Laws of the Insect Hive

The blue-gray rock is half a meter high, and its appearance is very realistic, even the [Eye of System] can't see the clue.

But when the tentacles touch it, you will find that this rock is completely an illusion, and some special energy aura is emitted near the illusion of the rock.

Following these energy breaths, System touched the illusion, and it didn't take long for him to take out a thirty centimeter-sized rat-man skull from the illusion.

As the skull was taken out, the clear gray rock illusion disappeared, revealing a relatively clean entrance to the Rat Man cave.

Compared with ordinary ratman caves, the smell in this cave is much cleaner. Although there is a little odor, it is not so foul.

Let Meatball keep watch outside to prevent the Rat Man from escaping from the other exits of the Rat Man, and System took Shava into the Rat Man's burrow again.

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In the Plains of Warren, the Rat People are also known as the Plague Rat People.

Rat people are timid by nature and extremely greedy.

Usually when encountering a powerful enemy, they will first choose to escape, and when encountering a weak one, they will show their fangs mercilessly. Generally speaking, it is a race that is weak when encountering strong, and strong when encountering weak.

But if these timid rat people are forced to a point where they have nowhere to go, the rat people will never sit still, and they will definitely resist with all their might.

Of course, no matter how much they resisted, the Rat Man was still unable to challenge the gnoll, the overlord of the grasslands.

In the Warren Plains ruled by gnolls and pig-headed people, the rat people can survive in the cracks, partly because of the way they live underground, and the gnoll warriors are helpless, and partly because of the strange germs on their bodies.

Since believing in the god of plagues and curses, almost every rat man will be infected with some plague, and gnolls who eat rat man's flesh are likely to die.

Over time, the gnolls who had eaten many losses also gave up using the rat people as food.

Of course, if you see a single rat man, the gnoll is in a very good mood, or very bad, and will attack the rat man as well.

Although they won't eat these ratmen, gnolls can find some pleasure in killing ratmen.

However, such murderous gnolls are still in the minority, so the life of the rat people in the Warren Plains is not bad.

After the half-bodied snake people were eliminated by the gnolls, after the last hundred years of cultivation and recuperation, the rat people established hundreds of settlements in areas far from the gnoll cities, and even built a city that accommodated tens of thousands of rat people.

The ratman, who had been trembling under the rule of the gnoll, became restless because of this, and decided to wrestle with the gnoll and began to attack the gnoll's vassal - the wolves of the grassland.

But the rat people are also a kind of contradictory race. After provoking the gnolls, some daring rat people began to become businessmen, going to the cities of the gnolls to communicate with each other, and even tried to join the wolves composed of the gnolls and the pig-headed people. The Lund Federation, the third race of the Volund Federation.

It turns out that every few days a few of the Rat Man merchants heading to the gnoll cities go missing.

The rat man wizard Lance Corrisius once lived in the rat man city, Helencia, the city of plague, for a period of time, and later moved to the border between Warren Plains and Lierte Forest due to the plague experiment.

Lance was not very supportive of the rat people joining the Volund Federation, but expected that the god of plague it believed in would give them more power and let the plague end the rule of the gnolls.

However, things backfired. After half a year of moving to the border of Lilte Forest, Lance did not make much progress in the study of the plague. Instead, he encountered evil and murderous monsters.

Lens didn't know what those monsters were. After receiving a report from a rat of the same family, that same family was already dead and was eaten by those monsters.

Yes, its kin was eaten, and those monsters didn't have anything to do, just like the half-snake people who were the mortal enemies of the rat people.

One hundred years ago, after the gnolls wiped out all the half-snake people, the plague of the rat people no longer has an ineffective target.

Only the snakes on the grasslands are immune to this plague, but ordinary snakes are not the opponents of the rat people at all. In recent decades, the snakes on the grasslands have been basically cleaned up by the rat people, and only a few snakes are still alive. survive.

Every rat man who believes in the god of plague will have plague on his body. Even a powerful gnoll warrior will feel feverish, fall into a coma or even die after eating rat meat containing plague.

Is it the devil? Or is it undead? Or a creature resembling a half-serpent-man?

After the next exploration, Lance found that the other party was neither a demon from the abyss nor those dull undead creatures.

They are a strange group of monsters, their bodies are cold, just like those snakes.

The smaller ones are somewhat similar to ants in the grasslands, but are many times larger than ordinary ants.

Lance knew that, whether it was the big monsters or the little monsters, they were definitely not the same species as the ants.

These monsters are like the halflings, the mortal enemies of the mice, but more eerie and terrifying than the halflings.

Lens discovered that the monsters were actually building nests near his cave.

The fear from the unknown made Lance want to escape from here, but before escaping, Lance decided to investigate these monsters for a while and spread a more severe plague.

However, the mice that Lance sowed a large amount of plague bacteria still did not have any effect on those monsters. Lance used the [Shared Vision] spell and saw a monster eat half a mouse through the eyes of the mouse. Chewed, and no adverse reactions occurred.

You must know that the mouse was used by Lance to use the [Plague Technique] to sow a plague that is more than a thousand times that of ordinary rat people. Even the demons in the abyss could not be completely unresponsive.

At this moment, Lance discovered that these new evil monsters in the plains were likely to be a new half-body snake-man to the rat-men, more terrifying than the gnoll.

After all, gnolls kill but don't eat them, and these cruel monsters use them as food.

Not only that, these evil monsters build their nests underground like the Ratmen. As long as they hide in the ground, these monsters will not repeat the tragedy of the half-body snake-men being annihilated by the gnolls.

It can be said that, after several days of observation, Lance has regarded these evil monsters as the enemies of the Rat Men in the Warren Plains in the future.

Lance decided to take advantage of the fact that the number of these monsters was not large and their strength was not particularly strong, and passed the news to the underground city of the Rat Man.

Although these plague viruses have little effect on these monsters, the Rat Man's Plague Archer's sharp arrows and Junkrat Warrior can still destroy these monsters.

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However, just when Lance sent a mouse to investigate for the last time and decided to escape, he found that these monsters suddenly showed good wisdom, and found his lair following the trail of the mice, and saw through what he had made outside the lair. camouflage.

The rat man wizard Lance, who was wearing a black-gray shabby robe, trembled slightly, he had to do something...