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"Everyone, check to see if there is a signal from that little white mouse."

Director Mu paused and continued.

He was referring to the little white mouse that carried the soul of the giant beast in the abyss.

A tiny signal receiver was tied to everyone's tails, and once they approached this little white mouse within a hundred meters, they would send a slight vibration.

It's a pity that there is dead silence on everyone's tails now. They are not so lucky to meet their targets as soon as they enter the ground.

"Go ahead."

Director Mu waved his paw, "Be vigilant, if you move forward, there will be danger at any time!"

The next part of the journey is indeed full of dangers and dangers.

The explosion of the underground spiritual veins, coupled with the explosion of the pipeline gas network, completely changed the structure of the underground. The cracks in the rocks were covered with sharp fang-like gravel. In some places, there were gravel and dust falling from the top of the head. In this place, due to the burst of water pipes or the surge of groundwater, an underground underground river with fast flowing water and no one knows where it leads. If it falls into it, it may be rolled out dozens of miles away, turning into a fragmented floating corpse .

After a period of up and down, twists and turns like a maze, the communication cable was quickly exhausted, so they could only set up a small signal base station on the spot, then gave up the wired communication and continued to move forward.

Then, they encountered the first large-scale mutated insects since they went deep into the ground. There were hundreds of them, mainly composed of spiders.

Everyone drew their weapons immediately, and their claws and tails instantly became gleaming and unstoppable.

Strangely, these mutated insects did not attack them, but circled around like headless flies until they were exhausted and collapsed to the ground.

Even when they carefully walked around the mutated insects, the mutated insects didn't even look at them.

Similar scenes happened several times later, the mutated insects were like puppets whose strings were cut, they completely lost their survival goals and hunting instincts, and turned into wandering beasts with their shells still remaining, but nothing more. soul.

"The brain tissue and neural network of these mutated insects have also been affected by the explosion of the underground spiritual veins. Their brains and neural networks are very primitive, and some even have no brain. interfering."

Director Mu said, "After an earthquake, it is extremely common for insects to become chaotic, and the disturbance caused by the eruption of underground spiritual veins will only be a hundred times stronger than ordinary earthquakes, and the mutated insects are only created by human intervention. Deformed monsters, their brain structure and nervous system have not been screened and stabilized by thousands of years of evolution, so they have become what they are now."

"That's good news."

Looking at the twisting and dancing mutated insects in front of him, Chu Ge said, "This at least shows that the mutated insects did not become a system to resume command, and turned into a terrifying swarm of insects. In other words, everything that happened in the underground world is not like It's a conspiracy carefully planned by the Celestial Organization, right?"

"Perhaps." Director Mu was noncommittal.

Continuing to go deep into the ground, after being scraped by the gravel until he barely squeezed through a finger-shaped crack in the rock, everyone saw an even more astonishing scene.

Presented in front of them was a turbulent, majestic underground river.

On both sides of the dark river, there are gravel and broken steel bars everywhere, like sharp knives sticking out.

But above the dark river, in the mid-air of the cave, there is a huge rock standing upright, like a springboard sloping upwards.

At this moment, on the giant rock, there are crowds and groups, surrounded by at least hundreds of mice.

They were all huge rats with red eyes and white foam gushing from the corners of their mouths.

The ferocious rat standing at the core of the team even made a gorgeous crown out of shuttlecocks and put it on his head, which looked amazing, mighty and extraordinary, showing a faint taste of civilization.

It looked like they were vassal tribes of the Fang Kingdom.

At least, within the scope of the strength of the Longtooth Kingdom, the Vicious Rat Tribe, which has been connected with the vassal tribes, has been affected, and awakened a certain degree of wisdom, is not a pure beast.

However, they are doing something that no soul shifter has ever thought of.

The group of ferocious rats huddled together, you pushed me, I squeezed you, they were already close to the edge of the giant rock.

