The strange and strange life manipulates ants that grow from its body to perform simple activities.

After biting at the half butterfly larva on the side for a while, it opened its large round mouth again and ate the gray-white ant that had grown out of its body and the remaining half of the butterfly larvae.

The surface of the ball continued to squirm, and this time the squirming became more violent.

It didn't take long for its body to grow eight thick black exoskeleton legs, and the entire surface of the meat ball was covered with a layer of hard black exoskeleton, and the meat ball was still changing.

The entire ball of flesh eventually turned into a black spider nearly half a meter in size, but unlike ordinary spiders, this spider has a pair of translucent wings in the shape of cicada wings.

The black spider spread its feet and moved for a moment, and it shook its head to look at itself, and then for a moment it looked at the snow around it, as if thinking about something.

It didn't take long for the exoskeleton on the black spider's body to tremble slightly, and the black gradually faded, and the black spider slowly turned gray, and then from gray to white like snow.

It spreads its wings and begins to fly through the forest, stretching out its tentacles that are not present in the head of a normal spider, and begins to search......

White spiders have no name.

It may have had a name, a name given by Shadow, but it forgot it because Shadow had been away for a while.

It had forgotten if it had even had a name.

Since Shadow disappeared a few months ago, and the angry owner searched several times but couldn't find it, it took over Shadow's work.

It travels to the Overworld to find and catch bugs that push the limits of the species, and keep an eye out for any trails, and kill them if they do.

Since its third pupation, it has acquired a certain amount of wisdom

The white spider couldn't understand why its owner had gone to great lengths to send it to the Overworld to find the weak bugs.

Bugs that can be easily crushed to death have no value at all.

But as long as the master tells him to do it, he will do it to the best of his ability.

The few ants just now were already very close to the limit of the species, and the white spider felt that it was a pity, and he was just a little short of able to complete the task given to it by his master.

There were still seven days to go, and the White Spider knew that after the glowing thing in the sky rose and fell seven times, it would return to the abyss thanks to the [Swarm Teleportation Technique] cast by its master.

……

……

Heatham returned to the wintering den with Shava, never again discovering the breath of the abyss, nor feeling uneasy along the way.

After planting a few Frost Flowers in the snow near the lair, Heatham finally made up his mind and decided to rest tonight and stay until tomorrow to recuperate, and begin to transform the talent [Metamorphosis Growth] into [Chrysalis].

After entering the nest, Systham went to the huge empty room where Queen Linda was as usual, and checked on Queen Linda's status.

In the past six months, Sistemm has not found a male ant for the female Linda, and although there are still sporadic ants in the adjacent ant nest, there are no male ants among the surviving ants.

Five months ago, the ant nest had completely lost its movement, and it was unknown if the ants had died or if the surviving ants had gone into hibernation.

It wasn't until the last two months that his ant people explored the nest that Systm learned that the ants in the nest had been largely wiped out, leaving only a dozen worker pupae still dormant and struggling underground.

Although the ant nest was silent, after more than a month of continuous strengthening at that time, the female ant Linda inexplicably began to lay eggs.

It's like a hen can produce eggs without the presence of a rooster, but those eggs can't hatch chicks.

The same is true for the female ant, Linda, who has been laying eggs from time to time since that day, but the eggs she lays can only hatch worker ants and soldier ants that are not capable of reproduction.

Systm speculated that this was a means for ants to preserve the continuation of the race by losing both queen and male at the same time.

After several months of strengthening by Systm and asking the queen Linda to control the number of eggs she lays, the quality of her offspring has gradually improved.

Faced with the choice between expanding the size of the ants and producing elite ants, Heatham chose the latter.

Heatham knew that the combination of snow and ice and lack of food would undoubtedly lead to the destruction of his ant people.

"Wait until two months later, when the butterflies are bigger, and then expand the colony......

Heatham pulled back the tentacles wrapped around the queen's body, and through probing, Heatham knew that Linda, the queen, was close to the day of her second pupation.

It is estimated that in about ten days, Linda, the queen of ants, will enter the second pupation like Sava and the dozen ants.

However, it is still unknown how long it will take for the second pupae to break out, and it took nearly four months for Sava to successfully break out of the pupae.

As for the dozen or so ants that have pupated for the second time, two are soldier ants, and the other thirteen are worker ants, all of them have entered the second pupation in the past month, and how long it will last, Sistemm can't speculate.

"You may not be able to break out of the chrysalis in two months, so wait until you break out of the chrysalis and then expand the size of the ants......" Systham said with a spiritual message to Linda, the queen of ants.

"Say, king, I don't know ......"

As Queen Ant Linda has always reacted, although she is more intelligent than ordinary ants, she is obviously not as intelligent as Sava and Grasshopper Queen Kun.

Maybe after her second pupation, her intelligence will become a little higher.

Systham shook his head and left the empty room where Queen Linda was.

Speaking of the wisdom of ants, a special ant appeared in Systham's mind, the relatively thin worker ant Blake.

Every time Systham returned to the lair, he would see Blake coming to greet him, but he didn't expect to see him this time.

Blake, also known as Little Black by Systham, has a small black spot on its head, which is an accidental product of Heatham's failed efforts to strengthen worker eggs.

That time, he tried to give the worker ant egg butterfly larvae the ability to spin silk, but failed, and then inexplicably made the worker ant gain extremely high intelligence.

Even if Hei is just an ordinary worker ant, her intelligence is higher than that of Sava.

In terms of computing power alone, the current Xiao Hei has even surpassed him.

Ten days ago, Sistemm was bored and taught Xiao Hei a small game of backgammon.

Draw a grid on a piece of ice he made, then use dead leaves and ice crystals as pawns.

As a result, the first few rounds were okay, he was basically able to win easily, and after a while, he and Xiao Hei were inseparable, and after a few more rounds, Sisham never played this game with Xiao Hei again.

However, in addition to intelligence, Xiao Hei is very bad in terms of level improvement and blood in his body.

But Xiao Hei has an unimaginable spirit of not admitting defeat, and Syst can feel Xiao Hei's desire to become strong and then help him.

For this reason, Sistrem, who had already decided not to lie to the ant people again, lied again.

In fact, Xiao Hei did not have the conditions to activate [Psychic Connection] at all, because it was difficult to rise in level, and Xiao Hei had little hope of performing a second pupation.

……

Sistemm made a brief tour of the lair, and it wasn't long before he saw Blake shuttling between the lair's empty chambers.

Blake apparently spotted him and quickly moved in front of him.

"Wang, I just checked a few times, and I removed the worker ants who went out to forage before, and there were 117 worker ants in the nest, and 5 were missing."

"Huh?"

Systham looked puzzled, although one or two ants had occasionally disappeared in the colony for half a year, it was too rare to have five ants missing at a time.

And it was at this moment that Systham's body trembled slightly, and his [intuition] gave him the feeling that the five ants were most likely dead......