Laws of the Insect Hive

Has anything happened in the past month and a half? That Lizardman should be here again.

After leaving Ola's treasure room, System asked Blake who was following him.

Yes, the lizardmen suffered some injuries on the way here. Because you were not here, they left after resting here for two days. Because his body was only less than twenty centimeters, Black followed System's The pace was fast, she stretched out her arm and touched the giant chrysalis that Shava had turned into and continued: I was afraid that the lizardman would suffer an accident after leaving, so I asked the meatball to protect the lizardman back.

System nodded: It's true that I didn't think about it properly at the beginning. The few kilometers from the lizardmen's tribe to here are indeed dangerous for the lizardmen.

After the meatball sent the lizard away, it also brought back a few things, which are the relics of the snail.

Black continued to transmit spiritual messages, and took System to a utility room not far from the underground floating island palace, where the meatballs brought back from the lizardmen tribe.

There are two things, a silver key pendant, and a blue crystal ball with a diameter of twenty centimeters.

Neither Shadow nor Blake found anything special about these two items. System sensed it for a while, but also found nothing unusual.

The snail never mentioned the crystal ball and the silver key during System's interrogation.

Looking back now, it seemed that whenever System was about to ask the snail what he had, the snail Jace would consciously or unintentionally bypass the key and the crystal ball.

It seemed that the killed snail should be kept for a while longer. If the snail hadn’t died, System would have been able to find out what these two things were.

But System thought about it, if the snail hadn't been killed in front of the Lizardman Thunderclaw.

With the level of brainwashing by the snail, Thunder Claw will never take out the snail's things and send it to him.

So he had no problem killing the ill-intentioned snail.

...

Putting the two relics of the snail back in the storage room, System continued to ask Black about other things that happened on the underground floating island.

In general, the foraging of the ants is similar to what System had envisaged. The casualties of ants have become less and less this month, especially the first batch of large ants and ant knights who pupated twice in the abyss, very adaptable. In the abyss environment, the efficiency of going out to collect food is also higher than that of the ants bred in the main world.

However, it was lower than the 20% expected by System. Only 10% of the ants that pupated for the second time in the abyss became ant knights, and the rest all pupated into big ants.

In addition, a few days ago, because of System's omission, some minor situations appeared in the underground palace again.

Several worm nests that System had separately cultivated mutated again. One of the worm nests, for some unknown reason, mutated again into a worm nest that could produce mosquito demons.

Since the worm's nest is above the underground palace, it will not be patrolled by Black on weekdays.

So when Black discovered the situation, a mosquito demon nearly two meters long had appeared in the worm's nest, and more than a dozen ant knights were attacked by the mosquito demon and died.

But what defeated the mosquito demon was not the shadow or the flesh ball that System had expected, but the jet that had an extraordinary understanding of the power of air currents.

By the time Blake discovered the Mosquito Devil's condition, the jet had used bomb-like compressed air to detonate the Mosquito Devil's head.

But with the exception of jets, none of the new batch of abyss ants have the ability to manipulate airflow to the level of jets.

After the second pupation, the ants produced by Queen Linda in the abyss have a much stronger physique, but the proportion of ants that awakened to control airflow is only one-third of that of the ants in the main world.

And the ability of ants to control airflow in the abyss is also weaker than that of ants in the main world.

Hearing Black's remarks, System suddenly understood why the owner of Meatball and Shadow had to go to the main world to find the insects that had pupated for the second time.

Because the insects that have reached the second pupation in the main world, or the three molted insects will gain stronger power.

Although these ants are not actually listening to the voice of the world, they are just awakening their blood.

But System recalled the numerous ants and the process by which he acquired abilities, as well as how Shadow once described his master's experiments on bugs, and System suddenly guessed the law of acquiring abilities by hearing the sounds of the world.

If he hadn't been a bug, had seen many bugs that broke through the limits of his body, and possessed the ability of [Teleportation] to master the bug's emotions, System would not have known the law of the power given by the voice of the world.

If he is another race, even if he has the ability of [mental transmission], he will not know the voice of the world, because most races cannot use [pupa] and [degeneration] to break through their own limits like insects, Because most of the ways other races gain power do not rely on the voice of the world, but rely more on learning, or awakening the blood of their ancestors.

And if there is no [Teleportation] ability that can communicate with other insects, System will be even less likely to discover the law of the ability of the world's voice.

For the empowerment of the voice of the world has to do with the wisdom of life itself.

Creatures with low intelligence acquire weak abilities, but creatures with high intelligence may not necessarily acquire powerful abilities.

The power endowed by the voice of the world is mainly due to the subconscious mind of life.

System came to this world without knowing anything. Although he always wanted to live, he subconsciously wanted to understand this world, so he acquired the ability to perceive things around him.

His vision, hearing, and smell have been enhanced, and he has also acquired the ability to [intuition].

The Queen of Grasshoppers, Kun, subconsciously wanted to fly with the grasshoppers, so she acquired the ability to communicate with the grasshoppers [mental transmission].

The types of abilities and powers endowed by the voice of the world are related to the strength of the subconscious mind of life.

Shava's wisdom is not low, and her heart is simple. From the time she knew System was called a big fool, she was convinced of the identity of System's queen ant. Later, System proclaimed herself king, and Shava's Her heart didn't change either, and after being instilled by System with the words of a knight, she regarded herself as a knight.

It is this simplicity that allows Shava to gain power beyond common sense.

After all, the strength of the inner subconscious is not measured by the size of the goal. Some people want to step on the world under their feet, but their beliefs may only occupy a small corner of their hearts; and Shava's desire is just like a knight. Protecting System, but it was this desire that filled Shava's heart.

Therefore, the excavator that likes to dig has a strong power to control the soil; and the hook that controls the lightning can only emit a weak current...

Perhaps the blood vessels of the awakening body are also related to the voice of the world and the subconscious mind of life.

Therefore, the intelligence of the main world is higher, and it is relatively easy for ants with a simple mind to awaken the ability to control the airflow in their bodies; while the ants in the abyss are affected by the abyss and their minds are relatively chaotic, so it will be much more difficult to awaken the airflow ability in the blood.

System felt that his conjecture was generally correct, and it basically conformed to the situation of the bugs. Only some bugs did not conform to his inference and needed to be further improved.

But even knowing this, System didn't think of any way to cheat.

The simple-minded Shava is just a special case. Brainwashing can change the minds of ants, but it is difficult to change the underlying thoughts in the minds of ants.

And System has already made a promise that he regards the ants as his people, and System will not break his promise...