The choice of where to build a new nest is not only a matter of subjective assumption on the part of Systm, but also of an experienced geologist excavator.

Although the excavator is not very coherent in the transmission of spiritual information, it has an innate understanding of the location and structure of the nest.

Of course, if you ask the excavator why it chose this address, the excavator will never answer, it just thinks it is good, but it can't explain exactly what is good.

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The forelimbs of the large worker ant touched the dirt on the ground, and it did not make any special movements, and the soil began to come to life like the [corrosive slime] of the Sistm, gradually wriggling and forming a circular crater about half a meter in diameter and about ten centimeters deep.

There were a few plant branches and stems that had not completely rotted in the pit, as well as some other dirt debris, which the rest of the ant team quickly moved in to remove and remove under the direction of Systham and Blake.

The Excavator has certain limitations in its ability to manipulate sand, or its intelligence is not ideal for this ability.

It can control the movement of sand and small pieces of rubble, but it is not able to move with the gum of [Corrosive Slime] wrapped in dead branches and leaves, as is the case with Sistum.

Therefore, when the excavator manipulates the dirt and sand and gravel fragments, a lot of dead branches and leaves and dirt impurities will fall down, and other ants will need to clean these things up before the excavator can continue to use its capabilities.

With the capacity of an excavator, a circular tunnel with a diameter of half a meter like this can be excavated about three meters in a day.

After all, with the body of the excavator, it needs proper rest and food to recover this energy, otherwise the excavator can dig without stopping, and it can make a tunnel more than ten meters long in a day.

Because the excavator has the ability to manipulate the sand and gravel, it can force the scattered sand and gravel to squeeze together with the outer wall of the tunnel.

Not only does it make the inner wall of the tunnel stronger, but it also eliminates the need for the ants to carry the excess sand and gravel generated by digging the tunnel.

It is only necessary to carry and clean up the soil impurities that other ant people excavators can't control.

As the large worker ants continued to exert their abilities, an hour later, a pit nearly half a meter deep appeared in front of Sistham.

Because of the increase in depth, the rotting grass stems and soil impurities under the grassland have decreased a lot, and the speed of the excavator has increased even more, but Sistemm estimates that if he digs another half meter or so, the excavator's energy will be exhausted, and it will take a few hours of rest to fully recover.

Unlike Systham, which occasionally absorbs free energy from the air, the excavator replenishes energy in a simple and straightforward way, stretching its limbs and allowing its body to touch the earth as much as possible, absorbing the power that appears in the earth.

While watching the excavation progress of the large worker ants, Systm stretched out his tentacles and used the [Grow Plants] ability to catalyze some vines near the newly built nest.

Over the course of the day, Systm had completely figured out what the druids possessed.

In the snow, the effect of [Growing Plants] is not ideal, and there are reasons for his lack of strength, but it is more related to the climate, even if you have the ability to [Grow Plants], you must meet the growth conditions of the plants.

The right temperature, the water, soil, and sunlight required by the plant are all indispensable, and if some of them are missing, the effect of [promoting plants] will be greatly reduced.

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The five vines grew gradually under the power of the Sistemm [Growing Plants], growing a centimeter every dozen seconds, gradually camouflaging the pits dug by the excavator.

After these days of walking through the grasslands, Heatham has basically figured out the food chain near the junction of the Warren Plains and the Lierte Forest.

Among them, at the absolute top of the food chain are the jackals and the pig-headed people, but these days, Sistemm has only seen the pig-headed people dozens of kilometers away from a distance, and he will have to observe further in the future.

The status of the gnolls in this grassland is equivalent to that of humans in the world of Sistham's previous life, and it can be said that it is beyond the existence of all species in the grassland, and other creatures in the grassland are under the rule of the gnolls.

At the bottom of the food chain of the gnolls and hog-headed people are the wolves that appear from time to time in the grasslands, the black eagles in the sky, and the wise nezumi.

In such a hurry to catalyze the plants to form vines, Sistemm was in danger of falling black eagles in the sky.

It's not that Systm is afraid of these eagles, but that these eagles are constantly circling in the sky, not knowing when they will fall, which makes Systm very irritable.

Compared to eagles, which have no natural predators in the air, rat people and wolves fight each other.

Just like the rat people and the rats they control, the wolves on the grassland are like the pets of the jackals, and when the wolves of the grassland meet the gnolls, they will flatter them and roll in front of the gnolls.

It is precisely because of the relationship between the wolves and the gnolls that Systham puts the wolves and the ratmen on the same level of the food chain, otherwise with the intelligence and strength of the ratmen, they can be used as the upper layer of the wolves.

Further down the food chain, there are the unicorn sheep and some snakes in the grassland, and then some rodents such as rabbits and mice, and some poisonous arthropods such as scorpions and centipedes.

In terms of species, the food chain in the steppe is much simpler than in the Lierte forest.

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However, in recent days, after observing nearly ten nezumi and killing three of them, Sistemm found that the more he knew about the nezumi as an intelligent being, the less he felt he knew about it.

Although the nezumi are below the gnolls in the food chain, they are not as defenseless as the goblins once were.

Despite their dirty habits, the Nezumi are obviously not inferior in intelligence, and can craft some simple tools and weapons.

Systm has even been struck in the body by improvised bone crossbow arrows made by the nezumen.

Bone arrows were contaminated with the feces of some rat-men, with some plague-like germs attached.

If it weren't for the fact that Systm had the ability of [Teleportation], which could sense the emotions of fungi and bacteria, he might have suffered a lot of damage from the rat-man's crossbow.

Not only that, after constant patrols in the sky, Heatham found that there seemed to be a rat-man colony more than a hundred kilometers to the south.

There are hundreds of rat burrows camouflaged in the meadows, and at least hundreds of rats and tens of thousands of ordinary rats live there, seemingly forming an underground rat village, or rat city.

Wolves who strayed into them are often attacked by rat people.

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The location of Sisstem's nesting site was also influenced by the Nezumi underground city.

The wintering nest built in the Lierte Forest was five meters deep, with three forks, and more than a hundred empty rooms, although it was enough, but Sistemm still felt too small.

He decided to follow the example of the nezumi and build his underground lair into something bigger.

Perhaps in a short period of time, the size of his lair cannot be compared to that of a city.

But as time passed, Heatham felt that he could take his ant people to build an underground city suitable for them to live in and live comfortably.