Laws of the Insect Hive

In the end, System did not find any living animals, but found a dead animal, a zombie rabbit.

The zombie rabbit still maintains its previous state of action, jumping and moving.

But its body is too stiff to maintain its previous action pattern. Basically, it will fall from the ground every time it jumps, and then spend more than ten seconds struggling to get up from the state of falling.

This zombie bunny is clearly a failed undead.

System also felt the aura of germs infected by [Plague Slime] on this rabbit.

This time, System did not ask Shava to help, and directly used [Plague Slime] to assimilate the carrion on the rabbit.

With the recovery of [Plague Slime], the flesh and blood on the zombie rabbit began to fall off little by little. In just a few minutes, the zombie rabbit turned into a skeleton rabbit, the rotten flesh on the skin fell off one after another, and its internal organs were scattered. land.

After that, the skeleton rabbit jumped a few times, and the blue flame in the skeleton rabbit's brain went out as the blackened brains flowed out of the rabbit's brain.

The Skull Rabbit also lost his movement.

"It seems that just by removing the flesh and blood of zombies, zombies still cannot become skeletons."

System continued to test other zombies, and he quickly selected a nearby zombie wolf and a zombie ratman.

Similar to the ending of the skeleton rabbit, when System assimilated the plague germs on the zombies and recovered the [Plague Slime], the carrion on the two zombies began to fall off quickly.

It didn't take long for the blue flames in the heads of the two zombies to go out after they turned into skeletons, and the two skeletons also collapsed to the ground and completely lost their movement.

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After these zombie experiments, System's health returned to full value, the hunger in his abdomen disappeared completely, and he also gained nearly 10% of his experience.

In some ways, as long as there are enough of these zombies, System can increase his level and strength very quickly.

It is a pity that the species of zombies does not have the ability to reproduce at all. In the Warren Plain, which has been infected like this, the number of zombies will only decrease.

It was obviously unrealistic for System to increase the level by recovering the plague from the zombies.

And compared to the level increase, System valued the improvement of his life level more, that is, the fourth pupation.

He must be fully prepared for the fourth pupation.

The level has been raised to level 60, and the [Pupation] talent level has reached level 21, which is the condition for System's next pupation.

The upgrade of the level will be slower and slower in the later stage, but it is only a matter of time before reaching level 60 over time, but it is obviously difficult to continue to improve the talent level of [Pupation].

Currently, System's [Pupation] talent cap is level 19, and the upper limit of [Pupation] talent cannot be increased by swallowing slime gelatin.

So System had to find another thing that could increase his [Pupation] talent limit, otherwise it would be impossible to continue to improve his life level.

However, System, who was thinking, quickly figured it out, and calmed down the impatience in his heart.

Whether it is the lifting of the [Curse of Severance], or the increase of the upper limit of the [Pupation] talent, it is obviously not something that can be changed in a short time in a hurry.

Even because of the reduction of the [Curse of Severance], he has a lifespan of more than seventy years, so there is no need to be so anxious.

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After looking around again in the sky and finding nothing, System decided to return to the lair.

On the way back, System accidentally found a black scorpion nearly twenty centimeters in a pile of rocks.

The scorpion, which was supposed to be dormant in winter, burrowed through the cracks in the rock, and apparently the near-zero weather didn't affect it much.

System grabbed the scorpion and decided to take it back to its lair and eat it as a snack at night.

But while System was removing the scorpion's tail needle and several legs, System discovered something unusual.

He felt the angry and painful emotions that the scorpion produced.

It seems that after the third pupation, the ability of [Teleportation] has increased, allowing System to experience more types of creatures that can feel emotions.

System estimates that he can feel the emotions of arthropods now, and creatures like centipedes, scorpions, spiders, and crabs can send out spiritual messages and communicate.

But being able to communicate with scorpions or spiders wouldn't bring System any obvious benefit.

System thought about it and quickly killed the unfortunate scorpion. Originally, System planned to save the live scorpion for a late night snack, but the scorpion that sent out anguish was too much. noisy...

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System, who returned to the nest, immediately instructed Queen Linda to start laying eggs and appropriately expand the size of the ants.

After the second pupation, Queen Linda's egg-laying ability improved a lot. In just a few minutes, she expelled a dozen three-centimeter-sized ant eggs.

According to Linda's spiritual information, as long as she has enough food, she can produce nearly a hundred ant eggs of this size every day; and if it is just ordinary ant eggs, she can produce thousands of them in a day.

These ant eggs are several times larger than the ant eggs released by the queen before the second pupation.

You must know that at that time, the queen ant was adhering to the concept of System to produce as much as possible, so only two to three ant eggs would be produced in a day.

However, after System [perceived] with his tentacles, he found that these ant eggs did not actually exceed the scope of ordinary ants, they still belonged to ordinary ants and had no special power.

It may be related to the ability acquired by the queen ant from the second pupation. These ant eggs are already level 5 when they are born, and the bloodline talent in the body is better.

These initial level 5 ant eggs hatch, and after a period of feeding and growth, they will have a higher level when they pupate into adults.

System speculates that each worker ant larva can reach about 5 cm after it becomes an adult worker ant, and as long as it grows a little, it can reach the threshold of secondary pupation level 11.

As long as the talent of [Pupation] is high enough, these ants will naturally enter the second pupation, becoming a worker ant knight of about sixteen centimeters, or become a large worker ant like an excavator.

After a simple calculation, System found that half of the ants would be able to enter the second pupation logically as long as he tried to eat the gelatin that could enhance his [pupation] talent.

With his help, the proportion of ants entering the second pupation will increase.

However, in this way, these newborn ants will undoubtedly cause unimaginable consumption to slimes, and it is estimated that cultivating thousands of worker ants at the same time is the limit.

If there are too many ants, the regeneration rate of the slime's glue will not be enough, making it difficult for the redundant worker ants to pupate the second time.

And now is the winter when food is relatively scarce, even if you don't feed ants with slimes, it is difficult to breed too many ants with other food.

System looked at the dazed ant queen Linda, and finally decided to start at the root of the matter—in order to improve the [pupation] talent of the ant people, it is not necessary for the ant people to eat. Enough slimes can also directly strengthen the queen's abilities.