As long as you find the right way, smuggling is not a difficult task, but the process is difficult.

As I thought so, I jumped over a puddle of dirty water, and my toes happened to step on the corpse of a recently dead mouse, and with a snap, a dozen fat maggots were crushed into soy milk.

Frowning slightly, I stepped on a dirty bag and rubbed it a few times to roughly clean up the maggots' internal organs, I took a deep breath, sniffed the peculiar smell of corruption in the sewer, stared into the distance, and couldn't help muttering, "Why are there so many dead mice?" ”

Through the faint light of the sewers, there were mutilated or intact rat carcasses everywhere.

There are also some who are not dying, constantly twitching their little claws, making painful squeaks, and those small eyes, which were originally pitch black, have completely lost the unique brilliance of living beings, as if they are covered with a faint layer of death.

Although I don't have a crush on rats, I don't hate them either, because they are all living beings and deserve the right to live together.

But when there were rat corpses everywhere I looked, I still felt a feeling of extreme disgust out of thin air.

No, not just disgust, but disgust.

"No wonder no one wants to clean the sewers," I muttered in disgust, "no one would want to do this kind of work, even if it was given." ”

Dead rats are not only disgusting, but they also carry a variety of bacteria that can spread through the air and infect humans.

In the history of the Azure Planet, humanity has experienced several crises that were nearly destroyed by the plague.

However, this disease seems to have never raged on the Zephyr Continent, on the one hand, because of the strength of the doctors here, and on the other hand, the priest can use purification magic to purify most of the toxins in the patient's body, so that the patient is free from toxins.

With such a two-handed grasp, it is no wonder that there has never been any experience of infectious diseases ravaging the world in the Zephyr Continent.

But even so, the cleaning that should be done still has to be done, if you don't clean up and dredge for a long time, resulting in a mountain of garbage and rat corpses, and then when you have to clean up, it will definitely be very troublesome!

On the one hand, he secretly scolded the cleaning staff in Eri City for being lazy, and on the other hand, he was glad that if they were very diligent, I would probably have to find another way to smuggle in.

I cautiously made my way down the wide, dimly lit sewer, and at the same time turned the large knife on my back sideways, so that the tip of the scabbard would not crush the maggots and rub the yellow-white slime on it.

As he walked, he suddenly heard a soft sound not far away.

"Is it a mouse?" I listened intently, guessing at the same time.

"If it's a mouse, it must be not small."

I chuckled and muttered to myself, and as I spoke, the strong killing intent had already been condensed in my hands.

Within a few steps, I saw a gray behemoth in a dimly lit corner.

It was about the size of a piglet, and its fur reflected a faint glow in the dim light.

It looks a lot like a mouse, but it's bigger than a mouse...... In other words, there are many creatures in the Zephyr Continent that are beyond the scope of common sense, take the King of the Forest as an example, whose bear can grow to more than four meters tall, so it is not surprising that even if a mouse the size of a piglet really appears.

With the mentality that more is better than less, I tried to bypass the big rat so as not to alarm it.

Unexpectedly, this mouse raised his head suddenly, stared at me with a pair of eyes that emitted a light red blush, and stared at me in a daze.

I held my breath and stood motionless, intending to alleviate the rat's hostility towards me in this state.

If it was an ordinary beast in front of me, most of them would have been deceived by me, but unfortunately, it was not.

With a squeak, the rat jumped up on the spot, opened its bloody mouth, and bit at my throat.

Mori Bai's teeth flickered with a faint cold light, which would make people feel creepy at first glance, let alone face its attack head-on!

But I'm not false after a long time on the battlefield, no matter how sharp the mouth and sharp the teeth are, this thing is still a creature, and without the blessing of external forces, it shouldn't cause substantial damage to my metal handguards.

...... At least, that's what I think.

This monster, which looks like a rat with big teeth, bit down on the gauntlet that I handed over without hesitation, and I heard a squeaky metal friction sound, and the fingers wrapped in the gauntlet actually felt oppressive!

"it!" With a low snort, I took a step forward, threw my arm around, and threw the big rat out.

With a muffled thud, the rat slammed into the wall with a muffled grunt of pain.

I raised my right hand and shone into the faint light, and I was shocked to see a scene - the thick, hard metal gauntlet was actually dented by the mouse's front teeth!

This is only the power of one bite, if it bites several times in a row, this pair of gauntlets will not be wasted!

Thinking about it like this, I became ferocious, pulled the knife out of the sheath, and didn't care whether it was buried or not, it was a knife aimed at the big mouse that pounced on the second time.

The big knife wrapped in killing intent cut the mouse in two without any hindrance.

After landing on the ground, the big rat stared at those reddish eyes, kicked his legs a few times, and never moved again.

Fishy black-red blood spilled all over the ground, and steaming internal organs also flowed all over the ground with the spillage of blood.

Soon, from the corpses of rats everywhere, several small mice of normal size crawled out and rushed to the corpse of the big mouse, squeaking excitedly while desperately gnawing on the internal organs of the big mouse and licking its blood.

One of the little mice, probably too weak for the reason, it crawls very slowly.

When passing by the giant mouth of the big mouse, it stopped, moved its ears, raised a pair of small paws, and stroked its beard, and at this moment of lightning, the upper half of the big mouse's body jumped up again, bit the weak little mouse, and then crunched and chewed.

The little mouse only let out a scream, and then there was no more sound.

The rat chewed for a while before finally stopping.

Blood trickled down from the corner of its mouth, the blood of a little mouse.

After a few more minutes, another mouse ran up to its mouth, sniffed the fresh blood, and began to lick it.

This time, the rat didn't move again, it was indeed hanging, but it didn't disappear out of thin air like the monsters in the dungeon.

Shining into the faint light again, I subconsciously muttered, "It's a great tooth to be able to bite even metal like this." ”

With this pair of teeth alone, I am afraid that it can be comparable to the pair of crusts of the ghost-faced spider.

"It's not easy for the sewer cleaners here, they have to face swarms of rat corpses, garbage and excrement everywhere, and at the same time be wary of pig-sized rats," I shook my head and said to myself: "It's said that life is easy, life is easy, life is not easy, I think the cleaning staff working here want to ensure that they survive." ”

(End of chapter)