Laws of the Insect Hive

"Great Rafael, your servant listens to your call, and all beings in the world will eventually perish due to the plague..."

"Gahaha, hehehehe..."

"Great Rafael, I am willing to dedicate my sense of smell and taste, and I beseech you to grant me the gift."

The comatose Rat Man showed a painful expression because of the injury to his shoulder, sometimes uttering indistinct [Plague Words], and sometimes uttering frantic laughter, somewhat like a deranged madman.

And when System splashed the rat man with rainwater, System discovered that the rat man was indeed not much different from a lunatic.

This female Rat Man understands [Plague Words] and also recognizes Rat Man script, similar to a fanatic of the god of plagues and curses.

According to the words of the Rat Man in his sleep, she should have sacrificed her sense of taste, smell, and her left eye.

When System used a dagger to rip through the rat man's tendon, the rat man not only did not show the slightest fear, but instead gave System a hoarse and strange laugh.

And when System tasted the blood flowing from the rat's wrist with his tentacles, the female rat-man also raised her wrist and sucked her own blood, showing an expression like she was enjoying.

To be able to taste his own flesh and to eat it so happily, this rat man should be the third one that System has seen in this world, apart from himself and the little meatball.

In order to prevent the madman who could communicate with the evil god from self-destructing, or suddenly sacrificing himself to do something, System decided to kill the rat man as soon as possible.

There are many ways to kill the Rat Man, System thought for a while, and decided to send his old friend Slime, who had no mind or consciousness.

In this way, even if the followers of the evil god suddenly go crazy and sacrifice themselves before they die, only the slimes will be hurt.

However, because the Rat Man knew [Plague Word], System thought that before killing the Rat Man, he wrote some words and asked some questions to the Rat Man using the paper he obtained from the Rat Man wizard.

Contrary to System's expectations, after System wrote the words [Words of Plague], although the rat man was still crazy, his attitude changed drastically, and his gaze towards System also changed. A difference happened.

The Rat Man ignored System’s previous behavior of breaking his tendons, and even gave him a crazy and friendly look.

"God's language, you actually understand the god's language!"

"Jie Jie Jie Jie..."

Although the state of the Rat Man is still very crazy, it is surprisingly able to communicate, and System actually obtained a lot of information by writing the text of [Plague Word].

But the Rat Man's words were confusing, and System didn't know whether it was true or not, so he just listened to it temporarily.

According to the Rat Man's words, System learned that the Rafal fanatic came to his lair because of Rafal's guidance.

Well, after a detailed inquiry, System found that the female One-Eyed Rat Man would say that it came from Rafal’s guidance no matter what he did.

System speculated that the Rat Man should have happened to escape the rain and came to a higher ground within a dozen kilometers nearby, and then found the hole and decided to drill into it.

Through the communication with this Rat Man, System also had a simple understanding of the social relations of the Rat Man clan.

Although they are intelligent races and like to live together, the Rat People themselves are not as united as System imagined. Small-scale wars will break out among the Rat People, and there are classes among the Rat People.

Ratmen who live in the colony are of higher status, while some lower-ranking Ratmen live in the perimeter of the colony, and these Ratmen are required to hand in food to the Ratman colony on a regular basis.

It feels like a lord and a peasant.

It is precisely because of this that the Ratmen in the Ratman gathering place are aware of the arrival of the rainy season, while the scattered Ratmen are completely unaware.

And by continuing to question the rat man, System also came to know about a rat man city in Warren Plain—Helencia.

Based on the chaotic words of the female rat man, System speculated that this man once lived in the rat man city of Helencia, and then came here after being expelled from the rat man city.

Although the female Ratman's words are always sloppy, and sometimes she laughs in a convulsive manner, but no matter what she asks, she will answer more or less.

System also gave up the plan to kill the rat man immediately, and decided to use the rat man to learn the language for a while.

...

Because System could write [Plague Word] on paper to communicate with this rat man, System's learning progress was very fast.

In just three days, the female Ratman had finished orally narrating more than a dozen books owned by the Ratman wizard.

These books are generally limited in number of pages, so although the female rat people are often insane, they are also quickly translated.

Although the Rat Man's language System has not yet been mastered, and the intelligent Blake is just not satisfactory, but with the existence of the video records in the [Tools Menu], System can refer to the contents of the books repeatedly.

Therefore, this mad rat man lost the value of his existence to System.

System originally thought it would be troublesome to kill the mad rat man who could only communicate with the evil god, and he needed to use his old friend Slime to complete the complicated operation.

But System didn't expect that he only used the clumsy tricks he used to deal with ants and some insects. He just said that he could stab himself in the head with a dagger, and he could return to the embrace of the god of plagues and curses and become extremely happy.

After pulling out a dagger and getting stuck in the dirt wall of the dungeon, the deranged female rat-man slammed her head into the dagger and committed suicide...

Before his death, this rat man also showed a happy and crazy smile, completely unlike the timid and cunning rat people System had seen.

Compared to the cunning and easy-to-liar Rat Man, such a mad Rat Man made System even more afraid.

In fact, after the Rat Man had been dead for a while, System plucked up the courage to touch the Rat Man's corpse with his tentacles, and System hesitated whether to use the Rat Man's corpse as food. For a while.

...

Ask the mad rat man for three days, and the torrential rain in the sky still shows no sign of stopping.

The rainwater near System's lair accumulated nearly twenty centimeters deep.

However, after the excavator has controlled the soil, the entrance of the nest has been raised by half a meter, and it is already one meter high. System estimates that even if the rain continues for more than ten days, there will be no problems in the nest.

System also began to study the books left by the Rat Man wizards.

According to a description similar to a note book, the rat man wizard who blew himself up and cast the [Severing Curse] on him should be called Lance, an upper-level rat man also from the rat man city of Helencia, who was deceased because of his research on the plague. come here.

Most of the dozens of books are about plagues. Except for some about the use of plague spells, there are many rat people's understanding of plagues.

The rat people already know that the plague is an extremely tiny germ, and the rat people have also developed a unique spell. Through this spell and special props, they can see microscopic things and achieve the effect of a microscope.

System roughly flipped through the books again, and then turned to the only book about curses, which contained more than a dozen ways to use curses.

However, whether it is about the use of plague spells or curse spells, there is a prerequisite, that is, communication with the evil god Rafael and sacrifice.

Only in this way can there be the possibility of casting plague and curse spells.