Chapter 88: Passing Rat Pack

The sound of the rain and the river was somewhat loud, but Liu Mu still heard some rustling sounds within it; something had come into the town.

Liu Mu whistled toward the distance and heard a few dog barks from far away.

"After he wakes up, you all return to your dwelling; do not run around before dawn."

Leaving behind this sentence, Liu Mu left the flashlight for illumination and strode into the night curtain herself.

At this moment, at the other end of the town.

Niu Boyi's massive body was crashing about between the buildings, scaring a team of people who were "night running" until they trembled.

But what made them even more afraid was the thing fighting with Niu Boyi; this thing was something they had even seen before.

Fat mountain rats, each over a meter in size, were weaving between the buildings, constantly attempting to pounce toward the place where the few were hiding.

Heaven knows, they were clearly running just fine... although they were stepping heavily and unevenly, and from time to time had to detour around collapsed buildings and cracks in the ground, it was not very safe.

But, it was still considered calm.

Yet, just as they were chatting about being able to learn real skills from Liu Mu and being able to walk sideways in the apocalypse like knights in the future, a scream suddenly came from the end of the team.

One of the teammates was pounced on by a short, dark shadow; Cai Zhenlong turned on the flashlight extremely quickly, only to see a pitch-black, wet thing fighting with the teammate, and blood was seen very soon.

Several people wanted to go help, but before they could get over there, dense sounds rang out all around, and pairs of eyes glowing with green light appeared.

The eyes were as dense as the rustling, and the group immediately crowded into one spot; in their fright, Cai Zhenlong still picked up a brick and smashed it fiercely at the mountain rat that was biting their companion.

The mountain rat felt the pain and let out a threatening squeak; not only did it not run away, but it instead bit down on that person's neck.

Seeing that the companion was already beyond saving, Cai Zhenlong immediately shouted to the remaining people, "Quick, find weapons, gather together!"

The remaining six people, under Cai Zhenlong's command, immediately stood back-to-back in a circle, all holding two or three bricks in their hands, confronting the rat pack.

But even though these few had not experienced the apocalypse, they all felt they were doomed; the disparity in numbers was vast, and furthermore, these mountain rats were all at least a meter long—they were actually all mutated.

Someone was in despair and said with a sobbing voice, "What do we do? We aren't going to die here, are we?"

"We won't!" Cai Zhenlong was also anxious inside, but his tone was firm, "Boss Liu and the others will definitely discover the commotion here; isn't that big dog patrolling nearby? Once these beasts come in, it will definitely be able to discover them very quickly."

"Really? Then why hasn't it come yet?"

Niu Boyi did indeed patrol at night, but they all knew that the interval between patrols was at least four hours; it also slept at around the same time as them.

Thinking of this point, the faces of the few immediately lost their color, and they gripped the bricks in their hands tightly, knowing that today was looking grim.

"Screw it, we're going to die anyway, let's fight!"

Fear makes people afraid, but it also makes some people's courage burst forth; they raised their hands and smashed the bricks in their hands out fiercely.

Cai Zhenlong did not have time to stop that person, and the rat pack launched an attack.

Seeming to have received a unified command, they pounced toward the few in a crushing manner.

It was also at this moment that a dog bark, almost like a wolf howl, rang out; the volume was so great it almost stunned people into unconsciousness.

This sound also caused the mountain rats, whose hearing was sensitive after mutation, to suffer heavy damage; they stopped their attacks one after another and lay on the ground rolling.

Cai Zhenlong almost wanted to jam his fingers from his ear canals into his brain, but he understood what had happened at the first moment and opened his eyes, which were surging with blood, to look.

Those rolling mountain rats indeed had fresh blood flowing from their ears, and at the same time, he saw that huge figure coming rapidly from afar, jumping and pouncing like a hungry wolf breaking into a flock of sheep.

In all the time Liu Mu and the others had been in the town, this was the first time Cai Zhenlong felt intimacy and a full sense of security from this big dog.

Just as he was feeling moved himself, Niu Boyi backed over, gave him a kick directly with its hind leg, and at the same time let out two low "woof-woof" sounds.

