Mice dominate the dungeon

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Enzo, inside the construction hut, swung his hammer one last time, and a brand-new city wall appeared on the workbench in front of him.

After moving the city wall to the finished product area of ​​the hut, Enzo's work for the day was finished.

After a long day's work, Master Enzo packed up his tools and headed out of the hut.

As soon as it stepped out of the cabin, it smelled a rich fragrance wafting through the park.

Enzo raised his nose and took a deep breath; he could smell a caramelized aroma in the fragrance that he liked.

It looks like there will be grilled or roasted food in tonight's meal.

After finishing his work, he could eat his favorite food. Not bad, not bad... Enzo strode towards the cafeteria.

As Enzo passed by the headquarters, he saw Tucci walking out of the gate.

"Boss, the 'walls' of the first division of the burrowing ants are 30% complete."

Enzo slowed down and walked up to Tucci, briefly reporting on the tasks he was currently undertaking.

"That was fast. You've been working hard lately." Twitch stretched after finishing his work. "A few days ago, I discovered some rare earth elements in the swamp of the Mad Frogman tribe."

"I'll get some for you later."

Tucci often rewards his hardworking subordinates.

"Thank you, boss! I guarantee I'll complete the city wall forging task on time." Enzo was overjoyed to hear about the rare materials.

"By the way, did the cow, horse, and rat go to the building hut to pick up the goods today?" Twitch suddenly remembered something.

"The first batch of 'city walls' was taken away by the cows, horses, and rats this morning."

"The second batch can be picked up by the day after tomorrow at the latest."

"They picked it up this morning," Tucci muttered. "Then it should have been delivered to the first branch by now..."

Twitch sensed for a moment and found that the cows, horses, and rats he had arranged had all returned to the park.

If he hadn't met Enzo, he would have almost forgotten to arrange for the garrison rats of the First Division to place the "walls".

Immediately, he turned his gaze to the east outside the park.

"Boss, I'm going to eat now."

Enzo saw that the boss was in a daze and said that it had to hurry to the cafeteria, otherwise all the delicious food would be snatched up by those little things.

"Um......"

Tucci casually responded, diverting a portion of his attention to the consciousness of the resident rats.

"Hey! Can you hear me?!"

"..."

"I am Twitch, a garrison soldier rat from the First Division. Squeak when you hear me!"

"..."

A moment later, Tucci, who had not received a response, stood awkwardly in front of the base camp gate.

Are all those rat soldiers asleep over there?!

That's not right!

There's no time difference between our two sides, and it's only dinnertime, how could we possibly go to sleep?

After a moment's thought, Tucci chose the simplest way to make the connection!

Immediately, he began to sense the [tracking marks] and [familiar control] on the soldiers and rats. Once he located their positions, Twitch could send his consciousness onto them.

But the result was beyond Tuqi's expectations...

He could locate the stationed rats in the east, but he couldn't send his consciousness down!

It's like a subnet in a network losing its connection...

Twitch: ?!

What's going on?!

Why is there no signal?!

Frowning, Twitch initially thought it was because his magic output was insufficient, causing a poor signal in the mouse network.

But after a series of adjustments and updates, Twitch gradually realized something was wrong.

Generally speaking, there are only two possibilities when this disconnection occurs.

The first possibility is that the mouse entered a special area, cutting off Twitch's signal connection.

But that's obviously impossible, because he communicated with the stationed rat soldiers yesterday and gave them orders.

The second possibility is that the soldier-rat was killed off...

The mouse had completely lost its vital signs, so naturally it was unable to descend into consciousness.

"No way..." Twitch murmured, a look of doubt flashing in his eyes.

If one or two mice disconnect, it's possible they died unexpectedly.

But now the connection has been completely lost, clearly something went wrong at the burrowing ant branch!

Now here's the question!

Who killed his rat?!

The only monster in the east that can threaten the Soldier Rat now seems to be the "Withered Monster"!

Normally, when the soldier rats encounter danger, even if they cannot handle it, they can connect their consciousness to the rat swarm's consciousness and ask for help from themselves in the main camp.

But he did not receive any distress calls from any of the soldier rats.

This means that more than a dozen soldier rats were killed instantly by mistake!

If that's the case, it's highly unlikely to be a withered monster.

It's not that Twitch looks down on the withered monsters, but those guys simply don't have that ability...

After thinking for a while, Tucci still had no clue.

"Sitting around won't solve anything; I need to go to the First Division..."

As soon as the idea took hold, Twitch went straight to a cow-horse hamster in the cafeteria that looked like it had just finished eating.

"Come on! Let me take you for some exercise after dinner!"

Just as the cow-horse-rat finished eating and got up to ask for more food, a voice suddenly rang in its mind.

Everything went black, and he lost consciousness instantly...

Twitch drove the bull-horse rat towards the rat trail outside the park, as he had previously walked through the burrowing ant branch with Big Ears and was quite familiar with the path.

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The cow-horse-rat, moving at full speed, quickly arrived at its destination.

Standing at the end of the rat trail, Tuchi gazes at the entire distribution of the burrowing ants.

Four or five soldier rats stood guard quietly behind the branch's gate.

Twitch brought up their panels, and without exception, all of their health bars were reset to zero.

Undeterred, Twitch tried sensing the other rat soldiers in the division, but the result was the same as before.

Even at this close range, I can't sense it...

This is outrageous! They wiped out all the rats I had stationed there in one go?!

Twitch began to carefully examine the fallen, motionless rat soldiers on the perimeter.

The mice died peacefully, with no obvious injuries, suggesting they were killed instantly without realizing it.

Immediately, his gaze returned to the ground.

There were some messy movement marks on the ground, but these marks didn't seem to belong to the withered monster; rather, they looked like they were left by an arthropod...

I knew it!

The withered monster can't do this kind of thing!

But what on earth was so audacious as to kill my rat?!

Just as Tucci was trapped in a dead end, he suddenly heard a faint sound coming from the adjacent cave passage not far from him.

Is there something next door?

Tucci carefully poked half of his body out of the hole and peeked his little head out to look at the hole next door.

Under his gaze, a few seconds later, a monster so black it reflected light crawled out of the cave.

This monster has two long, knee-like tentacles hanging from its head, and large mandibles in its mouth.

Twitch: Wow~~

What's this familiar face here?!