Law of the Swarm

Chapter 119 Another Ratman
"Great Rafal, your servant listens to your call, the creatures in the world will eventually perish due to the plague..."

"Gahaha, hehehehe..."

"Great Rafal, I offer my senses of smell and taste, and I beseech you to grant me the gift."

The comatose Ratman showed a painful expression because of the shoulder injury, and sometimes spoke indistinct [Plague Words], and sometimes laughed wildly, a bit like a madman insanity.

And when System woke up the rat man with rainwater, System found that the rat man was indeed not much different from a lunatic.

This female ratman understands [Plague Language], and also recognizes the ratman's words, similar to the fanatics of the god of plague and curse.

According to what the Ratman said in his sleep, she should have sacrificed her sense of taste, smell and her left eye.

When System cut off the rat man's tendons with a dagger, the rat man didn't show the slightest expression of fear, but gave System a hoarse and strange laugh.

And when System tasted the blood from the mouse's wrist with his tentacles, the female ratman also raised her wrist and sucked her own blood, showing an expression of enjoyment.

Being able to taste his own flesh and blood like this, and eating it so happily, besides himself and the little meat ball, this rat man should be the third one System has seen in this world.

In order to prevent this lunatic who can communicate with evil gods from exploding himself, or suddenly sacrificing himself, System decided to kill this ratman as soon as possible.

There are many ways to kill the Ratman. After thinking about it for a while, System decided to send his old friend Slime, who has no thoughts and consciousness.

In this way, even if the believer of the evil god suddenly went crazy and sacrificed himself before death, the only one who would be hurt would be the slime.

But because the Ratman knew the [Words of Plague], System thought about it, and before killing the Ratman, he used the paper obtained from the Ratman Wizard to write some words on the Ratmen and asked some questions.

Contrary to System's expectations, after System wrote the words of [Plague Words], although the Rat Man was still crazy, his attitude changed drastically, and his gaze towards System also changed. Something different happened.

The Ratman ignored System's previous behavior of breaking his tendons, and unexpectedly sent him a crazy but friendly look.

"Shenyu, you actually understand the language of God!"

"Jie Jie Jie Jie..."

Although the Rat Man was still in a crazy state, he was surprisingly able to communicate, and System got a lot of information by writing the [Word of Plague].

However, the rat man's speech was very confusing, and System didn't know whether it was true or not, so he just listened to it tentatively.

According to the ratman's words, System learned that the fanatic of Rafal came to his lair because of Rafal's guidance.

Well, after detailed questioning, System found that no matter what the female Cyclops did, she would say that it came from Rafal's guidance.

System speculated that the Ratman should have come to a place with higher terrain within ten kilometers to avoid the rain, and then found the hole and decided to drill into it.

Through communicating with this Ratman, System also had a simple understanding of the social relationship of the Ratman clan.

Although they are intelligent races and like to live together, the Ratmen themselves are not as united as System imagined. Small-scale wars will break out among the Ratmen, and there are classes among the Ratmen.

The Ratmen living in the gathering place have a higher status, while some Ratmen with lower status live around the gathering place. These Ratmen need to hand over food to the gathering place regularly.

There is a feeling similar to the lord and the peasant.

It is precisely because of this that the rat people in the rat people's gathering place know that the rainy season is coming, but the scattered rat people don't know it at all.

And by continuing to question the ratman, System also learned of a ratman city in the Warren Plain—Helencia.

Based on the confused speech of the female ratman, System speculated that this female ratman once lived in the ratman city of Helencia, and was expelled from the ratman's city before coming here again.

Although the female Ratman's speech is always out of context, and she sometimes laughs like a convulsion, but no matter what she asks, she will answer more or less.

System also gave up his plan to kill the rat man immediately, and decided to use the rat man to learn characters for a while.

……

Because System can write [Words of Plague] on paper to communicate with this rat man, System's learning progress is very fast.

In just three days, the female Ratman verbally narrated more than a dozen books owned by the Ratman wizard.

These books generally do not have many pages, so although the female ratman is often crazy, she quickly translates them in sevens and eights.

Although System still can't master the language of the Ratman, and the clever Black is only passable, but with the video records in the [Tools Menu], System can repeatedly consult the contents of the book.

So this crazy rat man lost the value of existence to System.

System originally thought that it would be troublesome to kill this lunatic ratman who could only communicate with the evil god, and he needed to use his old friend Slime to complete the complicated operation.

But System didn't expect that he only used the clumsy deception he had used on ants and some insects, and only said that he would stab the head with a dagger himself, so that he could return to the embrace of the God of Plague and Curse, and become extremely happy.

After taking out a dagger and stuck it in the dirt wall of the dungeon, the crazy female rat man committed suicide by smashing her head into the dagger...

Before he died, this ratman showed a happy and crazy smile, completely different from those timid and cunning ratmen that System had seen.

Compared to the cunning and lying rat man, such a crazy rat man made System more afraid.

In fact, it took a long time for the rat man to die before System plucked up the courage to touch the rat man's corpse with his tentacles, and he hesitated whether to use the rat man's corpse as food for a while.

……

After three days of questioning the crazy Ratman, the torrential rain in the sky still showed no sign of stopping.

The rain near System's lair had accumulated nearly [-] centimeters deep.

However, after the excavator has controlled the soil and raised the entrance of the nest by half a meter, it is already one meter high. System estimates that even if the rain continues for more than ten days, there will be no problems in the nest.

System also began to study the books left by the Ratmen wizards.

According to the description in a similar notebook, the ratman wizard who blew himself up and cast the [Spell of Severance] on him should be called Lance. He was an upper-class ratman who also came from the ratman city of Helencia. came here.

Most of the dozen or so books are about the plague. Apart from some about the use of plague spells, there are also many rat people's understanding of the plague.

The Ratman already knew that the plague was an extremely tiny germ, and the Ratman also developed a unique spell. Through this spell and special props, they could see microscopic things and achieve the effect of a microscope.

System roughly flipped through these books again, and then looked at the only book about curses, which contained more than a dozen methods of using curses.

However, whether it is about plague spells or the use of curse spells, there is a prerequisite, that is, to communicate with the evil god Rafal and sacrifice.

Only in this way can there be the possibility of casting plague and curse spells.

(End of this chapter)