If he could understand dog language, he would know that Niu Boyi was scolding them for being stupid.

But he did not understand; having been kicked once, though not heavily, Cai Zhenlong immediately understood Niu Boyi's intention, "Everyone hide quickly, don't cause trouble for Brother Dog!"

Under his prompt, they gathered into one spot again, wanting to hide, but discovered that the mountain rats, who had been shaken into a daze by the dog bark, had all climbed up by this time and were attempting to attack them even more viciously.

The number was too large; they had nowhere to hide at all. Once they left Niu Boyi's protection range, they would definitely be torn apart and eaten into the mountain rats' stomachs immediately.

The few fled in a panic, wanting to keep up with Niu Boyi, but Brother Dog could not look after them at all while fighting.

Consequently, they had to pick up weapons and fight wits and courage with the mountain rats again.

Even with Niu Boyi dealing with the majority of the mountain rats, they still saw blood very quickly, and what followed was the scene Liu Mu saw from afar of them hiding.

Liu Mu's figure rushed into the rat pack like a high-speed train in the rain curtain; the few who were looking for a place to hide saw a flash of white light appearing and disappearing in the rat pack, like stars in the dark night, and then one mountain rat after another let out death screams.

One person and one dog were left and right, struggling to cope, yet they were as tacit as a mobile meat grinder; amidst the flying flesh and blood, the mountain rat corpses kept increasing.

Cai Zhenlong clutched his arm, which had been scratched with a few gashes, and it took him a long time to let out an exclamation, "With this speed, they're blocking people and killing people, blocking beasts and killing beasts, right?"

The few people beside him nodded and made sounds of swallowing saliva.

A quarter of an hour later, the rat pack retreated, leaving a ground full of corpses at the scene.

Niu Boyi, who hadn't eaten fresh meat for a long time, directly gorged itself; just as they thought Liu Mu was going to say something, the few saw this female Boss directly tear off a large leg of a mountain rat, peel off the fur with a knife, and gnaw into it.

When she tore open a large piece of meat in one bite, quite a bit of blood also splashed out.

"Brother Long, this..."

They wanted to vomit, really!

Cai Zhenlong forced himself to stay calm, "Be quiet, their physical exertion is too great, they need to replenish; it is also... normal."

These words could only fool ghosts; after all, the few could hear the fear in his voice.

Liu Mu ate a few mouthfuls before looking at the few, her face more than half smeared with blood, "Go call people to come and carry the meat; the smell of blood is too heavy, it will attract more Mutated Animals."

Actually, it wasn't just Mutated Animals; she had already heard the sound of vines rubbing against each other dozens of meters away.

That was the "Ghost Burning Bird" she had planted over these two days.

This kind of Mutated Plant possessed almost the same perception as Mutated Animals. Fortunately, it was still in a seedling state; if it were in a mature state, the roots and vines would likely have already grown over.

Of course, if it were in a mature state, those mountain rats wouldn't have been able to invade the town so easily.

However, the purpose of planting them was still to deal with the Sky Viper, so it didn't matter if they didn't play a role at this time.

Niu Boyi ate over a dozen mountain rats in one breath before Liu Mu stopped it from continuing, "You'll have a stomachache in a while, wait until they are boiled cooked before talking."

The people of Yang Family Town had a tradition of eating mountain rats, or rather, the entire mountainous area of Jiang Province had this habit; after all, just over twenty years ago, this was also a poor place—except for those with mines.

When going to call people, Cai Zhenlong played a trick, saying it was to let everyone go and carry the meat.

Upon hearing there was meat to eat, the people who had been woken up were all beaming with joy; one had to know that the portion of meat distributed to each person that evening hadn't been much, but it had hooked their cravings for meat, making them chase after meat even in their dreams at night.

In the second half of the night, everyone was busy for quite a while skinning, cleaning, and processing the remaining scraps, and when they finally totted it up, there were actually over ninety Mountain Rats in total.

Unlike the others who only cared about the meat, Cai Zhenlong and the others felt even more admiration for Liu Mu and Niu Boyi upon hearing this number.