Today, the 0231 county-level city seemed much calmer than usual.
The Martial Artist teams that used to hunt monsters in the city were not here.
A Beast General-level Two-tailed Tiger Cat led a group of ordinary tiger cats swaggering through the tall buildings, passing through them.
They arrived on the main street.
"Roar~" A tiger cat discovered something and called out to its leader.
The Two-tailed Tiger Cat looked in the direction of its subordinate; it was a hole.
Below the hole were interconnected pipes.
This was actually a former city sewer opening that was later damaged, creating the hole.
Below that was the vast sewer System.
"Meow~" The Two-tailed Tiger Cat sniffed, catching an alluring scent.
It squeezed into the hole.
Although its body was large, it was very flexible, and the tiger cat actually managed to squeeze in.
It continued forward along the sewer.
Closer, even closer.
That captivating scent was just ahead.
Following a corner, it came to a large empty cavity.
It saw the source of the smell.
But at this moment, its heart was filled only with fear.
Dense swarms of rats, with narrow eyes, stared at it.
Although cats are the natural enemy of rats, even when they become monsters, felines can still suppress rodents, but this absolutely does not include a Beast General-level challenging a Lord-level.
Furthermore, the massive figure, a full two meters tall, at the center of the cave did not even need to move; merely the surging rat swarm tore the poor tiger cat into pieces.
On the ground.
"Did you hear anything?" Lu Gang heard a hissing sound in his ear, but it was very faint, seemingly very far away.
"Sound?" Guo Ruinian, holding a long staff, swung it and sent a blocking broken wall flying.
"Yes, there is indeed one." Zhong Yang also felt it.
"No need to feel it anymore," Dong Guan drew his long saber, "They're here."
Indeed, there was no need to feel it anymore; overwhelming swarms of rats surrounded them from all directions, their crimson little eyes filled with fierceness.
"Kill!" Dong Guan waved his hand and ordered, and the four people charged out from four directions.
Among the four members of the team, Dong Guan was an Advanced War God, Lu Gang and Guo Ruinian were Intermediate War Gods, and Zhong Yang was an Elementary War God.
Therefore, Dong Guan served as the Captain of the team.
The four people slaughtered the rat swarm like harvesters cutting down straw.
Before long, the ground was covered in corpses and blood.
Whether they were Beast Soldier-level or Beast General-level, none could withstand a single blow.
Dong Guan's killing efficiency was the highest; his strength was the greatest, his speed was the fastest, and a single saber strike could sweep away a large area.
Next was Lu Gang; after several days of secluded training, he had grasped that trace of the Wind Concept. Now, wielding his long saber as if controlling the wind, every strike seemed to roll out blades of wind.
In battles against opponents of the same level, these wind blades would at most interfere with vision, but when harvesting weaker opponents, they could greatly increase efficiency.
However, his wind blades could not kill the thick-skinned and tough Beast General-level monsters; he still needed to use his long saber to hack them down.
The third highest in kills was Zhong Yang; his weapon was a spear, and he had learned the "Extinction World" spear technique.
Although he was only an Elementary War God, his killing efficiency surpassed that of Guo Ruinian.
As for Guo Ruinian, because his weapon was a staff, his killing efficiency was not high enough.
Therefore, he specifically targeted Beast General-level monsters to kill.
Although his total kills were the lowest, the proportion of Beast Generals he killed was the highest.
"This won't work," after sweeping away a large area of the rat swarm and clearing a space, Zhong Yang shouted loudly, "If we keep killing like this, we'll never finish."
Indeed, in just this short time, they had killed at least several thousand monsters, but the rat tide was still endless, like a surging wave, at least over a million strong.
"We must find the monster Lord-level and kill it; the rat tide will naturally disperse." Guo Ruinian kicked a Beast Soldier's head, and the head scattered like a broken watermelon.
Looking around from mid-air, there were only dense black and gray currents, interspersed with crimson dots, making it impossible to determine the location of the Lord-level monster.
Lord-level monsters already possessed intelligence not inferior to Humans.
The original plan was for the four of them to find the Lord-level monster and kill it, and the rat tide would naturally disappear.
But that rat Lord-level was not foolish; it simply released the swarm to attack them and would not show itself unless they were worn down to a certain extent.
"So what? If the Lord-level doesn't show up, these ordinary rats pose no threat to us. Kill one, there's one less. I can keep killing for three days and three nights." Lu Gang killed excitedly, letting out unrestrained laughter.
"Kill!" Lu Gang moved like the wind, his swings causing a bloody storm. Bathed in the foul-smelling rat blood, he felt a unique sense of heroism.
"Find the Lord-level, huh." Dong Guan didn't say it out loud, killing in silence. In reality, the vertical eye beneath his forehead protector had opened, and invisible mental force spread out.
The ground, the sky, and even underground could not escape.
While killing, he also led the entire team to move within the rat tide.
Pretend to repair the plank road, sneak across the Chencang passage.
He had already searched more than half of the entire city, and the location of the Lord-level monster was gradually being pinpointed.
Due to the close proximity to the military camp, there were no other Lord-levels in the city.
Therefore, once the location was locked, the four of them could forcefully kill the target within the rat swarm.
On the sixth floor of an 18-story building on the west side of the city, the rat swarm Lord-level watched the overwhelming rat tide, showing no pity for the heavy casualties.
Rodent monsters naturally have strong reproductive capabilities; even if ninety percent died, their numbers could recover in a few years.
