"Pack up your tools, we've found the entrance."
The soldiers stopped their work, packed up their tools, and had no choice but to return along the same route.
Who would have thought that these rats were so cunning. They dug such a long distance for a mere sleight of hand passage. If they hadn't come, the rats in the eight passages would have dug their own passages.
Liu Yiyi had a very bad impression of the rat leader at this moment. Except for the time when she was chased by her master and had to flee everywhere, she had never been as busy as she was today.
She couldn't help but sigh that she had actually run back and forth for more than 20 kilometers in the dark underground just to catch a mouse! Moreover, they didn't know what would happen next.
When the group of twenty-one people and a dozen mutant zombies ran back to the suspicious stone wall, twenty minutes had passed. After the soldiers took a few breaths, they began to dig the place again.
This stone wall is made up of many irregular stones piled up randomly. It serves the purpose of fixing the soil and its purpose is only to serve as a door.
The soldiers determined the direction based on the softness of the soil and continued digging for nearly fifty meters.
"Commander, there's a heat source ahead! Judging from their size, they are rats, and from their movements, they are... piling up dirt."
A soldier who was digging suddenly fiddled with his night vision goggles, and then reported in a low voice to Liu Yiyi who was following behind him.
"How many?"
"Two."
Only two? Pile up dirt. Are they filling up the passage here? Whatever you want! Liu Yiyi no longer has any patience. It's stuffy underground, making people irritable.
"Break open!"
Without saying a word, the soldier turned around and continued digging with a shovel, while the other soldiers raised their guns and stood guard.
On the opposite side, two mice were sticking their butts out and digging the soil. They received the order to come over and block this passage, but there was no extra soil in the passage, so they could only dig through other passages to block the soil here, and their progress was slow.
Suddenly, the two mice pricked up their ears and turned around to look at the earth wall behind them.
Boom!
puff!puff!
Two bangs were heard in their ears, and then two bullets flew out of the mud and hit their heads, killing them instantly. The soldiers used the thermal imaging function of the night vision goggles and the auxiliary aiming function to shoot the two poor cows and horses through the mud.
boom!
"Bang!" A low sound.
A group of fully armed soldiers broke through the earth wall in front of them. They held weapons in their hands and looked around vigilantly. They quickly glanced at the dead rats on the ground, then turned around without hesitation and explored forward along the passage.
Liu Yiyi came out from behind.
Her eyes fell on the small alleys on both sides of the passage. She guessed that these might be the places used to get soil when digging the hole. She did not pay too much attention to these details and decisively led the team to continue moving along the main passage.
As time went by, Liu Yiyi and her group seemed to be in a maze with no end. They kept walking, but the passage seemed to never end, and every step was a test of their patience.
Three hours passed, and Liu Yiyi's temper had long disappeared. Although her body did not feel tired, her heart was full of powerlessness. She silently calculated the distance she had walked in her mind and realized that she and her teammates had actually walked from the city to outside the city.
Along the way, the passage kept turning, sometimes sloping up, sometimes sloping down, but the overall trend was to extend out of the city. Moreover, as the distance increased, the air in the passage gradually became fresher and no longer as stuffy as it was at the beginning.
Even a faint light began to appear in some places. Those were the vents left by the little mouse. Liu Yiyi breathed a sigh of relief. She felt that they should be there soon.
After walking about a thousand meters forward, the soldier in front suddenly stopped. This was a corner. The soldier stuck his head out to take a look, then continued walking, until he turned two more corners and the sounds around him became noisy.
Squeak squeak squeak
The dense sounds of mice chirping echoed in my ears.
Looking at this place in the thermal imaging, it is just like the nest of mutant rats, with countless heat sources of all sizes shaking.
Looking closely, there were actually not that many big rats, only about five hundred, but each one was huge in size.
These big rats were holding something in their mouths and moving around in the rat swarm, probably feeding the little mice.
There are countless half-meter-long little mice, at least several thousand of them.
Among them was a super big rat with a body length of more than two meters and five. It was lying in the middle of the rat group, resting quietly and motionlessly. Beside it, there were several rats licking its body.
Liu Yiyi did not act rashly, but hid herself and sent a location message to Chen Bufan. She hoped that her master would pay special attention to this place and send more soldiers.
This makes it easy to transport the dead rats away, and also prevents them from escaping from the ground.
After receiving the message, Chen Bufan found that the positioning point was already on the outskirts of the city, so he immediately sent a message to the Third Division in the city, asking them to rush to the ground as soon as possible to support Liu Yiyi.
About thirty minutes later, Liu Yiyi finally received a reply from Chen Bufan: "Arrived." Just two words, concise and clear.
With her keen senses, Liu Yiyi had already noticed the vibrations coming from the ground and the sounds of running cars. They walked out from the corner and saw a huge underground space. Dozens of sunlight shone in from the top, and the largest sunlight just happened to shine on the mouse leader.
The mutant rat leader also noticed some strange noises on the ground. It immediately stood up alertly, raised its head and pricked up its ears, trying to catch the faint sound. It did not have the strength of Liu Yiyi, so it could not hear it clearly.
After standing up, it looked extremely tall, more than three meters tall, like a terrifying monster.
However, it looked very miserable at the moment, with thick scabs all over its fat buttocks, smooth and hairless, and burn marks on its back, making the whole mouse look bald. At the moment, several larger mice were surrounding it, licking its wounds with their tongues, trying to help it relieve the pain.
"Got you…"
Liu Yiyi's voice was very soft, as if she was suppressing the excitement that she couldn't control. After a whole day of running around, she finally found this hateful mouse!
Although she tried to lower her voice, in this empty cave, any sound would be infinitely amplified, let alone the human voice which was completely different from the squeaking of mice.
This is especially noticeable for mutant mice with keen hearing.