Laws of the Insect Hive

The terrified and incontinent Rat Man did not bring much influence to System.

Looking at the rat man in front of him, System inserted two bone daggers into the soil at will. It would take a long time until the rat man's paralysis was relieved, so why didn't he catch some ordinary mice?

Just catching a dozen mice is enough to be their food.

System spread his wings and flew to the sky to patrol for a while.

After seeing that there were no gnolls in the vicinity, System told Black and Little Meatball to lead the ant people to wait in place. If anything abnormal happened to the rat people, they would kill them immediately.

On the other hand, System took Shava to the mouse cave. There were about ten mice that had just escaped back to the cave, and System reckoned that it would not be a problem to catch a few.

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Because of the Rat Man's huge size, the Rat Den is very spacious.

However, it is different from ordinary rat holes. The rat man's lair is filled with an unimaginable stench. Like the goblins, rat people have bad habits in life and like to excrete everywhere in their lair.

The more System moved in the mouse hole, the more unbearable the smell became, and he regretted going into the mouse hole to catch mice.

Fortunately, there seemed to be other exits from the mousehole, and sometimes there would be some circulating air, otherwise System might really cancel this operation.

Ten minutes later, System and Shava successfully caught two mice in the mouse hole.

Perhaps it was the screams of two mice, and System hadn't found any mice after that.

It was essentially different from the tunnels of the ant's nest. Perhaps it was to guard against the natural predators of snakes. The mice's burrows were in all directions. System had found at least seven or eight exits, and the mice had obviously run away.

However, compared to some of the little mice that escaped, System found a leather bag in the Rat Man cave, and there were some items scattered next to it.

A roll of paper that appears to be made of animal hide, what appears to be a map, is strong and delicate.

There was some writing on it, but it wasn't the writing of the Elf, nor the writing on the Ratman's dagger.

In addition to this map, System also found a yellow-white crystal the size of a human fist, and three round golden coins in the leather bag.

The yellow-white crystal System felt like it should be coarse salt, and System would drop some particles when he scratched it hard with his tentacles.

It was a pity that System’s current taste was completely different from his previous life.

When this coarse salt melted in his mouth, System could only taste a faint sweetness with a strange fragrance.

The taste of grains of salt confirmed System's suspicions.

System discovered that after he came to this world, almost all the food that he could eat would become sweet, while some foods that could not normally be eaten with magical powers would have different tastes.

Putting the salt block down, System looked at the coin to the side. The coin was about three centimeters in diameter, and it was very new.

The color and weight of the coin looked a bit like a gold coin, but it could also be a copper coin.

System believes that the biggest gain of this mouse hole expedition is this brown leather bag. Although the style is a bit strange, it is finely crafted and durable. It can hold some food or worm pupae.

As for maps, gold coins, and salt blocks, they are completely useless.

He didn't know the words and places on the map at all, and the salt blocks had no edible value.

And with his weird appearance now, it is estimated that even if he has gold coins, he can't buy anything.

However, compared to System, a pragmatist, the soldier ant Shava is very precious about things like gold coins. System just threw the gold coins away as garbage, and Shava picked them up behind him. .

It's a pity that Shava's current double-blade legs are not good at grasping things. Shava took a lot of effort for the three gold coins, and in the end he could only hold two of them.

In desperation, System had to stuff a few gold coins into the small bag containing the Frost Flower Seeds. In addition to the flower seeds that had lost their effectiveness, the small bag also contained the ones that System once gave to Shava. A small crystal.

After several months of playing with Shava, the irregular edges and corners of the small crystal have been polished off and become smooth.

While System was packing these items and tidying up the leather bag, System’s tentacles suddenly noticed that the leather bag felt a bit wrong.

Soon System found an interlayer in the leather bag, and found a hidden small zipper. Inside, he found a 5 cm-sized, square-shaped silver-white metal similar to a lighter. A faint energy aura can be felt.

After fiddling with the metal with his tentacles for a while, System discovered that the silver-white metal was actually a lighter.

Unscrew the top cover, and after a while, some scorching energy will gather above the white metal, forming a faint flame.

The flame is not large, but it can be used as a tool for ignition in the wild.

Neither the finely crafted leather bag nor this ignition device is the technical level that the Rat Man can achieve in such a messy living condition.

System guessed that this leather bag and its contents should have been obtained by the Rat Man robbing the passing travelers.

As for the metal igniter in the leather bag, System reckoned that the Rat Man had not found it at all.

After continuing to search the mouse hole for a while, as System had guessed, System found a half-human-shaped skull in the depths of the cave.

System speculated that this skull should be the owner of the leather bag.

The shape of the skull is neither a gnoll nor a goblin, it should be an elf, dwarf or human skull.

System’s previous life was a human, and he thought he would feel a little uneasy or anxious when he saw a human skull.

But instead of generating those emotions, he subconsciously wrapped his tentacles around the skull and checked it for a while.

When System realized his state, he had already picked up a small scrap of skull and chewed it for a long time in his mouth.

The skull tastes about the same as most animal bones, it's milk chocolate.

But the skull had obviously been put on hold for too long. System estimated that it had been left for at least half a year, and the taste was very weak.

System ate another small piece and threw the skull aside as garbage, ready to return to the ground.

But just when System chose to leave, he suddenly realized that Shava seemed to have discovered something digging in the dirt with her double blades.

System stretched out his tentacles, and soon found a translucent blue crystal of a strange material in the mud of the cave. System felt a faint energy aura.

The shape and color of this crystal resembled a human eyeball. System speculated that it should be a fake eye, but he didn’t know what this strange energy aura actually did.