Laws of the Insect Hive

After calculating the time, Ying has been away for more than half a year during his pupation, and he doesn't know when he will come here again and bring those so-called worm partners with him.

"Hopefully it won't bring some weird guys."

System murmured to himself, and at the same time he couldn't help thinking of Ola the butterfly with an awkward personality. Even after a year and a half had passed and his wings grew again, Ola still stayed at home every day like a year and a half ago. its empty room.

When the wings are deformed, he wants to fly with intact wings, but after getting good wings, Aura is too lazy to fly.

Deep in the nest, System put down a clod in his tentacles and picked up a plant seed that had sprouted.

While testing the ability of the newly acquired [Numerical Template], he pondered the disaster that occurred in the Warren Plains.

The wandering zombies were gathered together to attack the town of the gnolls. Obviously, the disaster that lasted for a year on the Warren Plains was not completely over, and it was still going on.

"What is the guy who gathered these zombies doing? Is it the legendary undead natural disaster?"

System's throat made a hoarse voice, and in an instant, System remembered a game plot that he had little contact with in his previous life.

Countless bones in the game climbed from the ground, forming undead legions to destroy one town after another.

The comrades in town who fought side by side one moment will become undead the next, rising from the ground and facing you with their blades.

"Can some high-level undead creatures in this world also inherit some memories from their lifetimes? Do they still remember some common sense or memories from their lifetimes?"

Associating the zombies with their very similar behaviors, System felt that there was a high possibility that some undead creatures with some memories would appear.

Without thinking any further, no matter what, there was almost no possibility of conflict between System and these undead creatures.

As long as it is not the guy who controls these undead creatures and directs these undead creatures to stay above System's lair, System's lair will not be affected.

These zombies don't actively attack the bugs, and they don't need to eat anything to compete with the bugs for resources.

In some ways, the presence of these undead creatures eliminated the upper layers of the Warren Plains food chain, making it easier for the worms to develop.

System was also inspired by these undead creatures, and when the weather is warm in spring, he will also eliminate some upper-level creatures in the food chain, such as the snakes that have gradually increased in the Warren Plains in the past year.

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A few minutes later, following the previous clod, System successfully imparted the ability of [Data Template] to this newly sprouted plant seed.

Using [Data Template] will not only consume the energy in System's body, but also consume System's experience points.

System found that the consumption of [Data Template] on plant leaf buds was significantly higher than that of clods, and slightly higher than that of mushrooms in the previous experiment.

It should be because plants and mushrooms have life.

Since he didn't know much about the ability of [Data Template], System did not directly test his ant people, but first selected some stones, soil and plants to test.

His [Data Template] can be used on almost all inanimate objects, other than that, it can only be used on plants, fungi or insects, which is similar to the scope of [Teleportation].

He can give the other party some abilities in the [Tools menu] by giving [Data Template], such as the ability to record time and direction.

After several experiments, System found that although his [Data Template] ability could be given to clods and plant seeds, it basically had no obvious effect.

There is no obvious difference between before casting [Data Template] and after casting [Data Template].

After the clod is broken into pieces by System, the ability of [Data Template] will disappear, and after the plant seeds are chopped, the [Data Template] above will also disappear.

However, after the sprouted plant seeds were cast by System [Numerical Template], the situation was a little different.

When System separates the plant's bud from the seed, the [Data Template] ability remains on the plant's seed, while the removed bud loses the [Numerical Template] ability.

Which part should still have life, and which part still has the ability of [Numerical Template].

As for the chopped mushrooms, which part has more mushrooms and which part will retain the ability of [Numerical Template], the same is true for slimes.

...

But just after casting the Druid's natural spell [Generate Plant] on this plant seed, System discovered that the [Data Template] on the plant seed had undergone some special changes, which made System have a special effect. a feeling of.

[Numeric Templates] should be more than just giving small abilities in the [Tools Menu].

System felt the change of [Numerical Template] and continued to use the power of [Plant Growth], and the buds on the plant seeds also grew rapidly.

Because there is no sunlight deep underground, the buds of the seeds grow to about 5 cm and stop growing.

System put down the plant that he had just spawned, and took out another seed of the same plant, while applying the ability of [Data Template] to the plant seed.

This time, System consumed ten times as much experience as the previous [Data Template] ability.

A few minutes later, this seed was successfully given [Data Template] by System, and System also used his [Growing Plant] ability again.

It didn't take long for this seed to be catalyzed by System into a plant of about 5 centimeters.

System picked up the two seeds with his tentacles at the same time and compared them.

As System had expected, the plants formed by the two seeds were extremely similar.

It's not just because they belong to the same plant, the two plants have the same shape in terms of the thickness of the branches and the position of the plants' forks.

There are only a few vein patterns on the leaves, which are slightly different in size from a few leaves.

"Is this the so-called template..." System murmured to himself.

Yes, the reason why the two plants became so similar was precisely because of the [Data Template] ability that System used.

The ability of this kind of template is actually not difficult to understand. [Data Template] fixed the distribution of experience points after plant growth, so that plants can grow according to the growth pattern of template plants as much as possible.

That's why System gave the second seed [Data Template] much more experience than the first seed.

Just like the career templates in online games, the characters of the same race have different effects each time they upgrade due to the different occupations they choose.

Warriors are stronger, mages have more magic, and thieves have more agility.

System's [Data Template] is also a similar existence, which can make creatures grow according to the template he set as much as possible.

System immediately thought of using this [data template] to control the growth of the ant people, so that his ant people could grow as strong as possible.

However, at present, System [Data Template] still has a lot of shortcomings. It can only simply replicate the growth process of ants, and it must be given to [Data Template] from the ant eggs for recording, and the template cannot be modified.

In addition, the experience value he consumes to cast this template is too high.

Ordinary clods will consume about 1% of his experience, and plant seeds will consume about 3% of his experience. After giving a special [numerical template], plant seeds will consume nearly 30% of his experience.

The number of ant people is too large, and System cannot afford to consume such experience points.