But as we walked, everyone felt something was wrong.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" More and more rats were running around on the official road.
"Why are there so many rats?"
"Alas! If there are many dead bodies, there will be many rats, won't it?"
"So many flies..."
"This smells so bad, it makes me want to vomit!"
"Alas! What a sin!"
An elder reminded: "Watch out for the food and the children!"
Everyone then realized that the only remaining victim had bloodshot eyes and was glaring at them.
"Mom! I'm scared, wuwuwu..." A two or three-year-old child cried out.
The woman handed the bundle in her hand to the person next to her and picked up the child: "My dear, be good! I am here, don't be afraid..."
Tang Youyou looked at the disaster victims around her who were staring at her with eager eyes, and her heart skipped a beat. In her previous life, she had watched zombie movies, and only eyes like this would be formed after the zombies had eaten human flesh. She felt extremely sick.
He decisively approached the Liu clan leader and said, "Uncle Liu, I have something to discuss with you!"
Patriarch Liu was a little surprised. They hadn't stopped yet. What was so urgent?
"Uncle Liu, have you heard that after a great disaster there will always be a great epidemic?"
Clan leader Liu paused, his eyes widened in fear.
"Chief? What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Chief, why don't you take a ride on the ox cart and rest for a while..."
The sound of everyone's discussion brought his thoughts back to reality. He changed his expression and waved his hand: "It's okay. Tell everyone to cover their mouths and noses."
Then he approached Tang Youyou with a nervous look on his face: "What do you mean?"
Tang Youyou's eyes moved among the victims: "Their eyes are bloodshot, and they are gnawing on the corpses, and they are fighting with rats for food. I once heard a wandering Taoist priest say that these rats are poisonous..."
It was as if something had suddenly dawned on Chief Liu. He suddenly remembered that there was a man in the village who was bitten by a rat and foamed at the mouth. He was eventually sent to the hospital but died.
"What should we do? If this is true, the consequences will be disastrous."
"Let's go into the mountains... Firstly, these disaster victims don't have enough energy to climb. Secondly, the mountains are less populated, so it should be safer. Finally, we can find some herbs in the mountains just in case."
The look in Chief Liu's eyes as he looked at her changed from admiration to respect.
"Okay, okay! I'll do as you say!"
She took out a map, thought for a moment, and pointed to a spot: "These mountains lead directly to Wumu, only three hundred miles from the border of Nanzhou. The entrance to the mountains is five miles ahead."
Patriarch Liu immediately went to spread the news.
But before we even got to the five-mile mark, we heard someone shouting, "Run! There's a rat..."
"The rats are coming..."
Everyone didn't know what to do. Tang Youyou grabbed Bai Ruo and lifted her up above his head: "What did you see?"
Bai Ruoyi's face was filled with fear. "So many rats, a black mass! Running towards us."
Tang Youyou shouted: "Run to the woods!"
Everyone dropped their weapons and ran towards the woods. Tang's mother grabbed her and tried to leave.
"Mom, don't worry about me, I know what to do, let's go..."
Time was urgent and she had no time to explain. She pulled up several large trees with her bare hands, blocked one side of the forest, threw a tinder, and the half-dry trees were instantly ignited.
"Youyou... Youyou..." Mother Tang's eyes were bloodshot as she looked at the group of rats in front of her.
The sound of "squeak, squeak, squeak..." was loud and noisy, and dense swarms of rats surged forward like a black tide, leaving a mess wherever they went.
Those carts that were not taken away were turned into powder in an instant. Their eyes were red and their teeth were sharp. They pounced madly on everything edible, even wood, cloth, and corpses.
Tang Youyou felt her scalp tingling and goose bumps all over her body. She ran away in just a moment!
Oh my God, this is more exciting than the movies. The speed is too fast. I can’t stop it even if I want to.
When he passed by Tang's mother, he picked her up along with Tang's father who was standing there in a daze, and ran away leaving afterimages.
Passing villagers stared with wide eyes: "At this time, why do you still need this? Run."
So everyone dropped their food, carts, and cows and ran away.
"Ah!" There were constant wailing sounds behind me.
Chief Liu shouted: "Climb the tree!"
Everyone climbed up the tree quickly after hearing this, but the bark on the nearby trees had been stripped off, making it impossible to climb up.
Tang Youyou had no time to save others: "Dad, Mom, come and see where our cub is?"
Tang's mother pointed to the right: "Right..."
She subconsciously ran to the right and saw Tang Wen and Zhang the Butcher pushing a cart and Xu Da pulling a cow, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
The children's eyes lit up when they saw her: "Mom/Aunt, this way...quickly..."
Tang Youyou put Tang's mother and father into the ox cart and took Tang Wen's place: "Children, sit down!"
She only felt the whistling of the wind in her ears. She didn't know how long she had been running until she was exhausted and the wailing in her ears had disappeared. Only then did she stop.
Tang's mother suddenly jumped off the ox cart and vomited violently.
Old man Tang just felt dizzy and saw stars.
"Aunt, are you okay?"
Tang Youyou sat down and gasped for breath. She felt like her throat was smoking and couldn't utter a word.
I turned around and found that there was no one there. My heart skipped a beat: Why is no one following me?
The children took out their water bags and handed them to her: "Auntie, have some water!"
Tang Youyou took Xiao'er's water bag and showed it off with a clang.
After a while, he asked, "Children, did you see clearly? Did the mice stop?"
The children shook their heads.
"Auntie, you ran too fast and we couldn't see clearly."
She patted her chest and said, "Oh my god, it's so scary. The rats are like a colony of ants. If I don't run faster, I will probably be turned into powder. It's really a good thing to be strong."
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