Chapter 4: The Narrow Road Duel

The blood of insects is cold, and it is often referred to as cold-blooded animals.

Heatham felt that his personality had unconsciously changed since he was reborn.

He had noticed a change in his personality since he had snatched the plant juice collected by a few small insects as a matter of course after he realized that there was no threat not long ago.

And in the face of these fresh insect eggs with a diameter of one or two millimeters, the thoughts in Sistt's mind are also different from the original one-

What will the eggs taste like?

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The eggs were expected to hatch within a few days, and Systham watched as the small living creatures in the eggs slid from time to time in the translucent mucus of the eggs, which in shape should have been the larvae of a butterfly or moth.

The human soul made Systm feel sick, but he didn't hesitate to bite through a tender egg with his chelicera.

The broken egg mucus emitted a faint fishy smell, and Systm took a mouthful of the mucus and aimed his chelicera at the lepidopteran larvae struggling in the slime.

The slime tastes like sweet milk, and the tender larvae in the eggs give Systham the feeling of tasting a mellow milk ice cream.

"It might taste better if you could chill it."

Eating the eggs, Systm was born with a strange idea.

This protein-rich meat treat has helped Systm a lot, far beyond any plant leaf that Heatham eats.

Syst could feel subtle changes in his body, the exoskeleton on his feet and limbs becoming stronger and stronger, and the chelica in his mouth becoming harder and sharper.

Ever since he woke up, he had been eating young leaves and leaf buds, but no matter how much he ate, he felt empty in his stomach, and after eating four or five eggs, he felt a feeling of fullness in his stomach for the first time.

The tingling sensation in his body came again, and in the process of carefully guarding his surroundings and enjoying his food, Sisstem's experience bar unwittingly reached the threshold of level increase.

The feeling of soreness in his body was much stronger than when he was at level 1 or 2, and Syst didn't find the cause in the [Self-Information Generation] data, but he knew it had something to do with the eggs he was eating.

How can the growth brought about by eating only green vegetables and meat and vegetables with balanced nutrition be the same, as long as you are not a fool and think about it, you can understand.

Even if you go to the gym to exercise, you must also match it with nutritious beef or protein powder, otherwise you will not be as effective as others for a month or two after working hard for a year.

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After upgrading to level 4, Systham's body size has grown from 0.7 cm to 1 cm, his exoskeleton has become much harder, and the chelica in his mouth has become stronger and sharper, and it is estimated that he can cope with the mature leaves that were difficult to bite before.

Compared to the growth on the surface of the body, the growth in the blood of Systm is even greater.

[Metamorphosis] (10/13) grows to [Metamorphosis] (11/13), increasing from level 10 to level 11.

A strange image came from his blood, and Systham felt that the appearance of the grasshopper adult he would become in the future became more hideous and strong.

Not only that, Sistemm secretly felt the inheritance information in his bloodline, as long as he raised the [Transformation Growth] to level 13, his body could undergo a third metamorphosis, and after level 5 and 8, he could also perform a new metamorphosis.

And after completing the third metamorphosis, he can even hear the voice of the world once.

However, as to what the sound of the world was, Systm found no more information in his bloodline, only that it was an extremely mysterious thing.

Through this upgrade, Systham's talent [Insect Adaptability] (6/21) has also been increased, becoming [Insect Adaptability] (8/21), which is directly increased by two levels.

Systm felt the blood throughout his body become more active, his body seemed to become more sensitive, and he gained a new derivative ability, [Dark Vision].

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[Dark Vision] (2/5): A skill derived from [Insect Adaptability]. As long as it has a faint fluorescence, it can perceive things around it in the dark.

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The effect of the derivative skill [Dark Vision] can be felt somewhat, but the exact effect will not be determined until it is actually used at night.

If this [dark vision] doesn't work very well, Systm will still give up eating at night, as there are more forest insect hunters at night and it's not worth the risk.

After tapping on the [Self-Information Generation] light curtain for a moment, Systm gave up looking at it and continued to taste the eggs in front of him.

As he increased in level and size, Heatham felt hungrier and devoured eggs at twice as fast as he ate eggs.

However, compared to the speed of eating, there are also more eggs required to increase to level 5, with 6 eggs required for levels 3 to 4 and 30 eggs required for levels 4 to 5.

