Chapter 61 The Second Floor of the Rat in the Wall

"It's indeed a rat." Germain raised the flamethrower nozzle and pushed the button, and the flames roared loudly. "A large group of fat and smelly rats."

The dozen rats that first pounced on Germain were quickly swallowed up by the flames, as if they had jumped into the fire ring of their own initiative. Their squeaks were sharp with pain, and the smell of smoke filled their nostrils.

The remaining rats were either squeezed by the later rats and fell to the dry floor of the cave and fled in a hurry, or they turned around and shrank back into the elliptical black hole and disappeared.

German first pointed the nozzle of the flamethrower at the elliptical black hole and sprayed a burst of flames. When he saw it gradually shrinking, he turned the nozzle and burned the rats that were flying around at his feet.

After a while, the ground was filled with sparkling, burnt fat rats. There were more than thirty of them by visual inspection. The rest all ran away, and the elliptical black hole also shrank until it disappeared.

"It seems that this group of rats teleported the three of us to different locations in the cave. When they get together, they can create a "teleportation cave", but the threat of a single one will drop sharply. "

"Pressure +6"

Germain felt the pressure brought by the darkness from the changes in pressure value, but he still did not speed up his pace. Instead, he maintained the current pace and rhythm and continued to walk forward.

Going faster does not mean leaving the cave faster. On the contrary, acting cautiously may be safer and save time.

On the dark road ahead, he encountered two more attacks from rats in the wall.

He dealt with it as usual and did not let these disgusting little beasts take a bite.

"Pressure +6"

Germann silently counted the time intervals between these pressure increases and found that they were all different, perhaps because the flashlight and flamethrower were used as light sources.

But generally speaking, in the dark, it is a more fair judgment to increase the pressure value every five minutes on average.

As he walked, he saw from the flashlight beam and the flamethrower's flames that he spewed out from time to time that there was a slope in front of him, and the bottom of the slope was filled with piles of gravel.

"Want to go up one floor?"

Germain stepped on the rubble and climbed up step by step. Suddenly he heard a rumbling sound and vibration from above, as if something was hitting and rubbing against the stone wall.

He lowered his body and climbed up more carefully and steadily until he reached the end of the slope and saw the entrance to a cave.

The trembling sound did not stop, and it was not too far away.

Germain walked into the new tunnel, first let the light of the flashlight explore the path, and then observed the changes around him.

"Pressure +6"

Compared with the cave tunnel on the lower level, this place is obviously more spacious, enough to accommodate a tank vehicle passing by, and the air is not as turbid and dull as below.

If the next floor has a considerable, putrid excrement smell, this place will be much fresher, more like the smell of beasts.

Germain looked down and saw huge drag marks at his feet, as if there was really a car pulling an iron pillar and driving past.

He looked at the wall again and found scratch marks. The soil exposed in many dents was very fresh and was incompatible with the moss-covered soil around it.

"In other words, something just passed by here. Judging from the movement of these traces, it is most likely from left to right. It is very large. Do you want to take a look?"

Germain was not sure whether Bisji and Xiaodi, who had yet to be heard from, were on the next floor, on this floor, or somewhere else.

Suddenly, the shaking that was enough to shake the cave stopped.

After a while, it sounded again, and this time it seemed more violent, so that a lot of gravel and dust fell on the top of Germain's head.

"After a strange pause, there was a violent reaction." Germain moved the hunter's black hat, shook off the gravel and dust, and put it back on his head. "It must have been an unexpected target."

"It's very possible that it's one of Bisji and Xiaodi, or they met both of them at the same time. If the guess is correct, I have to go over and support them now."

German was seventy or eighty percent confident in his conjecture. He held a flashlight and a flamethrower and ran quickly to the right.

While running, Germain noticed that new caves appeared from time to time on both sides, with new tunnels inside.

"It has a completely different structure from the one-way tunnel below. This is a tunnel that connects with each other. It is probably similar to a grid, right? This should be to facilitate the movement of that large creature."

The closer Germain got to the source of the sound, the louder the earthquake-like noise became, and the dust rising in front could not even be penetrated by the beam of flashlight or the tongue of flame from the flamethrower.

"Pressure +6"

"There is no point in using a flashlight in the dust. Instead, it still takes up one of my hands. It seems that I can only use the "circle" to judge. "

He pulled up the mask of the hunter's black robe to cover his mouth and nose, pushed down the hunter's three-cornered hat, turned off the flashlight, put it back in his backpack, and walked straight into the darkness.

The vibrations ahead continued, and Germain's "Circle" quickly detected an object not far away that was constantly swinging up and down, roughly in the shape of a cone.

"It should be the tail."

Germain replaced the flamethrower with a meat saw. In the blind darkness and swirling dust, his "Circle" captured the patterns and opportunities of that moment.

"It's now."

He deformed the meat saw with a click, took a step forward, and chopped hard on the swinging, huge tail, making a clanging sound and sparks flying.

"Scales? They are so hard that I didn't cut into them at all... If I were a reinforcement system, or had a 'critical hit', I might be able to cut through this layer of scales."

The owner of the tail seemed to sense that there was an enemy behind him, but he couldn't turn around in the tunnel, so he could only shake his tail randomly, trying to hit the invisible enemy.

German had taken the initiative to withdraw from the range where the tail could whip.

It knocked on the stone wall, so that many larger stones fell off and piled up, blocking one-third of the tunnel cross-section.

"Pressure +6"

"If it is really a scale, there may be a way."

After German finished his speculation, he stepped forward again, crossed the stone pile obstacle, nimbly dodged the sweep of the tail, and stretched out the meat saw, accurately stuck between the scales in an instant.

He exerted force suddenly, and pried the scales open at an angle. His left hand materialized a leech dagger that was worn on his palm and wrist, and suddenly thrust the short blade between the scales.

In a flash, German retreated again, this time hiding in a cave on the side.

And the scales where the leech dagger pierced suddenly spurted out blood with a "hiss", gushing out like a faucet that couldn't be turned off.

This is the ability of the leech dagger. As long as the creature pierced has the concept of blood, it can ensure that it "bleeds heavily", and the speed of bleeding is extremely fast.

If you don't find a way to stop the bleeding quickly, just a stab is enough to kill a human from excessive blood loss.

But for such a huge cave beast, it may take a long time just to bleed.

However, the piercing of the leech dagger still had an impact on the beast.

The impact of its tail on the stone wall became more and more intense, and then with a strange hissing sound, it seemed to crawl forward, and its tail followed suit and retracted forward.