Laws of the Insect Hive

To hunt rats, System’s original plan was to use [Corrosive Slime] to sneak up on the eyes of the rats. After the rats lost their vision, he kept harassing them with dead branches and gravels. After the rats were exhausted, he would use his own The chelicerae of mice were terminated.

But after System tested his flying strength and found that he could use his tentacles to grasp a half-meter-long wooden stick and fly, he took the approach just now.

Take the mouse to a high altitude, then let the mouse fall and die.

However, although the weight of the mouse is slightly lighter than that of the wooden stick, the struggling mouse is obviously much more difficult to handle than the wooden stick, and it is more laborious to fly.

Fortunately, the plan envisaged before has basically been achieved, and the mouse successfully fell from the sky.

...

Perhaps because of the fallen leaves and twigs in the forest, the mouse that fell from the sky did not die immediately, but twitched and twitched on the ground, losing the ability to move.

There was some blood flowing from the corner of the mouse's mouth, it saw System coming, and the only remaining eye showed a look of fear.

Huh? With such a serious injury, you still haven't lost consciousness?

System opened his fangs and wanted to give the mouse the final finish, but he quickly stopped.

System remembered the way the rat had eaten Shawa's legs before. He dipped the remaining three tentacles on the corner of the rat's mouth, and the blood flowed out, and tasted its blood in front of the rat.

The mouse's blood tasted similar to the bird's blood he had tasted a long time ago. After the milk tasted, it would have a tea-like taste, which was lingering in the mouth.

It was only after tasting the blood on the three tentacles in a row that System found that the blood on the three tentacles had different tastes.

One of the tentacles had a very thick coffee taste. While tasting this coffee taste, there was a slight tingling in his stomach and an inexplicable refreshing feeling.

The experience of blood on this tentacle is four times that of other tentacles.

Why does it smell like this?

System once again dipped the blood from the corner of the mouse's mouth with three tentacles, and put it into his mouth to taste them one by one.

System found that the blood on the previous tentacle was still different, and there was a coffee smell, but this time the coffee smell was much weaker than last time.

System stared at the mouse's gradually losing light, and he suddenly wondered why he could taste the taste of coffee.

System's body trembled slightly unconsciously.

Although it has been decided before to be careful.

However, he accidentally ate the liquid in the spider venom gland through the mixture of tentacles and mouse blood.

He even had a feeling that he ate rat poison and was about to die.

Fortunately, as far as his body feels now, it's hard to say about the more poisonous spider venom, but no matter how much of this black-gray spider's venom he takes, it won't cause any problems, and it will bring a lot of benefits to his body.

...

Watching the rat's body stop twitching, System grabbed the rat's corpse and began to return to the temporary nest.

If System were to choose the most suitable person to eat this mouse, it would be the soldier ant Shava.

However, when System expelled the worker ants patrolling near the nest, and struggled to stuff the mice into the nest.

Shava still hadn't woken up from her slumber. It seemed that during the day he used his tentacles to consume a lot of Shava's energy, and she would have to rest for a while.

System moved the rat corpse to an empty room, and checked the condition of Shava's body, and he drilled out of the temporary nest again.

Spreading his wings, System flew in the direction of the swamp in the daytime memory, where there were two slimes.

While cleaning the shimmer mushrooms in the nest, System suddenly had an idea.

He can sense the emotions of mushrooms now, so can he sense the emotions of slimes?

Slimes can be split into several individuals, each of which has independent consciousness.

System felt that a slime was essentially a collection of organisms similar to fungi or bacteria, and could theoretically perceive emotions through his [Telepathic Transmission].

Maybe even communicate.

System flew fast, as if near the swamp seen from the clouds during the day, System found the slime sitting quietly in the swamp.

The gel of this slime's body was dark green, which was slightly worse than the brown slime that System used to have.

System continued to look around, but didn't find the other slime he saw at that time, and he didn't know where it went.

After the search was fruitless, System gave up the search and returned to the quagmire where the slime was.

Grabbing a dead branch on the ground, System flew directly above the slime and threw it down.

System wanted to test the slime's reaction.

Similar to System's old slime friend, the slime's body trembled violently, swallowing the stick thrown by System.

As the slime swallowed the branches, System felt the emotion that the slime wanted to swallow the food.

It seems that using the ability of [mental transmission] and [spiritual connection], he can indeed feel the emotions of the slime.

The emotions produced by slimes seem to be a collection of many weak consciousnesses, which influence each other and finally form a common emotion.

Obviously slime should be a collection of life like fungi, bacteria or microorganisms.

Compared with mushrooms, the emotional fluctuations sent out by slimes are stronger and more concentrated. It is an emotion integrated by countless weak consciousnesses, unlike fungi in mushrooms, which have no overall consciousness.

System went on to test the slime by throwing a few branches.

He found that the life of slime seemed simpler than he had imagined.

When swallowing the branch, the slime clearly exuded excitement, and this excitement lasted for about 3 seconds before disappearing.

After a few seconds, the slime will feel that there is a foreign body in the body, and after a period of time, the slime will excrete the indigestible dead branches from the body.

System discovered that slime creatures possessed even lower intelligence than insects, and only acted according to the body's instincts.

After continuing to test the slime for a while, System began to try to communicate with the slime.

bounce!

Following System's spiritual message, two seconds later, the slime really jumped up.

This slime was a complete replica of the original soldier ants, and when System sent a mental command, the slime would respond to System's command.

But unlike Soldier Ant Dasha who simply believed in him at first, the slime’s following System’s orders was just a reaction to its instinct.

Slime's body is similar to a collection of many tiny life consciousnesses. When System sends a spiritual message to the slime, as long as one of the consciousnesses of the slime's body responds, other consciousnesses will be affected, and the formation of Chain reaction, complete the message sent by System.

So System was able to use the [Teleportation] transmission to control the slime.

Controlling slimes this way isn't ideal, though.

A being like a slime couldn't understand System's overly complicated commands, and System could only make it move and jump.

Moreover, it seems that the slime only has a few seconds of memory. Even if the slime is ordered to move in one direction, after three or five seconds, the slime will stop voluntarily due to loss of memory.