Laws of the Insect Hive

Jumping, catching, jumping, jumping, in less than a breath, System successfully caught a black-brown ant, and then jumped away gracefully.

Whether it is speed, strength, or size, System has absolute advantages over ants. As long as it is not a head-to-head fight with the ant army, it is still very easy to capture a single ant. After all, although ants have a certain degree of alertness, they are rarely will run away.

The first thing ants think of when they encounter an abnormal situation is not to escape, but to try to bite you first.

System's process of catching the ants was smooth, but the next handling of System was rusty.

The four limbs easily caught the smaller ant, but the ant was not without resistance. It directly bit the root of one of System's limbs with its claws.

In fact, even if System loosened the legs that grabbed the ant, the ant would not fall from System's body. Rather than saying that System grabbed the ant, it was better that they held each other. The opponent caught.

The exoskeleton shattered slightly, and System felt the burning sensation of formic acid from his legs.

After molting into an adult, System's exoskeleton was much stronger, and with the derived abilities [Severed Limb Regeneration] and [Acid Resistance], System's injuries were actually not serious.

Waving huge fangs the size of the ant's head, the black-brown ant carcass was separated.

But an ant was an ant, and even if only its head was left, its claws still bit System's forelimbs.

In order to avoid secondary damage to his limbs, System could only use [Corrosive Mucus] to melt the ant's skull and fangs to successfully separate the ant's head from his forelimbs.

After chewing on the ants' brains like crispy chocolate, System continued to jump towards the ants that were fighting the tadpoles in the mud.

Unlike ordinary insect hunters who grab the prey and eat it directly, System's action is more efficient, he has to kill more ants and eat them together.

The ants' IQ is very low and their eyesight is extremely poor. Although System's sudden appearance caused confusion for a dozen ants for a while, they continued to fight against the tadpoles in the mud without finding any abnormality.

System did the same and caught the second ant again.

This time, the dozen or so ants were obviously more alert than last time, and two ants even chased half a meter in his direction.

However, the distance of half a meter was just an easy jump for System, and he easily threw off the pursuit of the ants.

The reason why the ants pursued the second time, System quickly figured out, should be the irritating sour smell remaining on his forelimbs. The ants have poor vision, but an extremely sensitive sense of smell.

System took a lot of care in capturing the second ant. He used his two front limbs to spread the ant's head far away. Although his front limbs were scratched many times by the ant's claws, the ant always aimed its claws at the west. Sturm's body.

In the end, System bit off the second ant's head unscathed.

System, who was eating the grasshopper's skull, began to think about how to remove the sour smell left by the ants on him.

There is still a lot of stagnant water in the forest. Using this stagnant water will definitely remove some of the sour smell from his body. However, compared to washing with water, System also has a special method, that is, his [corrosion]. slime].

System's [Corrosive Slime] evolved from [Stinky Slime], and still retains the smelly characteristics. System feels that this smell is enough to cover the sour taste secreted by ants.

After secreting a few drops of corrosive liquid with a stench into his wound, System attacked the dozen or so ants again.

...

As System had expected, the smelly liquid he secreted successfully covered the smell of the ant formic acid. This time, the remaining ants did not pursue System too far.

They just vigilantly searched near the tadpole's body for a while, and then continued to entangle with the dying tadpole in the mud.

Compared to the success of [Corrosive Slime] in covering up the smell, System’s hunting of the third ant appeared flawed again. He was accidentally freed by the third ant, and the forelimb was bitten by the ant again.

But starting from the third ant, System's movements gradually became more proficient.

By noon, dozens of ants arrived one after another and dismembered and transported the tadpole body, and System successfully hunted and killed nine ants.

After the third ant, System was never injured again, and he gradually figured out the ant attacking routine.

They only attack on instinct, are very predictable, and won't let go as long as they bite their prey.

According to the characteristics of ants that will not let go when they bite, System invented a tactic of hunting ants. When hunting the fifth ant, System's claws held a straw stick and After catching the ants, the straw stick was actively sent to the mouth of the ants.

The ants that bit the straw sticks lost any ability to threaten System.

The sixth and seventh System were also hunted in the same way, but the eighth System did not use straw sticks, because he was already very familiar with these ants, even if he did not use straw sticks, He can also easily hunt ants.

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System carried and concentrated the corpses of these ants into a small branch of a tree, and he began to eat.

System can feel that his talent [molting growth] is absorbing some kind of nutrients from ant corpses. As long as he hunts different kinds of insects like this, System estimates that he will reach level 10 at the latest. , his [Metamorphosis Growth] will reach the full level of level 13.

Not only [Metamorphosis Growth], after eating the ants' glands that secrete formic acid, System felt that his [Corrosive Mucus] became more corrosive. It is estimated that when his level reaches level 9, this ability will promotion.

Looking at the experience bar on [Self-Information Generation], System estimated that if he ate all the ant corpses, his experience bar would reach a quarter.

The nine ants plus the previous cricket provided the same amount of nutrition as a single pupae.

After careful calculation, fifteen ants can be worth one egg.

It had to be said that if System hadn't desperately wanted to improve the level of [Degeneration and Growth], he would undoubtedly be the best choice to guard those chrysalis.

System chewed on the ant's corpse and began to think about the next plan. He could continue to hunt these ants, but the effect of eating too much on him would decrease, so he had to to eat a wider variety of creatures.

For these ants, System thought of a lot of plans, such as driving away tigers and devouring wolves.

Use a stick to collect the ant's acidic liquid, then use the acid to attract the ant colony to attack enemies he can't handle - like spiders.

However, it is very difficult to do so. Not to mention that the spider's nest is generally high, it is difficult for the ant colony to launch a general attack. Even if he knocks the spider off the ground, the spider may not be killed by the ants.

Not every type of ant is a marching ant that can dispatch millions of troops at any time.

If you put hundreds of ants and spiders in a bottle, the spiders will definitely be divided and killed by the ants, but if you put ants and spiders in the wild, the spiders will run away long ago.

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About two hours before the sun went down, System ate all the remaining corpses of the ants.

System, who moved on, encountered a large number of ants again...