Laws of the Insect Hive

System shook the insect's head gently, and it was obviously unrealistic to find the old Druid.

Even if the old Druid really has the ability to prolong his life and is really willing to help him, it is not easy to find the old Druid in the huge forest.

System seems to have experienced a lot these days, but the range of activities is only a hundred meters.

And how much is the range of one or two hundred meters in the forest?

It is obviously difficult to spend a lot of time and risk everything to find the old Druid, and the old Druid may have also left the forest.

He didn't think of a good solution. What he finally thought of was his talent [degeneration and growth].

He still has a chance of survival, that is, the third transformation.

In the second molting, he has become an adult grasshopper, and in the third molting, he will definitely bring about greater changes to his body.

There is also the sound of the mysterious world in the process of degeneration, which will definitely have a special effect on him.

Even if the third molting and the voice of that world can't prolong his life, it can improve his strength.

Even if he still has no choice at that time, and his physical fitness improves, he will find the old Druid faster and more efficiently.

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After thinking about everything, System's expression became firm, and the goal now is to complete the third metamorphosis as quickly as possible, leaving more time for him to come in the short lifespan left. to make a selection.

As for the urge to mate with a female grasshopper that made him very annoyed before, System found that he could easily suppress it now.

After all, as long as he mates, he will only have 3 days to live. The horror between life and death has made System's willpower for mating countless times stronger.

System quickly jumped to the tree full of chrysalis.

A few days have passed, and the pupae of these lepidopteran insects are still the same as before, and none of the pupae has turned into a butterfly and become an empty shell.

The current season is late summer and early autumn, and I don't know whether these worm pupae will wait for the next spring to break out, or they will mate and lay eggs in these few days, allowing the worm eggs to hatch over the winter.

When he first came here, these 6-centimeter-sized pupae were still much larger than his body, but now System’s body was a little bigger than these pupae.

System was also rude, and used his black-brown claws to bite the pupae directly.

After the second molting, System's claws were two or three times stronger than the larvae in terms of hardness and bite force.

But after biting, System found that he still couldn't bite off the solid shell of these pupae, leaving only slight scratches on the shell of the pupae. It seemed that these pupae were stronger than the bark. .

System recalled the experience of eating silkworm chrysalis in his previous life. The fried silkworm chrysalis had very hard shells, even with human teeth, it would be difficult to bite them, and if the cooking temperature of the silkworm chrysalis was not enough, the shells of these silkworm chrysalis would be even worse. Hard to eat.

The hardness of the shell of this pupa seems to be similar to the silkworm pupae that System ate in his previous life.

Because of System's bite, the chrysalis clearly felt threatened and twisted slightly.

Seeing this, System stopped trying his own fangs, and directly used the biochemical weapon he obtained after degenerating into an adult.

[Corrosive Slime] Activate!

The corrosive sap was secreted from a special gland in System's throat, and dripped down his fangs onto the pupae.

Although this corrosive mucus has strong destructive power, System is still very rudimentary just now.

However, this kind of mucus is the most perfect weapon for this kind of insect pupae, which are extremely defensive and unable to escape.

The dark brown mucus and the tan shell of the pupa caused a wonderful chemical reaction. After more than ten seconds, the shell of the pupa gradually turned gray.

System’s claws poked at the right time, accompanied by the white slurry flowing out, the worm pupae vibrated violently, and System also tasted the wonderful taste of the worm pupae, which was a mellow sweetness like hot chocolate. .

System's claws secreted corrosive mucus again, further widening the gap in the pupae, and then speeding up the feeding.

It was softer than the molting hydra that was eaten a few days ago. Nearly 90% of the lepidopteran larvae in the chrysalis was a sticky liquid. System gradually drank it.

The lepidopteran larvae in the chrysalis didn't know what kind of structure it was, but their vitality was very tenacious. It was still trembling slightly after being drank by System for a third of it. It was completely motionless until System devoured half of it.

This kind of pupae is very nutritious, and if System had eaten two of them before he turned into an adult grasshopper, he might be able to level up.

But after becoming an adult, System found that the improvement of his experience bar became extremely slow. It is estimated that he would have to eat 12 to reach level 9, which is 6 times that of the larvae.

Fortunately, when he molted into an adult, System obtained [Corrosive Mucus], which could not only be secreted into his mouth, but also into his stomach to speed up his digestion.

With [Corrosive Slime] his digestion ability has been increased by half, and System estimated that he could successfully digest two worm pupae before dark.

And after the dark, System, who had been hiding from danger, decided to continue to devour these pupae.

The forest at night may be more dangerous, but his remaining lifespan is short, and if he doesn't fight at this time, he will have no chance in two months.

There are 42 pupae left here.

Excluding the necessary rest time, System should be able to eat 3 and a half worm pupae during the day and night, and he should be able to rise to level 9 within 4 days.

After reaching level 9, his stomach capacity and digestion speed will be further improved, and it should not be a problem to eat 5 insect eggs a day.

Because of the increasing gradient of experience required for leveling up, 12 chrysalis are needed from level 8 to level 9. System speculates that about 25 chrysalis are needed for level 9 to level 10, and these 42 chrysalis should only be enough for him to level up to level 10. A little more.

After careful calculation, after 10 days, he was able to eat all these pupae, and then raised the level to level 10.

System's worm head showed a contemplative look, he opened the light curtain of [Self-Information Generation], and looked at his level - 8/15.

15 is his upper level limit, representing the limit that the green-tailed grasshopper can achieve, while 8 represents his current level.

He had 63 days left in his lifespan, and after a more detailed calculation, the look of System's worm head gradually darkened.

Suppose he has enough and nutritious pupae that he can keep eating and rule out any unfavorable dangers and unfavorable situations.

It takes 3.5 days to upgrade to level 9, and a little more than 5 days to reach level 10, and the speed of the next level upgrade will be slower and slower. If you calculate at this speed, the speed of each upgrade will be slower by half the time. about.

Then the time from level 9 to level 15 can be roughly inferred.

3.5 days, 5 days, 7.5 days, 11.5 days, 17 days, 25 days, 37 days, a total of 106 days.

Even if there is enough food, he promises to rest every day in addition to eating and digesting. It takes 106 days for him to reach level 15.

By then he had been dead for over a month.

If his [Metamorphosis Growth] is raised to the full level, the inheritance information from the bloodline tells him that he will need to be level 14 or 15 to perform the third molting.

If there is no miracle, even if he dies, he will not be able to achieve the conditions for the third degeneration.

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The tentacles on System's head shook constantly, and he fell into contemplation again.

The most urgent task is to raise the level of [Metamorphosis Growth] to level 13 as much as possible. Only in this way can he know the specific information of the third molt.

And Fang **** Tum, who quickly improved [molting and growth], had already noticed it in the vague information that appeared in the bloodline, that is, try to eat different kinds of insects or other creatures that can molt or pupate.

System, who was eating pupae, made a new decision after pondering. After he had eaten two pupae, he decided not to eat such food first, and instead went hunting for other small insects.

Only by eating a variety of foods can the [Metamorphosis Growth] level be raised to level 13 as quickly as possible, allowing him to know earlier how many levels the third molting will take.

If the third metamorphosis requires a too high level to complete, he should make other preparations earlier.