Chapter 168 Rat Tide
In the night sky, mechanical airships moved in the direction of the signal flares, and thick lamp posts focused on one place.
All the troops in the outer city area marched towards the light position.
The white mouse used in the experiment was the experimental product of the Ability God Cell. A few months ago, the Green Sun Sect planned to break into the Academy of Mechanical Science, and the white mouse also took advantage of the chaos and escaped during that experiment.
After the rat infestation occurred, the city hall discovered the abnormality of the mutant mice. After research, they naturally learned that the mutant mice had supernatural cells in their bodies, and also learned that the reason why the mice mutated was because of the supernatural cells.
The Ability God Cell was taken away and has not been recovered so far. The Green Sun Sect has hidden it very deeply, and depending on the situation, it is basically impossible to recover it.
In order to continue studying the alien cells, the lost mouse became the key.
This time, not only the Ninth Bureau and the Security Bureau jointly took action, but the inner city security forces and even the Iron Feather Army were also mobilized. The city hall was determined to catch the guinea pig.
The signal bomb was located in the lower city. Steel chariots drove through the narrow roads and knocked down the iron houses. Hundreds of innocent civilians fled the collapsed houses in panic and faced the steel chariots.
The car spits out fragrance.
The steel chariot spewed out large amounts of high-temperature steam, and it was ignored all the way.
These civilians are unlucky when their houses collapse.
Some sections of the road were too difficult to handle, so the police and riders got out of their cars and ran to the scene of the incident as quickly as possible.
A desolate place in the lower city is covered with weeds half the height of a man, and there are dilapidated factories among them.
This is an illegal factory area in Xiacheng District, where various goods are produced. There are even small workshops that illegally manufacture guns and ammunition.
On weekdays, these factories are brightly lit and the sound of machinery can be heard from day to night.
However, due to the rat infestation in recent days, a large number of mutated rats have frequently appeared in these factories. Many workers in the factories have been bitten to death, and the workers are afraid to go to work.
The owners of these factories were all local gangs. When the rat infestation occurred, they organized several rat eradication operations. The first time they achieved good success, they killed many rats.
However, during the second eradication of rats, the rats showed their power, and hundreds of mutated rats caused great casualties to the gangs. Two gang bosses were eaten by rats on the spot, and forty or fifty people died.
After three or four attempts to eradicate rats failed, no one dared to come to work in the factory, and the factory area became the territory of rats.
The location marked by the flare is this factory area.
Thick lampposts illuminate the factory area brightly. Inside the factory, there are densely packed rats lying on the windows and doors. The light shines through the windows. There are big rats lying in every corner of the factory.
Every eye glowed red, chirping, looking irritable and restless.
There are thousands of big rats in a factory, and their cries together are like a magical sound filling your ears.
Not only that, these irritable and restless sounds caused the rats in other factories to become restless, and the entire factory area was noisy, as if the devil was roaring, making people's scalp numb.
Steel chariots approached the factory area one after another, running through the weeds. Countless rats were frightened out and ran all over the ground.
When Augustine arrived at the factory area, fighting had already broken out. Howitzers bombarded the factory area. The factory was blown open, and flames rolled through the factory, killing and burning many rats.
After being covered by artillery fire, more than half of the factory area was destroyed. Smoke and flames were burning wantonly, ashes were swaying in the wind, and the smell of burning was permeated.
Chariots advanced toward the factory area one after another to inspect the situation.
The steel chariot rolled over the ruins, and underneath the ruins were the bodies of burned rats. There were also some rats that were not dead. They attacked the steel chariot angrily and were shot dead by the police and knights on board.
It was difficult for the tank to move through the ruins that had been destroyed by the bombing. As a last resort, we had to get off the tank and start to carefully search the ruined factory.
A team discovered a collapsed cave inside a factory. A knight threw a flare down. The fire flashed in the cave. A black shadow flashed deep in the cave. Something was crawling in the darkness.
In an instant they burst out of the shadows.
It was a black wave, and the pairs of red eyes were particularly eye-catching... It was a dense swarm of rats.
They swarmed in and surrounded the knights. The knights opened fire in fear. The shotguns sprayed terrifying flames. Large bullets shot down dozens of rats. But more rats rushed forward, showing their sharpness.
Teeth and claws repeatedly gnawed and bit at the knight's body. He howled in pain and fired wildly, but there was nothing he could do.
He struggled hard, but the rats kept jumping up and biting him fiercely with their teeth. With the continuous overlapping, he could no longer stand, and finally curled up on the ground, with his body covered with rats feasting on their food.
There was blood flowing out among the densely packed rats, and from the exposed gaps, you could even see bitten flesh and bones.
The screams began to weaken and became quiet, leaving only the dense sounds of eating.
Seeing that they no longer had their share, the other mice rushed towards the other knights.
"Fire, fire." The knights were so frightened that their faces turned pale. The spraying bullets could not stop the crazy group of rats at all. They could not even escape and were overwhelmed by the rats.
In less than a few dozen seconds, the rats dispersed, leaving behind numerous white bones on the ground, their flesh and blood gnawed cleanly, and even the dead rats were eaten by their own kind.
The mice that had eaten human flesh became excited, and their small red eyes flashed with hunger and thirst. The mice that had not eaten human flesh became even crazier and desperately wanted to eat human flesh.
Not only here, but also in other factories, huge swarms of rats emerged, and troops from all walks of life were attacked. The police force suffered the greatest casualties.
The Ninth Bureau, the Security Bureau and the Iron Feather Army reacted most quickly. They gathered in an instant and formed a steel-like defense line with steel chariots as walls.
The sophisticated weapons were pointed at the rushing swarm of crazy rats.
"Fire!" With an order, the guns fired, and the flying bullets shot at the black wave of rats. After one wave was calmed down, another wave surged forward, which could not be contained.
The trajectory of the flowing fire streaked through the air. It was an oval-shaped cannonball that had never been seen before, and the cannonball was burning with flames.
The powerful kinetic energy penetrated the rat tide, and all the rats that were hit were burned back, leaving a clear fire mark in the dark rat tide. The cannonball exploded in the rat tide, and the raging flames exploded.
The area within meters was covered in flames, and all rats were burned to char.
Extremely lethal.
Chapter completed!