Xiao Yu and Sun Tiantian were instantly startled awake.
It was the old lady who came to cause trouble for Lu Sheng last time.
The old woman's hair was disheveled, and she was only wearing a pair of worn-out underwear. Her aged, loose skin was covered with wounds of all sizes.
"Help! There are rats!"
Upon seeing Lu Sheng and Xiao Yu, a glimmer of hope appeared in the old lady's cloudy eyes.
She had only taken two steps when a dark shadow darted out from the stairs and lunged at her neck.
"ah!"
The old woman screamed and collapsed to the ground. Dark shadows surged out from the stairwell, forming a black tide that instantly engulfed her frail body.
Sizzle.
Power was suddenly restored to Dingxianglou.
With the help of the flickering wall lamp, Lu Sheng finally saw that the black tide was actually dozens of huge mutated rats!
In northern regions, the largest rats are only the size of a palm, but these rats are as big as Zhuangzhuang!
"Meow! Holy crap! A giant rat!"
Zhuangzhuang peeked half its head out from the crack in the door, glanced at it, and its fur stood on end in fright. It then hugged its tail and shrank under the bed.
Lu Sheng: "..."
Don't ever say you're a cat when you go out again; it's too embarrassing.
"Squeak squeak squeak".
The rats gnawed at the old woman's body, occasionally glancing up at Lu Sheng and the others, their scarlet eyes particularly terrifying under the light.
The old woman convulsed in pain, her desperate screams gradually turning into low moans.
Several wounds on the back of her hand had turned black, appearing to be infected. Blood continued to flow from the bite wounds, gradually staining her clothes and the ground red. Her cloudy eyes slowly lost focus; she was on the verge of death.
The mother and her unruly child were standing far away on the stairs when they saw this horrifying scene and screamed as they ran back.
"What should we do with so many rats?" Xiao Yu hesitated as she looked at Lu Sheng.
Lu Sheng rubbed her little hands excitedly.
This isn't a mutant rat at all; it's more like an adorable deliveryman bringing your spoils to your door!
She was just worried about not having any monsters to grind for experience when the mice came over in a group to bring her warmth.
You rats, you arrived just in time.
Not far away, the old woman who was being attacked by the mutated rats had fallen silent, and Sun Tiantian felt nauseous and dry heaved.
Upon hearing the sound, the mutated rats fixed their scarlet eyes on the direction of Lu Sheng and his companions.
"Squeak squeak squeak".
A mutated rat suddenly pounced on Lu Sheng.
Lu Sheng drew his Persian sword and swiftly killed the enemy with a single strike.
[Bonus loot: 2 AA batteries]
A system notification sounded, and two Nanfu batteries were automatically added to Lu Sheng's space.
It seems we really can get extra resource rewards?
The strong smell of blood stimulated the mutated rat swarm, and the black tide instantly surged towards Lu Sheng.
Lu Sheng gripped the Persian knife tightly, secretly gathering electrical energy in his palm. In an instant, brilliant arcs of electricity covered the entire blade.
In the dimly lit corridor, Lu Sheng swiftly wielded his knife, and after several flashes of lightning, dozens of mutated rats were instantly wiped out. The corridor was filled with the tantalizing aroma of meat being cooked by electricity.
[Wuchang Rice 1-pound pack + 1]
[Wasabi Peanuts +1]
[Used black stockings +2]
[Xizhilang Jelly +1]
[System Points +200]
The system kept prompting me to collect new loot.
Lu Sheng roughly counted the corpses of about thirty mutated rats on the ground. Including the points, she actually obtained fourteen loot items.
It seems that there is almost a 50% chance of getting extra reward items as long as you fight monsters, but the mutated rats are not very destructive, so the rewards are only some ordinary supplies, and even second-hand items.
"Holy crap! What smells so good!"
"It smells like barbecue!"
"What kind of family is this! Eating barbecue in the middle of the night!"
Just as Lu Sheng was about to call Xiao Yu to help send the mice away, several round heads suddenly appeared at the stairwell. They were all second-year male students living on the third floor.
The boys were so hungry they were practically skin and bones, their eyes fixed longingly on the smelling meaty mice on the ground...
He swallowed.
Lu Sheng could even see the Adam's apples of these people bob.
"Do you still want these rats?"
After looking at each other for a while, a boy wearing glasses couldn't help but cautiously glance at Lu Sheng.
"don't want."
As soon as Lu Sheng finished speaking, several more people climbed up from the third floor.
"Take it if you want it."
"Thank you so much, I haven't had meat in so many days."
"Holy crap, don't steal it! Don't steal it!"
"Save me a leg!"
With Lu Sheng's approval, the group rushed up the stairs, picked up the remains of the rat army, and ran away.
Among the frenzied scramblers, a familiar figure suddenly caught Lu Sheng's attention.
Even though she deliberately lowered her head to avoid Lu Sheng's gaze, she could still recognize Su Zicheng at a glance.
Su Zicheng bent over and finally caught the carcass of a fat rat, but his hand was stepped on tightly.
“You…” Su Zicheng looked up and met Lu Sheng’s cold gaze.
Lu Sheng's pink sandals rubbed hard against the back of Su Zicheng's hand.
"Didn't you say you didn't want these rats anymore?"
Su Zicheng was sweating profusely from the pain, but he still refused to let go.
Lu Sheng's lips curled into a faint smile. "Anyone else can take what I don't want, but not you."
"Do you really have to go this far?" Su Zicheng gritted his teeth and roared in despair.
Lu Sheng kicked Su Zicheng away, opened the window, and threw the rat out.
A wild dog rushed out in the darkness, snatched a mouse, and ran away.
"My things are mine, you wouldn't even get a chance to feed them to the dogs."
Su Zicheng scrambled to his feet, cursing angrily before heading down the stairs, "Lu Sheng, you just wait! Don't you dare fall into my hands one day!"
"Is this edible...?" Sun Tiantian felt a chill run down her spine as she watched these people frantically grabbing it.
Lu Sheng put the knife away and yawned, "When you're starving, you'll eat anything."
When people are driven to desperation, they'll eat anything edible. In his previous life, Lu Sheng had eaten not only rats, but even poisonous insects.
When people are truly desperate, they'll put anything in their mouths as long as they can fill their bellies. Many people, knowing full well that they can't excrete clay after eating it, still eat handfuls of it to fill their stomachs.
In the end, her stomach was so bloated that it burst.
Lu Sheng originally planned to take a nap and then farm some supplies from the rats, but when he woke up the next day, he found that all the mutated rats in the entire Lilac Pavilion had been wiped out by this group of people.
Everyone in the Dingxianglou mutual aid group was showing off their mouse-catching achievements, and not a single mouse was left for Lu Sheng.
Everyone was starving and anxious, but this wave of rats that fell from the sky just filled the food gap.
Lu Sheng took out a tuna and seaweed rice roll from his spatial storage, poured himself a glass of raspberry juice, and lay down on the beanbag chair to leisurely watch TV.
"Due to a malfunction in the main water supply line of the city's waterworks, water supply will be suspended in some areas starting today. We ask the public to wait patiently, and the resumption time will be announced separately."
The TV station interrupted its broadcast with an emergency news report.
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