Because the zombified rats that enter the safe zone are very good at hiding and moving, and their reaction speed is much faster than that of the non-zombified rats, the upper echelons of the safe zone and the rat-catching soldiers who were sent out to capture these zombified rats were already mentally prepared that it might be difficult to eliminate these rats when they started catching them.
At first, things were indeed a bit difficult, just as they had imagined. But once that sleepy young man with high pigtails, who looked overly lively and handsome but not at all ugly, appeared, the difficulty of catching mice seemed to be solved all at once!
If they hadn't witnessed firsthand that the overly cute young man with pigtails actually slaying the zombie rats one by one, they truly wouldn't have believed that someone could so accurately track down the zombie rats.
Moreover, every strike he makes is deadly; not a single golden throwing knife he launches misses its mark.
In the end, those who were carrying guns were less useful than the one who was dozing off with a knife.
The soldiers at the base were initially worried that the sleepy young man with pigtails would eventually fall asleep from exhaustion while walking.
The captain of the rat-catching team even went to the dozing young man with pigtails, ready to rush forward and help him up should the young man fall asleep on the spot.
However, it turned out that the young man did not need their help at all. As the sun gradually set, at 5:50 p.m. when only a faint red glow remained on the sun, the sleepy young man finally tripped over the flat ground in front of him. Just as the rat-catching captain reached out to help him up, he suddenly straightened up on his own.
Then, the rat-catching captain and the soldiers around him, as well as some fearless residents in the safe zone who were secretly watching the excitement, saw that the twin-tailed youth who had just been drowsy suddenly woke up after almost falling!
Yes, he's awake!
When the sun had completely set, his eyes, which had been squinting and whose upper and lower eyelids were constantly fighting each other, suddenly opened.
In the still-dark sky, those open phoenix eyes were excessively beautiful and shone with a radiant light!
It was as if the dozing off just now was all a figment of their imagination as onlookers.
The captain of the rat-catching team sensed a completely different reality and tentatively asked, "Sir, are you awake? Do you remember what just happened?"
It's no wonder he asked that question; the mouse-catching process over the past few hours was truly... well, a bit magical. If this person hadn't still had his eyes open, he would have suspected he was sleepwalking. But even if it was sleepwalking, who would suddenly transform into a mouse-catching expert, a master of throwing knives?
However, after the captain asked the question, he noticed that the twin-tailed youth he was questioning suddenly changed his expression.
It was a gradual transformation, one that allowed onlookers to feel the collapse and despair—
The young man first covered his mouth in disbelief, then suddenly reached out and touched his twin ponytails, one on each side, as if in horror. Even though it was his own hair, the kind that was black, shiny, and smooth, he almost jumped up as if he'd been burned when he touched it.
After touching the twin ponytails, his gaze suddenly locked onto a dead rat by the roadside, nailed to death by his golden throwing knife. Then, his beautiful phoenix eyes widened abruptly, and he suddenly reached into his armpits.
Oh, after rummaging through his armpits, he started rummaging through his pockets again, and then this young man, who seemed to have finally woken up, revealed a face that looked like he had been struck by lightning and was utterly dejected.
"ah……"
"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!"
The young man suddenly jumped up and down twice, clutching his head, yelling, "My hairstyle!! And my money—!!!"
The young man's reaction made the soldiers and civilians in the safe zone, including Lao Ma, Lao Niu, and Si Mingri, suddenly seem to understand something.
"Hey, bro... don't take it too hard, just treat it like a dream. We're still really touched... it'll be alright once you wake up!"
"Yes, yes, yes! And while other people sleepwalk and do bad things, you guys helped us kill a lot of rats! Just remember next time, um, drink a glass of milk before bed?"
"Yeah, if you're sleepy, go to sleep. Don't force yourself to stay awake, right?"
Having finally sobered up from his daytime sleepwalking and drunken state, Owl Fugui listened to the words of comfort around him, but felt no comfort whatsoever.
He was confident his face could pull off the pigtail hairstyle. At most, it was just a dark chapter in his past.
But!! All that gold he secretly hoarded!!! Gold bars and those gold leaf throwing knives he specially commissioned researchers to make!!!
That was all the gold and trump card he had besides his gold bricks!
He actually threw him out while he was still half-asleep!
The once wealthy and beautiful woman, who was still somewhat obsessed with money, has visibly lost her zest for it.
Seeing that he had clearly regained consciousness but suddenly became depressed, the soldiers around him were wondering how to comfort this rat-catching expert.
At this moment, Xie Langren made a dazzling appearance.
"Yuanyuan, don't be sad! Look what this is!"