Below, there is the rushing water, the dark downstream, hidden in the mist, like a deep and endless hell.

These ferocious rats did not have the slightest fear or in other words, in their confused red eyes, they could not see the emotions that intelligent life should have at all, but driven by some mysterious force, they crouched deeply and jumped, Jump into the dark river.

"Plop! Plop! Plop!"

Countless ferocious rats fell into the dark river, splashed water, and subsided instantly.

They were engulfed by the turbulent current and hit the gravel and broken steel bars on both sides of the bank. The bones were broken in an instant, and the blood flowed profusely, staining the nearby waters red.

Even some ferocious rats were smashed to pieces, their internal organs spewed out, and before they were out of everyone's sight, they turned into fragmented corpses.

But such a tragic scene could not stop the determination of those ferocious rats, one after another, to jump into the dark river.

They twitched nervously, as if they were stepping on the beat of a devil's drum, or dancing crazily. Even the headman or priest wearing the crown was no exception, and they all jumped into the dark river.

In a short time, hundreds of ferocious rats were all buried in the dark river, not even a single bright red splash was left behind.

Mass suicide!

This is a very rare collective suicide phenomenon in nature!

"In nature, some group-living rodents, mainly rats, will commit collective suicide when the ecological environment changes drastically, the population expansion reaches its limit, and they can no longer get enough resources to support all the species."

Director Mu said in a deep voice, "According to the analysis of zoologists, this is some kind of 'balance switch' deep in the genes of social rodents. The number will only make all the mice kill each other in order to compete for the chance of survival, and the last one will not survive.

"Therefore, every time this happens, there will always be some rats who 'come forward' and commit suicide voluntarily or without resources, saving living space for the group and in exchange for greater hope of survival for the survivors."

"That is to say"

Chu Ge thought for a while and said, "The collective suicide of these ferocious rats shows that the underground ecosystem has been severely damaged. The originally stable rat civilization and the larger rat society built around the rat civilization are collapsing. ?Even the genes in these mice have somehow sensed the extreme lack of living resources and space, which is very likely to lead to the catastrophe of the entire group?"

"I'm afraid that is the case, and this is what we have expected."

Director Mu observed the terrain and said, "Leidong, fire the rope dart over there, and we'll walk on top of that huge rock. Since a large number of rats appeared from behind the huge rock, it means that there must be a road leading directly to the core area of ​​the rat civilization." Moreover, if hundreds of ferocious rats can pass through, we will definitely be able to pass through."

The strong man named Leidong possessed the strongest mouse and carried the most supplies and professional equipment, including a miniature rope dart.

"call out!"

A three-legged flying claw shot out from the muzzle of the gun, firmly nailed to the boulder like a dart, and two claws pierced deeply into the crevice of the boulder.

Behind the flying claw, there was a bundle of extremely thin and light steel wire rope. Lei Dong tried it out and felt that the hook claw was firmly fixed, so he wrapped the other end of the wire rope around a stalagmite here.

A tight steel wire bridge was firmly formed on the torrent of the dark river that had just swallowed the lives of hundreds of rats.

Hei Yu was the first to jump up as lightly as a swallow, followed by Chu Ge, then the Lin family siblings, followed by elite soldiers from the Seventh Division of the Special Investigation Bureau, and Director Mu staying at the end to sweep the formation. Accompanied by the wailing and howling of ghosts and wolves from the torrent of the dark river, they climbed over without any risk, and jumped onto the huge rock where the ferocious rat had just stood.

Sure enough, on the rock wall behind the giant rock, there are criss-cross gaps, forming a group of black human figures with teeth and claws.

Everyone was a little restless, as if they heard the soul-stirring sounds of fighting and screams coming from the endless abyss behind the gap.

Chu Ge poured the shocking energy into his eyes, operated the "Brain Stimulation Technique" to the limit, and saw wisps of colorful spiritual energy, like demon fire, gushing out from the gap.