"There are too many, there are too many, we can't kill them all. Mr. Zhou, withdraw. You withdraw, you go first, and I will give you the rear. If you don't leave, you will die here!"
At this time, Sun Yingjun also squeezed over and shouted loudly.
Sun Yingjun was really anxious this time.
Zhou You shook his head, "Don't worry, reinforcements will be here soon."
As soon as Zhou You finished speaking, the elevator door behind the right side of the stairs opened with a bang.
Jiang Qianyun finally arrived with the temporarily reorganized micro armored force!
Most of the people in these armored vehicles are construction crews.
But at this moment, everyone can fight.
Among the armored units that rushed out, the most conspicuous and powerful ones were two black all-terrain hard-core off-road vehicles that were 50 centimeters in length, about 15 centimeters in width, and over 25 centimeters in height.
These two off-road vehicles have iron shells and extremely strong wheels. They are extremely fast and can turn flexibly.
This is a high-end remote control car found by the troops who went out today and raided a children's toy store. The price tag in the store was more than 300 yuan, but it was all used by the Zhou family.
Unfortunately, this thing doesn't seem to sell well, so the entire store only has these two units in stock.
At this time, the space inside the car has been emptied out, and at a glance, the car is already packed to the brim.
The person squatting in the front row is responsible for controlling the remote control as if it were a steering wheel.
There were two more people in the back row, each holding two fruit knives and sticking them out from the car window.
What's even more exaggerated is that the front section of the tank has been modified and installed with a pointed shovel for gardening. It doesn't look like an off-road vehicle, but rather like a snowplow.
Zhou You feels that the power of the pointed shovel is actually not enough. If the pointed shovel is changed to a rotary blade like a combine harvester, the lethality will be even more amazing.
The blade is not difficult to find, just use the blade of the rechargeable meat grinder sold in the supermarket, and the driving structure can be directly disassembled and installed on the meat grinder.
No matter how bad it is, you should actually sharpen the pointed blade.
However, it is commendable that the engineers above were able to start modifying the tank as soon as they were alerted to the war situation and were able to accomplish this in just a few minutes.
Jiang Qianyun was sitting in one of the cars.
But instead of becoming a driver, she grabbed a fruit knife and became a combatant.
Although Jiang Qianyun has never shown her fighting power in front of the Zhou family so far, absolutely no one dares to look down upon her.
In any case, she was a fierce person who persisted in being chased by three cats until rescue arrived, and even protected her brother unharmed.
Her ability is evident, and absolutely no one dares to underestimate her.
Just as Jiang Qianyun's off-road vehicle took the lead and rushed up, deafening music sounded in the basement again.
This music is not very passionate and explosive, and it has no meaning. It is just heavy metal rock with the volume turned up to the maximum.
It turns out that behind the elevator is the large Devialet Phantom Bluetooth speaker that Jiang Qianyun placed in her office!
The function of this valuable luxury-level speaker at this time is to make huge noises.
It was not only to frighten the rats, but also a way Jiang Qianyun came up with to interfere with the Rat King issuing orders to the rats.
The new force came from the rear. When it appeared, Zhou You had already used gestures to ask everyone to immediately move to both sides and stand close to the wall to make way for the new force.
As soon as the road was cleared, two metal chariots were seen rushing out at the lead, slamming into the queue of rats.
The rats that blocked the path of the chariot were howling and wailing. They were either knocked away on the spot, had a big bloody hole in their head, or were simply pushed underneath by a shovel, or were cut from the ground by the fruit knives on both sides of the vehicle.
The side swept across the body, leaving a long wound from the head to the back of the abdomen.
However, although the cries of these mice were miserable, they were completely covered by the heavy bass of Devialet's Bluetooth speakers, making them impossible to hear clearly.
The two tanks were running side by side, with a horizontal damage area of nearly 70 centimeters.
The two tanks pushed all the way to the door of the power distribution room before finally being unable to move any further due to the excessive number of rats piled up in front.
