These mutated rats are big and fat, and their meat is delicious. Although it was mentioned above that these rats carry an ancient glacial virus and their saliva contains toxins, none of them were affected after eating them.
So while they were trying to catch the mutated rat, they forgot that the mutated rat also held grudges.
When humans frantically dug up the mutated rats' nests, which were tens or even hundreds of meters deep, the largest rat in those nests commanded the other rats to begin attacking humans.
In the beginning, they specifically chose teams with fewer people.
Although the people digging the rat holes had tools such as hoes and shovels, the rats, which were bigger than fat cats, had amazing jumping ability.
Under the command of their leader, they would jump specifically onto people's faces, their thick limbs grabbing the faces of the humans, who, in their panic, could only drop their tools and weapons.
After all, you can't point a weapon at your own head!
Then he reached out to try and remove the mutated rat that was hugging its face tightly.
In the blink of an eye, those mutated rats, seemingly possessed by magic, seized the opportunity and swiftly bit down hard on the human's neck.
Whether it's an animal or a human, the neck is arguably the most vulnerable part of the body, and it's also the closest part to the head and heart.
The poisonous saliva from their mouths is delivered into the human bloodstream through their teeth. In just two or three minutes, a perfectly healthy person can die from convulsions and suffocation caused by the deadly poison in the mouth of the mutated rat.
Humans eat mutated rats, and after the mutated rats bite and poison humans to death, their corpses become food for these mutated rats.
Moreover, the mutated rats, driven mad by bloodlust or having tasted human flesh, will follow human movements, track them to residential areas, and actively attack them.
Fortunately, after the swarm of mutated red ants, and thanks to the steel protective netting business driven by the Xu family, people's safety awareness has increased significantly.
In one residential community, at least half of the households have installed reinforced steel protective netting.
Humans live in close proximity, while rats have a stronger survival ability than humans. Whether in the wilderness or in human-inhabited communities, there are always traces of rats.
In short, rats, with their extremely high reproductive rate, cannot be eradicated.
In addition to the effects of the ancient glacial virus, the rats that were bred in batches grew into rats weighing four or five pounds and with extremely strong attack power in less than half a month.
So after receiving countless SOS calls about mutated rat attacks on humans, the government issued a forced order: "For the safety of the people, no more killing of mutated rats is allowed!"
But there are always some people who are inherently rebellious and refuse to believe in evil.
For example, a few idle hooligans in Xu Lai's neighborhood have been going on a rampage ever since they tasted rat meat.
Although the government has issued a clear order forbidding the killing of mutated rats, these people still go secretly.
"Boss Wei, are you really going to pour all this diesel fuel into these rat holes?"
The three young men, dressed in drab gray, reached out and wiped the sweat from their faces.
As he wiped his face, the sweat left streaks, making him look particularly unkempt.
"Second brother, third brother, and fourth brother, pour diesel fuel into the rat holes in front of you. Fifth brother and sixth brother, you two guard the last rat hole!"
Wei Laoda held a shovel in one hand and directed his five henchmen with the other.
Upon hearing their leader's words, the second, third, and fourth thugs immediately poured the diesel fuel they were holding onto the firewood stuffed into the rat hole at their feet.
The fifth and sixth brothers each gripped a hoe tightly with both hands, and there were ten large baskets placed side by side beside them. The other brother carried a large bamboo basket, and as soon as a fat rat rushed out of the rat hole beneath him, he turned the basket upside down.
After pouring in the diesel fuel, I started the fire.
After seeing the firewood in the rat hole at their feet was lit, the second, third, and fourth brothers grabbed two planks and fanned the flames.
The firewood, completely dry, burned brighter and brighter with the help of diesel fuel, and the three thugs sped up the process of adding more firewood into the cave.
Thick smoke, a mixture of diesel fuel and firewood, carrying a pungent odor, was forced into the rat hole by the wooden fan.
A quarter of an hour later, the thugs called Lao Wu and Lao Liu heard the pitiful squeaking of the mutated rats.
"Get ready, the fat rats are coming out!"
Hearing the commotion, Wei the Elder excitedly grabbed a sturdy shovel and strode over to the rat hole where Lao Wu and Lao Liu were.
As soon as he stood still at the entrance of the rat hole, a gray rat weighing over ten kilograms rushed out of the basketball-sized hole.
"They're out! They're out!"
Having already gained experience in hunting mutated rats, the fifth and sixth brothers quickly aimed their tools at the mutated rats rushing out of their holes.
The rat, already somewhat dizzy from the pungent smoke, was smashed to a bloody pulp by the second brother's hoe.
The second mouse that rushed out had its head chopped off by Boss Wei with a shovel.
The third, the fourth, and finally five palm-sized mice rushed out before the mutated rats stopped escaping.
"I'm rich! I'm rich! I caught twenty-two mutated rats today, seventeen big ones and five small ones!"
When Wei Laoda and his five underlings saw the mice neatly arranged in rows from largest to smallest on the ground, they jumped for joy.
Little did they know that behind a nearby earthen slope, a rat weighing twenty or thirty pounds and as big as a dog was staring motionlessly at the rows of dead rats and their offspring on the ground.
The corpses were either decapitated or had their legs severed, and the ground beneath each corpse was stained red with their blood.
After witnessing this horrific scene, the giant rat looked at the six thugs with eyes filled with hatred!
Wei and his six companions had a great harvest today, and in their elation, they completely ignored the government's warnings about the mutated poisonous rats.
They skinned the five small mutant rats, each weighing two or three pounds, on the spot and then made them into roasted tender rat meat.
This time, the large mutated rat that had been watching the group from a distance did not make a move.
Instead, it waited until the group finished eating the roasted rat meat and left with its rat offspring before quietly following them.
After Wei and his brothers brought the seventeen mutated rats back to Jinxiu Haoting, they openly set up a stall in the community and sold fifteen of the mutated rats at a high price.
The other two were carried back to their three-building compound by them.
During the day, everything was normal, but as the sun set and mysterious darkness enveloped everything on Earth, a terrifying scene unfolded.
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