Laws of the Insect Hive

Quietly staying in the empty room 80 meters deep underground, System shook his head.

There are still many things to worry about, System decided not to think about it too much, and strengthened the experience bar that had already been stored on top of his [Pupation] talent.

After these days of strengthening, System's [Pupation] talent has reached 99% of level 16. System has only used very little experience, and the [Pupation] talent has naturally reached the third level. Level 17 of the next degeneration.

System did not wait quietly, and began to devour the food around him continuously, and System's abdomen also bulged rapidly.

Ten minutes later, some cracks appeared in System's bulging abdomen due to the food and some blood flowed out. System began to repair the cracked abdomen with [Super Speed ​​Regeneration] and stopped eating at the same time.

99% experience bar, 120% satiety, 98% mental power, 99% vitality, 98% special energy...

The various values ​​of System's body have basically reached their peak state, which can be said to be the most perfect time to pupate.

Before long, a unique rhythm from the blood appeared.

System knew that his chrysalis was about to begin.

Similar to the feeling of itching all over the body during [Metamorphosis and Growth], System's body became itchy, and the body's exoskeleton gradually became softer.

However, unlike the last time when his body twitched like a disorientation, System was still able to control his body very well at this time, whether it was his tentacles or his chest and abdomen, he could control it with his will.

Soon following the rhythm in his blood, System retracted his tentacles into his body, and at the same time the glands in his throat [Plague Mucus] secreted a unique active mucus.

These active mucus gradually covered his whole body according to System's will, and his eyes and antennae were quickly melted by the mucus, and he lost his vision, hearing, and smell.

The active mucus gradually became hard and formed the appearance of a pupa due to the peristalsis of the mucus, and System's body was also completely softened and gradually turned into a liquid.

System waited quietly, waiting for the unique fluctuations in his blood during the process of [molting and growing] or [pupa], allowing him to strengthen an ability. This time, System still intends to choose to strengthen the [numerical code]. ].

But after waiting for a long time, the unique fluctuation did not come.

"The time for the third pupation is very long, maybe it will take a long time."

System thought to himself, and opened the [Tools Menu] at the same time, boringly watching past video data to pass the time.

But it didn't take long for System to wait, System's spirit felt dizzy, and he felt that the whole world was spinning.

System once again felt as if he was drunk and drank.

He felt himself transformed into a mucus whirlpool again, and at the same time, the nearly half-meter-high worm pupae formed by System also spun like a spinning top.

The force of this rotation was far greater than the force of System’s first pupation. The pupae kept spinning in the empty room. Because of the irregularity of the soil in the empty room, the pupae transformed by System went up and down in the empty room. Flying and bouncing, the sound of impact is continuous...

If it wasn't for the sturdy pupa shell that System turned into, he might have already died.

The spinning pupae lasted for more than ten hours before stopping, and System passed out in a coma too.

The unconscious System naturally did not know that the reason why the chrysalis had been spinning for so long was because he had eaten too much.

It's not that it's not good to eat more, but that System's body will be converted into liquid after pupation, so these foods that have not been fully digested must be fully digested and converted into energy in System's body.

But no matter what, System's pupation this time, even if he hadn't eaten so much, he would still be in a coma.

...

System, who was in a coma, seemed to have had a dream, a very real dream.

In the dream, he seems to have become a familiar and unfamiliar green-tailed grasshopper. He usually eats grass and leaves, and occasionally eats rotten fruits that fall from trees, and escapes from the hands of preying on insects and birds countless times. .

In the end the dream ended with him mating with a beautiful female green-tailed grasshopper, and at the end of the dream his fangs were still shaking slightly, as if to say something.

"Even if the grasshopper opens his mouth, he can't speak. He thinks every day and dreams at night. Did I have this dream because I lost the ability to mate?"

System realized that he was dreaming, but soon he reappeared in a new dream, still the dream of a green-tailed grasshopper.

