his lair to this underground floating island.

Except that it is inconvenient to go to the ground because it is more than 1000 meters away from the ground, System is very satisfied with the wide and square stone passageway of the floating island.

And because of the magical candles from the demiplanes, these passages are already filled with light and look good...

(End of this chapter)