Chapter 20: Throbbing

With a mysterious green halo, the bird that was wailing in the hands of the old druid gradually fell silent.

The old druid spoke an unknown language and gently stroked the wounded bird with his hand.

It wasn't long before the big bird spread its brownish-red wings to the sound of a joyous chirp, and it flew up and circled over the old druid's head.

The old druid reappeared in his natural aura, giving Heatham a sense of being in the Mother Nature.

Systham hesitated to jump in front of the old druid, show him his wit, and ask for ways to prolong his life.

Heatham hesitated.

Deep down in his heart, he felt that something was wrong with the old druid, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong for a while.

And just as Sistemm hesitated, the pheasant hovering in the sky flew away, and the old druid took a seemingly slow step, and disappeared into the forest in three steps and two steps......

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"Why didn't I go over just now?"

It wasn't until the old druid faded away that Sistm came to his senses.

Thinking about the two months he had to live, Systham regretted that he hadn't been able to rush to the old druid.

From the first time he met the old druid to scoop up the creature in the water, to the look on his face when he had just rescued the big bird, Systham felt that the old druid's kindness was not fake, and it was worth his gamble.

Maybe you can get a way to prolong your life from the old druids.

But now it was too late to go again, and Systham jumped in the direction of the old druid, only to find that the old druid had disappeared.

Sistemm could only jump back helplessly, came to the blood stain left by the pheasant just now, and decided to eat the blood left by the pheasant.

Near the pheasant's blood, there were two ants that fell to the ground and twitched, and it is believed that these ants were accidentally run over by the struggling pheasant when they attacked the pheasant, and at this time they had become seriously injured.

Regardless of the ants, Heatham kicked the two unlucky ants away, and when he looked around, he saw that the other ants were eating another blood stain, so he sucked the blood in front of him.

The bird's blood tasted good, similar to a fragrant milkshake, mixed with some flavor similar to a certain tea leaf from a previous life, and even if he stopped sucking blood, this smell would remain in his mouth and make Systm taste endless.

It doesn't taste as good as a scorpion, but it tastes much better than other foods, and provides about 1.3 times more experience than a pupa of the same weight.

It seems that the flesh of birds is also a food that conforms to the principle of Sissym's delicious experience.

Birds, tadpoles, scorpions, insects, plants, Systm had eaten many kinds of food now, and he really couldn't figure out why the lizard carcass had experienced an anomaly before.

Without much thought, he continued to eat a few mouthfuls of blood, but because it could not have an effect on [Metamorphosis and Growth], Heatham decisively gave up this food.

He jumped away and continued to look for food for the ants to snatch......

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Three days passed.

As planned, Syst was promoted to level 9, and his body size grew from 6.5 cm to 8 cm, and his physical fitness was further improved.

Although the talent [Transformation Growth] from the bloodline has not been upgraded to level 13, Sistemm feels that it is only one step away, as long as the level is raised to level 10, his [Transformation Growth] will definitely grow to the limit, and then get the specific information of the third transformation.

After reaching level 9 this time, Sistham's [Insect Adaptability] (11/21) was upgraded to [Insect Adaptability] (12/21).

Once again, Systm felt the mysterious image of the [Insect Adaptability] in his blood.

Countless grasshoppers are once again flying in the vast world.

At the same time, because of this upgrade, Sistham's derivative ability [Regeneration of Severed Limbs] (5/11) has been increased to [Regeneration of Severed Limbs] (6/11); [Dark Vision] (3/5) increased to [Dark Vision] (4/5).

The most notable change is that his [Corrosive Slime] (7/13) has been increased by 2 levels to [Corrosive Slime] (9/13).

The glands in Sistm's mouth have become larger, the venom has become more corrosive, and the total amount of fluid he can secrete has nearly doubled.

Not only that, but the glands in Heatham's mouth have undergone a special change, and through the newly generated muscles near the glands, Heatham can squeeze the gland's venom to spray it.

Resembles a king cobra that spews venom, or a black dragon that spews corrosive venom in a fantasy world.

It's just that the distance of the liquid sprayed by Sistrem is very short, and it can only spray a few centimeters at the moment.

Regardless, this is also the only long-range attack method for Sisstem, although he can also use his feet to grab some small rocks and throw them from a distance, but it is difficult to exert force, and he can't even injure the little ants.

In addition to the changes of escalation, in the past three days, Sissym has become more and more familiar with these black-brown ants, and his actions of snatching ants have become more and more proficient.

During these three days, he even used a trick to lure a lone soldier ant into the muddy water, and then kept kicking the soldier ant back into the water, and finally killed the exhausted soldier ant unscathed.

Unlike ordinary worker ants, the black-brown soldier ant has a very thick exoskeleton, a more irritable personality, and a very disciplined fight, attacking the vital points of the prey's body, and has a sting needle that shoots acid at the tail.

Soldier ants are dangerous, but in some ways, they are even more stupid than worker ants.

Soldier ants have significantly better eyesight than worker ants, but they will still rush into grass sticks covered with formic acid, even in muddy water.

It was the stupidity of the soldier ant that Syst took advantage of, and successfully used stagnant water to torture and kill a soldier ant.

The taste of the corpses of the soldier ants is stronger than that of ordinary worker ants, but the risk of hunting is too great, and the efficiency is far less than that of Sistum snatching the food of ordinary worker ants, so Sistelm only tried to kill one soldier ant in the past three days, and then chose to give up.

Over the course of three days, Heatham had the pleasure of meeting two of his own grasshopper relatives.

Unlike when it was a larva, when it became an adult, it suddenly felt very friendly to its own kind.

But after only a little contact, the two grasshoppers flew away.

In addition to grasshoppers, Heatham found that the forest was filled with many mosquito-like insects, which were supposed to breed in the water during their larval years.

Although this little insect can fly, it is not at all the same level as a nimble fly, and Systm can easily catch it between jumps.

With the appearance of mosquitoes, Systran once again encounters several creatures that can put him in danger, and it is the toad that Systm used to escape by staying still.

A few toads may be due to a lack of food, in addition to eating mosquitoes, they have been coming to hunt ants near the anthill for several days.

Most of the toads hunt successfully, and the small ants are helpless.

However, there was also a 10-centimeter-sized toad that came to the mound of the ant's nest to die.

After accidentally being lame by the sting of a soldier ant, the toad was sniped by four or five more soldier ants, and as expected, it was directly overwhelmed by the torrent of thousands of ants gushing out of the anthill.

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At noon, after a whole night of hunting and half a day, Systm decided to return to the lair to rest.

In the past few days, he has not met the old druid again.

And at this moment, Syst felt his body's heart and blood tremble irregularly, and he felt an inexplicable sensation emanating from his body.

It's just that Systm couldn't perceive what this emotion in his heart was for a while.

At this moment, with a special roar, a huge locust flew over him.

The huge locust was more than twenty centimeters in foot and had a brownish-yellow body, and it turned around in the air and flew straight in the direction of Sistum......