Start as a Temple Spirit

Chapter 168 Rats are everywhere

Upon hearing this, Yifeng straightened his expression and asked, "A hidden hand? If there is a hidden hand, what is his purpose? No matter how many rats there are, they can't break through the defense line."

“And why are the eyes of these mice red?”

The soil layer looked at the red-eyed rats rushing over and said calmly, "Ghost energy has entered their bodies, and they have become half-ghosts. They are currently in a frenzy."

"Also, don't underestimate rats. If there are too many of them, they will become a tide. And even if they can't break through the defense line on the surface, don't forget that they can dig holes."

After the soil layer finished speaking, he shouted to Fangkuai and Hanzi who were communicating with each other: "Fangkuai, Hanzi, it's time to play whack-a-mole."

Upon hearing this, Fangkuai and Hanzi immediately ended their conversation and burrowed underground to play whack-a-mole.

Yijiu woke up from the warning from the soil layer and shouted to Heizi who was leading the patrol in the sky: "Heizi, patrol carefully."

"Ga ga" Heizi responded with a strange roar.

"Ninth Elder, there are more and more rats crossing the river, and it is difficult to shoot them all." Yixiong's voice came from the village wall not far away.

"Move people, move the reserve troops to the village wall for defense." Yijiu gave the order in a deep voice.

"Yes," the bear roared after receiving the order, and the reserve team responded, rushed out of the village and went up to the village wall to defend.

"The surviving chief." Chen Jun, who was in charge of defending the west wall of the village, felt overwhelmed when he saw the black torrent rushing through the river. He could only shout at Yan Feng and ask for support.

"Hmm." Hearing the voice, the old patriarch stood up from his chair and walked quickly south with Yifeng and Liu Yu.

"It's the rat that starts the game. What an interesting ghost calamity. I just don't know if the blood and energy pills refined by the rat can be eaten." Shang Liangshan muttered to himself and sent a message to Xiaocao to help.

When dealing with weaker rats, Xiaocao is undoubtedly a big thumb.

The old patriarch, who started with quick steps and then leaps, soon reached the edge of the southern cliff.

When the old man used the light from the Yuanling lanterns hanging on the wall below to see the dense swarm of rats climbing up the ladder to the wall, he couldn't help but gasp.

At this time it was no longer a swarm of rats, but a tide of rats.

"Swish" the golden sword light flashed in the sky, sweeping across the tide of rats, bringing up pieces of blood, and the "squeaking" howls of pain were endless.

This is Chen Jun’s move.

However, just as the knife light cleared the area, it was quickly filled with a wet tide of rats.

"Hiss, where do so many rats come from?" Liu Yu, who arrived, couldn't help but gasp when he saw the dense tide of rats below.

"The west wall of the village should be the main attack direction of the rat tide. As for where so many rats came from, we cannot rule out the possibility that there is a mastermind behind the scenes." Yifeng analyzed.

"We'll discuss this later. What we need to discuss now is whether or not to send people for support." The old patriarch frowned.

"Support, support is necessary. There are too many rats and manpower is limited." Yihuo, who came from the rock wall, said urgently.

His sword was thirsty.

This guy came out of quarantine in the morning. He was full of strength and eager to fight, a hearty fight.

The old patriarch gave him a look and said, "Don't be so vain. Xiaocao has already gone to support us."

"Xiaocao went to support?" Upon hearing this, Yihuo ran to the edge of the rock and looked down.

What came into view was a scene of massacre.

Dense green roots emerged from the ground, pierced the mouse's body, and then retracted back into the ground to the maximum extent, not giving the mouse a chance to bite it, and then attacked again, repeating the cycle over and over again.

As the rhizome spears pierced through like a green jungle, dense and sharp "squeaking" howls were heard under the west wall of the village, and a blood mist rose up.

The rats fell one after another, and the offensive was interrupted. The soldiers and civilians who were engaged in close combat with the rats breathed a sigh of relief and effectively cleared the rats that were climbing up the village wall.

"One blade of grass can defeat a thousand soldiers." Liu Yu said in shock as he looked at the green rhizome jungle below that was harvesting the rat tide.

"Xiaocao's ability is group combat, so it's not surprising that there are such casualties. The individual strength of the mice is too weak." Yifeng withdrew his gaze. The area below was filled with blood mist, and it was difficult to see the battlefield clearly. The only sound was the "squeaking" howls, which were particularly harsh.

"Something is wrong." The old patriarch frowned as he looked at the surging blood mist.

"What's wrong?" Yihuo asked at the right time.

"The blood mist condenses and does not dissipate. It seems to be attracted by something. No, it is absorbed." When the old patriarch said this, his face changed and he shouted to the people below: "Pay attention to the changes of the rats!"

On the west wall of the village, Chen Jun, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, heard the sound and his expression froze, and he hurriedly looked towards the battlefield.

This was a shocking sight, as outside the village wall which was filled with blood mist, there were thousands of small whirlpools of blood mist.

There is a rat in the small vortex of blood mist!

“Damn it.” Yang Chao cursed inwardly and roared, “Shoot the rats in the blood mist vortex. They are absorbing the blood mist to evolve.”

The soldiers and civilians were shocked when they heard this, and subconsciously drew their bows and arrows, looking for their targets. They saw that the mouse in the small vortex of blood mist had turned blood red at some point, and its body was rapidly expanding, almost to the size of a big cat.

"Swish, swish, swish" the arrow shot out, breaking through the blood mist and shooting towards the blood-red rat in the small vortex of blood mist.

However, an eye-opening scene appeared. A blood-red rat stretched out its hands as fast as lightning, grabbed the corpse of its own kind, and blocked it in front of itself.

This was just the beginning. After blocking the arrow attacks, they kept grabbing the corpses of their own kind to build a wall, and then drilling holes in the wall.

This operation stunned both the military and civilians.

"Use rockets!" Chen Jun gave the order in a deep voice upon seeing this.

The soldiers and civilians responded to the order and were about to replace the arrows, but were stopped by Xiao Cao.

"I'll deal with the evolved rats, and you guys deal with the ordinary rat tide."

The rat tide's attack never stopped. They were fearless and brave, and even when their own kind were dead all over the ground, they showed no fear at all, just like a suicide squad.

"The wisdom of mice really should not be underestimated." Shang Liangshan, who floated to the edge of Nanyan Cliff, looked at the changes below through the blood mist and praised.

"What happened?" the old patriarch asked anxiously.

"A race rises with blood." Shang Liangshan said and waved his hand.

"Whoosh" the wind sounded, and the phantom thunder of the pseudo-dragon flew out from it, whistling towards the battlefield, and transformed into a huge face of dim light a hundred meters long in the air, shrouded in blood mist. It opened its huge mouth and swallowed up the blood mist, and sucked up the corpse of the rat.

This scene shocked everyone.

"Squeak" an angry sharp sound came from the blood-red mouth of the mouse, but it soon stopped because the green roots attacked them.

Compared with the brutal battle at the west wall of the village, the battles on other defense lines were within controllable range. However, blood mist was also rising and condensing without dispersing. Small vortices of blood mist also appeared and their number increased rapidly.

Seeing this, Yifeng also gave the order to attack the bloody rats, but it was naturally useless.

A yellow light flashed, and the soil layer burst out from the village wall. He glanced at the mice in the small vortex of blood mist, turned to Yijiu and said, "We can't kill them anymore, otherwise the land will be polluted and become a dead place, a dark place."