Kill, kill.
It had already decided that if it didn't find an opportunity, it would leave this city after the rat tide was half depleted.
Looking back at the three Human Martial Artists... three? How could it be three?
"Found you." A chilling voice sounded behind it.
Swish!
Blood light surged.
The rat swarm Lord-level wanted to jump down from the building, but there was no chance; its head was directly separated from its body.
After the Lord-level died, the crimson light in the eyes of the numerous rats gradually faded.
They regained their fear and fled frantically under the unrestrained slaughter of the War Gods.
The rat tide was over.
On the rooftop of the tall building where the rat swarm Lord-level was killed earlier, the four War Gods distributed the monster Materials.
"Give me these two eyes; you divide the rest." Dong Guan's long saber directly dug out the rat swarm Lord-level's crimson eyes and wrapped them in a small piece of beast hide.
"Captain Dong Guan's contribution is the greatest; just take whatever you fancy. If you want it, the entire corpse can be yours." Guo Ruinian said with a smile.
The other two also expressed agreement.
The work of finding and killing the target was done by Dong Guan alone; the others merely helped resist the rat tide, so Dong Guan's contribution was the greatest.
Of course, according to normal Martial Artist team operations, even if his contribution was great, he wouldn't monopolize everything.
It's just that the main prize this time wasn't this corpse at all, but the military's mission reward.
Although War Gods helping to resist monsters is free, if a mission is issued, there must be some form of compensation, as not every War God is so responsible.
"No need, I just want these rat eyes. As for the rest, you can divide it."
If it weren't for these rat eyes giving Dong Guan a strange feeling, he wouldn't have specifically mentioned them.
Coming to the edge of the rooftop, Dong Guan took out the pair of rat eyes, observed them carefully against the sunlight, and even rubbed them a few times with his fingers.
"What was that just now?"
He couldn't help but recall the feeling he had earlier.
During the process of using his mental force to search for the rat swarm Lord-level, due to extreme concentration, his vision had undergone a change.
It was a dense network of red lines, connecting from each rat monster to the same direction.
Although he wasn't sure exactly what was happening, it didn't prevent him from guessing that the convergence point of the red lines was the rat swarm Lord-level.
The result was obvious; it was indeed the case.
But after killing the rat swarm Lord-level, he no longer saw those strange red lines.
The reason he wanted these eyes was because those dense red lines all converged in the eyes of that rat Lord-level.
"That state, mental concentration." Staring at this pair of rat eyes, Dong Guan tried to enter that state once again.
He failed.
He continued to try.
Occasionally glancing up at the sky, he noticed a black dot.
A dark red line appeared from the sky, connecting to himself and that distant black dot.
"What is that?" Dong Guan took a telescope from his backpack and looked towards the black dot.
As War God-level Martial Artists, their own eyesight was often sufficient, and they didn't use telescopes much.
But as standard equipment, it was kept in the backpack, just in case it might be used someday.
It was a bird-type monster, an Iron Feathered Cang Eagle. Judging by its size, it was only Beast General-level.
"Then what's with this line?"
As the other party approached, the dark red line became thicker and thicker, changing from barely visible to clearly visible, then becoming as thick as a data cable, and even as thick as a finger.
The dark red line gave him an ominous feeling, but it was only a Beast General; what could it do?
When it got closer, only three thousand meters away, Dong Guan realized that the dark red line was not connected to the Iron Feathered Cang Eagle itself, but to a gray ball of fur on its back.
"Gray ball of fur?"
Just as Dong Guan saw the ball of fur, it fell from the Iron Feathered Cang Eagle's back.
"Not good!" A sense of crisis instantly enveloped his heart.
"Run!" He called out to his three teammates who were still resting and was the first to jump off the rooftop.
"What's wrong?" The three War Gods were very confused, but they still followed Dong Guan and jumped down from the eighteenth-floor rooftop.
Boom!
With a loud bang, the four falling individuals looked back. A giant gray-furred hand descended from the sky and slapped the eighteen-story building down to sixteen stories.
Accompanying this was the entire building exploding.
With another slap from the gray-furred giant hand, the building was pushed aside, and everyone finally saw the owner of the hand.
"Ape monster!"
A massive figure nearly a hundred meters tall stood up, reminding people of the movie "King Kong" from before the Great Nirvana.
However, King Kong was a gorilla, and this guy was an ape with a tail.
"Die!"
Speaking human language, this was a King-level monster.
The four War Gods ran frantically towards the direction of the military base.
However, the giant ape chased them while one of its arms grew incredibly large and long, with a palm several tens of meters wide, sweeping through the buildings.
"Tongbi Ape King!" Dong Guan recognized the species of this ape.
Among ape monsters, the data emphasized the most powerful were the Great Strength Demonic Ape and the King Kong Ape.
The Tongbi Demonic Ape was a variant of the Great Strength Demonic Ape, just not famous because of its scarcity.
In City 004, he had encountered a Lord-level Tongbi Demonic Ape and killed it.
Recalling that dark red line, Dong Guan wondered if it had come to seek revenge on him.
City 004 was not close to here.
"Split up." Immediately, Dong Guan ordered his three teammates.
"Okay." The three were also decisive.
The four people split into four directions, and indeed, the Ape King chased after Dong Guan.
"It really is." Dong Guan secretly activated his mental force, accelerating himself and avoiding the Ape King's next pounce.