Chapter 224: The Unexpected Appearance of the Corpse (Part II)
Heatham found that there was a wound under the robe on the back of the corpse, which had been simply bandaged, nearly thirty centimeters long, and it appeared to have been cut by a sharp blade.
The wound may not have been fatal, but it certainly hastened the death of the female swarm druid.
The corpse's face was a strange green color, and the corpse's back wound was also covered with green pus and blood.
From the pus and blood, Systm felt the germs being very active and excited.
Obviously, the cause of death of this swarm druid should have been teleported to this level of the abyss in a weakened state of injury, and then died under the infection of bacteria and viruses.
Later, the body was found by the ants.
Because the IQ of the big ants born in the abyss is generally very low, after these big ants found the corpse, they directly used the corpse as food and transported it to the granary.
If it weren't for the lucky enough to find this corpse, perhaps in a little while, the corpse would have been fed to the giant slime along with the corpse of the mosquito worm.
Then, after the giant slime had digested it, Heatham would not be able to see the corpse.
Sensing the state of the druid's corpse and the extent to which germs were multiplying within the corpse, Systm discovered that the druid had died about five days earlier.
Five days ago, it was the time when Systm's [intuition] inexplicable sense disappeared.
"Could it be that this swarm druid is the one who caused my [intuition] to sense?"
Seethm made a confused sound, flipped the corpse over a few times, and soon found a black backpack in the corpse of the mosquito beast.
The material of the backpack is similar to canvas, the workmanship is very beautiful, and there are metal zippers that were only found in Systm's previous life, and it seems that the creatures of this world are not very bad in terms of invention.
In his backpack, Systm found a book in Elven language, and several bottles and jars made of similar materials to ceramic.
Among these small jars, Systm found several small unknown bugs, both insects and some arthropods.
These bugs seem to have been exerted by the swarm Drew, and although they are alive, they have entered a dormant state, and they don't even need to breathe, so they can survive in a closed bottle.
He also found dozens of eggs in a bottle.
In addition to this, there is also an envelope in the backpack, in which Syst feels some magical aura, it should be a magic letter.
However, as soon as Systm opened the envelope and took out the stationery inside, it was completely windless and instantly burned to ashes.
It seems that this letter is not the high-tech letter that Sistemm imagined to display images or sounds with magic, but a letter that is magically secret.
Despite having the video recording in the [Tools menu], the letters burned quickly, and Systm didn't have time to fold the envelope completely, only to see a few lines of text at the bottom of the letter.
These lines of text are in Elven language, and Syst doesn't know them, but Systm can ask Ola after a while.
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However, rather than the burned letters, Systm was more concerned with how the body had come here.
If the corpse had been carried down by ants on the ground, the corpse's black robes and shoe soles would undoubtedly have some mud sticking to them, and the body of this corpse was very clean.
It is very likely that this corpse was teleported here from the underground teleportation array.
After moving to the teleportation array, Systm confirmed his thoughts, because next to this teleportation array, Systm found a hair.
At this level of the abyss, there is not even a creature with hair, and this hair cannot be anyone other than this elf.
"Could it be that the shadow teleported her? But why didn't Shadow come back? ”
Systham muttered to himself in confusion.
Through the [enhanced sense of smell] brought about by the enhanced tentacles, Systm gradually sensed the faint scent left by the soles of the swarm druid's shoes a few days ago.
Following this breath, Systham moved all the way to the building of the underground floating island, and finally came to a more remote room on the floating island.
Looks like the swarm druid should have been hiding here until he died.
In this room, Systham saw a large soldier ant, two worker ant riders, and a dozen large worker ants, which were motionless on the ground.
In addition to these immobile ants, there are also two large worker ants, constantly touching these immobile ants with their antennae.
The two large worker ants were apparently wondering why their companions hadn't died, but they remained motionless.
Obviously, the ant people of Sistemm must have discovered the swarm druid, but because of the swarm druid's ability to manipulate bugs, the ants were hypnotized and placed in this room.
Syst thought it would be troublesome to untie the controlled ants, but Syst simply used the ability of [Psychic Connection] to send a few spiritual messages, and then he was uncontrolled by the hypnotic ants.
As if awakened, the ants approached Sistem's side when they spotted him.
After that, the ants left because of the hunger in their abdomen and went in search of food, after all, the ants had endured starvation for five or six days.
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In this room, Systham soon discovers a strange crystal disc.
The diameter of the disc is about ten centimeters, and the thickness is about one centimeter, and the material and crystal scepter are very similar to the crystal throne, and there are some strange patterns on it, which are very close to the patterns common in underground floating islands.
Systm discovers that by sending energy to this disc, the energy he conveys is transformed into another kind of energy, and the transformed energy is the same energy that Shadow and Snail Jace has, and it is also the energy that is closely related to this underground floating island.
At this point, Syst was already certain that the swarm druids who came here should have nothing to do with Shadow, but only came here with this crystal disk.
"Could it be that this swarm druid wants to go to the Overworld, and it's just a coincidence that he came here?"
Heatham made a guess, but was still very confused.
The main thing was the feeling he had [intuition] a few days ago, and it was so special.
It's probably no coincidence that this swarm druid is here.
Or maybe it's a coincidence, but this coincidence is also closely related to him.
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Systham quickly traveled to the treasure vault where Aura was and asked Aura about the meaning of the last few lines of the letter.
As Ola interprets the images of the letters in the psychic message, a name catches Systham's attention – Nandez.
The name Nandez was mentioned by Heatham.
The owner of Shadow and Flesh is called Festantin, and Fistantin's teacher is called Nandez, a Legendary-rank Swarm Druid.
The letter seemed to contain a message to stop Nandez's plan.
As for more things, it's not very clear, since Systm only saw the last four lines of the letter.
However, between the lines, Sistemm could somewhat see that the current twenty-sixth layer of the abyss should be in chaos......