Chapter 37 (2/2)

System even heard the sound of the mouse sucking flesh and blood from the leg’s exoskeleton.

Even if Foolish was not injured, she could not defeat this mouse, not to mention she only had three legs left now.

The mouse would eat Foolish’s legs, one by one, in front of it, and then torture her to death.

“Foolish, come here.”

System sent a telepathic message to Foolish, calling her to his side.

Foolish, who felt dizzy from the mouse’s attack, shook her head. Some cracks had formed on her head due to the impact and murky white liquid was flowing out of them.

Insects could be very stubborn. Even after the loss of three legs and a shattered head, Foolish approached System at her usual speed.

Foolish transmitted a puzzled emotion to System as she did not know what he wanted to do.

System looked at the mouse. It finished eating one of Foolish’s legs, so it picked up another one and continued enjoying its feast.

Finally, System made his decision. He sorted out his thoughts and tried to send a telepathic message to Foolish in a smooth and sincere tone.

“Foolish, hide behind me. When it attacks me later, run away and return to your original ant nest, where the real ant queen is. Actually, I’m not the queen, I’m a grasshopper.”

System’s emotional state was weird. Every time he looked at his lifespan countdown, he felt terrified, but now that he was facing death, System did not feel fearful anymore.

The ant larvae around him could hardly squirm, and it was almost impossible for them to escape. Foolish was the only one with any hope of escaping, and System wanted the soldier ant to survive.

Unexpectedly, Foolish did not respond to System’s telepathic message and remained silent.

Ever since Foolish had encountered System, it was the first time that the soldier ant disobeyed his orders.

Suddenly, Foolish turned her body around and dashed at an extraordinary speed with her three remaining legs. She shook her huge mandibles violently and charged at the mouse again!!

Kaka… Kaka…

Soon, the mouse flung Foolish in the same manner and deprived her of two more legs, leaving her only with her foreleg.

Foolish used her foreleg, as well as her movable abdominal joint, to wriggle on the ground and attack the mouse again.

Unfortunately, Foolish was sluggish. By the time the mouse devoured the last leg, Foolish was still on her way to reach the mouse.

The mouse seemed to lose interest in Foolish as she could no longer fight back. Thus, it approached Foolish and used its front legs to flip Foolish’s crippled body, throwing Foolish around like a sandbag.

When the mouse noticed that Foolish was exhausted from the torture, it grabbed Foolish’s body. It seemed the mouse was ready to put an end on Foolish’s life…

And that was when the miracle happened!

Thud—

A translucent liquid with tinges of red gushed out of the mouse’s head!

Perhaps it was because of the mouse’s negligence, or it was Foolish’s long-planned attack, but the stinger in Foolish’s abdomen had miraculously pierced the mouse’s eye.

The mouse shrieked in misery and rolled and jumped in the cave continuously. The stinger and the overwhelming pain frightened the mouse to the point it fled, leaving behind the half-buried soldier ant!

…

The barely-alive Foolish struggled out of the soil with her foreleg and her movable abdomen and crawled toward System.

After a few minutes, Foolish finally reached System. Then, she turned her body and pointed her mandibles outward…