Laws of the Insect Hive

Perhaps the centipede demon’s body contained the blood of insects and some arthropods, and System could feel the emotions of this creature a little.

Although it was not very clear, System could still feel the chaos and madness in the emotions of this creature.

Unlike System, who could feel the emotions of most creatures, the emotions produced by this big centipede were fundamentally different.

Not to mention intelligent life.

Plants, fungi, slimes, all kinds of bugs.

There are many species that System can feel the emotions of life. They generally have low intelligence, and their behaviors are also strange, and their emotions are also different.

The root of these emotions can be roughly divided into two types, one is for their own survival, and the other is for the continuation of the race.

Whether it's a slime that likes to roll in the mud, or a butterfly larva that is always looking for leaves to feed on, or a bee or ant that guards the nest regardless of its own life, they are all like this.

And this big centipede with obvious low intelligence, what is contained in the depths of emotion is destruction.

The meaning of its existence is to kill the living life around it.

For no reason, this big centipede simply felt the breath of System and Shava, and wanted to tear System and Shava to pieces.

But after feeling it carefully, System discovered another emotion in this big centipede besides destruction.

This big centipede has a unique desire for his and Shava's flesh and blood, and wants to devour him and Shava's flesh and blood.

I don't know if it's because of the insect blood in him and Shava, or because he and Shava are living beings.

System found that the centipede seemed more interested in him and Shava than the flesh and blood of the gnoll zombie.

...

With some pain and anger, the centipede demon from the abyss began to be cut off by Shava little by little.

"It seems that the pain caused by being cut off is much weaker than that of ordinary creatures. Are you not afraid of pain..."

While observing the centipede demon being attacked by Shava, System tried to communicate with this creature using the ability of [mental connection], which means lying.

For example, tell this big centipede that he and Shava's flesh possess deadly poison; that he and Shava are already destroyed; or that he and this big centipede are of the same kind...

It's a pity that System lied to this centipede even worse than when he deceived adult ants. The big centipede didn't react to what he said at all, and couldn't communicate at all.

In order to prevent the centipede from struggling too violently, System ordered Shava to speed up the slashing, trying to make the centipede quieter.

As Shava further accelerated, the centipede demon's legs were gradually chopped off by Shava, rolling and struggling on the ground like a snake.

However, the centipede whose legs were cut off was not a snake after all. Although its body was still very active, after the legs were cut off, it could only toss around on the ground, and basically did not leave the place for half a step.

Not long after, when Shava cut off the chelicerae on the centipede's head, System also flew down from the sky.

"1, 2, 3, 4... 37, 38, 39, 40."

It is basically the same as the ordinary little centipede in the Liert Forest. This centipede demon also has 20 pairs of legs, and even the chelicerae on the head of the centipede are the same.

It seems that this centipede demon, although the body is a demon, has a lot of centipede blood in its body, so it maintains the shape of a centipede.

System picked up a severed centipede leg and put it into his mouth again to taste it.

The taste is similar to the corpses of the three centipedes eaten in the lair. Because of the abyss blood, the flesh and blood of these centipedes still tastes sweet and spicy.

However, it was different from eating the corpse of a demon before the third pupation.

Today's System no longer finds this kind of food unpalatable, but thinks it tastes okay.

Although there may be some confusion in the body and a slight abnormality in the mood, it is not serious.

It's like children are generally sensitive to spiciness, but when they grow up, the sense of spiciness will be much worse, and System feels that he is almost the same.

...

Ten minutes later, System and Shava devoured most of the centipede's legs in front of the centipede demon.

For this kind of food, Shava tastes ok, and eating a little will not cause any problems.

However, this kind of food will still have a lot of side effects on other ant riders. As for the ordinary ants that Linda just produced, it will have serious consequences.

It can only be used as food for ordinary ants by the secondary digestion of slimes.

After more than ten minutes, the centipede demon's emotions were still chaotic and violent, but because the centipede lost too much blood due to the broken legs, the centipede's tossing rate had been greatly reduced.

System also took this opportunity to wrap his tentacles around the centipede's body to perform [perception].

Recalling the centipede with rat-man arms in the previous cave and the centipede with jackal tusks on its exoskeleton, System felt that the centipede demon should contain a meatball-like [devouring mutation] in its body. 】Ability.

It's a pity that he [perceived] for a while. Regarding this ability, System couldn't detect it at all, just like when he [perceived] the meat ball with his tentacles.

But without [perceiving] this ability, System discovered a special feature of this centipede demon.

Normally, System's tentacle's [Sense] will have an aphrodisiac effect on creatures once activated.

Even his son Meatball had a similar reaction, and it was precisely because of this that System was able to know that Meatball was a male worm.

However, this centipede did not react at all to System's tentacles, which was very strange.

This reminded System of his old friend Slime, who could resist the aphrodisiac effect of his tentacles, and Slime should be one of the few.

"Could it be that this giant centipede is also asexual like a slime? But in this case, how can this centipede produce offspring?"

System staring became weaker and weaker due to excessive blood loss. Centipede fell into contemplation.

And at this moment, the big centipede wrapped around System's tentacles suddenly started to tremble irregularly.

As if it was the [pupation] or [molting growth] of an insect, the body of the centipede began to twitch violently, and the exoskeleton and flesh on the body shrank violently like the molting of an insect, but the magnitude was obviously more severe.

There was a clattering sound...

Within a dozen or so breaths, the exoskeleton dross on the surface of the giant centipede began to fall off, and the shape of the giant centipede in System's tentacles had changed, and an oval brown sarcoma nearly half a meter high appeared.

Soon, the half-meter-high brown sarcoma began to wriggle violently.

With the pungent smell of sulfur, the sarcoid began to shatter, and an abyssal creature resembling a little devil appeared on System's tentacles.

Using his tentacles, System ripped off one of the little devil's arms and put it in his mouth to taste...