Chapter 140 The Wisdom of the Rat King and the Role of Natural Enemies
Chapter 140 The Wisdom of the Rat King and the Role of Natural Enemies
Author: Huozhongwu
Chapter 140 The Wisdom of the Rat King and the Role of Natural Enemies
Duke was dragged away by ten representatives of human peons.
Everyone wanted to drag him back to the gate of the processing factory.
Where did he start causing the disaster, and where did everyone plan to end his life.
In addition, some labor representatives had already left to inform others who were eating in the cafeteria car and receiving treatment in the medical car but who were still able to move.
Obviously, everyone, including Wang Wenming, was very happy that Zhou You and Deng Tao could give them the right to deal with prisoners.
Originally, Zhou Yu had no intention of watching Duke's execution.
But more than ten minutes later, when everyone used scalpels to cut Duke into about a hundred cuts, Zhou You still passed.
It's not that Zhou You thought these people were too cruel and planned to stop them.
Since Duke regards himself as a fellow rat, Zhou You naturally has no sympathy for this person.
Something else happened.
I got a surprise when I traveled around.
The last combat team that went to chase the rats came back.
The leader of this team is none other than Luo Xun.
On the way back, Luo Xun controlled the drone to hover at low altitude, following an armored truck modified from a children's toy car.
On the roof of the truck, a small rat was fixed with a rope.
The mouse has two barbed crossbow arrows stuck in the thighs of its four legs.
The tip of the arrow was nailed to the wooden board, fixing the mouse like a specimen.
Based on Zhou You's original habits and personality, he would not be in favor of treating another intelligent life like this.
However, the war between humans and rats has been going on for so long. Zhou You has witnessed more and more human tragedies caused by rats. His views on good and evil and his outlook on life are also undergoing some irreversible changes, big or small.
Small changes.
Under the subtle influence of the external environment, his character changed in a direction that was originally impossible.
Zhou You himself also realized this.
Before meeting someone like Duke, Zhou You was still consciously controlling his personality change, not wanting to become too cold-blooded.
But in a way, Zhouyou actually has Duke to thank for it.
Today I traveled through Duke and learned a new important lesson, which made up for the "shortcomings" in the lives of normal people that he had known and encountered so far, and re-experienced the lower limit of human nature. At the same time, this also
It deeply reminded Zhou You that although there are many good people in the world, it does not mean that there are no bad people.
Only the Holy Mother would always want to save evil people, or even if she wants to kill evil people, she still wants to hear the other person confess before they die and promote the so-called justice.
But Zhou You doesn't want to be a holy mother now. If he wants to deal with evil people, he can only be more evil than evil people. He chooses to be evil.
When Zhou You arrived at the door of the processing plant, Luo Xun had just untied the parachute-level five-point support sling on his back.
When she saw Zhou You coming, she immediately ran over happily and said, "Haha, Zhou You, didn't you always say you wanted to catch the Rat King before? I feel like I helped you realize your long-held wish this time.
!”
Zhou You was surprised at first, and then asked overjoyed: "Are you sure? Luo Xun, how do you know this is the Rat King's? What is your basis for judgment?"
He really didn't expect that Luo Xun would solve the pain points and difficulties that he had not been able to solve until now, so he began to worry that Luo Xun had just caught a mouse and deceived himself and exaggerated.
Although the hair on the mouse that was being dragged down with the wooden board was slightly silvery in the midday sun, which made it look a little special, the special appearance was not enough to prove that it was the rat king.
Luo Xun recalled it carefully, and then said: "Didn't you ask the ground troops to chase them out of the village road to the ground? I was also worried that someone would attack blindly because of their red eyes, so I went to the end of the intersection over there in advance and waited.
.But everyone has good execution skills and no one rushes in blindly. So I transferred my main energy to the mouse. I also borrowed this one..."
Luo Xun pointed at the high-end drone she used.
Under the sling of the drone, there is a small tube, which is an optical sight disassembled from a sniper rifle in the past. It has extremely strong optical magnification performance.
"I first raised the altitude to more than 100 meters above the ground, and then used a telescope to carefully observe the rats moving on the ground from a high place. I found this guy. Instead of running away away, it actually hid on the roof of a house.
He was observing the situation from a high position. What’s even more amazing is that almost all the mice’s dynamics would change to some extent after passing under the house.”
