Chapter 719: Abnormal Corpse

The Rat King's head that he had collected into the static space did not stop dissipating just because it was in static time and space. Its energy was still slowly radiating around. Taotao took a look at it and obviously liked it very much.

"You want it?" Lu Weiyi asked him.

Taotao nodded and shook her head, "I like it very much, but I am also scared."

Lu Weiyi thought that he might have sensed danger instinctively. After all, he didn't fully understand Taotao's condition, so he didn't dare to act rashly, especially since Taotao was in an injured state now.

"Then don't do that. Wait until father figures it out, and then I'll hunt it for you later," Lu Weiyi said very generously.

Taotao nodded vigorously, her eyes full of admiration, and clenched her fist into a cheering gesture, "Dad is the best."

The baby's cheeks bounced as he spoke, which was so adorable that Lu Weiyi couldn't help but move forward to rub them and even wanted to take a bite.

"Dad, please study this thing and find out what it is." Lu Weiyi placed Taotao on his chest and simply tied her up with a small green branch, making her into a baby-carrying device.

He took the gas stove from the space, turned on the fire and boiled half a pot of hot water, then turned to cut the mutant rat's head.

Even after its death, the mutant rat king's body was still strong. Lu Weiyi used simple mental power to split it, but found that it could only cause some wounds, causing the energy to dissipate faster. He could only try to use the skill he had just learned to use energy as a weapon, and only then did he easily split it into a small half.

The short hair on the Rat King's head had already scattered so much that its original appearance could no longer be seen. Lu Weiyi had no doubt that if this thing continued like this, it might eventually become a gradually shrinking ball of energy.

"Let's see if there will be any meat after it's cooked," Lu Weiyi said as he lifted the lid of the pot and threw it in and covered it with the lid.

Through the transparent lid, one could only see the hot steam. The little fist inside had fallen into the water, and one could not tell whether it was still there or not. Lu Weiyi also did not know when he could open it, so he could only limit it to a quarter of an hour.

When the time came, he opened the lid of the pot neatly. The rising gas seemed to be filled with energy. Lu Weiyi did not smell any meat. It was as if its essence had changed from the moment the Rat King died.

After searching for a while with the chopsticks, he finally found a stone that had shrunk to the size of a walnut at the bottom of the pot. It was irregular in shape and felt like some kind of crystal. It exuded energy and was still dissipating continuously.

Lu Weiyi picked it up and took a look, but he didn't understand what it was, but...

He saw the branches of the peach tree, which seldom moved actively, quietly reaching out towards the water in the pot. The uncontrolled branches rushed forward and caused the hot water to splash everywhere. Lu Weiyi reached out to shield Taotao, but some of the water still spilled onto the child's arm.

"Taotao, does it hurt? Are you burned?" Lu Weiyi's face changed instantly when he saw the water droplets appearing on the child's arm.

Just because he's not very good at taking care of people doesn't mean he doesn't know what this means to the children.

Thinking of the burned children with their skin peeling off, Lu Weiyi's face became unusually gloomy. However, Taotao looked at the water drops on her arm with a confused look on her face, and even touched them with her fingers, which looked very amusing.

"Dad, it doesn't hurt, Taotao has some porridge." Taotao evenly wiped the water droplets on her arm with her little hand, and immediately looked towards the direction of the pot, looking like she wanted more.

At this time, Lu Weiyi also felt that the water on his arm did not seem to be hot at all. He looked at the pot and was about to study the situation, but he saw that the branches seemed to be afraid of being snatched away. The dense branches wrapped the pot and instantly returned to the roots of the peach tree and fell down.

If he hadn't known that the water wasn't hot to the touch, he would have suspected that the tree was going to commit suicide just by the white mist.

The green trees seemed to be moisturized, and the leaves became noticeably greener, as if every leaf was shining after being washed by heavy rain.

Seeing that Little Green Branch was trying to sneakily take away the remaining energy stones, Lu Weiyi knew that this was a good thing even if he didn't understand.

Seeing that it seemed to be good for it, Lu Weiyi felt it was a pity to let it dissipate like this, so he threw the rest to it directly. The leaves of the whole tree suddenly began to tremble excitedly.

Without figuring out the reason, Lu Weiyi decided to go and see the situation of the Xinghai base outside.

Such a large group will not dissipate just because of the death of the Rat King. On the contrary, they may quickly elect a new Rat King, and this time when they are leaderless is the best time to defeat them.

Worried about Taotao staying with this crazy peach tree, Lu Weiyi directly carried the child out.

As night fell, the surroundings became pitch black. The SSS-level pressure dissipated, and the rustling sounds of mutant animals began to appear around again.

Taotao didn't know whether she was fearless or because she was brave and skilled, but she didn't feel anything strange around her at all. Even though her voice was unclear, she continued to talk to Lu Weiyi with great interest.

