If you were made a mascot, you would become a legend in the police force.

Li Tuantuan looked at the little thing jumping around in her palm and felt a little uneasy.

Although this golden bean looks quite spiritual, this is, after all, a sewer. The main road outside, while it looks gloomy, is at least spacious, allowing the SWAT team to deploy their firepower. This small crack looks cramped; if it were to collapse inside, there wouldn't even be anywhere to run.

"Tuantuan, what does it want to do?" Lin Wan came closer, the flashlight beam shining on Jin Dou, making its golden fur even more conspicuous.

Li Tuantuan remained silent, waiting for the system's assessment results.

Just as the golden bean crawled into his palm, the system interface kept flashing, as if it was performing some kind of data analysis.

[Ding! Biological scan complete.]

[Target: Mutant Treasure-Hunting Rat (Juvenile Stage)]

[Rarity: SSR (Extremely Rare)]

[Talent 1: Metal Sense (Able to accurately detect high-value metals within a one-kilometer radius).]

[Talent Two: Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Misfortune (possessing an extraordinary intuition for danger, able to anticipate ambushes and traps).]

[Talent Three: Spiritual Energy Detection (Absolute ability to track sources of high-concentration spiritual energy).]

[System Evaluation: Congratulations, host, you've struck gold! This is a top-tier support character in an awesome team. We recommend recruiting him immediately and treating him well. With him, you'll never have to worry about money for milk again.]

Upon seeing that row of glittering "SSR" cards, Li Tuantuan's eyes widened instantly, becoming as big as copper bells.

I knew it!

She's so good-looking, she must be extraordinary!

This isn't a rat, it's a living radar, a walking ATM!

Li Tuantuan's gaze towards Jin Dou instantly changed, becoming filled with affection, even a hint of flattery. He reached out his other hand and carefully rubbed Jin Dou's head with his fingertips, the movement as gentle as if he were touching a fragile piece of porcelain.

"Squeak~" Jin Dou squinted her eyes comfortably, enjoying the sudden massage.

"Dude, your mood swings are too fast!" Coal Ball rolled his eyes, watching from the side. "Just now you were complaining about him being a 'punk' (a derogatory term for a flamboyant, often outlandish, youthful style), and now you're treating him like your own son? You've got some serious character issues!"

Li Tuantuan completely ignored the noisy crow. He raised his head, looked at Zhao Gang and Lin Wan, pointed to the crack that Jin Dou had indicated, and then nodded heavily.

"Okay!" (This way!)

"Go through the crack?" Zhao Gang frowned, glancing at the opening that could barely accommodate one person. "Isn't that too risky? What if it's a dead end? We'll be trapped. The main passage outside might have ambushes, but we have heavy firepower; we can just push through."

Li Tuantuan shook his head. He trusted the system's judgment, and even more so, he trusted the talent of this SSR-level subordinate.

Since Jin Dou said there is danger outside, then it must be a huge pit outside.

Without a word, he placed the golden bean on his shoulder, the spot reserved for the coal ball. The coal ball was about to protest, but a glare from Li Tuantuan silenced it, leaving it to dangle sadly from Li Tuantuan's ear.

Li Tuantuan walked to the crack, took a deep breath, pulled her belly fat in, and then squeezed herself in like a giant black and white glutinous rice ball.

"Team Leader Lin, this..." Zhao Gang hesitated, looking at Li Tuantuan's stubborn back.

Lin Wan gritted her teeth: "Listen to Tuan Tuan. His intuition hasn't been wrong all this time. Besides, this golden rat does look unusual; it might really know some shortcut."

The SWAT team members exchanged glances and could only follow helplessly.

Behind the crack was an abandoned drainage branch pipe, quite old, with dried moss covering the pipe walls. The air inside was a bit fresher than outside.

Jin Dou, walking ahead, seemed unusually excited. It jumped around on Li Tuantuan's shoulder, occasionally letting out rapid "squeaks" to direct the direction.

"Left! It says go left!" Although she couldn't understand mouse language, Li Tuantuan could roughly guess what it meant.

The group walked through the intricate network of pipes for about ten minutes.

Suddenly, Jin Dou stopped moving. It gripped Li Tuan Tuan's fur tightly, its whole body tense, and let out a low warning growl towards the wall on its right.

Li Tuantuan immediately stopped and raised her hand to signal the people behind her to be quiet.

He pressed his ear against the wall.

The walls were thin, and a dense, chilling sizzling sound came from the other side.

"Squeak squeak squeak..."

"Hiss..."

That was the sound of countless rats crawling and grinding their teeth. And judging from the noise, there were definitely tens of thousands of them, far more than the previous wave.

The most terrifying thing was that, in addition to the sound of rats, there was also a hissing sound similar to high-pressure gas being ejected.

Lin Wan leaned closer, her face deathly pale: "That's...poison gas?"

Li Tuantuan nodded.

If they had taken the main passage outside, they would have run right into this encirclement. Thousands upon thousands of venomous mutant rats, coupled with that unknown gas spray, would have wiped out the entire SWAT team, no matter how powerful their firepower, in this narrow underground space.

Hearing the commotion across the wall, Zhao Gang broke out in a cold sweat. He glanced at the golden bead on Li Tuantuan's shoulder, his eyes filled with awe: "Amazing...this rat is truly amazing."

Having avoided the ambush, Jin Dou led the group deeper into the area.

The further you go in, the stranger the surroundings become.

The scratches on the wall decreased, replaced by a strange crystalline structure. Even some glowing mushrooms sprouted from the cracks in the rocks.

Meanwhile, Jin Dou became increasingly excited. Its golden fur began to emit a faint glow, like a small light bulb blinking in the darkness.

It no longer gave directions, but instead, like an addict, twitched its nose and stared intently at the dark end ahead.

Li Tuantuan also sensed it.

The sweet scent in the air, which made every cell in his body cheer, grew stronger and stronger. With each breath, he felt his tired body rapidly recovering.

This is a high concentration of spiritual energy!

"The core area is just ahead." Lin Wan looked at the detector in her hand; the readings were off the charts. "Radiation levels and energy levels are skyrocketing. Everyone, prepare for battle!"

After passing through the last section of the pipe, the view suddenly opened up before them.

This is a huge natural cave located beneath the city's foundation. Above you are stalactites hanging upside down, and below you is an underground river.

In the very center of the cave, there is a huge platform.

When the powerful flashlight shone on them, everyone gasped.

There was a mountain of flesh lying there.

If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't recognize it as a rat. It was enormous, almost the size of an adult elephant. Its entire body was covered in layers of fat, which rose and fell like flowing waves with its breath.

Beneath that mountain of flesh lay a stone pillar emitting a faint blue light.

The stone pillar was crystal clear, with a shimmering halo, so beautiful it was breathtaking.

But at this moment, the enormous mountain of flesh rat was gnawing at the stone pillar with its gaping maw full of fangs. With each bite, the light on the stone pillar dimmed a little, and the rat's fat swelled up a bit.

"That's..." Zhao Gang's voice trembled, "What is that?"

Li Tuantuan didn't care what it was anymore; intuitively, it was what he desperately needed.

All he saw was that the "super lollipop" was being ruined by that disgusting fat rat!

"Gurgle—"

Li Tuantuan's stomach let out a thunderous roar.

Can we tolerate this?

This is absolutely intolerable!

Stealing my food is like killing my parents!

The green light in Li Tuantuan's eyes instantly transformed into a palpable killing intent.