Law of the Swarm

Chapter 168 Snail

"Jie Jie Jie Jie..."

The weird laughter seemed to surround System from all directions, and the tentacles on the top of System's head swayed back and forth, while turning his head to look around.

System has never discovered where the weird laughter came from.

Although he was used to seeing corpses, the corpses of ordinary creatures would not make System feel uneasy at all.

But the lizardman who committed suicide and the laughter that couldn't find the source created a weird atmosphere, which made System feel like he had entered the plot of a horror novel. If it wasn't for the excessive mosquitoes flying around Noisy, maybe this weird atmosphere will be more serious.

"Cough cough..."

Amidst the weird laughter, System suddenly heard several very painful coughs.

It turned out that the thing coughing was none other than the Xi Lizardman whose throat was pierced by the shadow before, and it hadn't died completely yet.

System thought for a while, stretched out his tentacles and activated the power [healing power] from the druid, trying to keep the lizardman alive, and then he called out the truth and explained what this weird laughter was .

The [Healing Power] from the Druid has a miraculous effect on healing the wounds of creatures, and the wound on the lizardman's neck begins to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But it is a pity that there is still great hope if the lizard man who is not dead is rescued from the beginning, but after a few minutes, the lizard man who is not dead has already lost too much blood, and coughed again. After a big mouthful of blood, the lizard man still died due to excessive blood loss.

Until the lizardman died, the weird laughter around him didn't disappear, and inexplicable footsteps appeared around him.

Some were similar to the sounds made by humanoid species walking in the dirt, but just like the strange laughter that was still being made, the new footsteps that System hadn't found the source of.

It seemed that the footsteps were right next to him, but there was nothing next to him.

And just as System was wondering, a 1.7-meter-tall strange figure suddenly appeared at a distance of more than [-] meters from System.

The strange laughter and footsteps surrounding System also showed their direction, as if it was made by this suddenly appearing figure.

The figure should look like a human being, wearing a black robe with a hood, and the cuffs of the robe and the hood are embroidered with luxurious unknown golden patterns, which looks very mysterious.

However, compared to the hood on the figure, System's attention was focused on the huge scythe in the figure's hand.

The huge sickle is about 3 meters long, and its whole body is black, only the blade of the sickle is shining with a layer of silver light.

The strange appearance of this humanoid creature gave System a feeling of depression, but it didn't give System's [intuition] any warning of danger.

And [intuition] does not have an early warning of danger, it is precisely the greatest early warning.

"Could it be that this humanoid creature exists like the Glacier Lord or the evil god Rafal?"

System muttered to himself, only those extraordinary existences can make System's [intuition] useless.

However, System did not feel any extraordinary oppressive force from this humanoid creature. It was completely different from the fear he felt when facing the frost dragon Aura or the evil god Rafal. language.

System didn't act rashly, and told Shava and Meatball to stay safe, and quietly watched the black-robed figure walking towards him.

The figure finally stopped at a distance of 15 meters from System, stopped the strange laugh, and made an unpredictable voice at the same time: "Wandering and ignorant creatures, give your souls, and I will give you eternal life."

The voice of the figure was very strange, it seemed male and not male, female and not female, and it was mixed with some mental fluctuations, with a hint of bewitching, wanting to encourage System to sacrifice his soul with Shava and Meatball.

But this kind of bewitchment is too weak for System, who often sends spiritual messages. Even Shava and Meatball next to System easily escaped under the reminder of System's spiritual messages. Bewitched.

And just when System got rid of the bewitchment, System suddenly discovered something unusual about the figure in black robe.

This level of the abyss is full of countless mosquitoes. System found that the black-robed man seemed to be insubstantial. The mosquitoes flying in the air shuttled back and forth in the black-robed man's robe, and even the steel-like scythe , There are also many mosquitoes in it.

Could it be a ghost like a spirit body?

No.

It shouldn't be ghosts.

System showed a puzzled expression, and quickly figured out some strange things.

The black-robed figure 15 meters away is not a spirit body, but a false illusion.

Because if the black-robed figure is a spirit body, then the strange footsteps formed before cannot be explained, because the spirit body will not produce any footsteps at all.

That's why the black-robed figure stopped moving about 15 meters away from System, because if he got too close, System would find the black-robed figure's flaws in which the mosquitoes could pass through without hindrance.

The existence of manipulating illusions obviously did not expect System's super vision. Although in the dense fog, System could still clearly see the mosquitoes 15 meters away.

System immediately used the ability to recognize things in the [Tools menu] to outline the outline of things with a faint light.

Although the outline of the illusion was much finer than the illusion created by the Ratmen Wizard, it still allowed System to see some flaws.

This black-robed figure is indeed a false illusion.

In this way, System's previous [intuition] that there was no warning of danger gave a reasonable explanation.

Because the false illusion did not threaten System's ability at all.

……

System, who noticed all this, did not take any action. Since he found that the other party was a non-threatening phantom, then System would not mind performing a show with the other party to see what the existence of manipulating the phantom wanted to do. .

"What is a soul?"

System looked at the phantom more than ten meters away, and let out a hoarse voice.

The phantom let out a series of weird laughter again, the black robe moved automatically without wind, and the phantom in the black robe holding a sickle gradually floated into the air.

"soul……"

The phantom continued to make ever-changing voices, but the phantom was speaking well, but suddenly disappeared, completely losing its movement...

System was wondering why the phantom that was more than ten meters away disappeared, when he noticed that the previously invisible shadow was flying towards him holding a round carapace about [-] centimeters away.

The round carapace is yellowish brown, somewhat resembling a snail.

And when Shadow threw the carapace into the soil, System discovered that what Shadow caught was indeed a snail.

But unlike ordinary snails, this snail has a pair of anthropomorphic arms.

System was wondering and planning to check the snail with his tentacles, when he received a spiritual message from Shadow.

It turns out that this snail is the guy who just created the illusion...

(End of this chapter)