Chapter 179 Rat Raid
"It's edible. Whether you want to roast or stew it, Brother Xiong will make it for you. The taste is guaranteed to be amazing," Xiong Jie said with a smile.
"Hey, I want to eat them all." Dean pulled Antonio's arm.
Antonio kissed his forehead and said gently, "Put it all away and eat it however you want."
"With so many, we can really have a good meal," said Xu Sa. Together with Liu Rui, they burned several snake heads to ashes. Then they looked at the snake bodies. At the same time, he said to Lu Weiyi, "Lu Xiaoyi, come and put them away. We will make snake meat soup tonight."
Lu Weiyi shrugged his shoulders and said, "The space is full and we can't fit even one more section. Unless you want to carry something on your own, you can turn over the snake's head to see if there is any crystal core."
Liu Rui took the wooden stick and cut through the ashes inch by inch, and found a few crystal cores the size of a fingernail from it.
"No way, you need to upgrade it again. There's so much mutant meat." Xu Sa felt so distressed when he heard it.
"Save it in my space," Zhuang Mingxu said, but quietly handed a jade pendant to Lu Weiyi, which was the space jade pendant in the trading hall.
Lu Weiyi quietly explored it, squeezed the supplies inside into Zhuang Mingxu's space, and stuffed a pile of snake meat in.
"Let's go quickly. Snakes are social animals in winter. A few of these are not too many," Li Zhuang said when he saw that everything was ready.
"Okay, I'll walk behind you." Li Zhuang found a way. He could use his mental power to explore the way to ensure that such emergencies would not occur again.
With Lu Weiyi's mental protection, they encountered several mutant snakes throughout the afternoon, but they were dealt with before they got close. The group was reluctant to throw away the mutant meat at their mouths, so they simply carried some in their backpacks.
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At 8:30 in the evening, they arrived at the planned village in the dark.
The empty village was deserted and in the dark it looked a bit like a haunted house in the wilderness. The group carried flashlights and chose the nearest place to rest.
Lu Weiyi and Li Zhuang went to explore the surroundings, leaving all the necessary supplies behind for others to clean up.
"Fortunately, this place was not flooded, and the ground is much easier to walk on. Otherwise, it would probably take until midnight to get here." Gu Qingyue took a broom to sweep the dust on the floor of the room and laid out bedding.
"I guess you can drive tomorrow, Brother Xi, are you okay?" Lu Xi asked Xi Shi to sit on the made bed and brought a basin of water that Ning Yuan had just prepared for him to wash.
"... old." Xiong Jie helped him along the way, but he didn't have enough physical strength. At the end of the day, he felt very tired all over and couldn't get up after sitting down.
"Take a break, then we'll do it." Lu Xi brought another basin of water to Zhuang Mingxu and asked him to wash Zhuang Aiyi after he had done so.
There was a clear division of labor and everyone was busy. When Lu Weiyi and Li Zhuang came back, the meal had already been heated up. The aroma made their stomachs growl.
After a quick meal, Lu Weiyi arranged people to keep watch at night. "Li Zhuang, Gu Qingyue and Gu Qingji will be on duty from 10 o'clock to 1 o'clock, Antonio, Liu Rui and Li Dongsheng from 1 o'clock to 4 o'clock, and Ning Yuan and I will be on duty from 4 o'clock to 6 o'clock. In the middle of the night, we must not only be on guard against zombies, but also be alert to the approach of mutant animals. Call me immediately if anything goes wrong. Everyone else should take time to rest."
"I'll keep watch from ten to one. It's a good time to deal with this thing. It might get spoiled if I carry it further." Xiong Jie pointed to the snake meat in several backpacks.
"I know a little bit, so I'll go with them," said Lin Yimu.
"Let me do it," Ning Yuan said.
"Me too," Wu Yue said.
Lu Weiyi took a look, thought for a while and said, "Brother Damu, you should take a rest today. You have to take turns driving tomorrow. Ning Yuan will take over. You two should take a good rest." He looked at the Gu Qingji brothers and pointed at the bloody snake meat and asked, "Who can deal with this stuff? Let's clean it up together."
"I can." Li Dongsheng took a piece of the dagger and went to deal with it with Xiong Jie.
"Barbecue or stew?" Li Zhuang also walked over.
"Give me some, I'll help you." Antonio was still thinking about what Dean said about the delicious food, and wanted to give him a taste of it all.
"Then I'll make it barbecue flavor, so you know that I'm also a craftsman." Ning Yuan smiled and took out the seasoning from the seasoning box on the side.
"There's a woodshed over there with plenty of firewood in it. You can take some back. Don't light a lamp at night, just light a fire. Most animals are afraid of fire." Li Zhuang moved a pile of neatly chopped firewood from some corner and placed it at the door.
"Just right, the firewood tastes better," Ning Yuan said, looking around for something to start a fire. Then he saw Liu Rui throw a fireball over and the dry firewood was instantly ignited. He silently gave a thumbs up.
More than a dozen people who were away from home gathered in a room and slept on the floor. The temperature dropped sharply at night, and the mattresses under them were thick and the quilts were made of pure cotton, which looked warm.
