Laws of the Insect Hive

Ten minutes later, System successfully used his tentacles to climb out of the snow.

Looking around, the surrounding is already white, the snow has stopped, but the whole world is covered with ice and snow.

The branches above his head made a creaking noise due to the accumulation of ice and snow and the invasion of the cold wind. Seeing this, System moved his body to a safe area with his tentacles to prevent the branches from being crushed by the snow and smashing his body.

In the process of moving his body, System, who climbed out of the snow, could clearly see his current appearance.

His body is very uneven due to the reduced abdomen, and the length is only about seventeen centimeters. The exoskeleton and wings that cover the wings on the top of the body have disappeared completely, and the antennae seem to have grown back, but only half of the original length. And very fragile.

His shattered right eye also grew, and System could feel the blurry light appearing in the right eye. It was estimated that his blind eye could grow back in a while.

And the strangest thing about his body is the dozen or so tentacles that grew out of his original feet.

He looks extremely ugly now. If he didn't say it himself, no one would believe that he was a grasshopper. In fact, even if he said it, it would be difficult for others to believe it.

System felt the cold wind blowing in the forest for a while, and the temperature on the ground was lower than the temperature in the snow, but it did not affect his current body much.

[Discoloration Camouflage] Activate!

The color of System's epidermis gradually became lighter, except for those brown tentacles, the rest of his body gradually turned into a slightly grayish white, serving as a protective color for his body.

Since System's body is very light, he uses his tentacles to control his body and won't get caught in the snow, so walking on the snow is not difficult.

After trying to walk on the snow for a while and moving his body, System stretched out his tentacles and started to climb a nearby tree.

Unlike the legs, tentacles do not have those tiny barbs on them, making it a little more difficult to use tentacles to climb trees.

But System now has too many tentacles.

Fifteen tentacles of different lengths and full of power were enough for System to handle many things.

The shorter tentacles can be inserted into the gaps in the bark as support, while the longer tentacles can directly wrap the tree to help him fix his body.

At first, I was not very used to using tentacles to climb. After getting used to it for a while, System found that although these tentacles were not as easy to use as his hooked legs and bouncing thighs, they were convenient enough for climbing.

After half an hour of practice, System could even move like an ape between the branches of different trees like a swing, while picking frozen leaves with other tentacles and chewing them in his mouth.

...

The forest after the snow had obviously changed a lot, but by comparing the image records in the [Tools Menu], System still found where he was now.

It was about three kilometers away from his temporary lair. According to his current speed, System estimated that he would be able to return successfully after more than ten hours.

System was very worried about the soldier ant Shava and those ant people. The food in the temporary nest could be eaten for a long time, but the weather in the forest was too cold.

The impact of this heavy snow on the forest was stronger than the heavy rain that System had experienced before. In the forest, there was only the sound of the cold wind colliding with the branches, and System could not hear any insects. .

Except for an unknown bird flying far away, System only saw some tiny footprints on the snow, probably left by creatures like rabbits or mice.

It appears that the snow, while deadly to the bugs, didn't do much damage to the small rodents.

System followed these footprints for a while, and by observing System, he found that the owner of the footprints was not big, and he could try to hunt.

But after searching for the footprints for a while, System couldn’t find anything. The footprints stopped abruptly at the root of a tree. It seemed that the one who left the footprints was a squirrel capable of climbing on trees.

But because of the squirrel's trail this time, System got an unexpected harvest - a frozen spider.

The black spider was curled up under a branch, and it looked like it had frozen to death while avoiding the wind and snow.

System tore the spider's abdomen into small pieces with his tentacles and chewed it in his mouth.

System originally thought that this frozen corpse would be very hard, but it didn’t really taste much different from a live spider. The soft flesh of the spider’s abdomen would melt in his mouth as long as he bit it a little bit. It's like eating ice cream.

After swallowing the spider's corpse, a warm current appeared in System's stomach. This nutrient-rich flesh restored System's physical strength a lot.

After hesitating for a while, System tore off the spider's venom gland and put a small piece into his mouth.

