noffsinger Chapter 276 The Rat King
Chapter 276 The Rat King
Xiao Hei woke up at the sound and saw a group of rats chasing the vehicle through the rear window, always keeping a certain distance.
It's not because we can't catch up, but because there's a safe distance of ten meters.
Little Black stretched out its paw to wake Little Crow: "We're being chased by mice, what do we do now?"
The little crow flapped its wings to shake off its sleepiness, yawning as it said, "Say it again, I didn't hear you clearly."
“I said, we’re being chased by a swarm of rats! It’s dark now, so the rats are keeping a safe distance from us, but once it’s daytime, that dark swarm will eat us alive.”
Little Crow: "Then wake up the master and obey her commands."
"But the master has only been asleep for a short while."
"Is life more important or sleep? Go, open the door, only you among us know how to open the door."
"Oh."
With a creak, the door opened.
Little Black darted to Lu Youyou's bedside and kept shouting, "Master, Master, there's a mouse!"
Lu Youyou slowly opened her eyes, feeling as if she was about to die suddenly.
I turned on my watch; it was 1 a.m.
She remembered that she went to bed around 11 o'clock, right?
Before she could even ask Xiao Hei what was going on, a jumble of sounds automatically popped into her ears.
"Charge! That's our food!"
"Ugh, you disgusting humans!"
"I hate humans the most! When I catch up with her car, I'm going to bite her tires to pieces!"
...
Regardless of age or gender, they speak very quickly, and you can't understand anything unless you listen carefully; you can only hear squeaking sounds like mice.
mouse?!
Lu Youyou immediately regained her senses.
If she wasn't mistaken, it was because of those sweet potatoes and green potatoes?
"Navigation, parking."
Cars can stop suddenly, but mice can't.
Furthermore, because of an invisible ten-meter defensive line, the rats in the front row could not advance, and the rats in the back row could not slow down.
They fell down with a thud, and the mice in the front row were squeezed into one mouse pancake after another.
"Ugh—I hate humans!"
"My back! My head! The peanuts in my mouth were knocked out of my mouth! I finally managed to pick them up, and they were even salt and pepper flavored!"
"Wasn't she immune to our sound waves? How did she suddenly wake up?"
Then came another burst of chattering.
Lu Youyou got dressed and climbed onto the roof.
Using your car as the center and a radius of 10 meters, only this circle is safe; the rest of the area is surrounded by rats whose boundaries are not visible.
No wonder they chased me like this when I took two boxes of food. Judging from their numbers, the food in the basement probably won't last more than a few days.
While Lu Youyou was contemplating the rat swarm, the rats were also talking about her.
"Boss Mouse, a human has appeared! How about we negotiate with her directly? In human terms, it's called 'courtesy first, then force'."
"Yeah, yeah, our only skill is sonic attacks, and they don't even work on this human. Are we really going to have to chew up her car? My teeth hurt so much."
A voice, speaking at a slower pace, rang out, carrying a maturity unlike that of the other mice.
"How can we negotiate? Even if I, the Boss Mouse, speak slowly, it will still sound like squeaking to a human's ears, and she won't understand me."
Lu Youyou found the largest rat in the crowd; it must be the Rat King.
He shouted, "I can understand!"
"Eh!"
The group of mice took a step back in surprise, leaving their leader behind.
The eldest mouse stiffly turned its neck to look at its subjects behind it, then stiffly turned back, glancing around out of the corner of its eye.
A bunch of good-for-nothing rats who only know how to eat fried sweet potatoes!
They actually left it in the first row!
"King Mouse, I can understand you. Why are you chasing my car in the middle of the night?"
The Mouse King straightened his back, but when he realized that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't look Lu Youyou in the eye, he bent over in frustration, his big belly drooping.
"King Mouse, don't be afraid, we're here to help you!"
A group of mice huddled together, and another group of mice climbed onto their heads. Once they were stable, another group of mice climbed on top of them, until they were arranged to be level with the path on the roof, and then they stopped.
The Mouse King straightened his back again, grabbed the little mice's tails, and climbed to the very top.
It's even a head taller than Lu Youyou!
He pointed at the road from his high vantage point, his anger blazing.
"Human! You stole our golden sweet potatoes and green sweet potatoes, don't try to deny it!"
Lu Youyou replied decisively: "Yes, I did take the golden potato and the green potato, but who can prove they are yours? Your names aren't written on the potatoes."
Mouse King: ...
A gust of wind made it tremble.
Suddenly, its fur bristled, making it look like a formidable sea urchin.
Just when Lu Youyou thought a fight was about to break out, the Mouse King started shedding tears and stretched out its two paws for Lu Youyou to see.
"Golden potatoes and green potatoes grow much deeper than ordinary potatoes, usually tens of meters underground, and some even hundreds of meters deep. We dug them out with our claws, and my hands have been broken many times! Humans, you have no heart! You steal the mice's food!"
The rats below, fearing that Lu Youyou wouldn't be able to see clearly, collectively moved forward.
It crashed into the safety barrier and almost knocked the top mouse king over.
Fortunately, they swayed like small ripples, and none of them were injured.
After this accident, they stretched out their two front paws, looking even more aggrieved.
Each mouse's paws were incomplete; some had fingers that were strangely bent, some had broken nails, and some had missing fingers.
The sharp-eyed Lu Youyou could even see that the little finger of the Mouse King was made of clay. Just as she was talking, the Mouse King nervously pulled it off and then stuck it back on, repeating this several times.
Seeing this, Lu Youyou felt uneasy.
These rats hadn't bothered me. When they came to ask for those two boxes of potatoes, they just looked pitiful and showed me the consequences of digging up the potatoes. They didn't attack me right away.
She actually softened and wanted to return the two boxes of potatoes to them.
but--
She dared not forget for a second the words spoken by the monster beneath the black ice.
"Humans, we're not even lowly monsters. We have to dig up potatoes every day, and even then we're still hungry. Please, give us back our potatoes."
The mouse king had tears in its eyes, stood on its hind legs, and clung to its front paws, swinging them up and down like a puppy bowing before begging for food.
Xiao Hei darted out from the stairs, cautiously offering a reminder.
"Master, if we give it to them, does that mean we haven't passed the test?"
The Mouse King asked in confusion, "A test? What test? We're just mice that dig potatoes every day—"
The crow grew larger, spread its wings, and said ruthlessly, "You'd better leave now! Otherwise, I'll swat you away with one wing! The master only took two boxes, and those are the two smallest boxes. He's already being very considerate of you."
"But those two little boxes of sweet potatoes are enough for a thousand mice for a day!" the Mouse King lamented.
rice?
Lu Youyou thought of the food factory's recipes. She didn't seem to have recipes for French fries and roasted sweet potatoes yet.
"King Mouse, don't cry. It's not impossible for you to get your sweet potatoes and green potatoes back, but you have to give me the recipes for fried sweet potatoes and roasted sweet potatoes. I'll provide the sweet potatoes."