"Hurry! Don't let him run away again!"

"Go around from the other side and outflank him!"

"If you can't catch him alive, just shoot him and his son!"

"But if he dies, what if Dr. Xue investigates? That woman is beautiful, but she is ruthless."

"Are you teaching me how to do things?!"

"Brother Meng, how dare I..."

"Gou Wa, are you stupid? Which is more serious, dead or gone?"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"Okay, Brother Meng"

Whispers came from the darkness not far away. It

sounded like the other party was working together to hunt down someone, and the person being hunted was around the courtyard where Jiang Yan and his family lived.

If Jiang Yan remembered correctly, there was a wide area between each courtyard here.

Before the end of the world, there should have been a lot of flowers, plants and trees planted.

But now after experiencing high temperatures and heavy rains, these flowers, plants and trees have all died and disappeared, and even the soil in the flower beds has been plundered cleanly.

At a glance, it was full of holes.

Listening to the footsteps, those people were getting closer and closer to their courtyard.

The haze was too heavy, the night was too dark, and there was no starlight outside. Jiang Yan looked through the telescope and saw nothing.

She thought quickly in her mind for two seconds, and with a thought, she took out an infrared thermal imager from the space.

This device is much better than an infrared night vision device. It does not emit infrared light to the outside, so it is not easy to be discovered by the other party.

As long as the temperature of the other party is above zero degrees and there is infrared radiation, it can be directly detected.

Soon, a group of crooked and colorful figures appeared in the camera.

After counting, there were about seven or eight people.

They were all fully armed, crouching carefully, and flanking from the left and right from the gate of the courtyard they rented.

Someone should have a gun in his hand and a bullet was fired before. The muzzle was still warm and red.

Others probably had it in their hands, but it was not shown in the picture.

Jiang Yan looked at the center point of the flanking on both sides through the telescope, and her eyes paused.

Outside the courtyard gate, a shadow taller than an adult, with a small head but a huge body, appeared in the telescope.

"This--"

Jiang Yan held her breath.

Even though its shadow was severely distorted, she could quickly tell that it was not a person at all, but some kind of animal.

And it was some kind of animal that stood on two legs, had a big belly and a long tail, like a kangaroo.

But the one in front of her was obviously not a kangaroo.

Kangaroos' legs are not that short.

Without clothes to cover it, the red image reflected from its body was much more than those of the people.

Just thinking about it, the living thing rolled and crawled into the front yard as if it had magnets on its feet.

After a heavy "thump" sound, the living thing quickly disappeared in the blind spot of the imaging device.

"Bang bang bang!" A quick and heavy knock on the door followed.

"Is anyone there? ! ! Open the door quickly! !" A fierce male voice sounded.

"Bang bang bang!" The other party began to kick the door violently.

Jiang Yan turned her head to look at Hua Bao who was hanging on her shoulder and said, "Hua Bao, go down to the yard and see what broke in?"

"Hehehe!" Okay, Mom!

Hua Bao had already jumped to the ground, his head and vines turned into paper, and he went out through the crack of the door with a "whoosh whoosh whoosh".

Then he returned to his original state and hopped downstairs.

"Creaky-"

"Creaky-"

After a slight sound, the doors of the second bedroom and the children's room on the first floor quietly opened one after another.

"Brother Tao."

"Xiao Ye."

It was Sun Jingtao and Ye Qing who came out after hearing the strange noise outside.

"Wife, you stay in the room. Xiao Ye and I will go out to take a look. If there is anything wrong, you go upstairs to find Jiang Yan." Sun Jingtao frowned and said.

Su Dai's eyes were full of worry: "Okay, husband, then you should be careful too.

Remember, be patient and calm. It's only our first day here, try not to conflict with them."

"Okay." Sun Jingtao nodded.

Hua Bao didn't pay much attention to the transparent figure passing in front of the three people.

It imitated the scenes it had seen in those monster movies before. Several vines were like octopus tentacles. It tiptoed past the three people stealthily, and then "rustled" out of the window that Jiang Yan had opened before.

Raising his nose and sniffing the air filled with black haze, Huabao's little eyes, full of wisdom, rolled around.

Looking at the bloody footprints on the ground, he bared his teeth for a second, and then quickly moved towards a corner of the backyard.

Soon, a giant rat, limp in the corner of the wall, with blood on its lips and paws and its body trembling wildly, appeared in his sight.

The rat looked pitiful, and there was also a blood hole the size of a bowl on its belly, oozing blood.

The surrounding fur was wet and stuck together, emitting a strong and pungent stench.

A closer look revealed that its belly was very bulging, like a balloon about to explode, hanging to the side, and fluctuating greatly.

It was most likely a pregnant rat mother who was about to give birth.

Next to its body, there was a freshly dug earth hole, and next to it was a pile of bloodstained miscellaneous soil.

I don't know if it was because the rat mother was shot and dying, so she left the hole halfway through.

In less than a second, the mother mouse, with tears in her eyes, began to spin uncomfortably in place.

It seemed as if it was chasing its tail with its mouth open.

Huabao blinked his eyes and silently stared at its strange behavior.

Soon, a wet, flesh-pink tail appeared under its body.

Soon, it was an equally wet, flesh-pink body, and then a head.

A baby mouse with its eyes closed and covered with amniotic fluid was born.

The baby mouse was not small in size, and one was as big as an ordinary cat.

The mother mouse did not continue to spin, but endured the severe pain from her belly, bent down her fat body, and licked the amniotic fluid off the baby mouse with her tongue.

Soon, it began to spin again.

The second and third baby mice were born successfully.

Every time one was born, the mother mouse would tremble and endure the severe pain to lick one.

Its body was even a little unstable.

But the children in its belly had not been fully born yet, so it could not stop at all.

"Rats?" Jiang Yan, who received Hua Bao's thoughts, was dumbfounded for a second.

But she soon figured it out.

Rats like to live in dark corners and are good at swimming. They can survive in high temperatures and heavy rains, which is expected.

In addition, when mining coal, many mines usually release some rats because they are afraid of encountering toxic gases.

Over time, workers and rats coexist harmoniously in coal mines, which has become a normal situation.