Chapter 14: Distress

Systham shook the worm's head slightly, it was obviously unrealistic to find the old druid.

Even if the old druid was really capable of extending his life, he would really be willing to help him, but it would not be easy to find the old druid in the huge forest.

Sistemm seems to have experienced a lot these days, but the range of activities is only 100 meters.

And how much is the range of one or two hundred meters in the forest?

It would be difficult to spend a lot of time risking everything to find the old druid, and the old druid might have left the forest.

Without thinking of a good solution, what Systm finally thought of was his talent [Transformation and Growth].

He still has a glimmer of life, and that is to carry out the third metamorphosis.

The second metamorphosis he has already turned into an adult grasshopper, and the third metamorphosis he will definitely have greater changes to his body.

There is also the voice of the mysterious world in the process of transformation, which will definitely have a special effect on him.

Even if the voice of the third metamorphosis and that world can't prolong his life, it can still increase his strength.

Even if he was still helpless at that time, and his physical fitness improved, he would be quicker and more efficient in finding the old druid.

……

Thinking through everything, Systham's expression became determined, and his immediate goal was to complete the third metamorphosis as quickly as possible, leaving more time for him to choose from the few lives he had left.

As for the urge to mate with the female grasshopper, which had previously made him very irritable, Systham found that he could now easily suppress it.

After all, as long as he copies, he will only have 3 days left to live, and the horror between life and death makes Sisttm countless times stronger than his willpower to mate.

Heatham sprang to the pupa tree.

A few days later, the pupae of these lepidopteran insects are still the same as before, and none of them have turned into empty shells.

The current season is late summer and early autumn, and it is not known whether these pupae will wait for the pupa to break out of the pupa next spring, or whether they will turn into butterflies and then mate and lay eggs in these days, so that the eggs can overwinter and hatch.

When he first arrived, the 6-centimeter-sized pupae were much larger than his body, but now Sistm is even bigger than them.

Sistemm was not polite, and directly used his black-brown chelicera to bite the pupae.

After the second molt, the Sistem's chelicerae are two or three times stronger than in the larval stage, both in terms of hardness and bite force.

But after biting, Syst found that even then he was unable to bite through the solid shells of the pupae, leaving only minor scratches on the shells of the pupae, which seemed to be stronger than the bark of the trees.

Systm remembered the experience of eating silkworm pupae in his previous life, the shell of the fried silkworm pupae was very hard, even with human teeth, and if the heat of the silkworm pupae was not cooked, the shell of these silkworm pupae was even more difficult to eat.

The hardness of the shell of this pupa seems to be about the same as that of the silkworm pupae that Systm had eaten in his previous life.

Because of Sistum's bite, the chrysalis clearly felt threatened and writhed slightly.

Seeing this, Syst stopped trying his chelica and directly used the biochemical weapon he obtained after transforming into an adult.

[Corrosive Slime] starts!

Corrosive juice secreted from a special gland in Sisstem's throat and dripped down his chelicera onto the chrysalis.

Although this corrosive slime is very destructive, Sistemm is still very rusty when he has just mastered it, and he can only secrete a lot at a time, and he can't kill enemies with a single blow like spider or scorpion venom.

However, this slime is the perfect weapon for this super defensive and impossible to dodge chrysalis.

The dark brown mucus and the brown pupa shell caused a wonderful chemical reaction, and after more than ten seconds, the pupa shell gradually turned gray and white.

Sistum's chelica poked at the right time, accompanied by the white slurry flowing out, the pupae let out a violent trembling, and Sistemm also tasted the wonderful taste of the pupae, which was as mellow and sweet as hot chocolate.

Systham's chelicera once again secreted corrosive mucus that widened the chrysalis gap, and then accelerated its feeding.

Softer than the molten water fly that it had eaten a few days earlier, nearly ninety percent of the lepidopteran larvae in the pupae were sticky liquids, which were gradually drunk by Sistemm rather than eaten by Sistem.

The lepidopteran larvae in the pupa do not know what kind of structure they are, and their vitality is very tenacious, and they are still trembling slightly after being drunk by Sistum, and they are completely motionless until Sissym swallows half of them.

This pupa is very nutritious, and if Systm had eaten two of them before he became an adult grasshopper, he might have been able to increase his level.

However, after becoming an adult, Systm found that his experience bar had become extremely slow to improve, and it was estimated that he had to eat 12 of them to reach level 9, which was 6 times that of his larval stage.

Fortunately, when he metamorphosed into an adult, Syst obtained [Corrosive Mucus], a liquid that was secreted not only into his mouth, but also into his stomach, speeding up his digestion.

With [Corrosive Slime] his digestion power has been increased by half, and Systham estimates that he will be able to digest two pupae before dark.

And after dark, Systham, who had been hiding from danger indecently, decided to continue to devour the pupae.

The forest at night may be more dangerous, but his remaining life is numbered, and if he doesn't fight at this time, he won't have a chance in two months.

There are still 42 pupae left.

Without the necessary rest, Systm should be able to eat 3 and a half pupae during the day and night, and reach level 9 in 4 days.

After reaching level 9, his stomach capacity and digestion speed will be further increased, and eating 5 eggs a day should not be a problem.

Due to the gradient of experience required to level up, 12 pupae are needed from level 8 to level 9, and Systm speculates that about 25 pupa are needed from level 9 to level 10, and these 42 pupae should only be enough for him to upgrade to level 10.

After 10 days, he was able to eat all the pupae, and then raised his level to level 10.

With a pensive look on his face, the head of Systum opened the [Self-Information Generation] curtain and looked at his level, 8/15.

15 is the upper limit of his level, which represents the limit of what the species can achieve, and 8 represents his current level.

He had 63 days left to live, and after more detailed calculations, the expression of the head of the Systrem worm gradually became gloomy.

Suppose he has plenty of nutritious pupae that he can eat without stopping, and eliminate any unfavorable dangers.

It takes 3.5 days to get to level 9, and it takes a little more than 5 days to get to level 10, and the speed of level up will get slower and slower, and if you calculate at this rate, the speed of each upgrade will be about half the time.

Then the time from level 9 to level 15 can be roughly guessed.

3.5 days, 5 days, 7.5 days, 11.5 days, 17 days, 25 days, 37 days, a total of 106 days.

Even if there is plenty of food, he guarantees that he will rest every day in addition to eating and digesting, and it will take him 106 days to reach level 15.

By that time he had been dead for more than a month.

If his [Metamorphosis Growth] is raised to full level, the inheritance information from the bloodline tells him that he will not be able to perform the third metamorphosis until level 14 or 15.

If no miracle happens, even if he dies, he will not be able to meet the conditions for the third transformation.

……

The tentacles above Systham's head swayed, and he once again fell into deep thought.

The top priority is to try to increase the level of [Metamorphosis Growth] to level 13, only in this way can he know the specific information of the third metamorphosis.

As for the method of quickly increasing [Metamorphosis and Growth], Sistemm has already detected in the vague information that appears in the bloodline, that is, to try to eat different kinds of insects or other creatures that can undergo metamorphosis or pupa.

After contemplation, Heatham made a new decision after contemplation, deciding to eat two pupae and stop eating these kinds of food and hunt other small insects.

Only by eating a variety of foods can he raise the [Transformation Growth] level to level 13 as quickly as possible, so that he would know how many levels the third transformation would take earlier.

If the third metamorphosis requires too high a level to complete, he would have done other preparations as soon as possible.