Chapter 1026: The Gnawing of the Ratman

Chapter 1026: The Gnawing of the Ratman

Upon hearing Ye Kai’s voice, Ling Mo and the others rushed forward, only to be confronted by an indescribable sight as they looked upward.

A massive Dark Shadow blocked the light from the upper floor, standing there with a corpse dangling from its left hand. Blood trickled down the stairs, and its blood-red, glowing eyes scanned Ling Mo’s group from left to right. Most astonishing of all was the long whip-like tail swaying behind it…

“Is this a mutation beast… or an underground Creature?” Yuwen Xuan muttered, swallowing hard.

“Don’t you think that tail looks familiar?” Xia Na chimed in.

Faced with such a monstrous Creature, everyone was momentarily frozen in place. Clearly, its combat prowess was far beyond that of the Face-Changing Monsters. Just standing there, it exerted immense pressure on them. During the brief standoff, Ling Mo was horrified to realize that its face seemed to be more than just human…

“This seems like…” Mu Chen began, but the Creature suddenly retreated slowly.

It kept its gaze fixed on them, then leaped into the darkness and vanished…

“Damn it.” Ling Mo’s expression darkened immediately. This Creature would surely continue to ambush them during their search… Its earlier appearance was merely to intensify their psychological pressure…

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the building.

A little girl was skipping and hopping through the dusty hall, waving her hands.

“Sister, where are you?” she called out in an innocent tone, yet the sinister smile on her face betrayed her true nature, far from the apparent cuteness…

At her side, an eye peered through an inconspicuous gap, locked onto her.

The eye’s long lashes fluttered gently, with a hint of bewilderment in its gaze. As the little girl emerged from behind a pillar, the eye suddenly sharpened its focus. Simultaneously, the dark gun barrel slowly moved, inching towards the little girl’s head…

“Sister, come out quickly…” she circled around and continued to look around, “You’ve been hiding for a long time, and I’ve counted so many numbers… Hehe, don’t you think so? Come out without worry. I won’t do anything to you; the game of who kills whom first is over…”

At the same moment, a slender, pale finger tightened on the trigger, pressing it down bit by bit.

“Because…”

At that moment, the little girl suddenly turned her head, her eyes turning a vivid red as she stared directly at the direction of the gun barrel. “We’ve got a new game now…”

Bang!

A flash erupted from the gun barrel simultaneously…

“Did anyone hear something?” Li Yalin suddenly asked.

“What?” Ling Mo immediately turned to look at her.

“I’m not sure… the sound seemed faint…” Li Yalin uncertainly pinched her earlobe and said, “It seems like there’s some interference with sound here… or maybe the sound itself wasn’t loud, I can’t really tell…”

Ling Mo quickly looked upwards, and after a moment of silence, he said, “Ye Lian is upstairs.”

“Huh? So does that mean… the Progenitor might be upstairs too?” Xu Shuhan paused and said.

Whoosh-

A Dark Shadow suddenly flashed past behind the group.

As they turned around, another Dark Shadow swept past them from behind.

“Is that Monster following us?” Ye Kai raised his knife and asked.

The others couldn’t help but feel a bit tense. It wasn’t just the feeling of being followed; it was also a chilling sensation that crept over them.

“It’s not just that… it’s those,” Xia Na corrected.

“What do you mean?” Mu Chen asked.

Ling Mo, who was scanning the surroundings, responded, “My psychic power can’t keep up with them, but just within my Sensing range, there are already more than two Monsters…” ŗ₳ƝọＢËś

“That’s right, there are at least five Monsters here… they’re circling us, waiting for an opportunity,” Xia Na said.

Gu Shuangshuang covered her mouth with her hand. “What kind of opportunity…”

“Isn’t it obvious… the chance to devour us,” Yu Shiran interjected.

“Let’s head upstairs quickly, don’t get separated,” Ling Mo instructed.

But just as they turned around, a Dark Shadow suddenly flew towards them from a short distance away.

A barrage of attacks immediately targeted the Dark Shadow. When it landed, they realized it was the corpse the Monster had been carrying. And to their dismay, they saw it was a fake “Ye Kai” corpse.

