Law of the Swarm

Chapter 107 The Effect of the Plague

Although illiterate, female ratmen still have the ability to speak

System originally planned to interrogate the female ratman for a few days and ask the female ratman more things, but after only two days, the female ratman died.

Because System couldn't make a sound, he could only use his tentacles to torture him, and the female ratman's physical condition was not very good afterwards, System and Black only understood a small amount of ratman's words after a whole day.

It was because of System's possession of [Plague Language] that he could guess some sporadic Ratman languages.

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The female Rat Man first had a fever, and a day later she became delirious, with some thick purple-black sores appearing on her body, and then died trembling.

The body of the tragically dead female mouse became very unpalatable and exuded a stench. Neither he nor the ordinary ant people liked to eat this kind of food very much.

His ant people will even have some toxic reactions after eating this kind of mouse carcass, and the body will twitch from time to time, but it is not fatal. As long as they don't eat this kind of mouse carcass, they will gradually get better.

System found that the thick sores from the corpses of female mice became very strange. He could feel some intimacy from those thick sores, just like his [Plague Mucus], but the juice from these thick sores could not be swallowed. He manipulates.

However, although it cannot be manipulated, when System spits out [Plague Slime] on these thick sores, the juice produced by the thick sores will fuse with [Plague Slime] to gradually form more [Plague Slime], and Can be manipulated and recycled by his body.

These recovered [plague mucus] can quickly replenish his vitality, just like the life potion in previous games and novels.

By now, even the dull System can understand that the death of the rat man should be caused by the [plague mucus] on his body.

It should be that when he was practicing the control of [Plague Slime] before, some of the slime splashed onto this hapless female ratman, causing the ratman to be infected with the plague germs.

It seems that the germs in the bottles and jars of the Ratman wizards are not useless as System always thought, but just have no effect on insects.

This plague is effective on rats, but it has little or no effect on insects, or the effect is extremely low.

System speculated that this plague should be effective on warm-blooded endothermic animals, but not on cold-blooded animals.

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In the next few days, System tested his [Plague Mucus] on some small mice and some insects and arthropods in the grass to confirm this.

His [Plague Mucus] really only has an effect on life with constant blood temperature, whether it is insects, scorpions, or fish and shrimp in the water, it has no obvious effect.

But his [Plague Slime] is extremely lethal to mice, not only the splashed slime can infect creatures, as long as the smell from his [Plague Slime] is smelled by mice, after a few hours, the mice will die Symptoms of fever may appear.

After one or two days, the rat's body will be covered with rotten sores, which will ooze pus and die.

If his [plague mucus] touches the skin of the body, within six hours the mouse will speed up the two-day experience of smelling the smell of the mouse, and die of pus.

System felt that the female ratman who died before should not have touched his [Plague Slime], but just smelled the smell of [Plague Slime].

And if the mouse's wounds come into contact with [Plague Mucus], or swallow the [Plague Mucus] directly through the mouth, then the death time of the mouse will be shortened to within one hour.

The mouse will keep rolling and tossing on the ground, and the body will grow black and purple thick sores at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then suddenly lose its vitality when the pain and struggle are the most intense...

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The effect of [Plague Slime] is very powerful, but it may be the fusion of germs and living jelly, so it is not very contagious.

Simple [Plague Slime], even if it is exposed to the air, will cause a fatal blow to the warm-blooded creatures that smell it; but the corpses of rats that died with thick sores due to [Plague Slime] will also emit stench, but this kind The smell does not continue to infect the plague.

Of course, if these germ-infected mouse carcasses are forcibly fed to other mice, those mice will also die.

After learning about the effect of the plague, System also breathed a sigh of relief after testing the contagiousness of the [Plague Mucus].

Because his plague caused the number of rats and birds to be too low, it was by no means what System wanted to see.

After all, if the number of rodents and birds on the plains is drastically reduced due to the plague, insects without natural enemies will multiply rapidly, and then eat up the grass plants.

When food is scarce, he will have to take his ant colony again for the next migration.

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During the past five days, System's plague experiment on the mice went smoothly.

Nothing special happened, and the Ratman that System had been looking forward to meeting did not appear again.

On the contrary, System noticed some tired wolf warriors retreating from the direction of Lierte Forest, some of them had injuries of varying degrees.

I don't know if it was because of the battle of the remnants of the Winter Legion, or because of some other reasons.

Because System was conducting an experiment on [Plague Slime], seeing these Gnoll warriors, he chose one of the Gnoll squads that was very close to him, and briefly tested his [Plague Slime].

System changed the color of his body to camouflage in the grass, and at the same time spit out a small ball of [plague mucus] jelly and put it in the only way of the wolf man.

When the jackal passed by, System manipulated the jelly to explode suddenly, splashing onto the jackal's body.

Perhaps [Plague Slime] was corrosive to a certain extent, the thirteen wolf men rioted for a while.

But it didn't take long for these jackals to continue on their way.

System didn't follow either, but only relied on [System's Eye] to watch from a distance of several kilometers above the sky.

These jackals are far stronger than the ratmen, but their resistance to plague is lower than that of the ratmen and rats, similar to the birds in the sky.

Only two hours later, these jackal warriors began to show symptoms of discomfort, and two hours later, one jackal died because of it, and more than an hour later, except for one jackal who seemed to have used something Means resisted the plague and escaped, and the other twelve wolves all died.

Because the wolf man's walking speed is not slow, when the body was normal in the first two hours, the wolf man had already walked a distance of nearly fifty kilometers, so System did not intend to go to observe the wolf man's corpse at close range.

Sith estimated that if his [plague mucus] only needs to be sprayed on the wound on the body of the wolf man, it will kill the wolf man within a few tens of minutes.

However, this only refers to ordinary gnolls. If they are promoted to magical or extraordinary gnolls, System does not know whether his plague will still be effective.

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Without thinking too much, the Wolf man and him will not stand on the opposite side yet.

After returning from the experiment, System once again came to the side of the little meat ball. After these days of research, System finally made new progress in activating his talent [Body Transformation].

System also decided to activate the ability of [Body Transformation] in these few days.

(End of this chapter)