"For example, we turned around and walked back, trying to distract our pursuers, and at the same time create a gap for another group of rats. Or for example, a group of rats originally wanted to flee eastward, but after passing the house, they immediately turned to the southeast again.
direction. Another example is that some mice didn't run very fast at first, but suddenly accelerated inexplicably and just avoided the sweep of our searchers. Anyway, there are many situations like this. Then I definitely think it has
What a problem!"
"In addition, when other rats face us, they will basically rush towards us like crazy once they are sure that they cannot escape. But before they go all out, they will definitely try to escape. After all, I can be sure that all rats
I had received the instructions from the Rat King to give priority to escape. But when I lowered my altitude and prepared to shoot this guy, dozens of particularly strong guys actually came out from the small house behind the roof and came to shoot me.
It blocked the gun and tried to cover its escape!"
"My team and I spent a lot of effort to catch it alive. Also, it is difficult for other rats to survive. The thought of killing the fish and breaking the net is very strong. Even if it is severely injured and all the limbs are cut off, but
As long as someone comes close, it will still get cold and have to bite it. But it didn't. After I shot all its limbs, it was actually willing to let us fix it on the board. Its desire to survive is obviously abnormally strong! It is absolutely
There’s a problem!”
After listening to Luo Xun's words, Zhou You came to a conclusion in his mind.
Luo Xun's judgment is probably correct.
Even if this silver rat is not the highest rat king in this entire group, it is certain that it has at least reached the level of rat king.
I have never been able to find the Rat King before because the Rat King also knows that humans will definitely carry out decapitation tactics, so he usually hides very deep, and will not deliberately arrange guards for himself, which will expose his own existence.
But during the escape maneuver, the rat king finally couldn't hold himself back and had to take risks and make unusual moves.
It itself also knew that this behavior was quite dangerous, so it arranged additional guards for itself, which led to its identity being exposed in the end.
Zhou You gave Luo Xunbi a thumbs up, "Good job. Have you observed the changes in the mice when they got closer to it than how many meters away?"
Luo Xun recalled for a moment, and then said: "It is on the roof, and the straight-line distance between it and the mice on the ground is a bit far. I think about it, it should be more than two hundred meters away, and it will be affected by it.
Influence."
"More than two hundred meters..." Zhou You pondered for a moment, then asked: "Then is there any obstruction between the rat king and the rats who have received the order?"
Luo Xun continued to recall, and then said: "Sometimes there is, sometimes there is not. For example, when our ground troops pass by on the ground, it will shrink behind the parapet on the roof, but the movement of rats passing below will still be
Change occurs.”
"I see."
At this moment, some of the doubts I had before traveling around were finally answered.
He deduced the mysterious communication methods of rats.
In the past, Zhou You had suspected that mice were transmitting information in a biological radio method similar to brainwave induction.
Now he is sure that it is brain waves!
This is bizarre, unreasonable, and even unfair to human beings.
Why is it that after so many years of human evolution, we still can only rely on language and visual communication? The so-called telepathy basically only exists in literary and artistic works.
However, mice, a creature that originally lived at the bottom of the mammals and could bully anyone they saw, had brain wave sensing that was equivalent to a special function for humans when they first became intelligent beings.
And this is not just pure induction, it can even be used to transmit information through the air and through walls!
It transmits information faster than pheromones, has a wider propagation range, is not easily blocked, and can also be transmitted one-to-many at the same time.
This is just like the WIFI signal, as if the Rat King is the router and the other mice are terminal devices, and maybe each terminal device can in turn send information to the Rat King.
This is simply outrageous.
But this is the established fact that is clearly placed in front of Zhou You!
Zhou You walked forward with his hands behind his back, stood in front of the Silver Rat King who was fixed on the wooden board, and looked at him carefully.
This rat king is not that big, and is even smaller than most rat warriors.
In addition, the silver color on its body is not conspicuous. Just under the sunlight, you have to find a specific reflection angle to see its specialness.
At this time, the rat king's limbs were bleeding, his eyelids were drooped, and he looked dying.
But it still felt Zhou You's approach.
It reluctantly raised its head, its dark eyes rolling around, and its eyes swept around Youyou's face, seeming to be looking at the person in front of it curiously.
