Chapter 263: One Escaped
Seeing the white-haired cannibal rat fleeing in panic, and the half-severed rat tail under his dagger, Taotie suddenly had a bad feeling, he had caused trouble…
Taotie blinked, hesitated for 0.01 seconds.
He gave up chasing the white-haired cannibal rat.
He chose to turn back and report the matter.
Because Taotie was afraid that if he chased, he would not return. God knows how many cannibal rats of the same kind were waiting for him in the cave ahead, ready for a delivery meal.
One wrong move, and he would be gnawed into scraps in minutes.
Not even bone scraps would be left.
The danger of a group of cannibal rats far exceeded the giant snake encountered earlier.
Fighting the giant snake, as long as you were careful enough and reacted fast enough, you wouldn’t get hurt much.
But being surrounded by a group of cannibal rats meant almost certain death.
After all, even a good tiger can’t withstand a pack of wolves. No matter how strong he was, he only had two hands and two eyes. As long as the cannibal rat group was large enough, it could completely overwhelm him. One bite from each rat would be enough to kill him.
Just imagine the scene of being surrounded by hundreds or thousands of rats, gnawed into bone scraps.
Even someone as bold as Taotie felt terrified.
Thinking of that scene, Taotie shuddered and hugged himself tightly.
“I can’t stand it, I really can’t stand it.”
“I’m scared!”
Taotie muttered and ran away.
The top priority now was to quickly join Fang Xiaocao and the others and run away!
In the cave!
Fang Xiaocao and Tom, Hummingbird, looked at each other, watching the time and waiting for Taotie’s message.
The time was too long.
Fang Xiaocao and the others were a little restless.
Not to mention Tom, even Fang Xiaocao herself suspected that Taotie had encountered some danger or was trapped by something again.
“Princess, Taotie must have encountered something.”
Tom frowned and said seriously.
Hummingbird nodded in agreement with Tom’s point of view.
Fang Xiaocao pursed her lips and pulled out her gun.
“Let’s go, we’ll support Taotie!”
“You two move forward quickly, I’ll provide fire support from behind.”
Fang Xiaocao said while checking her ammunition.
Fang Xiaocao was very self-aware and didn’t rush to fight alongside Tom and Hummingbird. She knew that if even Taotie couldn’t solve the problem, she would just be giving away a head. Rushing up would only cause trouble for Tom and the others. It was better to stay behind.
Tom and Hummingbird exchanged glances and nodded.
“Okay!”
“We’ll do as the princess says!”
“Let’s go!”
Tom took out two spirit ball bombs, held them in his hand, and said in a deep voice.
The three of them got up and walked towards the depths of the cave.
Tom walked in the front, followed closely by Hummingbird.
Fang Xiaocao followed slowly behind.
After walking for about three hundred meters, Tom waved his hand and quickly crouched down, his eyes fixed on the darkness ahead, raising the gun in his hand and aiming forward.
Seeing Tom’s actions, Hummingbird and Fang Xiaocao understood and immediately crouched on the ground, raising their guns.
“Tap tap tap!”
Heavy footsteps came from ahead.
Tom “clicked” and released the safety.
He was ready to shoot at any time.
Taotie only reported that he had found a living thing.
But what this living thing was, everyone waited for him for a long time, and he didn’t mention it.
So this living thing could be anything.
It could be an animal or a person.
If Taotie really had an accident.
And didn’t have time to send a message, he was forcibly silenced, then the living thing Taotie was investigating was likely a person.
Only being shot in the back would prevent Taotie from having a chance to escape or send a message.
In the darkness, the person was running closer and closer.
Soon…
A human silhouette appeared in front of them.
Tom narrowed his eyes slightly, his finger slowly pressing on the trigger, ready to shoot at any time.
Suddenly!
Taotie frowned slightly and moved his finger away.
The human figure running from the darkness ahead, how did it look so much like…
The missing person, Taotie!
Tom gave a gesture of caution to the people behind him and got up to move towards the black shadow.
Tom tiptoed forward, hiding behind a boulder. When the figure in the darkness ran closer, Tom kicked out hard.
“Damn it!”
“Who the hell is ambushing me again?”
Taotie, who was running, saw a black shadow flashing out from behind the boulder and kicking at him. He immediately cursed and swung a fist.
Their fists and feet collided, making a muffled “thump” sound.
Taotie stood still.
Tom took three or four steps back.
“Tom, you’re ambushing me again!”
After a move, Taotie recognized that the person who ambushed him was Tom.
“You still know to come back?”
Tom moved his foot and asked in a deep voice.
“Why wouldn’t I know to come back?”
Taotie rolled his eyes and said angrily.
Just as he finished speaking, Taotie’s expression changed, and he pulled Tom and ran towards Fang Xiaocao, shouting as he ran, “No time to explain, we have to retreat quickly.”
“Damn it, there are cannibal rats over there, and at least one of them is an intelligent animal.”
Hearing Taotie’s words, Tom’s expression changed.
“Cannibal rats?”
Tom asked in surprise.
“That’s right, cannibal rats!”
“The number is unknown, but I encountered two intelligent cannibal rats. I wanted to eliminate them all and report back, but I only killed one and injured one, and the injured one escaped.”
“I guess the cannibal rat army is on its way. I don’t know how many of them are intelligent animals, so we have to retreat quickly. If we’re surrounded by cannibal rats, we’ll all be gnawed into skeletons.”
Taotie shouted as he ran.
He finished speaking just as he reached Fang Xiaocao.
“Cannibal rats?”
“What are those things?”
Fang Xiaocao asked in surprise.
Fang Xiaocao had also heard some of Taotie’s words.
“They’re a kind of rat that grows up eating dead human flesh!”
“They’re used to eating human flesh and treat it as food. The two I encountered treated me as prey and wanted to hunt me.”
Taotie stood still, adjusting his breathing, and explaining to Fang Xiaocao.
He had run too fast just now and had a stitch.
“Tom?”
After listening to Taotie’s words, Fang Xiaocao looked at Tom.
“Retreat!”
“We must retreat!”
Tom frowned and said decisively, without any hesitation.
If Taotie’s judgment was correct, then the situation was indeed very critical, far more dangerous than the giant snake.
“Okay!”
“Retreat!”
Seeing that Tom had said so, Fang Xiaocao couldn’t care about the treasure anymore.
