Chapter 330 Rat Tide Erupts

Inside the dark mine.

Only the faint light emitted by the luminous pearls embedded on the wall can be seen. These worthless luminous pearls are smelted from Akashi powder, and there is only one every five feet.

"Zhizhi~"

A gray shadow passed quickly under the dim light of the night pearl.

It turned out to be a diamond rat crawling on the dry and uneven rock wall of the mine.

"Boom!"

At this moment, a spiritual energy bomb accurately hit Diamond Rat's body, turning it into a puddle of flesh and paste on the stone wall.

"This little beast scared me"

A miner who was sitting cross-legged and resting in the corner spat, his dirty face full of disgust.

As soon as he finished speaking, another skinny miner leaning against the wall with his bare chest asked in confusion:

"Brother Wang, do you think there have been more of these beasts recently? And they are not very afraid of people. They didn't dare to run out like this before. But now the squeaking sounds of these things are everywhere."

"Hey, you don't care what they do. Although these diamond rats are monsters, they are just the lowest level monsters. How can they do anything to monks like you and me who are in the middle stage of Qi refining?"

At the beginning of the conversation, the man banged his hoe on the ground, making a thumping sound. Looking at the pits and pits on the hoe, he suddenly felt distressed and said:

"Oh, my hoe is almost worn out. This Yuan Gaozong is really nothing. He even asked us to buy a mining hoe ourselves. I haven't dug twenty kilograms of ore this month. I'm exhausted.

You can't even get a few spiritual stones alive. If you had known this, you and I, brothers, wouldn't have

It’s time to abandon the business of killing people and robbing wealth. Although the risk is a bit high, you can still eat a lot when you meet a sect disciple with a huge amount of money. Alas, it’s a pity that the last vote was a slap in the face, and he actually killed a monk.

The inner disciples of Haizong had no choice but to become "stone bugs" for my two brothers."

"Hey, it would be nice to save a life. Let's avoid the limelight here. We can go back to our old business in a few years."

The thin miner grinned and licked his tongue.

While the two were chatting and laughing, there was a sudden rustling sound in the mine, as if a group of insects were crawling everywhere.

"What sound?"

The miner named "Brother Wang" pricked his ears and stood up alertly.

"Squeak! Squeak!"

Suddenly, there were endless creaking sounds throughout the mine, and the sound of climbing on the wall was getting closer and closer, becoming more and more intense.

"What's going on!"

Both of them stood up in surprise.

At this moment, under the light and shadow of the luminous pearl in the mine, gray figures crawling appeared. Densely packed rats, big or small, emerged from the holes in the stone wall and swarmed in.

The green eyes the size of mung beans were shining brightly in the darkness, and the squeaking sound made by the friction of teeth was even more eerie.

"No! Rat tide!! Damn! There are so many diamond rats hidden in this mine!"

The expressions of the two people who had been talking and laughing just now changed drastically, and they were about to run away without thinking. Unexpectedly, the diamond rat with a piece above its head jumped down, hung on the two of them, opened its mouth and burrowed into the body.

The Diamond Rat is called "Diamond" because its teeth and claws can dig into hard stone.

Being thrown at him, the Qi Refining Monk's body could not resist the diamond rat's bite.

"ah!!!"

The next second, a miserable scream sounded in the mine.

Not long after, the swarm of rats receded like a tide, leaving only corpses full of bloody holes on the ground.

Diamond rats don't like to eat meat, but they feed on minerals. They are generally very timid, so miners usually don't take it seriously when they see one or two, but they didn't expect that a "tide of rats" in groups would be like this.

The scary side.

After the rats retreated, they did not leave directly. Instead, they lay down one by one, raised their necks, and looked in one direction. They seemed to be worshiping something.

During this magical and strange scene, a slight footsteps slowly approached.

Zhao Xiuxuan, wearing simple short brown clothes, walked out of the shadows. On his way forward, the rats spontaneously separated on both sides.