The strange thing is that Zhou You can't see any fear or panic in its dark eyes.
Although Zhou You currently doesn't know what the mouse's facial expressions mean, he just feels that the other person is very calm.
"Is Duke not dead yet?" Zhou You turned to the side and asked.
Dr. Lin Ziying responded with a slightly complicated expression: "You are still alive. Mr. Wang and the others cut very carefully, only cutting a small piece of flesh at a time. Human beings' self-healing ability has become much stronger now, and the amount of bleeding is much smaller than before."
He will probably live for a while longer."
As a medical worker, Lin Ziying actually did not agree with the execution method of the peons.
She believed that this execution method of killing one person with one knife, slowly peeling off the skin and removing the bones by a thousand cuts was a bit too cruel.
But this is not her own business after all, and she is not qualified to forgive Duke and give him a happy life on behalf of those victims.
Zhou You heard this and said to Gao Zhanying behind him: "Please go and inform Brother Tao, who is presiding over the execution, and ask them to send Duke over to identify him, and I will confirm the status of this rat king in the rat tribe.
"
Duke was also delivered fixed on a wooden board.
At this time, the flesh and blood on his two forearms had been stripped to pieces, and even the bones could be seen.
His crotch was already empty.
However, he is indeed not dead yet.
At this time, Duke had long lost his previous stubbornness, tenacity and calmness, his expression was gloomy, and he seemed to be in extremely poor condition.
The moment he saw Zhou You, Duke's lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something, but all he could say was "ho ho" and he couldn't say a single word.
But there was a sense of begging in his eyes.
"Dr. Lin, please give him a dose of adrenaline to cheer him up."
After waiting for a moment, Duke was finally able to speak, and immediately wailed, "Mr. Zhou, just give me a good time and let me die quickly. Please. I beg you..."
Zhou You ignored him and just turned his gaze aside, "This is the master you are loyal to, the rat king of this litter of rat tribes. You should recognize him, right?"
What's the point of begging for mercy now?
If Duke had shown such remorse earlier, Zhou You might have been able to show mercy to him.
But since he had previously felt that he was a hero and wanted to die standing, thinking that he was a fellow rat, Zhou You decided to satisfy him and let him have the style of a martyr among rats that he wanted.
If he could really stiffen his neck and endure the torture of the hard workers until he died, then maybe Zhou You would really regard him as a person and secretly keep his name in his heart. Perhaps many years later, Du
Ke is still eligible to appear in Zhou You's memoirs.
It's a pity that Duke seemed to have only been tough-talking for a short time, but he still couldn't hold on to the end, and it was just that people looked down upon him.
Duke followed his wandering gaze and looked to the side, seeing the Silver Rat King on the side.
Duke's pupils shrank sharply, looking very shocked.
He recognized the mouse.
Previously, Duke was actually not sure.
During these days, this medium-sized mouse with silvery hair would hide among the rats and secretly observe itself from time to time.
For a long time, Duke suspected that the rat might be the "eyes" of the Rat King, or perhaps the mouthpiece.
He had thought that the silver rat was heading towards the Rat King, but he had never found any evidence, and he had never seen any other rats showing respect to the silver rat, so he rejected his conjecture.
Now exposed by Zhou You's words and combined with the memories in his heart, Duke can conclude that this is indeed the Rat King.
He murmured to himself: "How is it possible...this...why...why can you catch it! It is so careful! This is impossible!"
Zhou You smiled slightly.
He got the answer he wanted, and only said: "Nothing is impossible. A complete loser in human society like you thinks that rats are omnipotent, and you have become a spiritual rat, so you feel that
This kind of thing is impossible. Okay, Lao Gao, please send Duke back and let them continue cutting. They should finish cutting each one at a time and send him on his way. We can't delay too long."
Duke was pulled away again amid all kinds of wailing.
Zhou You then squatted down in front of the Rat King again and looked at the Rat King in front of him carefully.
"I really hope you can understand what I say, or you can speak human words and say something to me." Zhou You said slowly.
But he immediately shook his head, "But this is indeed a bit difficult. After all, your vocal cords and ours have different vocal structures. Are you right? Oh, I really hope I can communicate with you more. I really want to know more about you."
What are you thinking about in your mind? How do you think about problems? When you try to think about more complex logical thinking, what language is running in your brain? Is it the various squeaks like the human mother tongue?