Seeing the corpse in such a state, Gu Shuangshuang immediately leaned against the wall, retching. Ye Kai stared at the corpse with a grim expression and said, “Is this their way of giving us a preview? They haven’t eaten these corpses because they’re saving them… for the main body?”

Gu Shuangshuang had just calmed down with Xu Shuhan’s comforting words, but hearing this, she couldn’t help but cover her mouth again. Zhang Xincheng was about to say something when another Dark Shadow crashed into the wall and slowly slid down…

“This is mine…”

“No time for that…” Ling Mo suddenly said with a grave expression. “We’re surrounded…”

The first corpse had successfully driven them to the middle of the Corridor, while the second had temporarily distracted them. By the time they realized, two Monsters had appeared at each end of the Corridor…

With the Monsters no longer in the shadows, they could finally see them clearly. Their skin was covered in a layer of tough black fur, with long hairless tails, massive paws, and sharp claws. But the most eye-catching feature was their half-human faces… The upper part was human, while the lower part had a lipless mouth with protruding fangs…

“Disgusting… Are these… Ratmen?” Everyone’s eyes widened. Strictly speaking, these seemed to be the true underground Creatures. Even Ling Mo and the others hadn’t anticipated this, nor had they expected them to have already reached the surface, hiding here. The ones they encountered in the sewer seemed more like results of the Progenitor’s various experiments. Ratmen like these seemed more like the original inhabitants of the underground…

In any case, this was clearly not something that could be explained by mere mutation or living underground… Ling Mo immediately thought of Li Yalin… This Femme Fatale had started to show snake-like traits because she had Devoured the mutation snake’s viral hive… And those Rats had indeed begun to be affected by the virus…

But Rats, as Creatures, were unlikely to form any Gel or mother hive, and thinking carefully, they hadn’t encountered a single one in the sewer where Rats were most numerous…

“Ugh!”

The others quickly realized this too, and their faces turned pale as they dry-heaved. Xia Na, Li Yalin, and Yu Shiran, the three genuine Female Zombies, remained unfazed, but seeing the disgusted expressions around them, they exchanged glances and also covered their mouths.

Sizzle-

One of the Ratmen scratched its paw, its red eyes gleaming with a fierce light. A strand of saliva dripped down its sharp teeth, and it opened its mouth, letting out a low growl that was headache-inducing.

“Watch out, they’re going to attack…” Mu Chen immediately warned.

These Monsters looked tough enough individually, let alone four of them blocking their way from both ends… As soon as the Ratman finished growling, it charged at them with astonishing speed! At the same time, the other three also rushed forward…

“Rat-a-tat-tat!”

Mu Chen desperately pulled the trigger, but his bullets seemed to have no effect on these beasts. The layer of black fur was like the best bulletproof vest, completely impenetrable. In close combat, only Xia Na and her companions’ attacks could make a difference, while the others couldn’t even get close, let alone attack. They could only use some harassment tactics to hold them back.

“Captain, what do we do? We’re completely trapped…”

Watching these giant humanoid rats trying to tear through them at such close range, and with the distance between them constantly shrinking-from ten meters to five meters-everyone’s heart seemed to stop momentarily. It felt like in just another second, they would be shredded by these monsters.

“Let me think…” Ling Mo said.

Psychic attack… ineffective. These beasts only had instincts; their psychic light clusters were practically nonexistent. This was probably their flaw-strong but lacking the potential for further evolution. Perhaps this was one reason why there weren’t many of them. However, Ling Mo thought it might be due to the insufficient number of rats.

But who would’ve thought these Ratmen, lacking intelligence, could set such a trap…

“Roar!”

One Ratman, knocked to the ground by Xia Na’s Scythe, crawled over on all fours. Its tail flicked forward, and Ling Mo was less than three meters away… If hit by its tail, Ling Mo would be left with half a life, even if he survived.

“Ah!” Gu Shuangshuang screamed.

Just as the tail was about to strike, a completely different scene suddenly appeared before Ling Mo’s eyes.

A grayish background, and those psychic light clusters becoming brighter…

Ye Kai and the others… Xia Na and her companions… Three small light clusters representing the Ratmen further away, and one closer to him. At that moment, Ling Mo noticed another larger Light Cluster. It was just around the corner of the corridor…

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