Ch. 34

Lou Ai turned her head and looked over.

The three-foot zombie's small body flopped into the grass.
　　

"Little zombie, how did you get here?" Lou Ai was shocked. She glanced at the little zombie's short legs. Even if the little zombie could remember the smell of the army and find it, how could it be possible for the little zombie to catch up in such a short time? 
　　

"Ah, ah, ah~" The little zombie tilted his head and turned a 360-degree corner. Hungry, hungry, food!
　　

Lou Ai couldn't help but throw a crystal core to the little zombie.
　　

"Ah, ah~" The little zombie stared at Lou Ai with his soybean-sized pupils. He swallowed the zombie crystal core in one gulp, turned around and left. After walking for a while, the little zombie looked back in confusion, "Ah~"
　　

After Lou Ai gave a negative answer, the little zombie turned around and left without hesitation, running so fast as if someone was chasing him.
　　

Danger! Leave! Leave! Danger! This is the message the little zombie conveyed over and over again.
　　

What exactly is the danger?
　　

Lou Ai frowned and looked around, but there was no other useful information.

At this time, Meng Langlang's army had already started cooking, and the soldiers' relaxed jokes drifted far away with the aroma of the food.
　　

Lou Ai stood on the top of a small hill and closed her eyes. In this vast area, there were no living people, no zombies, and no animals. Surrounded by dense woods, they were like sudden intruders, being stared at by the indigenous people.

"Sister Lou Ai, what are you doing standing here? Look, this is the chicken leg I snatched for you. The beasts in the army only need a few seconds to get the chicken legs, and then there's not a single one left. It took Xia Xing and I just two people to snatch this one chicken leg. Sister Lou Ai, try it, it's delicious."
　　

The crewcut-haired guy rushed over excitedly, holding a vacuum-packed chicken drumstick in his hand: "This time, we have reported it to the instructor."
　　

Lou Ai took it with a smile: "Thank you."
　　

"We originally planned to catch a few chickens here and cook them. In the countryside, I thought there would be at least one family raising chickens and ducks. But this village is weird. There is no one raising anything," said the crewcut-haired boy.

　　

"Someone must have taken them away. It's normal for such a big village to have people come to collect supplies."
　　

"No, I've checked the vacuum-packed snacks in the refrigerator and they're still there." The guy with the crewcut head denied.

"But everything in the kitchen cabinets has been cleared out." Xia Xing asked curiously, "Those homes have wooden furniture. As soon as you enter, you can smell the smell of wood being rubbed. It's the scent of a carpenter's home, like the smell of sawdust after the wax on the wooden furniture is rubbed off."

"The scent of wood? No way, why don't I smell it?" the guy with the crewcut head denied.
　　

"There must be." Xia Xing muttered.
　　

"Hey, forget it. This village is weird anyway." The little crewcut head man yelled immediately, "Let's go eat, Sister Lou Ai, we still have to stay up late tonight to transport supplies, we just need to finish the work early and leave here early. Anyway, we can't question the instructor's decision. If something really happens, the instructor will know how powerful Sister Lou Ai is." After the little flat-headed man finished speaking, he made two "Puh" sounds and muttered, "Nothing will happen, nothing will happen."

　　

Lou Ai thought thoughtfully, maybe it could be some kind of insect?
　　

Lou Ai suppressed the feeling of horror in her chest. The large swarms of insects in the late apocalypse were enough to kill people.

For two days, Shangxiaxi Village was calm and peaceful, without any signs of danger.
　　

Lin Ze and his men have not returned to the army yet, and Meng Langlang's team has been staying at the entrance of the village.
　　

Lou Ai's ability to withstand pressure had been tempered in her previous life. She stayed quietly in the convoy, and at the same time became more and more curious and alert about the dangers in the village. She had a premonition that the danger would not be long in coming.
　　

"Meow, meow, meow~" In the middle of the night of the next day, the sharp cry of a kitten came from the farmyard.
　　

Lou Ai opened her eyes and sat up immediately. She, Meng Linlin and Meng Langlang lived in the same tent.

Meng Langlang turned over, but Meng Linlin suddenly woke up and said hesitantly: "You... Lou Ai, was that a cat's meow just now?"
　　

"Yeah." Lou Ai nodded, "Do you want to go take a look?"
　　

"Okay, let's go and take a look. I'm feeling anxious." Meng Linlin said.

　　

The cat's meow came from a small farmyard not far from the camp. The room should have been renovated in the past two years, and the yard was very tidy except for a little dust.
　　

"Meow meow meow~" The rapid cat's meow came from behind a door on the right hand side after entering the small courtyard.

Lou Ai quietly pushed the door open a little. Behind the door was the kitchen. The stove was visible at a glance. To the right of the stove was a tall cabinet for storage. A cat's meow came from the cabinet. It was an orange kitten, only slightly bigger than Lou Ai's hands. At the same time, there were crunching and gnawing sounds coming through the crack in the door.
　　

The white tile floor was covered with thick dust, and Lou Ai saw faint animal paw prints on the dust.
　　

It's not a bug, it's a mouse!
　　

When Lou Ai locked onto the animal in her mind, dozens of gray-black figures suddenly jumped out at an extremely fast speed, and were about the same size as a small orange cat.

The gnawing sounds in the cupboard continued, and the mouse that ran to the center of the room stared at the kitten on top of the cupboard and made squeaking sounds.
　　