In the end, the spider's venom glands failed to harm System, but instead made his body feel very comfortable. This rich coffee smell boosted System's spirit, and his perception of his surroundings became clearer.

...

After eating the spider's corpse bit by bit, System did not waste a bit of the spider's corpse, even if it was some unpalatable fluff on the surface of the spider's body, he swallowed it.

And just when System swallowed the last piece of flesh and blood of the spider corpse, his body trembled slightly, and [intuition] suddenly brought an uneasy feeling to System.

System used his tentacles to turn his body, and a black bird with wings spread out about half a meter appeared at an altitude of 1,000 meters in the direction where he lost his eyes.

This black bird has a pair of sharp claws, like an eagle's beak, and a pair of piercing eyes.

System knew that this carnivorous black eagle had already spotted him.

Using his tentacles subconsciously, System decisively moved directly under the branch, hiding his body to avoid the attacks of birds in the sky.

But it didn't take long for System to move his body again from under the branch, exposing his body to the sight of the black bird.

Because of the ability of [Super Speed ​​Digestion], not long after the spider's body was swallowed, it was quickly dissolved by the digestion in his abdomen and used to restore his vitality.

System stared at the black birds in the air, his fangs drooling unconsciously.

This black bird may be trying to prey on him, but he is also hungry...

More than a dozen tentacles of different lengths, coupled with [Corrosive Slime] and the newly acquired [Frost Breath] ability, gave System the courage to fight against the opponent.

And his [intuition] is just some unease, not the kind of nervousness about a deadly crisis.

For some reason, System felt that this black bird was not his opponent, there was no reason or basis, he just felt that this black bird could not fight him.

If he fights the black bird and one of them will die, then it must be the black bird.

System shook the tentacles of his body, moved his body to a prominent position in the woods, and kept shaking his body.

The black eagle apparently found him again, and it didn't take long for it to fall from the sky at a high speed and fly in his direction——

System noticed that his saliva was flowing again from his fangs...

Except for the two tentacles wrapped around the branches, System stretched out his remaining tentacles in the direction the Black Hawk was charging to protect his body.

Along with the black eagle's falling claws, System's blocking tentacles were like rubber bands and springs, blocking the eagle's claws from his body.

The black eagle's claws did not touch System's body. System's body flew up with the contact between the claws and the tentacles. At the same time, a cloud of brown gelatin and a The icy blue breath...

The brown gelatin was faster and hit the black eagle's head first, and the Sith directly controlled these slime gels to wriggle towards the black eagle's eyes!

Immediately afterwards, the frosty breath that System exhaled followed, and a layer of frost clearly appeared on the black eagle's head...

[Corrosive Slime] and [Frost Breath] had a lot of conflict. System found that when [Frost Breath] sprayed on the mucus he spit out, his mucus would be frozen and stiff and lose its ability to move. ability.

But that doesn't matter anymore...

Even though these two abilities had a lot of conflict, the black eagle still suffered a lot of damage. It fell from the air and fluttered on the snow not far away. It was obviously hit by System's sudden attack. Unprepared.

Seeing this, System immediately moved over with his tentacles.

He first wrapped his two longest tentacles on the wings of the black eagle to make the black eagle unable to fly, and then used more tentacles to wrap around the joints of the black eagle's body, along with more than a dozen tentacles. Circling back and forth, the black eagle's movements in the snow are getting smaller and smaller...

System once again sprayed [Corrosive Slime] towards the Black Hawk's head, and controlled the sticky glue to squirm toward the Black Hawk's mouth.

System is going to use this sticky glue to block the throat of Black Hawk and make it suffocate to death!

A little bit of time passed, and the Black Hawk struggled more and more violently because of the suffocation. Just when System was about to kill Black Hawk and could have a good meal, his [intuition] once again had an inexplicable feeling.

An ice-blue beam of light the thickness of a human finger suddenly fell from the sky.

This icy blue beam of light penetrated System's body, freezing the black eagle under System into a lump of ice, but System's body was not affected in the slightest.

System found an ice-blue light ball the size of a baby's fist floating in the sky two meters away from him. The ice-blue light beam just now was obviously the masterpiece of this light ball...