In the middle of the night, the little green branches that Lu Weiyi had been keeping vigilant around the room suddenly blew up, waking Lu Weiyi up from his sleep. The first thing he saw through the little green branches was a lot of black rats as big as basketballs, moving silently into the room from all directions.
He suddenly jumped out of the bed, waking up Zhuang Mingxu who was lying in the same quilt. Before Zhuang Mingxu could ask what was wrong, he heard Lu Weiyi anxiously say, "Be alert, wake up quickly."
"What's wrong?" Antonio was on guard. He looked around and didn't notice any movement, but when he listened carefully, there seemed to be some subtle sound.
"Rats, lots of rats," Lu Weiyi said, and quickly stood at the door, waving a small green branch and placing several high-power light bulbs in the yard, instantly illuminating the situation outside. Then they saw dense swarms of rats running towards them from all directions.
All I could see was surging darkness, and my dark little eyes were reflected by the light, making me look actually creepy.
"We are surrounded. Protect the people inside and clean up first." While Lu Weiyi was speaking, Antonio had already controlled the flying knives to fly among the rats, and the little green branches were also repeating the process of rolling up, strangling, and throwing away.
The earth cones and thorns of the earth-type psychics, along with the defensive earth walls, appeared and disappeared from time to time, and the water-type psychics were not at all inferior. The most amazing should be Liu Rui's fire-type. After one fireball passed by, there came a chirping sound and a smell of meat.
In the midst of the fragrant battle, Zhuang Aiyi in the room screamed, followed by the sound of "bang bang bang" gunshots, and then the hurried footsteps of several people who were protected in the room and the groans of the injured could be heard.
Just as Lu Weiyi was about to ask what happened, Zhuang Mingxu's calm voice came from inside, "Rats can dig holes." Seeing that they were discovered, the mutant rats gnawed through the wall and entered the room.
"Gu Qingji, go for support." When there are many people around, only himself and Gu Qingji's mutated Ivy can kill the mutated rats without hurting anyone, Lu Weiyi shouted.
"Got it," Gu Qingji said, and after glancing at Gu Qingyue to make sure he was not in danger, he quickly turned around and walked into the room.
The situation inside was not that bad. Lu Xi used his mental power to erect a mental barrier about one meter in size, surrounding the immobile Zhuang Mingxu, Zhuang Aiyi, and Xi Shidi.
A swarm of rats surrounded the place in a circle, jumping up and down, gnawing with their long, sharp teeth from time to time, but they seemed to be blocked by an invisible and solid barrier and could not hurt anyone at all.
In the "barrier", Zhuang Mingxu and Dean held their guns calmly. After the sound of "bang bang bang", the mutant rats fell to the ground one by one.
"Brother Qingji, please help me. I'm afraid of this thing, and I can't hold on for long." Lu Xi's mental ability is not very strong. Now it is less than B level, and the mental barrier can only hold on for a while.
Lu Xi's expression could not be seen in the dim light, but one could tell that his voice was trembling.
Gu Qingji also found this thing creepy. He grew up in the city and had only seen earth rats in textbooks. This one was not only several times larger, but also filled with the animal's sharp, wild murderous aura.
He didn't have time to think now, as they were already surrounded. If they didn't fight hard, they would just become a pile of bones like those people being eaten in the base.
And he... doesn't want to die yet.
The mutated ivy swung out from his wrist and flexibly bound a circle of mutant mice. His mutated plants were unable to communicate with his mind flexibly, and could not directly hit the neck and cut it off like Lu Weiyi's small green branches. He could only use the machete in his hand to swing it, and the string of mice was cut in half.
With his joining, Zhuang Mingxu and Dean each shot at two rat holes that had been dug. Soon all the rats in the room were killed.
"It's solved," Gu Qingji shouted to the outside world. The safety inside was of concern to the people outside, so they would naturally report it at the first time.
Everything was fine inside, but the attacks from outside suddenly became more fierce. After more than half of the rats that had been coming in an endless stream became corpses, they quickly evacuated from the yard as if they had received some order. They did it so quickly that if there weren't a pile of corpses outside, one would have suspected that it was an illusion.
"Is this... fear?" Xu Sa wondered.
"...the evacuation was very orderly," said Zhuang Mingxu.
“There won’t be a highly intelligent commander, will there?” Wu Yue said this, and his expression turned grim.
"Who knows?" Antonio said, and asked Dean in a gentle tone, "Dean, are you hurt?
"No," Dean replied.
Lu Weiyi remembered Zhuang Aiyi's scream and turned his head to look. Zhuang Mingxu said in tacit understanding, "He is not injured, just frightened, but Brother Xi was bitten."
"Do you need any vaccinations?" Xiong Jie asked Gu Qingyue worriedly.
"...there is no vaccine for mutant mice...either." Gu Qingyue didn't know what to do. After thinking about it, he asked Lu Weiyi for a tetanus vaccine. When the mouse bit him, Xi Shi dodged and only left two deep teeth marks.
No one knew if anything else would happen after being bitten by a mutant animal. Xiong Jie was a little annoyed about leaving during the training. If they were still at the base, they wouldn't have to face these things at least in the short term.
"I'm not sure if it will work. We can only observe. Brother Xi, please tell me if you feel uncomfortable at any time." After giving the injection, Gu Qingyue disinfected and bandaged the wound and said to Xi Shi.
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