Chapter 265: Enemies Meet, Eyes Red
Seeing this scene, Tom’s gaze turned icy cold: “These beasts, they deserve to die!”
Tom cursed inwardly, forcefully squeezing the spirit ball bomb in his hand. The spirit ball bomb activated instantly. Tom silently counted to three and threw the spirit bomb at the cannibal rats that were gnawing on the corpses.
The spirit ball bomb landed and exploded instantly.
With a loud “boom,” the entire cave was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder. All the cannibal rats gnawing on the corpses were blown to pieces.
Even the corpses of the mercenaries were blown into minced meat, emitting black smoke and charred beyond recognition.
Hearing the explosion, Fang Xiaocao and the others were startled, thinking something had happened to Tom.
They immediately ran over with their guns raised.
“Tom, what happened?”
Fang Xiaocao asked in a deep voice.
“Nothing, just some cannibal rats that I blew up with a bomb.”
Tom took a deep breath and said.
Fang Xiaocao could tell that Tom’s expression was off.
But since Tom didn’t want to say, she didn’t ask.
If Tom wanted to say, he would have said it already.
No need for her to ask!
If Tom didn’t want to say, asking was pointless.
“Is it safe outside now?”
Fang Xiaocao asked Tom.
“It’s temporarily safe!”
“The mercenaries and cannibal rats are gone.”
“I just don’t know if they’re all dead, or if the mercenaries retreated and the cannibal rats went after them.”
Tom frowned and answered.
“Then should we take this opportunity to leave?”
Fang Xiaocao asked tentatively.
Tom pondered for a moment and nodded.
“Let’s take this opportunity to leave!”
“We’ll go straight through the cannibal rat area and head to the treasure location quickly.”
After a moment, Tom said in a deep voice.
“Action!”
Fang Xiaocao made a decisive decision and gave the order.
Tom nodded and jumped out of the crevice.
Tom landed steadily, glanced at a half-crippled cannibal rat that was still alive at his feet, sneered, and stomped the cannibal rat to death.
After killing the cannibal rat, Tom reached out to help Fang Xiaocao down from the crevice and immediately ran forward. Fang Xiaocao followed closely behind, with Hummingbird and Taotie bringing up the rear.
Running quickly along the cave, Fang Xiaocao and the others soon saw Taotie’s long-haired, bony beauty.
However, the corpse of the white-haired cannibal rat that Taotie had killed was gone.
Beside the pool of blood, there were many rat footprints.
Most of the rat footprints were heading in the direction they had come from, with only one set of footprints heading in the opposite direction.
“The corpse of that white-haired beast is gone.”
Taotie exclaimed.
Hearing Taotie’s words, Tom glanced around.
Pointing to the footprints heading in the opposite direction, he said, “It should have been taken away by the white-haired rat you injured and escaped.”
Hearing Tom’s words, Fang Xiaocao nodded.
“Tom is right. Didn’t you say that intelligent animals are very smart?”
“It’s not surprising that they would collect the corpses of their kind, even as smart as humans.”
“Alright, let’s go!”
“If the cannibal rats or mercenaries follow this path, we won’t be able to leave.”
Fang Xiaocao said in a deep voice.
“Right!”
“Let’s hurry!”
Tom nodded in agreement.
“Tom, lead the way!”
Fang Xiaocao said in a deep voice.
Tom took out his communicator, glanced at the treasure map again, and nodded, leading the way.
Fang Xiaocao and the others maintained a triangular formation, following closely behind Tom.
After running for a full half hour, Tom stopped, glanced at Fang Xiaocao, who was already panting, estimated the distance they had traveled, and said, “Princess, we should have run far enough. Let’s rest here for a while.”
Fang Xiaocao panted, wiped her sweat, and nodded, “Okay…”
“I… can’t run anymore…”
Saying that, Fang Xiaocao sat down on the ground.
“Hummingbird, give the princess a massage, so she can stand up later.”
Tom instructed Hummingbird.
“Yes!”
Hummingbird nodded and responded.
She walked to Fang Xiaocao and began to massage her legs.
“Tom, I feel something’s not right.”
Taotie approached Tom and said softly.
“What is it?”
Hearing Taotie’s words, Tom was stunned and looked at Taotie in confusion.
“That white-haired old rat hasn’t appeared.”
“And we haven’t seen a single rat hole or the cannibal rats’ habitat along the way. Don’t you think that’s strange?”
Taotie said worriedly.
Taotie was still thinking about the white-haired cannibal rat. He had been paying attention to any traces of the cannibal rats along the way.
Now that they had stopped to rest, Taotie finally voiced his concerns.
Hearing Taotie’s words, Tom frowned slightly.
He got up and looked around.
A hint of suspicion flashed in his eyes.
Tom felt that Taotie was right.
There was definitely something wrong.
Just then, a white shadow flashed by.
A bloody smell hit them.
Tom was shocked and looked closely.
He saw a white-haired rat with a severed tail, its cold teeth bared, pouncing on Fang Xiaocao.
Seeing the appearance of this white-haired rat, Tom immediately realized that this white-haired rat was the one Taotie had injured.
“Princess, be careful!”
Tom shouted a warning, but it was too late to help. He could only hope that Hummingbird, who was beside Fang Xiaocao, would hear his warning and react in time to stop the white-haired rat.
Hearing Tom’s shout, Hummingbird reacted immediately. She picked up a rock from the ground, held it in her hand, and threw it backhand.
Fang Xiaocao also reacted and saw the white-haired rat’s ferocious face. Almost instinctively, Fang Xiaocao took out a few steel nails from her waist and threw them at the white-haired rat.
At the same time, Tom and Taotie rushed to rescue Fang Xiaocao.
Hummingbird missed with the rock, but Fang Xiaocao’s steel nail hit the white-haired rat in the eye, knocking it down.
The white-haired rat let out a miserable “squeak,” fell to the ground, and immediately got up again. With the steel nail in its eye and blood flowing, it stared at Fang Xiaocao with its good eye, revealing its big teeth.
Fang Xiaocao’s attack startled Taotie and the others. Taotie roared, “Beast, you’re asking for death!”
Taotie swung his dagger and stabbed at the white-haired rat. The white-haired rat recognized Taotie. When enemies meet, their eyes turn red.
The white-haired rat let out a sharp squeak and pounced on Taotie.
