"It's good to have this group of cannon fodder." The eldest of the five took a dog-leg knife and cut off the head of a mutated rat that slipped through the net, and said to Luo Yuan.
His name was Huang Yaoguang, and he was originally the security captain of a company. A few days after the company closed down, he roped in a few of his subordinates and took root in the garbage dump. If Luo Yuan hadn't saved them during the last rat tide, they would have turned into bones long ago. So as soon as they set off, he and several brothers followed Luo Yuan closely, never leaving.
"A bunch of rabble, I'm afraid they will disperse as soon as there is danger!" Luo Yuandao, raised his head and looked into the distance. There was a shadow in front of him. Even though many people left this garbage dump of several square kilometers, thousands of people still gathered there. people.
The scale of this rat tide is huge, probably the largest in the past half month. The deeper you go, the more frequent the battles are. There are more and more corpses on the ground. Occasionally, you can see a few mutant rats, gnawing on the corpses as if no one is watching, dragging the intestines and internal organs all over the ground.
The smell of blood mixed with the unique smell of the garbage dump, forming a strange and disgusting smell.
"Look, what's over there?" Someone suddenly yelled from the front!
Everyone looked immediately and saw a gray blanket more than a hundred meters away, constantly moving this way. Gunshots suddenly broke out in front, and the crowd commotion. A small number of people began to run back desperately, but more people ran in that direction, and the scene was extremely noisy.
This is not a blanket, but a tide of rats with a radius of several hundred meters. Countless mutant rats gather together and push forward like waves.
"Let's go, the Rat King must be somewhere." Chen Haiyan shouted loudly.
After saying that, he ran forward.
Everyone quickened their pace and rushed to the front line of the battle. When they saw it, they couldn't help but take a breath of air.
There were densely packed rats everywhere in front of them. The tide of rats covered several garbage mountains. What could be seen was only the tip of the iceberg, but even so, there were no less than a thousand of them.
If it weren't for the fact that there were still hundreds of people fighting around him, and more people coming towards this direction, he might have already given up.
"Kill!" Chen Haiyan shouted, taking the lead and rushing into the rat tide. With a few swords, he killed several rats. With the ups and downs of his footwork, his body movements turned left and right, changing into chopping, stabbing, teasing, etc. Using knife techniques such as chopping, wiping, belting, spreading, pulling, and cutting, the rats around you can't get close at all.
"Boss Luo, what should I do?" Huang Yaoguang and others were not the ones called by Chen Haiyan, and they also admired Luo Yuan. Seeing this, they did not attack immediately, but asked Luo Yuan.
"But a few rats are not enough for us to kill. You stand behind me and help me block the mutant rats on both sides." After taking a look at Chen Haiyan's performance, Luo Yuan also became slightly excited.
"Okay, the rest will be on us. Unless they step on our bodies, there will never be a mouse missed?" Huang Yaoguang knew that this way, their pressure would be much lighter, so he immediately promised.
Luo Yuan nodded, picked up the knife and walked forward.
After such a long period of training, his sword skills have improved to thirteen points. Compared with the last time he went to Yushui City, his strength has improved even more. The whole knife was like an arm in his hand, and it was integrated into one body. The light of his knife flickered, and each mouse was beheaded and quartered by him before it even got close, with blood splattering everywhere.
Compared with Chen Haiyan's martial arts swordsmanship, his swordsmanship does not have many tricks. Every move and every style is extremely concise, and there is never any superfluous movement. If we want to talk about its characteristics, then there is only one word: fast. It is so fast that most people can't even see it clearly, and it has already been chopped out with one knife. As a result, Huang Yaoguang and the others who were following him on both sides basically had nothing to do.
In addition to Luo Yuan and Chen Haiyan, the middle-aged man Qian Dakui also attracted special attention.
He roared, lowered his body, raised his shield, and charged towards the rat tide like a bull. He had great strength, and with the shield hung with many sharp blades, he rushed all the way, invincible. The rats around him were not only knocked away by it, but their bodies were cut to pieces by the sharp blades on his shield, and they were either dead or maimed.
He rushed for a few meters and then stopped. The shield in his hand suddenly spun around himself, and several mutant rats that tried to attack around him were quickly knocked away. The next moment, he took the machete and started chopping. Although he couldn't compare with Luo Yuan and Chen Haiyan, with the shield protection, he could easily withstand the attacks of the rats.