But the chariot was not trapped by this.
Behind it, other human-powered chariots transformed from daily necessities such as hamster cage personal bunkers, individual steel basin fortresses, cat cages, vegetable baskets and other daily utensils have quickly followed. The people hiding inside began to use lighters, nail guns and various
Use a long-handled weapon to cause damage to the rats around you.
Although most of the people in the tanks were non-combatants, under the cover of various armored vehicles, they were fighting bravely and diligently.
The reason is very simple. In online games, even a newbie with zero krypton will be able to get monsters as long as the invincibility is enabled.
With the sudden appearance of this new force, the situation of the battle immediately reversed.
The ferocious mice began to retreat steadily.
Zhou You also promptly ordered the combatants who had followed him until now to take a break immediately.
We can no longer rush in. Someone was almost dragged away just now.
Even if you are wearing aluminum alloy armor, if you are really dragged into a swarm of rats, the armor may be torn off.
As for himself, he did not rest. Instead, he mustered up his strength and began to advance forward with the armored vehicle troops.
He planned to use the cover of the armored vehicle to fight all the way to the deepest part of the rat camp.
Perhaps before, the Rat King was still planning to use the numerical advantage to pile him and the other twenty combatants to death here, but now, Zhou You could predict the Rat King's decision in advance.
If the Rat King really has the wisdom he has shown so far, then seeing the current situation, he will definitely issue a new order and prepare to retreat the entire army.
Therefore, Zhou You planned to take advantage of this opportunity that the Rat King would definitely issue a new order to catch this guy on the spot.
Furthermore, now that there is Devialet's sonic interference, assuming that the Rat King really relies on his voice to issue instructions, then he will inevitably have to raise his voice and speak at the highest volume.
As for the task of rescuing the people trapped in the power distribution room, it is left to others.
But just when Zhou You rushed to the vicinity of the two electric armored vehicles and was about to continue moving forward, a sudden change occurred.
The army of rats that had previously preferred death to retreat suddenly paused, then turned around and ran back without any warning.
Without any warning, the rats' retreat began. It was very sudden, yet extremely decisive.
The speed of its retreat was beyond Zhou You's expectations, and the neatness of its actions was also beyond expectations.
Seeing this, Zhou You simply jumped on top of his own chariot, and while helping the off-road vehicle clean up the rats on the front of the vehicle, he tried to find the Rat King from a high position by taking advantage of his vision.
But what disappointed him was that he still couldn't detect that it was just the Rat King.
Each mouse behaved exactly the same, with no difference at all. They all made no unnecessary movements and just turned their heads and ran away.
However, Zhou You can be sure that the Rat King has been commanding the entire audience.
The rats that rushed to the end of the passage did not rush straight up like a crazy swarm. Instead, they first separated into a group and climbed up along the latex paint in the corner. They climbed to the top and hooked on the wire pipe above.
Then the group of mice followed the electrical pipe and turned to the valve of the ventilation pipe that had been chewed open.
The mice that arrived at the escape hatch did not immediately escape into the ventilation pipe, but began to hang from the top down.
The lower mouse bites the end of the upper mouse's tail and grabs the upper mouse's tail with both its front and rear paws.
In the blink of an eye, the rat's ladder turned into a rat ladder similar to a human ladder, connecting from the gap in the ventilation valve to the ground from top to bottom.
Then, the mice that had been waiting below began to line up in a straight line and climb quickly from bottom to top.
During this whole process, not even a single mouse jumped in the queue to grab a spot, but they all waited honestly below with great cooperation.
Not only that, the rat that went up first did not leave immediately, but quickly built a second rat ladder using the remaining space in the valve gap.
Now, the Rat Legion has two rat ladder pontoons that can pass through at the same time.
The rats on the ground began to retreat quickly at a rate of more than ten per second.
The remaining 600 or so rats will be able to complete a full retreat in just a minute or so!
The actions of the rat army were so uniform that they even performed better than well-trained humans.
