Laws of the Insect Hive

Because of the continuous consumption of slime's gelatin before leveling up, after leveling up to level 10, System's [Corrosive Slime] (10/15) will be increased to [Corrosive Slime] (11/15).

As System had always deduced, ability levels 10 and 11 were completely two different levels.

His [Corrosive Slime] has increased in all directions in terms of spray distance, slime capacity, viscosity, and corrosiveness.

And the most significant improvement of [Corrosive Slime] is the activity that only appears after swallowing slime.

After leveling up to 11, the [Corrosive Slime] secreted in System's glands can really move. Although it can't bounce like a slime, System can control this slime to creep slowly on the ground. , about the same speed as a snail crawling.

This mucus was like an extension of his body organs, and System could manipulate the mucus like he could manipulate his hands and feet.

However, System also had many limitations in manipulating these slimes.

The mucus can't be too far away from him, he can't control it beyond twenty centimeters, and after more than a minute the mucus leaves the glands in his throat, it becomes inactive and can no longer be controlled.

All in all, just harnessing the activity of mucus is not enough to be an effective means of attack.

But even without relying on the activity of the slime, his [Corrosive slime] can be used as his hunting tool at this time.

Through continuous mucus spewing and the powerful mobility of the grasshopper's body, after System reached level 10, he successfully hunted down an eight-centimeter-sized piebald spider disguised as a yellow-white flower.

The hunting process lasted about an hour.

System is very cautious. Usually after spitting, in order to prevent the spider from erupting, he will keep a distance of half a meter away from the spider. When the spider's mood calms down, he will continue to approach the spider at a distance of 30 centimeters. Breathe from a distance.

In this way, the spider still had the heart to fight with him at first, but then the spider would just keep running away, even shrinking into a ball and pretending to be dead on the ground.

It was not until an hour later, after several times of spitting and throwing dead branches and gravel, that the spider did not respond, System did not confirm the death of the spider.

The spider's body was obviously resistant to [Corrosive Slime], and System wasted a lot of mucus in order to hunt this spider, and even eating all of this spider couldn't make up for his consumption.

So System just tried it once, and decided to concentrate on robbing ants in the future, instead of doing the thankless action of hunting spiders.

But no matter what, being able to kill the highly poisonous spider unscathed, System undoubtedly climbed up the food chain in this forest.

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At noon, System visited his old friend, the slime who was resting in the mud in the dark corner.

He jumped to the top of the tallest tree nearby.

After estimating the time, System glanced at his [Self-Information Generation], and he had 51 days left to live.

Looking at the other information of [Self-Information Generation] at random, System found that his estimated combat power had become 0.8 at some point.

From 0.4 at level 9 to 0.7 at level 10, and at noon today, his estimated combat power has been raised again to 0.8.

System had no real sense of the combat power in the [Self Information Generation Technique], and he did not know how this combat power was calculated.

And besides himself, he doesn't even know how much other people's combat power is.

Every time his combat power is improved, System only knows that he has become stronger again. As for how much he has become stronger, he himself does not know.

Shaking his head, System glanced at the sun in the sky while looking far away in one direction.

coming--

Starting from three days ago, at this time every day, System could feel a faint fluctuation of aura.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the blood vessels in System's body to vibrate slightly.

This time he came to the top of the tree and felt it more clearly.

This is a strange and familiar aura, which resonates with the grasshopper's blood, and seems to be calling him, making him want to fly in that direction unconsciously.

is it you?

A familiar figure appeared in System's mind, his kind, the grasshopper queen.

From this breath, System felt something familiar. It seemed that the grasshopper queen was summoning the grasshoppers.

She wants to lead the grasshoppers to leap over the mountains and lakes to explore this vast world, just like those pictures in the blood of grasshoppers.

System was at the top of the branch, and his compound eyes saw twenty or thirty vague figures flying out of the nearby trees, which should be of his kind.

These grasshoppers flew over the forest and flew in the direction of the source of the breath.

At the same time, with a few harsh chirping sounds, a big brown-red bird rushed out of the forest and began to pursue the grasshopper flying in the sky...

...

Is it really worth it? Even so, go and explore this world...

Watching the same kind being chased and fleeing by birds, System silently jumped down from the top of the branch, and his heart was suddenly very uncomfortable.

What exactly was uncomfortable, System himself couldn't tell.

Jumping off the branch, System continued to do his old job, robbing ants.

It seems that as long as he robs the ants, he will feel better...

Two days ago, System found a tree hole in the height of a relatively sturdy tree. The tree hole was not very large and could not accommodate his body.

However, because the tree hole was higher than the ground, few ants passed by, and the tree hole became System’s food storage warehouse.

Usually grabbing some non-perishable food from the ants, System would store the food in the tree hole, and then plug the hole with the leaves of the plant and his mucus in case of emergency.

The weather has become cooler these days, and System can often see scattered leaves falling from the woods.

Autumn is getting closer.

System found that the plants in this forest were very strange. Some were obviously tropical plants, and some were subtropical plants. He couldn’t analyze the climate here and whether it would snow in winter.

System knew that he had to make more preparations, otherwise even if he completed the third metamorphosis and his blood had no temperature, he would turn into a lump of ice in the world of ice and snow.

System can think of a way to dig a hole in the ground. As long as he has a hole two meters deep underground, he can effectively resist the severe cold in winter.

Although the grasshopper does not have the ability to hibernate some creatures, the dormancy state of the insect itself is not bad. When he brings some food into the burrow, it should not be a problem to spend the winter.

And if this forest does not freeze in winter, it would be better, and he can continue to go out for food in winter.

...

After deciding on the wintering plan, System would study the structure of the ant's nest from time to time in his spare time when he was robbing the ants for food, preparing to choose a suitable location to dig a burrow for wintering.

Five days passed again. Since the [Degenerate Growth] had reached the full level, System was much less picky about food.

His experience bar has increased by half, and it is estimated that he will be able to reach level 11 in five days.

However, there are some regrets. The old friend Slime who had been with System for more than ten days finally collapsed and shattered during a battle with ants, and was drowned by the ants pouring out of the ant nest, and died completely...

In the past five days, the special breath from the grasshopper queen has become stronger and stronger.

In the early morning of this day, System, who was snatching ants, found that the Queen of Grasshoppers flew not far from him...