Chapter 1160: Chapter 681: Disaster Begins (Part 4)

This garrison force was too conspicuous, shooting countless rats along the way, finally attracting the attention of the Rat King.

Qing Chen looked around, but couldn’t see the Rat King’s tracks, indicating that the other side could control the rat swarm from a distance.

This was bad news. Human communication had been cut off, yet the rat swarm had a more efficient way of communication; is this the ability of the Rat King, having stepped into the extraordinary realm?

Rats surged in swarming torrents, fearless of death, charging against the garrison despite the heavy machine gun fire.

In an instant, they surrounded those dozen or so off-road vehicles!

The refugees who had just been cursing Qing Chen were dumbfounded, even though they were ordinary people who hadn’t participated in combat, they knew this garrison force was done for!

The guns roared, the soldiers’ firearms carried only thirty-round magazines, while the heavy machine guns’ magazines had just 1,200 bullets.

The firepower suppression was exhilarating, but the rat swarm far outnumbered their ammunition by dozens or even hundreds of times, they simply couldn’t shoot them all.

When soldiers reloaded, the firepower briefly halted and the rat swarm completely engulfed them.

At this moment, the refugees finally stopped their forward rush towards the garrison force.

They recalled Qing Chen’s earlier words, instantly forgetting his punches and kicks against them, showing gratitude on their faces.

Qing Chen shouted loudly, “Everyone, don’t speak, take advantage of the rat swarm attacking the garrison force, and come with me immediately!”

He quickly started running, with more than three hundred refugees sprinting furiously behind him.

Celebrity Wang Wenwen grabbed Chen Luwen’s bodyguard, “You carry me!”

Saying this, she jumped onto the bodyguard’s back, unwilling even now to take off her high heels!

Another celebrity, Zhou Jieyi, continued running, her high heels falling off at some point, running barefoot on the ground.

Seeing Wang Wenwen’s action, she imitated her by climbing onto another bodyguard’s back, “Carry me, survive, and I’ll give you two million!”

The disaster had just erupted, yet power and money still exerted their influence.

But Qing Chen knew, it wouldn’t take long for people’s inherent worldview, values, and outlook on life to be overturned by the crisis between life and death.

Qing Chen urged coldly, “Close your mouths and run silently, don’t shout, if I don’t say stop, no one stops!”

By this time, Chen Luwen remained silent, only lowering his head to flee with the group, finally realizing the gravity of the situation!

In the dark, Qing Chen observed the environment while straining to listen for movements in various streets, “Turn left!”

Saying this, he led the refugees at the intersection to turn left.

“Turn right!”

“Stop! Be quiet!”

Qing Chen’s figure suddenly halted, leaving everyone confused, the next moment, dense footsteps of the rat swarm marching sounded from the adjacent block.

The sharp claws contacting the ground made everyone’s hair stand on end.

Zhang Mengchan struggled to gather four children in his arms, covering their mouths with his arm to prevent them from making noise.

The refugees were so terrified they even forgot to breathe.

“Continue forward!”

The group began moving again.

Qing Chen’s target was clear, taking advantage of the rat swarm’s dispersed feeding phase, first lead the people back to the Sixth District.

There it borders the Lower Third District; to get there, just trek over thirty kilometers through the Sixth District.

Moreover, the Sixth District was one of the first administrative districts to experience an outbreak of the rat swarms, he had come from there.

Since it was the earliest outbreak area, then the rat swarm likely had already ravaged it clean.

A swarm without food certainly wouldn’t stay in an empty area, they would invade other administrative districts organized and planned.

Then, the once most dangerous place might now actually be the safest.

At this moment, the refugees realized one thing, the boy leading the way seemed prophetic, evading the rat swarms repeatedly.

Left turn, right turn, halt, those commands gradually became subconscious orders in the minds of the refugees.

Humans are like this, in panic and helplessness, when only one voice remains in a group, no matter right or wrong, they blindly follow.

Qing Chen calculated the distance; they still had over twenty kilometers to reach the Sixth District, which would be the toughest part of the trip.

While running, a middle-aged man suddenly noticed an empty gold store on the street.

He was stunned, pulling his wife’s arm to signal her to look too.

The pitch-black gold store was vacant, likely without any rats; if there were, the boy leading the group would have warned already.

Rats like these, sooner or later the Federal Group’s army would eliminate them, but gold isn’t always free for the taking!

Taking advantage of this pause from Qing Chen to await, hiding from the rat swarm, this middle-aged couple quietly parted from the group in the dark, towards the gold store.

Once inside, the man carefully surveyed, ensuring no sound was heard, then urged, “Quick, quick, pack the gold, finish and catch up with the group!”

They wanted to open the counter, but they were all locked.

The couple found keys in the pockets of the dead clerk on the ground, opened the counter, and stuffed strings of gold necklaces into their pockets until all were full.

The pair was exhilarated and fearful, overwhelmed by the massive gain.

The mortgage, car loan, all solved; with this gold alone, they could lead high-society lives.

The woman’s neck and wrists were covered in gold jewelry, resembling a wealthy ill-bred.

Contented, the man regained sanity and said, “Stop packing and quickly return to the group; money means nothing if not alive to spend it.”

However, upon sneaking out of the gold store, they found the street had become desolate.

The group that was supposed to be on the street evading the rat swarm had long vanished!

“What do we do? Where did they go?” the wife began to truly feel fear.

“Quick, quick, run ahead, find them! They shouldn’t have gone far!” the man said.

The two ran toward the crossroads, but once there, they heard dense clawing sounds.

The couple slowly turned their heads to see the rat swarm rolling forward like black water.

They ran back madly but couldn’t outrun the swarm.

The next instant, the black tide swallowed them along with the gold.

Ten seconds later, the swarm moved on, revealing two white skeletons on the ground, adorned with gold bracelets and necklaces.

Qing Chen of course heard their departure, but even a bodhisattva wouldn’t save a fool; he naturally wouldn’t either.

All he did was to be true to himself, deserving of Kunlun and his family’s efforts, so that if asked after returning to Whale Island in six days, when everyone was dying, what was he, the Commander, doing?

Qing Chen didn’t want to disappoint those who asked or those who never doubted his decisions.

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