As soon as the words fell, there was dead silence all around.

Because there are no other bases around P City, the Rose Base is a very large base with at least tens of thousands of people in it.

Such a large base is full of rats, the number is terrifying to think about.

"What should we do now?" Liu Kai asked seriously.

There are more than seventy of them in total, which is probably less than one ten-thousandth of the number of rats.

Everyone looked at each other, and many of them were hesitant to go ahead. However, because there were people from Xincheng present, they didn't dare to speak and only looked at Yu Qinglong.

Yu Qinglong pondered for a moment and said, "You guys wait here for a while. I'll go to the Rose Base to check the situation."

With so many mutant rats, I don’t know what the current situation is inside the Rose Base.

Cheng Qing nodded: "Alright, we can discuss countermeasures after we determine the situation inside."

In the Rose Base.

All the psychics kept retreating under the attack of swarms of rats, shrinking the safe area.

These rats were very fragile, and a wind blade or a fireball could kill several of them, but their numbers were too great, and they kept coming forward without fear of death.

They are also good at digging holes in the ground. Even if the earth-based ability solidifies the soil on the ground, they can still emerge from the ground from time to time and pounce on the crowd.

"Ah!!!!" A huge rat suddenly emerged from under the feet of the little girl who was protected by her parents. It opened its big mouth full of sharp teeth and bit off the girl's leg in one bite.

"Nannan!" The girl's father immediately picked up the child, but it was too late.

The little girl's left foot was bitten off at the knee, and blood was dripping from the broken part.

"Ahhh! Damn rat, I'm going to fight you!" The girl's mother's eyes were red, and she picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it on the rat's head.

Although the mouse was big, it was very agile. When the girl's mother pounced on it, it dodged to the side nimbly, bounced its feet, and jumped onto the girl's mother's shoulder.

"Mother!"

"Wife!"

The mouse bit the woman's neck and broke it.

The safe area surrounded by the psychics is no longer safe. Rats dig holes in and pounce on the crowd fiercely. Miserable screams are everywhere.

Several rats quickly passed through the crowd, jumped up and pounced on the mutant on the anti-counterfeiting line, and bit him, tearing off half of his neck.

"ah!"

These rats don't have special powers, but they are fast, and their teeth and claws are extremely sharp. When they swarm around, even people with special powers cannot defend themselves.

Many people with special abilities were attacked from behind by rats and lost their combat effectiveness instantly.

The rats that they had kept out suddenly poured in through the gap.

As soon as Yu Qinglong entered the Rose Base, he was overwhelmed by the rats around him. Fortunately, he was well prepared and used his supernatural powers to create a vacuum zone within a few square meters of his body.

Fortunately, he was a spatial ability user who could separate the space, otherwise he would have been swallowed up by the rats the moment he came in.

There were dense swarms of rats all around, and in the distance there were screams of people coming one after another. Yu Qinglong's scalp tingled when he heard it. He tried not to look at the rats and ran towards the direction of the screams.

Yu Qinglong had just run forward for a distance when he saw a gold-type mutant having his neck bitten off by a group of rats.

The gold-type expert stared at Yu Qinglong with his eyes wide open, but was instantly overwhelmed by the swarm of rats, and nothing was left of him.

Yu Qinglong paused, feeling a chill down his spine.

The gold-type mutant just now, whose entire body was made of metal, was still pierced by the sharp teeth of these rats.

There were no more screams in the entire Rose Base. There was only the sound of rats gnawing on flesh and blood, and their squeaking sounds.

Yu Qinglong didn't know if there were any survivors in the Rose Base, but it was too late for him to search the Rose Base carefully. These rats had to be eliminated.

He immediately left the Rose Base and returned to the mountain a mile away.

"What's the matter?" Seeing him come back, everyone's eyes were focused on him.

Yu Qinglong took out a piece of paper from his space and quickly wrote down the situation here. Then he said, "No one survived at the Rose Base."

There was dead silence all around.

No one survived? Although they had expected this, hearing this result still sent a chill down their spines.

Yu Qinglong placed the written note into the space, then looked at everyone: "These rats don't have any special abilities, but they have sharp teeth that can bite through anything. I once saw a person with special abilities whose entire body was made of metal being gnawed away by rats until nothing was left."

"Hiss—" Everyone gasped.

Can it even chew through metal? And it’s metal condensed from supernatural powers!

"I estimate there are at least a million rats around the Rose Base, maybe even more." Yu Qinglong said seriously, "After these rats have eaten the people at the Rose Base, they will definitely go somewhere else. We must stop them from leaving here."

"Are you kidding me? You said there were millions of rats, and they could tear through anything. How can we stop them? Even if more than seventy of us used our bodies to block them, we wouldn't be able to stop them!"

"Yes, since everyone at the Rose Base is dead, there's no need for us to rescue them. The important thing now is to leave here as soon as possible."

"That's right. If the rats notice someone is here, they'll come over here, which would be bad."

"You think it's too simple." Cheng Qing said coldly with a dark face: "Do you think that everything will be fine if we run away? Don't you think about why there are so many mutant rats here?"

