Chapter 42 042. Rat Tide
Bang——
The thing hit the glass, and there was a sound accompanied by a sense of breaking. Lu Jian squeezed the crowbar at hand, and knocked on it subconsciously.
click——
The glass was shattered in an instant, and the fragments stained with some kind of viscous and smelly liquid splashed, causing the stone to hug his head and crouch in a hurry. Lu Jian narrowed his eyes slightly, and saw a mass of things falling from midair and onto the ground.
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Stone looked at all the situation dumbly, and suddenly felt that Lu Jian's destructive power was much greater than that unknown thing.
"What is it?"
Lu Jian took out the flashlight and illuminated the ground.
Outside, the driver and "Hound Dog" also heard the sound. You can see that "Hound Dog" is holding a slightly rough pistol in his hand, which seems to be homemade. Eyes turned to the ground.
It was a mass of flesh with fur. Judging from its size, it was probably similar to a small dog or a rabbit. The dirty ground was made even more disgusting by the flesh and blood, enough to make the stench of children who love to clean vomit on the spot pervade. .
"What kind of animal is this?"
Lu Jian asked again.
"it's a mouse."
"Hound" said hesitantly, and he looked at the direction from which the creature crashed, in the ruins illuminated by the lights of the bus.
"We'd better get back in the bus and turn off the lights, I have a hunch something bad is going to happen."
"No, it already happened."
Mary, who came to the window at some point, took a deep look into the darkness, and then duck.
Duck?
When Lu Jian noticed this, the crash sounded again.
Bang——
A mass of black flesh jumped out of those deep and dark shadows, and hit the glass in front of the stone.
This time, Lu Jian did not raise the crowbar in his hand, and the people in the bus were able to see the flesh and blood.
It is indeed a mouse.
However, when this giant rat the size of a dachshund hit the glass at a speed exceeding that of a bullet, the powerful impact directly destroyed its bones and muscles.
This creature spread out on the transparent glass like a piece of pie, showing its weird body structure, internal organs, bones, muscles, blood vessels, and at the moment it was crumpled together and then roughly torn apart, just so grandiosely appear under the light.
It ran itself over.
Stone, a young man who has never seen the big world, stared blankly at the gradually slipping flesh and blood. It seemed that all his attention was taken away by this thing, and he was unable to think at all. The bloodshot eyes in his eyes became brighter. Appears to cover the entire pupil.
Lu Jian seemed to have sensed something, he tapped the stone on the head with a crowbar, causing the stiff young man to squat down in response, and he also bent over at the same time.
The next moment, there was another loud noise.
Bang——
Another mouse crashed into the bus. The sound was like cutting through steel, which was frightening.
The young man Stone held his head and curled up into a ball, muttering prayers from nowhere.
"Drive!"
"Hound Dog" barked, pushed the driver, and raised the gun in his hand. The next moment, the gunshot rang out simultaneously with the sound of something breaking.
Lu Jian saw that a mouse just jumped up and hit the right shoulder of "Hound Dog" at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye.
His burly body was deeply sunken, and the mouse's body tissue collapsed because it couldn't bear the impact, accompanied by severe fractures or dislocations, "Hound" showed a painful expression on his face, and his hand holding the gun Covering the wound, he moved towards the front of the car.
Unbelievable, these giant rats completely gave up their lives, and no one knew what they were going to do.
bang bang bang——
The sound of hitting the bus continued, shaking the whole car.
"Damn, damn!"
"Hound Dog" had no time to treat his wounds, so he could only urge the driver to start the engine quickly.
The hoarse engine sound rang and fell silent in the noisy night, and the silence rang again, tormenting everyone's nerves.
Snapped--
A mouse crashed into the car through the window that Lu Jian shattered. It hit the railing. The whole mouse was deformed and twisted, but it was not completely crushed. Instead, it twitched and wriggled on the ground.
"Ahhhh!"
The voice of the stone trembled like a wave. He tried to curl himself up, trying to stay away from the half-dead mouse, but the other party only dragged a bloodstain on the floor in a strange posture, and approached the stone.
Just as the rat was about to clamber up the stone's ankles, and the flesh sticking to the dirty hair was about to burrow into his rough skin, something nailed the rat.
Lu Jian's crowbar hit the mouse and dragged it back.
At the same time, the intermittent sound of the engine, like that of an old man with tuberculosis for many years, finally became coherent.
"Let me go!"
"Hound Dog" barked, and immediately, Lu Jian felt the seat behind him produce a driving force, leading them forward.
The impact of the mouse caused the vehicle to shake a bit, but the crystallization of human science and technology continued to move forward. Soon, the jaw-dropping continuous impact disappeared, and only the last mouse that crashed in through the broken window was left. The crowbar that tripped was nailed to the ground with precision.
"It's a rat wave."
When everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the taciturn middle-aged woman, Mary, spoke in a hoarse voice.
"The rats in the ruins sometimes migrate collectively due to certain things, forming a huge rat tide, and we just ran into it unfortunately."
"You mean, these rats are jumping and moving at such a fast speed, just ordinary migration?"
Lu Jian confirmed, and he saw Mary nodding slightly.
"I'm actually a scholar who studies wild creatures. This time I'm returning to waste capital to write a thesis after the inspection period."
Mary lifted her shawl a little, revealing the delicate clothes underneath and the gun holster under her ribs.
No one suspects this, they just look behind the car.
With such a speed and such a quantity, no matter what kind of creatures encounter the rat swarm, they will probably have to make a detour.
This black torrent, regardless of anyone's will, just shuttles between the ruins, sweeping everything it encounters.
Humans can only avoid, fear, and cannot resist.
The bus gradually returned to the smooth driving stage, and the experience just now seemed to be just a dream.
Only the sticky and clotted blood on one side of the car window and the huge mouse pinned by a crowbar on the ground proved the previous encounter.
"mouse"
Looking at the mouse, Lu Jian had a sudden inspiration and asked.
"This mouse, can I eat it?"
"?"
Everyone in the car raised question marks.
"Theoretically, these mice are ordinary creatures."
After a long time, Mary answered Lu Jian's question.
"That's not bad."
Lu Jian took out the pan from the backpack at his feet.
"It was too dangerous just now, let's eat first to calm down the shock."
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(end of this chapter)