Looking at the scorpion corpses and the ant squad in the crevices of the rubble, Systham thought for a moment......

When it gets dark, the colony's range will begin to shrink, leaving only a few workers to patrol the nest.

But when a large amount of food is found, the ant colony will send a large number of worker ants to carry the food in the dark.

Ants are one such creature that stores food from the summer to prepare for the cold and lack of food in winter.

Heatham remembered a little story from his past life.

It is about the grasshopper musicians in the summer who ridiculed the ants who did hard labor all day long for not knowing how to enjoy life, and as a result, the lazy grasshoppers were judged by the cold in the winter.

The story uses the laziness of grasshoppers to set off the industriousness of ants.

It is also true that ants are indeed an industrious life.

"But even if there is no cold in winter, grasshoppers can't live that long......"

Thinking back to the story, Systm thought of himself, and he looked at the lifespan column on [Auto-Information Generation], 62 days.

After this night, his lifespan will be 61 days.

Anyone who knows the countdown to their few lives will not be happy.

However, Systham was also glad that he had such a countdown and did not let himself die suddenly in the late fall.

Without thinking too much, Systham found a branch of dead grass and jumped towards the ant squad.

After a long day of fighting and fighting, Systm was already familiar with the black-brown worker ants.

If you can successfully deal with the ants' innate fighting instincts, then these ants are fools who can be manipulated at will.

Usually after encountering an enemy, these ants will bite their opponent and secrete a pungent smell of acid (pheromones), while other ants that smell this smell will rush up and continue to secrete this acid, attracting more ants until the opponent dies or escapes.

Sistum's method of luring away the dozen ants is also based on this principle, grabbing the ants and staining the straw sticks with the ants' acid, and using the grass sticks to lure the dozen ants away.

……

From catching an unlucky worker ant and forcibly causing the worker ant to secrete acid onto a straw stick, to then attracting most of the ants near the scorpion.

The operation of Heatham was very smooth.

Step by step, he led the ants to a puddle of stagnant water two meters away, and finally stuck a stick containing acid into the stagnant mud.

Because ants hate to touch stagnant water, these dozen ants keep drawing circles around the puddle, not knowing if they will forcibly wade into the water to attack the grass sticks in the silt.

Sisstem didn't look at the stupid ants anymore, and went straight back to the scorpion's corpse two meters away.

Putting an end to the ant squad calling out to their companions in the anthill around the scorpion carcass, Systham began testing the two ants remaining near the scorpion carcass with [Corrosive Slime].

It's a good idea to use [Corrosive Slime] to draw a dungeon, but it's also a prerequisite that [Corrosive Slime] has an effect.

Ten minutes later, the results of Systham's test were successful, and [Corrosive Slime] had a noticeable repulsive effect on ants.

If there are no special circumstances, at a distance of three to five centimeters from [corrosive slime], these ants will actively avoid them; And if Systm provokes the ants, they will rush up even if [Corrosive Slime] is close at hand.

Kicking the two ants off with his powerful hind limbs, Systm began to draw the ground with his [Corrosive Slime].

Sistum's dungeon wasn't just a line drawn with slime, after all, he had a limited amount of slime, and he secreted a little more near the fixed line where the ants moved, and only sporadically dripping in other places.

If he is unfortunate enough to be broken into the forbidden area by ants, he will have to manually expel the ants at that time.

……

There were far fewer creatures active at night after the rainstorm, and the rats and praying mantis that were common in the early days of rebirth did not touch half of them after the rainstorm.

Aside from a few mosquitoes flying sporadically, Heatham's eating was not disturbed any more.

The only blemish is that as time went on, Heatham was a little mentally exhausted because he didn't rest.

The scorpion carapace was less resilient than the butterfly pupa but harder, and Sistemm couldn't even bite with his chelicera.

However, his armor-piercing weapon [Corrosive Slime] still has significant effects.

Corrosion and softening the scorpion's carapace, it didn't take long for Systm to eat the flesh underneath the scorpion's carapace.

The rich creamy aroma mixed with cherry or strawberry notes, somewhat similar to the texture of a creamy pudding after it has solidified, is a wonderful meat that Sistemm cannot describe.

It may not be the tastiest, but it is the most to the taste of the Sistham.

This is because the flesh of the scorpion has been soaked in rain for a few days, and it is not very fresh, otherwise the food is even more delicious.

The same weight of scorpion meat provides about 1.5 times more experience than a pupa worm, which is completely in line with the rules of the taste and experience of the Sistm food, and is a high-experience food.

However, the effect of this scorpion meat on [metamorphosis growth] is not very large, and it is not as good as half of the same weight of ants, and it seems that the metamorphosis of scorpions is far less significant than that of insects.

After Sistrom ate it overnight, the effect of this food on [Metamorphosis Growth] was reduced by half.

He had no choice but to give up this food that suited his appetite.

Early in the morning.

Dragging his slightly bulging belly, Sistem, who had eaten all night, returned to the hollow in the tree not far from the ant's nest, where he was to rest.

Although ants pass by from time to time in this hollow, Systm has acquired an invisible wall through experimentation with drawing a dungeon, and that is his [Corrosive Slime].

This liquid is secreted around the tree hole, and ants will actively bypass it when they smell it.

However, [Corrosive Slime] is very volatile, and most of the smell disappears after a few hours, but a few hours is enough for Sistem, a few hours is enough for him to rest and recuperate.

Heatham quietly went into hibernation in the hollow of the tree, while he was half-asleep and half-awake thinking about his next plan.

Yesterday's foraging was a success, although it wasn't as fast as eating the pupa all the time to level up.

But if at this rate, he can reach level 9 in another three days, and reach level 10 in ten days, and his [Transformation Growth] will also become full level at that time.

……

Towards noon, the effect of [Corrosive Slime] near the tree hole had diminished considerably, and two ants had already passed by the tree hole in Sistum, but fortunately they had not come to disturb him.

At this point, Sistum's body was basically rested, and he decided to wait a little longer to start a new round of foraging.

At this moment, Systm heard the continuous sound of birdsong more than ten meters away.

After the rainstorm, it had been a long time since Systelm had heard the chirping of a bird, and from the sound of this bird, Heatham had heard something miserable and desolate.

The insect's antennae were sensitive to the direction of sounds, and Heatham soon discovered that the bird was not in the sky, but on the ground.

"Did you get hurt and hit the ground?"

Speculating that the bird might have been injured by some kind of hunter in the forest, Heatham had no idea of joining in the fun, and continued to recuperate in the hollow of the tree.

But after a few minutes, the bird was still barking, and it was clear that no hunter had dealt the bird a fatal blow.

Stemm emerges from the hollow in the tree and finally decides to go see the hapless bird.

Through the weeds in the woods, Systham saw a bird about 20 centimeters in size, covered in brown, red and white feathers, struggling on the ground.

It resembles a pheasant, but is a little smaller than a pheasant.

Sistemm saw some blood on the ground, and the bird didn't know what the injury was, so it could only flutter in place.

It didn't take long for the ant search team to appear, perhaps because of the smell of blood, and it was believed that the ant army would be killed soon.

Systham waited quietly and decided to take the opportunity to loot some pheasant meat for a while.

However, the scene of the ant army besieging and killing the crippled pheasants that Sistemm had hoped for did not appear in the end, and the faint sound of footsteps gradually came from the dense forest.

The birds, which were struggling on the ground, were eventually dragged up by a hand whose owner was none other than the old druid that Systham had been looking for......