In the dream, he seemed to have become a female green-tailed grasshopper. Before birth, all her grasshopper eggs and siblings had been eaten by a little mouse, and only she was lucky enough to survive.

Her luck has not stopped, mantis, spider, scorpion...

She suffered more than a dozen fatal crises, but she escaped in a thrilling manner, and eventually she turned into an adult grasshopper, and selected the strongest of the three male green-tailed grasshoppers for mating.

This time, the dream ended completely after she laid eggs, and she was also at the last moment of the dream, and the chelating teeth in her mouth trembled slightly, as if she had said something.

Without waiting for System to think between the dreams, the next dream appeared immediately.

This time, he was still a green-tailed grasshopper, and he was also a female. This time, after hatching from the eggs, she went smoothly without any hostile creatures, because her body was very beautiful, attracting dozens of people. Only male green-tailed grasshoppers, she finally picks the most beautiful looking male green-tailed grasshopper to mate with.

But before she was about to lay her eggs, her luck seemed to run out. A sudden sting appeared, her body was clamped by the legs of a piebald mantis, and her head was eaten by the mantis.

However, before she died, two grasshopper eggs flowed out of her abdomen, and the claws on her head also vibrated gently, as if she was saying something before she died.

One dream after another.

This time System became a congenitally deficient male green-tailed grasshopper, and no other grasshopper sisters were born with him.

Perhaps it was too early when the eggs were released. System was very fragile after birth, unable to bite even the tenderest leaf buds, and could only survive by sucking the microorganisms in the sewage of a mud pit.

In the end, he found some similar grasshopper eggs, which grew up by eating his body, and could eat plants to maintain life.

But even so, it was difficult to change his congenitally deficient body. After several near-deaths, he became an adult grasshopper with only half the size of an ordinary green-tailed grasshopper.

However, he still found a mate before he died, a female grasshopper who was also born with deficiencies, and before the end of the dream, he still said something.

...

In this way, one dream after another, System experienced many, many dreams like a revolving lantern, and experienced many strange grasshopper lifetimes.

He even once turned into a grasshopper egg buried in the ice and snow.

It has also experienced many times that grasshoppers take off in groups and become one of the thousands of locusts.

System gradually understood that these dreams were nothing but the experiences of his grasshopper ancestors. Every one of his grasshopper ancestors seemed extremely lucky to survive, and he was the superposition of these countless fortunes. out of existence.

System knew that the grasshopper's bloodline could not convey so many and such detailed dreams.

These dreams should have been simulated by his intelligent grasshopper based on his bloodline. It cannot be said to be fake, but ordinary grasshoppers would not have such dreams.

The grasshopper ancestors in the dream seemed to want to convey something to him.

System felt it carefully...

At this moment, countless voices suddenly appeared in System's mind——

"Live.", "Live...go.", "Live!", "...live.", "Live."...

The words spoken by the grasshopper at the end of each dream became clear, and each word contained expectations and blessings. These dense voices made System's spirit hum as if it were a humming sound. The spirit was incomparably shocked.

System suddenly woke up from the state of lethargy.

"……Thank you."

System didn’t know how long he had fallen asleep during the pupation process, and even the [Tools menu] didn’t show the time.

But if he doesn't wake up again, maybe he won't be able to wake up again, completely turned into a dead chrysalis.

In the final analysis, although he has the talent of [Pupation], and he has had a brief pupation before, but his bloodline is still not completely compatible with the talent of [Pupation], and this third pupation is also very dangerous.

If it wasn't for the serial dream that the grasshopper bloodline gave him, maybe he wouldn't have a chance to wake up at all.

According to the rhythm in his blood, System controlled the gentle rotation of the liquid in the pupa.

As if taking a deep breath, System's body suddenly changed from a stuffy state to refreshed, and his body became extremely relaxed.

Before long, the unique rhythm from the blood finally appeared.

-Choose it.