Xie Langren was shaking a large, transparent, sturdy plastic bottle up and down. Inside were gold leaf throwing knives stained with blood and a palm-sized gold brick!
"I've collected all the gold leaves. I'll wash them and disinfect them with high heat later, and they'll still be yours!"
"However, these things are all tainted with some filth, so it's best to clean them and then melt them down at high temperatures. That should be the only way to completely kill the filth."
"As for your liking for gold leaves and gold bricks, I'll fly you there tomorrow to buy them for free."
Xie Tianlang shook the plastic bottle while raising his eyebrows at the wealthy beauty.
"And while I'm at it, I'll pick out a pretty necklace for you too."
When Xie Tianlang appeared carrying that large plastic bottle of gold leaves and gold bricks, the ponytail-wearing rich guy couldn't stay gloomy anymore. And when Xie Tianlang said he would fly him around to do some free shopping, the ponytail-wearing rich guy visibly became happy.
He immediately perked up, scoffed, and turned around: "One isn't enough. Now we need at least six."
The others didn't understand what he meant, but the expression on Captain Xie's face, who had been smiling, suddenly froze.
At that moment, I suddenly wanted to go back and slap myself for promising to give Yuanyuan a necklace.
Don't you know men shouldn't make promises lightly?! The suffering you'll endure later is all because of the foolishness you had back then!
Well, the water level was just too high back then.
However, it's just six gemstone necklaces... so they shouldn't be too hard to find... right?
"Ordinary ones won't do; they can't be inferior to that crown at least."
Xie Tianlang: "..."
You're deliberately making things difficult for me, the domineering Sirius.
Even if it's just an ordinary item from Mr. Jin's collection in the storage room, it's still worth millions!
Regardless of the arrogance of the domineering wolf, the owl Fugui, having calmed down and gained the boost from nighttime activities, began to show his true abilities.
He first looked a little annoyed and pulled out a rubber band—the kind only pretty boys and girls had—from his pocket, then tied his pigtails together again, barely managing to turn them into a single ponytail. Afterward, he turned to the rat-catching captain and asked:
"Hey bro, can I borrow your gun? Or do you guys have any hidden weapons like throwing knives?"
Now that he's awake, he certainly won't use his golden throwing knives to kill rats anymore. Since he's working for the government, he should use government-issued tools.
Then the rat-catching captain nodded happily and called out to Xiao Zhang, who then took out a specially made blade gun from his backpack.
"I made this myself. It can fire blades, it's very quiet, and it's very fast. There are more than a hundred blades inside!"
Although its range is not as fast or far as bullets, and its lethality is sometimes insufficient, its sharpness is absolutely top-notch.
The wealthy and beautiful woman glanced at the specially made throwing knife and nodded in satisfaction.
The next instant, he fired a barrage of metal blades, hitting another zombie rat that was difficult to spot in the dim light.
Then the previously sleepy, slow-moving twin-tailed owl Fugui suddenly transformed into a swift stealth lurker in the night.
"Don't follow too closely. Come back when I call you."
The rat-catching soldiers initially had no idea what the young man, now awake, intended to do, but after seeing him shoot and kill six or seven zombie rats crawling out of different pipe openings, they suddenly stopped in one spot and waved to them.
"About five meters below here, there's a group of zombie rats. That must be their nest."
“You can get there by following these three pipe openings. You can handle it as you see fit.”
The rat-catching soldiers looked on with great surprise. Without the aid of high-tech methods such as infrared laser detection and sound wave detection, how did this young man know that there was a swarm of zombie rats five meters below?
But the leader of the rat-catching team thought about it and decided to take a gamble.
They quickly brought in a highly corrosive liquid spray gun and a remote-controlled explosive ball. Using a special manipulation method, they first threw the explosive ball into the pipe opening, and then used the strong acid spray gun to block the pipe opening.
Then, after the silent but extremely destructive explosion underground, the soldiers guarding the pipe entrance heard a sound coming from below!
"Now!!"
With his extremely sensitive ears, Owl Fugui shouted, and the soldiers guarding the pipe opening instantly activated the acid spray guns!
Then, the nest of dozens of zombie rats was wiped out.
They were swift and decisive, leaving no survivors.
Then, at 11 p.m. that night, the increasingly energetic and exhausted rat-catching warriors managed to completely eliminate the zombie rats that had infiltrated the base in just one afternoon and one night. This was originally expected to take three days to completely eliminate.
"Are there really no more zombie rats?"
The captain of the soldiers, who was already completely impressed by the skills of the young man with pigtails, asked again.
