It's like something is chewing on flesh and gnawing on bones...
Every now and then, a gurgling sound could be heard over the phone, like the sound of someone gasping for air when their trachea is bitten through.
One of the girls said, "Let's go save him!"
Everyone ran towards the apartment entrance, but as they ran, Li Hao pulled those rich kids in the opposite direction.
"Wait, where are you going?" the girl asked.
"I'm going to call the police," Li Hao and the others said, disappearing down the street without looking back.
The remaining four people stopped in their tracks.
They dared not mention the rescue again.
"Call the PCE Public Security Management Committee!"
A girl dialed the phone, her voice trembling: "Hello, is this PCE? There are rats here that have killed people!"
A chuckle came from the other end of the phone: "Damn it, don't call in the middle of the night, you know? And what about rats killing people? Making a false police report is jail time... Get a pair of ketamine!"
Then the call was disconnected.
“Let’s call Brother Chu Ci,” the girl suddenly said. “This is a matter of life and death. No matter how angry he is with us, he won’t abandon us.”
In the past, no matter what difficulties they encountered in the wilderness, everyone's first reaction was to look for Sun Chuci.
The wilderness adventure was thrilling but safe, and after returning to the city and finding so many weapons and firearms, life suddenly became much better.
Gradually, people in the city almost forgot what Sun Chuci had done, until they encountered danger again.
The group hesitated for a moment. They had just deceived Sun Chuci, and now they wanted to ask him for help again?
But considering that this was a matter of life and death, everyone gritted their teeth and dialed the number.
"Sorry, the user you are trying to reach is currently unavailable."
As it turns out, some people won't always wait for you in the same place.
The four students said, "How about we leave first? Li Chao is definitely beyond saving. We need to find a way to tell Kunlun about this."
“Yes, let’s go find the people from Kunlun. The academy gave us an emergency rescue number!” A student finally remembered Kunlun.
When they made the call, they had barely explained the situation when the person on the other end immediately became serious: "Don't linger there. Come to 172 Blackwood Street, District 8. I'll be waiting for you here."
At this moment, Xiao Wu and the others suddenly turned back, staring intently at the four students who were about to leave: "Did something happen to you just now?"
The parents were originally there to have some fun, but Xiao San, having gained experience in the battles of City 22, reacted exceptionally well.
He sensed something was wrong as he passed through the alley, so after walking a short distance, he turned back because he was worried.
The students exchanged glances: "We've encountered a case where a rat bit someone to death."
Everyone at the parents' meeting felt a chill run down their spines!
The three lower districts actively carried out the work of eliminating the four pests. The joint prevention and control efforts drove the rats away in panic, and gradually the rats could no longer be seen in the three lower districts.
So they thought the rats had been completely eradicated. Yesterday, at the parents' meeting, three rat-eliminating heroes were even commended and awarded the title of "Advanced Individual".
One of the heroes who got rid of the rats was the guy who was just about to take his mistress to see the world.
That's why the rats in the alley ran away so quickly.
Just like how a auntie at the market can make a hen stiffen at the slightest touch, this rat-eliminating hero has already achieved a bloodline suppression.
In the eyes of the parents' association, the rat infestation should have been eradicated, but now the facts tell them that the rat infestation does not seem to be limited to the once dirty and chaotic Lower Three Districts, but is spreading throughout the entire city.
A keen intuition told the family that this matter was not as simple as it seemed, and that something big was about to happen!
Xiao San frowned and said, "We must get the Federation's attention to this. This is City 10, the political center of the power struggle between various parties. If something goes wrong here, the entire Federation will likely be in trouble. Call the PCE and tell them about this!"
One of the girls said, "It's no use. We called them, but they didn't believe us at all and even said they would make us go to jail for making a false police report."
The mistress pulled her family aside and whispered, "This matter can't be delayed. We need to contact Blackie's family and parents as soon as possible. Stop playing around, this is important."
The family members, who had originally planned to enjoy themselves in the fourth district, immediately became serious upon hearing that there was important business to attend to and all rushed to the lower three districts.
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In the dark sewers, two rats that had just escaped from the alley scurried about.
In the underground of the fifth district, countless rats carried back and forth, carrying flesh and blood. In the very center, countless pink-cheeked rat pups crawled on the ground, frantically devouring the food that the rats had brought back.
Mice come in all sizes; the larger ones are the first to reproduce, while the smaller ones are more robust.
This nascent population is multiplying at an unimaginable rate. The Rat King does not blindly invade the surface; its every action is planned: it only plunders the most hidden food, keeping as low-key as possible before humans discover it, and waiting for a better opportunity.
The Rat King seemed to understand one thing very well: it did not yet have the power to contend with the humans on the surface, and its population size would be its greatest advantage.
