Swallowing the Stars: My Comprehension is Beyond the Heavens!

Chapter 60 Rat Swarm

After dealing with the Purple Lion, the two brothers chatted while dissecting the materials.

"Including this purple-gold lion, we've hunted ten beast general-level monsters this time. Our backpacks are overflowing."

"Big brother, have you reached the intermediate-level warrior level in terms of physical fitness yet?"

"It should have reached that point, right?"

Luo Feng was somewhat uncertain, "We haven't conducted any tests, so I'm not entirely sure either."

Luo Xia said, "Then when we get back this time, we'll take the test and, while we're at it, apply to Director Wu Tong and the others for eligibility for the elite training camp."

Luo Feng hummed in agreement, then looked up at the sky. Dark clouds filled the sky, making it gloomy. "Is it going to rain later? I was thinking we should just head back..."

Luo Xia pressed his right eye and said somewhat uneasyly, "My right eyelid has been twitching for the past two days, and I have a feeling that something is about to happen."

Upon hearing this, Luo Feng was both amused and exasperated, saying, "What could possibly happen? You're just scaring yourself. Alright, let's pack up and find a house to rest in. We'll head back to the supply base when the weather gets better."

"Hopefully..." Luo Xia muttered to himself, then put away all the materials for the Purple Gold Lion and followed Luo Feng to a dilapidated villa.

The two brothers tidied up the first floor of the villa a bit, planning to rest there for the night and return to the military base after the rain stopped.

Rumble...

Before long, thunder rumbled in the sky, followed by a downpour of rain.

Luo Xia and Luo Feng started a fire in the house.

A pot was placed on the flickering flame.

There is hot water boiling in the pot.

The two brothers sat around the fire, eating dry rations while looking out at the rain outside the window.

"This rain is really heavy," Rorschach said.

"yes."

While responding to Luo Xia, Luo Feng was also typing something on his watch.

Luo Xia couldn't help but ask, "Are you chatting with Senior Xu Xin?"

Luo Feng nodded and said with a smile, "Didn't you tell me to chat with her whenever I had free time?"

"Tch~" Rorschach curled his lip and took a big bite of the dry rations in his hand.

Luo Feng chuckled, looking like a winner in life, and continued chatting with Xu Xin with a smile.

Just then, the earth suddenly began to shake.

Luo Feng and Luo Xia stood up almost simultaneously. Luo Xia frowned and asked, "An earthquake?"

"City 023 is located on a plain, where earthquakes are highly unlikely," Luo Feng said.

The two brothers exchanged a glance, their sense of crisis growing stronger.

"Monster!"

The two shouted it out almost simultaneously!

Immediately afterwards, they grabbed their backpacks and swords and rushed out of the villa.

Rumble...

In the endless rain, Luo Feng and Luo Xia looked into the distance and saw a dense swarm of rats, enough to drive anyone with trypophobia crazy, surging toward them like a tidal wave!

"A rat infestation?"

Luo Feng was startled, and without hesitation, he said to Luo Xia, "Run!"

The two brothers dared not use their shields to fly.

If they fly into the sky and are spotted by these monster rats, they will become their targets!

Don't assume that just because a mouse can't fly, it's safe enough in the sky.

According to the records from that time, there was once a rat swarm where millions of rat monsters formed a ladder to the sky and forcibly pulled a mentalist who had caught their attention down from the air!

So they would rather run on the ground than be noticed by the rat swarm!

The two brothers sped off, abandoning their backpacks halfway through the journey.

It's a bit of a pity, but survival is the most important thing!

Rumble...

Like a tidal wave, rat monsters surged from behind, causing the earth to tremble. Many monsters, like Rorschach and his companions, were fleeing for their lives!

These rat monsters swarmed in a dense, overwhelming number; from a satellite perspective, most of the city appeared to be submerged by the rat horde.

There must be at least hundreds of millions!

squeak...

The squeaking of the mice was incessant.

The two brothers ran frantically, barely daring to stop for a moment. Their speed remained above 70 meters per second. They ran like this for several minutes before finally escaping from City 023!

"Waaaaah, Li Hui!"

"Yao Ning! Ahhhhhh..."

Besides Luo Xia and Luo Feng, other martial artists also fled the city. As soon as they came out, some of them couldn't hold back their emotions and wept bitterly in the pouring rain.

Clearly, some of their teammates had died in the rat swarm.

Luo Xia and Luo Feng looked at the grieving and weeping people, their faces silent.

"Let's go, let's go quickly! It's not safe here yet!"

Although they have escaped the city, it is still not safe enough. Based on past rat outbreaks, the rat infestation in the city will soon spread to the surrounding wilderness!

These days, the only safe place to go is inside a military base!

A group of people continued to flee in the heavy rain.

Sure enough, not long after, the rat swarm in City 023 began to surge into the surrounding wilderness.

One small swarm of rats chased after Rorschach and his group!

Luo Feng and Luo Xia ran desperately, until they felt like their legs weren't their own anymore, and their throats tasted blood when they breathed.

But no one dared to stop and rest.

If they are caught up by the rat swarm now, only death awaits them!

"Look! It's a military fighter jet!"

"There's finally hope!"

"Military fighter jets!"

Suddenly, four loud booming sounds came from afar, followed by four deep blue shadows flying rapidly towards them!

At first glance, they looked like some kind of bird or monster, but when the four dark blue shadows flew closer, everyone finally saw their true forms.

—They are four flat, round flying fighter jets!

Nowadays, most military aircraft adopt this flat, round design because this shape is very suitable for both defense and offense when encountering flying monsters in the air!

The fleeing warriors cheered, their previously exhausted strength seemingly restored, and their speed increased again as they ran forward, widening the distance between themselves and the rat horde!

The four fighter jets hovered above the swarm of rats, with huge cannons protruding from their bellies.

next second.

Rumble...

Endless, scorching flames spewed from the cannon muzzle, directly engulfing the swarm of rats below.

Under the intense heat of the flames, which reached temperatures of over a thousand degrees, a large number of rat monsters were burned to death, and a foul stench immediately filled the air.

The swarm of rats that broke away from the city was quite large, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, but it couldn't withstand the scorching heat of the four fighter jets. Before long, these rat monsters were burning and screaming as they fled in all directions.

The fighter jets burned most of the rat monsters to death.

Then, a sound came from one of the fighter jets—

"Fellow warriors, a level-three rat swarm has broken out within a radius of nearly a thousand miles. Please return to the supply base immediately and wait until the rat swarm alert is lifted before entering the wilderness area."

After saying that, the fighter jets immediately left to rescue other warriors elsewhere.

Luo Xia and his men dared not delay. After catching their breath, they continued their escape towards the military base.

After running for two days, Luo Xia and his team finally returned to the supply base.

(End of this chapter)