The two blue lights flashed and never reappeared, and darkness returned to the rat hole.

Bucky's actions immediately alerted Hawkeye, and he drew his bow and arrows and aimed them at the hole. Coulson, who was standing in front of Agent Clark, also pulled out his pistol, his eyes full of vigilance.

Instinct tells Bucky that the short sword he threw didn't hit the target. Sure enough, when Bucky took out his flashlight and shone it through the hole, he saw that his Edelman shortsword was deep in the ground, and the blow just now was still dodged by the unknown creature.

"Mr. Barnes, what did you just find?" Coulson motioned for the researchers to evacuate, then stepped forward and asked Bucky.

"I don't know, I only saw two blue lights, and they disappeared after I attacked." Bucky frowned, thought for a moment, and continued: "Those two blue lights are most likely the eyes of rats, shining in the dark. ”

After saying that, Bucky leaned down, reached out and took out his short sword from the mouse hole, looked carefully, and found that there was no blood on the short sword, and there was no animal hair, it seemed that Fang Cai's blow did not even rub the fur of the unknown creature.

"It's not like you're an old man, I've never heard that a mouse's eyes glow!" Hawkeye said as he looked at Bucky suspiciously.

"It's true that you've never heard of rats eating people before, have you?"

Bucky's retort immediately annoyed Hawkeye, and he was about to argue a few more words when he was interrupted by Coulson.

"Whatever that thing is, anyway, all we have to do now is figure out where this cave leads. Barton, go to Agent Clark and bring you the tools you need to find your way. ”

After Hawkeye left, Bucky grimaced and said to Coulson in a deep voice, "I'm afraid things are getting more tricky, I think about it, and I always feel that something is wrong with the ordinary mouse I killed just now." You think, there are so many people in the warehouse, and it's daytime, so it is supposed that ordinary rats should not run out of that hole. ”

Coulson was silent for a moment, and seemed to notice something wrong with it, and asked Bucky, "What do you mean?" ”

"I'm afraid that the rat was just a pioneer of pathfinding, and it was something else that drove it, against the instinct of the animal, to run out of that cave." After a pause, Bucky continued, "I'm afraid it's the owner of those two blue lights, who wants to see the reaction of our people through that pathfinder mouse." ”

Bucky's explanation immediately made Coulson's face look much more ugly, and he kept pacing nearby, and after a long time, he said: "You mean, the owner of those two blue lights is an intelligent life?" ”

Bucky didn't speak, just nodded, confirming Coulson's guess.

"Damn! This, how is this possible! ”

You can't blame Coulson for his gaffe, you must know that although a giant rat that has never appeared in the field of human vision is terrifying, with human technology and intelligence, it will eventually think of a solution to it. However, if this giant rat has the same intelligence as a human being, and can even drive other rats, then the appearance of this thing in the city is simply a nightmare, and no one will know from which corner it will suddenly emerge and bring disaster to mankind.

At this moment, Hawkeye came over with a suitcase, followed by two whole squads, twelve heavily armed agents, led by Carl Duncan, who drove Bucky, Coulson, and Hawkeye here.

"Barton, try first and see if you can find another exit from this cave." Coulson then instructed Agent Duncan, "Duncan, when Barton finds another exit, the members of these two teams will go with us to investigate, there may be a battle, you guys are ready." Also, you go tell HQ to send a new team and keep them here, and tell them that the target can be tricky and don't be careless! ”

"Yes, sir!" Hearing Coulson's words, although Agent Duncan was a little nervous, his years of training had allowed him to cultivate excellent military qualities, and without the slightest hesitation, he immediately gave the order to the two squads to be ready for standby.

Hawkeye, on the other hand, opened the suitcase, which contained a small laptop and a remote-controlled car. Taking out the RC car, Hawkeye started operating it on his laptop, controlling the RC car into the cave.

The remote-controlled car is equipped with four small cameras that transmit images from the front, back, left, and right directions to the notebook. It's dark in the cave now, but the four cameras are obviously high-end goods, and they can still transmit the picture back relatively clearly.

Although the hole dug by the rats is uneven, which greatly limits the speed of the remote control car, but fortunately, this cave does not seem to have any forks in the road, as long as you drive slowly, you will eventually find the exit on the other side.

"Hell, do these rats like to burrow so much, why haven't they reached the exit on the other side for so long!"

After more than ten minutes passed, the remote-controlled car drove out for more than a hundred meters, and still hadn't found another exit, Hawkeye complained impatiently.

Although Bucky is not an expert in rats, he also knows that it is impossible for an ordinary rat hole to have such a long distance, and this cave that is more than 100 meters long but does not have a fork in the road can only explain one problem.

"The rats digging this burrow are very smart!" Bucky said to Coulson: "It knows that there is food here, so it has to dig a hole, but the cave of more than 100 meters, without any forks, can accurately reach the destination, which is probably not something that ordinary rats can do." ”

Coulson nodded when he heard this, and his face became a little more solemn.

After another ten minutes, the remote-controlled car finally saw another exit from the cave, and thanks to the advanced technology of S.H.I.E.L.D., even at a distance of more than two hundred meters, the remote-controlled car could still receive the signal sent by Hawkeye, and transmit the video back.

As soon as he drove out of the cave with the remote-controlled car, Hawkeye yelled "Hell", and Bucky and Coulson hurriedly looked at the computer screen, and found that the screen was already a snowflake indicating that the signal had been lost.

"What's going on?" Coulson asked Hawkeye.

Hawkeye hurriedly adjusted the video forward for a few seconds, and the three of them realized that when the remote-controlled car drove out of the cave, there were twenty or thirty rats surrounding the exit at the other exit of the cave. When they saw the remote control car driving out of the cave, the rats swarmed up and then lost the video signal.

"The camera is broken!" Hawkeye said angrily, and then, another place on the laptop screen flashed red, Hawkeye pointed to the screen, and then said: "The positioning system is also broken, that group of rats must have dismantled the exploration vehicle to pieces, otherwise the positioning system would not be so easily destroyed." ”

"They're the guards there, they're there on the orders of that creature!" Bucky said in a deep voice.