Chapter 18 Buying and Selling Without Capital
Underneath a few vines, thousands of ants appeared as far as Systm's eye could see, and these ants were exactly the same species as the ones that Heatham had killed in the morning, probably the same nest of ants.
It seems that the heavy rain a few days ago did not break the nest of ants.
As Systm jumped near the vines, the image in his compound eyes became clear, and it turned out that the ants were dismembering the corpse of a lizard among the dead branches and leaves.
The lizard may have drowned as a result of the rainstorms these days, as the colony carried pieces of flesh back and forth to the nest.
Heatham looked at the lizard carcass and suddenly had an idea.
A means of obtaining food, a business without capital.
Because of the utility of [information reading], Heatham is very good at observation, but compared to the ant's sense of smell, Heatham is far inferior.
These ants can easily find food hidden in the mud after a rainstorm.
He only needs to keep an eye on the movements of these ant colonies, and he can snatch food from the ants.
When encountering a small food that lures the ant colony away, he can grab the food and leave, while when it encounters a huge carnid like this lizard, Systm can also snatch the meat from the mouth of the worker ants.
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After a brief thought, Syst immediately took action, picking an ant with a huge piece of flesh on the edge of the colony and rushing over.
Practice makes perfect, and Systham discovers that grasshoppers have much more sensitive reflexes than humans, and he is becoming more and more adept at attacking these ants.
He can even predict what the ant's reaction will be after an attack.
Easily snatching the meat from the ant's mouth, Systham's hind limbs exerted force, kicking the somewhat cloudy ant directly half a meter away, and then repeatedly jumped on top of a nearby vine.
Ants are very powerful and can lift items dozens of times their weight, but ants usually do not carry such heavy items to move.
The piece of meat that Sistemm snatched was a little smaller than the weight of an ant, and he grabbed the piece of meat and quickly chewed it.
The taste of this piece of meat is similar to that of fragrant milk biscuits, and it tastes very good, but it tastes a little worse than that of pupae.
However, observing the experience bar, Systm found that this food was nearly twice as experienced as a pupa worm.
This was the first food that defied the principle of Sistum's deliciousness, but Sistelm continued to eat a few bites and found no cause for the anomaly in experience.
If he continues to consume this food, he may reach full level 15 before the end of his life.
"Could it be that reptiles are more evolved than insects? It's a pity, if some of the tadpole carcasses were snatched in the morning, more results could be analyzed. ”
Systham continued to eat a few bites of the lizard's flesh and observed the changes in the experience bar, then threw it away.
This kind of meat had a great effect on his level-up, but it had no effect on his talent [Metamorphosis Growth], and Systm continued to eat a few bites before discarding the pieces of meat on his feet.
Although level increase is very important, the first thing he needs to do now is to improve the talent [Transformation Growth].
Jumping in the direction of the ants' movements, it didn't take long for Sistemm to find a half-meter-high mound more than ten meters away, which was the nest of this group of black-brown ants.
It was an apparently large anthill, and Heatham felt that it could hold at least hundreds of thousands of ants, but he didn't know how much damage it had been caused by the heavy rain.
In addition to ordinary worker ants, Syst also saw some large ants with a body size of three or four centimeters shuttling back and forth among the worker ants, which should be soldier ants guarding the ant nest.
The ants had huge heads, occupying half of their entire bodies, and possessed huge chelicera, which Sistemm believed could disembowel him in an instant, even biting off his thick hind limbs.
Not only that, but the abdomen of these soldier ants is somewhat peculiar, and through observation, Systm found that these soldier ants have stinging needles on their abdomen, and from time to time they squirt out some liquid to direct the movement of ordinary worker ants.
With its sharp and massive chelicera, tail stings and ranged attacks, Heatham had no intention of fighting the ants, and if he missed and fell near the nest, he would be overwhelmed by the torrent of ants.
Following a tributary of the ants, Systm continued to hop and move, and he began to observe the range of the ants and the food they hunted.
It didn't take long for Syst to snatch the carcass of a small tadpole half a centimeter in size.
Although the forest suffered from the disaster due to the arrival of the heavy rain, after the stagnant water subsided, there was also a lot of food, and there were many such unlucky tadpoles.
However, these tadpoles are usually trapped in the mud, and Systm is difficult to spot with his eyes, so he can only snatch them from the hands of ants.
The tadpole taste is not bad, the flesh quality is similar to that of the lizard, and it is similar to the flavor of fragrant milky biscuits.
But unlike the huge amount of experience provided by the lizard's flesh, the tadpole's flesh follows the principle of Sistem's deliciousness, producing slightly less experience than a pupa of the same weight.
Lizards are reptiles, tadpoles are amphibians, and the two should be similar in evolution, and Sistum's previous guess was also wrong at this point.
Sistum's theory of taste should still be correct, the better the food, the more growth it will bring, but there must be something different hidden in that lizard.
Sistemm thought for a moment, but found no clue, and began to concentrate on eating the tadpole carcass on his feet.
Tadpoles cannot metamorphose like insects, but their flesh is very effective against the talent [Metamorphosis Growth], and is even a little better than the flesh of ants and crickets.
It seems that the transformation of amphibians from aquatic forms to terrestrial forms is similar to the morphological changes of insects.
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Systm constantly patrolled the nest of the ants, looking for food for him to grab and a new nest for him to rest in the evening.
Systm found a spacious hollow in a slightly dry tree, but the hole was too close to the ant's nest, and the mouth of the cave was often visited by ants, so he had no choice but to abandon this ideal nest.
When the sun went down, Sistemm did not find a nest suitable for him to rest, but snatched the carcasses of a few small tadpoles carried by ants for his supper in the dark.
And during the time when the sun was setting and the sky was not dark, Sistemm had a new harvest.
Near a pile of rubble, Syst found a food that was useful to him for the ants, the carcass of a scorpion twenty centimeters long.
The scorpion's body was pure black, and it was slightly discolored due to the rainwater soaking shell, and there was a lot of mud on its body, and it was caught in the crevices of the rubble pile.
The scorpion carcass has not yet been fully discovered by the colony, and only a "discovery team" of a dozen worker ants is scouting, and if it is determined that the scorpion can be used as food, they will leave a scent that attracts thousands of ant legions.
When Systm saw the dozen ants wandering around the scorpion, he suddenly had the wonderful idea that if he succeeded, he could take the scorpion's corpse for himself.
He could lure the dozen ants away, and then use his pungent smell of [corrosive slime]—
Draw the ground as a dungeon!