Chapter Ninety-Six: A False Eye
The frightened and incontinent nezumi didn't make much of a difference to Sisstem.
Looking at the nezumi in front of him, Systham stuck two bone daggers into the dirt at random, and it would be a long time before the nezumi was paralyzed, so why didn't he catch some ordinary mice?
Just catch a dozen rats and it's enough to be their food.
Heatham spread his wings and flew high into the air for a while.
After seeing that there were no gnolls nearby, Heatham told Blake and Little Meatball to lead the ant people to wait in place, and if anything unusual happened, kill the nezumi immediately.
Systham, on the other hand, led Shava to the rat burrow, where there were about ten rats that had just escaped back to the burrow, and Sistelm estimated that catching a few should not be a problem.
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Because of the large size of the rat man, the rat nest appears to be very spacious.
However, unlike ordinary rat holes, the nezumi nest is filled with an unimaginable stench, and the nezumi have the same bad habits as the goblins, and like to excrete everywhere in their nests.
The more Syst moved through the hole, the more unbearable the smell became, and he regretted going to the hole to catch the rat.
Luckily, there seemed to be other exits to the rat hole, and there would have been some air circulation from time to time, otherwise Heatham might have really canceled the operation.
Ten minutes later, Systham and Shava managed to catch two mice in the rat hole.
Maybe it was the screams of the two rats, and Sistemm didn't find any of them after that.
Fundamentally different from the tunnels of the ant's nest, perhaps to guard against the natural predators of snakes, the rat's burrows were in all directions, and Systm found at least seven or eight exits, and those rats had apparently escaped.
However, compared to some of the small rats that escaped, Systham found a leather bag in the nezumi cave, and there were some items scattered around it.
A roll of paper that appears to be made of animal skin, which appears to be a map, is sturdy and delicate.
There was some writing on it, but it wasn't elven writing, nor was it carved into the nezumi dagger.
In addition to the map, Systham found a yellowish-white crystal the size of a human fist in his leather pouch, as well as three round, golden coins.
The yellowish-white crystal Syst felt like it should be coarse salt, and Heatham would drop some particles if he scraped it hard with his tentacles.
It's a pity that Sistham's taste is completely different from his previous life.
When the coarse salt melted in his mouth, Heatham could only taste a faint sweetness with a strange aroma.
The taste of the grains of salt confirmed what Heatham had been guessing all along.
Systm found that after he came to this world, almost all the food he could eat would become sweet, and some foods that he could not normally eat would have different tastes.
Putting the salt down, Systm looked at the coin on the side, which was about three centimeters in diameter and was in a new color, and it was also printed with beautiful patterns, and some texts, which should be of the same kind as those on the map.
The color and weight of the coin somewhat resembled that of a gold coin, but it could also be a copper coin, and Heatham didn't pay attention to it after fiddling with it a little.
Sistum thinks the biggest catch of this rat cave expedition is this brown leather bag, although the style is a little strange, but the workmanship is fine, strong and durable, and it can hold some food or insect pupae.
As for the map, gold coins, and salt blocks, they are completely useless.
He didn't know the words and locations on the map, and the salt had no edible value.
And with his weird appearance now, it is estimated that even if he has gold coins, he can't buy anything.
However, compared to the pragmatist of Systm, the soldier Sava is very precious for gold coins, and Sixm has just thrown them away as garbage, and Sava picks them up in the back.
It's a pity that Sava's current double-edged limbs are not good at grasping things, and it took a lot of effort for Sava to pick up two of the three gold coins.
In desperation, Systrem stuffed a few gold coins into a small bag containing the seeds of the Frost Flower, which contained the small crystal that Sixt had given to Shava in addition to the flower seeds that had lost their usefulness.
After months of playing with Shava, the irregular edges and corners of the small crystal have been worn off a bit and become very smooth.
And when Heatham was packing up these items and sorting out the leather bag, Heatham's tentacles suddenly noticed that something was wrong with the touch of the leather bag.
Soon Syst found a compartment in the leather bag, and found a small hidden zipper, in which he found a 5 cm square, silvery-white metal like a lighter, in which Heatham could feel a faint breath of energy.
After fiddling with the metal with his tentacles for a moment, Heatham discovered that the silvery-white metal was actually a lighter.
Unscrew the lid on it, and after a while, some scorching energy will gather above the white metal, forming a faint flame.
The flame is not large, but it can be used as a tool for ignition in the field.
Neither the finely crafted leather bag nor the ignition device is a level of technology that the rat man can achieve in such a dirty and messy living situation.
Systm guessed that the bag and its contents were supposed to be something that the nezumi had robbed a passing traveler.
As for the metal igniter in the leather bag, Systham estimated that the nezumi had not found it at all.
The search continued in the rat hole for a while, and as Sistrom had guessed, Sistrom found a half-human skull in the depths of the cavern.
Systm speculated that the skull should be the owner of the bag.
The shape of the skull is not a gnoll or a goblin, but rather an elf, dwarf, or human skull.
In his previous life, Sistemm was a human, and he thought he would feel a little uneasy or anxious at the sight of a human skull.
But instead of generating those emotions, he subconsciously wrapped his tentacles around the skull and examined it for a while.
By the time Syst realized his state, he had picked up a small piece of skull and chewed it in his mouth for a long time.
The taste of skulls is similar to that of most animal bones, and it is the taste of milk chocolate.
But this skull has obviously been left for too long, and it is estimated that Syst has been sitting for at least half a year, and the taste is already very light and light.
Systham ate another small piece and tossed the skull aside as garbage, ready to return to the surface.
But just as Sistm chose to leave, he suddenly noticed that Shava seemed to have found something digging through the dirt with her twin blades.
Heatham stretched out his tentacles, and soon found a translucent blue crystal of strange material in the soil of the cave, and Heatham felt a faint aura of energy.
The shape and color of the crystal resembled a human eyeball, and Syst speculated that it should be a false eye, but he didn't know what this strange aura of energy was.