Ninja World: Insect Princess from Konoha

Chapter 425

The meat worms were surging, and the compacted flat ground was full of wriggling white worms, densely connected into one piece, piled up and wriggled toward the center.

These worms are the most common basal larvae in Meiji's hands today, and they will metamorphose into adults after they develop to a corresponding size.

The link where fixed bug eggs develop into fixed bugs has been deleted.

Among them, the main application is the physical reorganization ability of the slug fairy, which greatly shortens the growth period and improves the explosive ability of the swarm.

Therefore, a type of worm is no longer limited to its current form, and undergoes metamorphosis like rebirth through self-dissolution and redevelopment.

But this process is not without loss.

Therefore, it is impossible for small-sized insects to metamorphose into larger-sized insects, and it is impossible for substances to be produced out of thin air.

But with Chakra for energy supply, this can be temporarily ignored.

At this time, the meat worms gather human-shaped cocoons, and the outer shell hardens to wrap the tissue fluid inside. The meat worms enter the interior and begin to dissolve, and the tissue fluid reacts to rapidly develop and assemble.

If you open it, you can find the viscous milky white liquid wriggling like a living thing.

As a result, the outer humanoid body surface squirms and bulges from time to time. The densely packed balls vary in size, and then calm down after swelling.

Normal people don't like to watch this scene because of the physical discomfort from the bottom of their hearts.

But the pupal stage is a very magical process.

Before mastering this ability, Maggie's worms had two forms of adulthood, one was complete metamorphosis, the other was incomplete metamorphosis.

For example, Xia Chizu is an incomplete metamorphosis. Their larvae live in water, prey on food, and grow into adults through repeated molts.

This moulting process actually consumes a lot of resources.

Don't you need resources to develop a new skin? For sure.

This little bit of accumulation will consume a lot of invisible.

Unlike a complete metamorphosis, it does not need to shed its skin when it grows up. After accumulating enough resources, it can be assembled quickly at one time.

The method of complete metamorphosis is extremely perfect, and Miki does not need to bother to modify it, it can be used directly, and only needs to be optimized in small places, such as the speed of pupation into adults.

This enhances resource utilization.

The advantages don't stop there.

In the wild, shedding is troublesome. It is a dangerous process, not to mention easy to be attacked by predators. The bigger the body, the more likely it is to die.

Some shrimps have no lifespan limit. Those who can repair telomerase can theoretically grow to a large size, but many shrimps will collapse and die during the moulting process. The larger the size, the closer to the next death.

It is not impossible for Miki to steadily increase her size in this way, but it is completely unnecessary.

The larvae continue to accumulate protein and become larger in size. It is more fragrant to turn into a giant worm once it pupates, and there is no accidental loss of molting and death, which improves the efficiency of adulthood.

And the advantages such as staggering the ecological niches of larvae and adults, and avoiding internal consumption competition needless to say, Maggie can't use it either.

The most important are two points.

Many insects rely on pupation to survive the winter, avoiding the cruel winter and food shortage.

The pupal period of some insects is extremely long, and they will be buried quietly in the ground for several years without eating or drinking, and it will take more than ten years to emerge from their shells, which makes it easier for Meiji to reserve a large number of soldiers.

Before that, Xia Chizu couldn't do this, and had to develop into a dragonfly state before letting it go dormant.

But the time of dormancy is limited, and once it becomes an adult, it means entering the countdown to death in the life cycle.

After pupation and standby dormancy, this further reduces resource consumption.

Stop dormancy when necessary and directly start the pupation program to break out of the shell.

It is more streamlined, efficient, automated, and scaled.

Accumulation in normal times, and wartime outbreaks, there is no need to rush to fill up the performance of the production line and increase production as before.

This is one, and the other is overall efficiency.

The larvae born from incomplete metamorphosis basically have the ability of adults when they break their shells. In this way, they are born with the ability to survive independently.

The fully metamorphic larvae are actually premature babies and do not have the ability to survive independently.

It looks like the former has a greater survival advantage, but the latter is more efficient.

It can be eaten after birth, and then continue to develop. The time saved can continue to lay eggs, shortening the cycle of laying eggs.

This is what the ants play.

Half of the life is born, and the rest of the development process is made up by the larvae themselves through eating, and the female worm starts a new round of spawning process on the spot, and the time saved is real.

Under the protection of a safe nest and sufficient resource supply, it is the same as the number of eggs laid by the female insect, which is the basic condition for explosive reproduction.

And Maggie's egg-laying mode is even more frenzied. The female worms will give birth to a batch, conceive a batch, prepare a batch, and a batch will be born halfway through the development. The second batch has almost developed and is about to be born. In the egg stage, a new batch of fertilization immediately enters the manufacturing process, and queues up to wait for the previous ones to complete the process, so the cycle continues.

