The activity of [Plague Mucus] is about ten days, which means that if it is not treated, the plague germs in [Plague Mucus] will survive for a long time.

Sistum, who has given up experimenting with the plague, doesn't know because he was experimenting with spitting [plague slime] from fish and shrimp a few days ago.

Hundreds of kilometers away, a gathering place next to a river where the stream converges to form a rat-man gathering place has gradually suffered nearly a third of the casualties due to drinking river water.

Approximately two hundred nezumi and thousands of rats died from the plague at Sistem.

The plague spawned by Sistemm cannot be handled even by the nezumi who are good at dealing with the plague.

But it is precisely because of this powerful effect that the plague does not infect all the nezumi that makes the nezumi think that it is a gift from Rafal, the god of plague and curse.

Perhaps with this plague, they will be able to revive Rafal, who had fallen into a slumber and could only appear in his sleep, and descend an avatar in the Overworld to guide the nezumi in their path.

A nezumi wizard collects some of the plague from Sistemm and sends it to the nezumi city of Helenxia.

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……

There was no clear account of the catastrophe in a rat-man colony hundreds of kilometers away, and in fact Sistemm was tired of studying the plague after a few days of experimenting with it.

The effect of the plague will continue to be enhanced with [Ability Enhancement] and will become stronger, but this will not increase the health level of Sistm.

Facing the deadly danger of [Plague Slime] will not help either, as the plague, while deadly, has a long delay and cannot be as instantly lethal as a spider or a viper.

However, Rafal had been trying to lure him in his sleep to continue to obtain the power of the plague, and it seemed that spreading the plague would have many benefits for Rafal.

However, at that time, Sistemm did not know much about the plague effect of [Plague Slime], thinking that the germs studied by the Nezumi wizard were just chicken ribs, coupled with his willpower, Sistemm successfully resisted the temptation of the evil god.

……

Since three days ago, Systham, who had finished the plague experiment, had been studying the activation of [Body Deformation].

By manipulating the gelatinous texture of [Plague Slime], Sistemm has developed some unique understanding of the shape-shifting abilities of [Body Deformation].

It's not that the deformation of the gum has anything in common with the deformation ability of the [Body Deformation], but the [Plague Slime] with the ability to transform gives Sistmutem a unique feeling that the stones of other mountains can attack jade.

Even [Intuition] gave Sistemm a sense of work, and he could indeed activate the [Body Deformation] of the high level cap, which in turn allowed his body and gum to transform at will.

But before activating [Body Transformation], there are still two things that Syst doesn't know how to deal with.

One is that the butterfly insect chrysalis, which is suspected to be the remnant soul of the lord of the glacier, has reached the last moment of pupation, and it is estimated that it will break out of the pupa in two or three days.

These days, the Lord of the Glacier has not woken up to his consciousness, or when he has woken up, Sistemm has not noticed it, after all, Sistemm cannot sense butterfly pupae anytime and anywhere.

As the chrysalis was about to break out, the frosty aura emitted by the butterfly pupa became stronger and stronger, and in order to prevent the chrysalis from harming the ant people, Systm asked the excavator to create an underground cavity for it.

Systm didn't know whether to pupate the butterfly chrysalis in his nest or send the chrysalis away, and watched from afar as the chrysalis broke out.

Heatham was a little tangled.

Compared to the entanglement caused by the butterfly insect chrysalis about to break out of the chrysalis and make Sistrem helpless.

Blake, an extremely intelligent worker ant, is dying.

Not infected with the plague or suffering any special damage, Black was simply nearing the end of his life.

The ant folks of Systham are generally gray due to their cold resistance to Linda, the queen, but they do not live longer than their predecessors, the black-brown ants.

The average black-brown worker ant has a lifespan of about ten months, while the worker ant Black may be the cause of congenital deficiency, and its lifespan is shorter than that of ordinary worker ants.

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After being reborn as a grasshopper, Systm gradually became more and more like a bug.

Just as humans can swatt flies with a fly swatter without any burden, Systham can now kill any unrelated life without any burden.

As long as it is good for him to kill those beings, he will not hesitate to do it.

He can kill insects only out of interest, as experiments can kill sapient nezumi and gnolls, and even grasshoppers of his kind, and he can kill them mercilessly if necessary.

However, despite his insect-leaning personality, Systm retains some emotion.

In other words, even insects, after having wisdom and thinking ability, will have certain emotions, joys, sorrows, and sorrows.

It's like Sava loves shiny things with his tentacles; Little Meatball hates loneliness and likes to fly outside; Excavators like to quietly add water and mud with dirt; Linda, the queen of ants, likes to count the eggs she lays; The hook that wields thunder hates rain......

Despite knowing that Blake's lifespan was short, Heatham became a little overwhelmed after learning the news of Blake's imminent death.

Although Heatham will feel sad when ordinary ant people die, he will undoubtedly cherish the existence of Shava and Blake.

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When Heatham learned that Blake was dying, it was Blake himself who said it.

Blake doesn't have the [Tools Menu] that Systm can display lifespan information, but he still knows that his lifespan is coming to an end, just like some old people who have reached the end of their lifespan in their previous lives.

Blake didn't feel too uneasy, but in his usual tone, he informed the ants in the nest of Sistemm about some of the big and minor things that had happened.

However, just as the conversation with Systham is about to end, Blake suddenly asks Heatham a strange question.

"King, will those ratmen still think after they die? Will they still be able to see, feel, but not move their bodies? ”

There was a hint of anticipation in Blake's spiritual message, but Systham hadn't heard anything wrong at the time.

Without much thought, Syst replied, "Probably not, dead is dead, why do you ask this?" ”

It took a dozen breaths before Black sent a spiritual message to Systham.

“…… Well, I just thought about this question out of the blue. It seemed that after learning Sistum's answer, Blake's spiritual message was a little lonely.

After a long while, Blake did not leave the empty room of Heatham to go about her business.

And it was just when Syst was puzzled that Blake suddenly sent a spiritual message to Heatham again.

"If I die, king, can you pluck off my eyes before you bury me? Tentacles are fine, I want to stay by your side. ”

Hearing this, Heatham finally realized that Blake's life was coming to an end.