At the location where System was studying the demonic insect nest, Ying, who had been using her invisibility skill to remain hidden, revealed herself.

  She hadn't brought back any of her companions from her time with her former master.

  Her appearance wasn't any different from how System remembered her, except that her original six limbs were now four. She had somehow become disabled.

  Ying, whose body looked simir to a human's, had lost both arms on the left side of her body. Judging by how much her wounds had healed, it had been a long time since the missing arms had been severed. Although they were both grasshoppers, it was obvious that Ying didn't share System's [Limb Regeneration] ability.

  After leaving her invisible state, Ying quickly sent System a mental message.

  "King, I'm sorry. I said that I would bring my former companions here to live happily together, but I didn't do it."

  There was some annoyance and regret in her mental message, as if she was bming herself for not accomplishing her goal.

  System was also somewhat affected by Ying's emotions, but he quickly remembered the facts of the matter. He had never agreed to Ying bringing those so-called insect companions here. All of that had been Ying's own decision.

  However, when he saw Ying's current appearance and the way she was bming herself, he sighed helplessly.

  "Were you discovered by your original master while taking your companions away?"

  Faced with System's question, Ying didn't answer immediately. She just shook her head slowly and once again revealed an expression of loss.

  After a while, she finally opened up and expined what had happened in the Abyss.

  "They were all dead. By the time I returned, they had already been dealt with by the master. There was already a new batch of insect beasts there, and I didn't recognize any of them."

  "Is that so...," System replied.

  The two fell into a period of silence.

  Although he had learned that those insect beasts had died, System wasn't too sad. He had only been a bit affected by Ying's mood.

  In nature, the number of insects that could die of old age after reaching the limit of their lifespan might be less than one in a thousand. If System felt sad because of the death of every irrelevant insect, he'd never stop being unhappy.

  That's why, after hearing that Ying's master Festantine had dealt with the insects, System wasn't too bothered. If he was given the same conditions, he would also perform experiments on insects.

  However, these insect beasts were different, after all. They had once been Ying's partners, and she had even considered them friends.

  It was simir to how, if any enemies attacked Shava or Bck, System would definitely never let them go.

  ...

  After a long silence, Ying slowly let go of the feeling of loss in her heart. She looked at the demonic insect nest that System was cultivating and asked, "How did this insect demon nest appear here?"

  "I discovered it by tracking an undead creature some time ago and brought it here to cultivate. Do you know what's wrong with it?"

  System told her what he'd learned during his research, discussing not only the defective nest, but also some other things he'd found out recently.

  At the same time, he asked her about the changes that had taken pce in Warren Pins and Lilt Forest over the past year. He wanted to know what he'd missed while he'd been pupating and what Abyss Lord Ogan pnned to do.

  According to Ying's mental message, there were two types of Swarm Druids in the Abyss. One type was like her master and simply studied insect beasts; the second type used insect blood to transform demons. This demonic insect nest was one of the products researched by the second type of Swarm Druid.

  Therefore, she actually didn't know much about the insect nest that System had been studying.

  As for what had happened in the Warren Pins, Ying was also not very clear.

  After failing to find her companions and being injured during her failed assassination attempt on her old master, Ying had expended a great deal of effort to escape pursuit, then traveled to this world again through an abandoned portal.

  It had only been a little over ten days since Ying had arrived in this world, so she knew nothing about the undead creatures and insect demons that had recently appeared.

  As it turned out, she knew even less than System. If he hadn't asked her first, she would have asked him those same questions.

  ...

  System let out a long sigh.

  Now that Ying had returned from the Abyss, he could ask the question that he'd wanted to ask many times in the past half month.

  "You used a portal to teleport here from the Abyss. Could that portal teleport to other pces in this world?"

  System was thinking about migrating with his ant subjects again.

  After his third pupation had ended and he'd learned that many undead creatures had appeared in the Warren Pins, he hadn't considered migrating. After all, the undead creatures and insects didn't really interact with each other. Also, because the undead creatures had destroyed the Warren Pins' original food chain, insects had more room for development.

  However, ever since the appearance of the centipede demons, things had gradually exceeded System's expectations. Recently, he had been pondering over the idea of migrating.

  Although he'd witnessed the Death Knight destroying the centipede demons' nest, there were still too many simir nests.

  In the past twenty days, there had been fewer wandering centipede demons, but there were more spider demons, and he had also seen a giant mantis demon that could fly.

  In addition, more than ten days earlier, his [Intuition] had once again sent him a faint sense of uneasiness, just like the time when the Lilt Mountains had erupted.

  It was very likely that the Warren Pins would also experience unimaginable disasters simir to those volcanic eruptions.

  Back then, System had been powerless to change anything. He had felt like a small boat in a storm, in danger of being overturned and sunk by the waves at any time. The most annoying thing was that the culprits of the waves had been two giants fighting in a tiny puddle.

  System might not be able to bear the water spshed by other giants in the future.

  Just like a small ant sandwiched between two behemoths, he might be accidentally stomped to death by the other side at any time.

  The whole situation felt terrible.

  System had no intention of competing with these behemoths, so he'd been thinking about migrating to another area that was less complicated than the Warren Pins.

  ...

  Faced with System's question, Ying didn't hide anything. She told him about the teleportation array buried deep underground near the border between the Warren Pins and Lilt Forest.

  However, that teleportation array couldn't be used in this world. The teleportation location could only be selected in the Abyss, and each use had to be separated by two months. Without waiting two months for the array to recharge, it couldn't be activated again.