Laws of the Insect Hive

The activity of [Plague Slime] is about ten days, which means that if it is not treated, the plague germs in [Plague Slime] will survive for a long time.

System, who had given up on the plague experiment, didn't know, because a few days ago, he experimented with the fish and shrimp spit [plague slime].

Hundreds of kilometers away, a Ratman gathering place next to a river that converged to form a river gradually experienced nearly one-third of casualties due to drinking river water.

About two hundred ratmen and thousands of rats died from the plague of System.

The plague produced by System cannot be handled even by the Skaven who are good at dealing with plagues.

But it is precisely because of this plague that the effect is powerful and will not infect all the rat people, so that the rat people think that it is a gift from Raphael, the god of plagues and curses, to them.

Perhaps by virtue of this plague, they can wake up Rafael, who can only appear in his sleep, and lower his incarnation in the main world to guide the progress of the Rat People.

A rat-man wizard collected some of System's plague and sent them to the rat-man city of Helencia.

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System was not clear about the disaster at a rat-man gathering place hundreds of kilometers away. In fact, after a few days of experiments on the plague, System was tired of studying the plague.

The effect of the plague will continue to be strengthened with [Power Enhancement], and it will become stronger, but this will not increase System's life level.

Facing the deadly danger [Plague Slime] won't help much, after all, the plague is deadly, but it has a long delay and can't be as deadly as a spider or a venomous snake.

On the contrary, Rafal has been trying to tempt him to continue to obtain the power of the plague in his sleep, and it seems that spreading the plague has many benefits to Rafal.

However, System didn't know much about the plague effect of [Plague Slime] at that time. He thought that the germs studied by the rat-man wizard were just useless. With his willpower, System successfully resisted the temptation of the evil god.

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From three days ago, System, who had finished the plague experiment, had been studying the activation of [Body Transformation] from time to time.

By manipulating the gel of [Plague Slime] to continuously deform, System has developed some unique understanding of the deformation ability of [Body Transformation].

It's not that the deformation of gelatin has anything in common with the deformation ability of [Body Deformation], but [Plague Slime] with deformation ability, brought System Tum a kind of stone from other mountains that can attack. Unique feeling of jade.

Even [Intuition] gave System a feasible feeling, and he could indeed activate the [Body Transformation] of the high level cap, so that his body and gel could be transformed at will.

But before activating [Body Transformation], System still had two things he didn't know how to deal with.

One is that the butterfly pupa, which is suspected to be the remnant soul of the Glacier Lord, has reached the final stage of pupation, and it is estimated that it will break out of the pupa in two or three days.

These days, the consciousness of the Glacier Lord has not been awake, or System has not noticed it when he wakes up. After all, System cannot sense the butterfly chrysalis anytime and anywhere.

As the chrysalis was about to burst out, the frosty aura emanating from the butterfly chrysalis became stronger and stronger. In order to prevent the cold air from the chrysalis from causing damage to the ant people, System alone let the excavator create it. A basement room.

System didn't know whether to pupate the butterfly pupa in his nest, or send the butterfly pupa away and watch the broken pupa emerge from a distance.

System was a little confused.

Compared to the tangle that the butterfly worm pupa was about to break out of its chrysalis and sell it to System, there was another thing that left System at a loss.

The extremely smart worker ant Black is dying.

Not infected with the plague, nor received any special damage, Black is just about to reach the end of his lifespan.

System's ant population is generally grey due to his enhanced cold resistance to Queen Linda, but they do not live much longer than their dark-brown ant predecessors.

Ordinary black-brown worker ants have a lifespan of about ten months, and the worker ant Black may have a congenital deficiency, and its lifespan is even shorter than that of ordinary worker ants.

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After System was reborn as a grasshopper, his perception of things gradually became like a bug.

Just like humans can use a fly swatter to swatt flies without any burden, System can now kill any irrelevant life without any burden.

As long as it was good for him to kill those lives, he would not hesitate to do it.

He can kill insects just for fun, because experiments kill wise ratmen and gnolls, and even his kindred grasshoppers, and he can kill them mercilessly when necessary.

However, although his personality tends towards bugs, System still retains some emotions.

In other words, even bugs, after possessing wisdom and thinking ability, will also possess certain emotions, joys and sorrows.

It's like Shava likes shiny things and his tentacles; the little meatball hates being alone and likes to fly outside; the excavator likes to add water and mud to the soil quietly; the ant queen Linda likes to give birth to her when she has nothing to do The ant eggs that lay down are counted; the hook that controls the lightning hates the rain...

Although he knew that Blake's lifespan was short, after he really learned the news of Blake's death, System became a little overwhelmed.

Although the ordinary ant people died, System would also feel sad, but he would undoubtedly cherish the existence of Shava and Blake more.

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When System learned that Blake was about to die, it was Blake himself.

Black does not have the [tool menu] that System can display lifespan information, but he still knows that his lifespan is coming to an end, just like some old people who have reached the end of their lifespan in previous lives.

In fact, Blake was not too disturbed. He just used a normal tone as usual to inform the ants in System's nest of some big things and small things that happened.

However, when the conversation with System was about to end, Black suddenly asked System a strange question.

Wang, after those rat people die, will they still think? Will they still see, feel, but can't make their bodies move?

There was a hint of anticipation in Black's spiritual message, but System hadn't heard anything wrong at the time.

Without thinking too much, System replied: It shouldn't be, death is death, why do you ask this?

After waiting for more than a dozen breaths, Black sent a spiritual message to System.

...Well, I just thought of this question all of a sudden. It seemed that after learning of System's answer, Blake's spiritual message was a little lonely.

After a while, Blake didn't leave System's empty room to go about her business.

And it was when System was puzzled that Black suddenly sent a spiritual message to System again.

Wang, if I die, can you also take off my eyes before burying me? The tentacles are also fine, I want to stay by your side.

And hearing this, System finally realized that Black's life was coming to an end.