I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords-Chapter 42 - 0.Rat Flood_1

Chapter 42: 042.Rat Flood_1

Chapter 42: 042.Rat Flood_1

Thud—

An unknown object collided with the glass, emitting a sound accompanied by a sensation of shattering. Lu Ban gripped the crowbar beside him, striking it instinctively.

Crack—

The glass shattered in an instant, with pieces coated in some sticky, foul-smelling liquid splattering about, causing Stone to hurriedly duck and cover his head, while Lu Ban slightly squinted his eyes, and saw a mass fall from mid-air to the ground.

“…”

Stone stared dazedly at everything, suddenly feeling that Lu Ban’s destructive power was much greater than that of the unknown creature.

“What is it?”

Lu Ban pulled out a flashlight, illuminating the ground.

Outside, the driver and “Hunter” arrived as well, their presence indicated by Hunter holding a somewhat crude-looking, homemade pistol. He cautiously regarded the crowbar in Lu Ban’s hand, then shifted his gaze to the ground.

It was a mass of fur-covered flesh. Judging by its size, it was roughly similar to a small dog or a rabbit. The dirty ground became even more disgusting with the addition of blood and flesh, spreading a putrid stench that was enough to make clean-loving children vomit on the spot.

“What kind of animal is this?”

Lu Ban asked again.

“This is… a mouse.”

Hunter hesitantly said, glancing again in the direction from which the creature had come—the ruins illuminated by the bus’ lights.

“We better get back inside the bus, turn off the lights. I have a feeling something bad is about to happen.”

“No, it’s already happening.”

When Mary, who was now at the window, looked deeply into the darkness and then bent down.

Bent down?

As Lu Ban took notice of this, another impact noise resounded.

Thud—

A mass of black flesh jumped out from those deep, dark shadows and collided with the glass in front of Stone.

This time, Lu Ban did not lift the crowbar, allowing those inside the vehicle to see the true nature of the bloody flesh.

It was indeed a mouse.

However, this mouse, as big as a Dachshund, hit the glass with a velocity exceeding that of a bullet. The incredible impact force instantly crushed its skeleton and muscles.

The creature sprawled on the transparent glass like a flattened pie, displaying its bizarre internal structure—organs, skeleton, muscles, and blood vessels were all mangled together and savagely torn apart, now blatantly exposed under the light.

It had killed itself upon impact.

Stone, a young man inexperienced with the ways of the world, stared blankly at the gradually sliding mass of flesh. It seemed like all his focus was stolen by this sight, incapable of any thought. The veins in his eyes became pronounced, threatening to cover his entire pupils.

Lu Ban seemed to sense something and tapped Stone on the head with the crowbar, causing the stiff young man to reflexively crouch, as he too bent over.

The next moment, another loud noise echoed.

Thud—

Another mouse collided with the bus, a noise that sounded as if it intended to puncture steel, frighteningly chilling.

The young man Stone hugged his head, curled into a ball, muttering prayers from an unknown origin.

“Go!”

“Hunter” called out, giving the driver a push, raising his gun. The next moment, the sound of gunfire accompanied the sound of something breaking.

Lu Ban saw, as a mouse leaped forward, hitting “Hunter’s” right shoulder with speed too fast for the naked eye.

His burly frame deeply dented inward, and the mouse’s body disintegrated from the unbearable impact. Paired with severe fractures or dislocations, a pained expression appeared on Hunter’s face. Clutching his gun, he covered the wound with his hand, moving towards the front of the bus.

Unimaginably, these gigantic mice were completely abandoning their lives, and no one knew what they were truly trying to do.

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Thud thud thud—

The continuous sound of impacts against the bus caused the entire vehicle to shake.

“Damn, damn!”

“Hunter” couldn’t attend to his wounds and could only urge the driver to start the engine faster.

The hoarse roar of the engine started and stopped in the noisy night, tormenting everyone’s nerves.

Crack—

A rat smashed into the car through the shattered window by Lu Ban, hitting the railing and contorting its body grotesquely without being completely crushed, instead twitching and writhing on the ground.

“Aaahhh!”

Stone’s voice trembled like waves. He tried to curl up, attempting to get as far away from the half-dead rat as possible, but the creature dragged itself across the floor, leaving a trail of blood as it moved closer to Stone.

Just as the rat was about to climb onto Stone’s ankle, and its bloody, dirty fur was about to burrow into his rough skin, something pinned the rat down.

Lu Ban’s crowbar smashed into the rat, dragging it backward.

Meanwhile, the engine, which had sputtered like an old man with tuberculosis, finally started up continuously.

“Get moving!”

Hunter shouted, and immediately after, Lu Ban felt the push from the seat behind him, propelling them forward.

The rats’ collisions made the vehicle wobble, but the marvel of human science and technology persisted forward. Soon, the grating, incessant impact sounds ceased, leaving only the last rat that had come through the broken window to be precisely nailed to the ground by Lu Ban’s crowbar.

“It’s a rat plague.”

As everyone caught their breath, the taciturn middle-aged woman, Mary, finally spoke up with a raspy voice.

“Sometimes, rats in the ruins migrate en masse due to certain events, forming a huge rat plague. We were just unlucky to encounter it.”

“So you’re saying that these rats moving with such speed and leaping bounds are just a normal migration?”

Lu Ban sought confirmation, and he saw Mary give a slight nod.

“I’m actually a field biology researcher. I was here to finish my study period in the Abandoned Capital and write my paper.”

Mary slightly lifted her shawl, revealing the more refined clothes beneath and the gun holster beneath her ribcage.

No one doubted this—they were just looking back at the road.

With such speed and numbers, any creature encountering a rat plague would probably have to make a detour.

This black torrent, shifting for no one’s will, surged through the ruins, sweeping away all it encountered.

And humanity could only hide, fear, and be powerless to resist.

The bus gradually returned to a stable course of travel, and the previous experience seemed like nothing but a bad dream.

Only the thick, coagulated blood stuck on one side of the car window and the massive rat pinned down by the crowbar on the floor testified to the ordeal they had survived.

“Rats…”

Lu Ban looked at the rat, had a sudden inspiration, and asked.

“So, can we eat this rat?”

“?”

Question marks arose from everyone in the car.

“Theoretically, these rats are just common creatures.”

After a while, Mary answered Lu Ban’s question.

“Well, that’s not bad.”

Lu Ban took out a frying pan from the backpack at his feet.

“That was just too dangerous, let’s eat something to calm our nerves.”

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