Law of the Swarm

Chapter 151 The Death Knight and the Worm's Lair
Watching the death knight fighting the centipede demon, System felt something strange.

As long as the normal centipede demons are within 20 meters, they will take the initiative to fight.

These centipede demons that suddenly emerged from the ground did not fight each other, but were able to attack the death knight together, obviously controlled by insect demons.

Facts also confirmed System's thoughts.

During the fight between the death knight and the centipede demon, continuous flames exploded...

The worm demon with a body size of about 2.5 meters used the power of flames to launch a sneak attack, blasting the death knight away from the skeleton warhorse.

However, the death knight who was blown away did not suffer any major injuries. After shaking his head, the death knight regrouped in his fighting stance.

Because he didn't dare to get close to observe, System also couldn't use the ability of [Detection Analysis] to check the combat power level of these two creatures.

System could only roughly observe that in the battle between the worm demon and the death knight, the death knight seemed to have the upper hand.

It was only because some centipede demons gushing out of the ground frequently attacked the death knights that the battle between the insect demons and the death knights was stalemate.

A few minutes later, while System was looking into the distance to see if there was any threat around him, when he turned his gaze back, the death knight's sharp sword had already chopped off the worm demon's head on the ground.

With the death of the worm demon, the surviving centipede demons immediately became a mess and began to fight each other.

The death knight didn't pay attention to these centipede demons who only knew how to kill. His white sharp sword gradually showed a layer of black light, and further damaged the already collapsed underground space, sneaking into the underground passageway.

Because he could only watch from a distance in the sky, System didn't know what happened to the death knight underground.

Ten minutes later, the death knight leaped from the underground space to the ground.

He stretched out his right hand, showing a very handsome blue light, and a brand new blue fire skeleton war horse appeared from the void in front of the death knight.

Stepping on the brand new skeleton warhorse, the death knight left quickly.

And the skeleton warhorse fragments that were scattered due to the attack of the centipede demon before collapsed into ordinary broken bones and scattered all over the place at the same time as the death knight's new warhorse appeared.

Seeing the death knight gradually going away, System did not choose to follow, but decided to check this underground space.

If System's guess is correct, then this should be the lair of the centipede demon that System has searched for for a long time but failed to find.

Seeing that the death knight had already traveled a certain distance, System flew south.

At a position five kilometers away from him, Shava was waiting there, and System decided to take Shava to this monster lair.

In fact, System's pursuit of the death knight this time was only a temporary idea, and he did not bring Shava with him during the previous routine inspection.

However, because Shava has the ability to sense him, as long as he finds that he is too far away and has not returned for a long time, Shava will take the initiative to rush in his direction.

It was precisely because of this that System kept Shava at a distance of 5 kilometers from him during the process of tracking the death knight, and paid attention to concealment so as not to be discovered by the death knight.

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Although the death knight had gone away, there were still some small demon centipedes a few centimeters to a dozen or twenty centimeters in the soil of the devil's nest. Because they lost the control of the insects, these small devil centipedes were crazily biting each other.

System knew that unless these centipede demons could grow into a three-meter giant centipede after biting and devouring each other, there could only be one winner of these demonic centipedes biting each other.

System also ignored these centipede demons. Centipede demons would not attack other creatures unless they were killing each other.

System gradually moved to the side of the scattered bones of the skeleton warhorse, stretched out his tentacles, picked up a piece of broken bone and put it in his mouth.

But System quickly spat out the broken bones from his mouth.

Compared with the meat quality of the zombies, the stench of the blue fire skeleton warhorse is more serious, and it is several times more unpalatable than the meat quality of the zombies.

System even had the feeling of wanting to rinse his mouth with clean water.

It seems that this kind of pure undead creature can't be used as food at all.

Turning his eyes away from the broken bones, System looked at the reddish-brown fleshy roots in the soil like tree roots.

The roots of flesh and blood seem to be soft, but they are actually very hard. System's [Psychic Transmission] can feel the faint emotions in this flesh and blood, and this emotion has a feeling similar to that of plants.

System tore off a small piece of fleshy root and put it in his mouth.

Although it still has a sweet and spicy taste, the taste is very light, and the taste is the difference between meat and plants.

These flesh and blood formed dense roots, firmly rooted in the soil, as if they were absorbing the nutrients in the soil.

System saw that when the roots stick to some blood of the centipede demon, they will absorb the blood of the centipede demon in a short time.

And if there are corpses of the centipede demon appearing next to these fleshy roots, these fleshy roots will be like vines, quickly entangle the body of the centipede demon, as if to absorb and recycle these corpses.

System observed for a while and found that there was nothing worth noting, so he took Shava to the depths of the monster's lair.

The deeper it went, the more severe the sulfur smell emitted from the devil's lair, and there would be more centipede demons fighting each other and the corpses of centipede demons in the passage.

And System, who entered the depths of the lair, was finally able to see the lair of demonic insects destroyed by the death knight.

It was like a giant sarcoma with a diameter of several meters was broken, and reddish-brown flesh and blood scattered all over the ground.

If this devil's nest is not destroyed by the death knight, it should look like a potato or sweet potato growing in the ground, but there will be many more roots on it.

System casually picked up a small piece of flesh and let it out in his mouth. In addition to being sweet and spicy, these scattered flesh and blood also exuded the stench of undead creatures.

It seems that the death knight used the power of the undead to pollute the flesh and blood...

Because of the destruction of this devil's nest, there were many egg-sized reddish-brown eggs among the scattered pieces of meat. System scanned the surroundings and found that there were at least a thousand of these reddish-brown eggs.

Perhaps the death knight thought that these reddish-brown eggs were not a threat, so he didn't clean them up, or he was in a hurry to clean up another devil's nest. Most of these eggs were still alive.

Stretching out his tentacles, System randomly picked up an insect egg. After using the tentacles to [perceive] and found nothing abnormal, System used the ability of [teleportation] to try again with the centipede egg. to communicate.

Unlike the hatched centipede demons, the emotions produced by these centipede eggs are not particularly violent, and can be affected by the spiritual messages sent by System.

However, after some experiments, System found that this effect was extremely weak, and it was basically impossible to hypnotize these centipede eggs like hypnotizing ant eggs.

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However, just when System found that there was nothing of value and was about to leave, System suddenly felt an extremely subtle emotion in the pile of broken meat in the Worm's Nest, as if something was calling for help .

And the thing that is crying for help is not an egg, but more like a plant.

(End of this chapter)