'They're living the pinnacle of rat life!'

As the sensory area extended forward, Huang Zhao observed that even the largest mutated rat was no bigger than a large dog.

Immediately, he felt reassured; it was just a level-two mutated beast.

There were about two hundred rats in the surrounding area, and in the corner of the granary, there were several times more mutated rat pups than adult rats.

If given more time, the rat population would certainly grow exponentially.

At that time, the food in the granary will be consumed at an extremely rapid pace.

Once the food in the granary is depleted, the hungry rats will spread to the surrounding area, eventually threatening human survivors.

Huang Zhao explained the situation underground in the granary to Qin Yi through their mental connection and decided to exterminate the entire rat swarm, leaving no one alive!

Huang Zhao made a loud noise outside the granary, which immediately alerted the mutated rat swarm underground.

Immediately, more than fifty mutated rats rushed out of the underground granary and pounced on the two two-legged creatures that they had easily dealt with in the granary.

Unfortunately, this time they ran into a brick wall.

Huang Zhao and Qin Yi weren't stupid zombies who would just wait to be attacked by a swarm of rats.

Both of them were ready and waiting for the mutated rat to approach, showing no fear whatsoever at the mutated rat, which was the size of a house cat, pouncing on them.

When they first encountered the mutated rats, Huang Zhao was on a heavy truck, and Chen Run, who had only level one strength, was able to easily defeat them.

Huang Zhao and Qin Yi have now both broken through to level three, so there are more than fifty rats rushing in.

They looked menacing, but in reality, they posed no threat to the two of them at all.

Next... comes the brutal killing!

As the two wielded their weapons, the mutated rats were sent flying and crushed to death with tremendous force amidst their squeaking.

Even if mutated rats pounced on them, they couldn't harm the two people who were completely covered in armor.

Upon hearing the screams of the rats on the ground, the rat king, who had not yet emerged from the underground granary, immediately led the rest of the rats out of the granary.

When the Rat King came out, he saw the corpses of his fellow rats lying all over the ground.

With angry squeaks, the Rat King led the remaining nearly two hundred mutated rats to charge at Huang Zhao and his companion once again.

Seeing that the Rat King had appeared, Huang Zhao spoke to Qin Yi through their mental connection:

“I stopped the Rat King and dragged it away.”

"Yi-ge, kill all the other mutated rats, don't let a single one escape!"

This swarm of rats is too close to Dawn City. If one escapes, another brood might soon be born, and it will still threaten Dawn City.

Now that they had been discovered, Huang Zhao naturally had no intention of letting them leave.

Huang Zhao also charged towards the Rat King that was rushing towards him, just as the Rat King's giant teeth were about to bite into the armor on his thigh.

The mental shockwave struck the Rat King directly, causing it to let out a shrill scream and abruptly stop biting.

Then Huang Zhao kicked him away from the rat swarm.

Then, after regaining consciousness following a severe blow to his body, the enraged Rat King fished among the rats.

What appears intense is actually just Huang Zhao toying with the Rat King. Every time the Rat King is about to be bitten, it is interrupted by Huang Zhao's mental attack.

Qin Yi, who was behind Huang Zhao, had already rushed into the rat swarm. With each swing of his hammer, he could smash a mutated rat into mincemeat.

Each sweep would send the mutated rat flying, rolling on the ground and vomiting blood, clearly not going to survive.

After Qin Yi smashed and killed more than a hundred mutated rats, the rat swarm was too afraid to approach and was chased and beaten by Qin Yi.

However, under the Rat King's control, the mutated rats dared not escape directly.

This is also why Huang Zhao did not kill the Rat King in one direct encounter.

When only thirty or so mutated rats remained on the scene, the Rat King finally realized that he was no match for Huang Zhao and his companion.

With a shriek, it tried to escape with the remaining mutated rats.

"Isn't it too late to run now?"

After realizing that the Rat King intended to escape, Huang Zhao gave up his plan to toy with the Rat King.

If they manage to escape and disappear into some hidden corner, it will be very difficult to find and kill them.

Huang Zhao fired a mental shock, interrupting the Rat King's attempt to turn and run away, and then swung the alloy rod in his hand at the Rat King's head.

With no chance to resist, the Rat King's little head was smashed into the ground by Huang Zhao's stick, and it was dead beyond any doubt.

The remaining twenty-odd mutated beasts, seeing the Rat King's miserable state, immediately squeaked and scattered away from the two killing gods.

Unfortunately, Huang Zhao, who was already prepared, stunned him with a mental attack, and then the two of them caught up and quickly finished him off.

In just ten minutes, Huang Zhao and Qin Yi wiped out more than two hundred level-one mutated rats and level-two rat kings.

The rat swarm that had occupied the granary now consisted of only a dozen or so female rats guarding the underground warehouse, as well as their young that had not yet fully grown.

The two piled the mutated rat corpses that had been killed on the ground together, and then Huang Zhao put the rat sauce into his supernatural space.

Huang Zhao planned to take it back to see if King Kong would eat it; if not, he would feed it to the zombies.

Of the four zombies he raised, three of the level one zombies had already evolved to level two.

The level-three poison-type zombie that had been chopped into a pig was still eating and sleeping, living a comfortable life, but it still showed no sign of breaking through to level four.

After all, the meat they were fed was ordinary raw meat from before the apocalypse, and its energy content was obviously not as good as that of the mutated beast meat that had broken through to level one.

After the battle between the zombie rats in front of the East China University of Political Science and Law, more than a hundred zombies evolved to level one after eating the corpses of the mutated rats.

Although Huang Zhao no longer had such an urgent need for level four energy crystals, he never thought he had too many of these good things.

Level 4 is a threshold that will block the vast majority of survivors.

Even two years after the apocalypse, 80 percent of human survivors still had not reached this level.

After all, only a few people are capable of killing a level four creature with level three strength.

Even if a small team works together to deal with a level 4 creature, there is still a considerable risk of death.

Breaking through to level four, as long as you don't act recklessly, is equivalent to having a get-out-of-jail-free card to live comfortably for the first two years of the apocalypse!

Therefore, there can never be too many crystals of level four or higher; they are an extremely important strategic resource!

Without further thought, Huang Zhao and Qin Yi headed towards the granary from which the mutated rats had emerged, intending to kill all the remaining mutated rats.

The remaining rats squeaked and pounced on Huang Zhao and his companion as they entered the granary, only to be easily killed.

Huang Zhao ordered Qin Yi to kill all the baby mice in the corner, a decision that no longer stirred any emotion in him.

Humans absorb energy crystals, while zombies and mutated beasts devour them.

It's not about cruelty, there's no right or wrong, it's all just about surviving in this damned apocalypse.