Chapter 62: Shava's 2nd pupation

After 　　 transformed into [Frost Cold Form], Sisterm could clearly feel the frosty energy free in the forest, much more clearly than in the normal form.
　　 He can simply manipulate these energies to make them condense and form snowflakes, just like the snowflakes he saw at a height of kilometers.
　　 At the same time, he can also control these frosty energy to enter his body and convert it into experience points more efficiently.
　　Sistem discovered that through the contract with the Ice Elf, his experience bar had unknowingly reached 98% of level 12.
　　 If he does not use the [Abilities Enhancement Technique] to consume these experience points, he can only reach level 13 in less than a day by absorbing the free frost energy in the air.
After 　　 changed into [Frost Cold Form], the ice wizard Neris successfully regained consciousness.
　　 But Sisterm found that when his [frosty form] was lifted, as the icy blue halo above his head disappeared, Neris would also lose movement, as if she had fallen asleep.
　　 According to Neris, this is a means by the Ice Spirit to reduce physical consumption.
　　 After making a contract with creatures, they will fall asleep most of the time.
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　　 Nelise would fall asleep most of the time outside of [Frost Cold Form], which made Systrom very satisfied. After all, it was so strange that an icy blue halo appeared on the head of a grasshopper.
　　If it was daytime, it would be okay. At night, when something glowing with blue light appeared on his head, Systrom felt uncomfortable thinking about it.
　　 Feeling his own body, Sisterm realized that his body had undergone some special changes after the contract with Neris.
　　 The roots of his tentacles become slightly itchy, and special nutrients are produced in his body's blood, and these nutrients are gathered into his tentacles.
　　Sistem found that the tentacles on his body were starting to grow again, and at the roots of the feet with only two tentacles, there was also a third tentacle granulation.
　　 It seems that the tentacles on each of his limbs have to make up three, a total of eighteen, and each tentacles will continue to develop until it becomes 30 cm in length and half a centimeter in thickness.
　　 This change caused Sisterm's body, Sisterm felt that it should be his new ability [Ice Spike] under [Frost Cold Form].
[Ice Spikes] will produce ice spikes at the ends of Systrom's tentacles. Perhaps it is this ability that drives Systrom’s [Regeneration of Limbs] and [Insect Adaptability] to keep his body Mutation occurred, allowing his body to adapt more to the environment and increasing his survivability.
　　Using [Perception] to feel the unique information in my own blood, Systrom learned more about the secondary development of this tentacle.
　　 If this mutation reaches the limit and the growing tentacles become stable, he will completely lose the opportunity to re-grow the grasshopper's feet, and completely replace the feet with tentacles.
　　 But Systrom is not incapable of stopping the changes in his body.
　　 Systrom has a feeling that as long as he cuts all his tentacles from the roots with his teeth, he can stop this change in his body.
When he breaks these tentacles, his [regeneration of limbs] can function normally. As long as the nutrients are sufficient, he will no longer grow tentacles, regenerate the exoskeletons of the limbs, and turn him back into a grasshopper. The original appearance of six feet.
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　　 After some consideration and choice, Sisterm finally let go of the changes in his tentacles.
　　 The tentacles with more than a dozen tentacles growing out of the body are not in line with Systrom's aesthetics, but the six exoskeleton legs of the grasshopper are not much better, and the appearance is equally ugly.
　　 So after consideration, Systrom decided to keep these flexible and versatile tentacles.
　　The only pity is the powerful thighs of the grasshopper that can bounce.
　　 But after his wings grow back and he has the ability to fly, the jumping ability of the grasshopper is not that important.
　　 After feeling the tentacles of his body for a short time, Systrom went on the road again. Before the sky was completely dark, he finally managed to return to the temporary lair covered by ice and snow.
Just as Sisterm used his [intuition] foreboding and used the ability to perceive [Psychic Transmission], Sisterm found that in addition to Shava, only two of the nearly twenty ants he raised had consciousness. .
　　 One is the female ant he has been focusing on training, and the other should be a worker ant.
　　 Shava's mental fluctuation seems a little strange. Although she still has a certain level of consciousness, she seems to have lost the ability to sort out language with mental information, and can only convey some joyful emotions like ordinary ants.
　　Sisterm found the direction and immediately began to clear the snow above the temporary lair with his tentacles.
　　 It is a pity that Systrom is not good at digging by nature. Both the grasshopper's body and Systrom are not good at digging.
With fifteen flexible tentacles, Sisterm took three hours to successfully dig from above the snow to the entrance of the temporary lair. The loose sand-like snow made the digging speed slower. Not coming up.
　　 Pulling aside the soft snow at the entrance of the cave, Sisterm entered the passage of the temporary lair.
　　 Some of the shimmer mushrooms remaining in the passage in the temporary nest have lost their light. It seems that these mushrooms have not fully grown to the limit and stopped growing because of the cold.
　　 These mushrooms did not completely die. Through [Teleportation], Systrom could feel the faint mood fluctuations of the fungus in the mushrooms. Nearly one-tenth of the mushroom fungi are still alive, but have entered a dormant state.
　　 But compared to mushrooms, the ant people of Weststrom are not so lucky.
　　 This temporary nest was widened according to his body shape, and the depth of the nest was only one and a half meters, which made it easy for cold to invade it.
In the nest tunnel less than half a meter deep, Systrom found five dead worker ants. The worker ants' IQs are too low. They may not understand that the cavity in the nest is warmer than the colder tunnel. some.
But the temperature of the empty room is not so high. It didn’t take long for Systrom to find three ant larvae and the body of a mature worker ant in an empty room. They were crowded in the corner of the empty room and eventually died. Dropped ~EbookFREE.me~ and continued to search the empty chambers of the temporary nest. Systrom found more ant carcasses, as well as the female ant and another worker ant who had survived in the nest.
　　 They have all been [pupaized] and turned into a pupal state.
　　The pupa of the female ant is seven or eight times larger than that of the worker ant. It seems that the female ant larvae have eaten a lot in these days.
　　Sistem used the tentacles to perform a simple inspection on the female ant and the worker ant, and found that the two surviving ant pupae possessed a similar ability to [cold resistance].
　　Sistem speculated that the ants encountered cold weather in the process of [Pupation], thus activating the ability of the body to resist the cold.
　　 The pupa of the female and worker ants were set up. It didn't take long for Systrom to find Shava in the empty room of the mouse's corpse.
　　 The corpse of the mouse in the empty room has disappeared by one third. It is not known whether it was eaten by Shava alone, or if it was eaten by the corpse of the mouse with many ant larvae.
　　 Looking at what Shava looks like now, Systrom also understood why Shava could not clearly respond to his spiritual message.
　　 Shava had obviously entered the second pupalization, all the exoskeleton of her body softened, forming a huge pupa about 12 cm in length.
　　 But the pupa formed by Shava is not complete. The pupa's skin is rough and deformed, and the pupa has a diamond-shaped gap of about three centimeters with some white juice flowing out of it.
　　The internal heartbeat of the chrysalis of the Sava worm is also very abnormal, the beating is irregular, sometimes it stops beating, and sometimes it beats several times in a row.
　　 Fortunately, due to the cold weather, the white sap in the pupa gap did not flow too much and was frozen, otherwise Shava might have died because of the second pupalization that failed...