Although they were very tired and sleepy after the afternoon and evening, they were happy!
They cleared the zombie rat infestation in the shortest possible time, ensuring the safety of the entire district's residents.
Owl Fugui, who had been uncomfortable because he had turned his pigtails into single ponytails and had to go back to pigtails, nodded patiently and added, "Don't worry, Captain, I've already circled the entire base three times."
"I haven't heard the sound of mice anymore."
Owl Fugui tapped his ears as he spoke: "Trust my ears; they are naturally sensitive to the sounds and tracks of mice."
Furthermore, he specifically used the sound enhancement skill that grants the ability to hear special sounds at night. He identified the sounds as the gnawing and walking of rats, and at least within the base's perimeter, he no longer heard the sounds of rats.
"However, we still need to reinforce the protective netting around all the sewers within the base. Although this batch of zombie rats is gone, rats are still..."
Without Gou Fugui needing to remind him further, the captain understood his meaning, and even the usually strong captain showed a somewhat helpless expression on his face at this moment.
The disaster has already struck; there will likely be no more completely safe zones in the future.
Nowhere is completely safe anymore.
As long as the problem with the liquid gold remains unresolved.
"...I understand. Thank you very much for your help this time, young man. I have already contacted the leadership, and the base will reward you for your help in this rat-catching operation."
"It's not a lot, but it's at least a token of gratitude from the base and us."
With Gou Fugui leading the charge, although they were exhausted for a long time, none of the rat-catching team members were injured. They didn't even come into close contact with any danger. They were grateful.
Gou Fugui blinked his phoenix eyes, which looked even brighter and more beautiful in the night, and laughed: "You're too kind. I am a member of the safe zone myself, so it is only right for me to help the safe zone."
"I just hope that everyone in the safe zone can live bravely and strongly."
The leading soldier captain saw a sincere hope in the young man's eyes—a hope that they would all live well. He paused for a moment, then smiled and saluted Gou Fugui.
"Of course! We will overcome this disaster and strive to survive!"
Gou Fugui smiled as he looked at his resolute eyes, truly hoping that people in this world could eventually have hope too.
...Therefore, they cannot stay here any longer; they must find the core and hope of this world—
...
"Are you sure the young man leading this video is Dr. Sanchez? He looks only in his thirties. But according to online information, he's at least seventy years old!"
This was the question Song Sanchuan asked in disbelief after Si Mingri saw the video recorded in Xie Tianlang's watch during their exchange of messages that afternoon.
The wheelchair-bound boy sat beside the sofa, his face full of mockery: "I spent thirteen years in his research institute. I would recognize him even if he turned to ashes."
"Besides, what's wrong with him looking like he's in his thirties? The liquid gold he has is the best of every batch."
“However…” Si Mingri looked at the man who stepped off the plane, his expression serious and gloomy, and slowly grinned: “He’s already so desperate that he’s gone so far as to send his entire fleet of planes to raid the original habitat of Golden Flower…”
"He must have experienced the same problems as those who took the fifth-generation gold liquid!"
The boy in the wheelchair suddenly burst into laughter: "This damn old guy might... be dying, hahahahaha!!"
"He might be dying soon! Let's take a plane together and hurry over to see how he dies, hahaha!"
However, early the next morning, the security zones and bases around the world, which had been urgently assembled, received a global message from this "potentially dying" producer of the liquid gold—
A Message to Fellow Countrymen Around the World:
I am Sanchez, the creator of the Golden Liquid. Due to a sudden mutation in the raw materials of the Golden Liquid, the fifth-generation Golden Liquid has developed an uncontrollable toxin that will inevitably cause genetic disorders. This uncontrollable toxin is present in extremely small amounts, but if it is ingested by users who have previously consumed the first to fourth generations of the Golden Liquid, it will trigger terrible consequences such as genetic disorders or even breakdown.
I apologize for our team's failure to detect this uncontrollable toxin. I am a sinner against the world.
However, I have already led my team to the original source of the gold liquid raw materials. And I am working hard to find a way to solve the problem of the mutated toxins in the gold liquid.
Now, after our tireless research, we have tentatively developed a first-order vaccine that can control the mutation of the liquid gold.
Those who take the vaccine are not completely immune to the liquid gold toxin, but they can greatly slow down the rate at which they mutate and turn into zombies.
We are still working hard, hoping the world will give us a chance to make amends.
Furthermore, you may travel to the Amazon rainforest in Africa, where we have built the most secure base. This will become the strongest fortress in the face of disaster and the first sanctuary to resolve it!
We cordially invite outstanding survivors to join us.
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