"There are rats, so many rats."
Suddenly someone shouted.
Everyone looked towards the west side of the street, and a dense swarm of rats was rushing towards them, making one's scalp tingle.
"Run!"
"Get into the supermarket and close the doors."
People rushed into the supermarket.
Fei Biao reached out to pull An Qian, intending to drag her into the supermarket first.
Just then, a rumbling sound came from the east side of the street.
A motorcycle was charging straight ahead like a wild horse that had broken loose.
Before Fei Biao could react, it hit him from behind, sending him flying four or five meters into the supermarket.
"Get on quickly."
Qin Shilei stopped his motorcycle with a stylish drift beside An Qian and called out.
"And Zhang Yong."
An Qian, before getting on, did not forget to remind Qin Shilei not to leave Zhang Yong behind.
"Can you ride a motorcycle? Follow us."
Qin Shilei waved his hand, tossing aside a motorcycle. With a twist of the throttle, Lei Long turned into a silver lightning bolt and sped back the way they came.
Behind him, Zhang Yong, just before the rats arrived, also started his motorcycle and pursued.
The speeding motorcycles vanished to the easternmost end of Donglin Town.
"Brother Qin, the rats behind us don't seem to be chasing anymore," Zhang Xiaoli reminded him.
Hearing this, Qin Shilei stopped Lei Long in front of a three-story residential house by the roadside.
After stopping, An Qian said with sincere gratitude, "Qin Shilei, thank you for saving me just now."
Qin Shilei smiled, saying it was just to repay her kindness for giving him the sword.
At this moment, Zhang Yong also stopped his motorcycle, looking back behind him in panic. "Why did we stop? Those rats will be here soon."
Qin Shilei said calmly, "The wilderness at night is no safer than facing those rats. Let's assess the situation before making any plans."
Carefully opening the door and killing two zombies inside the building, the three of them arrived on the rooftop.
Facing the last rays of the setting sun, Zhang Xiaoli quickly launched the drone and flew it towards Huimin Supermarket.
Through the screen, they could see that the streets surrounding the supermarket were densely packed with rats.
An Qian's scalp tingled. "There must be thousands of rats here."
Zhang Xiaoli, who had just overcome her psychological trauma, also felt her hands tremble.
Zhang Yong suggested again, "Let's just run. Get on the motorcycles and leave this place far behind."
Qin Shilei suddenly pointed to the west corner of the screen. "Fly over and take a look. It seems to be a few cats."
As the drone flew over, everyone clearly saw that they were indeed a few cats.
These cats were all very large, and one black cat was as big as a village dog.
Led by the black cat, the cats ran towards the supermarket.
Due to their innate bloodline suppression, the rats scattered in all directions as the black cat walked by.
The black cat walked to the supermarket entrance, then turned and roared at the rats.
As if trying to drive them away.
The surrounding rats turned and fled into the distance.
However, after a brief disturbance, the rats overcame their fear of cats and swarmed forward.
Qin Shilei said to Zhang Xiaoli, "There must be a rat king commanding them. Xiaoli, see if you can find it."
Not long after, Zhang Xiaoli found a huge rat on the rooftop of a three-story building opposite the supermarket.
This rat was larger than an average cat, and it was perched on the railing, gazing towards the supermarket.
Upon hearing the drone, it squeaked a few times, turned, and vanished without a trace.
An Qian exclaimed in surprise, "The rat king is really fast."
Through the screen, only a gray blur could be seen flashing by before the rat king completely disappeared.
The drone circled the three-story building once but could not find the rat king again.
Zhang Xiaoli then controlled the drone to fly back towards the supermarket.
She discovered a ball of rats rolling, and soon it stopped moving.
As the rats dispersed, they revealed a mangled black cat within.
Zhang Xiaoli sighed, "Judging by the speed at which this black cat appeared, it had clearly evolved, yet it ended up in the mouths of a pack of rats."
Qin Shilei said calmly, "These rats not only have an overwhelming numerical advantage, but under the command of the rat king, they fear no death. It's normal for them to defeat a few cats."
After killing the cats, the swarm of rats tore them into pieces and dragged them westward.
Among the corpses being gnawed by the rats were also a few human bodies.
As Zhang Xiaoli flew the drone back, she asked, "Why didn't the rats continue to attack the supermarket?"
Qin Shilei guessed, "Perhaps the rat king felt it had harvested enough food."
"An Qian, let's go. We'll take a detour through this town."
Zhang Yong was terrified and turned to An Qian.
An Qian looked at the completely dark sky around them and felt a sense of unease. "Let's wait until tomorrow morning to leave."
"Roar!" "Roar!" "Roar!"
Just then, from the darkness outside the town, roars erupted one after another.
Putting away the drone, the four of them went downstairs from the rooftop with flashlights.
"Squeak."
A rat darted past their feet.
"Could this rat be a scout for the rat horde?" Zhang Yong walked to the window and looked out but could see nothing.
Qin Shilei took out a battery-powered desk lamp and placed it on the coffee table in the living room.
The living room was instantly illuminated.
"Squeak." The same rat reappeared from the corner of the wall.
An arrow shot out rapidly, accurately hitting the rat's body.
The rat was not dead yet, squeaking in pain.
A response also came from outside the house.
Qin Shilei's heart sank with a bad premonition. "Could this rat be calling for reinforcements?"
An Qian quickly stepped forward and cut off the rat's head with her sword, then chopped its head open, but found no crystal core.
Although this rat had evolved, it had not reached the stage where it could form a crystal core.
Not long after, rustling sounds came from outside.
Zhang Yong's mind involuntarily recalled the scene in the supermarket earlier. Thinking that the rats would flood this house like a tide, he panicked.
He turned and blamed Qin Shilei, "Why did you shoot that rat? What if you attract the whole horde?"
"Idiot."
Qin Shilei glanced at him with contempt. "Didn't you say it was a scout? If I didn't kill it, wouldn't it go back to report?"
"You..." Zhang Yong was speechless.
The noise outside grew louder. There were likely dozens of rats outside the house.
Zhang Yong paced back and forth in the room, muttering, "Damn archery. To miss the rat's head with a single shot."
Zhang Xiaoli could not stand this and retorted, "Shut up. Brother Qin is a sharpshooter who never misses. You wouldn't be able to hit that rat even with ten arrows."
An Qian also chided, "It's this moment, Zhang Yong, can you say less?"
Zhang Yong remained unconvinced, "We should have run further just now and gotten away from this town."
Qin Shilei glanced at him and said coldly, "No one is stopping you. That motorcycle is yours too. You can leave immediately."
Zhang Yong stood up and grabbed An Qian, saying angrily, "An Qian, let's go."
An Qian glared at Zhang Yong, displeased. "Zhang Yong, can you be quiet?"
"Ah."
Just then, An Qian pointed to the master bedroom and shouted, "The rats are coming in."
Qin Shilei turned to look and saw a continuous stream of rats emerging from the bathroom of the master bedroom.