Beside the black coffin, the Rat King pulled out its last arm and began to gnaw on it, the sound of its teeth chewing on the bone eerily unsettling.
The two rats ran up to it and squeaked incessantly. The Rat King listened for a moment and was surprised that the humans from the Lower Three Districts had actually moved to other areas.
Was it intentional targeting of them, or just a coincidence?
The Rat King's eyes surprisingly revealed a look of wisdom.
At this moment, the Rat King suddenly started making a piercing squeaking sound.
An anomaly has occurred.
The smaller rats climbed onto the larger rats and began to gnaw on them, while the larger rats obediently stayed where they were, letting the group treat them as food. It seemed that this was originally a granary reserved by the rat king for the group.
Rats' greatest advantage is definitely not their strength, but their small size, which allows them to enter and exit anywhere: pipes, wall cracks, sewers, and they can even squeeze out of the toilet seat.
Therefore, those large rats are inherently defective products in the reproduction of their species, and will eventually be replaced by newly evolved rats.
Now, the Rat King feels the urgency of time and must adopt a more radical plan.
After feeding, the rats began to converge on the sewers where the fourth section was located. They found the building where Li Chao died and then climbed up the pipes.
They crowded into the sewers, and terror spread like a flood.
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Inside the Dream Building in District 4.
A middle-aged man was sitting on the toilet looking at his phone. The news anchor was broadcasting: "At 8 pm tonight, a reporter photographed a middle-aged female celebrity surnamed Zhou having dinner with a young male celebrity. That night, the two returned to a luxury house in the third district together, suspected of having an extramarital affair."
The middle-aged man watched with great interest and then searched for a lot of news and photos about the female celebrity.
However, at that moment, he suddenly heard the sound of water coming from the toilet under his buttocks.
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment. The next second, he let out a wail, covered his buttocks, stood up, and jumped up and down wildly, roaring angrily.
He desperately wanted to find something inside his body, but the unknown fear kept drilling holes in him, crushing everything in its path.
The middle-aged man looked down in pain and could even see a palm-sized bulge moving inside his stomach.
Blood was flowing continuously between his legs.
Slowly, the middle-aged man collapsed to the ground, his eyes vacant and lifeless.
After an unknown amount of time, a tiny mouse pushed open his mouth and crawled out.
The little mouse surveyed the room and, after confirming that there were no other humans, began to squeak towards the toilet.
Immediately afterwards, countless rats crawled out of the toilet.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and someone shouted, "What are you all howling about in the middle of the night? Can't a person get some sleep?"
The hundreds of rats inside the house stopped what they were doing until the knocking stopped, and then they resumed sharing the food.
The rats have a very clear division of labor. They are piled up in huge numbers, allowing some rats to enter the ventilation ducts while others crawl back into the toilet.
Finally, there was another group that kept carrying the bodies from inside the house back into the dark sewers.
This dreamlike building is about to fall; it will become the rats' third stronghold, and all the humans inside will become food for them.
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early morning.
On the 81st floor of the Dream Tower, a young man woke up to strange noises. He went out of his bedroom but found nothing: "Dad? Mom?"
As is customary, by this time, the mother should already be up and cooking, and the father should be at the table watching the federal morning political news.
However, the living room was empty; there was no one there at all.
The young man was puzzled. He knocked on his parents' bedroom door, but no one answered.
He turned the doorknob, and the door clicked open.
The young man saw two people covered by a blanket on the bed, and his parents seemed to be still asleep.
He intended to quietly leave the room, but strange noises came from under the blanket.
The young man paused for a moment and walked to the bedside. He gently lifted the blanket and found that it was teeming with rats, while his parents were already skeletons, their blood staining the sheets red.
"Ah!!!" the young man screamed hoarsely. The scene was too cruel and directly shattered his mind.
He felt as if he had lost the ability to think, as if a mountain was pressing down on his chest, making it hard for him to breathe.
In an instant, the moment the blanket was pulled back, countless rats pounced on him, quickly engulfing him in a gray tide.
On the holographic news projection, a female host was smiling broadly as she announced, "Seven days from now, the 127th World Boxing Championship will be held in District 4 of City 10, a highly anticipated event for the people of the Federation. It is reported that Afan, the boxing champion from City 18, will face Gu Zheng, the boxing champion from City 10… At that time, the District 4 boxing arena will be packed with 100,000 spectators cheering them on!"
In front of the holographic projection, among the swarm of wriggling gray rats, several dark-skinned rats were silently watching.
After reading the news, they looked at each other, and immediately two of them crawled back into the sewer through the toilet, seemingly to take the news back underground.
On that very day, the parents' meeting suddenly became alarmed and launched a new round of special campaigns to exterminate and prevent rats.
Chapter 670, The Third Personality
Return countdown: 132:00:00.
Forbidden Land No. 002.