"Meow~" A mouse suddenly jumped onto the top of the cabinet. A sharp cat cry sounded, and the little orange cat waved its sharp claws and tried its best to knock the mouse down.
　　

The cabinet collapsed little by little, and the mice approached the little orange cat. The identities of the hunter and the hunted were exchanged here.
　　

The gnawing sound of "rustling, rustling" came from all directions.
　　

Lou Ai covered Meng Linlin's mouth and hid from the countless mice where they couldn't see.

　　

The moment the cabinet collapsed, the little orange cat was devoured by the swarm of rats. There was no bloody scene, but when the rats dispersed, not even a hair of the cat was left.
　　

Suddenly, a mouse with half of its tail broken shrugged and looked back with its hands in its pockets.

The scarlet eyes stared straight at Lou Ai, and the violent aura in the eyes frightened Lou Ai.
　　

"Squeak." The mouse with a broken tail chirped softly.
　　

Lou Ai didn't even close the door, she just pulled Meng Linlin and ran away.
　　

F#ck, territorial awareness, these are some territorial rats.
　　

Lou Ai remembered that she had seen a news article titled Datian County in the government hall. There were dense swarms of rats as big as cats occupying the fields, and their small black eyes with a slightly red glow were staring straight at the screen. The sense of horror brought by them was no less than being in the ring sound effects of a horror movie.
　　

Lou Ai only glanced at the news and then looked away.
　　

The national superpower team sent people to get medical supplies after the second purple moon. A total of twenty-five superpower people were eaten by rats without leaving any residue.

The special ability team only transmitted part of the information to the Academy of Sciences.
　　

According to the information they provided, those rats eat everything, plants, animals, humans, and even zombies. As long as you step into their designated range, they will identify you as an enemy and will kill you completely and get out of their territory.

If you are bitten by this kind of rat, there is a certain chance that you will be infected with the zombie virus.
　　

"Lou Ai, what's going on?" Meng Linlin's voice was a little trembling, "These rats?"
　　

Lou Ai grabbed Meng Linlin, whose legs were weakened, and said, "Tell Meng Langlang that these rats have gnawed zombies before, so we must not be bitten. Tell her to lead people to quickly escape the hunting range of these rats, otherwise we will be like that cat and will be gnawed to the bone. Hurry, go."
　　

The squeaking sound continued behind the two of them.
　　

This kind of rat is much more difficult to deal with than a group of zombies. There is only one thing that is most clear: escape, escape from the territory of this group of rats.

　　

"Hurry, I'll go inform Yin Chong." Lou Ai patted Meng Linlin's back vigorously, "Cheer up!"
　　

Meng Linlin took a deep breath to calm herself down, then ran towards the camp.

Lou Ai also quickly rushed towards Shangxi Village.

Once surrounded by rats, there weren't many people she could protect, but she could still protect Xia Xing, and Sanshi, the man with a crewcut head.
　　

Lou Ai smiled bitterly. Why was it that no matter in the last life or this life, she was always busy running around for the people she wanted to protect? She couldn't change her nature.

After all, she was the one who watched the children walk along the way, and they were different from Lou Guoqiang.
　　

*
　　

Yin Chong and his adjutant lived in the same tent.
　　

"How fast were the kids picking up supplies today?"
　　

"It's much faster than yesterday. We transported a batch of equipment to the vehicle today. We are exhausted." The adjutant shook his head. "However, this place is strange. There are not even any zombies. We can't achieve the purpose of training. But we have enough strength."

　　

"It's good to have no zombies. No zombies means no casualties. We are so short of manpower, and we can only produce two instructors by training so many new recruits. There are so few people in the special power team, and we still have four instructors." Yin Chong said angrily.
　　

"The higher-ups believe that people with special abilities can unleash greater combat power, and there's nothing wrong with that," the adjutant said objectively.
　　

"Let's not talk about this anymore. It makes me angry. Have Xia Xing and that crewcut guy gone to see that charlatan these two days?" Yin Chong asked.
　　

"Not only did he go there, he also snatched a chicken leg from our team yesterday and gave it to her." The adjutant shook his head.

"Humph, I've been teaching them for such a long time, but they haven't even given me a chicken leg." Yin Chong said dissatisfiedly, "They treat such a charlatan as a treasure. The female charlatan even said that our trip is dangerous. Look, there's not even a zombie. How can there be any danger?"
　　

"But it's strange that there are no zombies." The adjutant said worriedly, "I always feel that there will be trouble."
　　

"As long as trouble doesn't come to us for the time being, we will just pretend that we don't have this trouble." Yin Chong said with a smile.
　　

"Don't smile. You look simple and honest to begin with, and this smile makes you look even simpler. It doesn't match your tone when you were talking." The adjutant warned, "Don't talk too much when you get out."
　　

"Get lost!" Yin Chong waved his hands. "That little charlatan's lies don't match her face at all. She even hangs a pair of idiots here!"
　　

—Squeak, squeak.

"Captain Yin, did you hear any noise?"
　　

"I heard it. It seems to be the sound of an animal." Yin Chong sat up. "It sounds like the sound is getting closer."
　　

"Sh#t." The adjutant stood up and blew the whistle on his chest, "It's a rat."
　　

Yin Chong quickly walked out of the tent to prevent some newcomers from being unfamiliar with the whistle for emergency assembly, and shouted loudly in cooperation with the whispers, "Emergency assembly."

-Squeak, squeak, squeak
　　

At the same time, the calls of mice rang out one after another, hidden in the bushes, as if surrounding the entire camping area.

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