Chapter Twenty-Four: The Slime and the Ant Colony

The Ant Legion, who is not afraid of death, and the slimes with low IQs fight each other, and Systham feels that it is very likely that they will lose both.

The slime's gum will devour countless ants, but the constant stream of ants will also cause serious damage to the slime's gum.

With both sides winning or losing, Sistemm couldn't guess the outcome either.

It should also depend on the size of the ant colony, as long as the size of the ants is large enough, the slime will definitely be overwhelmed by the torrent of ants that converge.

I just don't know what the IQ of this magical species like slime is.

After being in danger, will it choose to fight the colony to the end?

Or do you just take it when you see it, eat some ants and bounce away?

……

The slime was not very far from the reddish-brown anthill, only about twelve meters.

Heatham has a way to attract slimes to move, and he can throw dead branches to lure slimes.

Through previous testing, Systham discovered that the slime's behavior pattern is simple, as long as there are anomalous subtle vibrations around it, it will move in that direction.

If the slime had remained in its previous state and would not run around at will, Systham would have been able to attract the slime to the ant nest by throwing the dead branch a hundred times or so.

Having made up his mind, Systham quickly sprang into action.

He had just almost fallen into the scent trap of the slime, which annoyed him a little, so even though it would be a waste of time to throw dead branches continuously, Sistemm resolutely did so.

Search for a suitable dead branch, take the dead branch to the slope above the slime, and cast it at the right angle......

Heatham acted repeatedly.

The slime's IQ is indeed very low, as he expected to move towards the ant's nest step by step.

However, the speed of the slime's movement is slightly different from Sistum's estimate, usually every time he throws a branch, it will only make the slime move about 5 centimeters, and the terrain of the forest is complex, Sistemm estimates that it will take more than 200 throws to lure the slime to the ant's nest.

More than 200 throws of dead branches, if completed, will take at least seven or eight hours, and then it will be dark.

The darkness of the day, coupled with the mental exhaustion of that time, made Systm a little tempted to give up.

But if you miss today, the slime may be lost.

Sistemm thought about it for a moment and finally decided to continue, trying to make his movements as agile and efficient as possible.

The first half of the journey was laborious to attract slimes, but around noon, the action to guide the slimes made an unexpected progress-

Several reddish-brown worker ants appeared not far from the slime, and they explored in the direction of the slime.

The slime bounced and devoured several worker ants into the gelatinous matter of its body.

Not long after, the worker ants crawling out of the nest reappeared, and the slime continued to jump and devour the ants, getting closer and closer to the nest......

Since noon, Systm has barely had to move, as the ants will actively attract slimes to their nests.

Systm discovers that ants and slimes are supposed to be part of the food chain in this forest.

Even if he didn't take the initiative to seduce the slime, the slime was destined to fight the ant colony.

However, Syst can't figure out which slime or ant is at the top of the food chain, and although it seems that the slime is devouring ants step by step, it is also possible that the ants are trying to attract slimes.

As the slime gets closer to the ant nest of the decaying tree, more and more ants patrol back and forth, and the slime devours more and more frequently, approaching the ant's nest more quickly.

Heatham could see small reddish-brown dots in the slime-sized slime gum, which were the corpses of ants, and it was obvious that the slime could not fully digest the ants in a short period of time.

As the slime approached the anthill step by step, when the slime was about half a meter away from the anthill, the ants in the nest suddenly poured out like a flood and launched a charge towards the slime!!

These reddish-brown ants have slightly smaller chelica teeth than black-brown ones and are more slender and skinny, but they are much faster than black-brown ants.

The slime jumped and rolled, easily submerging and devouring hundreds of ants, but as the slime continued to roll, thousands of ants had already trampled on their companion's body and crawled all over the slime's gelatinous body......

The slimes were still devouring more ants, but Systham saw that many worker ants were already carrying gum the size of a grain of rice and were starting to return to their nests.

The battle between the ants and the slime was very fierce, and after half an hour, because the slime devoured too many ants, the viscosity of the slime gum was greatly reduced, and many ant corpses and slime gum began to scatter constantly.

It didn't take long, perhaps out of survival instinct, that the slime didn't choose to continue fighting the ants to the end.

It bounced away from the nest, and as it bounced, more gum and ant carcasses scattered around the slime's body.

When he came, he was the size of a football, and when he left, he devoured countless ants, and the slime was still the size of a football, and apparently the gelatinous body of the slime was carried by the ant colony.

And although the ant colony plundered a large amount of slime gum, it also paid for the lives of tens of thousands of ants.

The battle between the two is clearly a lose-lose situation.

Under the guidance of the huge soldier ants, the remaining worker ants near the anthill began to carry the corpses of their companions, cleaning the gum from their companions and carrying them to the anthill, and the movements of the ant colony appeared to be orderly......

……

Heatham didn't watch the ants, and he chased them in the direction the slime fled.

There will be a lot of gum and ant corpses scattered along the path of the slime's escape, so he can try to taste the slime's gum and also let him eat these ant corpses to fill his stomach.

The slime, which bounced away, continued to shrink by nearly a third after escaping more than ten meters due to the scattering of gum, and finally it bounced into the mud of a puddle and stopped.

Seeing where the slimes had stopped, Systm began to try to eat the scattered slime gum.

The gelatins scattered from the slime's body, and instead of dying immediately, they slowly wriggled on the ground, as if to coalesce together.

However, with the exception of a small number of large pieces of gum that can be successfully polymerized, small pieces of gum will completely lose its motion within a few minutes of leaving the slime's body.

"Is this a way of dividing and multiplying?"

Heatham looked at the 5-centimeter-sized gelatinous balls that had gathered in front of him, and he felt like he had learned more about the magical creature of the slime.

Systm pointed the head at the gum and sucked it up.

The small lump of gelatina seemed to have taken on a new life, and as Systm's chelicera touched the gum, the mass of gelatinous fluid attempted to bounce and consume Systm.

However, the mass of gum was too small and weak, and was easily crushed by several of Heatham's forelimbs, and then the scattered gum continued to coalesce.

The gum flavor is okay, with a rich yogurt flavor, similar to the taste of mushrooms, but more intense.

The taste of gum is slightly stronger than that of pupae, but it provides three times the experience of pupae.

As Systm sucked the gum, Heatham could feel the gum flutter gently in his stomach.

The quivering gum in his stomach didn't make Syst feel uncomfortable, but rather made him feel comfortable, and the swallowed gum seemed to be massaging his abdomen.

Not only that, but as the gum in his abdomen was gradually digested, Heatham discovered that the slime's gum had an extraordinary effect on his talent [Metamorphosis Growth].