Laws of the Insect Hive

"What happened in the past year and a half?"

System turned his head in the sky to look around. The entire Warren Plain seemed to be shrouded in a layer of gray smoke, but this layer of smoke was very special and would not block System's vision.

Because of the green fog in Lilte Forest, System could no longer see where the elves once gathered. However, System saw one or two figures in silver-white armor patrolling near the vine walls. They should be elves. soldier.

As for the Rat Man gathering place more than 100 kilometers to the west, there is no trace of any Rat Man there.

Many exits of the Rat Man's cave were now covered with some withered weeds, and there should be no Rat Man in the Rat Man gathering place.

Or maybe there are rat people, but the number of rat people is extremely rare.

Turning his eyes to look around, System quickly discovered that behind a small dirt slope about three kilometers away from him, there was a gnoll with a festering body wandering aimlessly.

Falling from the sky, after a few minutes, System and Shava came to the gnoll as they wished.

Gnoll's eyes are dull, or have no eyes, because its eyeballs have become cloudy due to decay, its mouth is slightly open, and some black-purple liquid leaks from its festering chin from time to time, and there is basically no intact skin on its body. The brown hair is basically covered with dark brown blood scabs and rotten flesh.

The gnoll's mouth made strange movements from time to time, like a snoring sound, which matched the gnoll's current appearance, which was somewhat disgusting and terrifying.

However, the gnoll appearance did not frighten System.

In fact, with System's current eerie appearance, it was not much different from this rotten gnoll zombie.

On the other hand, Shava was born with no fear. At this moment, she was rubbing the two blades of her forelimbs. As soon as System gave an order, she would slash this strange and unpalatable gnoll. into two halves.

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Telling Shava not to do anything, System carefully observed the gnoll in front of him.

The appearance of this jackal is basically the same as that of the zombies in the previous game world of System, but the main body of the zombie has changed from a human to a jackal.

As System and Shava approached, the zombie gnoll did not change much, and still maintained a state of aimless wandering, turning a blind eye to System and Shava.

I don't know if the zombies in this world are so dull, or if these gnoll zombies are not interested in bugs.

System tried throwing dirt at the zombie gnoll.

System found that when the dirt hit the jackal zombie, the jackal would turn around quickly and run in the direction of the thrown stone.

However, the running speed of the gnoll zombie is not very fast, System can easily dodge the running gnoll, and the gnoll zombie that staggers from System will continue to run forward.

The running gnoll advanced a full 100 meters before returning to its original state, and continued to wander aimlessly.

What made System feel strange was that, in the process of passing by the gnoll, System felt a familiar aura from the zombie.

To be precise, it was the black-purple mucus flowing from the rotten flesh of the zombies, which made System feel familiar and familiar.

"Could it be a gnoll infected with [plague slime]?"

System's throat subconsciously made a hoarse and weird muttering sound. Since the vocal cords in the throat were not very skilled, his voice was extremely hoarse, and it sounded not too different from the howls of zombies.

[Exploration Analysis] Activate!

System used the new ability he had acquired after his third pupation.

With the use of this ability, System could feel part of the information in the zombie's body beginning to appear in System's mind.

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Species: Gnoll Zombie (renameable)

Height: 1.98—1.99 meters

Weight: 70-80 kg

Estimated combat power: 2—13

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What this [Exploration Analysis] ability shows is really not very detailed, especially the estimated range of combat power is several times larger.

However, as System continued to use [Exploration Analysis] to watch the gnoll, the value of [Exploration Analysis] would gradually become more accurate.

Based on the feelings of [Exploration Analysis], System knew that if he entangled the gnoll with his tentacles [perception], he would get more detailed and accurate information.

Using [Exploration Analysis] to continuously observe the Gnoll Zombie for nearly three minutes, the Gnoll Zombie's combat power has been reduced to a range of 6-9.

But when System used the ability of [Exploration Analysis] to detect Shava, the result was a surprise to System.

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Species: Soldier Ant Knight (can be renamed)

Height: 0.61 meters

Weight: 13-17 kg

Estimated combat power: 1-7

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System also didn't know the reason for this [Exploration Analysis] ability, but the Gnoll Zombie's combat strength was 6-9, and Shava's combat strength was 1-7, which was obviously not logical.

You must know that Shava can cut this gnoll in half very easily.

"Shava, kill this gnoll!"

Following the spiritual message from System, a faint layer of white light appeared on Shava's body, and the gnoll zombie was split in half by Shava from top to bottom in an instant.

From the gnoll's half-turned head, System saw a flash of pale blue flames, like the soul fire in the brains of undead creatures in the fantasy world.

However, the new data revealed by [Exploration Analysis] surprised System even more than the fleeting flames of the gnoll's head.

At the moment when Shava activated his ability, Shava's combat power soared to 150-350, and when Shava regained his calm, Shava's combat power dropped to 1-7 again.

Then, with System's continuous observation, Shava's combat power was finally constant between 5-6.

This [Exploration Analysis] ability is obviously not as easy to use as System imagined. Although the exploration of combat power has upper and lower limits, if any unknown power erupts from the target, the upper and lower limits of combat power will fluctuate again.

Maybe the ability level of this [Exploration Analysis] will be improved in the future, and more things may be seen.

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Shaking his head gently, System moved to the corpse of the gnoll zombie, and at the same time extended his tentacles to probe the festering wound of the gnoll zombie.

As System had felt before, the festering wound on this gnoll zombie was indeed caused by the germs of [Plague Slime].

It is very likely that the gnoll died from the germs of [Plague Slime].

However, the germs of [Plague Slime] obviously won't turn the gnoll into a zombie. There are some other things in the flesh and blood of this gnoll, exuding a strange smell of decay, which is a magical power with a breath of death.

System stretched out his tentacles and tore off a small piece of the gnoll zombie's flesh and put it into his mouth.

After the faint sweet milk smell, System tasted the stench for the first time, and at the same time spit out the food in his mouth.

This was the first time System had a tinge of disgust about food.