On Zhao Xiuxuan's shoulder, stood a huge diamond rat with a whip-like tail.

This diamond rat has gleaming eyes and an extremely anthropomorphic expression on its face. Its four claws are like gold and iron, and its teeth flash in a bared grin.

This is actually a second-level monster and the "Rat King" of this mining area.

Zhao Xiuxuan walked closer and took a look at the bloody corpse on the ground, and couldn't help but frown, feeling a chill in his heart.

"Although I have no grievances with these two people, from what they just said, it seems that Jie Xiu, who was usually a robber and a murderer, did not die unjustly."

After sighing with emotion, Zhao Xiuxuan glanced at the "Rat King" standing obediently on his shoulder.

This Diamond Rat King was found after he used the Beast Controlling Technique to control a previous Diamond Rat Queen, spent a lot of effort and luck.

The diamond rat is a social animal, and there is a high probability that a rat king will appear to lead the group. This rat king may be a second-level monster or a first-level monster.

The one Zhao Xiuxuan found in the mining area turned out to be a second-level monster.

This rat king is timid by nature, and has been huddled deep underground away from the mineral veins, relying on other diamond rats in the group to feed it ore. In order to lure him out, Zhao Xiuxuan even used a trace of the "dragon vine" in the storage bag

As bait, this beast fell into a trap.

Once the Rat King is controlled, all his tribe will fall under his command.

What Zhao Xiuxuan wants to do is to create a shocking accident in this mining area so that he can achieve his goal of changing the mining area.

Only then did the tragic scene unfold before our eyes.

"However, it seems that one or two people are not enough to close the entire mining area, and the chaos must be expanded."

After pausing and thinking for a moment, Zhao Xiuxuan controlled the rats and then quietly left.

In the next few days, alarming "rat tides" began to occur in other parts of the entire mining area.

At first, they just crawled past the miners, and the miners managed to escape with their lives by running fast. However, other miners didn't take it seriously after hearing this, thinking they were just diamond rats and couldn't make any waves.

In order to dominate this mining area, "Boss Bi" even pressured other miners to prevent them from telling Yuan Gaozong's disciples about this, lest the mining area be closed and the profits he had finally grasped be lost.

However, as the "rat tide" appeared more and more frequently, several miners were drilled with bloody holes, and the miners finally realized the seriousness of the matter.

"Zhizhi"

The cry of the diamond rat, which usually sounds insignificant, now makes the miners shiver and shiver when they hear it.

——

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Several continuous explosions sounded in a certain mine.

"Rat tide! The rat tide is coming!"

I didn't know who it was, so I shouted.

What followed closely was low-level spells such as fireballs, wind blades, and spiritual energy bombs flying across the narrow mine.

"Quick! There's more over there! Ah!"

Boss Bi, who had a scar on his face, was directing the miners to stop the tide of rats. However, the diamond rat that fell from his head bit off a piece of meat on his shoulder. He was so painful that tears streamed down his face. His fierce face

It was full of panic.

"Boss Bi!"

"!!"

There were screams one after another in the mine.

A long time passed.

When the rat tide subsided, the corpses of diamond rats were left on the ground, as well as the broken bodies of the two leading brothers, Boss Bi and Hei San.

Although other miners also suffered injuries of various sizes, fortunately they were not life-threatening.

The surviving miners looked at each other and felt a little incredible.

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Management office.

"Crack!"

Xia Yingqi slapped the table hard, causing the intact table to fall into pieces.

"There's a rat tide! Why don't you report it!"

The expression on Manager Xia's face was filled with anger, and his eyebrows almost stood up.

He was angry and anxious at the moment.

He was angry that the miners did not report the rat tide immediately, so two days later, he discovered that someone's jade plaque suddenly disappeared for no reason, and then he discovered the existence of the rat tide.

The urgent thing is that if there is such a large-scale rat tide, then this mine must be cleaned up and the rat king who leads the rat tide will be eliminated. If it is troublesome, it will not be mined again within a month or two.
To be continued...