Chapter Twenty-Three: The Mutant Rats
Cars roared, and an off-road vehicle and a bus drove one after the other on the country road, which had many twists and turns, but at least it avoided a car accident blocking the road, and there would be no large crowds of corpses.
Guangdong in 2020 has developed very rapidly, and almost all the roads leading to the countryside are paved with cement roads, so You Xi and his people will not feel bumpy when driving on the country roads.
The fields on both sides of the car window were overgrown with weeds that were more than a man tall, and some weeds peeked out diagonally from both sides of the road, blocking the road in front of the car. It's not the first time that everyone has seen the anomaly of plants in the wild, so it's no surprise.
After a morning's walk, finally without walking, the people sitting in the car were relieved, and after eating some dry food, some people fell asleep in the car.
According to the plan, You Xi and the others were going to pass by the gathering place that the long-haired man said to inquire about the situation, and then continued to drive towards the Ningshan base, but due to the many bends in the country roads, they might not be able to get the gathering place before sunset today.
"Quack!" The eighth elder brother on the roof of the bus shouted a few times, and the people in the car had long been accustomed to it, and after the lazy man went to find some mountain fruits to eat, he fell on the roof of the car to rest, and from time to time he was tripped by the weeds on the side of the road and screamed a few times.
The two cars continued to move on the winding country road, the surrounding weeds covering the roof of the car, and looking down from the sky, they crawled through the grass like two ladybugs, one large and one small.
Suddenly, the off-road vehicle driving in front of a sudden brake, stopped, the bus behind fortunately reacted in time, rubbing a long brake mark on the ground, and then narrowly stopped less than an inch away from the off-road vehicle, however, the people in the car were not so lucky, and many people who fell asleep directly knocked their foreheads red.
"How did Xiaoqiang drive in front, he was still playing rear-end chasing after the end of the world!"
Everyone scolded and got out of the car, but they saw that Zhang Minghai had already walked over with a gloomy face, "There is a fallen tree blocking the road ahead, we have to find a way to clear it." ”
The people who got off the bus stepped forward and cleared the weeds on the side of the road, and sure enough, in front of the off-road vehicle, a poplar tree more than one meter thick fell in the middle of the road, blocking their way.
"How could this poplar tree fall in the middle of the road, you see its fracture, it seems to be some kind of animal bite marks." Li Haowen carefully observed the fracture of the poplar tree, pushed the gold-rimmed glasses and said.
"Woo woo ......" Tiger Girl suddenly hunched her back and roared at the grass on the side, and her golden cat's eyes almost shrunk to the size of almonds.
"What's wrong with you, Tiger Girl?" Zhang Xiaoxiao looked at the tiger girl who reacted violently and asked suspiciously.
"Rustling ......" Just when everyone was puzzled, the grass began to shake violently, first to one side, then to the surrounding area, as if something was quickly shuttling between the grass.
"What's that?"
Everyone hurriedly drew their weapons, and the tense atmosphere began to spread between the two cars, and the surrounding grass shook more and more.
"Flutter!" The eighth brother on the roof of the car flapped his wings and flew into the air, but the two-meter-high grass on all sides of the road blocked his vision, and only the rustling sound could be heard from the grass.
"What the hell is it?" Zhang Ziyan's voice was a little hoarse, and the palms of his hands holding the gun began to sweat.
But the only thing that answered him was the whining of the tiger girl and the rustling of the grass, and suddenly, the violently shaking grass stopped shaking, like a wild beast quietly preparing to be culled.
"Meow!" The tiger girl screamed, and the grass that had been quiet began to shake again, as if she was very afraid of the tiger girl, and the things hiding in the grass did not dare to show her true body.
"Squeak squeak......" A shrill cry sounded in the grass to the left, the voice was high and high-pitched, but the originally chaotic grass fell silent the moment it heard this sound.
Li Haowen, who heard this cry, instantly changed color and shouted at everyone: "It's not good, it's a swarm of rats, get on the roof of the car!" ”
The nervous crowd immediately shrank to the bus, several men held guns in both hands and guarded the surroundings, and Leng Xue and several women quickly stepped on the tail of the off-road vehicle and climbed onto the roof of the bus.
At this moment, the two-meter-tall rye grass in front of everyone shook and separated from both sides, and a huge pitch-black mouse head poked out, and two mouse eyes with a faint green light kept staring at the tiger girl who was roaring at it, and the upper and lower front teeth were clucking and biting the rhizome of a ryegrass.
The rat's head slowly slid out of the grass, and a mouse about the size of a tiger girl appeared in front of everyone's eyes, the ryegrass continued to shake, and more than a dozen mice of the same size appeared behind it, and the surrounding weeds were still shaking, I don't know how many such rats were hidden inside, but one thing they could be sure of was that they were surrounded!
", when did the rats get that big?" Xiao Liu's voice trembled a little.
