Chapter 76: Filling the Cave with Water

"So, what we need most now is to confirm whether it is a mutant rat,"

Jiang Zixuan said helplessly, "If there are a large number of mutant rats, and they are in the base, this is very troublesome. In the previous life, the mutant rats were extremely destructive, and there were even bases that fell because of the rat famine.

Many bases do not want to face mutant rats, but mutant rats can burrow into the ground and their numbers are huge, so they are sometimes difficult to defend against.

Jingchen and the others also realized this problem and fell silent. Jin Mohan lowered his eyes slightly, and his long and slightly curled eyelashes concealed the thoughts in his eyes.

In this way, Jingchen and his companions went to the base more frequently in the past few days.

They took a piece of white paper and drew a map, marking out the traces of where the mutant rats had been.

As the inexplicable earth pits became more and more dense, the base sent people to investigate, but they found nothing.

At this time, people had not yet experienced attacks by mutant animals and did not realize how terrifying this existence was.

After Jingchen and his companions mapped out all the places the mutant rats had been to in the past three days, they put the map on the table, and their hearts sank.

During these three days, no mutant rats were seen except in the caves on the surface.

However, the increasingly densely populated caves still made people feel uneasy.

Seeing this, their hearts instantly sank.

Because of the recorded range depicted on the paper, those densely packed caves covered half of the base!

Jingchen took a breath, "This, this is too much!"

Jing Yun and the others nodded, their eyes full of shock. It was indeed too much.

It is hard to imagine what will happen to this base when one day these mutant rats spread throughout the entire base?

"What did the base say?" Jingwen pushed his glasses and said in a deep voice.

Jingchen spread his hands, with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes, "What can I say? All I can do is investigate, but after several days, I haven't found anything."

Jing Wen shook his head and looked at Jin Mohan, who had been silent the whole time, "Boss, what do you think?"

Jin Mohan raised his eyes, his voice remained calm, "No matter what happens, we can't always be in charge. If the base does nothing when something happens, then there is no need for it to exist."

Jingchen and others nodded in agreement. Indeed.

If the base does nothing, or does not know how to do anything, then there is really no need to maintain this base.

"In the next few days, just keep watching over there and don't worry about anything else."

Jin Mohan said calmly, then leaned back on the sofa with his eyes slightly lowered.

Jiang Zixuan leaned back on the sofa and relaxed, her eyes moving slightly. She felt that what Jin Mohan said might not be that simple.

The matter of mutant rats was not a small matter, and Jin Mohan should know more about it than her, but now he just casually ignored it. This was not something he would do.

The base noticed more and more caves and paid more and more attention to them.

Even people with special abilities were sent to fill the gap.

However, what was unexpected was that the next day after the caves were filled, they returned to normal, as if they had never been filled.

This discovery is terrifying.

Because everyone seemed to have sensed something unusual.

I couldn't help but feel panic in my heart.

The end of the world is filled with too many unknowns, and it seems that life is hanging by a thread.

Jingchen and his companions still run around the base every day.

The scope and location of new caves are recorded every day.

Recently, they made a new discovery.

Because someone heard a strange 'chirp chirp' sound.

It's similar to the sound of a mouse, but with a hoarse tone.

In an instant, they told Jin Mohan and Jiang Zixuan about their discovery.

"You say, are these mutant rats getting closer and closer to us, and are their numbers increasing?"

Jiang Zixuan nodded, "That's indeed true."

"Besides, they are gathering more and more, otherwise we wouldn't have heard the sound of that thing in the past few days."

When several people heard this, they looked at each other in surprise.

Jin Mohan looked at the few people with his dark eyes, and a hint of mockery flashed in his eyes.

"Why? Don't you deal with that group of rats every day? Now that you hear they are getting closer, are you scared?"

Jingchen got goosebumps when he thought of the densely packed group of mice that could only chirp.

"Boss, that's different, right?! And we didn't deal with each other, we were just inspecting, inspecting!"

Jin Mohan didn't care and said lazily: "While you are watching that cave, maybe those mutant rats..."

A hint of doubt appeared in Jingchen's eyes. What?

Jingyun, Jingwen, Jingqu and Jingxing all looked at him.

Jiang Zixuan was also looking at him, maybe something?

Facing those pairs of sparkling eyes, Jin Mohan drank a sip of water calmly, and then said slowly: "Maybe those mutant rats are also down there, staring at you."

These words echoed in the room, and there was an inexplicable sense of weirdness.

Everyone: “…”

Are you serious?

Jingchen looked at his boss's indifferent face and couldn't help but tremble all over.

"Wow! Boss! Stop being so creepy!!"

Jiang Zixuan twitched the corners of her mouth and wanted to laugh for some reason. Was this a joke?

No, it's really possible.

Thinking of this, she glanced at Jingchen and the others with a hint of sympathy in her eyes.

But she knew that these people were not very friendly to mice.

Jing Yun suddenly met her gaze and couldn't help but feel a chill on his back.

Why do I have a bad feeling?

As they laughed and joked, time passed by and it was night in a blink of an eye.

After dinner, Jiang Zixuan asked the tiger cub to show her all the small pits that appeared in the base.

Jiang Zixuan looked at the bumpy holes and couldn't help but frown.

There are more and more of them.

The little tiger cub lay on the bed, with his chin supported by his little paws, "Queen, these look really scary."

She nodded, indeed.

The tiger cub sighed humanely, "And they are a bit big. The mice in the book were very small, but now they are the size of a newborn piglet."

"Queen, look."

After saying that, he waved his hand, a golden light flashed, and a mirror image appeared in front of them.

In the pitch-black night, a small hole suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the flat ground near the residence. And there was not just one, but several, more than a dozen...

They appeared one by one, and the scene was weird. Not long after, there appeared mutant rats that were big in size and covered with hair like hedgehogs.

Jiang Zixuan was already very familiar with this kind of thing. After all, she had encountered a lot of it in her previous life.

As I watched, I couldn't help but sigh.

The little tiger looked at her and blinked his round blue eyes, "My Queen, what's wrong with you?"

"fine."

The little tiger cub, holding his chin with his paws, looked at the caves in the mirror and asked curiously, "My Queen, what do you think will happen if we pour water into these caves?"

Filling the cave with water?

Somehow, Jiang Zixuan suddenly recalled what she had heard when she was a child, about some children liking to pour water into small holes to lure out cicadas.

They are really similar.

"This proposal is not impractical." Jiang Zixuan smiled at it, but did not say that there are too many caves on the ground. If water tanks are really used, the amount of water will be too large, and there is a concern that the soil will become loose and prone to collapse.

"My dear, pay attention to where they come from."

"Okay!"

The man and the tiger were chatting, but they didn't notice that Jin Mohan on the opposite side was seeing the scene through his mental power.

(End of this chapter)