399: Chapter 393 Capture 399: Chapter 393 Capture Underground, in a specially widened dark cavern.
Large and small, two white-haired rats were intertwined and entangled with each other.
The smaller one was about the size of a wild cat, while the larger one was almost indistinguishable from an adult Pekinese.
“Xiunu, I’ve tried every trick in the book to comfort you.
How is it?
Do you feel better now?
Are you still scared?” The Pekinese-sized white rat suddenly trembled a few times.
Its energetic movements had come to an abrupt halt.
Gradually separating from the smaller white rat, it spoke.
From the mouth of a rat came a rough and masculine voice.
A regular person who suddenly witnessed this scene wouldn’t know what to make of it!
“Brother Shan, you risked your life to come to save me.
Otherwise, I really would not have escaped this calamity,” the smaller rat said.
“Just went out to hunt some wild food, gather some spirituality, who would have thought that in such desolate mountains and wilds, we would provoke someone who might be a True Man.”
“Just thinking of that person makes my legs go weak and I start to shiver!”
“You came to comfort me, and I was just beginning to feel a little better, temporarily forgetting that person’s terrifying appearance, and now, so quickly, you’ve given up.
How can my mood improve…”
The smaller white-haired rat was also capable of speaking human language.
While speaking in a coquettish voice, one could also detect an obvious tone of unsatisfied desire.
This white-haired rat was clearly the same one that Chen Hai had previously caught.
However, compared to its Demon Soul, its physical body was indeed very small.
Of course, being referred to as small was only relative to other creatures.
The size of an adult wild cat, amongst the rats, it definitely belonged to the dominant kind.
“When you’re in a bad mood, you pick fights with me, and when you’re in a good mood, you still pick fights with me!”
“Sometimes, you want to do it several times a day.
We’ve been cooped up here for over a hundred years, haven’t you grown tired of it?”
“Xiunu, spare me this once, let your brother rest a bit, okay?” Brother Shan, the white-haired rat, shrank his head and pleaded.
If it had only possessed animal instincts, it would just follow its bodily desires, but having cultivated for so many years, it had become spiritually aware, truly possessing spirituality.
Besides its size, its physical body still looked exactly like a white rat.
But its Demon Soul, like Xiunu’s, had evolved to have a human face.
With such spirituality, it naturally wouldn’t act as cluelessly as ordinary wild animals.
Even the activity of fighting with Xiunu, having done it so many times, he had started to find it somewhat tedious.
“No way, as soon as I rest, I start thinking about that person again!”
“I can almost see that person driving us out from underground.”
“Then, bit by bit, with skin and bones, he devours us completely…”
Xiunu, having thought of some terrifying scene, started to shake uncontrollably while speaking.
“Xiunu, you’re overthinking it.
Our lair is underneath the ground.”
“Unless that person understands Earth Escape, no matter how strong they are, they simply can’t do anything to us.”
“Hiding in this lair for ten days or half a month, as long as we don’t show ourselves, even if he waits outside, how many days can he stay?”
“Besides, we have been operating in this area for over a hundred years.”
“The underground is crisscrossed with passages, and rat paths are everywhere, so any slight disturbance and we can just dive into a rat path.”
“Apart from watching helplessly, what can he do to us?”
Lying flat on the ground, Brother Shan simply refused to get up.
Amidst laughs, he even picked up a bundle of rice straw, which still had plenty of grains on it, and started to gnaw voraciously.
Even if it was a demon, having finished the manual labor, it still needed to replenish itself.
Around its nest, apart from a fish pond, the area was primarily rice fields.
Every year during autumn harvest, it was also the time for their bounteous harvest.
After toiling for several nights, the pile of rice and straw in their nest was enough to let them feast for several months.
“He’s coming, he’s controlling flames, he’s really coming to capture me…”
Bai, who was about to say something, suddenly looked as if she had seen something utterly terrifying, her rat face distorted with extreme fear.
“What nonsense…” Brother Shan cursed angrily.
But the next moment, he also looked as if he had seen a ghost, his face completely changing color.
Flames started to appear out of nowhere under his eyelids, inside their very nest.
In less than an instant, this underground cavern had transformed into a sea of fire.
“Devil, come out and meet your death…” At the same time, a thunderous roar echoed in the ears of Brother Shan and Bai.
Although the sea of flames had enveloped the cavern, it had not fully exterminated the two of them!
In the midst of the roaring flames, there was a path akin to a sheep’s intestine, relative to them, which the flames had not covered, leading out of the nest.
Brother Shan and Bai, the two white-furred rat demons, could either choose to be burned to death where they stood,
or they had no choice but to flee along the deliberately left narrow path.
At the foot of the outside mountain, there was a hole the size of a sea bowl, half-covered by weeds, where Chen Hai stood with his hands behind his back, quietly waiting.
At the peak of his Flame Power, he could control all flames within a two to three-hundred-meter radius.
That time, when he used visualization to glimpse at that great existence, he was gravely wounded, directly affecting the core of his being.
With his core damaged, the area of flame he could control had been reduced by ninety percent, from two to three hundred meters down to just twenty to thirty meters.
After resting and recuperating for these one or two months, along with the nourishment from the pure Soul Power he had absorbed from Bai, the white rat demon,
his body had certainly improved significantly compared to right after his injury.
Now, his range of flame control had recovered from twenty to thirty meters back to seventy to eighty meters.
The nest of Brother Shan and Bai was constructed seven to eight meters beneath the surface.
Though Chen Hai wasn’t standing directly above their nest, the straight-line distance was at most only twenty meters.
Such a short distance, if Chen Hai intended it, within minutes, he could reduce the two white-furred rat demons in the nest to ashes.
That he had not immediately burned the two demons to death was indeed a deliberate act of restraint by Chen Hai.
Right in front of him at the exit of the rat hole,
a cage composed purely of flames had completely sealed the entrance.
Panicking as if really fleeing for their lives, Brother Shan and Bai, emerged from the hole and plunged headfirst into the cage of flames Chen Hai had specially prepared for them.
“To think there are actually both a male and female Rat Demon?
No wonder when I caught one, the other did everything possible to create an opportunity for it to escape.”
With a thought, Chen Hai completely sealed the cage of flames.
Looking disdainfully at the two white-furred rats scurrying within, his gaze fell on Bai and he snorted softly, demanding, “Was it you, the Rat Demon whose Demon Soul fell into my hands before?”
“I had warned you then, don’t play tricks with me, otherwise, you would die a very miserable death, right?”
“Finally, I’ll give you one chance, where is it?”
“Hand over that thing you mentioned, and I can grant you a swift death.”
The thing he mentioned was naturally the unknown animal skin Bai had talked about.
Whether this thing truly existed or not, he wasn’t entirely sure!
Having not burned the two white-furred rats to death in their burrow but instead driving them into this cage of flames,
Chen Hai’s intention was to clarify the matter of this animal skin once and for all!