At present, Maggie's explosive force system has three important pillars.

One is the number of eggs laid by the mother, and the faster development of the larvae increases the number of eggs laid in disguise.

The second is the logistics system of the swarm.

The third is the Accelerated Cultivation Barrier that speeds up growth.

The combination of the three forms a terrifying reproductive ability.

Today, the swarms under Maggie have different shapes, but the unified feature is complete abnormality.

In this regard, Qiuhuxiang is no exception, it is no longer viviparous.

It was a worm when it was a child, but after it pupated, it became a worm like a cat.

Among them, I have to mention something called the imaginal disc, which is the key to metamorphosis.

The larva itself has a set of organs, but there is an imago disc hidden in the body. It is silent during the larval stage, and it will be activated when it pupates. At this time, it will dissolve itself into a protein liquid, like broth, and the activated imago disc will begin to develop and absorb the broth. Nutrients, develop adults according to predetermined procedures.

Unlike Orochimaru's reincarnation technique, cloned and split embryos cannot develop into anything other than Orochimaru.

If the imaginal disc in a larva is replaced with the imaginal disc of another species of insect, then what develops will not be the original adult form.

This is the key to Maggie's metamorphosis.

Maggie processed the imago disc, using the reorganization ability of slugs, adjusted the imago disc, engraved the adult information of the insects in her hand, activated or silenced the expression according to the selection, carried out universalization, and the rest formed and developed It is an automated process.

Maggie engraved the key information for assembling into a cat into the imago disc, and when the imago disc selects and reads the cat's form and expands, it will develop into a cat-like thing.

Therefore, what is in front of Wan Gui is not an illusory insect clone.

But some kind of horrible creature.

Chakra from nowhere poured in violently and madly, and the azure blue Chakra visible to the naked eye converged on the human form, forming a beam of light that soared into the sky, surrounded by blue Chakra light spots, like twinkling stars , swarming and gathering towards the human form.

Further away, with the injection of Chakra, the white hyphae in the giant hive began to wither and die in large numbers.

The epidermis of the human form began to crack, exposing the white and tender skin, and as the development rapidly completed, a humanoid tore the epidermis.

what is this?
Wan Gui's eyes widened in confusion.

She has white and pink skin, the skin is crystal clear like some kind of jelly jelly, her body has a layer of moist mucus secretions, and her body is slender and slender like a woman.

As the shell of the dried and cracked fragments fell off, gradually the complete human form appeared before the eyes.

A head of smooth pink-white tentacles and long hair, a beautiful and small face, with a pair of big jewel-like eyes, surrounded by small beads-like transparent eyes, no breathing nostrils, and no eating Its mouth has no ears, and its whole body is smooth without a trace of hair. On its bare body, there are tiny air pores arranged neatly and symmetrically.

The slightly undulating chest seems to suggest that she is a woman, her whole body is soft without obvious muscle ups and downs, and the blue-glowing bones can be seen through the transparent body.

It seems to be an endoskeleton composed of Chakra, except for that, no other organs can be seen.

No heart, no blood vessels, no stomach, not even the structure of the brain.

what is this?
It looks like a person, but she is definitely not a person.

The chakra beam of light gradually dissipated, and the unknown worm moved its hands and feet, followed by Miki's voice.

"This is one of my strongest forms."

The strongest single form.

"I call it the Insect Immortal mode."

Fairy?

Wan Gui couldn't understand it, the fairy mode or something, I've only heard the legend, never seen the real thing.

"She has no fatal weakness in the usual sense." Meiji continued: "No blood, no bleeding, no internal organs, no organ damage, no thinking brain, no illusion control, using a reticular nervous system, distributed A node brain, simply put, is just a wriggling mass of meat."

"Feed entirely on chakra as a source of power for action."

"Your technique will not pose even the slightest threat to her."

"Go to hell!" Wan Gui yelled loudly, and the technique prepared in secret exploded violently. The ground suddenly shook, centered on himself, all around sank, and was violently flattened by the invisible giant hand.

"It's amazing." Meggie's voice sounded, and it sounded into a puddle of crushed pink jelly on the ground.

"Shut up!!!" Wan Gui roared angrily, the chakra's surging output increased, and the surrounding ground sank violently again.

"It's useless." When the voice sounded, the flattened jelly rippled like a liquid.

Looking at this scene, Wan Gui couldn't accept it. There was no effect at all. After panting hard, the moment he put away the spell, his whole body soared into the sky.

run!
Run!

