Law of the Swarm

Chapter 99 The Ratman Wizard

With the help of the Great Worker Ant excavator, System's underground nest was constructed fairly smoothly.

After five days, the big worker ant has dug out a three-meter-deep nest, and dug two one-meter-high square halls horizontally underground, where he and other ant people live temporarily.

In addition to the circular shape of the hole, the passage in the nest was forced by System to create a relatively neat square passage with his aesthetic view through the constant communication between System and the worker ants.

System also decided to build some lethal traps in the passages of the lair, but these days he has no idea how to make the traps.

System could only try to spawn as many plants as possible at the entrance of the cave.

The plants spawned by System at the entrance of the lair are already very luxuriant, even if System himself patrols the air, it is difficult to find the lair among the overgrown weeds.

However, it is impossible for System to fulfill his wish in everything.

The camouflaged lair escaped the gnolls, the overlords of the grassland, and the black eagles in the sky who passed by from time to time, but was still discovered by the wise ratmen of the Warren Plain.

In the past two days, System would always find one or two small mice sneaking around his nest to investigate, and occasionally attack the common worker ants that went out to look for food.

These little mice in charge of investigation, System has let Shava and Xiaorouqiu kill nearly ten of them in the past two days, but mice still appear from time to time and come near his lair to conduct investigations.

Although these scouting mice objectively provided enough food for System's ant people, the feeling of being targeted was not good.

In fact, from the time when he was born in the Lilte Forest, System had never had this feeling of being targeted.

Even if he lived a cautious life during his larval stage and was always in danger, he would not worry about any predators looking for him and continuing to hunt him down.

Usually as long as he has avoided danger once, the danger will be declared over.

And this set of laws of the jungle in Lierte Forest doesn't seem to be fully applicable to these ratmen.

By the time he crossed the border of Lierte Forest, System had discovered more than a dozen Ratmen, and for various reasons, killed the four Ratmen who came along the way.

But there must be more than these ratmen that System didn't find along the way. It should be that some ratmen discovered that he had killed ratmen.

As intelligent ratmen, they obviously don't completely believe in the law of the jungle like beasts, but have their own set of principles and logic.

Obviously, System's former rat hunters seemed too casual and ruthless, which aroused the hostility of these rat men.

At present, the Ratmen keep sending little mice to investigate, obviously they are trying to test them, or they are monitoring them.

Maybe after a while, some Ratman would act against him.

So System has been thinking about how to deal with these ratmen when he has nothing to do in the past two days.

Although the Ratmen can make some simple weapons and traps, their physique is usually very weak. Even System himself is sure to kill one with his tentacles and his [Corrosive Slime].

And if Shava or Xiaorouqiu made the shot, these Ratmen would be even more vulnerable.

Because the two sides could not communicate, System thought of a way to make "Jingguan".

The so-called Jingguan refers to stacking countless heads into a pyramid shape, which is a method used by the ancients in System's previous life to frighten foreigners.

The Jingguan that System wants to create is to use the heads of ratmen and ordinary rats to pile up, so as to frighten these ratmen.

However, System gave up this idea after a little consideration. It's a good thing that he succeeded. If it fails, the conflict between Rat Man and him will undoubtedly be aggravated.

Although ratmen are generally weak, there are exceptions to everything. In this magical world, it is impossible for all ratmen to be mortal. There will always be a few powerful ratmen who control magical powers.

And in anger, these ratmen may also unite to attack him. After all, there is an underground gathering place of ratmen a hundred kilometers away.

And he has reached the upper limit of the level now, as long as he thoroughly researches the talent [Body Transformation] of the little meatball and activates this ability, he will start to strengthen the [Pupation], and then perform the third pupation to break through The level lock becomes a magical life.

Sith felt that he might turn into a chrysalis in three months at the earliest, and half a year at the latest. As for how long it would take to break out of the chrysalis, he himself couldn't estimate it.

In order to avoid unexpected situations, System decided to deal with the rat man he had previously despised carefully, because if he didn't handle it well, he might have to take the ant people to migrate again.

The result that System finally considered was to capture the Rat Man behind the scenes who commanded these little mice, and then interrogate him. After all, he still knew too little about the Rat Man, so he didn't know what the Rat Man thought of them now his.

Although the [Mind Teleportation] ability can't have an effect on these mammals, and System doesn't understand the language of the Ratman, but System has another primitive way, directly using his wisdom to learn a foreign language.

Maybe he has a hard time studying, but Blake, a talented worker ant, obviously has an easier time learning a foreign language.

……

Put down the roasted mouse on the fire, and then use the tentacles to put the roasted mouse meat in the shade to wait for it to dry.

After the baked food is dried, it can be stored for a longer period of time.

After owning the igniter found in the Ratman cave, System began to roast some meat with the igniter during his rest.

It's a pity that although these roast meats smell very good with the tentacles, the taste in the mouth is more than a little worse than that of raw meat, and the taste will become very weak.

Basically, System won't eat any more after eating a little. If he is really asked to eat barbecue, he might as well just eat some grass.

However, compared to System, his ant people didn't have any obvious differences in these grilled foods, and his son Xiao Rouqiu even liked this grilled food more.

Taking out another grilled mouse from the fire, System's [intuition] finally reappeared that awkward feeling.

After waiting for the mouse for nearly two hours, System finally found a little mouse that came to spy on him.

This time, System did not let the little meatball and Shava catch the mouse, but let the little meatball drive the mouse away, and he flew into the sky to track the mouse.

Contrary to System's expectations, the little mouse only ran less than two hundred distances before it suddenly burrowed into a rock block half a meter high and disappeared.

The little meat ball that expelled the rats also had little doubts, its body gradually changed shape, and then shot a black spike at the stone.

Unexpectedly, this spike disappeared into the stone just like the little mouse.

A flash of blue light appeared in System's eyes. Following the use of the object recognition ability in the [Tools Menu], System found that the half-meter-sized stone was very Chances are it's fake.

"Is this illusion? Or something else?"

System's expression became a little dignified. No matter what it was, it already showed that it was a method used by a rat man with magical power.

Instructing the little meat ball not to act rashly for the time being, System called Shava who was still grilling meat by the fire. Facing such an unknown existence, it was still Shava who made System feel more at ease.

After all, Shava's power is extremely special. As long as Shava activates her power, she will not only increase her strength greatly, but will also be immune to most abnormal states. It can be said that she is the nemesis of spellcasters.

(End of this chapter)