This doesn't look like an animal at all, but looks a lot like the arrays used in drone shows in the past, which only makes those who see it feel creepy.
Zhou You can be 100% sure that the Rat King's military command has never stopped.
But he still couldn't find the Rat King.
About a minute passed. Everyone on the ground looked up at the empty ventilation valves and fell into deep thought.
After leaving behind hundreds of corpses of the rear-guard rats, the other five hundred or so rats managed to escape.
Not only that, the investigators hanging under the drone outside the club building to monitor the rats reported back, saying that after the rats left the ventilation ducts of the club building, they immediately fled away from the county seat without looking back.
Go, obviously intending to crawl into the mountains and never return.
And the number of rats escaping into the distance is far more than five or six hundred. There are at least a thousand smaller juvenile rats and mother rats with big bellies emerging from the green plants in the area and joining the larger group of rats.
The troops gathered together and fled together.
The number of the huge rat swarm exceeds at least 1,800.
The investigators tried to analyze it purely with the naked eye, and found that at least one-third of the rats, that is, more than 600 female rats.
The average cycle from pregnancy to delivery in mice is three to four weeks. If you observe carefully, you can already see a little difference in the mice that are ten days pregnant.
Although it may seem a bit arbitrary for investigators to draw conclusions based on visual observation, the error is not too large.
Moreover, the basement battlefield has also made a judgment. There is not a single female rat corpse on the ground, they are all male rats!
All these signs indicate that since humans shrunk, rats have immediately taken advantage of their reproductive speed to start breeding crazily.
In addition, investigators also found several nests in the direction the rats came out.
These nests hidden in tree holes or mud holes are all baby rats that have not yet opened their eyes and can only stagger and crawl.
In any nest, there can be as few as a dozen or as many as dozens of baby rats.
Preliminary estimates suggest that the total number of such young rats in the community exceeds at least 800.
This is particularly scary because it takes about ten days for a mouse to open its eyes from birth.
Based on the fertility of mice and conventional population analysis, it can be inferred that these 1,000 rat pups born within ten days come from about 200 female rat mothers.
Female rats can generally give birth to 5 to 10 babies in one litter.
Combined with the above data, this proves one thing: since humans shrank and the wisdom of rat groups began to increase, the survival rate of young rats has been greatly improved.
In the basement, Jiang Qianyun began to lead the team to count the results of the battle and count the casualties.
The result is not good, but not bad either.
Only a few of the reinforcements led by You were slightly injured; no one was killed or seriously injured.
The second group of reinforcements brought by Jiang Qianyun were all unharmed.
But some of the first combatants trapped in the basement were killed.
A total of four people died, six were seriously injured, and almost all the remaining survivors were injured.
Among the dead were He Zhongyou and three others.
Yuan Yi Ke was slightly injured.
Luo Xun suffered minor injuries, but was completely unconscious at this time.
In the previous battle, Luo Xun was awakened as a trans-limiter before the battle, and her precision shooting ability was greatly improved in a very short period of time.
Luo Xun, who transformed into a real sharpshooter, is one of the main reasons why the trapped people can persist until now.
Another main reason was that He Zhongyou was still standing at the ventilation hole. He did not fall down even after he died. Instead, he was supported by two short guns stuck on the rat corpse on the ground. He Zhongyou was still standing.
Zhou You silently looked at He Zhongyou who was covered in blood in front of him, feeling unable to let go for a long time.
On He Zhongyou's body, the armor he wore fell off and fell into pieces.
He has almost lost his human form.
You can even see white bones on his arms and thighs.
The blood under his feet was even more diffuse, completely mixed with the flesh and blood of the rat, making it hard to distinguish.
Although Yuan Yike beside him had already told himself that He Zhongyou had stopped moving two or three minutes ago and had always maintained the standing posture, Zhou You couldn't help but put his hand in front of He Zhongyou's nose to try it.
He was unwilling to do so.
well.
Indeed, he was completely out of breath.