But in any case, the hundreds of eggs in front of him were enough for Sistem to successfully reach level 5 before night, and even if he swallowed all these eggs, it was not impossible for him to reach level 6.

At level 4, the barbs on Systham's limbs are sharper, allowing them to hang upside down on the back of the blades, making it easier to eat eggs.

After more than an hour, Sistemm ate more than a dozen fresh and delicious eggs one after another, and his body gradually grew, from 1 centimeter to 1.1 centimeters.

As long as he continues to eat a dozen more eggs, he will be promoted to level 5 and his physical fitness will be further improved.

However, just then, Sistum, who was devouring insect eggs, spotted an uninvited guest.

Perhaps smelling the faint smell of broken eggs, a dark red ant appeared on the trunk of the plant where Sistemm was located, and crawled towards the branch where Sistemm was, apparently targeting the eggs on this leaf.

The dark red ant is about 0.8 centimeters long, slightly smaller than the black ant that Heatham first saw, but the chelicerae in the mouth are larger than the black ants, and the ability to bite may be stronger than those of the black ants.

Systham immediately climbed from the back of the blade to the front and met the red ant.

When he saw the ant crawling up his branch from the lower end of the branch, Systm immediately thought about the consequences of the arrival of the dark red worker ant.

As long as this worker ant identifies dozens of eggs here, there will be an endless army of ants.

In the face of the ant army, it is obviously not a problem to jump on his strong hind legs to escape, but these eggs will also be handed over to this group of ants in vain.

Having tried these delicious foods high in protein and experienced the growth of their own bodies, Systham would never hand over these eggs in vain.

Although the ant colony is strong, the individual ant Syst is not afraid, especially this small ant.

After the upgrade, Systm is larger than this ant, and the sharpness of the chelicera is removed, and the strength of the Heatham is stronger than this ant.

And what Syst had to do was not a desperate fight, he just had to use his strong hind limbs to kick the red ant off the branch of the plant.

The plant's branches were hard and elongated, and Systm soon met the dark red ant.

Sistemm controlled the barb on his feet and climbed to the side of the branch, and the dark red ant seemed to notice Sistum's presence, it hesitated for a moment, but saw that Sistrom took the initiative to get out of the way, and continued to crawl along the branch of the plant with the fishy smell in the air.

The herbivorous grasshopper larvae did not arouse the ant's alarm, ignoring the Sistems on the flanks of the branches, and crawled towards the leaves with the eggs attached......

Seeing the ants crawling towards him, Systm, who found the right angle, directly released his long-accumulating hind legs!

In the flash of lightning, since he had never manipulated his hind limbs to kick and strike, Systham's attack angle was slightly off his expectations, and he only kicked the ant's forelimbs.

The ant's forelimbs drove its body almost over, but the barbs on the rest of its feet kept it on the branches, and immediately fought back at Sisstem.

Systm continued to charge up his hind limbs, ready to deliver a second kick, but the dark red ant rushed at him in an instant and bit down on one of his forelimbs with its chelicera, releasing a strong formic acid in the chelicera.

As social insects, ants have a rough attack, they do not know how to attack the enemy's vital points, and will only bite the opponent and die without letting go, if they are replaced by praying mantis or spiders, Systham's braincase or neck will definitely be the first to be attacked.

A violent burning sensation on his forelimbs reached Systm's mind, and several feet tore at the ants that were entangled with him, and he endured the severe pain and used his hind legs again, this time he successfully kicked the ants in the head!

Whoop –

As the dark red ant fell from the branches, cloudy translucent sap splattered out of Sistum's forelimbs, and the powerful force that erupted from his hind limbs tore off his forelimbs that had been bitten by the dark red ants in an instant......

Systm's fight with the Scarlet Ant lasted less than two seconds before Sistm's maiming ended, but he also guarded his eggs.

He still took the battle between insects for granted, thinking that this time the opponent would be the same as the little white bug last time, and let him bully him.

Herbivorous insects and carnivorous insects have a big gap in their fighting instincts.

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Enduring the burning sensation of a broken forelimb, Systm crawled behind the egg-strewn leaves again and began to feed as fast as he could.

If the smell of these eggs attracts ants again, he will have no choice but to flee at that time, so he must eat these eggs as quickly as possible.