Laws of the Insect Hive

System came to this world, and the torrential rain when he woke up was no accident.

Every year from the beginning of summer to the end of summer, there will be one or two continuous rainstorms here, and the timing and scale of each rainstorm are different.

However, this rat man surprisingly knew when the next rainy season would come. According to the description of the male rat man, System knew that the next rainy season would come within half a month.

The male Rat Man's words were firm, as if he was absolutely certain that the rainy season was coming.

But exactly why it knew, because of the language barrier, System only knew a little.

System speculated that it should be the existence of a Rat Man wizard, divination or something else, and speculated the time of the next rainstorm.

As a race that lives underground, it makes sense to be prepared for the rain that might flood their lair.

However, the Rat Man's eyes were sneaky, making System feel awkward.

Maybe the Rat Man's eyes were born like this, but it made System couldn't help but think more, and he suddenly thought of something strange today.

Although the Rat Man knew a rough range for the arrival of the rainy season, it was not precise, only that the rainstorm would come within half a month.

In other words, there is a possibility of heavy rain every day.

So why did this rat-man warrior brave the rainstorm that could fall at any time, instead of dealing with the impending flood situation in the rat-man gathering place, but took the risk to come here to investigate?

This is obviously not very logical.

The Rat Man must be hiding something, or he didn't understand some of the Rat Man's words, or the very clever Rat Man warrior had lied to him.

Because the Rat Man vocabulary he mastered was too small, and System was unable to speak his voice to inquire, the interrogation of the Rat Man by System and Black would definitely take a lot of time.

But if what the Rat Man said was true, and the rainy season was coming, System had to prepare as soon as possible to prevent the rain from flooding his lair.

System also did not have much time to conduct a detailed interrogation of the rat man.

After torturing the castrated rat man with tentacles with aphrodisiac effect, System began to inspect the flood control renovation of the lair by the excavator.

In the process of selecting the nest, System took into account the waterproofness of the nest, so he built the nest on a higher position.

However, on the plain, it is obviously unrealistic to want to be close to water sources and to think about the high terrain.

Therefore, System's choice of nest location was not particularly high. Of course, if System had known that the excavator could find groundwater, he would not have to choose the location adjacent to the river.

However, because of the excavator's manipulation of the soil, the outer walls of most of the passages in the nest are extremely dense, which can effectively prevent the infiltration of rainwater.

It is only necessary to reinforce the outer walls of some of the nests that are not very strong, and raise the entrance of the nests to prevent rainwater from accumulating and pouring into the nests.

After a whole day's work by the excavator, a conical mound half a meter high has been formed at the entrance of the nest.

System also used the ability of [Growing Plants] to camouflage the mound with vines, so that the mound was not very obtrusive.

...

After finishing his work, System flew into the sky as usual, and began to observe the direction of the Liert Forest and the Rat Man gathering place in the distance.

System could see that there were sporadic Ratmen and mice in the Ratman gathering area, busy at the entrance of the tree hole, and some Ratmen were carrying food to the higher hillside, and there seemed to be several there. Ratman Cave.

It seems that the Rat Man's statement that the rainy season is coming is not a lie.

The elves in the Lierte Forest did not show any obvious movements, they were still planting trees and plants, and some elves were playing with a few leopards.

Looking at the tree house the elves had built on the tree, System knew that these elves didn't have to fear the rain at all.

During this flight, System also watched the dark clouds approaching from the east of Lilte Forest more than a thousand kilometers away.

The turbulent black clouds, like a big hand reaching out from a distance, want to cover the Lilte Forest and the Warren Plain.

System's blood trembled slightly, and his [intuition] once again felt uneasy.

Storm is coming...

...

After a few hours, the winds that kept blowing over the Warren Plains gradually stopped and the air pressure gradually decreased.

Even though System had notified the ant people of the arrival of the torrential rain in advance, the ants inevitably became flustered and anxious.

It seems that his ant people also sensed the arrival of the rainstorm in advance from the changes in air pressure and the humid air.

Ants are creatures who have a natural fear of heavy rain.

It was a little later than System had expected, and it was not until the early hours of the night that the crackling rain began to fall.

And when this heavy rain first came, there was a small hailstorm, and some ice cubes the size of pigeon eggs fell, and System also absorbed some ice energy after a long time.

System originally thought that these hailstorms would cause Ola to have some reactions in the empty room. After all, Ola likes the energy of frost.

But unfortunately, these hailstorms did not make Ola the slightest interest.

Compared to these hailstones, Ola still prefers to sleep.

After eating the two hailstones that fell into the nest, System looked at Blake, "How is that rat man now?"

"Wailed for a while because of hunger, now paralyzed by paralyzing poison."

The tentacles on System's head moved slightly, revealing a contemplative look.

"Is there no other reaction from that rat man?" System continued to ask.

Blake shook his head, she didn't notice anything.

...

After learning that the rainstorm was coming, System's [intuition] had been sending him a sense of unease from time to time these days.

System had always thought that his uneasiness was due to the torrential rain, which might be a bit heavy this time, causing damage to his ant people again.

However, this was not the case. The heavy rain mixed with hail was ferocious, but it was not as big as System imagined, and it was actually not a big threat to the well-prepared nest.

It was precisely because of this that System, who had watched the rain and hail fall for a while, was able to return to the lair with peace of mind.

Even if the continuous rainfall caused the water level of the plain to rise by one meter, and with the presence of excavators, the entrance to the lair could continue to rise, System couldn’t imagine what kind of threat he would face.

The remaining doubts naturally lie in the rat man who was imprisoned by him.

Different from the unreliable [Insect Intuition], since the third molting to listen to the sound of the world and acquiring the ability of [Perception] and [Intuition], [Intuition] has never gone wrong.

Something bad must be about to happen.

Although he felt that the Rat Man had a certain value in staying, after thinking for a while, System had a way to prevent the Rat Man from spreading news, or the Rat Man had any means of sensing his companions.

He still decided to get rid of the rat man ahead of time.