Chapter Forty-Three: After the Great War
"Little Taoist, are you awake?"
Ge Zixuan, who was covered in bandages, woke up faintly, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Mo Zixin's concerned eyes, and the medicine bowl in his hand was slowly steaming.
Ge Zixuan tried hard to move, but found that he was in severe pain all over his body. I wanted to speak, but there was a burning pain in my throat.
"Uh...."
"What did you say?" Mo Zixin looked at Ge Zixuan who made a voice suspiciously.
"Kim.... Zen...."
"What?"
Mo Zixin, who had been listening a little hard, leaned down, and only then did she hear Ge Zixuan's voice as thin as a mosquito and a fly.
"No~"
Mo Zixin turned around, and the two people behind him who were also wrapped in bandages were Xiangru and Jin Chan Little Monk.
Not long after the explosion in the East Sector, other students with explosives also detonated the other three districts one after another.
There is no residential building in the whole community that stands intact on the ground. Two days have passed, and all the rat beasts have disappeared, and no trace can be found, and the black fog has gradually dissipated. The students searched in the community for a long time, but found no trace of the rat beast, and finally withdrew.
Instructor Yang Xinong was seriously injured and was sent out in advance by Mei Liangxin, and nearly one-fifth of the recruited students in the four provinces suffered heavy losses.
"You, just have a good rest, good girl!"
Mo Zixin did not tell him the news of Zhang He's disappearance, but just carefully fed the medicine.
"Open your mouth, ah~"
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"Ahem~"
In the temporary command room in the center of the camp, Liu Li and the five sat with sad faces.
The number and strength of the rat beasts far exceeded their expectations, originally they thought that such a powerful explosion could eliminate at least about half of the rat beasts, but in fact, the lethality generated by the chain explosion could only destroy the small rats of the first order, and most of them above the second order were only injured.
There is also the Purple Gold Rat King who appeared, even the strongest Yang Xinong couldn't resist a blow, and he was defeated in an instant, if it weren't for the Purple Gold Rat King's unintentional love to fight, several of them would probably die on the spot.
"Alas, I said a long time ago that it is simply impossible to get students to do this task!"
Yang Xinong smoked a cigarette and said indignantly.
He didn't throw the cigarette butt on the ground until it burned out, and the unextinguished flame stinged his eyes.
He remembered the dead students.
"What are you angry about! Do you think you're angry? ”
Mei Liang's heart was also on fire, Jiangnan Province recruited students, 33 people died, 56 people were injured, and one person was missing.
For him, these casualties are not just numbers, they are the hope of Jiangnan Province and the hope of the Dragon Kingdom.
An unknown mission, with such heavy losses, how can he accept it.
"Mei Liangxin, what are you angry at me, if you have the ability, you can find the head of the department to get angry."
Yang Xinong and Mei Liangxin looked at each other angrily, their clenched fists were a little white, and their nails were deeply embedded in the flesh.
They were all restrained, but the anger and grievances in their hearts had to make them lose their usual sanity.
Liu Li, who was sitting in the first place, did not persuade, she also knew that she needed to vent now, even if they were fighting now, Liu Li would not have any surprises.
The two gradually calmed down, and Bai Yinglian and He Meng slowly patted the shoulders of the people next to them to show relief.
"It's happened, and now we all need to calm down and think about what to do next."
Liu Li saw that the two had eased up, and said calmly,
"Let's hold the casualty figures."
"Jiangnan Province recruited cadets, 33 people were killed, 56 were wounded, and one person was missing."
"Xishan Province recruited trainees, 40 people were killed in battle, 51 were wounded, and three people were missing."
"Dongshan Province recruited cadets, 47 people were killed in battle, 42 were wounded, and two people were missing."
"Huizhou recruited cadets, 39 were killed, 60 were wounded, and three were missing."
Although Liu Li had long known that the casualties would be huge, he was still surprised to hear the exact number. A total of 473 trainees were recruited in the four provinces, and nearly half of them were killed in battle, accounting for 77% of the casualties.
"There can be traces of the missing students."
Liu Li couldn't care about the heartache, the Si people had passed away, and now the top priority was to find out the situation of the missing students, she always felt that there was some big conspiracy hidden behind the disappearance of these students.
