Ninja World: Insect Princess from Konoha.

Chapter 76 The Power of Superorganisms

The first Anbu mission is considered over.

When everyone gathered together again, they were in a cave.

This is where Maggie found out.

The cave is very warm, and there are flame parasites to raise the temperature, so I can't feel the chill of the wind and snow outside.

"Looks like we can't leave tonight." Looking at the heavy snow outside, Bai Fang said.

Meiji nodded, looking at the heavy snow outside, a Xia Chizu flew in after a while, wobbly resting on Meiji's outstretched finger.

It was so cold that the wings started to freeze.

Tolerance to harsh environments is temporary, and as time accumulates, the test of body functions will become more and more severe.

It is impossible to perform missions in such bad weather.

And the fragile structure of wings is not easy to increase strength, unless it is bio-steel.

But it is also not easy to grow wings of biosteel.

Meiji stretched out her hand and let go of Xia Chizu.

As an experimental first work, it already has practical value.

However, this one has suffered from heat stroke...

Rather than...

Xia Chizu dissolved in the air, leaving only the worm's shell when it landed.

In the snowstorm outside, more Xia Chizu could no longer return to the voyage, and their own small amount of chakra could not support the reverse psychic technique.

After falling one after another, they began to dissolve automatically.

If it wasn't for a quick carpet search, Maggie wouldn't have summoned this number of swarms.

In addition, the Xia Chizu who flew in the group can effectively maintain heat, and carry out continuous reconnaissance work in bad weather, so as not to freeze to death quickly.

White Fang glanced at the empty shell on the ground, and couldn't help but ask, "Worm, do you have a lot of Chakra?"

"Are there many?" Meggie replied, "Not many, she is the least among us."

"Impossible?" Bai Fang said, "The amount of this insect swarm will consume a huge amount just through psychic communication."

"The weight of Xia Chizu is 1.5 grams, and the quantity of 500,000 is only 750 kilograms, 0.75 tons."

"Is less than a ton a lot of mass?"

"The powerful psychic behemoth starts with a thousand tons, and there are also tens of thousands of tons."

"My bugs are not powerful at all." Meiji said, "It can't compare to those big guys."

"It's not a big burden for me to channel a swarm of this quality."

White Fang swallowed, feeling a little speechless.

Your worm is simply a detonating talisman, even if a giant beast of tens of thousands of tons encounters it, it will have to be hated on the spot!
"What does it eat? Chakra?" White Fang continued to ask.

"Captain Bai Fang, you have too many questions!" Zhili on the side said with a cold voice and forcefully.

White Fang scratched his head.

Even between companions, the related information and unspoken rules of the technique are not asked.

This is their own secret.

It wasn't that White Fang didn't know, but he was just too curious.

Because it's very powerful.

"It's not a big deal, this kind of bug doesn't eat Chakra." Meiji said.

Xia Chizu himself does not have the gene of the parasite, and does not have the ability to quickly hatch.

But Maggie has the art of pot poisoning.

This family secret, which was first seen by Miji as powerful, has undergone four revisions after learning the sealing technique.

It took eight years.

The first time was to split out the function of rapid incubation. Two years after learning the sealing technique, the second time was giantization, and also two years later, the third time was to super-giantize the enchantment, and the fourth time was a Years ago, portable miniaturization was carried out.

When Xia Chizu was rapidly hatching before, it was only Meiji who opened the pot poison barrier in her hand, and the parasites in her body supplied the nutrients and vitality needed for rapid hatching.

The essence of this technique is to speed up cell division, so it will shorten the insect's lifespan.

But that's not a big deal.

Xia Chizu itself is born to die, a life that blooms briefly like fireworks.

Therefore, it is also known as the meteor flying backwards.

The fireworks are launched into the sky, just like a meteor flying backwards.

"Don't eat chakra? Then what do you eat? Meat?" Seeing that Meiji didn't mind, Bai Fang continued to ask.

"Well, eating protein is not just meat, you can eat anything you can eat, including the same kind." Meiji said.

"Breeding on such a large scale, they will eat a lot, even if they are small like worms." Bai Fang sighed and said, "My dog ​​eats a lot, it's almost as if they can't get enough."

"You have made some mistakes, Captain White Fang." Maggie said, "The activities of living things need the support of energy, and energy comes from the nutrients absorbed."

"In the wild, all organisms act for this purpose, which is to collect energy for their own survival."

"Once the activity starts, energy will be consumed, and energy consumed must be replenished. This is the nature of predation."

"When the energy consumed can't keep up with the energy replenished, it has to keep hunting until the income is directly proportional, that is, it will stop when it is full."

"In this way, even for small insects like dragonflies, the number of mosquitoes they eat every day is a terrible number, and their weight is several times their own weight."

"It is constantly consuming energy, so it needs to keep preying."

"And interestingly, a hibernating bear stores enough fat to survive a long, brutal winter without food."

"The reason is that the bear has stopped moving, reducing energy expenditure."

"Similarly, letting the swarms go dormant and completely stop their activities can greatly reduce food consumption."

"Xia Chizu's body weight is 1.5 grams, and he can maintain his normal functions by consuming 5% of his body weight in food every day."

"And this 500,000-mass bug swarm has a total weight of 0.75 tons. What is the consumption of 5% of its own weight, Captain White Fang?"

White Fang scratched his head, this...

He is an outstanding early graduate of Konoha Ninja School.

How could this kind of question be possible!
"37.5 kilograms." Meiji said, "That's 75 kilograms, less than 100 kilograms of food."

"Oh! Understood!" White Fang nodded heavily.

What Maggie has said is very simple and easy to understand.

That's why Miki thinks that cheap ones are the same as toilet paper, no, cheaper than toilet paper.

Even for this hundred catties of food, Meiji didn't spend any money.

To answer why.

That is……

"Even if the food consumption is small, it's troublesome to carefully feed so many bugs, right?" Bai Fang wondered, "Did you come here alone? When I feed the dogs by myself, I'm often in a hurry, and when I cook the dog food, it's also very troublesome." Trouble, it’s just a dozen or so dogs, which add up to less than a thousand catties.”

He wants to ask some tips on feeding pets.

"Captain White Fang, this part belongs to the real secret biography." Meiji smiled and said, "I can't tell you that."

"That's it..." Bai Fang was a little disappointed, but not too disappointed. He was used to the daily routine of feeding the dog in his spare time, and sometimes he felt uncomfortable without grooming.

Maggie looked out of the cave.

Being able to raise a swarm of insects of this scale is where the power of the superorganism is manifested.

There are specialized insect swarms responsible for collecting resources, and at the same time carrying out resource increase activities such as animal husbandry, planting, and mineral mining. There are also specialized insects responsible for feeding various types of beautiful girls.

Squeeze the utilization rate of resources to the limit, and use every cent effectively on the steel blade.

Although it's still just a prototype.

But the outline of the real empire has emerged before Meiji's eyes.

　Look at my desperate eyes.

　　I haven't saved the manuscript, really I haven't saved the manuscript. I have been working overtime these days, and the two shifts are very difficult.

　　Don't come again, I save a little more.

　　The boss kneels down.

　　Add one more meaning first.

　　During this period of time, you really can’t add more, and if you add too much, you may fall to V.

　　disgusting.

　　By the way, the new book was due yesterday, and it was on the new book list, but I have already broken through the new book list.

　　no regrets.

　　Thank you for your love.

　　I will work hard to write interesting words in the future.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)