Chapter 18: Rats
At this time, Charles thought more, rats have always been the bottom of the ecological chain, there are so many mice, there must be other predators on the island. As for what it is, he doesn't know at the moment, at least certainly not a cat.
As Charles pondered, the rats had receded, and there was not even half a fish bone left on the yellow-white sand.
"The sailors dropped anchor, their weapons and explosives were packed, and they were ready to disembark. Charles gave the order, and the crew began to move.
For this exploration, he prepared more explosives, and although gunpowder was not necessarily useful, it was better than nothing
If the danger on the island was just those rats, these explosives would have come in handy.
Two wooden boats were lowered to the surface, and everyone else came down except for the disabled bandages, who were left to watch the boat, with a strip of cloth tied to their shoulders.
The name and position of each crew member are written on it, and it has been ensured that when they return to the ship, there will be no more or one less person in silence.
The crowd slowly walked between the rocks, the old crew members who had had an experience were quite calm, and the other newcomers had a bit of mood swings, and they were shocked at the slightest breeze.
The rocks on the island became looser and looser, and the bones of some animals began to appear sporadically on the ground.
There was a slight disappointment on Charles's face, and it seemed that the passage to the surface should not be here.
Just when Charles was hesitant to continue walking, suddenly a red light floated between the rocks in the distance.
Charles shrank behind the boulder and whispered to the others, "Hurry up and put out the fire!"
Although the rest of the crew didn't know why, Shan did as the captain ordered.
Without the light of the torches, the red in the distance became clearer, and the bright colors appeared and disappeared between the rocks, drifting towards this direction.
When they got closer, everyone could see the color for what it really was.
The creature as a whole looked like a swollen locust, five meters long, and the red light was emitted by the spots of light buried under its translucent skin, which was very terrifying when it flickered and disappeared.
The grasshopper, though without wings or wings, could soar freely in the air, and it seemed to be searching for something, and the six eye stems that grew on the tip of its body writhed and looked around.
The atmosphere of the humans huddled behind the rocks did not dare to breathe, and some of the timid ones even closed their eyes and trembled.
Charles stared at him and stared at those few eye stalks, just looking at it like this, he knew that it was not a peace-loving thing, and he could try not to provoke it.
"Gollum" didn't know whose stomach suddenly rang, although the sound was small, and then it was undoubtedly like a thunderclap in the silence.
"Huh!" The eyelet of the grasshopper instantly swept towards the human side, and the sharp mouthparts let out a terrifying roar, and the translucent body flickered slightly, and then disappeared directly in place.
"Oops! That thing will be invisible, it's coming!!"
Charles grabbed the explosives at his waist in his hands, his expression tense and resolute, and waited for the monster to come out and fight to the death.
The rest of the crew clenched their weapons as well, and everyone's hearts began to beat faster.
The seconds that Charles was silent, just as he was about to throw the explosives in his hand, the pitch-black environment was illuminated by red light. The locust appeared out of thin air above a rock, its eyes looking into the distance.
"Squeak squeak~" The sound of the rat barking came from that side, and it became louder and louder, as if it was deliberately made.
The locust writhed its swollen body swam swiftly towards it, and the red glow vanished.
In the dark, Charles, who was in a cold sweat, let out a breath, he really didn't expect that he was actually saved by a mouse.
He turned around and was about to speak to the person next to him, when he noticed a pair of glowing green eyes appear on his left side.
But this was the beginning, a pair of eyes lit up, more and more, and the scalp of people looking at the layers of eyes was numb.
Charles took out a match and struck it the rock wall, and the firelight lit up all around, it was rats, countless endless rats surrounded them like arhats, they were surrounded by rats!
"My name is Lili, it's nice to meet you!"
The sudden female voice made everyone's subconscious attack froze.
After a brief identification, Charles saw that it was a white rat standing among the rats. The white mouse's gestures were completely different from his kind, and his eyes were full of agility.
The rats seemed to recognize Charles as their head and jumped in front of him to look up at him. "Hello, my name is Lily, what's your name?"
Charles looked around at the rats and whispered, "Charles." ”
Just as the two had just finished their preliminary conversation, a roar suddenly sounded from the direction where the flying locust had left.
"Oh yes, come on, my friend can only hold it for a while, it's coming back, I'll take you to my house. ”
After saying that, the white rat quickly evacuated with the other mice
Seeing the red light in the distance rising again, Charles didn't dare to stop, and hurriedly followed with the crew.
Compared to that kind of monster, at least these rats still have the possibility of communication.
In the darkness, Charles and his party followed the rats and drilled around, and finally they came to a hole more than a meter high.
When they stepped inside, with torches, in the darkness, a pair of eyes were firmly fixed on the humans who walked into their caves, and the sound of ropes kept ringing,
A dozen torches were lit and thrown into the air, and the firelight illuminated everything here, and the cavern, which was close to the size of a football field, was full of black-brown rats staring at them.
Rats are not strange, but some rats are a little weird with bone tools like humans.
The low-dome houses were lined up with each other, and Charles even saw a big mouse teaching the little mouse to count! Charles felt like he had suddenly arrived in Lilliputia.
The white mouse didn't just move a toy-sized stool from somewhere, jumped on it and sat down, "Can you take me home? ”
A swarm of rats surged up, and in front of each human a bowl of brown liquid, as if meant to entertain guests.
Go home?, Charles looked around at the strange rat holes. "Isn't this your home?"
"Of course not, I'm not a mouse! I'm a human!" argued the white mouse, standing on a stool.
"People?" all the crew members stared at the little mouse in front of them with wide eyes, and they couldn't tell that it was a person.
Seeing Charles's disbelief, Lily the white mouse hurriedly began to explain.
"I'm really human, my parents took me on a boat to see my grandfather on Hefang Island, but I encountered a whirlpool, I fell into the sea, and when I woke up, it became like this, and I don't know why. ”