The past month has been almost calm, but the weather has become hotter and hotter, and the Warren Plains have completely moved from late spring to summer.

For insects, the hot summer months are not unbearable, but they need to be treated with caution.

Grasslands without tree shelter will face the scorching sun, and ordinary small insects will lose their lives if exposed to the sun.

Systm is also considering whether it is time to adjust the foraging habits of the ant people from day to night.

A few days ago, Blake had managed to break out of the pupal after the second pupation.

Blake has taken on the form of a centaur knight, like Shava and the members of the Ant Knights, though she still has a dark patch on her head.

In contrast to other knights' weapons that formed at the ends of their forelimbs, Blake's forelimbs formed fingers that were human-like and could move freely and grasp things.

It's just that unlike the five fingers of a human, Blake's fingers have six, and it looks like the fingers are close in length.

Except for the occasional staring at Blake's fingers and his tentacles, Syst did not envy Blake's newly generated fingers at all.

Blake, who has entered the secondary chrysalis, also hears the voice of the world, and because of her high intelligence, she also understands some of the information given by the voice of the world.

She also knew that the condition for achieving magical life was to break the level lock, and there was an extraordinary life level above magic.

Blake also felt something that Heatham didn't know, the law of the world's voice-giving abilities.

It's a pity that Blake only felt a little bit about the law of the world's voice empowerment, and she couldn't tell how to describe it.

And the abilities given by the voice of the world, Blake, like most ants, only gained the ability, but did not know what the ability was, and it was more difficult to use.

Although the power of the secondary chrysalis cannot be used, through the power of the deformed butterfly Ora, Blake has changed his previous congenitally deficient body to the average body shape of ordinary worker ant knights.

And he has mastered some ice power, and he can rub one or two ice balls or something.

Blake, who has just broken out of the chrysalis, is still a little smaller, and it is estimated that after a while, it will become about the same size as an ordinary worker ant knight, growing to more than twenty centimeters.

According to Blake's feelings, her lifespan is about 10 years, which is about the same as that of a normal member of the Ant Knights.

Sistemm had to sigh again that the lifespan of grasshoppers is too short, even with the title of "xenomorph insect", which increases lifespan, his lifespan is only more than 5 years.

And the soldier ant Sawa, which lives longer than the worker ants, has a lifespan of more than 20 years.

As for Linda, the queen of ants, even if she didn't undergo the second pupation, her lifespan would be fifteen years, and after the second pupation, how could she have a lifespan of one hundred and eighty years.

However, Linda's lifespan is long, and her secondary chrysalis is also very slow, and Heatham estimates that it will take at least three or four months for her to break out of the pupae.

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Blake's return has made Heatham's usual routine much lighter, and Heatham has more time to do his own business.

After encountering a tawny slime again the other day, Heatham began to raise two slime friends he had found in his lair these days.

Due to the existence of an excavator that can manipulate the dirt, the two slime friends were easily trapped underground by the Sistm, and the excavator manipulated the dirt to only leave a gap for the slime to feed food, so that the slime could not escape.

As some food such as rats in the neighborhood became scarce, in order to obtain a stable source of food, Heatham asked his ant people to follow the example of the leaf-cutting ants in their previous life, cutting and carrying the leaves of some plants as fodder.

But unlike leafcutter ants that use plant leaves to grow fungi, Heatham uses plants only to breed slimes.

After a few days, the cultivation of slimes went quite smoothly.

However, his fifty-odd ant people have very little basic role, and they don't carry weeds as much as they can do for two or three hours with their tentacles for a whole day.

However, raising slimes this way also reduces a lot of trouble for Systm and prevents slimes from jumping around at will.

Because of the hot weather, slimes like to jump and dive into abandoned nezumi caves, and Sistemm has to look for them for a long time every time he loses them.

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After watching the slimes eat for a while, Systham led Black to the dungeon in the corner of the underground lair.

In a month's time, the excavator has dug the underground nest to a depth of more than ten meters, and has more than forty square rooms, and the entire nest has begun to take shape.

Thanks to the continuous use of the ability and the enhancement of the Systham, the excavator's ability has become much stronger, its digging speed is more than double that of the past, and the entire underground lair has been built by the excavation mechanism.

In addition, the excavator also drew water sources nearly 20 meters underground, solving the inconvenience of the ant people going out to get water.

This dungeon is where Systm imprisoned a nezumi.

Seven days ago, Systham had captured a male nezumi as he wished, but the male was still illiterate.

Heatham also finally castrated the nezumi that he had been thinking about for a long time.

However, when the initial excitement of castration was over, Systm felt only emptiness, after all, castrating the nezumi would not solve his fundamental problem.

In order to prevent the nezumi from being killed by his plague again, every time Sissymme interrogated the nezumi before interrogating the nezumi, he would use the ability of [telepathy] to carefully feel the germs in his body and feel whether there were suspicious germs on his body.

If there are suspicious germs, Systm will go to the river to wash his body and bask in the sun before interrogating the nezumi for a while.

After a few days of interrogation, although Heatham and Blake were unable to speak, the nezumi themselves were much smarter than Heatham had imagined.

After the first two days of terror, the nezumi became very cooperative, using tentacles to make gestures and use some objects, so that he mastered some of the nezumi language.

If Sisttm's understanding was correct, his lair had allowed the nezumi to spot some anomalies.

Rats are timid and cautious by nature, and they have a special bond with ordinary rats and are able to communicate simply.

In the vicinity of the Sissym's nest, the drastic reduction in rats naturally attracted the attention of the rat people.

And the nezumi captured by Syst was the nezumi warrior who had rushed here from a nezumi gathering place a hundred kilometers away to conduct reconnaissance.

Due to his limited knowledge of the nezumi language, Systham is interrogating the nezumi colony these days about possible reactions.

I don't know how the nezumi gathering will react, and if you send a nezumi wizard like that self-detonation, it's definitely not the result that Sistemm wants.

However, inquiring about the status of the nezumi colony didn't make much progress, but Sistemm asked something else - the rainy season.

Every summer, the eastern part of the Warren Plains and the western part of the Lierte Forest experience a continuous torrential rainstorm, and many depressions are flooded with rainwater.