MC Bookstore Chapter 120 The Great Battle Against the Rat
Chapter 120 The Great Battle Against the Rat
Chapter 120 The Great Battle Against the Rat
"It's so cold—"
Snowflakes poured down her neck, the cold was unbearable. Jiang Yueying curled up into a ball, her shoulders trembling, her teeth chattering. Lu Youhe, who was slightly less skilled, also had some difficulty holding her.
Ji Liguang looked at her two little friends and felt heartbroken. She took Lu Ren's coat, wrapped the two little ones in it, and then held it in front of her.
"Is it any better?"
"No, nothing at all, Lu Ren is warm—"
"Hey!" (long vowel)
Shen Yaoxing, who was standing to the side, said, "Ali, you take them into the village first."
Lu Ren deliberately created fog to obstruct the rat horde's vision. The continuous explosions lured away most of the rats, clearing the way into the village, and he fought the terrifying number of ratmen in the mountains.
Miss, wait a moment. I'll create some fog and then use it to lure these ratmen away. You take Youhe and the others into the village first. The village worships the Heavenly Mountain God. Although the principle behind it is unclear, it can protect them from the White Storm.
He said this to her before Lu Ren rushed up.
Ji Liguang quickly called out, "And what about you?"
"Lu Ren is also nearing his limit. If his rage amplification exceeds the limit, he will lose consciousness. I need to help him—"
"No, no, there are still a few ratmen ahead—"
"Are you completely out of energy?"
"Auntie, don't forget that just because we have amazing talent, we're actually only at the Candle Illumination Realm!"
The Black Mountain Takayuki Squad, standing to the side, looked at the girls with some surprise upon hearing this.
What does it mean to be only at the Candle Illumination Realm? Is the strength displayed by someone at the Candle Illumination Realm stronger than that of a regular Flame-Bearer? What kind of monsters are in this squad?
Shen Yaoxing watched the battle in the mountains and fields, watching Lu Ren lead away the rat horde by himself. The wind and snow were too heavy, and she was suffering from continuous hypothermia. The scene before her eyes became somewhat blurry.
"Yaoxing, you all need to take refuge quickly, I'll stay here—"
Who said those words to her? She couldn't quite remember now. There might have been more than one person. Ten years was too long ago. She only remembered that her people rushed forward like that, and their figures had become blurry now.
This moment is like history repeating itself. The nightmare of her childhood has reappeared ten years later. Do you want her to accept the same ending where she can only run away?
I don't accept it!
Shen Yaoxing looked up at the sky, trying to get the stars to give her strength. Reason and all that, you can have them all, now I want power!
It's almost six o'clock now, and it's already autumn with short days and long nights, so there should be starlight above the clouds by now.
But no, because this is Xinjiang, where the sun doesn't set until 10 a.m.!
Damn it, what use is reason to me now? I'm going to fight!
"Lu Ren, hold on! I'll bring them to safety and then come help you!"
She called out in that direction, then said to Heishan Gaoyue and the others, "Miss Mei, let's go to the village first."
"Alright, Hulk and I can still fight. There are only 12 left, so it should be fine!"
"I'll assist you. Once I've controlled the situation, you can make your move!"
On the other side, as the prize pool continued to accumulate and the value kept increasing, Lu Ren's stored spirit remains were slowly running out.
He has 12 silver-grade items left, which can sustain him for at most another 12 minutes of fighting. However, there are still 176 ratmen around, which means he needs to kill 14 half-step Chen-level monsters within one minute.
It's a bit difficult, no, it's very difficult.
Who would have thought this game would be so pay-to-win? He should have prepared more spirit remains when he went out, but even if he did bring more spirit remains, it might not be useful. As the amplification was about to reach its limit, his spirit was like a piece of iron suffering from metal fatigue, and it would collapse at any time after reaching its limit.
It wasn't a physical breakdown, but a mental one. The increased rage was more like constantly squeezing out the power of the spirit, which makes it easy to understand why one's temperament would change so drastically.
When his mind reaches its limit, his body will be unable to withstand the excessive force and he will fall into a coma, falling into the mental world, which is probably like overheating and crashing.
But right now, I definitely can't fall into a coma, otherwise I won't wake up.
Moreover, there's one guy who seems impossible to kill no matter what, his consciousness constantly shifting between these rat-men. According to the young lady, this should be a rat-child of the Divine Mother Cult.