Bai Yinglian and He Meng, who were in charge of searching the battlefield, shook their heads, since the black fog cleared, the two of them carefully searched every corner of the community, and did not find the missing students and surviving residents.
They had guessed that the missing student was not hiding by himself, but was taken away by the rat clan.
Bai Yinglian hesitated for a moment, and decided to inform everyone of the guess.
"Ladies and gentlemen, He Meng and I speculate that those missing students and missing residents were transferred to an unknown place by the rat beasts, perhaps the cave that the Purple Gold Rat King said."
"Yes." He Meng pushed his glasses and said solemnly: "I went to explore the cave at that time, in the southernmost part of the Luoxi community, behind it is a hill, the so-called cave is actually the previous air-raid shelter, the inside is extremely deep, connected to the mountain, it is not a problem to hide hundreds of people." ”
"Huh?" Mei Liang was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "In other words, those students of ours are still alive?" ”
"Yes....."
Mei Liangxin saw He Meng spitting out, as if he had something to say, and his eyes were about to pop out.
He Meng didn't know whether to say it for a while, after all, this was just his idea, he glanced at Liu Li and Bai Yinglian opposite, saw that the other side nodded lightly, and said with a long sigh of relief:
"According to my observations in the community, most of the dead rat beasts are first-order, but some first-order rat beasts have beast pills..."
"This is not normal, many juvenile beasts or alien beasts that have just been promoted to the first order have not ....." Yang Xinong suddenly realized: "You mean, those are immature rat beasts?" ”
He Meng nodded, the jade pendant on his waist flashed, and a bloody rat-like beast appeared directly in his hand.
"Why did you bring this thing back?" Mei Liangxin now wants to break the mouse to pieces.
"Don't worry."
He Meng smiled slightly, and directly split the rat-like beast in two, congealed dark red blood sprinkled all over the conference table, and the foul smell of blood filled the command room.
"It's!"
No one cares about these details, and there is actually a ball of meat in the belly of the rat-like beast divided into two halves, and if you look closely, it faintly looks like a young mouse.
"The rat-like beasts in the first order are all female rats without exception. I have a guess that most of the large number of first-order rat beasts that have died are mice that have just come out of their voices, and all the mice are male, and their status is equivalent to that of worker ants among ants...."He Meng paused for a moment, saw that everyone was puzzled, and continued,
"I mean, the captured students and the surviving humans are likely to be kept in captivity, and the purpose of the rat clan is to use the flesh and blood of these people to feed the female rats, and produce far mice to fight and provide food for the high-level rat beasts."
Mei Liangxin and the others suddenly realized, no wonder the Purple Gold Rat King put forward those conditions.
Then things are a little tricky now, there are already three king-level rat beasts, and none of the instructors present can fight against any of them, even if they are all, they can only fight against one, just to fight, there is no hope of defeating them.
"We're ..... Alas~"
Yang Xinong sighed, the three beast kings, even if they transfer people from the headquarters now, it won't help, when the time arrives, it is unknown whether those students and survivors can live, now time is life, and if they act early, they will be safer.
Liu Li didn't know, reported to the headquarters, and waited for someone to come over, at least for two days. No one can guarantee what the situation was like back then.
Once again, there was silence in the command room.
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Inside a restaurant in Springs
It's the time of the hotel, and all the stores are full, but this restaurant has only one customer dining.
"My lord, the little master is missing, and he should be taken away by the rat clan."
"Not bad, not bad." Zhang Shijun sighed in praise and wiped his mouth with satisfaction: "Huairou doesn't know."
"The deputy envoy doesn't know."
"Alright, the three rat kings, I'll go there myself."
Zhang Shijun stood up, stretched his waist, and said casually.
Standing at the door, looking at the traffic outside the window, Zhang Shijun sighed a little emotionally, he hadn't entered the city for about two or three years.
"Staying in the mountains every day, I am almost not used to city life."
The man in black who followed him just wanted to speak, but suddenly he seemed to be frozen, unable to move, and a sharp sword was across his neck, and with a little force, he would be in a different place.
"Why don't you speak?" Seeing that there was no movement behind him for a long time, Zhang Shijun turned around suspiciously, and his originally cold face immediately changed, and even a little flattering.
"Madame, what are you doing here?"