Laws of the Insect Hive

For half a month, the temperature in Liert Forest has not changed significantly, but the black smoke and dust from the volcanic eruption seems to have produced the effect of snowmelting agent.

The snow and ice in the Lierte Forest has melted slightly, making it seem a little muddy, making the migration of the ants a little troublesome.

System's tentacles grabbed all the chrysalis, including the ant queen Linda, and flew in the air with the small meat balls to scout, while Shava and other members of the Knights of Ants carried ordinary ants below. Some jerky food.

In front of the dozens of ants team, there was a blue-gray slime that jumped forward under the control of System from time to time.

Because of these muddy ice and snow, the frost slime inevitably absorbs a lot of this black smoke and dust. After traveling for a few hours, the ice blue slime has turned blue-gray, and it is estimated that it will completely disappear after a period of time. becomes black.

System is considering whether to abandon this slime friend. After all, the slime glue contaminated with these black and gray will be poisonous if eaten directly. Most ants cannot eat this kind of food.

System, who was on the move, found the sound and figure in the forest again. After more than two hours, System again encountered a team of seven gnolls about a kilometer away.

Different from the dozen or so gnolls two hours ago, these seven gnolls set up a fire and formed a simple camp, which should be resting.

System had no idea of ​​contacting these gnolls, and flew down from the sky, System notified his ant people to change direction and decided to bypass the gnoll's camp.

The speed of System and the team of ants is not slow, they can walk about two kilometers in an hour, which is similar to the walking speed of humans.

Half an hour later, System's team successfully staggered away from the simple camp of the gnolls, without any twists and turns.

However, just after System staggered from the gnoll camp, System's tentacles suddenly noticed the continuous screams in the gnoll camp 100 meters away.

The screams from the gnoll were so loud that even ordinary ants could clearly hear them. They stopped and looked around, becoming a little uneasy.

System flew into the sky again. He found that the three gnolls in the simple camp of the former gnoll were lying beside the fire, and round blood holes appeared on their necks, and they were dead at this moment.

The remaining four gnolls, two wielding sticks in their hands, looked a little grumpy, and the other two checked their companions.

System observed for a while, but did not find out how the three gnolls died. He decided to take the ant people away from this place of right and wrong.

But just as System fell from the sky into the ant team, System found a vague and eerie shadow about half a meter high in front of his ant team.

It was said to be a vague shadow, but in fact it was a creature whose body was completely transparent, as if it were invisible. If it weren't for the powerful vision of [System's Eye], System would not be able to notice what was in front of him.

System's eyes flashed blue light.

After using the ability to recognize things in the [Tools Menu], the outline of the fuzzy shadow in front of System was completely drawn.

It is a half-meter-high humanoid life with four arms on its upper body, two of which have conical spikes, and the other two arms have human-like palms. It seems to have a carapace on its body surface and a back Drooping wings covered by carapace.

Gently shaking the tentacles above his head, System found that he couldn't sense any aura from creatures two meters away from him.

His [intuition] gave him a sense of danger, that those two cone-shaped spikes could pierce his brain in an instant, killing him in an instant.

However, just as System was about to inform Shava, who was still looking at the gnoll camp behind him, to prepare for battle.

System suddenly felt a familiar force from the creature in front of him.

The creature on the opposite side actually sent him a spiritual message, which is the ability of [spiritual connection].

The vigilance is very good, are you the new worm beast of Festantine? You found me.

This spiritual message was very fluent, even a little more fluent than Blake. It was a female voice, and it sounded very nice, making System feel almost like facing Queen Kun.

Are you, Shadow?

After the other party sent the spiritual message, System felt the familiar aura of insect blood. He knew that the other party was also an insect, and it was an insect that had completed four moltings.

Not only that, System found that although the insect bloodline of the opponent's body was a little confusing, her bloodline body was a grasshopper, a distant relative of a grasshopper of the same race as System.

From a series of problems with the predecessor of Little Meatball and the blurry image left by the Grasshopper Queen, System could easily guess the identity of the other party, and the other party should be the shadow.

Hearing System's spiritual message, Shadow's mood seemed to become a little joyful, and she quickly asked back: Do you know me? Are you No. 95? Or No. 107? No, they can't have your wisdom. .

Is the Festandine you just mentioned a Druid of the Swarm?

System did not answer Shadow's question, but asked his doubts after eating the golden acorn. In his opinion, the owner of the meatball's predecessor should be the swarm druid who drove the worms. He just couldn't be sure.

Yes, Fistantine is the druid of the swarm. Aren't you the worms that Festandine studies? As far as I know, only he will send the worms from the abyss here.

Shadow quickly answered System’s question, and within a few words, System also received a lot of information.

There are Abysses, and there are Swarm Druids.

System did not continue to answer Shadow's question. He first disconnected the power of the other party's [spiritual connection], and then used his [spiritual connection] power to connect with the other party.

In the process of Ying's surprise, System passed several images to the other party, including the image of Queen Kun of the Grasshopper, and the image of the conversation between the predecessor of Little Meatball and him.

It turns out that you are the grasshopper Kun said. I didn't expect that she died... Ying's mental message contained some melancholy emotions.

Are you here to find her? System asked, listening to Ying's spiritual message.

Yeah, I'm here to find her. Ying's transparent body gradually revealed her figure, revealing the black and purple carapace covering her body, she paused for a while and continued: I always wanted to be free, but I didn't expect true freedom. I don't know what to do, but now that I've found my target, I'm going to kill him.

You are not his opponent. System reminded the old Druid's breath of harmony between nature and man, and advised Ying.

Ying didn't answer, just shook his head lightly. It seemed that System's persuasion had no effect at all, and Ying was determined to assassinate the old Druid.

At this time, Shava finally found the shadow that showed her body. She quickly moved to System and confronted the shadow.

It's okay, Shava, she's not the enemy.

System explained to Shava, and at the same time continued to communicate with Ying...