bookbashuk Chapter 143 Rat Swarm
Chapter 143 Rat Swarm
Once the decision was made, the question became who would go first.
We measured it, and the downward passage is nearly ten meters deep. Regardless of how we get down there, the possibility of human-faced rats suddenly appearing and attacking us is also a concern.
"I'll log off first!"
To our surprise, Master Jiang actually volunteered to go down.
"If you take someone's money, you're obligated to solve their problems!"
Seeing us looking at him, Old Jiang pulled out a cigarette, slowly lit it, took a deep drag, and said, "I told you before, give me two hundred thousand, and I'll sell my life to you!"
"Chirp!"
At this moment, Xiao Ba popped out of Long Nier's hood, stretched out a pink little paw, pointed towards the hole, and shook its head.
"What Xiao Ba means is that there's no danger down there for now!" Long Nier translated.
"It's best if there's no danger!"
Grandpa Jiang exhaled a smoke ring and chuckled, "I believe in Master Bai!"
"Master Jiang, you stay upstairs, I'll do this work!"
Fatty Lin cracked his neck a few times and said, "I'm strong and healthy. Even if we encounter those big rats down there, I can hold out for a while longer!"
After saying that, he looked at Ma Shuai and said, "Uncle Ma, after I go down, your men go down, then Crazy, and Xiao Ni and Master Jiang go down last!"
"Can!"
Ma Shuai nodded.
I want to pull Fatty down first. He'd be in the most danger. If anyone's going to go down, it should be Ma Shuai's bodyguards, not us.
"Don't worry, you madman. I'm confident nothing will happen. Even the patriarch didn't appear in my dream!"
Fatty Lin guessed what I was going to say, pinched me, and chuckled.
"You son of a bitch, you always use the excuse of the ancestral master appearing in a dream!" I cursed.
"Alright, stop nagging. You and Ni'er be careful!"
Fatty Lin pinched me again and said, "All these years of training in the coldest and hottest winters are for the sake of being able to step in when something happens!"
After saying that, he turned to Ma Shuai's bodyguards and said, "Don't just stand there, tie the ropes!"
The bodyguards glanced at Ma Shuai, and when he nodded, they immediately took out two ropes, tied them to a nearby tree, and made a makeshift ladder.
After tying the rope, Fatty Lin slung his rifle over his back, glanced down, and prepared to climb down.
"Be careful!"
I punched him.
"Fatty, watch out!" Long Nier came over and patted Fatty Lin on the shoulder.
"Don't worry, Nizi, I haven't even had a chance to drink your wedding wine yet, I won't die!"
Fatty Lin winked at us and slid down the rope.
I squatted at the entrance of the hole and shone a flashlight down for him.
Fatty Lin moved quickly, and in less than half a minute, he landed on the ground.
"fine!"
After landing, Fatty Lin swung the rope, and Ma Shuai's bodyguards descended one by one.
After they all went down, Ma Shuai followed, then Jiang Ye, and finally Long Nier and I.
After landing, I found that there was a long corridor below that could accommodate four people walking side by side, with wall lamps on both sides of the corridor.
Decades later, these wall lamps are still working, providing a dim, warm light.
"Didn't you find any human-faced rats?" I asked.
"We found nothing!"
Fatty Lin shook his head.
"That's a bit strange!" Old Jiang muttered.
No sooner had he finished speaking than the rope fell down.
"Grass!"
I looked up and saw nothing at the entrance of the cave.
Ma Shuai's two bodyguards rushed over and looked up with me.
After looking at it for a while, Old Li, who was in the same car as us, picked up the rope and examined it, saying, "Mr. Ma, there are bite marks on it; the rope was bitten through!"
Ma Shuai's face darkened for a moment, but he quickly recovered and said, "If it's over, it's over!"
"They've lured us into a trap, and now they're playing war games with us!" I've come to understand some things.
I was wondering why that human-faced rat, which appeared the day before yesterday, was nowhere to be seen today. Turns out it had been playing a trick on us; they are much smarter than we thought.
"You madman, look!"
Fatty Lin then pointed to a small piece of iron on the cave wall.
I touched it and said, "There used to be a ladder here, but it was removed. It was most likely done by those human-faced rats!"
"You madman, we've really been lured into a trap!"
"That's what Fatty Lin said."
"Mr. Ma, what should we do?"
Old Li asked.
"We're already inside, what else can we do?"
Ma Shuai snorted and said, "There must be more than one entrance here, otherwise how would those human-faced rats get up there?"
"Master Jiang, what do you think?"
Ma Shuai then looked at Master Jiang.
"I also think there's more than one entrance. We've come this far, so my opinion is simple: either we kill all those human-faced rats, or they kill us!" said Master Jiang.
"Chirp!"
Suddenly, Hachi stood up, looked towards the end of the passage, and let out a cry.
"Those human-faced rats are coming!" Long Nier said.
"superior!"
Ma Shuai immediately retreated to the cave entrance and waved for his bodyguards to take over.
The bodyguards didn't hesitate; they split into two groups of three, each with six steel guns, forming a simple gun formation.
Old Li remained, standing guard in front of Ma Shuai.
Fatty Lin and I moved forward, gripping our steel guns tightly, ready to cover each other at any moment.
About five seconds later, a rustling sound of claws scratching the ground came from the corner at the end of the passage.
The next moment, four or five rats, about the size of adult beavers, with green eyes and gray-black fur, appeared in our sight and darted towards us.
Upon seeing these nearly one-meter-long gray-black rats, the bodyguards said nothing, but simply bowed and waited.
"kill!"
A moment later, the six bodyguards shouted in unison, and all six steel guns thrust forward simultaneously.
The sharp blade pierced the rat's body instantly, accompanied by a shrill screech.
"kill!"
The steel spear thrust out and then retracted, before thrusting out again amidst the unified chants.
This happened three times. The five large rats twitched and collapsed in the passage.
I squinted at them. These guys weren't ordinary bodyguards. With just these few moves and their level of teamwork, which bodyguard company these days is so awesome that they have bodyguards like these?
I recalled that from the time we left Shenyang until today, Ma Shuai rarely gave direct orders to these bodyguards; he mostly directed Lao Li.
I strongly suspect that these individuals are not ordinary people.
"There should be more; the human-faced rats haven't appeared yet!"
At this moment, Master Jiang spoke up.
As he spoke, a hint of inquiry crept into his gaze as he looked at the bodyguards.
"Mr. Ma, what's the next step? Should we go inside?"
One of the bodyguards in the first row asked.
"Go inside!" Ma Shuai nodded.
No sooner had I finished speaking than the rustling sound started again. I said, "No need to go any further, it's happening again!"
"Damn, how come there are so many?"
The next moment, seeing more than a dozen large rats swarming out from both sides of the end of the corridor, and a swarm of rats of normal size behind them, I swore.