Chapter 26: Level 10

　　 At midnight, Systrom dragged his bulging abdomen and jumped to the pile of rocks near the pitcher plant, and then jumped to a gap in the pile of rocks he chose during the day.
　　 A slight movement appeared, and a small two-centimeter cricket emerged from the gap, and it quickly burrowed into a narrow gap in the gravel nearby.
　　Sisterm had no idea about his behavior of occupying the magpie's nest and invading the cricket's nest, and ignored the little cricket that had escaped.
　　He started to rest quietly...
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　　 By swallowing [corrosive mucus] into the stomach, Systrom's digestion speed is further improved.
　　 Two or three hours after the next morning, Systrom's exhausted spirit was fully restored.
　　 His balloon-like belly has returned to its normal size, and the slime's gum has basically been digested.
　　 Climbing out of the cracks in the gravel, Sisterm jumped to the mud pit where the slime was last yesterday.
　　 The slime is still still in the mud, the ants in its body have basically melted, and Sisterm can't see the specific appearance of the ants in the glue.
　　 It may be the gum of eating slimes. Sisterm found that he had developed resistance to the scent of plants and woods emitted by slimes. The influence of this scent of plants and woods on his spirit was negligible.
　　Sisterm quickly grabbed a dead branch and tried to tease the slime in the same way as yesterday.
　　 The effect of throwing dead branches twice in a row is not ideal.
　　 The dead branches were bounced away by the glue on the outermost layer of the slime, and the slime's body only trembled irregularly for a few times, and then resumed its static state.
　　 This slime doesn't seem to care about the outside world.
　　 It seems that in a short time, it is no longer possible to continue the tactics of driving tigers and wolves against slimes and ants.
Sisterm didn’t have the guts to face this slime. Although the slime didn’t have much reaction after throwing branches twice, but if he took the initiative to bite the slime’s glue, it would probably be. The violent slime jumped up and swallowed...
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　　 Sisterm left decisively, except for occasionally returning to this silt to see if the slime recovered, he began to explore the surroundings, and at the same time set up his old line of robbing ants.
　　 There is reincarnation in the way of heaven. Ants came to grab him a few days ago. Now he is used to grabbing ants.
　　 Thirty meters away, Systrom once again found an ant nest in a rotting tree, still the red-brown ant that fought against slimes.
　　 The scale of this withered wood ant colony is larger than the one fighting the slime.
　　 The red-brown ant was very fast. The first two or three times of the robbery by Sisterm were not very smooth, and the body was bitten by the ant's chelate several times.
　　 In the process of snatching the second ant, half of the antennae on his head was also bitten off by a quarter.
　　 After the tentacles were broken, Systrom's body balance was a little worse, but it didn't make much difference.
　　 After three consecutive hunts of this red-brown ant, Sisterm basically adapted to the sensitivity of this ant, and then his snatching went smoothly.
　　 Although he is still a bit uncomfortable, Sisterm is never injured again, and as the number of robberies increases, his movements become more and more proficient...
　　 Through observation, Systrom found that the habits of this red-brown ant are slightly different from that of the dark-brown ant, especially in handling food.
　　 They do not chop up the food completely, but like to cut the food into three or five centimeter pieces, and then a few worker ants cooperate to carry the food back to the ant nest.
　　 This habit of red-brown ants is quite convenient for Systrom. He can grab large pieces of food as long as he wanders around three to five meters away from the ant nest.
　　 Every time he snatches it, he can eat it for a long time, and while eating on the high branches, he can also pick the food that these ants will carry next.
　　 Unknown giant eggs, butterfly larvae, full plant seeds, earthworm corpses...
　　 Although this red-brown ant is smaller in size, it is obviously better at hunting than those dark-brown ants, and it catches many kinds of prey.
　　The red-brown ants who were diligent in carrying food reminded Systrom of the feeling of eating a buffet in his previous life. There will always be a variety of foods not far from him, making him wonder how to start.
　　Sistem even snatched a 3 cm-sized spider and a 4 cm-long half centipede from the hands of the ants. The corpses of these two insect hunters were very fresh, and they did not know how the ants hunted them.
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　　 In the next few days, Sisterm spent robbing the ants, exploring the surroundings, and observing the slime.
　　 The process of snatching the ants was basically nothing unusual. During the exploration process, Sisterm discovered seven ant nests, a total of four kinds of ants.
In addition to the dark-brown and red-brown ants known to Systrom, there are also a large black ant measuring 2.5 cm in size and a small gray-brown ant measuring 0.5 cm in size. These small ants have special attack methods. The tail can spray acid from a long distance, and Systrom suffered a lot from the first encounter.
　　 There are some differences in the food that several kinds of ants search for, so these days, Systrom's robber career is very smooth, and he has eaten nearly a hundred different kinds of meat.
　　Different from the smoothness of discovering the ant den, Sisterm's exploration is not very smooth these days. He did not find other slimes within a few hundred meters nearby.
　　 It was magic creatures that he encountered two more, but he could only choose to avoid these two kinds of magic creatures.
One was a big blue-gray bird with feathers entwined with blue electric lights. Sisterm only saw it from a distance and hid in the grass~EbookFREE.me~ to prevent being eaten by birds as a snack; the other was in the night He watched bats glowing with red blood. Bats are also hunters who like to catch insects. Sistem saw that they were close to the ground and gave up foraging that night.
　　 But compared to looking for other slimes, the slime that Systrom focused on regained vitality after resting in the mud for three days.
　　 Its body shape recovered a bit, a little smaller than a football, and then it continued to forage in the forest.
　　Slimes and ants are two creatures like dead enemies. Sisterm only guided them a little, and the slimes started a battle with another colony of ants.
The result of the battle is the same as the last time. Although the species of ants are different, the appearance of the slime escaping from the ant nest is basically the same. They are all glue filled with ant's corpses and broken up during the escape. Scattered all over the place.
　　Sistem was able to swallow this colloidal food for the second time...
　　 In nine days, Sisterm ate slime gum twice again in the same way.
　　 Because of the large amount of experience provided by the slime, Sisterm was upgraded to level 10 on the ninth day, and his figure further increased, becoming 10.5 cm.
　　 Talent [Degeneration and Growth] As he had imagined, he had reached the full level of 13 and at the same time, he also learned the conditions for the third transformation-level 12.
　　 The third decay at level 12 is undoubtedly good news for Systrom.
　　 may be difficult for other grasshoppers, but it is easy for Systrom who has been searching for meat all day.
　　 Even if he didn't deliberately pursue the efficiency of upgrading, just by snatching food from these ants, within 30 days, Systrom could easily reach level 12 and complete the third metamorphosis.