Laws of the Insect Hive

"Jie Jie Jie Jie..."

Strange laughter seemed to come from System in all directions. The antennae on System's head swayed back and forth, and at the same time, he turned his head to look around.

System never realized where the strange laughter came from.

Although he was used to seeing corpses, the corpses of ordinary creatures would not make System feel the slightest discomfort.

But the lizard man who committed suicide and the laughter that could not find the source created a strange atmosphere, making System feel like he had entered the plot of a horror novel, if it weren't for the constant flying mosquitoes around Noisy, perhaps this weird atmosphere will be more serious.

"Cough cough..."

Amid the weird laughter, System suddenly heard several very painful coughs.

It turned out that the coughing noise was nothing else, it was the Western Lizardman who had been pierced through the throat by the shadow and never died, and it still hadn't died completely.

System thought for a while, stretched out his tentacles and activated the power [healing power] from the Druid, trying to keep the lizardman alive, and then called out the truth and explained what this weird laughter was. .

The [Healing Power] from the Druid has a miraculous effect on the wounds of healing creatures, and the wounds on the lizardmen's necks begin to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It's a pity, there is still great hope for rescuing this still-dead lizardman from the beginning, but after a few minutes, the immortal lizardman had already lost too much blood, and he coughed again. After a large mouthful of blood, the lizardman died of excessive blood loss.

Until the lizard man died, the strange laughter around him did not disappear, and there were inexplicable footsteps around him.

There were some sounds similar to those made by humanoids walking in the dirt, but just like the weird laughter that was still being made, the new footsteps System had not found the source.

It seemed that the footsteps were right next to him, but there was nothing beside him.

While System was puzzled, a strange figure 1.7 meters high suddenly appeared at a position more than 20 meters away from System.

The strange laughter and footsteps surrounding System also showed their orientation, as if it was the sudden appearance of the figure.

The figure looks like a humanoid life, wearing a black robe with a hood, and the cuffs and hood of the robe are embroidered with luxurious and unknown golden lines, which looks very mysterious.

However, compared to the hood on the figure, System's attention was focused on the huge scythe in the figure's hand.

The huge sickle was about 3 meters long, and the whole body was black. Only the blade of the sickle shone with a layer of silver light.

The strange appearance of this humanoid creature brought some depression to System, but it did not give System's [intuition] any dangerous warning.

And [intuition] is the biggest warning that there is no danger.

"Could it be that this humanoid creature is an existence similar to the Glacier Lord or the Evil God Rafael?"

System murmured to himself, only those extraordinary beings can make System's [intuition] useless.

However, System did not feel any extraordinary pressure from this humanoid creature, which was completely different from the fear he had when facing the frost giant Aura or the evil god Rafael. language.

System did not act rashly, and told Shava and Meatball beside him to stay calm, and quietly watched the black-robed figure who kept walking towards him.

The figure finally stopped fifteen meters away from System, stopped laughing, and made an unpredictable voice: "Wandering and ignorant creatures, sacrifice your souls, I will give you eternity s life."

The voice of the figure is very strange, like male but not male, like female but not female, and mixed with some mental fluctuations, with a sense of bewitching, trying to encourage System to sacrifice his soul together with Shava and Meatball.

But this kind of bewitching was too weak for System, who often sent spiritual messages. Even Shava and Meatball next to System were reminded by System's spiritual message and easily escaped. Bewitched.

And just when System got rid of the bewitching, System suddenly discovered something unusual about the black-robed figure.

This level of the abyss was full of countless mosquitoes. System found that the black-robed man seemed not to be an entity. The mosquitoes flying in the air shuttled back and forth in the black-robed man's robe, even the steel-like scythe. , there are also many mosquitoes in it.

Is it a ghost like a spirit body?

Do not.

Shouldn't be a ghost.

System showed a puzzled expression, and quickly figured out something strange.

The black-robed figure fifteen meters away was not a spiritual body, but a false illusion.

Because if the figure in the black robe is a spirit body, the strange footsteps formed before can't be explained, because the spirit body doesn't make any footsteps at all.

This is why the black-robed figure stopped moving about fifteen meters away from System, because if he got too close, System would find the black-robed figure's flaw that the mosquitoes could not hinder the shuttle.

The existence of the manipulation illusion obviously did not expect System's super eyesight. Although it was in the thick fog, System could still clearly observe the mosquitoes fifteen meters away.

System immediately used the ability to recognize things in the [Tools menu] to outline the outline of things with a faint light.

Although the outline of the illusion was much finer than the illusion created by the rat-man wizard, it still allowed System to see some flaws.

This black-robed figure is indeed a false illusion.

In this way, System’s previous [intuition] did not give a reasonable explanation for the early warning of danger.

Because the false illusion did not threaten System's ability at all.

...

System, who noticed all of this, did not take action. Since he found that the other party was a non-threatening illusion, System would not mind performing a show with the other party to observe what the existence of manipulating the illusion wanted to do. .

"What is a soul?"

System looked at the phantom more than ten meters away, and a hoarse voice came out of his mouth.

The phantom let out a series of weird laughter again, the black robe was automatic without wind, and the black robe phantom holding the sickle gradually floated into the air.

"soul……"

The phantom continued to make ever-changing sounds, but the phantom was saying well, but suddenly disappeared, completely lost its movement...

System was wondering why the illusion more than ten meters away disappeared when he found that the shadow that had disappeared before was grabbing a round carapace of about thirty centimeters and flew towards him.

The round carapace is tawny, somewhat resembling a snail.

And when Shadow threw the carapace into the dirt, System discovered that what Shadow had caught was indeed a snail.

But unlike ordinary snails, this snail has a pair of anthropomorphic arms.

System was wondering and was going to check the snail with his tentacles when he received a spiritual message from the shadow.

It turns out that this snail is the guy who just created the illusion...