The dark, swarming mass of rats did not seem endless, stretching across the entire highway and extending about a hundred meters in length. With each rat-beast measuring thirty centimeters long, this swarm surely contained tens of thousands of monsters, making it a relatively small rat tide. Even a warrior at the Commander level could be devoured and killed by it!
Therefore, Luo Feng had only one choice…
“Run!” Luo Feng immediately sprinted along the highway.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~”
Wandong and the other two had already discarded their weapons and shields, running frantically. The rat swarm behind them kept drawing closer, reducing the distance from twenty meters to fifteen, then fourteen, thirteen…
“Damn it!”
“Where the hell is the army!”
“If they don’t come soon, we’re really going to die.”
Wandong and his companions cursed inwardly, gritting their teeth as they accelerated, slightly increasing the distance to over thirty meters. Only then did Wandong and the other two slightly decelerate.
“I can’t run anymore.”
“Me neither.”
Wandong exchanged glances with his companions, all of them feeling helpless and utterly drained. Their top sprinting speed far surpassed that of the swarming rats. Yet, such velocity was inherently unsustainable! It was akin to humans before the Great Nirvana Era—covering a hundred meters in ten seconds was deemed an extraordinary feat.
A hundred meters in ten seconds.
But what about a thousand meters? Could it be done in 100 seconds?
Ten thousand meters? Could it be achieved within a thousand seconds? In truth, prior to the Great Nirvana Era, the men’s 10,000-meter world record stood at roughly 1,580 seconds.
These warriors were the same. Wandong and his companions could instantly reach a speed of 60 meters per second, but they had already been fleeing for nearly half an hour and were now barely able to maintain a speed of 40 meters per second! Once the rat swarm approached, they would desperately push themselves to run even faster!
Wandong and his companions had already run nearly 150 kilometers by now, making it easy to imagine how exhausted they were.
“Army, come quickly.”
“It’s so close to the military base. Why hasn’t the army arrived yet?” Wandong and his companions felt their legs go numb, their muscles extremely fatigued, making it hard for them to pick up speed.
Luo Feng, carrying his sword, shield, and other equipment, maintained an astonishing speed of sixty meters per second, swiftly moving forward. After all, Wandong and his companions had expended a lot of energy, while Luo Feng was still in peak condition!
Originally, Luo Feng had a large distance separating him from the rat swarm, and soon he was far ahead.
“Ah?” Luo Feng noticed a deep blue shadow approaching from the distant horizon. At first glance, it seemed like a flying beast, but as the deep blue flying object drew closer, Luo Feng finally recognized it. It was a flat, circular flying war machine shaped like a flying saucer!
Nowadays, most military flying war machines were flat and circular because this shape was advantageous for defense and offense when encountering attacks from flying beasts in the air.
“The army!”
“It’s an army war machine!” Wandong and his companions, exhausted to the extreme, actually let out excited howls, and their speeds suddenly surged again.
Running, Luo Feng also stopped and looked up, watching as this flying war machine dove toward the beast swarm. When it was still a hundred meters from the ground, the flying machine hovered directly above the swarm. With Luo Feng’s vision, he clearly saw the war machine’s belly revealing a massive cannon barrel.
“Boom~~~”
Endless, scorching flames erupted from the cannon barrel, directly covering the rat swarm below. The intense heat, likely reaching thousands of degrees, instantly set the rat beasts ablaze and burned them to death. The once orderly rat swarm completely collapsed, filled with cries of terror as they scattered and fled.
However, under the flames, the majority of the rat beasts were burned to death, while some fled into the barren fields beside the highway, burrowing underground and disappearing from sight.
“Four warriors, there are level-three rat swarms erupting within a thousand miles around you. Please return to the supply base quickly. There’s no need to enter the wilderness area until the rat swarm alert is lifted.” A voice came from the flying war machine, after which it quickly flew away to rescue other warriors.
Wandong and his companions let out a long sigh of relief.
“We’ve saved our lives.”
“Just a little longer, and we would have been done.” The three of them were extremely tired.
“Luo Feng.” Wandong couldn’t help but call out to the distance, “Got any food? Give us something! Drink?”
Luo Feng also smiled as he approached from afar. The Wandong before him was no longer the cold and somber figure of the past—now, only exhaustion and the relief of surviving a life-and-death ordeal remained. Running nearly 150 kilometers in one go, especially in a desperate escape, was an utterly draining feat.
Luo Feng reached into the side pocket of his backpack and pulled out a small pouch, retrieving three pills. “These are high-energy glucose tablets,” he said, then added, “Oh, and here’s a water pouch too.”
As soon as Luo Feng handed it over, Wan Dong and the other two immediately swallowed a high-energy sugar pill each, and the water from the canteen was quickly divided and drunk.
“Luo Feng, thank you,” Wan Dong said gratefully. “Let me introduce you. The one beside me is Wang Ke, and the other is Jiang Tu.”
“I’ve long heard of Madman Luo,” said the handsome Wang Ke with a smile.
“Luo Fengzi, your high-energy candy is even better than a feast. I was starving, but now I feel much better.” Jiang Tu, with his thick beard, chuckled heartily.
Luo Feng and Wan Dong walked side by side, chatting as they went.
“How did you encounter the rat tide? That flying fighter mentioned a Level 3 rat tide?” Luo Feng’s county was too close to the military base, so he hadn’t personally experienced the rat tide.
