Laws of the Insect Hive

Three days later, after System found that everything was calm, he brought Shava and a group of ant knights to this Rat Man wizard cave again.

When System left from the Rat Man Wizard Cave, he only took some books. There were still some books and many items left here. Maybe he could find more information about his curse from these books and items.

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Because it was underground and the temperature was not very high, although the mouse corpse in the cave had been dead for three days, it did not rot, but it was not very fresh.

System tore off a small piece of minced mouse with his tentacles and put it in his mouth, finding that the taste was okay.

While eating, System's tentacles moved slightly, and he suddenly heard a strange buzzing sound from the depths of the cave.

But it didn't take long for System to feel relieved. It turned out that the buzzing sound was a large fly that came here to lay eggs on the mouse carcass.

The fly's movements were very flexible, and System tried to grab it with his tentacles more than a dozen times but failed to catch it. Instead, the fly flew back and forth around System like a provocation.

In the end, the mother fly was frozen into ice cubes under System's [Frost Breath], and then was swallowed by System in one bite, and the taste was not bad.

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The odor in this rat cave was not very big, and System was actually quite satisfied with this rat cave.

Because nothing happened in these three days, after this period of calm, System's fear of the Rat Man was slightly reduced.

Looking back at the slow-moving excavators these days, it is estimated that it will take half a year or more to dig out a nest like this Rat Man cave.

System came up with the idea of ​​taking this lair as his own.

However, it was not confirmed whether it was safe or not, and System could not act rashly.

If two months have passed and there are still no Ratmen looking for him, and if there are no visitors to this Ratman cave, System will decide to really occupy this Ratman cave and transform it.

This Rat Man cave is only more than 200 meters away from his lair, and maybe he can build a long passage underground to connect the cave to this place.

At the same time, System also decided to deal with the rat people he encountered in the future with caution.

In order to master the Rat Man's language and writing, he still needs to capture a Rat Man.

As for the capture of the Rat Man who mastered the language, the other Rat Man System still did not give up the idea of ​​hunting.

But in the process of hunting, System would not be as reckless as he used to be, but went deep alone with Shava, allowing many mice to escape.

System decided that he must be fully prepared before hunting the rat people in the future. Once they are hunted, they will kill them all, not even a single ordinary mouse. If possible, before hunting, the Sith will kill them. Tem also castrated the rats before killing them.

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Ordering several worker ant knights to carry the dead mice one after another, System finally came to the room deep in the rat man wizard's cave again.

The two magic lamps that had been extinguished before had already emitted faint rays of light again at some point, clearly illuminating the corpse of the red-eyed rat man on the ground that was chopped into two pieces by Shava.

The black blood, minced meat, and bones produced by the rat-man wizard's self-destruction were everywhere, but after three days, the black blood and some pieces of meat had solidified due to the loss of water, and they did not appear to be so bloody.

System flipped over the bookshelf beside him, and suddenly System found a huge scroll that was one meter long from behind the Rat Man's bookshelf.

This scroll is obviously a handmade map. I don't know if it was made by the Rat Man wizard. There are also some places circled with a red pen on it, and there are some words on it.

System found a familiar stream shape next to a red circle. Looking at the shape and direction of the stream, System found that the red circle should be where he was, but the shape of the stream in the picture was the same as where he was. There are still some differences in the shape of the stream seen in the sky.

It is estimated that the Rat Man's observations and records of this map did not have mature technical means, so the map produced had a large error.

System observed the map, and suddenly noticed that some familiar pictures appeared in the corners of the map. He seemed to have seen this part of the map.

System quickly remembered it, and found the treasure map he had seen through the magic false eye many days ago in the [Tools Menu] video data.

There are some slight differences between the treasure map and the scene in the corners of this big map. It should be just an error on the map. The marked location should be the same as the map, about a few thousand kilometers away from him.

Not only that, System suddenly discovered that the text on the treasure map was familiar.

System continued to compare the images in the [Tools Menu]. He found that the text on the treasure map was almost the same as the text in the exquisite black animal hide, and there were many connected texts that were exactly the same.

Even System, who did not understand this type of writing, could find that the location marked on this treasure map seemed to have some connection with the unknown existence recorded on the black animal hide book.

Shaking his head gently, System rolled up the map and put it aside.

Although he learned about the hiding place of a treasure or ruins, System did not have any idea about the treasure hunt. Perhaps hiding the treasure at the location would help him to lift the curse, but it was far from System now. The location is too far.

Moreover, the unknown existence recorded in the book is too strange, even if it is very close to here, System may not necessarily look for the so-called treasure.

System continued to flip through the other books on the shelf.

[Curse of Severance] Although it improved System's physical fitness, it consumed his lifespan all the time, and made him completely lose his ability to mate.

In the past few days, System has been thinking about how to lift the curse, but it’s okay if he doesn’t try. System found that his [Ability Enhancement] can also strengthen the [Curse of Severance], so that this The curse becomes stronger.

Fortunately, his [Curse of Severance] had reached the upper limit of the level, otherwise System might really have tried to strengthen this [Curse of Severance] because of his itchy hands.

On the contrary, the [Psychic Transmission] he obtained from the Queen has some effect on this [Curse of Severance]. It seems that he can use the ability of [Teleportation] to transfer the [Curse of Severance] to other beings.

But with System's continuous analysis in the past two days, he found that this [Curse of Severance] is extremely special. Although it can be transferred to other people with [Teleportation], this curse will not be eliminated because of this, but instead It exists in the body of two organisms at the same time.

And even if he uses [Teleportation] to perform an incomplete transfer, his [Teleportation] level must be higher to do it.

System estimated that his knowledge of this curse was not deep enough. If it was deep enough, he might be able to transfer this sinister curse from his body.

System flipped through the remaining basic books here, but still couldn't find any more information about the curse. It seemed that he had to put the capture of a rat man on the agenda.

Putting the books aside, System continued to look at some bottles and jars on the rat-man wizard's desk...