Law of the Swarm

Chapter 57 The Ring of Frost
Ten minutes later, System successfully crawled out of the snow with his tentacles.

Looking around, there is already a vast expanse of whiteness around, the snow has stopped, but the whole world is covered by ice and snow.

The branches above his head creaked due to the accumulation of ice and snow and the attack of the cold wind. Seeing this, System used his tentacles to move his body to a safe area aside, so as not to prevent the branches from being crushed by the snow and smashing his body.

In the process of moving his body, System, who crawled out of the snow, could see his current appearance clearly.

His body is very disproportionate because of the smaller abdomen, and the length is only about [-] centimeters. The exoskeleton covering the wings above the body and the wings have all disappeared, making him look bald. The antennae seem to have grown back, but only half of the original length. And very fragile.

His shattered right eye also grew out, and System could feel the blurred light appearing in the right eye. It is estimated that his blind eye will grow back after a while.

And the strangest thing about his body is the dozen or so tentacles growing from his original limbs.

His current appearance is extremely ugly. If he didn't say it himself, no one would believe that he was a grasshopper. In fact, even if he said it, it would be hard for others to believe it.

System felt the cold wind blowing in the forest for a while, and the temperature on the ground was lower than that in the snow, but it didn't have much effect on his current body.

[Color-changing camouflage] Activate!

The color of System's epidermis gradually became lighter. Except for those brown tentacles, other parts of his body gradually turned into a slightly grayish white, serving as his body's protective color.

Since System's body is very light, he can use his tentacles to control his body without getting stuck in the snow, so walking on the snow is not strenuous.

After trying to walk on the snow surface for a while and moving his body, System stretched out his tentacles and began to climb a nearby tree.

The tentacles are different from the feet, there are no tiny hooks on them, and it is a little more difficult to use the tentacles to climb trees.

But System has too many tentacles now.

Fifteen powerful tentacles of different lengths are enough for System to handle many things.

The shorter tentacles can be inserted into the gaps in the bark as a support, while the longer tentacles can directly wrap around the tree to help him fix his body.

At first, he was not very used to climbing with his tentacles. After getting used to it for a while, System found that although these tentacles were not as useful for climbing as his hooked feet and bouncing thighs, they were still convenient enough.

After half an hour of practice, System can even move like an ape between the branches of different trees like a swing, while using other tentacles to pick frozen leaves and chew them in his mouth.

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The forest had obviously changed after the snow cover, but comparing the video records in the [Tools Menu], System still found his current position.

It was about three kilometers away from his temporary lair. According to his current speed, System estimated that he would be able to return successfully in more than ten hours.

System was very worried about the soldier ant Sawa and those ants. The food in the temporary nest could last for a long time, but the weather in the forest was too cold.

The impact of this heavy snow on the forest was stronger than the heavy rain that System had experienced before. In the forest, there was only the sound of the cold wind colliding with the branches, and System could no longer hear any sound of insects. .

Except for an unknown bird flying far away, System only saw some small footprints on the snow, which should be left by creatures like rabbits or mice.

It appears that while the snow has dealt a fatal blow to the bugs, it hasn't done too much damage to the small rodents.

System followed these footprints for a while. Through observation, System found that the owner of the footprints was not big, so he could try to hunt.

But after searching for the footprints for a while, System found nothing. The footprints stopped abruptly at the root of a tree. It seemed that the one that left the footprints was a squirrel that could climb on trees.

However, because he was following the squirrel this time, System got an unexpected harvest - a frozen spider.

The black spider huddled under a branch and appeared to have froze to death while trying to escape the snow.

System tore the spider's abdomen into small pieces with his tentacles, and chewed them in his mouth.

System thought that this kind of frozen corpse would be very hard, but it really didn't taste much different from a live spider. The soft flesh of the spider's abdomen would melt in his mouth as long as he bit it a little. It's like eating ice cream.

As he swallowed the spider's corpse, a warm current appeared in System's stomach. This nutrient-rich meat made System's physical strength recover a lot.

After tearing the spider's corpse up and down, System hesitated, then tore off the spider's venom gland and put a small piece into his mouth.

