Chapter 37: Hunting the Rat King
"It's not big, it's not as big as yours." Jiang Lao spoke again.
Poplar could also see clearly that the crystals produced by these mutant rats were about the size of peach pits, but for ordinary mutants, they should be barely enough.
Like him, the volume of the dantian space is much larger than that of ordinary people, and the order of magnitude required is not so easy to accumulate.
"How's it going?" Jiang Lao asked rhetorically.
"After absorbing it, the effect is remarkable, and there are no side effects so far, but I still recommend that other mutants postpone it for some more time, and there is no need to rush it anyway."
"Boy, are you overly cautious? I'm more timid than anyone I'm over the age of six. Jiang Lao laughed.
"Be careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship, Jiang Lao, I have suffered a lot of losses."
"Okay, listen to you first, and wait another day." Jiang Lao nodded in agreement.
After about half an hour, the corpses of the mutant rats in the field had been disposed of, and a total of 823 purple crystals had been obtained.
The four of the Guardians reassemble, and Poplar reveals his idea of going outside the defense zone to hunt mutant rats, which is unanimously agreed by the other three.
"This time I went to give a sample to the other mutants, and by the way, I wanted to explore the situation, so there may be a certain danger, are you ready?"
Poplar reconfirmed.
"It's a small meaning, Ninth Master, I haven't really used the power of the wilderness yet." The Ninth Master was the first to agree.
"Don't worry, Captain, you have to kill a mutant rat king with your own hands." Wei Dabao was eager to try.
And Liu Yuting has firm eyes, and her intention to fight is self-evident.
Poplar nodded and reminded: "You don't need to bring a gun this time to prevent startling the snake." ”
"Understood."
A few minutes later, the four of them headed out of the defense zone again.
The dark and purple-filled streets of high-rise buildings were filled with a violent and restless atmosphere, and countless pairs of strange eyes glowing with scarlet colors were scattered in this somewhat dead and silent area.
The bustling streets, once brightly lit, are now extremely depressed and desolate, and the cold wind blowing in the middle of the night brings up the dead branches and leaves on the ground that have long been uncleaned, mixed with the moving empty cans, rattling and tinkling.
At this moment, a terrible sound was heard, and a bloated figure quickly ran through the street, and the heavy gasps as he ran seemed particularly clear and audible in the quiet of the night.
Behind this figure, there were two giant things like adult buffaloes in frantically pursuit, one after the other, the huge red eyes like light bulbs staring directly at the figure in front of them, and the foul saliva flowing down the ugly giant mouth drew a long and intermittent line on the narrow street.
"Heizi, do it, Lao Tzu has run and collapsed." The fat figure howled silently.
"Hurry up, it'll be there soon." There was a voice in front of him, it was Wei Dabao.
At this time, Wei Dabao was standing on the balcony on the second floor of a low house on the side of the street, holding a steel pipe with an arm's thickness of two meters in his hand.
"Damn, I'll lose weight as the ninth master." The ninth master not far away was dissatisfied, regretting that he should not have taken the initiative to take the task of seducing the rat king in order to be in the limelight, and now it proves that his fat body is indeed more coveted by the rat king than others.
"Shoot!" When the Ninth Master passed by the low house where Wei Dabao was, he made a sad sound, but his footsteps did not stop, for fear that he would be bitten by the giant rat behind him if he was half a beat slower.
And Wei Dabao had already prepared his posture, and before the two giant rats passed by this side, they had already bowed and jumped out of the balcony, and the half-moon-shaped posture was full of amazing explosive power, condensed and formed in the half-middle.
The sound of "whew" sounded, it was the whistling sound of the steel pipe cutting through the air, and the next moment the powerful steel pipe instantly smashed into the head of the giant rat behind, and the giant rat who had no time to dodge was frightened, but there was no way to make any resistance.
"Boom" There was a loud bang, and the four exposed fangs on the giant rat's mouth were instantly shattered, and some of the narrow heads were immediately hit and deformed, but due to inertia, the back half of the body rose directly into the air, and with the deformed head came to a 720-degree somersault, and finally fell heavily on the road.
One-hit kill, efficient kill.
And the rat king in front saw that his companion was killed like lightning, and he also realized that the situation was wrong, and immediately stopped the pursuit of the ninth master, wanting to find an opportunity to escape.
However, there is a figure in front and behind the Rat King, and there are tall buildings on both sides, and there is nowhere to go at all.
The Ninth Master smiled and walked slowly towards the Rat King, his salivating appearance was no different from the previous Rat King.
"Little mouse, it's cool enough to chase me? Hey, hey, hey! A gloomy laugh came from the mouth of the ninth master.
"Now it's my turn, little Jerry."
Jiu Ye rubbed his palm, took out the standard machete from his waist and rubbed it on his clothes, ready to sharpen the knife Huo Huo towards the Rat King.