The ground lost the pressure of gravity, and the pink-white jelly stood up, quickly surging into a human form, watching the figures of thousands of turtles soaring into the sky, a pair of wings as thin as cicada wings stretched out rapidly from behind, and under the wings there were A pair of small balance bars.

This is the most basic ability of this body, deformation.

Develops from imaginal discs distributed throughout the body.

In addition, this seemingly adult body of 1.7 meters is extremely light in weight because it does not have any real organs and bones in its body.

No additional equipment is needed to assist the flight, only a pair of wings is enough to take off.

The powerful muscles move the wings and flap them. With the flapping of the wings, the wings are gradually blurred to the point of being invisible, and disappear in the eyes. The air holes on the back are slightly opened, and with the explosion of the jet, a transparent airflow gushes out.

Maggie shot straight into the sky at high speed like a sharp arrow.

Looking at Mei Ji who was approaching rapidly under him, Wan Gui's eyes and pupils suddenly shrank.

What kind of monster is this! ?
too fast!
It flies so fast!
In the absence of strong propulsion, Wan Gui's anti-gravity flight does not fly fast.

That is, you can't run away at all.

Aware of this situation, Wan Gui turned around and quickly closed the seal.

The chest cavity swelled slightly, and then a large amount of black water sprayed out, blooming like a trumpet flower, pouring from top to bottom towards the chasing Mei Ji.

Lime Condensation

The spit out can be said to be concrete cement.

In addition to being used for civil engineering operations, it can also be used to restrict human movement.

Looking at Mei Ji who was avoiding quickly, Wan Gui's eyes lit up.

She dodges!
Appears to be working!

The hand prints kept forming, and the continuous cement morning glory spit out continuously. Swinging the head to follow the direction of Michelle’s movement, a large piece of cement bloomed in the sky under the night, and quickly solidified and hardened, and the solid stones fell in pieces. , crashing continuously into the forest.

The birds in the forest were constantly startled.

Nocturnal birds can fly, but non-flying birds can only spread their wings in terror in their nests, defending against non-existent intruders, and small animals are scurrying in the forest.

Until getting closer and closer, a ball of cement hit Maggie.

The blooming cement successfully wrapped Miki.

It worked! ?

Before the smile could rise, a hint of panic appeared in Wan Gui's eyes.

I saw a powdery white liquid quickly seeping out of the cement, followed by creeping along the sprayed cement, moving forward quickly.

Shutting his mouth abruptly, Wan Gui cut off the jet of cement and at the same time quickly raised his figure.

but it seems too late
At this time, on the cement, the powdery white liquid quickly formed a human form, and after approaching a distance, the whole person jumped up ferociously, and rushed towards the ten thousand turtles in midair.

Limbs spread wide in what appeared to be a warm hug.

Wan Gui didn't want to be hugged at all.

"hateful!!!"

Roaring, the escape technique was activated.

The figure in the air suspended strangely, and the forward momentum stopped.

At the same time, thousands of turtles fell into the sky separated by a few meters, and fell rapidly and freely.

The two passed each other and their eyes met.

No more chakra?

No.

Can't run in the sky, Wan Gui wants to run from the ground.

The shed wings were wrapped in cement and did not regenerate into a pair of wings. The air holes on Meiji's body sprayed out, and she swooped down following Wangui.

The two of them, one behind the other, passed through the canopy and fell into the forest floor.

The branches and leaves were like sharp blades, drawing bloodstains on Wan Gui's face.

Ignoring the wiping and pain, like a fish entering the water, ten thousand tortoises plunge into the hard ground unabated after the seals are formed.

Meiji, who arrived on her back foot, also smashed into the ground without slowing down, and the traces of the branches on her body healed together in a blink of an eye, without causing a single splash.

A squirrel next to it was holding a nut and blinking dazedly, as if something had swished by just now.

The two quickly sneaked one behind the other in the dark underground.

In the activity of fishing, for the big fish that take the bait, walking the fish is a technical work that requires patience.

But obviously, Meiji's earth escape is faster.

Generally, earth escape uses chakra to soften the soil, and people move forward in the tunnel of softened soil layer dug in a way similar to swimming.

Whoever has less forward resistance will be faster.

We all know that the smaller the contact area, the lower the resistance.

In the soil, Meiji's figure split apart, forming a group of slender white worms, zigzagging forward like snakes.

This degree of deformation does not need to invoke imaginal disc development.

Wan Gui noticed this, and the guy's body structure moved more dexterously and quickly underground.

Something cold and greasy silently stuck to the back of his skin. In an instant, the ghosts of thousands of turtles froze, and the hairs all over his body stood up in horror.

On the back, on the legs, on the hands, on the chest, it was such a terrible touch.

She is coming!
(End of this chapter)