Chapter 7: Chrysalis and Firelight
Upgrading and metamorphosing, Systham's chelica teeth have become much harder, and he is now able to easily chop the mature leaves of plants.
The 78g that Heatham chose to make his upgraded leaves taste pretty good, similar to the watermelon in his previous life, but slightly harder and lighter.
With the consumption of this leaf, the information in [INFORMATION READ] becomes 93g, and it seems that different individuals of the same plant species also have some differences, and the effect of their growth is different.
In addition, the ability to read information needs to be improved, and more data needs to be collected.
In order to make [information reading] more useful, Systm decided to eat as little of each plant as possible in the future to complete his information base.
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However, after continuing to eat four or five leaves to quench his hunger, Systm suddenly felt a little unwilling.
Very unwilling.
Compared to these leaves, the eggs taste much better.
After relieving his hunger, these otherwise delicious leaves suddenly made it difficult for Syst to swallow.
If he were an ordinary grasshopper, he might eat the leaves according to his instincts, and then gradually grow and metamorphose into an adult grasshopper.
But he is fundamentally different from ordinary grasshoppers.
It's not the talent [numerical code] that makes his body grow quickly.
Compared to ordinary insects, his biggest difference is his intelligence, otherwise no matter how strong his [numerical code] is, he will die in the face of that toad.
Wisdom not only gave him careful thinking, but also gave him greed and ambition.
Eating the leaves, Systm looked around from time to time, this time not just looking at the hidden dangers around him, but looking for and thinking about the possible presence of meat around him.
He wants to eat meat......
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Heatham pondered a way to find meat.
In the previous life, human beings were able to become the overlord of the earth, relying on wisdom, and the first application of wisdom by human beings was to use tools to make fire.
Sistemm looked at his feet, his worm head showing a complicated expression, his feet had no fingers, it was difficult to make tools, and even if he had fingers, he had no useful materials.
Do you want to learn from the Paleolithic humans to smash rocks and smash sharp stone blades as weapons?
Or learn to grind stones in the Neolithic Age and sharpen stone-bladed weapons?
No way!
When he had time to use the stone blade, his chelica would have already bitten eight times at the other party.
The only material that Heatham could think of was spider thread, which could be used to craft many traps or weapons.
But after thinking about it, Sistemm gave up, not to mention how he used his feet to cut a piece of spider silk without getting stuck in it, and how long it took to cut dozens of spider silks to make a trap.
Will the spider agree in the process of obtaining the spider silk?
Maybe he will continue to grow in the future, and after his strength improves, he can force the spider to agree to hand over the spider web, but at that time, the spider is not his opponent, what is the use of him still need spider silk, just find the spider web and turn over the spider?
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In the end, Systm couldn't think of any way to create a tool trap, at least not with his current body.
If he still wants to eat meat, the most effective way is to use his [INFO-READ] ability to search for eggs hidden in the forest.
The second is to prey on herbivores that are weaker than him, just like the few small insects he encountered last time that absorbed the sap of the plant wall.
It's just that [INFORMATION READ] is a bit of a mental burden on him, and he can't use it for too long.
Having made up his mind, Systm continued to eat a few leaves before jumping in search of meat.
With the activatable ability [INFORMATION READ], Systm's actions were much more bold and decisive.
Although the scenery was too far away, even if the outline was outlined with [INFORMATION READ], everything was clearly visible to his eyes within a meter or two.
As long as he activates [INFO READ] for a few seconds once in a while, all the disguised insect killers around him will be invisible to him.
In just a few minutes, Systm spotted a praying mantis disguised as a dead branch, and a spotted spider disguised as a flower.
During the search, Heatham found three of his kind, slightly different in size and color, presumably different species of grasshoppers, belonging to his distant relatives. Systm also spotted several flies and bee-like insects resting on leaves, and dozens of ants feeding on the carcass of a dead dragonfly.
There are many kinds of bugs hiding in the jungle, but Systm didn't find the eggs and weak insects he needed for a short time.
It is obviously difficult to hunt a species of his own size, and it is unrealistic to hunt nimble flies, and as for rushing to the ant colony to snatch the dragonfly carcass, it is tantamount to a zebra charging at a pack of hyenas, and he does not want to die.
Heatham could only keep jumping, using [INFO READING] to discover as much as he could before his mental power ran out.
Ten minutes later, just when Systm was about to give up, he finally found a safe food, and there was still enough food for him to eat for more than ten days.
On the trunk of a gray-brown tree with a very wrinkled skin and a strange shape, Systham found dozens of butterfly or moth pupae, the color and shape of which were so close to the bark that he would have been difficult to spot if it were not for [INFORMATION READ].
Each pupa is 6 centimeters in size, which is three times the size of the Systham, and some silk threads are attached to the pupae, so that these pupae are firmly attached to the bark.
Concentration of pupation in the same place, and then cocooning into butterflies in the same place, is a common means for butterflies to continue the population, after all, in the first few minutes of breaking the cocoon into a butterfly, these butterflies or moths are very vulnerable, and the pupation with dozens of butterflies greatly increases their chances of survival.
Sisstem's chelica unconsciously drooled, and these protein-rich foods must have been delicious.
If you can eat all these pupae, it will undoubtedly greatly improve and accelerate his growth, so that he can become an adult worm as soon as possible.
Sistemm immediately used his chelica teeth to bite down on a chrysalis!
The oval, black-brown chrysalis made his chelicera unable to exert force at all, and even if he did, his chelicerae would not be able to do anything to the hard pupal shells.
After trying to bite for a few minutes, Heatham's insect head humanized a look of annoyance, obviously finding a large number of nutritious and delicious foods but helpless, which made Heatham feel very uncomfortable.
"It seems that we can only find a sharp stone blade to crack this shell, but it is difficult for this body to grasp the stone."
"Do you have to wait until these pupae break out of their cocoons and become butterflies before attacking?"
"But how long it will take for these pupa to turn into butterflies is unknown, do I have to wait a month for them to turn into butterflies in a month?"
"So ......"
Rumble!!
A loud noise in the distance interrupted Heatham's thoughts, and at the moment the sound came out, Heatham watched the dazzling fire in the dense forest dozens of meters away.
Loud tremors and noises crept closer to his vicinity from the distance where the firelight erupted, and with a continuous stream of violent crashes, Heatham noticed that several trees in the distance seemed to have been knocked down.
After a few breaths, a creature covered in flames roared a few meters from a few meters away from Sisstem, accompanied by a rolling heat wave......