The grasshopper's brown and yellow exoskeleton looked very sturdy and was covered in complex and mysterious patterns that had a simir appearance to the veins on certain kinds of leaves. It had a deep-set pair of golden compound eyes and slender antennae that looked simir to a katydid's.

  The grasshopper flew down from the sky and nded right in front of System. It carried a strange scent that he found fragrant and delightful.

  In System's eyes, the female grasshopper standing in front of him was extremely beautiful. Many inexplicable emotions were born in his heart, and he even had an impulse to kneel down in worship.

  However, this feeling of wanting to worship her was far inferior to another emotion—his desire to mate with the other party.

  This was an instinct that was found in the blood of all insects. Find a strong partner, successfully mate with the other party, produce healthy offspring, and have those offspring continue to pass on your bloodline.

  System forced himself to suppress his body that kept trembling slightly due to excitement. As an individual with a human soul, he couldn't imagine a scene where a grasshopper like him, who was less than half the size of the other grasshopper, would mate with the other party.

  More importantly, if the two of them mated right now, he would be dead in three days.

  This fear of death finally caused System's excited body to rex.

  He carefully observed the huge grasshopper in front of him. She didn't try to interact with him in any way. She just tilted her head as if she was curious.

  System felt greatly relieved by this. If the female grasshopper wanted to mate with him, which would result in the two of them dying together, it would be difficult for him to resist considering the limitations of his current body.

  The mating principle between insects was very simple. The stronger the individual, the stronger the ability to attract the opposite sex.

  On the contrary, if one's strength was weaker than the other party's, it would be difficult to attract them.

  The situation with the female grasshopper in front of him was like this. She obviously didn't intend to mate with him, and if System forced his way over, she might even attack.

  ...

  The two grasshoppers, one big and one small, stood staring at each other atop an unknown pnt.

  System sensed the mysterious aura emanating from the other party. This aura wasn't like her enticing female scent meant for attracting the opposite sex. This strange aura made him want to kneel down on the ground in worship.

  This huge grasshopper, a full twenty-five centimeters long, gave off the impression that she was the queen of all grasshoppers.

  She was covered in a strong exoskeleton and had huge mandibles. System estimated that even lizards and birds, natural enemies of insects, would find it difficult to defeat her. Ordinary insect hunters like mantises and katydids could only keep their distance.

  He specuted that this female grasshopper's mysterious, queen-like aura was likely due to her having completed her third metamorphosis.

  He didn't know what she'd gone through to achieve a third metamorphosis as a grasshopper. Maybe she was exceptionally gifted, or maybe she'd experienced some fortuitous encounter.

  It wasn't impossible for such a special individual to arise from the tens of millions of grasshoppers that were born in the forest every year.

  Unfortunately, insects had a low level of intelligence and could only communicate in the simplest of ways. System couldn't ask the other party any questions or get specific information about the third metamorphosis from her.

  However, just as System was menting their inability to communicate, he suddenly heard a soft voice.

  "Let's go, together."

  The voice was very quiet, but he could hear it clearly. He subconsciously twitched his antennae around in an attempt to locate the source of the voice. He twisted his insect head and looked around, but found nothing.

  "You, let's go, together."

  The soft and strange voice entered System's mind again. He finally realized that the voice wasn't actually a voice, but a unique ability simir to telepathy.

  The creature sending him these telepathic message was the female grasshopper standing in front of him.

  "Let's go, together," the female grasshopper repeated again.

  She seemed to have wisdom, but her use of nguage was poor, and the messages she sent were very clumsy.

  System's insect face unconsciously showed a look of astonishment.

  Compared to the wild boar that could emit fire or the old druid who could heal injuries, the grasshopper in front of him was undoubtedly more shocking.

  It wasn't just that her telepathic communication ability was so special, but that the creature using this strange ability was his own distant retive, another species of grasshopper.

  "Let's go, together."

  The grasshopper queen sent out the same message again, and System finally returned to his senses after being stunned.

  The grasshopper queen's ability was truly wonderful. System could feel that his mind was connected to the other party's mind, and using her ability, the two of them could communicate directly with each other.

  "Where do you want to take me?"

  System tried sending a message to the other party through this mental connection. He found that sending messages was extremely easy. As long as he imagined speaking, the mental message would automatically be transmitted to the other party.

  The grasshopper queen tilted her head and gnced at System, revealing a puzzled expression. Not long after, she sent another mental message.

  "You, are different."

  "You...me, are special...different from...them."

  The female grasshopper's mental messages were clumsy. It seemed like there were many words she couldn't say, but System still understood the meaning of her message.

  "Are you trying to say that you and I have wisdom, which makes us different from ordinary grasshoppers?"

  "Wisdom...wisdom?"

  "Yes, wisdom." System gave an affirmative answer.

  The female grasshopper lowered her head in thought and didn't continue the conversation for a while. System just waited quietly.

  After a short wait, she suddenly looked up at System and sent him countless mental messages. These messages contained images that combined with each other to form strange and familiar scenes in System's mind.

  The images were very familiar to him. They were the scenes that had emerged from his bloodline when his [Insect Adaptability] had upgraded to level 11 and entered a higher tier.

  In the scenes, countless grasshoppers gathered in groups. They flew over mountains and kes together, and it seemed as if they were searching for a mysterious pce.

  "Let's go, together?"

  The female grasshopper sent a mental message to System again. He finally understood what her invitation meant.

  After thinking for a while, System asked her, "Why do you want to go to such a distant pce? Is there something there?"

  Perhaps the other party's [Insect Adaptability] had a higher level, and she knew more secrets.

  The grasshopper queen showed a look of longing, and she sent a message to System. "The world...so big. I want to go, to see."

  The message the grasshopper queen sent him was simple and pure. If an ordinary human had said this to him, he would probably take it as an empty excuse and would never believe it.

  But the grasshopper queen obviously could not and would not lie. She had no other intentions. She simply wanted to experience the vastness of this world.

  System shook his head gently and sent a message to the queen. "I can't go with you. I want to stay here."

  "Why?"

  Seeing the queen's expression, System thought for a while before deciding to tell the truth.

  "Sixty days of life is too short. I don't have time to waste exploring the world."

  The grasshopper queen showed a puzzled look, then sent another mental message to System.

  "You, me, together...then mate, produce offspring."

  The female grasshopper seemed to want to say a very long sentence, but it was difficult for her to connect the words properly.

  However, System still understood what the queen meant. She said that System should go with her, and when he was about to die, she would breed with him so that he could leave behind offspring to pass on his bloodline.

  Passing on one's bloodline was the instinct of all insects from birth. Compared to their own death, they were more afraid of not being able to leave behind offspring.

  But System was different. Compared to leaving behind offspring and dying, he obviously hoped that he could live longer.

  He looked at the huge female grasshopper in front of him and didn't know what to say for a while.