Or are there other ways to bypass language and form pure thinking without language carrier?”
Zhou You talked a lot to himself here, but unfortunately the Rat King didn't respond at all, not even a change in his eyes.
However, when Zhou You was talking, he seemed to move his steps deliberately and accidentally, slowly approaching the Rat King's mouth.
Finally, when Zhou You's neck almost entered the position where the prone rat king could bite directly if he raised his head.
The Rat King, who was dying just a moment ago, suddenly popped up his head and bit Zhou You's neck like lightning.
If it were human beings in the past, they would definitely not be able to react in time, but now the neural reaction speed of human beings is stronger than that of mice, and Zhou You, as a second-awakened transcendent, is much stronger than ordinary humans.
In his eyes, the Rat King's movements seemed to be in slow motion.
He just tilted his head slightly in an understatement, then raised his hand and punched the Rat King on the chin, causing him to squeak in pain and completely failed.
However, the Rat King didn't seem too upset after being punched. When he confirmed that he had no chance to sneak attack, he lazily lay back on the board and continued to pretend to be dead.
Next, no matter what Zhou You said, it still didn't respond at all.
After a while, Zhou You seemed to feel bored. He stood up and walked to the side. He said to An Xin, the head of the Zhou family's animal breeding team, who had taken his place in advance and had been observing here for a long time: "An Xin, do you think it has anything?"
Do you understand what I’m saying?”
An Xin shook his head, "Sorry Mr. Zhou, I can't judge. It's possible that it really doesn't understand a word, but it's also possible that it understands, but it's just pretending in front of you."
Yes, Zhou You's previous soliloquy seemed meaningless, but it was also a new scientific experiment on the Rat King.
The purpose of the experiment is to verify whether the current Rat King can understand human speech.
This is very important and related to many strategic actions in the future.
In the past tense, there was a saying that was often circulated among the older generation in rural areas.
If you want to take action against rats in your home, such as using rat poison or setting up traps, be sure not to speak out at home, otherwise the rats will hear you and take precautions, and then these methods will not be effective.
Although this statement is a bit superstitious, after all, its theoretical basis is that rats can understand human speech, and they must be very proficient in it, which is much more complicated than dogs that can only recognize some basic commands.
But these rumors from the older generation are often considered to be groundless and may not be without reason.
Perhaps there were indeed extremely smart rats in history who accomplished many feats that seemed unreasonable to ordinary people, which ultimately led to this superstition settling into the memory of the older generation of humans.
Young people often would rather believe what they have than what they have not.
Zhou You asked again: "Then An Xin, do you have any way to find out its true thoughts?"
An Xin thought for a while and suggested: "Let Black and White give it a try? After all, cats were the natural enemies of mice for a long time in the past. Even if mice today have evolved into intelligent species, the fear of mice in genetic memory may still be there.
exist?"
Zhou You: "Okay, give it a try. I'll bring Black and White over."
The black and white they mentioned was the black and white cow cat adopted by Zhou You.
After nearly twenty days of cultivation, this little milk cat has grown up a lot.
Under An Xin's careful feeding, the cow cat has weighed close to a pound, has become more active, and has remembered the taste of traveling.
During this expedition, both Zhou You and Luo Xun brought their own cats with them. An Xin was usually responsible for taking care of them, but now it was time to raise the cat for a thousand days and use it for a while.
Zhouyou came to the truck where the cat room was installed. The little cow cat inside was bored and licking each other's fur with Luo Xun's cat.
It seems to have caught the scent early.
As soon as Zhouxuan got into the back of the truck, he had already stood up, stretched his neck and looked at the door of the back compartment.
As soon as it saw Zhou You, it immediately began to bleat excitedly.
Zhou You has worked tirelessly to sleep with it in his arms for a long time, but now it has finally blossomed and the relationship between man and cat has become much closer.
The other cat, Luo Xun, was also a little excited at first, but when he looked up and saw that Luo Xun was not among the people coming, he wilted again.
Three minutes later, one person and one cat returned to the Rat King.
Just as An Xin expected.
The Rat King does have a strong reaction to cats.
Even if it was just a little milk cat, the moment he saw the cat, the instinctive fear engraved deep in his blood still made the Rat King's body tremble slightly, and the hair on his body stood on end.