The three bosses, Zhou Lao, were at the end. They fired occasionally to kill the rats that slipped through the net. For them, every bullet was precious. Naturally, they couldn't kill as unscrupulously as in close combat. Moreover, they were so The bullets I brought here were not many, so they could only be used at critical times.
The crowd continued to advance, leaving behind corpses along the way, including those of mutant rats and some of humans, but most of them were of mutant rats.
Ten minutes later, the crowd had advanced the front line several hundred meters, and the number of the crowd had increased to more than a thousand. The rat tide has become increasingly sparse.
At this moment, a very oppressive roar suddenly came from the front. The sound did not sound like the cry of a mouse, but more like the roar of some ferocious beast. The mutant rat in front heard the roar and immediately began to recede quickly like a tide.
"No! The Rat King is escaping. Without this chance, it might be even harder to kill him in the future." Luo Yuan's expression changed and he said loudly. Once the Rat King escaped, his mission would probably have failed.
"Chase! We must not let him escape?" Everyone also saw it, and the crowd was wildly excited for a while.
The team quickly split up, and except for more than a hundred people who chased after them, most of them stayed behind. After all, there are only a few ambitious people. The vast majority of people come here just to make a lot of money and do not want to take too many risks. The corpses of so many mutated rats are enough for them to live a stable life. No need to take risks.
A few minutes later, a huge rat appeared in sight.
I don't know if it's reflecting the moonlight or just because of its own fur, but it looks silvery white all over. The body, which is about one and a half meters long, appears smoother than that of an ordinary mouse. The slender tail formed a straight line in the air, swaying slightly with the movement of the body. It was like a noble king, surrounded by a group of mutant rats and stars, and retreated into the distance unhurriedly.
Luo Yuan's eyes lit up. The size of this mutant rat was not too exaggerated. Compared with giant snakes and giant dogs, it was just a small man. Except for the thousands of mutant rats surrounding it that were a bit troublesome, the rest were basically the same as It is comparable to the blue-level creatures encountered before.
"Do you have the courage to rush?" Luo Yuan said to the temporarily formed team.
"If you don't have the guts, we have already stayed at home. Why are we here working so hard? I understand the world. The coward will starve to death, and the bold will starve to death. Let's starve to death for once today." Huang Yaoguang cooperated. He could tell that Luo Yuan, Chen Haiyan and others seemed to have an extremely strong desire to attack. Although he didn't know the reason, it was definitely related to the value of the Rat King. Thinking of the rumor he had heard, his heart suddenly started beating.
"That's right, those who don't want to go can withdraw now." Chen Haiyan glanced at everyone after speaking.
"Isn't it a joke to quit after reaching this point? Add me?" Qian Dakui curled his lips, slammed one end of the shield to the ground, and gasped. With such a heavy weapon, even if he has no physical strength, Okay, it’s a bit too much.
"Boss Zhou, where are you three?" Chen Haiyan asked the other three.
"We will not quit, but I am worried that others will take advantage? We are not the only ones here!" Boss Zhou rubbed his pistol, glanced at the hundreds of people nearby, and said with a smile. .
Luo Yuan didn't care much, his goal was to kill the rat king and complete the mission. As for how many people will share the spoils in the end, this is just a matter of later. A little more is gratifying, but a little less doesn't matter. He has already prepared to hunt blue-level creatures in other places. There is no need for a small profit, and Others argue. In fact, the more people there are, the more risks can be shared and the success rate of the task can be improved.
However, he could only hide these words in his heart and could not say it openly. He thought for a while and said: "Why don't we discuss it with them and make a charter. I think there won't be many people who dare to go."
"I will take care of this matter. I know all the leaders of the older teams!" Chen Haiyan pondered for a while and said.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Luo Yuan looked on coldly.
Luo Yuan could see that Chen Haiyan was an extremely ambitious person. He had been very active along the way and was in the position of a leader intentionally or unintentionally. However, all this had nothing to do with him. The more active he was, the more he would do to himself. It was beneficial, and he was happy to hear it.
More than a hundred people faced thousands of mutated rats plus a rat king. As expected, many people hesitated, but still persisted in the end. Only about fifty people were divided into three teams, basically all of them. It was improvised.