"You can't leave me, help me untie the rope, ......," the long-haired man cried out in mourning.
"Shut up!" Zhang Minghai drank vigorously, and quickly pulled out a dagger to cut the rope tied to the long-haired man's body.
The rat swarm is slowly approaching everyone, if it weren't for the tiger girl, I'm afraid it would have swarmed up to attack everyone, but the tiger girl is still hunched and roaring, when will the cat be afraid of mice? But the age of the tiger girl is too young, even if the body grows violently after mutation, it still can't suppress the approach of the rat swarm.
"Tiger girl, come up!" You Xi yelled at the tiger girl, then kicked the ground with both feet, jumped nearly two meters high, and jumped on the roof of the car under the pull of Zhang Ziyan, and just when he got to the roof of the car, the tiger girl had already come to his side with a few jumps.
"Pull me quickly, I can't use my legs......" At this time, the long-haired man was frightened, his feet became weak, and he collapsed in front of the bus window.
"Rubbish!"
Looking at the long-haired man who dared to face the same kind of sticks, but was frightened in front of the mutant rats, Li Man scolded and prepared to pull him up with a rope, after all, they still needed this man to lead the way.
But before the rope could descend in front of the long-haired man, a huge figure suddenly jumped out of the grass opposite, and pounced on the long-haired man's feet, click! The sound of bones breaking sounded clearly, with the terrible howl of the long-haired man.
At this time, everyone saw the figure clearly, and it was clearly a mouse the size of a dog!
"Rat King?!"
The eyes of the people were full of horror, but in this moment, the rats that had been hiding in the rye grass before and did not dare to come out rushed out, like a black turbulence, drowning the long-haired man.
"Ah......h
Bang bang......
The guns rang out, and the bullets were sprayed incessantly at the rats, boom! The rat swarm that was biting the long-haired man receded like a tide and disappeared in the grass, leaving only a few mice killed by bullets, but the largest rat king was not seen.
The surroundings became dead again, and the faint cry for help from the dying long-haired man on the road was so clear to everyone's ears.
At this moment, the long-haired man's clothes were completely tattered, covered in bruises, unrecognizable, a large piece of flesh was missing from his thigh, and even the broken leg bones could be seen, and he couldn't live.
Fear spread on the roof of the car, and everyone looked at each other, thinking that if they couldn't find a way to break through, would the next person be themselves?
"Squeak squeak......" The crease king sounded again in the grass, and the rats immediately began to stir, and then hundreds of rats ejected from the grass.
"Ah......h
"Bang bang bang bang......" The gunfire rang out again, shooting into the rat colony and turning into fluffy blood.
But this time the rats were not frightened and retreated, no matter how many bullets were fired, the rats still covered the body of the long-haired man, like a huge black ball of flesh, which kept making chewing and biting sounds.
"Stop!"
Li Man shouted, and the gunfire immediately stopped.
"What should I do?" Liuzi hurriedly asked.
"The key is to solve the rat king!" Li Haowen's brows furrowed.
"But we can't see the Rat King at all, how to kill it?"
Silence reigned on the roof of the car, and as he spoke, the rat swarm covering the long-haired man had dispersed, revealing a bloodstained skeleton inside.
Xie Xiaolei's little face turned pale with fright, Leng Xue's condition was better, but her face was also a little pale, but it was Chen Lihua, and her face couldn't see any change.
"As long as I can lure the Rat King out, I'm sure I'll shoot it!"
It was Zhang Xiaoxiao who spoke, only to see her teeth biting her lip, her hands clenching the exaggerated revolver, and her eyes were full of determination.
You Xi twisted his head to look at Zhang Xiaoxiao, looking at the sharp light emanating from his eyes, with an inquiry in his eyes.
"This is my ability!"
Sure enough, Zhang Xiaoxiao was also a capable person, and the conjecture in his heart was affirmed, You Xi withdrew his pistol and slowly pulled out the Tang knife.
"I'll try, you cover me!"
As he spoke, You Xi's body had been spread to his whole body by the blue line, and the brilliance flashed, and the ice armor reappeared on You Xi's body, as well as the gorgeous mask.
"Brother You, I'll go with you!" Zhang Ziyan stood up, and he had already picked up the anti-Japanese broadsword in his hand.
"Yes!" You Xi didn't refuse, because he didn't have the confidence to guard against the terrifying rat king while facing so many mutant rats.
As soon as the words fell, You Xi and Zhang Ziyan jumped off the roof of the car.
The rats around the bus were pitch black, at least hundreds, and I don't know how many rats were hiding in the grass. Seeing the two people jumping off the roof of the car, the shrill cry of the rat king was heard again in the grass.
Sou! A mouse shot at You Xi violently, and in an instant, bullets flew and blood flashed, and the front of the car directly turned into a life-and-death battle.
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