Laws of the Insect Hive

After continuing to use this [Numerical Template] ability on the eggs of the ant people, System found that the consumption of this template was higher than the consumption of plant seeds.

The consumption of ordinary [Data Template] is not too much, and it is not much different from the seeds of plants, and it only consumes about 3% of the experience.

However, if a template of an ant egg growing into an ant larva is copied and given to another ant, the consumption of System's experience points will increase several times to dozens of times.

The higher the level of the ants copied by [Data Template], the more experience it consumes.

Although the proportion of these experience will gradually decrease after System's level is increased, but for now, unless there are many zombies to send experience, it will take System at least a few days to accumulate this experience.

Unless an extremely talented ant, System is basically impossible to use this ability.

And the growth template of one ant is forcibly applied to another ant, and it may not be completely applicable, and it is very likely that there will be thankless results.

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However, although the special ability of [Data Template] consumes too much, the [Tools Menu] attached to the ordinary [Data Template] is still very useful for ants with wisdom.

System was not stingy either, and began to grant this ability to a dozen or so ants that had pupated twice, including Shava and Blake.

The [Tools Menu] possessed by Ant Citizens is much more simplified than System's [Tools Menu] abilities.

There is no ability to store images, watch videos, and view self-information. There are only some small functions compiled by System with [Data Compilation], such as time, direction, length measurement, thermometer, calculator, and System’s pupation. Some small games compiled because of boredom.

System originally thought that these little games would somehow make his ant people curious, and tried to play them.

But in fact, except for the intelligent Black, other ants basically do not try to play these games. Their intelligence is still very limited, and it is difficult to understand even the time clock, let alone these complicated little games.

As for the reason that Shava, who is wise enough to play these games, doesn't play these games, it is because Shava found one of her treasures - a calculator from the [Tools menu].

Since she figured out the principle of the calculator, Shava often pestered System, asking System to ask her about addition and subtraction other than 6, which made System very annoying.

For this reason, System decided to increase the difficulty of the question, turning the direct addition and subtraction problem into a relatively complex math application problem, and then asked Shava.

For example, there are 31 grass seeds, 5 are eaten today, 8 are found tomorrow, 15 are eaten, 3 are lost, and how many are left in the end.

Just add a few steps to the problem, and Shava can't figure it out even with a calculator.

And this question about grass seeds, Shava thought hard for an hour, and finally replied to System: "If it takes another day, these grass seeds will be eaten up by me!"

At this point, Shava stopped showing off her rapid math skills to System, and instead started pestering Blake or Ora the Butterfly to show off her computing ability.

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The winter in the Warren Plains is very calm, and it is still the same as before. Occasionally, one or two wandering zombies will come to System's lair and actively contribute experience to System.

The first batch of eggs produced by Queen Linda finally hatched after seven days, and began to scramble to eat the glue of the slime controlled by Queen Linda.

After a simple inspection, System estimated that it would only take four or five days for these larvae to turn into pupae and then adult ants.

And in these days, System finally met and captured a live gray mouse, nearly twenty centimeters in size.

And also caught what Shava called a black bird, a carrion-eating crow.

Through close contact between live mice and zombie mice, System finally understood why the Warren Plains had undergone such drastic changes during the year, and there were so many undead creatures.

Unlike the zombie mouse, which is indifferent to bugs, when the zombie mouse is close to ten meters away from the live mouse, the zombie mouse will rush towards the live mouse like a frantic and bite.

And when a zombie rat bites a live rat, the live rat is infected with plague bacteria and a special energy that emits a rotten smell.

After more than ten hours, the live mouse gradually died of purple-black pus and blood due to the plague bacteria. After a day or so, the dead mouse turned into a zombie mouse and struggled to get up from the ground. .

The deadly effect of the plague bacteria and the death toxin attached to the zombies are perfectly combined, and they make up for each other's shortcomings.

As for the other crow caught by System, it was another creature in the Warren Plain that was not affected by the plague and the breath of death except for bugs and reptiles.

Although this crow will also be attacked by zombie mice, its body is completely immune to the effects of the plague bacteria, and the zombie flesh and blood containing the breath of death will not have any effect on it, but will become its food.

If System hadn't caught the crow, the crow would have been eating carrion for a long time.

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After observing the time on the [Tools menu] for a while, System fiddled with the crow grasped by his tentacles for a while, then tied the crow again with a straw rope, and decided to eat the crow as a late-night snack after a while. Lose.

"It's about this time."

The time was around 11:15. For the past three days, every time around this time, there would be an inexplicable eerie cry in the lair.

In fact, it can't be said to be a cry, it is more like a spiritual ability similar to his [mental connection], and some disturbing and gloomy and desperate mental fluctuations are heard.

This strange mental fluctuation made System's ant knights a little confused and angry, while the newborn ant larvae produced by the ant queen Linda looked anxious and uneasy.

According to an eyewitness video transmitted by a worker ant knight using [mental connection], the thing that emits this kind of mental wave should use a white spirit body similar to a ghost.

According to Black's words, this white spirit body appeared half a year ago for more than ten days. Later, because it appeared in Aura's room, it was dispersed by Aura.

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Although it was the first time he had encountered such a ghost, System did not feel any fear, but felt rather irritable.

This noise-making ghost was like a buzzing fly, and all System thought about was to catch the roaring fly, and if he couldn't catch it, he would try to kill it.

This white spiritual body seems to be hiding in his lair. For the past three days, it has appeared near his second pupated ants every time for the past three days. After arousing the ants' anger, they will shuttle through the mud walls , and then go into hiding.

After thinking for a long time, System did not understand the reason why this kind of ghost sneaked into the nest to find trouble for the ants.

But just after communicating with Blake today and recalling the regularity of the ghost's appearance half a year ago.

System found that it was nothing else that attracted this ghost, but the wisdom born from these ants that had pupated twice.