After this delay, the rats had gradually crossed one of the garbage hills and were about to disappear. Luo Yuan was anxious when he saw it, but there was nothing he could do.
After a while, Chen Haiyan finally came back. He looked ahead and said quickly: "Because time is tight, let's talk about it on the way?"
"The result of the discussion is that the three teams will attack in three directions. The first one to win will get half of the loot, and the remaining two teams will share it equally." Chen Haiyan said hurriedly while jogging: "The advantage of this is that even if you fail to kill the rat first, King, you can get some too!”
"That's good. Otherwise, even if we kill the Rat King, we will still be attacked. Everyone who can hang out here is a good person and will do anything for profit." Qian Dakui nodded.
The garbage dump is an extremely chaotic and cruel place, and it seems to be two different worlds from the urban area where there is still some order. Human life is worthless here. More than a hundred people die or disappear almost every day. Some of these people are killed by mutant rats or killed by humans. The body after death has turned into a pile of bones before dawn.
When people eat mutant rats, mutant rats are also eating people.
If species on land do not have strict discipline, once their numbers increase, their speed will be greatly slowed down. Ten minutes later, the team quickly caught up with the rat tide again.
The battle broke out quickly. After a period of commotion, the rat tide suddenly stopped moving. Perhaps seeing that the number of enemies was much smaller this time, there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. Countless mutant rats suddenly surged up like a tide.
At this moment, even Luo Yuan felt the pressure increase sharply.
His steps advanced and retreated, swaying from side to side. The beheading horse in his hand almost danced into a phantom in the moonlight. The mutated rats, fearless of death, were cut apart invisibly as soon as they jumped into the air.
He resisted the tide of attacks, like a sharp blade, slowly tearing apart the rat tide. It was difficult to move forward step by step, with the corpses of several mutated rats lying on every step, and blood was sprinkled all the way.
"Dip, sword skills improved by +1"
Luo Yuan seemed unaware of the system prompts. At this time, his mental power had been highly condensed, and his whole body exuded a palpitating aura. This aura made every mutant rat that rushed towards him pause slightly. , the movements were chaotic.
Within a minute, the team was attrition. Boss Zhou and the other three were placed at the end because they were using guns. If it were a small group of mutated rats, it would be fine and safer at the back. But now they encountered a rat tide, with rats in all directions.
A mouse bit one of them on the calf from behind. Just after he killed it, two more came rushing over from behind. He kept spraying bullets and hurriedly killed the two mutant rats, but found that he was gradually separated from the team.
More and more rats swarmed towards him, and he just shouted for help before he was swallowed up by a swarm of rats.
"Trash!" Boss Zhou turned around to rescue him, but it was already too late. He cursed secretly, with a gloomy look on his face. He winked at the last subordinate, and the two of them squeezed towards the middle of the team.
Huang Yaoguang and others followed Luo Yuan closely, blocking the mutated rats from both sides and sharing Luo Yuan's pressure. However, it soon became difficult to continue, and several people suffered losses one after another. Upon seeing this, Chen Haiyan and Qian Dakui quickly joined in. Ten people formed a group to block the mutant rat's crazy attack.
At this time, there was a sudden loud sound of gunfire in the distance. The rat tide was alerted and rushed towards the other side. Suddenly, it came down here.
"Fuck! Is it the Armed Police Force?" Chen Haiyan glanced back in the middle of her busy schedule, and her anger suddenly surged. She gritted her teeth and said, "I don't know who informed me. If I find out, I will kill him."
I saw dozens of soldiers not far away, holding rifles and charging, constantly shooting at the rat tide. All the mutant rats around them rushed towards them, but the mutant rats on Luo Yuan's side became sparse.
He looked at it for a while, his face uncertain, and finally he could only sigh dejectedly: "Let's go, these people are here. We don't even have to drink the soup. Every lord-level mutant creature, they I won’t let it go.”
"We're just leaving like this?" Huang Yaoguang touched Guancai's arm and said in disbelief.
"What else can we do if we don't leave? Can we compete with the army for food?" Qian Dakui used his shield to smash a mutant away as if to vent his anger, and spit out thick phlegm.
After working hard all night, when the harvest was about to be harvested, someone robbed the food. Whoever it was would be unhappy.