Chapter 40: Frozen Goods Warehouse

Ye Bai has walked the world for so many years (past life + present life combined), and he has never seen such an absurd thing.

The Thousand-Change Silkworm can not only devour crystal cores to learn skills, but it can also replace them with higher-tier versions of the same skill.

The Steelization skill allows the entire body to become as hard as steel, greatly increasing one's own defensive capabilities; the Hardening skill allows the entire body to become hard, increasing one's own defensive capabilities.

The Steelization skill can be considered an advanced version of the Hardening skill.

If Ye Bai did not have the Insight Eye, he would have been unable to discover this subtle anomaly at all, and naturally, he would not have noticed the special nature of the Thousand-Change Silkworm.

If all skills could be replaced like this, then the Thousand-Change Silkworm would be absolutely incredible.

Ye Bai's heart was thumping wildly, but the prerequisite for this is that the Thousand-Change Silkworm itself must possess many skills.

"Thousand-Change Silkworm, use Steelization skill, then use Roll."

A metallic luster spread over the Thousand-Change Silkworm's body, and when it curled up to use the Roll skill, the asphalt road was pressed by the Thousand-Change Silkworm until spiderweb-like cracks appeared.

It slammed heavily into an iron fence; the iron fence sank deeply, deformed by the Thousand-Change Silkworm's impact.

"After using the Steelization skill, the Thousand-Change Silkworm's defense has increased several times over, and its body weight has also increased several times over; the impact force of using the Roll skill has increased in power by a lot."

Ye Bai was quite satisfied with this.

At this moment, a manhole cover was popped into the air with a bang, and many Burrowing Rats crawled out from the sewer.

"That's strange, I clearly already sent an email to the Pet Beast Association; logically speaking, the Burrowing Rats should have been brought under control."

"Why are there still so many Burrowing Rats?"

Ye Bai was somewhat puzzled.

The Jiaying City large-scale Lengdong Cangku is located near the largest pier in Jiaying City.

The Lengdong Cangku stores a large amount of frozen meat, enough to supply all the citizens of Jiaying City with meat for a month.

A cargo ship chugged and docked beside the pier.

Many people unloaded the frozen meat from the cargo ship.

The pier instantly became very busy.

"Hurry up, we must take advantage of the time Jiaying City is under martial law to get our smuggled frozen goods into storage."

A socialite wearing sunglasses on his head and a gold necklace around his neck shouted loudly at everyone.

"Long Ge, I heard that a Beast Tide has appeared here; our business won't be affected, will it?"

A bald man said to the socialite Long Ge.

He was somewhat worried about the impact of the Beast Tide on Jiaying City.

Long Ge, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, stared fixedly at his underling: "The timid starve to death, the bold are stuffed to death."

"We cannot suspend our business just because a Beast Tide has occurred."

"What's more, according to information from my insider, the Beast Tide has already been brought under control."

"That is why we can take this opportunity to transport our hundreds of tons of uninspected frozen goods from abroad."

"We will use Jiaying City as a hub to distribute the frozen goods to other cities; as long as this batch of frozen goods is completely digested, we can earn at least tens of millions of Alliance Coins this time."

"What is there to fear from a Beast Tide? What we fear most is having no business to do."

"I even wish for a Beast Tide every day."

Long Ge laughed loudly, and just at this moment, screams came from the cargo ship.

"What is this, get away!"

"Help, someone help, help!"

"It's Burrowing Rats, so many Burrowing Rats!!!"

Bang, bang, bang.

A few gunshots rang out, and then it returned to silence.

Long Ge gave a look to his group of subordinates, signaling them to go see what the situation was.

The subordinates swallowed hard, grabbed the pistols hanging at their waists, and walked step by step toward the cargo ship.

As soon as these people stepped onto the ship, they saw many Burrowing Rats with red eyes gnawing on the corpses of the crew members on the cargo ship.

They used their sharp teeth to gnaw on flesh and blood, making a chewing sound that made one's hair stand on end.

Blood energy radiated from these Burrowing Rats, forming a corrosive Blood Mist.

Long Ge's subordinates were instantly horrified, and just as they wanted to leave, they were discovered by this group of Burrowing Rats.

Screams rang out abruptly, and then there was no more sound on the ship.

Long Ge heard the screams, but in the end, he was still reluctant to part with a ship full of cargo.

So he gathered his courage, grabbed an AK47, and rushed onto the ship.

"Isn't it just a group of Burrowing Rats?"

"I don't believe they can withstand bullets!"

As soon as he reached the deck, Long Ge immediately regretted it.

Looking around, dense swarms of Burrowing Rats had appeared on this cargo ship.

They were using their sharp teeth to gnaw on the entire cargo ship.

The containers on the ship had all been bitten with several holes, and the Burrowing Rats were pulling a lot of frozen meat out of the containers and were wantonly gnawing on it.

Many white bones wearing crew uniforms appeared on the ground.

These white bones were scattered all over the floor.

When the Burrowing Rats sensed the scent of living people, they surged over like a tide with red eyes.

Long Ge grabbed the AK47 and fired wildly.

Bullets landed on the Burrowing Rats, and many Burrowing Rats were hit and fell, but more Burrowing Rats surged up.

They seemed not to fear death, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws as they pounced toward Long Ge.

"Don't come over, don't come over, help!"

A Burrowing Mouse jumped onto the back of Long Ge's hand and bit down hard on the hand he was using to hold his gun.

Long Ge felt a heart-piercing pain, and the gun in his hand was flung away.

Just as Long Ge tried to pick up the gun from the ground, the Burrowing Mice surrounded him completely.

"Ahhh!"

Long Ge soon fell silent; the sound of chewing came from the scene, and before long, the Burrowing Mice scattered with a roar, leaving behind a skeleton picked clean.

Even the large gold chain on the skeleton had been completely devoured by the Burrowing Mice.

The skull stared blankly at the sky covered in dark clouds.

A patrol drone in Jiaying City soon discovered this anomaly and reported it to the Pet Beast Guild of Jiaying City.

Bang.

Wang Jinyin slammed his hand heavily onto the table; he was extremely angry at this moment.

He had only managed to stop this Beast Tide with great difficulty by following the hints in the email, yet despite all his precautions, some reckless people had actually taken advantage of the gap to smuggle frozen goods.

The Beast Tide, which had originally been brought under control, now showed signs of a resurgence.

"It's bad, Chairman! According to our investigation, this ship contains a total of several hundred tons of 'zombie meat.' Once the Burrowing Mice obtain a large amount of flesh and blood, they will grow rapidly and quickly advance into Tier 2 Blood-Rage Mice."

"The large Lengdong Cangku near the wharf stores a massive amount of frozen goods; if the Burrowing Mice discover it, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"The entire Jiaying City will face a catastrophe."

"We must send people to stop them immediately."

The secretary's face turned pale in an instant; she realized the gravity of the situation.

I clearly didn't write the protagonist as a simp~

(End of this chapter)