"Don't rub the Ninth Master, let's go together." The voice fell, and Wei Dabao on the opposite side was already carrying a somewhat deformed steel pipe, and rushed directly towards the remaining rat king.
"Damn, don't rob me Jerry." The ninth master shouted, and the fat body had also been dispatched, crushing towards the low-screaming rat king, how could he still have the embarrassed state when he fled for his life before.
At this time, in another battlefield in this area, Poplar had already defeated the three mutant rat kings alone, and was happily reaping the fruits of victory.
"Three crystals, good." Poplar nodded in satisfaction.
Since entering this area outside this defensive area, the four members of the team chose to disperse and hone their own skills.
Jiu Ye naturally worked with Wei Dabao to take care of each other, but Liu Yuting insisted on being alone, saying that in this way she could achieve a better training effect.
Although Baiyang was not at ease, he had no choice but to agree, once this Nizi decided, even the weight of the nine nine masters would not be able to pull back. Thinking about it, he really doesn't have any prestige in front of her.
However, he deliberately did not go too far away from Liu Yuting, and he could quickly support in case of an accident.
After putting away the crystals found in the head of the Rat King, Poplar secretly thought to himself, it seems that the probability of producing crystals is almost 100% for a mutant creature of the level of the Rat King.
The strength of these three-headed rat kings is quite ordinary, slightly inferior to the "hedgehog" killed by Poplar earlier, but fortunately, no further strength of the rat king has been found yet, which shows that at this stage, the space and probability of the rat king's growth by devouring have become much smaller.
"Go on." Poplar pocketed the crystal, stood up and glanced around.
Keen perception and the function of Tianyan perspective can completely allow him to see through the dark night when he can't see his fingers.
And as long as there are not many obstacles, his perspective ability can still play a noticeable effect.
Poplar's gaze actively ignored the ordinary mutant rats shivering in the corner, looking for a target that would interest him a little.
When his gaze swept over a certain wall, his eyes suddenly froze, and he looked at a long object curled under the wall in a strange way.
At first, he thought it was a dead object, similar to a water pipe, but when he looked at it again, he realized that the object had a circle of bones, and a purple crystal like a date kernel in its brain.
"It's... A mutated snake? Poplar suddenly got goosebumps, he was most afraid of this animal.
When he was a child, he caught non-venomous snakes with his friends, but at that time, he was not sensible, and there were many people, so he didn't realize how terrible this thing was.
"What's there to be afraid of?" Bai Yang patted his head and began to criticize himself in his heart, "Tang Tang mutant, the character who turned his hands over the clouds and rained his hands, is he still afraid of a mutated little snake?" ”
Poplar asked himself a question, finally adjusted his mentality, took a deep breath, and then, as if he had made a decision, suddenly turned his body away from the direction of the snake, and ran away.
After running a distance of 100 meters, Poplar slowed down and gradually calmed down.
"Some snakes have also mutated, but snakes are cold by nature, like to hide in the shadows, and mainly feed on frogs, rats, insects, etc."
"Wait, feeding on rats?" Poplar suddenly understood that now there are rats in the city, and there are very many of them, it is simply a paradise for snakes to prey, and indirectly, it may also attract more rodent natural enemies to gather here, so won't this become an animal paradise at that time?
"The situation is not optimistic." Poplar frowned, but there is no particularly good way for the time being, and there are still problems for humans to protect themselves, let alone divide their forces to completely eradicate mutated creatures.
"You have to stabilize the situation first, and then plan for the rest of it." Poplar settled down, and already had some ideas in his heart, so he just waited to implement it step by step.
"Chirp... Pump! When Baiyang was thinking to himself, a strange cry suddenly came from not far away, listening to this sound is a rat king, only a few hundred meters away from him, and the source of the sound is the direction where Liu Yuting is.
Bai Yang thought that Liu Yuting and the Rat King were fighting together, but he didn't worry too much, with the strength of this Nizi, it was not much of a problem to fight the two Rat Kings alone.
But before Poplar could completely put his mind at ease, he suddenly felt the ground start to shake slightly, and then he saw that hundreds of mutated giant rats were rushing from the direction where the cry came from, and there was also a rat king caught in it.
"The rat tide is coming again?" Poplar was startled and immediately prepared for battle.
But just as he was solemnly preparing to collide with the rat colony, the mutant rats regarded him as if he were nothing, and walked directly past him, even the rat king.
And looking at the appearance of these rats, it is not to go in the direction of the defense area, it seems that they are just to avoid something, and they feel a little rushed to escape, just like the situation after Poplar killed the "hedgehog".
"Yuting shouldn't have this ability, right?" Poplar was a little puzzled, and he didn't care about these fleeing rats, and ran directly in the direction of that side.