Zhou You looked back at the other side of the corner.
There, Dr. Lin Ziying was leading Lin Yao and several others to conduct final verification of the conditions of the three deceased.
Two of them have been verified and are being carried and put into body bags made of disposable fresh-keeping bags.
There should be no miracles happening to the third person, and he is already dead. It just needs Dr. Lin's medical evaluation.
In addition, several family members of the victims happened to be working as construction team members on top.
At this moment, these family members were throwing themselves beside the three corpses, crying in grief.
"well."
Zhou You sighed, then looked back at He Zhongyou, raised his hand, and gently helped him close his eyes.
Only today did Zhou You really take notice of He Zhongyou, and he even planned to promote this veteran who has been performing better and better recently and is rising rapidly. He is an absolute rising star.
But he never expected that just tonight, the other party would sacrifice himself here in such a heroic manner.
At this time, Yuan Yike was standing silently next to Zhou You.
Li Xiaoling is using hydrogen peroxide to disinfect the wound on Yuan Yike's arm to remove blood. There are hemostatic gel and hemostatic bandage beside him.
Yuan Yike seemed unaware of his injuries and just looked at He Zhongyou blankly.
Her face was full of self-blame, and she said faintly: "If I can also awaken, and there is another over-limit person here, He Zhongyou may not die."
Zhou You was shocked, "He has awakened?"
"Yes. The first one to awaken was Luo Xun. After Luo Xun's awakening, our originally precarious defense line suddenly stabilized a lot, but she quickly ran out of ammunition and could only use her sword to fight in close combat. The threat to the rats was as great as
The lethality has dropped a lot. We are gradually unable to defend the entrance to the cave."
"But then He Zhongyou suddenly became a lot stronger and became extremely fierce. But at that time, his consciousness was a little vague, and he only had fighting instincts. He shouted that he had not embarrassed Class 7 and 8, and he had not embarrassed the old squad leader.
He was chopping randomly around him."
"His comrades nearby were also almost accidentally injured by him. Everyone had to separate their formations slightly. He was almost responsible for a frontal front that was more than two decimeters long."
"I kept calling him, trying to bring him back to his senses, but he ignored me at all. I had no choice but to let him take charge of the longest front line alone. The mouse thought he was alone, so he turned to him
It is the main breakthrough point. The defensive tasks he undertakes are too heavy."
"Later, he was knocked down once and was even dragged into a swarm of rats. At that time, his weapon had been taken off. I saw that his condition was extremely critical. Although he had turned around, I still couldn't catch him. I also followed him.
I wanted to rush in and save him, but I was too weak to break through, so I could only lead two other people to fill the gap created after he was dragged away."
"I thought he was dead at the time, but I didn't expect that more than a minute later, he took off his shoulder armor as a weapon, fought back from the rats, and once again defended the front."
"But at that time, a large piece of his armor had been torn off, and he was covered in injuries. I wanted him to retreat to the second line, but he still ignored me. Until... until after the music started playing outside,
The pressure on our side of the battlefield dropped sharply, and when we started to try a little counterattack and push out, he failed to follow us, and we found that he could no longer move at all."
"Your cousin-in-law wanted to help him to the back to rest, but he refused, saying that he didn't want to lie down and die, but wanted to die standing up. He also asked your cousin-in-law to apologize to me on his behalf, saying that he had been disobeying me today.
Order. He thinks that my judgment was wrong and he cannot retreat. He must bear the greatest pressure himself so that everyone else can survive and the defense line will not collapse."
"He also said that although it turned out that he was right, as a soldier, he should not disobey orders and still have to apologize to me. As soon as he finished saying these words, he died. Look at his neck, the aorta has long been damaged.
It was bitten, it was bitten through, and it was bleeding all the time.”
"Why... why can't I awaken? Is my instinct really that weak? When I saw the two awakened people, Luo Xun and He Zhongyou, I instinctively felt that I was safe and didn't need to fight hard? But I obviously wasn't like that at the time.