Chapter 73: The Devil from the Abyss (Part 2)

　　 The weird and strange life manipulates the ants that grow out of its body to perform simple activities.
　　 controlled the ant's claw teeth to bite the half of the butterfly larvae on the side for a while, then it opened its circular mouth again, and the gray-white ant that grew out of its body ate the remaining half of the butterfly larva.
　　 The surface of the meat ball continued to squirm, and this time the squirming became more intense.
　　 It didn't take long for its body to grow eight thick black exoskeleton legs. The entire meat ball surface was covered with a hard black exoskeleton, and the meat ball was still changing.
　　 The whole meat ball eventually turned into a black spider nearly half a meter in size, but unlike ordinary spiders, this spider had a pair of cicada-shaped translucent wings growing on its body.
　　 The black spider opened its feet and moved for a while. It shook its head and looked at itself, and then observed the surrounding snow for a while, as if thinking about something.
　　 It didn't take long for the exoskeleton on the black spider's body to vibrate gently, the black gradually faded, and the black spider slowly turned to gray, and from gray to white like snow.
　　 It spread its wings and began to fly in the forest. It stretched out the tentacles that ordinary spiders don’t have, and began to search...
　　 The white spider has no name.
　　 It may have had a name, the name was named, but because the shadow has been away for a while, it has forgotten.
　　 It even forgot whether he had a name.
　　 Since Ying disappeared a few months ago, and the angry owner searched for it several times but failed to find it, it took over the work of Ying.
　　 Let it go to the main world to find and catch bugs that break the limit of the species, and pay attention to whether there are traces of shadows, and kill them if they are found.
　　 Since its third pupation, it has a certain wisdom
　　 The white spider couldn't understand why its owner had to work so hard to send it to the main world to find those weak bugs.
　　 Insects that can be crushed easily have no value at all.
　　 But as long as the master orders him to do, he will do his best.
　　 The few ants just now are very close to the species limit. The white spider feels it is a pity. Only a little bit, he can complete the task given to it by the owner.
　　 There are still seven days, and the white spider knows that after the luminous thing in the sky rises and falls seven times, it will return to the abyss due to the [Insect Swarm Teleportation] cast by its master.
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　　Sistem returned to the wintering lair with Shava, and he never found the breath of the abyss and felt no more disturbed along the way.
After planting a few frost flowers in the snow near the nest, Systrom finally made up his mind and decided to rest tonight, and when he regained his energy tomorrow, he began to transform his talent [degeneration and growth] into [pupaization] ].
　　 After entering the nest, Sisterm went to the huge empty room where Linda the queen was as usual, and checked the status of Linda the queen.
　　 In the past six months, Systrom did not find a male ant for the female Linda. Although there are sporadic ants living in the neighboring ant nest, there are no male ants among the surviving ants.
　　 Five months ago, the ant nest had completely lost its movement. I don’t know whether the ants died or the ants that survived went dormant.
It wasn't until his ant people explored the ant nest in the last two months that Sisterm knew that the ants in the ant nest had basically been wiped out, and only a dozen worker ant pupae were still dormant underground. on one's last legs.
　　 Although there was no movement in the ant nest, after more than a month of continuous strengthening at that time, the female ant Linda somehow began to lay eggs.
　　 is like a hen that can produce eggs without the presence of a rooster, but those eggs cannot hatch chicks.
　　 Female ant Linda is the same. Since that day, she will produce ant eggs from time to time, but the eggs produced can only hatch worker and soldier ants that are not capable of reproduction.
　　Sistem speculates that this is a way for ants to lose the queen and the male queen at the same time in order to preserve the continuity of the race.
　　 After Sisterm's continuous strengthening over the past few months, and asking Linda the queen to control the number of eggs laid, the quality of her offspring has gradually improved.
　　 Between expanding the scale of ants and producing elite ants, Systrom finally chose the latter.
　　Sisterm knew that if the snow and ice coupled with the lack of food, rashly expanding the size of the ants, it would undoubtedly make his ant people perish themselves.
　　 "Wait two months later, the size of those butterflies will become larger, and then expand the size of the ant colony..."
　　 Sisterm withdrew the tentacles wrapped around the queen's body. Through investigation, Sisterm knew that Linda, the queen, was very close to the second pupalization day.
　　 It is estimated that in about ten days, the queen Linda will enter the second pupalization just like Shava and the dozen or so ants.
　　 However, it is still unknown how long the second pupalization will take to pupa out. It took nearly four months for Shava to successfully pupa out.
As for the dozen or so second pupalized ants, two were soldier ants, and the remaining 13 were worker ants. They all entered the second pupalization one after another in the last month. How long will it last? Systrom couldn't speculate either.
　　 "You may not be able to emerge from the pupa in two months, so wait until you emerge from the pupa and then expand the size of the ant..." Sistrom delivered a spiritual message to Linda, the queen.
　　 "Wang, you said, I don't understand..."
　　 Like the reaction of the queen Linda, although she is more intelligent than ordinary ants, she is obviously not as good as Shava and Queen Kun.
　　 Maybe after her second pupation, her intelligence will become higher.
　　Sisterm shook his head and left the empty room where Linda the queen was.
　　 Speaking of the wisdom of ants, a special ant appeared in Systrom's mind, the worker ant Blake, who was relatively thin.
　　Sistem basically saw Black coming to greet him every time he returned to the lair, but he did not expect to see him this time.
　　 Black is also called Xiao Hei by Systrom, with a small black spot on its head. He is an accidental product of Systrom's failure of a strong chemical ant egg.
　　 At that time, he tried to give the worker ant egg butterfly larva the silking ability, but failed, and then somehow made the worker ant obtain extremely high intelligence.
　　 Even if Xiao Hei is just an ordinary worker ant, her wisdom is higher than Shava ~ EbookFREE.me~ In terms of computing power alone, Xiao Hei has even surpassed him.
　　 More than ten days ago, Systrom taught Xiao Hei a little gobang game because of his boredom.
　　 Draw a grid on a piece of ice he made, and then use dry leaves and ice crystals as chess pieces.
It turned out that the first few rounds were okay. He could basically win easily. After a while, he and Xiao Hei had a difficult victory, and after a few rounds, Systrom would never play this with Xiao Hei again. The game is over.
　　 But in addition to intelligence, Xiao Hei's level of improvement, or the blood in his body is very bad.
　　 But Xiao Hei has an unimaginable spirit of reluctance. Sisterm can feel Xiao Hei's desire to become stronger and help him.
　　 For this reason, Systrom, who had already decided not to lie to the ant people, lied again.
　　 In fact, Xiao Hei does not have the conditions to activate [Spirit Connection] at all, because it is difficult to rise in level, and there is little hope for Xiao Hei to pupate for the second time.
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　　Sisterm briefly patrolled the lair, and it didn’t take long before he saw Black moving between the cavities of the lair.
　　 Black apparently found him and moved quickly to him.
　　 "Wang, I just checked it a few times and removed the worker ants that had gone out foraging before. There were 117 worker ants in the nest, and 5 were missing."
"Ok?"
　　 Systrom showed a puzzled look. Although the ant colony occasionally lost one or two ants in the past six months, it is far too rare to miss five ants at once.
　　At this moment, Systrom's body trembled slightly, and his [intuition] gave him a feeling that the five ants are most likely dead...