Law of the Swarm

Chapter 95 The Ratmen of Warren Plains

System used his tentacles to pull some muddy snow. The snow on the border of the Warren Plain was not very deep, only about ten centimeters. System easily stretched his tentacles into the soil, and found the snow that appeared on the ground from time to time. grass seeds.

System once again prepared to use the ability of [Growing Plants] to try to grow some grass seeds.

In the icy and snowy Lierte Forest, his ability is not very ideal. I don't know what will happen in the Warren Plain, whether he can produce some fresh grass plants as food.

However, just as System was about to use the ability of [Growing Plants], System felt some unusual noises from his tentacles.

Not long after, a dark gray mouse nearly half a meter in size suddenly drilled out of an underground cave ten meters away.

Not only this mouse, but also nearly [-] gray and brown mice of [-] to [-] centimeters came out of the mouse hole one after another.

These mice seemed to have intelligence, they surrounded System's ants in an organized way, instead of attacking System's ants immediately.

The rats seemed to want to surround System's ant migration team and not let any ant go.

The dark gray mouse at the head didn't stand on all fours like ordinary mice, but stood like a human being, holding two white bone daggers in its hands as its weapons.

These two daggers looked a bit bigger than Mouse Banmi's body, and looked more like two bone daggers in the hands of the Ratman.

The dark gray Ratman has something made up of bone fragments, which is somewhat similar to armor, but in fact, the protection of this armor is basically close to zero, more like decoration.

Some mucus flowed out from the corner of the Ratman's mouth, and his eyes revealed a humanized greedy gaze, obviously treating System and the ants as food.

The Ratman muttered some unknown languages, and seemed to have a certain amount of wisdom.

……

Seeing this scene, System showed a strange expression. He was just worried about food, but he didn't expect food to be delivered to his door.

In the past few months, System and his ants have successfully climbed up the food chain. With Shava's ability, he can be said to have stood at the top of all things.

Shava, who could easily defeat even the ferocious wolf man warrior, obviously had no problem killing this ratman.

It's just that in System's impression, the Warren Plain should be the territory of the jackals and pig-headed men, but there is no clue about these rat men.

whoosh-

Before System could give Shava an order, a green spike of more than ten centimeters sank into the rat man's chest.

The Ratman let out a strange cry and fell to the ground, his body convulsed because of the injection of paralytic poison...

The small meat ball flying in mid-air retracted a long meat tube into its body, and at the same time sent a joyful emotion to System.

After seeing the Ratman fell to the ground and convulsed, the other nearly twenty mice were puzzled for a moment, and then immediately scattered and fled. Some fled back to the original cave, and some simply fled to the distance. There are other rat holes out there.

System also didn't let Shava chase these fleeing mice. With such a huge mouse as food, it was enough for his ant people to persist to the grassland three hundred kilometers away.

Even half of the mouse's body is enough.

However, System's order didn't stop the little meat ball in midair. It spread its wings and stretched its tentacles and swooped down from midair, directly throwing a little mouse to the ground.

"Father, I caught it!"

Not long after, the little meat ball flew in front of System with the corpse of a little mouse, and sent him a somewhat smug spiritual message.

System sighed helplessly in his heart. These days, because of the lack of food, the little meatball could only eat some soil and hay, and his mood was always depressed.

System could only coax the little meat ball like a child, saying that as long as it caught enough food, it could eat normal meat.

It was precisely because of this that Little Meatball didn't wait for System's instructions, and took the lead in attacking the rat man.

"Then you can eat it."

Hearing System's words, the little meat ball immediately wriggled and transformed into a big mouth full of fangs, bit the little mouse it caught in two, and swallowed half of it into its mouth.

System did not watch the little meat ball eating too much, but came to the rat man who was immobilized by the paralyzing toxin.

A look of horror appeared on the rat man's face, and System picked up a dagger in the rat man's hand with his tentacles.

This is a dagger polished from the bones of a creature that System doesn't know. It looks very delicate and sharp. The handle of the dagger is wrapped with brown flannelette of unknown material, and the tactile feel of System's tentacles is not bad. good.

System found a strange line of marks on the bone dagger, which seemed to be writing, but System didn't recognize it at all.

In the few months since he came to this world, although he had the opportunity to learn characters, because the ice elf Nellis acted as an interpreter, System was too lazy to learn.

But even if Nellis hadn't fallen into a deep sleep, she might not be able to understand this kind of rat-man writing because she only knew Elvish and Dragon language.

However, after eating the golden acorn before, System had the opportunity to inherit the druid's knowledge and acquire many foreign languages.

It's a pity that he didn't have the qualifications to obtain the Druid's inheritance, and he lost this part of foreign language knowledge as a matter of course.

Holding the bone dagger with his tentacles, System aimed the dagger at the ratman's throat, deciding to kill the ratman.

But just when System was about to make a move, he retracted the dagger, and at the same time stretched out his tentacles, pulling out the dark green spikes on the Rat Man's chest.

The effect of the paralyzing toxin like the small meat ball is not bad, and the paralyzing toxin on the spikes will not disappear even after more than ten days.

System estimated that after pulling out the green spikes, the Ratman's body would still be paralyzed for about two hours.

Turning his head to look at the little meat ball that was still chewing half of a mouse, System suddenly felt a little irritable.

Why does the little meatball have to use poisonous attacks?

If the rat man were killed now, the blood of the rat man would undoubtedly contain some paralyzing toxins, and the ant people would undoubtedly cause a lot of trouble after eating.

Fortunately, Little Meatball didn't use the red needle containing deadly toxin this time. Otherwise, the killed Ratman would not even think about it except for Little Meatball himself.

……

Let the ant people continue to rest, System wrapped the two daggers with his tentacles, and in front of the paralyzed Ratman, he used the daggers to dig the dirt under the snow, and at the same time tried to use the power of [Growing Plants], Try getting some grass seeds to sprout and grow.

System was waiting. He would stab the rat man's throat with a dagger only after the paralysis effect on the rat man was lifted, and then let Shava use her double blades to dismember the rat man and take away some portable pieces of meat.

Maybe it was because the weather was still cold in minus ten degrees, or it was because of insufficient power. After System used the power of [Growing Plants] for more than ten minutes, a few grass seeds only sprouted a one-centimeter-sized sprout. No matter how much he uses his strength, the sprout will not continue to grow.

And just as System was pawing at the soil on the ground with two daggers and beating the ground boredly, System's tentacles suddenly smelled a stench.

It may be that System's actions put a lot of pressure on the rat man, and the paralyzed rat man became incontinent...

(End of this chapter)