In the end, the spider's venomous glands failed to harm System, but made him feel very comfortable. The strong coffee smell lifted System's spirits, and his perception of his surroundings became clearer.

……

Eating the spider's corpse bit by bit, System did not waste any of the spider's corpse, even if it was some unpalatable fluff on the spider's body, he swallowed it.

And just when System devoured the last piece of flesh from the spider's corpse, his body trembled slightly, and [intuition] suddenly brought a sense of unease to System.

System used his tentacles to turn his body, and a black bird with wings spread about half a meter appeared at an altitude of a thousand meters in the direction where he lost his eyes.

This black bird has a pair of sharp claws, a beak like an eagle and a pair of piercing eyes.

System knew that this carnivorous black eagle had spotted him.

Using the tentacles subconsciously, System decisively moved to the right under the branch, hiding his body to avoid the attacks of the birds in the sky.

But it didn't take long for System to move his body out from under the branch, exposing his body to the sight of the black bird.

Because of the ability of [Super Speed ​​Digestion], not long after the spider's corpse was swallowed, it was quickly dissolved by the digestion in his abdomen, used to restore his vitality.

System stared at the black bird in the air, his fangs drooling unconsciously.

This black bird may have come to prey on him, but he is also hungry...

More than a dozen tentacles of different lengths, together with [Corrosive Slime] and the newly acquired [Frost Breath] ability, gave System the courage to fight the opponent.

And his [intuition] was just a little unease, not the nervousness of an imminent fatal crisis.

For some reason, System felt that the black bird was not his opponent. There was no reason or basis, he just felt that the black bird was no match for him.

If he fights with this black bird and one of them dies, it must be the black bird that dies.

System shook his body's tentacles, moved his body to a prominent position in the woods, and kept shaking his body.

The black eagle apparently found him again, and it didn't take long before it fell from the sky at high speed and flew towards him——

System noticed that some saliva was flowing from his jaws...

Except for the two tentacles wrapped around the branches, System stretched out his remaining tentacles in the direction where the Black Hawk was rushing to protect his body.

Along with the black eagle's falling claws, System's blocking tentacles were like rubber bands and springs, blocking the eagle's claws from his body.

The black eagle's claws did not touch System's body, and System's body flew up with the touch of the claws and tentacles. A breath of icy blue...

The brown jelly was faster and hit the black eagle's head first. Sith directly manipulated the mucus jelly to squirm towards the black eagle's eyes!
Immediately afterwards, System breathed out the frosty breath one after another, and a layer of frost appeared on Black Hawk's head...

[Corrosion Slime] and [Frost Breath] had a lot of conflicts. System found that when [Frost Breath] was sprayed on the slime he spit out, his slime would be frozen stiff and lose the ability to move. ability.

But it doesn't matter anymore...

Even though the two abilities conflicted quite a bit, the Black Hawk still suffered a lot of damage. It fell from the air and landed on the snow not far away, thumping non-stop. It was obviously hit by System's sudden attack. caught off guard.

Seeing this, System immediately moved over with his tentacles.

He first wrapped his two longest tentacles around the black hawk's wings, making the black hawk unable to fly, and then used more tentacles to wrap around the joints of the black hawk's body, along with a dozen tentacles Surrounding back and forth, the movement range of the black eagle fluttering in the snow is getting smaller and smaller...

System sprayed [Corrosion Slime] towards the black eagle's head again, and controlled the viscous jelly to move towards the black eagle's mouth.

System wanted to use this viscous jelly to block Black Hawk's throat, causing it to suffocate to death!

Time passed little by little, and Black Eagle's body struggled more violently due to suffocation. Just when System was about to kill Black Eagle and eat to his heart's content, his [intuition] felt an inexplicable feeling again.

An icy blue beam of light as thick as a human finger suddenly descended from the sky.

This icy blue beam of light penetrated System's body, freezing the black eagle under System into an ice lump, but System's body was not affected in the slightest.

System found an icy-blue light ball the size of a baby's fist floating in the sky two meters away from him. The icy-blue light beam just now was obviously the masterpiece of this light sphere...

(End of this chapter)