Chapter 55: Rat Competition

Gray Hair is a mouse.

According to human calculations, it should be 3 years old this year, which makes it a long-lived mouse.

The reason why it can have such a long life is not only because it is born smart and has avoided many attacks from humans and wild cats, but also because of the good management of the One-Eared King. Different areas of the city are divided among different rat groups, and everyone lives in peace and develops peacefully. They are no longer like their ancestors, who fought for territory every day even when there was food to feed all the rats.

Rat has really lucked out at the right time in his life.

Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long.

The One-Eared King had ruled the prosperous Central Kingdom for so long, but unexpectedly, just a month ago, a group of barbarians came from the barren land outside the center.

That group of foreign rats had no rules at all and were extremely vicious. As soon as they arrived here, they attacked and slaughtered two large groups of rats. Not only did they steal their territory, they also ate the corpses of the rats.

In addition to these crimes, they often attacked the giants without authorization. Originally, under the constraints of the One-eared King, the rats had reached a certain degree of peace with the giants, but recently due to the behavior of the barbarian rats, the giants have begun to indiscriminately kill all rats.

For this reason, the One-Eared King called on all the tribes to attack this group of barbarians, only to discover that the leader of the other side was actually a giant rat that was even more powerful than the king.

Not only that, even the small leaders under the opposing leader are super rats with extraordinary strength.

In that battle, the rats under the One-Eared King were killed all over the ground and suffered heavy losses.

In order to protect the mice's retreat, the One-Eared King took action angrily and fought with the barbarian leader.

The two rats fought so hard that the sky was dark and the sun and moon lost their light, and the road was almost wiped out.

Although the barbarian leader was powerful, he seemed injured and his fighting power was damaged. The One-Eared King barely forced him back, thus preserving some of his manpower. He ceded nearly half of his territory and retreated to the territory in the center of the city.

Although a temporary peace was reached, the barbarian rats' wolfish ambitions were known to all rats, and both sides were just recuperating and waiting for the right time.

And during this brief peace, there were still intermittent low-intensity frictions between the two forces.

Today, the descendants of the barbaric rats have crossed the border without permission to provoke us. This is intolerable!
The rat tribe where Gray Hair belongs immediately mobilizes all the war rats, determined to fight the enemy to the death!
Although Grayhair was old and frail, he still responded to the tribe's conscription order and followed the young mice to embark on the journey to fight against the barbarians.

Unfortunately, it was old after all and could not keep up with the pace of the young mice. It was completely left behind after only half of the journey. However, although it was no longer physically strong, it had much more experience than the young mice. It still followed the traces and smells left by the army of mice in front and slowly caught up.

Always able to arrive.

"Brother, please stay. Where are you going?"

As he was following the trail, Gray Hair suddenly heard someone calling him. The voice was a little weird, and the accent sounded a bit like those barbarians, but the weirdest thing was that the volume was too loud, and it didn't sound like something an ordinary mouse could make.

He looked in the direction of the sound, only to find that the source of the sound was actually a giant spirit?
This giant can actually speak rat language!
One-eared King! What a miracle!

The unanimous consensus among the Rat Tribe is that the Djinn are irritable, generous, and arrogant creatures.

The reason why they are irritable is that when they see rats, they will often make sharp noises and take attacking postures.

Their generosity lies in the fact that the food they casually discarded was an endless resource to feed the One-Ear Kingdom. Without these giants, the One-Ear Kingdom would not have prospered. Their arrogance lies in their contempt for rats. Even in the history of the One-Ear Kingdom, no giant had ever communicated with rats.

And now, this giant spirit actually took the initiative to talk to him. This giant spirit can actually speak!

Amazing!

Grayhair was so frightened that his pupils trembled. He stood there in a daze, with his long, thin tail curled up tightly.

Before it could reply to Luke's message, a gigantic monster that looked extremely terrifying and ferocious fell from the sky, landed on the giant, and uttered an indescribable whisper.

Monster!
These are the natural enemies of the Rat Kingdom. They are rat-eating monsters, killers who come and go without a trace, and the ultimate murderers who enjoy torturing and taking rats’ lives for fun!

Of course, some well-informed rats say that these monsters are just pets raised by the giants, but this view does not have such a large market. After all, it is illogical for the giants to raise rats and also raise monsters that specialize in hunting rats.

"Why are you squeaking? Do you still want to chat with this mouse?" The big cat remembered that these days in the city, some people would meow and meow non-stop when they saw her, which was no different from what Luke was doing now.

"I just want to talk to him." Looking at the gray mouse that was frightened by the big cat, Luke waved his hand, "You scared it, go away first, and come out after I finish asking questions."

Seeing that Luke looked serious and didn't seem to be talking nonsense, the big cat nodded, leaped to the side with all his strength, and in an instant hid in the blind spot of the gray-haired mouse along the corner of the wall.

Luke squatted down and asked the mouse again, "Why are you in such a hurry? What's the big deal?"

Grayhair stroked his beard with his front paws to calm down a little. Facing the giant whose temperament he didn't know, he didn't dare to lie, and replied cautiously: "The barbarians are invading, and I will go with the army."

What the hell?

Luke was confused. Is there anything wrong with my "rat language"? Did I hear it right? Do the rats in your other world also play such a big game?

There are armies and barbarians. So, are you also the great China?
So, under Luke's questioning, Gray Hair briefly described the great changes that had taken place in the One-Ear Kingdom recently.

Luke understood now that the rats in Fort Lauderdale were governed by the Rat King named "One Ear" and obeyed his orders. The so-called barbarians were the Plague Assassin and his rat descendants.

After being chased by Penny all the way to Fort Lauderdale, the Plague Assassin obviously set his eyes on this wealthy land and wanted to take it over.

The current situation is that [Plague Assassin] has a great advantage, and One Ear is barely resisting with the advantage of its local location and the number of rats, but the overall situation is always not good.

After briefly sorting out the current situation in his mind, Luke suddenly had a clear idea in his mind.

A transcendent will only experience a qualitative change when he reaches level 3. Before that, he can only be considered to have some special abilities. After all, a mouse is just a mouse. Even if it is a level 2 mouse, it is easy for Luke to get rid of it.

The difficulty lies in how to find it.

Now, here comes a shortcut to solving the problem.

(End of this chapter)