Chapter 20: Throbbing

　　 Accompanied by a mysterious green halo, the bird wailing in the hands of the old druid gradually calmed down.
　　 The old druid spoke an unknown language and gently stroked the injured bird with his hand.
　　 It didn't take long for the big bird to open its red-brown wings with the joyful chirping. It flew up and hovered over the old druid's head.
　　 The old druid once again showed his natural aura, which gave Sisterm a feeling of being involved in the natural matrix.
　　Sistem hesitated whether to jump in front of the old druid, show his wisdom to him, and ask how to extend his life.
　　Sisterm hesitated.
　　 Deep down in his heart, he felt that something was wrong with the old druid, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong for a while.
　　 And just as Sisterm hesitated, the pheasant hovering in the sky flew away, and the old druid took a slow and fast step, and disappeared into the forest in three steps and two steps...
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　　 "Why didn't I go there just now?"
　　 It wasn't until the old druid faded away that Sisterm came back to his senses.
　　 Thinking of his two-month life span, Sisterm regretted not being able to rush to the old druid just now.
　　 From the first encounter with the old druid to fish up the creatures in the water, to the look of just saving the big bird, Sisterm felt that the old druid's kindness did not seem to be fake, and it was worth his gamble.
　　 Maybe you can get a way to extend life from the old druid.
　　 But now it was too late to go again, Sisterm jumped to the direction of the old druid, only to find that the old druid had disappeared.
　　 Systrom could only jump back helplessly, came to the blood stain left by the pheasant just now, and decided to eat the blood left by the pheasant.
　　 Near the blood of the pheasant, there were two ants that fell to the ground and twitched. It should be that when these ants attacked the pheasant, they were accidentally run over by the struggling pheasant, and they had become seriously injured.
Sisterm didn’t plan to eat these ants either. He kicked the two hapless ants away. Sisterm observed the surroundings and saw that other ants were eating another blood stain, so he sucked himself. The blood in front of you.
　　 The blood of birds tastes very good, similar to a fragrant milkshake, mixed with some similar to the taste of a certain kind of tea in the previous life, even if you stop sucking blood, this taste will remain in the mouth, making Systrom have endless aftertastes.
　　 is not comparable to the taste of scorpions, but it tastes much better than other foods. The experience provided is about 1.3 times that of the same weight of pupae.
　　 It seems that the flesh and blood of birds is also a kind of food that conforms to the principle of Systrom's delicious experience.
　　 Birds, tadpoles, scorpions, insects, plants, Sisterm has now eaten many kinds of food, he really can't figure out the reason for the abnormal experience of the lizard corpse before.
　　 Did not think too much, and continued to eat a few mouthfuls of blood, because it could not have an effect on [Degeneration and Growth], Systrom decisively gave up this food.
　　 He jumped and left, continuing to look for food that the ants could grab for him...
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　　 Three days passed.
　　Sistem ascended to level 9 as planned, his body size grew from 6.5 cm to 8 cm, and his physical fitness was further improved.
Although the talent from the bloodline [Degenerate Growth] did not rise to level 13, Sisterm felt that he was only a step away. As long as the level was raised to level 10, his [Degenerate Growth] would definitely grow to its limit. Get specific information about the third degeneration.
　　 After reaching level 9 this time, Systrom’s [Insect Adaptability] (11/21) has been upgraded to [Insect Adaptability] (12/21).
　　Sistem once again felt the mysterious picture of [Insect Resilience] in the bloodline sent to him.
　　Countless grasshoppers once again flew freely in the vast world.
At the same time, because of this upgrade, Systrom’s derivative ability [Severed Limb Regeneration] (5/11) has been upgraded to [Severed Limb Regeneration] (6/11); [Dark Vision] (3/5) has been upgraded to [Dark Vision] ] (4/5).
　　 The most significant change is that his [Corrosive Slime] (7/13) has been upgraded by 2 levels to [Corrosive Slime] (9/13).
　　 The glands in Sisterm's mouth have become larger, the venom corrosive ability has become stronger, and the total amount of liquid that can be secreted has nearly doubled.
　　 Not only that, the glands in Sistem's mouth have undergone special changes. Through the newly formed muscles near the glands, Sistem can squeeze and spray the venom of the glands.
　　 is similar to the king cobra that sprays venom, or the black dragon that spits corrosive venom in the fantasy world.
　　 It's just that the distance of the liquid sprayed by Sisterm is very short, and currently it can only spray a distance of a few centimeters.
But in any case, this can be regarded as the only long-range attack method of Sisterm. Although he can also use his feet to grab some small stones for long-range throwing, it is difficult to exert force, even injuring a small ant. Can't do it.
　　 Apart from the upgrade changes, in these three days, Systrom has become more and more familiar with these dark brown ants, and his movements to ants have become more and more proficient.
　　 During these three days, he even used a trick to attract a single soldier ant into the muddy water, and then repeatedly kicked the soldier ant back into the water, eventually killing the exhausted soldier ant unscathed.
　　Different from ordinary worker ants, the black-brown soldier ant has a very thick exoskeleton and a more violent personality. It also has a good combat strategy. It will attack the vital points of the prey, and there is a sting needle that can shoot acid in the tail.
　　 Soldier ants are dangerous, but in some ways, they are even stupid than worker ants.
The eyesight of 　　 soldier ants is obviously stronger than that of worker ants, but they will still rush to the grass sticks covered with formic acid, or even rush into the muddy water.
　　Sistem was also just the stupid soldier ant he used, and successfully killed a soldier ant by using standing water.
The smell of soldier ants' corpses is stronger than that of ordinary worker ants, but the risk of hunting is too great, and the efficiency is far less than that of Sisterm's snatching of food from ordinary worker ants, so Sisterm only tried to kill them for three days. After losing a soldier ant, he chose to give up.
　　 In three days, Systrom had the honor to see two distant relatives of his own grasshoppers.
　　 is different from the larvae. After becoming an adult, it suddenly feels that its kind is very kind.
　　 But only a little contact, UU reading www.uukanshu. The two grasshoppers flew away far away.
　　 In addition to grasshoppers, Systrom found that there are many more mosquito-like insects in the forest, which should be insects that breed in the water during the larval stage.
　　 Although this kind of bug can fly, it is not at the same level as flexible flies, and Systrom can easily catch it when jumping.
　　 With the emergence of the mosquitoes, Sistem once again encountered a few creatures that could put him in danger, and it was the toad that Sistem used to escape by chance.
　　 A few toads may be due to lack of food. In addition to eating mosquitoes, they have been coming to hunt ants near the ant nest for several days.
　　Most of the toad hunts are successful, and the small-scale ants have no power to fight back.
　　 But there was also a toad about ten centimeters in size who came to the mound of the ant nest to look for death.
　　 After being accidentally limped by the sting of a soldier ant, this toad was attacked by four or five soldier ants. As expected, it was directly submerged by a flood of thousands of ants gushing out of the ant nest.
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　　 At noon, after hunting all night and half a day, Sisterm decided to return to the lair to rest.
　　 In the past few days, he has not met the old druid again.
　　 At this moment, Systrom felt an irregular tremor in his body's heart and blood, and he felt an inexplicable sensation in his body.
　　 It's just that Sisterm couldn't perceive this emotion in his heart for a while.
　　 At this moment, accompanied by a special roar, a huge locust flew over him.
　　 The huge locust is more than 20 centimeters long and its body is brown. It dropped its head in the air and flew straight in the direction of Sisterm...