Sensing the movement in his veins, Heatham began to eat frantically to prevent the overconsumption that might occur as he metamorphosed.

Tell the would-be betrayal Dasha not to disturb him, and then prepare plenty of food near the ant larvae in the makeshift nest.

Systm continued to act, secreting enough [Corrosive Slime] near the entrance to the makeshift nest in case an ant would attack him during his weakest metamorphosis.

When everything was taken care of, Systm performed his third metamorphosis in an empty chamber in a makeshift lair.

……

Heatham had expected this third metamorphosis to go as smoothly as the previous two, but things didn't go as he had imagined.

Like the previous two transformations, he gradually absorbed the essence of the exoskeleton according to the rhythm of the body's blood, leaving behind the outermost layer of dross.

According to the experience of the previous two transformations, at this time, his transformation only needs to be handed over to the instinct of his body, and his insect body will naturally complete the transformation according to the instinct of the bloodline.

This time, however, was different.

The blood inside his body was still tumbling, urging him to transform, but his body instinct showed no signs of action at all, and he didn't seem to have any intention of transforming.

It's like the feeling that your body is itchy but you can't scratch it, and it's very uncomfortable.

The same is true of the information in the [Self-Information Generation], which has not been able to appear in the previous [Metamorphosis Growth Mode].

The outer shell of the body has been completely softened, and it is impossible for Syst to stop this metamorphosis, but how to continue the metamorphosis, Syst himself does not know.

Something seemed to be missing from his metamorphosis.

Heatham recalls the image that the Queen had given him on her deathbed, and the Queen's third metamorphosis was blurry, and the Queen, in that image, appeared to be in a semi-comatose state, far less awake than he was.

Now it seems that he should have seen the third metamorphosis too simply.

He has only been pursuing the third metamorphosis, and wants to prolong the life of the grasshopper by relying on the third metamorphosis.

However, it ignores that ordinary grasshoppers only need to metamorphose twice to become adults, and grasshopper adults continue to complete the third metamorphosis, which is naturally extremely rare.

Because of its rarity, it is very likely that there is no inherited instinct to complete the third metamorphosis in the grasshopper bloodline.

In other words, he has no reference experience at all for the third metamorphosis, and the third metamorphosis of each grasshopper is not replicable.

Systm didn't know if he was right.

Trying to control the squirming of the flesh on his body, Systm found that he couldn't do it, he couldn't even control the tentacles on his feet and head to quiver slightly.

The blood in the body was still tumbling, and the tumbling blood became more intense with the passage of time, becoming like boiling water.

Systm felt the blood vessels in his body bulge slightly, and his blood seemed to bubble up like boiling water.

"It's not going to blow up like this, is it? It would be so much fun to blow yourself up like this......"

Systm thought to himself bitterly.

Half an hour later, the boiling blood of Sistemtem had already caused the blood vessels in his body to bulge to an incredible degree......

Whoop –

Whoop –

After all, Systm did not explode and died, the blood vessels in his body were bulging, and several cracks were formed, and white gas was spewed outward like a pressure cooker, and some white blood was splashed out.

Perhaps it was the movement of this gas, or the blood vapor he spewed produced a very strong fishy smell, and it didn't take long for a few ant larvae in the makeshift nest to slowly wriggle over.

Ant larvae are similar in shape to butterfly larvae capable of pupating, like reptiles, and have milky white bodies.

However, compared to butterfly larvae, they do not even have sucker limbs except for their heads.

In addition to being able to twist their bodies, they rely on worker ants for most of their movements.

It has to be said that it is not a small miracle that these ant larvae can crawl in front of Sisham with their wriggling bodies.

Systm used [Psychic Connection] on the ant larvae, and he quickly felt the worry coming from the ant larvae.

Systm used [teleportation] to soothe the emotions of the three ant larvae......

It didn't take long for the three ant larvae to twist their bodies and gradually lean against Systham's side, as if staying next to Systm would reassure them.

……

Three hours later, the blood in Sistham's body was still boiling and tumbling.

The food he had frantically swallowed into his abdomen had been digested and absorbed by his body very quickly due to the loss of blood in his body, and some feelings of hunger began to come out of his abdomen.

Sistemm didn't know how long he could continue like this, and if the metamorphosis didn't take place, he would run out of energy and die sooner or later.

There was still no obvious progress in his third metamorphosis, and he felt as if he could metamorphosis, but he couldn't figure out what was missing.

In the past few hours, eleven ant larvae have gathered around him, and these ant larvae have been close to him, rubbing his already soft body affectionately from time to time.

Sistemm didn't know if the metamorphosis would succeed, and if it did, he would die......

Perhaps, before he died, he would tell the ant larvae, as the queen did, to let them eat their corpses......

Just as Sistemm was born with this idea, he felt an unusual vibration from above the passage of the makeshift lair.

Something seems to be digging into the underpass, and it's moving.

Systm felt a slight tremor from the bodies of several ant larvae next to him, apparently sensing the strange visitor who had broken into the underground passageway.

It didn't take long for Systham to hear the call of "chirp".

The visitor who broke into the ground was obviously a rat, probably caused by the fishy smell of his blood tumbling and spewing gas during his metamorphosis......

The [Smelly Slime] he had placed at the mouth of the hole kept the ants out, but it didn't stop the mice.

The rat digging is approaching......

Sistemm felt that he was already dead, unless his third metamorphosis could be completed in ten minutes, and he might be able to escape with his life after the metamorphosis.

But to complete the metamorphosis in ten minutes, even his first and second metamorphosis were not so fast, not to mention that his third metamorphosis did not even start now.

"Is this going to be the end of the day? Even these ant larvae die......"

Because of the metamorphosis, Systham's body was completely immobile, not even the mucus in his throat glands could not be released.

The only thing he could use at this time was his [Psychic Transmission] spiritual power, but the level of this power was too low, and it could only be effective against insects and plants, and would not be of any use to mice.

He had no means to fight back, so he could only wait for death in silence.

A few minutes later, in the faint light of the fluorescent mushroom, Systham saw the mouse's glowing green eyes.

It is a fifteen-minute sized rat with a dark gray color.

A dozen ant larvae wriggled their clumsy bodies in front of Systham, not allowing the rats to harm their "queen".

The rat scratched the dirt in the burrow a few times with its paws, and then rubbed its cheek with its paws, and it seemed to feel that Systm was already a turtle in an urn, and began to move unhurriedly.

Systm remembered the scene many days ago, when he seemed to be like this rat blocking him, blocking the crickets in the hollow of the tree.

The cricket didn't have the courage to fight him, and he didn't have the ability to fight the mouse......

And at this very moment.

The rat suddenly let out a scream, and as if it felt pain, it sprang to its feet and rolled twice around the burrow.

Systm saw a figure, it was a soldier ant Dasha!