System shook his head over everything that had just happened.

  A little earlier, he had inexplicably felt a force calling him. Just as he'd started feeling confused, his consciousness had seemed to cross through a long darkness before appearing in the spiritual world of a human.

  In this spiritual world, System could surprisingly understand the other party's nguage and see what he looked like in reality.

  The human had seemingly desired to offer his lifespan to System in exchange for System killing a human named Johnny.

  This scene was very simir to the transactions between humans and the devil in the novels from System's previous life.

  The fat man's lifespan had been seventy-four years, but much of it would be lost during the sacrifice, so System could only receive half of the human's lifespan, which was thirty-seven years.

  To be honest, System was very interested in harvesting lifespan and eating it. He wanted to find out what lifespan tasted like. He was also very curious whether eating lifespan would cause his lifespan to increase or if it would appear in his body as experience points.

  But System was different from an Abyss demon whose head was full of chaos and desire.

  He cast aside his inner desire in an instant. He had finally left the main world, and he wanted to stay away from messy things like that. Naturally, it was impossible for him to go back to the main world to die.

  Moreover, he would have to consume a lot of his body's energy to go to the main world. In addition, because he was now an Abyssal life form, he would be rejected and suppressed to a certain extent when entering the main world. That made it even more impossible for him to head over to the main world to cause trouble.

  However, it wasn't often that a human showed up to communicate with him. System naturally wouldn't miss out on this opportunity to talk to one.

  Facing the human's request, System didn't refuse immediately. Instead, he began asking the human many questions.

  For example, he wanted to know the other party's country, the races in that country, the purchasing power of gold coins, the history of the country, and some of its legends. System also heard a short story about the "Beggar Hero King," which he'd found very interesting.

  Right before he'd left, System had also asked about Lilt Forest and the Warren Pins, but the human had never heard of those two pces.

  ...

  System rubbed his swollen head with his tentacles. Crossing over from the Abyssal Pne and communicating with the human in the main world had consumed a lot of his energy and made him want to sleep for a while.

  If he hadn't consumed so much energy, he might have asked the human some more questions. After all, he didn't know how many opportunities he'd have to learn about the outside world.

  As he recalled the appearance of the human who had rapidly aged after losing half of his lifespan when the transaction had ended unsuccessfully, System shook his head and decided not to think about it anymore.

  When he opened the [Tools Menu], he found that half an hour had passed since he'd started communicating with the human.

  System didn't bother looking for Excavator, who was busy digging somewhere. He quickly headed up to the surface, which was several meters above his current location.

  According to Ying's previous description, there was no day or night in this yer of the Abyss. Due to the vender smoke in the air, it was always gloomy.

  System soon appeared on the foggy ground that looked just as Ying had described. Upon exiting the underground passage, he saw a familiar figure standing nearby.

  Shava, who usually stood guard near him, obviously hadn't left. A few meters away from the underground cave, Shava was swinging her twin bdes through the air, sshing apart the mosquitoes that flew by from time to time.

  The mosquitoes in the Abyss weren't much different from the mosquitoes System had seen in Lilt Forest and the Warren Pins. They were about half a centimeter long and didn't fly very fast.

  There was only one thing noticeably different about these Abyss mosquitoes. They were much more ferocious than the mosquitoes in Lilt Forest. Even though they were at the bottom of the food chain, they possessed extraordinary courage.

  System thought these mosquitoes behaved more like bees, as they weren't afraid of dying. Their proboscises seemed to be stronger than those of mosquitoes in the main world, and they were using them as weapons to attack Shava.

  While System was watching Shava practice her swordsmanship, he suddenly felt his tentacles itching slightly.

  It turned out that while he'd been in a daze, several mosquitoes had secretly nded on his tentacles and started sucking his blood.

  [Tentacle-Leg Conversion] activated!

  System's originally soft tentacles were quickly covered with a hard carapace. Although these Abyss mosquitoes' proboscises were unusually strong, the mosquitoes themselves were still only comparable to mosquitoes in the main world.

  These mosquitoes at the bottom of the food chain naturally couldn't pierce System's carapace, and all of their subsequent attacks were in vain.

  However, at this moment, System's antennae suddenly detected a burst of snapping and roaring sounds.

  After a few seconds, a nearly thirty-centimeter-long, yellow-bodied mosquito suddenly rushed out of the mist in the distance. It seemed to have chosen him as its target.

  Obviously, this mosquito was an insect beast that had been born in the Abyss. System easily detected the opponent's simple data with [Probe and Analyze].

  ...

  Species: Mosquito Beast (renameable)

  Length: 0.31mWeight: 25-150g

  Estimated Combat Power: 0.3-1.5Special Talents: -

  ...

  Although the mosquito beast made a lot of noise while flying, its flight speed wasn't very fast, so System stopped Shava from taking action.

  He exerted force with his tentacles suddenly, and they made a strong cracking sound like a whip as they fshed through the air.

  The big mosquito rushing toward him was quickly captured.

  As he felt the big mosquito struggle in his tentacles and sensed its crazed emotions, System sent mental messages to the other party.

  "You and I are the same kind."

  "My blood is poisonous."

  "Your straw is broken."

  System once again went through his usual lies, but this second-pupation insect beast didn't seem to understand anything.

  No matter what kind of mental messages he sent, the mosquito beast's anger never changed. It just wanted to break free from his tentacles.

  System realized that the intelligence of this second-pupation mosquito beast might not even be as high as that of the ordinary mosquitoes in Lilt Forest. At least those mosquitoes would have some reaction after hearing his lies.

  He quickly took action and captured a few more of the mosquitoes flying in the air, then conducted a simple intelligence test on these Abyss mosquitoes.

  The results of the test weren't much different from System's expectations.

  These Abyss mosquitoes were of the same lineage as the mosquito beast, with the same low intelligence, and their personalities were more crazed and aggressive than those of mosquitoes in the main world.

  "Does every insect in the Abyss have low intelligence like this?"

  System remembered his conversations with Ying. According to her, the companions from her time with her former master had been about as intelligent as Meatball, and they'd basically all been magical beings that had undergone three or four pupations.

  "Could it be that the wisdom gained by insects after their second pupation in the main world is higher than that of insect beasts that have completed three pupations in the Abyss?"

  "Why is this?"