When they returned to the Xinghai Base, it had completely become a battlefield between humans and animals. The mutant rat group was indeed affected by the death of the Rat King, but their wisdom had also increased after the upgrade, and now they are still united against the outside world.

Although some mutant mice do not have as diverse control over their superpowers as humans, their single research is also very thorough, especially as the thinking of animals and humans is completely different, which has caused a group of high-level mutants to suffer a lot.

Lu Weiyi sat on a distant treetop holding Taotao, listening to the humans' angry curses and the mice's chirping, with no intention of going up to help.

When Zhao Gang and his team stood in the center of Xinghai Base after suffering heavy losses, there was not even a single A-level mutant rat left in the entire city. The remaining minions either hid or left, and the ground was covered with dense rat corpses.

The mutant rats' nest underground had been completely turned over, and the hollowed-out areas had been turned up by earth-type mutants, completely destroying it.

The place where signs of human life could still be seen has now been completely reduced to ruins, with only the towering city walls proving that there were traces of human struggles here.

Of the more than 200 people who followed, only 174 were left. Many of the survivors had varying degrees of injuries, and some even had half of their bodies eaten clean.

They collapsed into a heap, no longer feeling the initial relief of being alive. At this moment, they finally understood why Lu Weiyi said that the dead are blessed.

They survived, but they had to face this situation every day.

"Kill me!" A man in the crowd whose legs had been eaten suddenly covered his face and cried bitterly. He watched the people next to him being drowned in the wave of rats and turning into a pile of bones with screams, and he himself experienced the pain firsthand.

Those screams coming from other people's mouths used to be a source of pleasure for them, but only when they themselves heard the screams, they knew what horror was.

He didn't feel like he was wrong, he just felt it was too difficult.

In this world, no matter what choice you make, it’s wrong.

Voices of self-abandonment were heard one after another around us. No one tried to persuade or comfort us. There was only a common numbness.

Zhao Gang tore off a piece of cloth from the corner of his clothes, opened his mouth and prepared to use his teeth to bandage his hand where several fingers were missing.

"It's not disgusting at all," Wang Bing's voice sounded, and he took the bandage from his hand that had three fingers missing and simply bandaged it.

His hands were still shaking, and after a while he asked softly, "Will there be treatment?"

"I heard that the healing psychic in Yueban Bay is the strongest, with the ability to heal dead people with flesh and bones..." Hua Rui also looked over. There were deep wounds visible to the bone on her pretty face, and one of her cheeks had been bitten, with a large piece torn off. There was no trace of the calm and elegance of the strongest psychic in Panshui Base.

When the others heard her words, they also looked over, hoping to get some information from Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang didn't say anything, but just looked at Lu Weiyi who was holding a child and walking calmly through the group of dead rats not far away.

"Have all the crystal cores been collected?" Lu Weiyi asked.

"I'll go right away." Zhao Gang's supernatural powers had been used up. He couldn't support himself without legs, so he floated over the pile of corpses. He used his newly bandaged hands to support his body and went to dig out the crystal core.

"Get ready to go back." Lu Weiyi didn't take any action. He controlled the little green branch to store all the dead mice into the space, and prepared to go back and let the people in the team do it.

"Okay." Zhao Gang accepted everything calmly, but when he turned around and saw these people with missing limbs, he still asked a question on their behalf.

"Of course. The healing psychics in Yueban Bay have fixed consultation hours every week, just like doctors. You can make an appointment yourself."

The crowd immediately became happy, and someone suddenly asked, "Will you need a lot of crystal cores?"

"..."Lu Weiyi.

He glanced at the injuries on the group of people and said, "There will be a treatment plan unique to you."

This gave them some hope, but this desperate fight still made some people want to retreat. With people running away in front, no one tried to test them again. Only when the team left, someone stood on the city wall.

Lu Weiyi turned around and looked at this scene without saying a word of persuasion - his attitude towards these people has always been that it doesn't matter whether they are there or not.

Not far away, one could hear the cry of a man in collapse coming from the city wall. He complained that his supernatural powers were too weak, cursed the injustice of the world, and finally stood on the edge of the city wall to pray.

"Please let me be born into a good family in my next life."

Hearing this, Lu Weiyi, who had originally had no expression on his face, suddenly laughed.

"Father, what are you laughing at? Taotao also wants to explore." Taotao, with her eyes covered, pulled his hand and asked curiously.

"It's funny that a man who has killed countless people has the nerve to ask for his next life... maybe he also prayed like this when he died in his previous life."

Just the mottled and chaotic energy on the other party made Lu Weiyi feel dirty even collecting the body.

He turned around and continued to move towards the mountain god base as if nothing had happened.

The people following behind watched the person who fell to the ground being quickly eaten by scattered little mice, and then they caught up with the pace of moving forward again.

Along the way, they were no longer wary of each other and supported each other. They didn't look like a group of S-level psychics at all, but more like a group of defeated soldiers. Every day they survived was a torture to the past.