Even before Lu Ren became a professional, he had heard of the twelve zodiac signs of the Divine Mother Sect.
Each of them was a ruthless and murderous villain. Regardless of their moral character, they were truly important figures to him and Lu Youhe when they were young.
Who would have thought that someone from the slums like myself would one day be able to "fight" with such a big shot?
They can even cut off the head of such an important person and use it as a football!
"You charlatan, you can kill me whenever you want, dam dam."
"Aren't you in a hurry to make me fly?"
"Did you think you had some kind of strength? Trying to act tough in front of me?"
Regardless of whether it's possible or not, regardless of whether he'll reach his limit, as reason is gradually stripped away, Lu Ren now has only one thought: Fighting, it's awesome!
The rat's consciousness shifted again, but the feeling of its head being stepped on at the last moment still came through with its consciousness.
"Damn it! If it weren't for these villagers, who are just the lowest of the low, the ratmen, do you think you'd be able to keep jumping around in front of me until now?!"
His face was somewhat gloomy as he looked at the guy in front of him, not quite understanding what was going on.
The methods were utterly inexplicable. Was this guy a physical cultivator or a magic cultivator? And why did he seem to have been suddenly attacked by mental techniques just now?
His consciousness switched again, this time to a rat-man that circled behind the monster, seizing the opening as the monster slashed forward, its sharp, beastly claws grabbing at Lu Ren's abdomen.
The boy's clothes were torn, but the grab that could have ripped open the other's stomach only managed to leave two bloody scratches on his side!
The next second, a hand grabbed his neck and lifted him up.
"You're bragging, bro! Can you even scratch me?! This is called Invincible Bronze Hardening!"
Just as his consciousness was about to shift, a spittle sprayed directly onto his face, and the next second his neck was snapped.
Lu Ren, like a street thug, yelled, "So what if you turn into a rat? Turning into a rat can't hurt your dad. You can only watch your dad do whatever he wants to you, understand?!"
One of the rat-men in the swarm suddenly stopped, and touched his face in surprise. There was definitely no saliva there, but, but—how dare he!
"Fine, fine, I won't erase your consciousness, I'm going to take over your body—"
Lu Ren didn't waste any words with him. He grabbed the ratman that the ratman was possessing and killed it. In the next instant, a snow mist several feet high jumped out from the spot. In the blink of an eye, the knife was about to cut into his face.
"Those girls from earlier, are they important people to you?"
"I'll make you watch clearly as I use your body to pin them down and play with them—"
"And these ratmen, I will let them be raped by all the ratmen day and night, I will make them the breeding ground for my children, to keep giving birth to them—"
The rat's voice kept changing, coming from young men, old women, and children, and its location also kept shifting, moving in all directions, sometimes in front and sometimes behind.
Lu Ren silently counted in his mind, 187, 174, 160 ——— The sound had just continued when, the next second, his head flew high into the air like a ball again, leaving — 156 heads.
As Lu Ren's consciousness flared with rage, he began to pant heavily, and before he knew it, he had been fighting these rat-men for almost half an hour.
"Right? You're furious, aren't you? But what can you do? You think you're a genius? In the past ten years, I've taken over the bodies of countless geniuses."
"So you're the only one with exceptional talent, the only one who's different, the only one who can defeat enemies far above their level?"
"They were like you at first, thinking I was just a rat hiding in the shadows. Those geniuses were so noble and proud, but what happened in the end? They were turned into rat-men by me."
"What I love most is turning all you self-important, self-proclaimed chosen ones, who think you're so great, into filthy, lowly, and ugly rat-men!"
As the number of rats decreased, Zishu's heart sank slightly.
He had actually been trying to invade the boy's mind, but infecting such a powerful professional was naturally more difficult than infecting an ordinary villager; he needed to manipulate the other person's strong emotional fluctuations.
Only by making the other person angry, fearful, or sad because of him can he invade the other person's mental world.
But this is too strange. He can sense that the boy's emotions are very intense at this moment, but why can't he invade his mental world?
His consciousness shifted again, landing on a rat-man about ten meters away from the boy. He met the boy's gaze; the boy's chest was heaving violently, his body temperature like a furnace, and the wind and snow falling around him turned into mist.
Those were bloodshot eyes, staring at him, when suddenly she grinned!
kill!
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!
