Laws of the Insect Hive

Whether it was the grasshopper or the current tentacle monster, there was no obvious difference to System.

And after this pupation, System seemed to have completely lost the ability to reproduce with grasshoppers. He no longer had to worry about it, because suddenly mating with grasshoppers caused his lifespan to go to zero.

...

System, who emerged from the chrysalis, left the empty room, and he saw Shava, who was still guarding his empty room with a depressed expression.

It seems that Shava has not fully recovered from the failure to challenge the Glacier Lord.

Shava's idea is actually very simple, but it is also too simple.

Shava's growth rate from the weak soldier ants is too fast. After the second pupation, the mouse that was incompetent at one moment can be easily killed by her at the next moment.

As a weak bug, Shava has obvious cognitive barriers to the powerful creatures in this world, which may also be related to the lack of System's usual teaching.

From Shava's point of view, the mouse that she was once invincible was actually similar to the powerful dragon. The dragon was stronger than the mouse, but Shava just thought that the dragon was similar to the snake and the eagle that ate the mouse.

It is precisely because of this that Shava will charge the dragon mindlessly, and when he charges, he thinks that he will win the final victory.

Glancing to the side, System found two unfamiliar figures of ants. It turned out to be the dozen or so ants that had entered the second pupation, and two of them had already emerged from the pupae.

The two worker ants that have undergone secondary pupation are about six centimeters in size. I don't know if they were influenced by Shava. Their body shape is somewhat similar to a simplified version of Shava.

The insect head became smaller, and although the two pairs of forelimbs did not form a blade similar to Shava, they both formed strange weapons, one formed a diamond-shaped spike, and the other formed an arc-shaped weapon similar to a hook.

Upon closer inspection, Sister found that the body shapes of the two worker ants were also slightly different. The worker ants with diamond-shaped spikes had thicker legs, while those with hooked weapons had slender legs.

It seems that his inferences have been basically correct. The second pupation of insects is not uniform, and there will be some differences in the formed individuals.

...

When System first appeared, the two worker ants were beside Shava, imitating Shava's posture to guard.

However, unlike Shawa, there were some meat food piled up near the two worker ants, and they kept devouring the meat of mice during the guarding process.

These two worker ants should be the same as Shawa. After the second pupation, their bodies have entered a period of rapid growth, and they need to obtain a lot of food.

If it is calculated according to the growth rate of Shava, these two worker ants will grow to about twelve centimeters in ten days, and then the body growth rate will slow down, and finally they can grow to about sixteen centimeters.

"I can't eat enough."

"King, be happy."

When the two ants saw System, they sent out spiritual messages one after another, and they were as close to him as ever.

After the second pupation of these two worker ants, their intelligence has increased significantly, which is roughly equivalent to what Shava did before the second pupation, similar to the current ant queen Linda.

"Have you all acquired any abilities? Have the voices of the world heard?" System asked the two ants.

The two worker ants looked puzzled at the same time.

One of the worker ants thought for a while and answered System first, "I don't know."

This worker ant had exactly the same reaction as Shava at the beginning. After the second pupation, it didn't find out what ability it had acquired at all.

However, the other worker ant with hooks on its forelimbs seemed to be thinking about something. It tilted its head repeatedly, as if to express something.

After a few minutes, the hooked worker ant suddenly raised its pair of hooks—

With the slight sizzling sound, System saw a faint blue electric light in the hook of the worker ant.

Apparently, this worker ant was given the power of lightning by the voice of the world.

However, its power is very weak, but within a dozen seconds, the hook worker ants are exhausted, and no matter how hard it exerts, it can't use the slightest electric light.

...

"Is this to form a knight order?"

Looking at the two worker ants that had become simplified versions of Shava, System estimated that the remaining dozen or so ants that had pupated twice would look similar after they emerged from the pupae.

The reason for this was that System estimated that he obtained the [mental network] ability by strengthening the [mental transmission] ability a few months ago.

The ability of [Spiritual Network] is similar to that of [Spiritual Connection]. Using this ability, he can connect the spirits of all ants within one meter and communicate with each other.

And after Shawa emerged from the chrysalis two months ago, Shawa used this [mental network] ability to transmit the image of the knight to every ant more than once.

Because System didn't have the habit of monitoring the communication of these stupid ant people, he only realized the seriousness of the matter after Shava sent these images for a long time.

There were always some ants doing weird poses to him during that time, which made him very embarrassed.

Fortunately, because he was banned from launching an ant meeting, and the intelligence of ordinary ants is really not high, they can't remember too many things. After a few days, except for Shawa, there are no other ants playing the game of king knight with him. .

But now it seems that the images that Shava passed on, these ants obviously still remember deep in their hearts, otherwise they would not imitate Shava to become what they are now.

"Forget it, the knights should be the knights, that's fine."

Shaking his head helplessly, System went to the empty room filled with the second molting worm pupae.

Using his tentacles to examine the remaining pupae, System found that three of the worker ant pupae were about to complete their second pupation, and they would burst out in two or three days at most.

As for the remaining eight worker ant pupae, although there was not much movement, according to the dates of the second pupation of these ants, System estimated that they would break out of the pupae one after another within half a month.

There were only two soldier ant pupae that remained unchanged. Like Shawa, the second pupation time of soldier ants was much longer than that of ordinary worker ants.

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These newly pupated new ant knights have high requirements for food, and it is difficult for ordinary seeds and dried fruits to meet their growth needs.

They would obviously consume a large amount of meat in a short period of time, and System roughly estimated that it would consume about half of his stored meat.

Predation of the butterfly larvae that he had stocked around was obviously not worth the gain. System once again thought of his new friend from the past six months, Frost Slime.

It is best to use frost slime as food for the ant knights, but if you find one more, it will be enough for the thirteen ant knights to eat for a long time.

Except for the occasional devouring of ice and snow, the staple food of frost slime is basically the same as that of ordinary slimes, and it is still some dead sticks and mud.

Frost slimes rarely appear on the snow surface, usually they will melt the snow, forming unique snow caves, living under the snow surface for a long time, in order to devour dead branches and rotten leaves and some frozen plants.

Since there are no natural enemies in the ice and snow world, these frost slimes live very well, usually there will be one at a distance of a few hundred meters.

However, because these frost slimes were buried deep under the snow, even System had to use [Teleportation] a little bit to sense emotional fluctuations in order to find these slimes.