Chapter 56: Strange Body

According to the rhythm of the body's bloodlines, Sistem's bloodlines are compared to the bloodlines of the pupae, and he tries to activate the [Cold Resistance] contained in the [Insect Adaptability].

However, when the actual use of the experience bar began to activate [Cold Resistance], Systm found that the experience bar stored in his body was somewhat out of his control, and gave him a strange feeling.

Systham remembered the yawn of the Frost Dragon's departure, the same yawn that had caused him to be in the state he was in today.

But that deep cold breath made his experience bar suddenly increase a lot.

That cold and strange aura didn't go away, but when Syst used [Insect Ability Activation], it reappeared and began to make trouble.

Systm felt an irregular rhythm between his body's blood and the pupa blood, and his experience bar began to deplete little by little, but instead of activating [Cold Resistance], he began to activate something that he himself couldn't explain, and it seemed to be non-existent in the insect's bloodline.

Sistemm felt a special kind of cold energy pouring out of the falling snowflakes around him to gather towards his body, and his body became stiff again, and it didn't take long for his heart to stop beating due to the freezing.

After that, Syst fell into a deep stupor......

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Heatham woke up again in a daze.

Fortunately, he had the timer function in the [Tools Menu], which let him know that he had been asleep for five days.

Sisstem thought he would die because of this, but he didn't expect him to surviving, and he was buried in the snow without the slightest feeling of cold.

Without giving Sistemm time to continue thinking, a feeling of hunger came from his abdomen.

This hunger pang is arguably the strongest since Systm was reborn as a grasshopper.

Flicking his chelica teeth wildly, Systm sucked in the ice crystals around him, filling his stomach with snow.

Swallowing the snow did not cause Sistemm to feel uncomfortable, and Sistemm could feel the snow and ice mixed in his stomach with gastric juices, slowly beginning to melt, relieving his hunger.

Not only that, but Syst actually tasted the taste from the snow and ice, instead of sucking rainwater like before, without any taste.

Heatham tasted a faint salty taste from the snow and ice, somewhat similar to MSG, and a vague umami smell came from the swallowing process.

This was the first time that Syst had tasted salty food since he came to this world, and what he had eaten before was basically only sweet, sour and bitter.

Among them, the sweet and sour food is very fond of his body, and the other bitter food has a certain harm to his body, and usually the food that can be toxic to his body will emit a bitter taste.

The first taste of saltiness and freshness made Systm very excited, and he devoured the snow that had piled up around him even harder.

As he ate the snow, Systm felt a strange cold energy appear in his stomach, rushing towards his throat.

It seemed that a new organ had appeared in his throat, but Systm didn't feel it at all, he was so hungry that he devoured the ice and snow around him even harder......

However, it didn't take long for Syst to find that swallowing the snow would not satisfy his hunger, and when the snow melted into water in his stomach, he could only feel a very empty feeling of fullness.

It wasn't long before the melted snow was expelled from his body, making him even hungrier.

Sistemm flailed his tentacles, rolling up some of the dead leaves and frozen weeds beneath him and putting them in his mouth to chew.

Compared to the salty snow and ice, dead leaves and weeds fill Sistum's stomach better.

As his hunger subsided, Systm finally noticed his strange body.

The chrysalis he had before he fell unconscious was gone, and so was the remaining half of his thigh and the middle leg on his left side—

Heatham found a lot of debris in the snow beneath him, from the shell of a chrysalis to the green exoskeleton fragments of his feet......

Sistemm speculated that it was likely that he had eaten the chrysalis while he was unconscious, and then had eaten the remnants of his own limbs due to his physical hunger.

Perhaps due to a lack of nutrients in the body, [Regeneration of Severed Limbs] could not fully function, and the notch of Sistm's broken leg showed no signs of regrowing limbs, but instead grew tentacles one by one, some with two, some with three.

Together, there are fifteen of these tentacles.

Because of the uneven nutrition, the length and thickness of the fifteen tentacles varied, some were slender and some were short, the longest one was nearly thirty centimeters, and the shortest one was less than five centimeters

In addition to the new tentacles, Heatham found that his originally fat abdomen had shrunk to a quarter of its original size, and it was estimated that all the energy stored in his abdomen had been basically exhausted these days.

Using his tentacles to collect weeds and dead leaves from the snow and stuff them into his mouth, Sistrem's hunger subsided considerably, and he gradually regained his senses and began to think about his current situation.

The snow was apparently much worse than Sistem's worst had predicted, and in just five days, the climate had gone from early autumn to deep winter.

The snow buried on him was at least a few tens of centimeters, and even if one of his longest tentacles touched it upward, he couldn't feel the air above.

Fortunately, for unknown reasons, he had mastered a strange frost power, otherwise he might not have been able to survive this bad weather even if he had gained [Cold Resistance].

This ability caused a new organ to form near his throat and caused a special change in his blood.

Although he is still cold-blooded, there seems to be something special in his blood, so that his blood will not freeze in the bitter cold.

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[Frost Breath] (6/15): A derivative ability activated by [Insect Adaptability], [Nut Code], [Data Compilation], and unknown energy. Spit out an icy breath through special glands.

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As the hunger in his stomach continued to subside somewhat, Systm tried to spit out the [Frosty Breath] with the newly formed gland in his throat.

He could spew out a stream of ice-blue gas from the new gland in his throat, which was about the size of a Coke can in his previous life, and he could spit about three times in a row, and it would take about five hours to fully recover after spraying.

However, the exact power of this breath is not known to Sistem, at least this [Frost Breath] ability has no effect on the snow buried on him.

Sistum used his tentacles to move his body through the snow and ice.

Slowly, his body rose little by little in the snow as he flicked back and forth with his tentacles.

Being buried in this way by the snow and ice is not the way to go, and Systham decides to climb out of the snow.

Only by going to the surface can he see what the forest has become because of the snow and ice, and he can climb the trees with his tentacles to eat some frozen leaves.