Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1121: Chapter 669: Bloodline Suppression

The family members who had originally planned to enjoy themselves in the Fourth District turned serious as soon as they heard there was something important, and they rushed to the lower third area.

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In the dark sewer, two rats that had just escaped from the alley were crawling quickly.

Underneath the Fifth District, an uncountable number of rats were transporting flesh back and forth. In the central area, countless pink rat pups were crawling on the ground, frantically gnawing on the food the rats brought back.

There were large and small rats. The large ones were the first batch to breed, while the smaller ones were more agile.

This nascent group was propagating at an unimaginable speed. The Rat King was not blindly invading the surface; each of its actions was carried out with a plan: only plundering the most hidden food, keeping as low a profile as possible before humans discovered them, and waiting for a better opportunity.

The Rat King seemed well aware that it could not yet contend with the power of the surface humans and that the population size would be its greatest advantage.

Beside the black coffin, the Rat King pulled out the last arm from it and began gnawing, the sound of teeth chewing on bone exceptionally eerie.

The two rats ran up to it, squeaking incessantly. The Rat King listened for a moment and was surprised that the humans in the lower third area had run to other areas.

Was it deliberate against them, or a coincidence?

The Rat King’s eyes revealed a hint of wisdom.

At this moment, the Rat King suddenly emitted a sharp squeak.

A mutation occurred.

Smaller rats climbed onto the larger ones and began gnawing. The larger rats stayed put, allowing the colony to consume them as if they were already the granary prepared by the Rat King for the group.

The rat’s greatest advantage was definitely not its strength but its size, which allowed it to freely enter and exit anywhere: pipes, wall cracks, sewers, they could even crawl out from toilet bowls.

So, those large-sized rats were essentially defective products in the group’s reproduction, destined to be replaced by the newly evolved rats sooner or later.

Now, the Rat King felt the urgency of time, needing to implement a more aggressive plan.

The breeding speed had to be faster, and the speed of plundering food had to be faster too, no longer slowly searching for food but raising it.

After feeding, the rat group began gathering towards the sewers of the Fourth District. They located the building where Li Chao died, then climbed upwards through the pipes.

They crowded in the sewer, terrifyingly overflowing like a flood.

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Inside the Dream Mansion of the Fourth District.

A middle-aged man was sitting on the toilet, looking at his phone. On the news, a female anchor was reporting: “At 8 PM tonight, a reporter captured a middle-aged female celebrity with the last name Zhou dining with a young male star. That night, both returned to a mansion in the Third District, suspected of an extramarital affair.”

The middle-aged man watched with great interest, casually searching for more news and photos about this female celebrity.

However, at that moment, a sound of water came from the toilet beneath him.

The middle-aged man froze for a moment, and the next second, he cried out in agony, clutching his butt and jumping up in fury.

He wanted to find something inside his body, but the unknown terror kept tunneling inside him, biting away at any internal organs it could break down.

In his agony, the middle-aged man looked down, even seeing a bulge the size of a palm moving constantly in his stomach.

Blood flowed incessantly between his legs.

Slowly, the middle-aged man fell to the ground, his eyes staring blankly.

Who knows how long had passed when a small mouse pushed open his mouth and crawled out.

The little mouse surveyed the room, confirmed there was no other human, and then squeaked towards the toilet.

Soon after, countless mice crawled out from the toilet.

Suddenly, a knocking sound came from outside the door, and someone shouted loudly: “What kind of ghostly wailing in the middle of the night? Are we not allowed to sleep?”

Hundreds of mice inside the room collectively paused their actions. Only after the knocking stopped did they resume sharing the food.

The rats had an extremely clear division of labor. They piled up in large numbers, allowing some to enter the ventilation duct, while others drilled back into the toilet.

Finally, some continuously transported the corpse inside the room back to the dark sewer.

This Dream Mansion was about to fall, becoming the third stronghold for the rat colony, with all the humans in the building becoming fodder for the rats.

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Morning.

On the 81st floor of Dream Mansion, a young man awoke to strange noises in the morning and walked out of his bedroom, discovering nothing: “Dad? Mom?”

As usual, at this time, his mother should already be up cooking, and his father should be at the dining table watching the Federation’s morning political news.

However, the living room was empty, with no one around.

He turned on the TV, where the holographic projection was broadcasting his father’s favorite news channel.

The young man felt something was off, knocked on his parents’ bedroom door, but no one answered.

He turned the doorknob, and with a click, the door opened.

The young man saw two people covered by a quilt on the bed, his parents seemed to still be sleeping?

He intended to quietly leave the room, but strange noises emanated from under the quilt.

The young man hesitated, then walked to the bed, gently lifted the quilt, only to find it was teeming with rats writhing inside, and his parents had long become skeletons, with the blood staining the sheets red.

“Ah!!!” The young man screamed hoarsely, the scene too horrifying, shattering his mind entirely.

He felt unable to think, as if a massive mountain was pressing down on his chest, making it impossible to breathe.

In an instant, when the quilt was lifted, countless rats pounced on him, quickly drowning him in a gray tide.

In the holographic news projection, a female anchor was smilingly saying, “In seven days, the Fourth District of City 10 will welcome the grand 127th Boxing King Championship, the most beloved event by Federal people. It is reported that Boxing King Ah Fan from City 18 will compete here against Boxing King Gu Zheng from City 10. There has always been a rumor among civilians that the two are at odds, with many comparing the two. Now, everyone can finally find out who is the true King. By then, the Fourth District Boxing Stadium will welcome a crowd of ten thousand to cheer for them!”

In front of the holographic projection, among the writhing gray rat swarm, a few rats with dark skins silently watched.

After watching the news, they exchanged a glance, immediately drilling back into the sewer through the toilet as if to bring this message back underground.

On this day, the Parents’ Meeting suddenly acted as if facing a formidable enemy, starting a new round of rat eradication and prevention special actions.

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A five-thousand-word chapter, another chapter before 11 PM

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