Mythology Returns! Starting with Folklore and Strange Tales

Chapter 77 Birthday Celebration Ignites Life

"If you really want to complete the mission, take a walk on the edge of the town, and once you've made enough money, get out of the town as soon as possible. Don't get yourself trapped inside!"

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"Of course, the decision is yours. If you want to come back with me and fight the rat demon, I can take you back!"

Zhang Wei didn't want to claim all the credit; he genuinely felt the risk was a bit too high.

Given the rats' habit of digging holes everywhere and having occupied Cai Town for countless years, it's impossible that only the area under the Zhuangyuan Mansion was the rat spirit's lair. It's highly likely that the entire underground of Cai Town has been hollowed out by that creature.

The town, which seems as stable as a mountain now, might collapse completely once a fight breaks out.

He had considered a larger scope, but he couldn't very well go and slay demons himself without letting his teammates get a share, could he?

He himself didn't care. With Feng Xu Yu Feng, he could fly freely, and several techniques and spells that enhanced his physical strength were enough to allow him to survive in certain extreme situations. Unless he was directly suppressed by a small mountain weighing hundreds or thousands of tons, it wouldn't be particularly fatal.

However, in extreme situations, protecting himself while also protecting others is beyond his capabilities!

An Yixi is a good child, but even the best child should ask for the other party's opinion, right?

He's not some autocratic patriarch.

Therefore, he gave An Yixi two choices.

The choice is entirely up to the other party!

Upon hearing this, An Yixi shook her head: "Brother Zhang, I know my own limitations. If it were a snake demon, I would have gone with you even if you hadn't told me. But with a rat demon and the underground environment, I would only cause trouble. Please be careful."

"And this, Brother Zhang, you take it!"

As she spoke, An Yixi handed her somewhat exaggerated hiking backpack, which had been wrapped in layers of cloth before entering the top scholar's mansion, to Zhang Wei: "Although I don't have the ability to go with you to slay demons, Brother Zhang, having this means you have me by your side!"

He kindly wanted An Yixi to accept it, and he wouldn't refuse An Yixi's kind offer!

However, just as he reached out to take the backpack, the sudden weight made his wrist drop sharply.

This is Zhang Wei's strength. His bones and flesh are much stronger than before. If it were an ordinary person, this one blow would be enough to break their forearm.

Zhang Wei weighed the backpack in his hand.

This must weigh three to five hundred pounds, right?

The backpacks in the station are sturdy and durable, but you don't have to stuff all sorts of things into them, do you?

Curious, Zhang Wei opened the zipper halfway and peeked inside. Then, his expression changed, and his gaze toward An Yixi took on an indescribable meaning.

An honest kid is truly honest, but when he gets ruthless, he can be a real wolf.

He was a little surprised, but now was not the time for rambling: "Okay, I'll take it. Take care of yourself, I'll be going now!"

Zhang Wei couldn't just stand by and watch the rat spirit cause him trouble in the burrow. Letting it escape earlier was not his fault, but to give it more time to build up its power would be pure folly.

As he spoke, Zhang Wei turned around, and a blood-red rainbow stretched behind him as his blood aura surged.

After returning to the ruins of the Zhuangyuan Mansion, Zhang Wei found his temporary residence near where An Yixi had stayed. He retrieved the backpack stored under the bed from the rubble and picked up the backpack An Yixi had left behind. Then, he found the largest hole in the ground and jumped in.

After he left, in Cai Town, the dark purple-black evil clouds continued to expand outward from the Zhuangyuan Mansion as the center.

Wherever it passed, townspeople with rat tails and human bodies were summoned by the demonic cloud and transformed into giant rats that devoured people amidst painful howls. The black rat stream spread outwards along the streets and alleys, accompanied by panicked screams and the sound of gnawing. Those of its kind who had not yet been summoned into giant rats, or even normal townspeople, all became its prey.

Even if other giant rats block their path and try to steal their food, they will not hesitate to bite and tear them apart until one of them is dead!

Gazing at this scene from afar, An Yixi shook her head.

Aside from genuine madness, where is there love and hate without a cause?

The benevolence of the top scholar?

Indeed, you are merciful, but now it's your turn to pay back the debt to the top scholar!

He did want to save them, but unfortunately he didn't have Brother Zhang's ability to shroud the demons in blood for miles, terrifying them. Even if he could save them, he couldn't save many. Besides, he remembered Brother Zhang's instructions and dared not go too deep.

Just as An Yixi was about to set off to find some "leftovers" to eat, he noticed figures suddenly appearing in the streets and alleys in the distance, rushing towards the rat swarm with their backs to the panicked townspeople.

There weren't many of them, only a dozen or so.

But what they took out from their pockets and backs immediately caught An Yixi's eye.

Meanwhile.

Underground cave.

A dense network of crisscrossing underground tunnels appeared before his eyes.

Even though Zhang Wei had anticipated this before coming down, he still found the situation troublesome.

Even though he could continuously absorb the evil energy in the caves through his eyes and judge the correctness of his path by the changes in the concentration of evil energy, these tunnels were too dense and too deep.

He rode the gale and traveled through the tunnel, which was more than two meters high, for a quarter of an hour. The winding tunnel had descended two or three hundred meters in a straight line, but he had not yet reached the bottom. Along the way, giant rats would always jump out at the bends in the tunnel.

The giant rats underground are not like the defective ones outside.

These are all purebred rat spirits. Each one, excluding its tail, is over a meter long, with bulging muscles all over its body. They look like rat-headed warriors and howl as they pounce on him when they see him.

With sharp teeth and claws, it is capable of wielding any weapon, including swords, spears, and halberds.

Yes, in this world, even rats know how to use weapons!

But that's not even the most terrifying part. What's even more terrifying is that each of these rats possesses a strange and bizarre spell. Some of them use demonic energy to refine the stolen beans in their mouths, and when they meet someone, they spray them like a pea-shooting machine gun. Others control five ghostly spirits, forming the Five Demons, drawing a circle on the ground to imprison him, and using the demons to create walls in an attempt to trap him. Still others don't even show their faces, but secretly let Zhang Wei fall under their spells.

The most insidious of all is this last one.

If it weren't for Zhang Wei's warning and the fact that the traveler's nameplate allowed him to monitor his condition at any time, he would have truly fallen into their trap.

Seeing his seventy-four-year lifespan on his nameplate slipping away second by second, and the "borrowed lifespan" status in his prefix ranking, Zhang Wei immediately looked around alertly.

Bloodlust swirled and spread around him. When strands of bloodlust disappeared into the walls of the surrounding passage, Zhang Wei's gaze sharpened.

Raise your hand and throw a punch.

boom!

The flesh and blood body made a sound like a siege weapon. With a single punch, a layer of soil thirty centimeters thick was completely peeled away. The thief who had just finished kowtowing and was getting up from the wall met his gaze.

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