Chapter 51 Cat and Mouse
"These rats have been in the city for almost a month," the homeless man complained. "The damn exterminator doesn't do anything about it. All he can do is drive all the rats out of the city center and drive them all to our area."

"As you can see, we are all used to the presence of rats."

After saying that, he stopped talking and looked at Luke eagerly.

Luke simply threw down a small stack of $20 bills.

"Tell me what else you know."

The homeless man quickly put away the money and continued, "A friend of mine said that these rats don't look like local species. Local rats are much smaller than these. They look a bit like the big gray rats in the Big Apple."

After he finished speaking, he laughed at himself. The Big Apple is thousands of kilometers away from here. How could the rats there come to Fort Lauderdale? Maybe they are similar species.

Luke asked some other questions, and when he saw that the homeless man really knew nothing, he left.

The sudden appearance of rats a month ago, I hope this incident has nothing to do with the cult. After all, according to the name of the sect, if they want to do evil, they have to use butterflies, moths and the like, that's the real deal.

After what happened just now, Luke paid much more attention to the ground and the gutter, always observing unconsciously to see if there were any traces of rats.

With his excellent dark vision, the mice could be seen clearly even if they were hiding in the darkest corners.

Sure enough, there were a lot more rats in this city, and they were all big, fat rats.

Should I remind my dad to open a rat extermination company?
After all, urban rat infestation affects the quality of life of all residents, including these wealthy people. If Fort Lauderdale is conquered and occupied by rats, people will be miserable.

Take the Big Apple that the homeless man just mentioned as an example. That city has become a "rat city" in a sense.

The city's annual expenditure on rat extermination is as much as 20 to 30 billion US dollars. There, rats have become the most rampant, even eating cats, just like the one-eared distant uncle in Black Cat Sheriff who eats cats and rats. Therefore, people train rat dogs to catch and kill rats.

The mice and humans of the Big Apple have been battling each other for more than three hundred years.

During these three hundred years, they learned to use tools, identify poisons, and even developed a certain degree of social organization structure, and would actively rescue their companions caught in traps.

They have also evolved strong resistance to various rodenticides used against humans, as well as the ability to delay gratification.

Even if they get food easily, they will not eat it immediately. There will be a few tasters in a group of mice. They will eat a part of the food first. After observing for a while and finding that the mice are not dead, the other mice will eat together.

In the Big Apple, restaurants must be exterminated by specialized rat extermination personnel from an extermination company every morning before they can open their doors. Otherwise, rats may crawl down customers' shoes and into their trouser legs at any time.

Hundreds of rats will form a rat tide, running rampant in the subway station, gnawing any humans or other creatures that dare to block their way.

Withdrawing his thoughts from the distant Big Apple, Luke looked at the rats worriedly. It was not because he was worried about America, but mainly because these things were too disgusting.

Luke no longer had the mood to take a walk. He began to observe the rats in the gutter, and followed the main direction of movement of the rats in the places where they gathered most.

He wanted to see if these mice were as united as their relatives in the Big Apple.

Following the direction of the rats, Luke was getting closer and closer to the downtown area, and the surrounding environment became messy and dirty. Seeing that it was getting dark, this place was really not a place for good people to come, and his clothes were too eye-catching, so it was easy for people to stop him and exchange a bullet for some money, a mobile phone, a kidney, etc.

Just as I was about to turn around and leave, a sharp cat meow was heard. If I listened carefully, I could also hear a lot of disorderly squeaking sounds of mice.

Luke tilted his ear to confirm, and it seemed to be on the other side of the wall. Did the mouse eat the cat?
Looking at the wall which was only about two meters high, Luke clapped his hands, ran a short distance, jumped suddenly, and lay directly on the wall.

He stuck his head out to observe, and saw a big cat over one meter long being besieged by a group of mice that were half its size.

This big cat seems to be a little injured, and its front legs are a little inconvenient. Although it looks much stronger than ordinary cats and can slap a mouse away with one slap, but ants can kill elephants, and the size difference between them is not that big.

Luke observed for a moment and found that the cat looked familiar. It seemed to be the one that was chased and bitten by the two dogs before?

His expression became a little strange. This big cat was too unlucky. First it was bitten by a dog, and then by a mouse. It was really a cat that was bullied by everyone.

What Luke didn't know was that Big Cat Sister was not only bitten by dogs and rats, but also blown up by his booby trap, and even the injuries on her forelimbs were caused by the fragments of his grenade.

The big cat was fighting anxiously, trying to escape the siege of these rats, but the alley was almost full of rats, and there was a rat king lurking among the rats.

As long as it relaxes its vigilance and reveals a flaw, the Rat King will use the cover of other rats to attack from a strange angle.

It also tried to escape, but unfortunately, due to the injury on its front paw, its speed was much slower. It could barely maintain the balance by concentrating on dealing with the attacks of the mice. Once it relaxed its offensive and tried to escape, it would be easy for the Rat King to find an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Its front paw, which was injured by the grenade, was bitten hard by the Rat King just now. Fortunately, Hakimi's reaction speed was seven times faster than Hakimi's. At the same time as its left front paw was injured, its right front paw hit the Rat King hard in the face.

The mouse must have felt bad after taking this blow.

However, the other side had so many younger brothers who surrounded it, and the big cat had no way to retreat.

"Meow"

The city is really my nemesis. I never want to go to the city again!
It thought desperately.

If I can survive, there will be a future.

He wearily bit a rat that tried to attack by surprise, piercing its sharp fangs into its skull, and shook his head violently, throwing the dead rat away.

The killing that was supposed to deter the rats now has no effect at all.

Help~
Someone come save the cat!

The mice in the alley suddenly made a frightened "squeak" sound, as if they heard the call in their hearts. Luke climbed over the wall, fell from the sky, and landed next to the big cat.

Because the effect of Breath of Connection had ended, it did not recognize Luke at first.

Huh?
Who is this person?

Oh, save my boy.

"Meow!"

(End of this chapter)