“I finally witnessed the true horror of the rat tide,” Wan Dong couldn’t help but exclaim. “We were resting on the rooftop of a residential building in a small town when suddenly, countless rat beasts emerged from the ground all over the town—it was truly an endless sea! Terrified, we immediately used steel wires to escape from one rooftop to another, not daring to set foot on the ground at all!”
Luo Feng was startled, fully able to envision the terrifying scene of countless rodent-like beasts swarming across the surface of an entire county town.
Fortunately, our team was on the outskirts of the county town. Gritting our teeth, we desperately sprinted along a path with relatively fewer rat-beasts!
On the journey, we were suddenly swarmed by a tide of rats. With no other choice, our squad had to split up and run, forcing the rat tide to divide! We were among the lucky ones—we managed to reach the highway outside, pursued only by a small wave of the vermin. During our desperate escape, Wang Ke and I also ran into that bastard Jiang Tu. His ordeal was much the same as ours.
Wan Dong forced a bitter smile and said, “I wonder how the captain and the others are doing now.”
In the streets and alleys, they dared to split up and run, forcing the tide of rats to divide and chase them. But on the highway, they didn’t dare—because beyond the highway lay barren fields and wilderness. In such open terrain, human running speed would inevitably drop. Yet, the natural environment of the wild had little effect on the speed of the rat beasts.
This is also why everyone only travels on the highways and never ventures into the wilderness.
……
Luo Feng and the other three arrived at the martial artist supply base in the military district, where a large crowd of warriors had gathered at the entrance.
“Madman, I knew you wouldn’t die.”
“Madman, are you in County 0231? Have you seen Old Liu and the others?”
Entering the supply base, many warriors who recognized Luo Feng came over to inquire and greet him. After all, a rat tide outbreak was an extremely dangerous event. Fortunately, this time it was only a “Level Three Rat Tide,” which wasn’t too devastating. If it had been the legendary Level One Rat Tide, it would have been nothing short of a catastrophe for the entire Jiangnan Base City!
“Old Wang, has my team leader and the others returned?” Wan Dong immediately went to ask.
“I didn’t see it.”
“Your captain and the others haven’t returned. There’s no record here.”
……
Today was destined to be a sorrowful day for the supply base. Many warriors out in the field lost their lives on this day. Even among the three War God-level warriors who ventured into the wilderness today, one was tragically engulfed by an endless tide of rats, drowning in a boundless sea of the rodent swarm.
The relentless, frenzied onslaught of the rat tide… actually killed a War God!
Yes, today, a divine warrior of mankind has fallen!
The tide of rats wasn’t just composed of beast-level rat monsters—there were also general-level creatures among them. The leaders of the rat tide possessed extremely high intelligence, and once they set their sights on a target, they would stop at nothing! It’s said that during the human War God’s desperate struggle, dozens of towering buildings were destroyed and collapsed as a result. The number of rat monsters that perished in the process likely exceeded a million.
Unfortunately, over a million rat-beasts were nothing compared to the endless tide of billions.
Therefore…
The God of War has fallen!
“Boom~~~” Dark clouds rolled across the sky as howling winds swept the land. Thunder rumbled intermittently, until with one final deafening crack, the heavens opened and torrential rain poured down.
On the rooftop terrace of a townhouse at the supply base, Luo Feng sat on the veranda.
“Captain, I’m fine. Got lucky. Didn’t get surrounded by the rat tide.”
“Brother Chen, um, I’m fine.”
“Brother Tie, haha, you can hear my voice. Of course I’m alive and kicking.”
Luo Feng answered several calls in succession. It was clear that news of the Level Three Rat Tide occurring in the surrounding area had already spread among the numerous warriors within Jiangnan Base City. Every time a Rat Tide—or the even more terrifying Ant Tide—erupted, human warriors suffered heavy casualties. This time, the fall of a human War God was an even greater loss for the entire Jiangnan City.
“A mere Level Three Rat Tide, and so many have perished.”
“What about the legendary first-tier rat tide?”
“And what about the even more terrifying wars between humans and monsters from the legends?”
The war between monsters and humans is a clash of civilizations, a battle between two races! Once the war begins, there will be endless tides of beasts—creatures of all kinds, from land to sky. There are those that rely on speed, those with immense strength, burrowing terrors, venomous fiends, winged predators, and even those that strike with sonic waves…
The sky was blotted out by countless winged beasts, while the earth teemed with monstrous creatures. Even beneath the soil, tunneling horrors writhed, and the lakes churned with aquatic abominations.
Rat tides, ant tides, and the like are merely a fraction of it.
This is the most terrifying war!
“Monsters are the true mortal enemies of humanity. Nowadays, the oceans belong entirely to the beasts, while on land, humans hold a slight advantage. In the skies, the monsters reign supreme! Humanity is forced into defensive counterattacks within their fortified city-bases!” Luo Feng had never truly realized this before—he always thought monsters were merely prey for warriors to slaughter. But today, he finally understood…
It is entirely possible for monsters to wipe out humanity from the face of the Earth.
If humanity perishes, what is there to say about parents and loved ones, what is there to say about culture and morality?
“My strength is still lacking, far from enough.” Luo Feng’s gaze lingered on the boundless horizon.
Boom!
Snap!
Thunder roared, and from time to time, a bolt of lightning would cleave directly from the heavens.
“Lightning and thunder…” Luo Feng gazed at the distant flashes in the sky, sensing something profound stirring within him.
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