Laws of the Insect Hive

In the middle of the night, System dragged his bulging belly and jumped to the rubble near the pitcher plant, and then jumped to a gap in the rubble that he had chosen during the day.

There was a slight movement, and a small two-centimeter cricket drilled out of the gap, and it quickly drilled into a narrow gravel gap next to it.

System had no idea about his own behavior of occupying the magpie’s nest or the cricket’s nest, and he didn’t pay any attention to the little cricket that escaped.

He began to rest quietly...

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By swallowing [corrosive mucus] into the stomach, System's digestion speed is further increased.

Two or three hours after the next morning, System’s exhausted spirit completely recovered.

His balloon-like belly has also returned to its normal size, and the slime's gelatin has basically been digested.

Crawling out of the cracks in the gravel, System jumped to the silt pit where the slime was last yesterday.

The slime remained motionless in the mud, the ants in its body had basically melted, and System could no longer see the specific appearance of the ants in the glue.

Perhaps eating slime's gum, System found that he had developed resistance to the grassy aroma emitted by the slime, and the effect of this grassy aroma on his spirit was negligible.

System quickly grabbed a dead branch and tried to tease the slime with the method of yesterday.

The effect of throwing dead branches twice in a row is not ideal.

The dead branches were bounced off by the glue on the outermost layer of the slime, and the slime's body just shook irregularly a few times, and then resumed its still state.

This slime doesn't seem to care about the outside world.

It seems that in a short period of time, it is impossible to continue the tactic of devouring slimes and ants.

System didn't have the courage to face the slime directly. Although the slime didn't respond much after throwing the branches twice, if he took the initiative to bite the slime's gum, it was very likely. Jumped up and swallowed by a violent slime...

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System left decisively. Apart from occasionally returning to the silt to see if the slime recovered, he began to explore the surroundings, and at the same time did his old job - robbing ants.

Heaven has reincarnation. A few days ago, ants came to snatch him, but now he is used to robbing ants.

Thirty meters away, System once again found an ant nest in a rotting tree, still the same reddish-brown ants that were fighting slimes.

This deadwood ant colony is bigger than the one fighting the slime.

The reddish-brown ants were very fast, and System's first two or three robberies were not very smooth, and his body was bitten several times by the ant's fangs.

In the process of snatching the second ant, half of the tentacles on his head were also bitten off by a quarter.

After the tentacles were broken, System's body balance was a little worse, but it didn't have much impact.

After hunting this reddish-brown ant three times in a row, System basically got used to the sensitivity of this ant, and his snatch went much smoother.

Although he was still not used to it, System was never injured again, and as the number of robberies increased, his movements became more and more skilled...

Through observation, System found that the habits of the reddish-brown ants are slightly different from those of the dark-brown ants, especially in handling food.

Instead of completely chopping their food, they like to cut the food into small pieces of three or five centimeters, and then several worker ants cooperate with each other to carry the food back to the ant nest.

This habit of red-brown ants is quite convenient for System. He can grab a large piece of food as long as he walks around three or five meters away from the ant nest.

Every time he snatchs it, he can eat it for a long time, and during the process of eating on the high branches, he can also choose the food that these ants will carry next by the way.

Unknown giant insect eggs, butterfly larvae, plump plant seeds, earthworm corpses...

Although this reddish-brown ant is smaller, it is obviously better at hunting than those black-brown ants, and it catches a wide variety of prey.

The red-brown ants who worked hard to carry food reminded System of the feeling of eating a buffet in his previous life. There would always be a variety of foods passing by not far from him, so he didn't know how to start.

System even snatched a 3-centimeter-sized spider and a 4-centimeter-long half-centipede from the hands of the ants. The corpses of these two insect hunters were very fresh, and he did not know how the ants hunted them.

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For the next few days, System spent snatching ants, exploring the surroundings and observing the slime.

There was basically nothing unusual about the process of robbing ants. During the exploration, System discovered seven ant nests, a total of four types of ants.

In addition to the black-brown and red-brown ants that System is familiar with, there is also a large black ant with a body size of 2.5 cm and a small gray-brown ant with a size of 0.5 cm. These small ants have special attack methods. Its tail can spray acid at a long distance, and System suffered a lot when he first encountered it.

There are some differences in the food that several kinds of ants search for, so System’s robbery career has been smooth these days, and he has eaten nearly a hundred different kinds of meat.

Unlike the smooth discovery of the ant nest, System’s exploration was not very smooth these days, and he did not find other slimes within a few hundred meters nearby.

On the contrary, he encountered two more magical creatures, but when he saw these two magical creatures, he could only choose to avoid them.

One was a big blue-gray bird with blue electric light entwined in its feathers. System only hid in the grass when he saw it from a distance, so as not to be eaten by the bird as a snack; A bloody bat, bat is also a hunter who likes to catch insects, System saw that it was directly close to the ground and gave up the foraging that night.

However, compared to looking for other slimes, the slime that System was concerned about regained its vitality after resting in the mud for three days.

It regained some size and was slightly smaller than a football, and then continued to forage in the forest.

The two creatures, the slime and the ant, were like mortal enemies. With System's guidance, the slime fought another nest of ants.

The result of the battle was the same as last time. Although the types of ants were different, the appearance of the slime escaping from the ant nest was basically the same. The glue was filled with the corpses of ants, and the glue was broken during the escape. Scattered all over the place.

System was also able to swallow this gelatinous food for the second time...

In nine days, System ate the slime's gum twice again in the same way.

Because of the large amount of experience provided by the slime, System was upgraded to level 10 on the ninth day, and his size further increased to 10.5 cm.

The talent [Metamorphosis Growth] was raised to the full level of 13 as he had imagined, and at the same time, he also learned the conditions for the third molting—level 12.

At level 12, the third metamorphosis can be carried out, which is undoubtedly good news for System.

It might be difficult for other grasshoppers, but it was easy for System, who was searching for meat all day.

Even if he didn't deliberately pursue the leveling efficiency, just by snatching the food of these ants, System could easily reach level 12 within 30 days and complete the third molting.