"Charging—the power company provides 20 minutes of electricity each day." Jin Li's finger scraped on the counter as if trying to scrape something off to eat.
"20 minutes!" Lu Jing gasped.
"As soon as it gets dark, we have to light candles. Humans can't do without electricity." Jin Li's eyes glowed in the darkness, and so did those of his hundred rat companions behind him.
"They never paid for it, stealing electricity," Rinne said.
"The electricity was supposed to supply some small factories in the Northeast District that were paying. The nearby humans also enjoyed it... But the power distribution company went bankrupt, and they've been doing it like this since a week ago... People can't buy electricity even if they pay. The day before yesterday, a generator and 20 liters of fuel were sold at a high price, and the buyer was killed on the way home at night..." Ratman babbled on.