"Before the apocalypse, mice could mate year-round. The gestation period was about 20 days, and they could give birth to 6-8 litters a year, with 8-10 babies per litter."

"After birth, the mice grow up within 35-60 days and then start to reproduce."

Such a reproduction rate is chilling to think about.

Liang Jiao counted on his fingers for a while, his face pale. "We haven't seen any mutant rats since the apocalypse. If there are only one male and one female after the apocalypse, then after more than four years and nearly five years since the apocalypse, there must be billions of them..."

This number almost made Liang Jiao faint. So many mutant rats!!!

Yu Qinglong glanced at the pale-faced crowd. "The mutant rats may not have the terrifying reproductive capacity of those before the apocalypse, but they're not too bad either. So, if we let these rats go, it won't be long before all our bases are attacked by mutant rats."

They had never seen mutant rats before, which didn’t necessarily mean that there were no mutant rats, but that the people who had seen mutant rats were all dead.

New city.

Fan Xin took out the note that Yu Qinglong had left in the space, and after reading the content on it, he frowned.

Mutant rat?

In her previous life, when she died, it was already the tenth year after the apocalypse, but she had never heard of mutant rats.

However, they seemed to have not yet contacted the remote base at that time, or it is possible that the problem of mutant rats was not discovered by them.

Fan Xin asked Liang Jiao to go over there before because he wanted him to use the silk from silkworms to deal with mutant animals.

The poisonous silkworm silk spit out by silkworms is highly corrosive and can easily deal with mutant animals.

But it may not be possible to deal with mutant rats, especially in such large numbers.

"Do you want to go over?" Sui Jing asked Fan Xin after reading what Yu Qinglong wrote.

Fan Xin nodded: "We can't let these rats continue to reproduce."

She looked at Sui Jing and said, "During this period of time, Xincheng will be handed over to you."

Sui Jing nodded: "Okay, I will wait here for you to come back."

Fan Xin wrote back to Yu Qinglong, asking him to come back and pick her up.

Rose base.

Cheng Qing and others split up and each person took two silkworms and headed towards the rose base, while the silkworms spit out poisonous silk to weave a net.

More than seventy people formed a circle and kept closing in, which soon alarmed the rats.

The mice, each as big as a wild dog, had shiny fur and pairs of red eyes staring straight at Cheng Qing and the others.

Squeak, squeak, squeak——

The mice squeaked and pounced on them in an instant.

All the psychics attacked the rats without reservation, but the densely packed rats put immense psychological pressure on people, and cold sweat broke out on everyone's forehead.

Yu Qinglong received the news from Fan Xin and immediately explained it to Cheng Qing.

The reason why he didn't explain to Liang Jiao was because Yu Qinglong felt that Liang Jiao was unreliable.

It took him three days to get here before with more than seventy people. This time he only brought Fan Xin with him, and the round trip took only about a day.

Therefore, during this day, Cheng Qing and others need to try their best to stop these rats and prevent them from leaving while ensuring their own safety.

When Cheng Qing heard that Fan Xin was coming in person, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and promised, "Okay, go quickly and come back soon. I'll keep an eye on this place."

Yu Qinglong disappeared in front of Cheng Qing in an instant.

Liang Jiao was the first to discover that Yu Qinglong was missing. He had a special ability, and it was very convenient for him to deal with mice with the silkworms, because with his ability of concealment, the mice regarded him as nothing.

Liang Jiao muttered to himself, could it be that Yu Qinglong had abandoned them and ran away?

He hesitated whether to leave, but seeing that Cheng Qing and the others had been holding their ground under the attack of the rats, his situation was not as dangerous as Cheng Qing and the others.

Running away seemed like a coward.

Liang Jiao sighed and ran around with the silkworms, constantly throwing the poisonous nets spit out by the silkworms into the group of mice to reduce the pressure on Cheng Qing and the others.

As it got dark, the rats began to dig holes in the ground and burrow into the ground.

Cheng Qing and the others were already exhausted. Even though they were worried that the rats would dig holes in the ground and escape, they didn't have the energy to chase them.

Other people with special abilities gathered here one after another.

"The rats have all burrowed and run away. What should we do?"

"They may not have run away. Maybe it's dark and they went back to sleep?"

Liu Kai pondered, "It's possible. Before, they were so aggressive and rushed forward, but there was no sign of them running away. When it was getting dark, they all started digging holes in the ground to escape."

Cheng Qing walked to the entrance of a cave.

Because the mouse has a big body, the hole it makes is also big, so a smaller person can easily get into the hole.

The hole was dug very deep, and it was pitch black inside and you couldn't see anything.

After resting for a while, the psychic suddenly found that Yu Qinglong was missing, and his face suddenly changed.

"Where's Yu Qinglong? Did he run away?"

"Fuck! Xincheng is really going too far! They keep saying we have to stop these rats, but then he runs away?"

"Damn it! I've already said that the people in this new city can't be trusted, and you still don't believe it!"

Liang Jiao's face turned pale and blue at what they said. He couldn't help but yelled angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? Can't you see I'm still here? Stop spouting nonsense here. Who said Yu Qinglong ran away? He went back to get help!"