Chapter 717: Psychic Rat King
At the beginning of the apocalypse, a mutant rat king forced Lu Weiyi and his group to escape for their lives. Now, after several years of mutation, they have become more ferocious and fearless, and their aggressiveness has become even stronger.
There was not a single zombie corpse in the entire city. Instead, there were mostly eaten skeletons. Each skeleton, ravaged by time, had been eaten clean, and some still retained the movements of their last moments of life.
The base was silent, with no living creatures in sight. Even the mutant birds hovering in the air were unwilling to live here, which made the people who survived by trampling on the lives of their own kind feel a little creepy.
"Has this place been cleaned?" Someone couldn't stand the quiet atmosphere and bravely asked loudly.
"Think...those are..." A timid female voice sounded, tremblingly, "I see...see, a lot of rats..."
"A swarm of mutant rats?" someone said, "It's okay, our levels are all so high, how can we not defeat a group of mutant rats."
That's what he said, but the slight tremor in his words was not convincing at all.
Lu Weiyi had already scanned the entire base with his mental power, and naturally saw the tens of thousands of mutant rats here. He glanced at the woman who was speaking, and she turned out to be a psychic as well.
The huge number and dense crowds of them made it impossible for everyone to deal with them easily. The entire base had become their world. Not only that, they were also spreading outside the city.
Even if he took these people as prisoners, Lu Weiyi wanted to let them die easily.
A dozen mutant animals were taken out from the space and thrown on the ground. Lu Weiyi ordered, "Throw these into the base from different directions."
Zhao Gang did not ask any extra questions. He controlled the water ability user to carry a huge mutant wolf corpse into the air and flew towards the interior of the base.
Hua Rui and the others also followed the orders. Seeing this, the other people who had just joined followed their example and used their supernatural powers to throw the animals into the base.
The prey fell from the sky with a huge bang, which was particularly loud in the base reflected by the sunset.
Blood exploded in all directions, and a moment later, rows of black little mice ran out in an orderly manner from the surrounding houses. They were more than twice as big as the teachers before the end of the world. They came forward in groups to sniff around, and when they found no danger, they chirped as if they were communicating something. After a while, some mice returned with a large group.
The densely packed mutant rats divided the prey into pieces of similar size, carried them together and returned to the house. In the end, they even left a few small rats behind as if to patrol for a while before completely disappearing from sight again.
"Why do I feel like they are very disciplined?" someone whispered.
“It is said that mice are clearly classified in the animal kingdom. If you compare them to a mouse kingdom, you will find that there are not only rat kings, but also generals, captains, and other mice with different divisions of labor.” Fei Mo seemed to have an obsession with suits, even now he still wore a three-piece suit.
"I just want to know, how many rats are there in here?"
"Based on the scale just now, it should be... not small, right?" Someone looked at Lu Weiyi inquiringly.
At this moment, Lu Weiyi's attention was not on them at all. He heard someone shouting in his ear, "Get out!"
Glancing around, Lu Weiyi didn't think anyone among these people would be so brave. However, he saw the spiritual woman who had just spoken in the crowd huddled together and crying in a low voice.
"What's wrong with you?" Lu Weiyi walked closer to her and asked.
"It's talking. Didn't you hear it?" The woman looked up at him, her eyes full of fear. "They ate all the living things here, even the zombies..."
"Didn't you see? There were rats. Thousands and thousands of rats ate all the zombies here..."
The woman was emotionally questioning a group of people.
"I... I saw it too... I thought... I thought I was seeing things..."
"Yes, I saw it too. They were all rats. They have a rat king. The rat king is very powerful and all the rats obey his orders."
"It's warning us that if we don't leave, we'll become like those zombies."
"Yes, there are mice coming out——"
"They are coming towards us, hurry, run..."
The surroundings gradually responded with echoes, and the initial confusion on the faces of the group gradually showed some changes. On the contrary, Zhao Gang and others standing near Lu Weiyi looked alert, and obviously did not notice anything.
"Are they affected by mental power?" Fei Mo asked Wang Bing.
The team used to have a powerful psychic in the past, which made them more or less understand the abilities of psychics.
But such a large-scale impact...
"Don't let them run around," Lu Weiyi said as he closed his eyes and relaxed his vigilance. The voice that he mistakenly thought was ringing in his ears actually appeared directly in his brain, like a kind of conscious communication, revealing a high-end feeling.
A sinister and sharp voice was threatening them, signaling them to get out, and a scene followed.
Countless zombies gathered outside the city. They frantically attacked the city walls, using their supernatural powers and their bodies, determined to destroy the city at all costs.