"It's been buzzing in my ears ever since it started. If it keeps going, I'll cut your head off and use it as a chamber pot."
The rat could not invade his mental world. Although his emotions were fluctuating violently, it had nothing to do with his provocative words. His rage had increased to 98%!
But his anger was purely irritating and had nothing to do with the rat. It's like seeing a rat in a ditch by the roadside; would you feel angry just because you heard the rat squeaking?
In the white world, a dark forest appeared. It wasn't the night, but blood—the blood of the ratmen, splattered on the trees, the rocks, and the snow, staining the white mountains mottled. The smell of blood was frozen, suppressed by the wind and unable to dissipate.
107, 74, 43 —
The number of rat people is decreasing, and the voices of the rats are becoming more and more similar.
Countless rat-men corpses lay all around, black and mushy, piled up in a heap.
Snow fell on Lu Ren's shoulders, accumulating into a thin layer, and he swallowed the last fragment of the spirit body.
At this moment, it wasn't just his mind that was aching; Lu Ren felt pain all over his body. He leaned against a broken tree, panting, his clothes torn to shreds, revealing the purplish-blue wounds beneath. His breath was short and rapid.
Lu Ren didn't feel embarrassed at all; in fact, he found it exhilarating. This kind of battle was truly exhilarating!
Why is he training so hard? Isn't it just to show off? No, it's to beat up the idiots jumping around in front of him. No, it's to protect his important partners. Yes!
In front of him, there was only one rat-man left, and unsurprisingly, the rat's consciousness resided within him.
Zishu looked at the young man in front of him and suddenly fell silent. He had just said too much trash talk and was now speechless.
He didn't understand, he didn't understand at all. He was now a man in his sixties, looking at the young man in front of him who could barely lift a knife, and he just couldn't comprehend it.
Of course, when there were only 20 ratmen left, this kid looked like he was on his last legs, but then he suddenly burst out and outmaneuvered him.
He was calm now and asked, "Any last words?"
"Want to hear? Come closer, your father will tell you—"
Zishu couldn't tell how much strength he still had, but what was the point? Even if this kid killed his current body, he wouldn't die.
It's a bit of a pity. Since they wouldn't submit, the only option was to kill them. It's a shame about such a talented backup.
In his opinion, given time, this body in front of him could definitely stand at the pinnacle of the profession, no less than Pleiades who is currently fighting against "Throat".
Such a prodigy with talent comparable to the stars, it would be a waste to destroy such a backup.
The rat suddenly became interested. "By the way, didn't you want to know how I killed those two?"
Lu Ren's consciousness was like a spider silk about to snap; he kept inhaling the cold air to stimulate his brain to keep thinking.
His vision was blurry; he had indeed reached his limit, but as long as this last ratman stepped into position 1...
Within zero steps, he was still confident of a fatal blow.
"These mountain people are all followers of the Tianshan religion. They foolishly believe that as long as they believe in Tianshan, Tianshan will protect them. After they were infected by me, they saw some villagers turn into disgusting rat people and thought that Tianshan was punishing them."
Zishu grinned, his laughter bordering on madness: "And then, they killed those two little girls, those twins they considered unlucky, and offered them as sacrifices to the Heavenly Mountains!"
"Haha, haha! Isn't that interesting!?"
Zi Shu's face darkened, because the boy in front of him remained unmoved by his words.
"These stupid, filthy, disgusting things—I've turned their appearances into rat-men, but their hearts are a hundred times more disgusting than their bodies. Don't you loathe these beasts?"
"What's so disgusting about it?!"
Lu Ren found this man rather strange; his tone was calm to the point of being indifferent, simply stating, "Now, haven't they all been killed by me—"
"Ha, ha ha one"
The rat suddenly realized that this person was actually quite interesting.
Just then, a rustling sound came from the forest. Lu Ren sat down against a tree, his senses vaguely sensing that something had appeared around him.
Swarms of rat-men, as dense as a rat infestation, appeared in this forest at some unknown time and from some unknown place.
Lu Ren suddenly felt a little helpless. Rats are truly disgusting creatures.
"At the foot of the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, the villages and towns within a 20-mile radius have all been infected by me." The old man, ten steps away, spoke with a tone of keen interest: "I'm giving you one last chance. Become my backup. I can grant you freedom, and I won't use you unless absolutely necessary. I'll even spare the women in your village. What do you mean?"
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