Laws of the Insect Hive

Not long after the level was raised to level 3, System's vision gradually darkened.

The sun has set, and it will be dark soon.

With the darkening of the sky and the slightly colder breeze, there were more insects in the forest, some were crickets, and some were cicadas chirping.

System, who was eating the young leaves, noticed that the grass in the distance was shaking irregularly, but it was difficult to see what was there with the compound eyes of insects.

Not long after, a silver-gray thing drilled out of the grass and moved in his direction.

As the distance got closer, the scene in System's compound eyes became clear. A silver-gray mouse passed under the plant where he was standing and ate the rhizome of an unknown plant nearby.

Unlike the forest during the day, many insects and small animals are more active at night.

It didn't take long for the silver-gray giant rat to finish eating the roots of the plant and burrow into the grass and disappear.

At a distance of less than a few tens of centimeters diagonally above, System found a black spider three or four centimeters in size that was releasing a silk thread that was fluttering in the wind.

The spider releases the searching silk thread to carry out the first step of weaving a web. As long as the silk thread flutters in the wind and sticks to something, it will start weaving based on this silk thread until it becomes a complete web.

The forest at night was obviously in danger, and System gave up his plan to continue jumping to other plants to search for young leaves in the dark night.

His eyesight got worse at night, and there were noticeably more predators, and he would fall into a predator's trap if he wasn't careful.

As a herbivorous insect, it is very uncomfortable to hide and starve for a night, but it greatly increases the chance of surviving.

With a human IQ, he naturally cannot live as recklessly as an ordinary grasshopper.

After all, what makes grasshoppers more powerful is their ability to reproduce, not the ability of each individual to survive.

System laboriously cut off three small young leaves with his not-so-sharp claws, and decided to hide under a dead leaf on the ground tonight.

These three young leaves can become his snack when he is hungry and can't bear it, and relieve his hunger a little.

The little grasshopper carefully climbed from the branch of the plant to the stem of the plant, using the barbs on its feet to crawl to the ground smoothly...

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Branches, scattered dead leaves, and some rotten soil, the ground environment is very complicated for his bean-sized grasshopper.

After biting off three young leaves the size of a small fingernail from the plant, System only found two, and he couldn't find the other leaf, so he could only choose to give up.

After laboriously carrying the two young leaves under a slightly damp dead leaf, System subconsciously glanced at the night sky, and his insect head showed a dazed look in a humanized way.

The grasshopper has poor eyesight and can't see things in the distance. He can't see how many stars are shining in the night sky, but he can see two moons far apart in the night sky, one white and one yellowish.

This is not the original world anymore...

System hadn’t watched the two moons in the night sky for too long, he had turned into a grasshopper, and had lost his memory, it made no difference whether he was in the original world or not.

He quickly got into the dead leaves and began to rest quietly.

The body of an insect is very special. Although System has forgotten the name and memory of his previous life, some common sense things are still clear in his mind.

It is very difficult for human beings to completely stop their bodies, as long as they pass a short while, their bodies will twist a few times unconsciously, but the body of a grasshopper is completely different.

System, who was lying under the dead leaves, effortlessly remained motionless. He felt like a dead tree branch, completely still.

It didn't take long for his abdominal breathing rate and amplitude to gradually weaken, from one or two seconds to five or six seconds, and finally to take a breath every tens of seconds.

This was a peculiar dormant state. After entering this state, the hunger in System's abdomen quickly diminished, and his entire body was like a dead thing, and he only needed to consume very little energy to maintain his vital signs.

System estimated that in this state, even if he didn't eat or drink, he could last for two or three days or even longer.

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With the sound of dewdrops dripping, System completely woke up from a half-sleep state.

Not long after his body went into hibernation last night, his spirit gradually entered a state of half-dreaming and half-awake. When he woke up at this time, he felt refreshed. It seemed that even an insect needed proper dormancy.

The weather in the early morning was a little cold. System moved his slightly stiff body. The breathing in his abdomen quickly recovered from the tens of seconds of dormancy to once a second. At the same time, a strong sense of hunger entered his mind. .

After drinking a few mouthfuls of the dew dripping from the edge of the dead leaves, System began to chew on the two young leaves hidden in the dead leaves yesterday to satisfy his hunger.

After a whole night, the taste of the young leaves became worse, and watching the changing information on the [Self-Information Generation Technique], System completely determined the law of level growth.

So far, there is only one way for him to improve his level, and that is to eat.

Although no matter what kind of leaves he eats, his hunger can be relieved, but the effect of different leaves on his level-up is very different.

And to measure which kind of leaf is most effective for him to improve, the rule is also very simple, that is the deliciousness of the leaf. Even leaves of the same species have different tastes due to freshness, and their effect on leveling up will vary.

In this way, if you want this body to grow more at the same time, you must try to eat some delicious and fresh leaves.

However, looking for delicious tender leaves and leaf shoots, you have to look for more plants, which is definitely more dangerous.

In my current state, there is absolutely no need to take risks, so the way to obtain food should still be the same as yesterday, to ensure my own safety.

After setting his action plan for today, System concentrated on eating the two young leaves that were not very fresh.

Because of the increase in level, the size of the body became larger, and it didn't take long for these two young leaves to be eaten by System, and the speed of eating was more than double that of the level 2.

After the upgrade, his claws were stronger, and System decided to try to eat some slightly larger leaves today. If he succeeded, he wouldn't have to waste time searching for young leaves and leaf buds.

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System, crawling out of the dead leaves, quickly discovered a few uninvited guests near the dead leaves. They were five or six black ants about one centimeter in size.

After the night, the life in the forest has also changed, replaced by a group of creatures that like to be active during the day, and the few ants in front of them are the life that likes to be active during the day.

Five or six black ants were very close to him, and the nearest one was less than thirty centimeters away from him. The antennae on the heads of these black ants turned back and forth, as if they were searching for food.

The speed of the ants was not very fast, and they did not find the grasshopper larvae crawling out of the dead leaves. System easily got away from the ant search team with a few jumps.

In fact, after seeing these ants, System had no fear, and his [insect intuition] did not give him any signs of danger.

After the grasshopper hatches from the eggs, they are not food for the ants, who may hunt down some giant lepidopteran larvae (larvae of butterflies or moths), but never catch a nimble ant grasshopper.

The main threat System faced was a mantis-like camouflaged hunter who could kill with one hit, or accidentally sticking to the cobweb.

Or maybe this huge creature in front of him——

The body is covered with brown raised and hideous patterns, the beige is constantly inflated, a pair of round eyeballs blinking from time to time, and an extremely huge mouth.

System jumped in front of the toad camouflaged in the dead leaf pile after making three consecutive jumps to avoid the search team of the ant colony.

Toads, also known as toads, were an extremely well-known insect hunter known to System.

And now System was less than ten centimeters away from the toad.

He even felt the moist, fishy breath from the toad's mouth...