Laws of the Insect Hive

If System hadn't acquired powerful vision after the third molting, he would not have been able to notice these little things in the air.

Before the snow and ice, System had never seen this kind of insect, and it seemed that it was a small insect suitable for surviving in the cold.

This white insect is very small, only less than 0.1 mm in size. Even when System just woke up, it was dozens of times the size of this small insect.

The white insects have two pairs of wings, similar to the appearance of flies. Hundreds of them gather together, and from a distance they look like ice and snow rolled up by the cold wind.

System tried to check these little bugs with his tentacles, but the insects were too small and smooth. Even if they were rolled up with their tentacles, they couldn’t feel them, so they couldn’t be checked with [Sensing] at all.

Reluctantly caught it and put it in his mouth, System did not taste any special taste. It is estimated that if he swallowed dozens of them in one bite, he should be able to taste the taste, but it was too difficult to capture that way.

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Although this tiny insect encountered in the ice and snow did not help System in any substantial way, it provided System with hope for survival.

Just like the five-day rainstorm, the life in the forest gradually recovered after the rainstorm. In this icy world, the forest will definitely not die out, even bugs can survive.

It's really not good, he can go to the blue lake hundreds of kilometers away to catch some fish and shrimp like the white bear of Neris' former contractor.

Continuing to climb the trees with tentacles, the Sith once again swayed forward with tentacles between the branches.

In my memory, not far from here, there was a tree where the butterfly pupae hung slowly, which should be of the same species as the butterfly pupae that System had discovered before the second molting.

At first, because he had so many ants to support him, he didn't need to worry about food at all, so after he found these butterfly pupae, he only detected two of them with his tentacles, and ignored the others. Now they can be used as his food reserves.

A few minutes later, System came to the tree covered with butterfly chrysalis as he wished. There were about fifty pupae densely packed.

Through the touch of tentacles and the use of [Teleportation], System found that most of the fifty or so chrysalis had died due to the severe cold, and only three were still alive.

And two of these three are already extremely weak, and it is estimated that they will die soon, and only one butterfly pupa is left with abundant vitality.

Picking off the worm pupae with abundant vitality and using the tentacles to [perceive], the Sith found that the worm pupae possessed a kind of frost energy. Can survive in ice and snow.

After trying to communicate with this chrysalis using [Teleportation] for a while, and finding it difficult to communicate, System decided to bring this chrysalis back to the temporary nest and study it slowly in the future.

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And just as System used his tentacles to transport a dozen of them back to the nest and back again, System felt the strange footsteps in the wind and snow with his tentacles, and soon he noticed the uninvited guest in the distance. A two-meter-tall humanoid with white skin and icy blue armor.

The white-skinned humanoid was extremely ugly, with a bald head and pointed ears. From the appearance, System felt a bit similar to the goblins he had seen before, just like a goblin giant.

This giant goblin held a huge ice crystal axe in both hands, and he kept looking around, as if searching for something.

After a few minutes, the giant goblin found his target. He went straight to a tall tree with many branches and swung the axe in his hand.

"Cut down the tree? What is it doing?"

System put the butterfly chrysalis grasped on his tentacles into his mouth. While eating the ice cream-like chrysalis, he watched the movements of the goblin giant from a distance.

Just like System is not good at digging, this goblin giant who only uses an axe can't cut wood.

Even System, who had never chopped a tree before, knew that to chop a tree, he had to keep slashing at the same spot, instead of slashing at the tree with an axe.

"Could this goblin use this tree to practice his axe?"

System watched the goblin giant's slashing movements from a distance, but he didn't feel like it. It seemed that the goblin giant was simply chopping down trees.

Although the goblin giant's logging techniques were poor, relying on his strong physique, the goblin giant brought down the tree in about an hour.

System originally thought that the goblin giant would do something by cutting down the trees, but he did not expect that the goblin would abandon the felled trees, pick up the axe and search around.

Seeing the goblin giant leave, System used his tentacles to move and landed on the felled tree.

This felled tree, System, has been seen several times in the forest. The leaves of the tree are wide and oval, and the tree will also grow some oval green nuts about two centimeters.

The trees exuded a very strange smell. Every time System saw it, he felt a little familiar, but he couldn’t figure out exactly where he was familiar.

System used his tentacles to pick off a green nut from a branch. Apart from the hardened skin, the fruit inside was not bad. It was similar to the experience provided by mushrooms of the same weight. It was also a good food. reserve.

System waved his tentacles, continued to pick a few fruits of this tree, and put them into his mouth to chew.

The sound of the continuous axe colliding with the tree came out again...

System, who was eating nuts, found that the Goblin Giant was about thirty meters away from the tree, and continued to chop down with an axe.

System climbed up the tree again and watched from a distance, he found that the two trees that the goblin was chopping were identical.

"Could it be that this tree hides a secret?"

System was thinking while eating the nuts of this kind of tree. This kind of tree exudes a certain smell, which he always felt familiar, but couldn’t recall clearly.

As far as the shape of the tree and its fruits are concerned, it is somewhat similar to the oak tree in System's past life memory.

"oak?"

System’s worm head showed a puzzled expression, and it didn’t take long for System’s puzzled expression to become clear.

He finally thought of why the smell of this tree was so familiar. This smell was not a plant, nor an insect or animal, but the old Druid.

There must be some special connection between the goblin giant who chops down oak trees, and the old druid who smells of oak trees.

While System was constantly thinking about it, along with the faint sound in the wind and snow, a creature with golden hair and black spots resembling a leopard appeared from a distance, making System's [intuition] alert.

【Frost Form】Activate!

System immediately transformed into [Frost Form] and used his tentacles to climb to the top of the nearby trees...