Laws of the Insect Hive

The healing ability of the derived skill [Regeneration of Severed Limbs] is very effective. As System continued to devour the eggs, the burning sensation of his forearm attached to formic acid quickly diminished and subsided. In just ten minutes, his severed forelimb The blood stops flowing, and it coagulates into a grayish-white blood scab.

With [Severed Limb Regeneration], System is not worried that he will become a lame grasshopper in the future, but he is really worried that the healing speed of his severed limb is too slow.

If the severed limb could not heal, the blood stench from the wound would undoubtedly attract countless insect hunters and put him in a dangerous situation.

Seeing his wound congealed into a blood scab, System was completely relieved, concentrated on eating the eggs, and always paid attention to the movement around him.

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The dark red ant that System kicked and landed on did not come back in the end, and he didn’t know whether he forgot the way to get here, or carried one of his half-legs back to the ant’s nest to cross.

After eating nearly twenty eggs in a row, System's body gradually grew to 1.2 centimeters, and began to level up again.

His body grew from 1.2 centimeters to 1.6 centimeters, and the carapace and fangs all over his body became stronger.

However, compared to the body, this time the power in his bloodline is not as obvious as when he upgraded from level 3 to level 4. Only [Insect Adaptability] (8/21) has become [Insect Adaptation] (9/21), and at the same time Acquired a derivative skill: [Acid Resistance] (1/4), which should be related to the formic acid released by the ants biting off his legs.

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[Acid Resistance] (1/4): A derivative ability obtained from [Insect Adaptation]. passive ability. It has a certain resistance to acidic substances.

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As for the talent System was most concerned about, [Metamorphosis Growth], there was no change. System just felt that his bloodline became a little thicker, far less than the previous upgrade.

Because of these several upgrades, System had some speculations about the regularity of his body growth.

His derived skills are basically obtained from the talent [Insect Adaptability]. After removing the [Green Camouflage], [Regeneration of Severed Limbs] and [Insect Intuition] that he originally had in his body, he has obtained [Darkness] in the last two upgrades. Vision] and [Acid Resistance].

The former was because he watched the dim scene outside the crevice of dead leaves the night before the upgrade, while the latter was because his forelimbs were corroded by the ants' formic acid before the upgrade.

Apparently his reliance on [Insect Resilience] to obtain derivative skills is related to his experience before leveling up.

As for the improvement of the talents [Metamorphosis Growth] and [Insect Adaptability], although System cannot be very sure, it should be related to the food he eats. As long as he eats more nutritious and diverse foods, these two The ability should be significantly improved.

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After a brief thought, System continued to devour the delicious insect eggs because of the strong hunger after the upgrade.

Because his body became bigger after the upgrade, his swallowing speed increased again. In just ten minutes, he swallowed four or five insect eggs. At this rate, he would eat all the eggs before dark.

However, after swallowing the insect eggs, System's hunger disappeared, and the power of [Metamorphosis Growth] in his blood suddenly filled his body.

The trembling blood told him that it was time for his first molting.

System endured the urge to molt and devoured as many eggs as possible.

The information from the feeling in the blood and the [Self-Information Generation Technique] told him that after molting, his body would fall into a short-term weakness, and he needed to supplement a lot of food, so System decided to accumulate as much of the body as possible before molting. Nutrient reserves in order to make his molting more smoothly.

Degeneration is not the sooner the better.

But it didn't take long for System to leave in the end.

The fishy smell from the eggs finally attracted carnivorous creatures again, two giant black-brown ants, about 2.5 centimeters in size.

If it was still the little dark red ant, System might still consider fighting the opponent, but in the face of these two huge ants, System did not think about it, and chose to jump from the back of the leaf.

In the face of the weak, he will bully without hesitation, and in the face of a strong enemy, he will flee without a second thought.

System became more and more aware of the change in his character. Although he still possessed part of the human reason, his way of thinking was closer to that of a bug.

Shaking the insect head gently, System did not think about it, and concentrated on preparing for his first molting.

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As a kind of insect, grasshoppers belong to the branch of insects with incomplete metamorphosis. They do not go through the three stages of larvae, pupa and adult like butterflies, ants, flies, and dragonflies.

After the grasshopper hatches from the egg, the body is not much different from that of the adult worm, and their growth requires continuous molting, that is, molting.

Some are similar to the molting of snakes, and also similar to the molting of scorpions and spiders, but the molting of insects is more changed than that of snakes, scorpions, and spiders. After all, no snake or scorpion can change the structure of the body and grow wings after molting.

After System woke up, he gradually recalled more things from his previous life, including a lot of knowledge about insects. It seemed that he had some research on insects in his previous life.

System seems to have raised many cold-blooded animals in his previous life, including mantises and katydids (ps: read Zhong, a sound, grasshoppers are also a type of katydids) carnivorous insects, as well as arthropods such as spiders and scorpions. Animals, as well as amphibian frogs and reptile lizards.

In his memory, there was a black-brown tarantula that was ten centimeters in size and spread its limbs nearly twenty centimeters. Because of his mishandling, he fed live crickets during the molting process, and was bitten to death by the crickets.

In this world, the molting of bugs was basically the same as in System's previous life, and the body was extremely soft and fragile just after molting.

So all System has to do now is to find a safe place to molt.

Instinct from the bloodline guided System to find a cool underside of the leaf to molt as soon as possible.

But this is easy, but not safe enough.

An hour later, System finally found a tree that resembled a pine tree, and a large dead leaf just happened to be stuck on one of the branches of this tree.

The space under this dead leaf was the molting spot that System was looking for.

The branches that System chose were more than one meter high from the ground, far away from the numerous ant colonies on the ground, and the tree exuded a weak pungent smell, which made System feel a little uncomfortable, with a weak drive. The role of insects is an ideal molting site.

System quickly got under the dead leaves. After firmly grasping the branches of the plant with his feet, System followed the guidance of the blood in his body and started his first molting.

His entire epidermal exoskeleton gradually became soft, and the flesh and blood of his body began to absorb the essence of the softened exoskeleton, leaving only a thin layer of dross left on the outermost layer.

A larger exoskeleton gradually formed under System's original exoskeleton, and there was a tingling sensation in his back, as if something was growing from his back.

His whole body was flooded with power from his blood, and he naturally acquired a new derivative skill [Smelly Mucus].

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[Smelly Mucus] (3/7): The ability that the grasshopper acquired after the first molting. Able to secrete a special fishy liquid to ward off predators.

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A new organ has formed in his mouth, which secretes glands with smelly mucus. By secreting this smelly mucus, the grasshopper can get a chance to escape from many predators.

However, compared to the natural changes in his body due to degeneration, System's attention was focused on the blood in his whole body, and his blood vessels seemed to be making inexplicable sounds.

-Choose it.