Bang——

The thing hit the glass, making a sound accompanied by a cracking sensation. Lu Ban clenched the crowbar at hand and knocked it subconsciously.

Snap——

The glass was shattered in an instant, and fragments stained with some sticky and smelly liquid flew everywhere, causing Shitou to hurriedly cover his head and crouch down to defend himself. Lu Ban narrowed his eyes slightly and saw a mass of something falling from mid-air and landing on the ground.

“…”

Shi Tou watched all this in a daze, and suddenly felt that Lu Ban's destructive power was much greater than that unknown thing.

"What is it?"

Lu Ban took out a flashlight and illuminated the ground.

Outside, the driver and "Hound" also came upon hearing the news. "Hound" could be seen holding a slightly rough pistol in his hand, which seemed homemade. He looked at the crowbar in Lu Ban's hand warily, and then turned his gaze to the ground.

It was a ball of furry flesh, and judging by its size, it was probably the size of a small dog or rabbit. The dirty ground was made even more disgusting by the flesh and blood, and the stench was enough to make those clean-loving children vomit on the spot.

"What kind of animal is this?"

Lu Ban asked again.

"This is...a rat."

Hound said hesitantly, he looked again at the direction the creature had crashed from, into the ruins illuminated by the lights of the bus.

"We better get back in the car and turn off the lights. I have a feeling something bad is going to happen."

"No, it has already happened."

Mary came to the window at some point, took a deep look into the darkness, and then bent down.

Bend down?

When Lu Ban noticed this, the collision sound was heard again.

Bang——

A mass of black flesh and blood just jumped out from the deep dark shadows and hit the glass in front of the stone.

This time, Lu Ban did not raise the crowbar in his hand, so the people in the car were able to see the true appearance of the flesh and blood.

It was indeed a rat.

However, when this giant rat, which was as big as a dachshund, hit the glass at a speed faster than a bullet, the powerful impact directly destroyed its bones and muscles.

This creature was spread out on the transparent glass like a pie, revealing its bizarre body structure, internal organs, bones, muscles, and blood vessels. At this moment, it was crumpled into a ball and then roughly torn apart, appearing so openly under the light.

It killed itself.

Stone, this young man who had never seen the world, stared blankly at the flesh and blood that was gradually sliding off. It seemed that all his attention was taken away by this thing and he was unable to think at all. The bloodshot in his eyes became brighter and seemed to cover his entire pupils.

Lu Ban seemed to have sensed something. He knocked on Stone's head with a crowbar, causing the stiff young man to squat in response, and he also leaned over at the same time.

The next moment, there was another loud noise.

Bang——

Another rat hit the bus, and the sound was like drilling through steel, which was terrifying.

The young man held his head with his hands, huddled up in a ball, and muttered a prayer that came from nowhere.

"Walk!"

The "Hound" barked, pushed the driver, raised the gun in his hand, and the next moment, the gunshot was accompanied by the sound of something breaking.

Lu Ban saw a mouse jump up and hit the right shoulder of the "hound" at a speed that was difficult to capture with the naked eye.

His burly body caved in deeply, and the mouse's body tissues collapsed because they could not withstand such impact, accompanied by severe fractures or dislocations. A painful expression appeared on the "Hound"'s face. He covered the wound with the hand holding the gun and moved towards the front of the car.

It's unimaginable that these giant rats completely abandoned their lives and no one knew what they were going to do.

Bang, bang, bang——

The sound of collisions with the bus continued, causing the entire vehicle to shake.

“Damn it, damn it!”

"Hound" had no time to treat his own wounds and could only urge the driver to start the engine quickly.

The hoarse engine sound sounded and then fell silent, and then sounded again in the noisy night, torturing everyone's nerves.

Snap——

A mouse crashed into the car through the window that Lu Ban had shattered. It hit the railing and the whole mouse was deformed and twisted, but it did not completely shatter. Instead, it twitched and twisted and crawled on the ground.

“Ahhhhhh!”

The sound of the stone trembled like waves. He tried to curl himself up, trying to stay away from the half-dead mouse, but the mouse just dragged a bloody trail on the floor in a weird posture and approached the stone.

Just as the mouse was about to climb up to the ankle of the stone and its flesh, covered with dirty hair, was about to burrow into its rough skin, something pinned the mouse down.

Lu Ban's crowbar hit the mouse and dragged it backwards.

At the same time, the intermittent engine sound, like that of an old man suffering from tuberculosis for many years, finally became coherent.

"Get out of here!"

"Hound" barked, and then Lu Ban felt the seat behind him generating a force, carrying them forward.

The impact of the rat caused the vehicle to shake slightly, but the crystallization of human science and technology continued to move forward. Soon, the teeth-grinding continuous impact sound disappeared, leaving only the last rat that crashed in through the broken window, which was accurately nailed to the ground by Lu Ban's crowbar.

"It's a rat tide."

When everyone took a breath, the taciturn middle-aged woman Mary spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Sometimes the rats in the ruins will migrate en masse due to certain events, forming a huge wave of rats. We were just unlucky enough to run into them."

"You mean, these mice are just migrating at such a fast speed?"

Lu Ban confirmed it, and he saw Mary nod slightly.

"I am actually a scholar who studies wild animals. This time I returned to Feidu to write a paper after completing my research period."

Mary lifted her shawl slightly, revealing her rather elegant clothes and the holster under her ribs.

No one suspected this, they just looked behind the car.

With such a speed and such a large number, no matter what kind of creature it is, it will probably have to take a detour when encountering a rat tide.

This black torrent, unaffected by anyone's will, shuttled through the ruins, sweeping away everything it encountered.

Humans can only avoid and fear, and cannot resist.

The bus gradually returned to a stable driving stage, and the experience just now seemed like just a dream.

Only the sticky, coagulated blood on one side of the car window and the huge rat nailed to the ground by a crowbar proved what had happened before.

"mouse……"

Lu Ban looked at the mouse and suddenly got an inspiration, so he asked.

“Can you eat this mouse?”

"?"

Everyone in the car had question marks in their minds.

"In theory, these rats are just ordinary creatures."

After a long time, Mary answered Lu Ban's question.

"That's pretty good."

Lu Ban took out a frying pan from the backpack at his feet.

"It was really dangerous just now. Let's eat something to calm down first."