The scene didn't look like the zombies were behaving autonomously out of instinct, but rather gave people a feeling of being manipulated.
Lu Weiyi recalled Su Yan’s assessment of the destruction of the two bases—there was a zombie leader driving them.
This scene seemed to confirm what he said.
Lu Weiyi saw that the city wall was broken into several cracks under the zombies' relentless siege, and then it was out of control and there was no possibility of resistance. Seeing that it was imminent to be lost, the person in charge of the base wanted to seize an opportunity to let the remaining people fight out a bloody path.
However, the car's tires were torn apart by countless mutant rats that emerged from the ground, making it impossible to start.
The surging tide of rats bit anyone they saw, no matter if they were zombies or people with special powers. They were not affected by the zombies' energy and did not change. However, the teeth that had bitten zombies caused them to turn into zombies when they attacked people with special powers.
Under the double-sided attack, the way of survival was completely cut off until the entire city became a paradise for zombies and mutated rats.
Then the mutant rats' target became the coexisting zombies. Their reproduction intensified and their levels increased. They devoured the zombies one by one with their numbers, and eventually became skeletons that could be seen everywhere.
This once prosperous city eventually became a paradise for mutant rats.
The scene freezes at a moment when groups of mutant rats are climbing onto a zombie. It is a dark mass, and the hissing and gnawing sounds come from deep within the consciousness, as if one has experienced it personally, with a sense of fear coming from the depths of the soul - it is scaring everyone in this way.
Lu Weiyi opened his eyes and looked around. Many people around him had been affected. He probed towards the source of the mental power. A mutant mouse, more than one meter tall, was nestled on its "throne" (a large cat's nest), and a pair of black eyes looked at him from a distance of thousands of meters.
[Leave, here].
It really is "speaking".
This was the first time that Lu Weiyi felt the usefulness of mental power. It seemed like different species were communicating with each other through consciousness.
"no".
"no?"
"no--"
"No!"
Lu Weiyi tried several times but was unable to communicate with the mutant rat king. It seemed that the difference in level was not much, but the other party, a rat, seemed to use his mental power more diversely than he, a human. Lu Weiyi felt frustrated and ashamed at the same time.
He decided to go back and ask Zhuang Mingxu to help him find a solution, but now -
We still have to solve the problem at hand.
He had just upgraded to SSS, and an SSS-level mutant animal had already appeared here. Looking at the speed of upgrading, if it is not dealt with, it will only become a more powerful hidden danger in the future. What's more, the other party can now try to communicate with humans. The future direction of evolution is simply unimaginable.
After removing the mental power of the affected psychic, Lu Weiyi said to Zhao Gang, "There is an SSS-level psychic mutant rat king in there. I will deal with it, and you teams can deal with the rest."
"Don't try to escape, you can only choose to live here or die here."
Feeling Lu Weiyi's rejection, the mutant rat king angrily left the "throne" and ran towards the humans who provoked it. At the same time, the entire city suddenly came alive.
A swarm of rats of all sizes poured out from every corner, dyeing the entire base city black.
An extremely fast figure rushed towards this side. Lu Weiyi only had time to say, "Coordinate the groups yourself", and quickly released the Phoenix from his consciousness area, leading the mutant rat king to run away from the psychic.
At the same level, the rat that was obviously better at escaping had more advantages. It caught up with Lu Weiyi in a short while, and its mental power attacked Lu Weiyi's brain like sharp thorns.
Perhaps it was instinct or a habit of dealing with low-level creatures, all its attacks were directed towards the center of the eyebrows where the crystal core was located. However, after entering the SSS, the psychic's energy had been gathered throughout the body - not only Lu Weiyi, but it as well.
Lu Weiyi took out a scimitar from the space to block the rat's claws, and used the mental barrier to block the opponent's attacking mental power. The phoenix's sharp claws were already grabbing towards the mutant rat king.
"Be careful, it also has a spiritual body." Lu Weiyi wrapped the small green branches around him and was on guard at all times for possible other attacks, and warned Phoenix.
"Quack-- (Of course I know)" the Phoenix responded proudly, which did not affect its ability to drag the whole mouse at all.
Attacks between animals are more instinctive; their fighting is natural, more primitive and bloody.
The Phoenix's claws left deep bloody marks on the mutant Rat King, and the Rat King also used its sharp claws to inflict damage on the Phoenix - the damage to the spiritual body was not caused by the influence of flesh and blood, but by layers of thin mist-like energy that dissipated from the main body into the air.
The subject's energy will gradually fade away, and eventually completely dissipate back into the consciousness area.
This was the first time that Lu Weiyi saw a creature capable of attacking a spiritual body.
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