Laws of the Insect Hive

According to the rhythm in his body's blood, System compared the blood of the chrysalis, and tried to activate the [Cold Resistance] contained in the [Insect Adaptability].

However, when he actually used the experience bar to activate [Cold Resistance], System found that the experience bar stored in his body was not under his control, and it gave him a strange feeling.

System remembered the yawn of the Frost Dragon before he left, and it was that yawn that caused him to be so miserable now.

But that deep cold breath made his experience bar suddenly increase a lot.

The icy and strange aura did not disappear, but when System used [Insect Ability Activation], it reappeared and started to do something wrong.

System felt an irregular rhythm between the blood of his body and the blood of the chrysalis. His experience bar started to deplete little by little, but he did not activate the ability of [cold resistance] at all. Instead, he began to activate a Something that he couldn't even explain himself, it seemed that this kind of thing didn't exist in the blood of insects at all.

System felt that a special kind of icy energy seemed to be pouring out from the snowflakes falling around him and converged towards his body. His body became stiff again, and it didn't take long for his heart to gradually stop beating because of the freezing.

After that, System fell into a deep sleep...

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When System woke up again, he felt very dazed.

Fortunately, the timer function in the [tool menu] lets him know that he has been in a coma for five days.

System thought he would die because of this, but he unexpectedly survived, and he didn't feel the slightest cold when he was buried in the snow.

Without giving System the time to continue thinking, an incomparably hungry feeling came from his abdomen.

This hunger can be said to be the strongest since System was reborn as a grasshopper.

Waving the fangs in his mouth, System sucked the surrounding ice crystal particles and filled his stomach with snow.

Swallowing the ice and snow did not bring any discomfort to System. System could feel the ice and snow in his stomach mixed with gastric juices, and slowly began to melt, relieving his hunger.

Not only that, System actually tasted the taste from these ice and snow, instead of having no taste like he was sucking rainwater before.

System tasted a faint salty taste from these ice and snow, somewhat similar to MSG, and there was a vague umami taste in the process of swallowing.

This was the first time System had tasted salty food since he came to this world. What he had eaten before was basically only sweet, sour and bitter.

Among them, the sweet and sour food his body likes very much, and the other kind of bitter food is harmful to his body. Usually, the food that can be toxic to his body will give off a bitter taste.

The first time he tasted the salty and fresh taste, System was very excited, and he devoured the snow that had accumulated around him even harder.

As he ate the snow, System felt a strange cold energy appearing in his stomach, rushing towards his throat.

It seemed that a new organ had appeared in his throat, but System had no intention of feeling it at this time. He was so hungry that he devoured the surrounding ice and snow even harder...

However, it didn't take long for System to discover that swallowing this snow could not solve his hunger at all. When the ice and snow melted into water in his stomach, he could only feel a very empty feeling of fullness.

Then it won't take long for the melted snow to be expelled from his body, making him even hungrier.

System waved the tentacles of his body indiscriminately, rolled up some dead leaves and frozen weeds under him, and put them into his mouth to chew.

Dead leaves and weeds could fill System's stomach more than ice and snow that gave off a salty taste.

And as the hunger gradually eased, System finally noticed his strange body.

The worm pupae before his coma disappeared, as did his remaining half of his thigh and the middle left leg—

System found a lot of debris in the snow under him, including the shell of the chrysalis, and the green exoskeleton fragments of his legs...

System speculated that it was very likely that he ate the worm pupae while he was in a coma, and then ate his own remnant legs due to hunger.

Perhaps due to insufficient body nutrients, [Regeneration of Amputated Limbs] could not fully function. The gap in System's broken leg showed no sign of regrowing a leg. Instead, a root of tentacles grew, sometimes two. , and some have three.

These tentacles together, there are a full fifteen.

Due to uneven nutrition, the fifteen tentacles are different in length, length and thickness. Some are slender and some are short and thick. The longest one is nearly thirty centimeters, while the shortest is less than five centimeters.

Apart from the newly grown tentacles, System found that his originally enlarged abdomen had shrunk to a quarter of its original size. It was estimated that he had basically used up all the energy stored in his abdomen these days.

Using his tentacles to continuously collect weeds and dead leaves in the snow and stuffing them into his mouth, System's hunger subsided a lot, and he gradually regained his senses and began to think about his current situation.

This heavy snow is obviously much heavier than System's worst forecast. In just five days, the climate here has entered the deep winter from early autumn.

The snow buried on him is at least tens of centimeters, and even if his longest tentacle touches up, he can't feel the air above.

Fortunately, for unknown reasons, he has mastered a peculiar frost power, otherwise even if he acquires [Cold Resistance], he may not be able to survive this harsh weather.

This ability caused a new organ to form near his throat and caused a special change in his blood.

Although he still belongs to a cold-blooded animal, there seems to be a special thing in his blood, which makes his blood not freeze in the severe cold.

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[Frost Breath] (6/15): A derivative ability activated by [Insect Resilience], [Numeric Code], [Data Compilation] and unknown energy. Exhales icy breath through special glands.

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When the hunger in his stomach continued to ease a little, System tried to breathe out this [Frost Breath] with the newly formed glands in his throat.

He can exhale a stream of ice-blue gas from the new gland in his throat. The gas is about as large as a Coke can in his previous life. He can exhale about three times in a row, and it will take about five hours to fully recover after exhaling.

However, System could not know the specific power of this breath, at least the ability of this [Frost Breath] had no effect on the snow buried on him.

System used his tentacles to move his body through the ice and snow.

Although slowly, as he fiddled with his tentacles back and forth, his body still rose a little bit in the snow.

After all, being buried in ice and snow is not a decision to crawl out of the snow.

Only by going to the ground can he watch what the forest is like because of the ice and snow. He can also climb up the trees with his tentacles and eat some frozen leaves.