Chapter 161: The Food Chain of the Abyss
Systm stretched out his tentacles and continued to use the power of [Perception] on the mosquitoes, insects, and beasts.
It's a pity that after feeling it for a while, Systm didn't find any difference between the bloodline of the Abyssal Mosquito and the mosquito in the Overworld.
And like the mosquitoes in the Overworld, this big mosquito was unaffected by Sisttum's lies, but it was successfully reacted by the aphrodisiac tentacles, and its anger and madness became strange.
It seems that the mosquitoes in the abyss, like the mosquitoes in the overworld, reproduce by mating, and are not life that relies on the devil's nest for asexual reproduction like the insect demon.
Turning his head to look to the side, Systham soon noticed that there were two or three similar mosquito beast corpses under Shava, who was practicing chopping.
It seems that the abyss is different from the Overworld, and the number of mosquitoes, insects and beasts does not seem to be quite large.
I don't know if it's because the mosquitoes here are too dense, so there are frequent secondary pupal insects, or because the abyss itself is easy to give birth to insects and beasts.
Since there are a lot of mosquitoes and insects in the abyss, Syst has no intention of leaving this insect beast to study.
Twisting off the head of the mosquito beast with his tentacles, Syst quickly put the corpse of the mosquito worm beast in his mouth and chewed it......
The taste of mosquitoes in the overworld is similar, the exoskeleton of mosquitoes is the taste of chocolate, and the meat of mosquitoes is milky, and it tastes like chocolate cake, which is okay.
However, at this moment, Systm keenly noticed that something was wrong, and then took out a mass of flesh with flesh and roots growing from the bag on his body.
It was the nest of the demon worm that was collected in the Warren Plains, and Systm quickly broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth to taste.
"Sure enough, after becoming an abyssal life, my sense of taste changed."
What used to be sweet and spicy and had a strange taste of flesh and blood, Systham no longer tastes spicy, only milky.
Systm knew that the change in taste was only a symptom, and the real change was the change in the amount of experience he absorbed.
The same weight of flesh and blood can now provide 1.5 times the experience that Sistham had in the Overworld.
It seems that after he transformed into an abyssal creature, what he could digest also changed.
"I wonder how that skeletal war horse with blue fire tastes like now......"
Sistum's mouth unconsciously made a sound, I don't know what was going on, Sistrem once again remembered the skeleton war horse that disappointed him, and came up with the idea of tasting it again******* Tem quickly shook his head, stopped his cranky thoughts, and at the same time sent a spiritual message to Shava, who tilted his head to the side with a strange expression, and asked Shava to accompany him to explore.
Because of the smoky environment here, Seastum's powerful eyesight is not able to exert itself, although the [Eye of Seastum] has a certain degree of perspective, but it can only see through a few centimeters of soil, just like an X-ray in a previous life, it cannot see through endlessly.
Under such a thick purple smoke, Systm could only see things fifty meters around him, and the farther he went, it would become more and more blurry.
Heatham found that this level of the abyss was much denser than the summer in the Lierte Forest, and that there were countless mosquitoes in the surrounding sky as far as the eye could see.
Mosquitoes that are closer to him will attack him in an attempt to draw blood from him, but the farther mosquitoes will swing back and forth in the air with the straws on their heads, as if they are sucking the damp mist of the air, in addition to mating with mosquitoes of the opposite sex.
Obviously, these lilac mist is the key to how many mosquitoes have multiplied in this world.
Near the mire more than a dozen meters away, Heatham saw a large number of purple-black toads, and there was only one species of these toads, but some were large and some were small.
The large toad is nearly half a meter tall, while the smaller one is only a few centimeters in size.
Perhaps in response to the world's large number of fierce mosquitoes, these purple-black toads have evolved a wrinkled and hard keratin on the surface of their bodies, which is difficult for mosquito spikes to pierce.
……
Systham tore off the hind legs of a toad impaled by [Dragon's Scale Spikes] and put it in his mouth to chew.
Compared to mosquitoes, these toads are much more timid than mosquitoes, although they are at the top of the food chain.
After seeing the death cry of the toad caught by Sistum, the other toads either jumped away or jumped into the mire and disappeared.
Soon, the toads that were ten meters away from Sistum escaped one after another, and even the huge toad that was half a meter tall also escaped.
It seems that these abyssal toads should have a higher IQ than mosquitoes, and when they encounter unknown and mysterious creatures, they at least know how to choose to escape, rather than fighting each other to the end.
Discarding the half-eaten toad aside, Systm moved to the side of the swamp with purple bubbles.
The purple miasma swamps looked hot, but the temperature was the same as the surroundings, and apart from the first plants that grew like aquatic weeds on the swamp, Syst felt a large number of emotions in the swamp, and it was extremely faint.
The swamp seems to contain an abundance of microorganisms and germs, almost as dense as the plague cultures of the nezumi wizard Lance.
In addition to these germs, there are countless mosquito larvae in the swamp, and many of them burst out of the mud every moment, and after waiting for their wings to harden for ten minutes, they will spread their wings and fly into the sky.
It seems no coincidence that mosquitoes have been able to breed on such a scale by feeding on germs and microorganisms in the mire and then swallowing the poisonous purple mist in the air.
……
However, just as Syst observed for a moment and was about to leave the swamp and return to the underground, Heatham's [intuition] suddenly emitted a faint sense.
The joints of the tentacles of Systham's feet quickly charged and released, and his body instantly moved sideways and jumped a few meters away.
Burst!!
A giant black snake with a human thigh-thick and nearly ten meters long suddenly emerged from the ground and opened its bloody mouth towards the location of Systm last moment......
Unfortunately, due to the attack of the black serpent, Sistemm had already dodged ahead of time and climbed onto the unknown strange plant not far away.
Obviously, as an abyss, the danger here is much higher than that of the Liltrit Forest.
The scales of the black giant snake's body are crystal clear, and even if it comes out of the ground, it doesn't stick to the dirt, which looks very beautiful, but the beautiful body and the fierce snake head still look a little hideous.
The serpent seemed to recognize him, and although Systm had dodged the serpent's first attack, the serpent quickly reversed course and continued to charge towards Systm.
It's a pity that this time, there is already a figure blocking the path of the giant snake in advance.
Bang!!
With a strong crashing sound, the giant snake was thrown several meters away, and several blood-stained snake scales were scattered around......
"King, as long as I'm here, you don't have to worry."
Sava turned to Systm and finally said the classic line that she loved so much, but hadn't had a chance to say for a long time.