It began to grit its teeth and struggle, trying to break free from control.
However, the crossbow arrows that nailed its limbs were inserted too tightly into the wooden board. No matter how hard it struggled to endure the pain, it was all in vain. It only caused white blood to flow out from its limbs, and the skin was torn apart.
About a few days ago, An Xin had started to smell the blood of mice, but had not yet started to feed it meat.
In order to slowly develop the kitten's instinct to eat mice, Anxin would sometimes lock the kitten in an adjacent cage with other adult cats, and then put live mice into the adult cat's cage.
The purpose of what he did was to let the little cat understand that mice are delicious food that can be eaten.
According to the growth rate of cats, it will take at least one month at the earliest before the kittens can actually start eating mice.
However, even though Black and White had never actually eaten rat meat once before, the moment it saw the rat king, it had already become excited and wanted to rush forward.
But Zhou You grabbed it from behind.
Even though the Rat King was at the end of his strength and was firmly under control, if this little guy who lacked combat experience really had to charge forward and enter the Rat King's attack range, there was no telling who would be killed.
If the little milk cat struggles hard at this time, it may be able to break free from Zhou You's control.
But after it felt the tug on its neck, it looked back with some fear and nervousness, then obediently stepped back and rubbed its head against Zhou You's body.
At this time, An Xin asked someone to drive an electric-driven chariot with a total equipment mass of ten kilograms next to it, parked it next to it, and locked the wheels.
Zhou You first tied one end of the cat's rope to the chariot hanger.
Afterwards, Zhou You patted the back of Black and White's neck and walked forward.
The kitten also followed suit.
One person and one cat walked until they were about one decimeter in front of the Rat King and stopped.
The leash holding the cat is just tight.
At this time, the rat king was no longer just lying calmly on the board, but was enduring the severe pain and trying to move back, trying to stay away from the cat in front of him.
Even though the tugging on its limbs almost tore the muscles in its thighs apart, it didn't notice it at all and only stared at the kitten in front of it with its wide eyes.
Zhou You walked over again and said: "What? Now you know how to be afraid? Let me tell you one more thing. Before, humans basically didn't have the habit of eating rats, but considering that you are also hunting and preying on humans now, I actually
We plan to promote various fresh rat cooking methods in the future. After all, if you can eat us, we can also eat you."
The moment he said this, Zhou You's eyes were fixed on the Mouse King's eyes.
Sure enough, when he mentioned the word "cooking", the Rat King's not-so-large eyelids shrank slightly.
Unlike human eyes, the whites of mouse eyes are almost invisible, and the dark patch under the eyelids is all the pupils.
So Zhou You couldn't figure out the mouse's thinking through the changes in its pupils like when observing humans.
But it was this small change that Zhou You caught.
"Okay, you don't have to pretend anymore. I know you can understand human speech. Thank you for reminding me. I will tell others what I found. You can die in peace."
Zhou You waved his hand, took Black and White and turned around to leave.
Fifteen minutes later, Duke finally failed to endure the punishment of being cut into pieces by a thousand knives.
There is a girl who was once insulted by him, probably ranked around number 400.
The place the girl chose to operate the knife was his inner thigh.
Duke's other item was gone long ago, so the girl had no choice but to settle for the next best thing.
She was careful enough when operating the knife, but she still accidentally scraped the aorta of Duke's leg with the scalpel.
This guy had already lost a lot of blood before.
This was good news. The blood in the aorta didn't surge for long before he kicked his legs and died.
Since then, the operation against Dujiacun has officially ended.
The correspondent also notified Lelai County and Kangyue County respectively of this operation by sending telegrams.
The purpose of Kangyue County Government's request for help was to ask the expeditionary force to help clear out the rats. Unexpectedly, more than 300,000 yuan had been harvested before anyone arrived. Naturally, they were overjoyed and grateful, and immediately sent a report to thank them.
On the other side, Zhou You briefly communicated with Wang Wenming and other ten representatives, as well as dozens of other newly elected peon sub-representatives.
These peons once again reunited when they executed Duke.
They decided to formally join the expeditionary force.
To be precise, he took refuge with Zhou You and the Zhou family.
This chapter only has 7,000 words. I spent an entire afternoon fixing my computer this afternoon and wasted too much time.