The ultimate master in the city

Chapter 81 Rats Cooking Women and Fox Bodies

The ceiling of the space was filled with phosphorescent stones emitting a faint blue light, and the light below was a strange, eerie blue. A group of upright-walking rats moved in and out of small houses made of toothbrushes and chopsticks, just like humans.

Zhou Fengchen and the other two looked away, feeling that everything looked blurry, and rubbed their eyes.

Monk Yuanzhi said, "Those toothbrushes look frayed; they must have been used by people. This is disgusting!"

Jiang Hao said, "Let's not worry about whether it's disgusting or not, okay? We don't know where Xiaoya and Qiqi are. How are we going to go in and find them?"

Monk Yuanzhi asked Zhou Fengchen, "There are already hundreds of rat demons visible, and who knows how many more haven't come out yet. Can we handle them?"

Zhou Fengchen thought about it and felt that he wasn't very confident. Even if he was fine, the two of them would be in serious trouble.

He pulled a box of diluted cinnabar from his pocket and whispered, "The three of us will have cinnabar marks drawn on our bodies to mask our human scent. Then we'll rush in through the door. See that row of strange grass on the left? We'll crawl into the grass and hide, waiting for our chance. Rats seem to sleep too, right? We'll make our move while they're asleep!"

The two monks, Yuanzhi and his companion, looked inside and, sure enough, there was a long, rectangular pile of yellow grass on the left.

Zhou Fengchen smeared cinnabar marks on the three of them, then made them take off their shoes to prevent them from making noise while stepping on chopsticks. He then peered through the crack in the door, and seeing that there were fewer rats nearby, he opened the door: "Go!"

The three of them crouched low and ran between the two huts containing chopsticks and toothbrushes, quickly disappearing into the yellow grass. As soon as they entered, they were hit by a foul odor, not knowing what it was, but they didn't care. They looked at each other, patted their chests, and felt incredibly excited.

The rat spirits outside didn't notice anything unusual and continued to wander around as if nothing was amiss, doing whatever they wanted.

The three of them squatted there for half an hour, peering out with shifty eyes for a long time until their eyes were sore. They didn't even see Chen Siya and the others, and the rat spirits showed no sign of going to sleep.

Zhou Fengchen lowered his voice and said, "This won't do. Let's go take a look next to that building. I feel that's the most crucial place."

The three of them hunched over and slowly moved inside. Just as they reached the small building, a piercing squeaking sound suddenly rang out from outside. The rat spirits seemed very excited.

The three exchanged a glance, all feeling surprised and wondering what had happened. They parted the grass and looked out, only to see thousands of rats of all sizes gathered in the open space in front of the small building, looking densely packed.

Four large iron pots were placed on a patch of muddy ground among the rats, with dry firewood burning underneath and water boiling inside.

The rats were holding something in their paws and throwing it into the pots in a line. Before long, all four large pots were full.

Soon the water boiled, the things that had been thrown in slowly melted, the soup thickened, and a strange aroma filled the air.

Monk Yuanzhi sniffed and said in a low voice, "It smells so good. Is this some kind of cooking? What kind of crazy routine do these rat spirits have? Eating in the middle of the night instead of sleeping."

Jiang Hao whispered, "Master, don't you have any common sense? Rats eat at night!"

Monk Yuanzhi became famous, saying, "You college students think you have common sense? We're less educated and less knowledgeable."

That's not what I meant!

"So what do you mean?"

Zhou Fengchen angrily said, "What time is it? You still have the leisure to argue?"

The two of them hesitated and fell silent.

Just then, the door of the small building suddenly opened, and dozens of rats as tall as a person carried out a sedan chair, on which sat a man who looked like a mountain of flesh!

It was truly a mountain of flesh, a huge, messy lump with fat drooping down, making it impossible to distinguish between the belly and the chest.

Strangely, its head was very small, with a pointed snout and monkey-like cheeks, and its small eyes darting around.

Monk Yuanzhi paused for a moment, then whispered to Jiang Hao, "Doesn't this thing look like the guardian spirit from your story? Only a bit bigger!"

Jiang Hao turned pale with fright and said, "Now that you mention it, it really does look like it!"

Zhou Fengchen sneered, "It's not just similar, it is! I just saw his spirit tablet at the cave entrance above. I suspect that this guardian spirit is actually a rat spirit from the Rat Cemetery, the predecessor of the Shen Family Compound. It came down the mountain to bewitch the Shen brothers, then made Shen Er return to build a house as a cover, and then took the opportunity to kill Shen Er's family. It dug a hole down there and is cultivating with a bunch of little rats!"

Monk Yuanzhi scratched his head and said, "This guardian spirit is really vicious... Wait a minute! If you calculate it this way, he must have at least several hundred years of cultivation. Brother... are you up to the task?"

Zhou Fengchen said, "It's not that it can't work, it's definitely going to work. He's been cultivating in the wrong place; he's only focused on eating. He's such a big lump of food, how can he move?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a deafening roar erupted outside. All the rats, big and small, lay prostrate on the ground, showing great reverence for this "Flesh Mountain Guardian Deity."

The guardian spirit let out a chilling, sinister laugh, then hummed twice.

A group of rats carried out four more wooden cages from inside the small building. Each cage contained a girl wrapped in white cloth, and it seemed they were going to throw them into a large pot to cook and eat them.

Zhou Fengchen stared intently into the cages and was instantly enraged. In the two cages behind were Chen Siya and Qi Qi, who were unconscious and their fate unknown.

Just as he was about to rush out, Monk Yuanzhi grabbed him. "Brother, don't rush! There are too many rats, it's going to be tough. I have an idea, what do you think?"

Zhou Fengchen gritted his teeth, "You speak!"

Monk Yuanzhi said, "Never mind whether it's become a spirit or not, all mice should be afraid of cats, right? I'm pretty good at ventriloquism, how about I try imitating a cat's meow?"

"You have this skill?" Zhou Fengchen asked urgently, "Hurry up and try it!"

Monk Yuanzhi cleared his throat, pursed his lips, and meowed, "Meow—meow—meow—"

I must say, their calls were incredibly lifelike.

The first sound sent chills down the spines of thousands of mice, big and small, outside. The second sound made them all tremble and lie down on the ground. When the third sound came, they rushed towards the chopsticks and toothbrush hut in a chaotic rush.

Soon, only four large pots and the "Flesh Mountain Guardian Spirit" remained on the spot, howling in panic.

Zhou Fengchen and Jiang Hao were dumbfounded.

"Holy crap..." Even Monk Yuanzhi himself hadn't expected such a miraculous effect!

Just then, a sudden jolt ran beneath them, and a woman's head, the size of a water vat, appeared on the yellow grass beside them. She was strikingly beautiful, with exquisite features, and stared down at them, saying in a sinister tone, "It's you two again! Does it feel good to be squatting on me?"

Zhou Fengchen yelled "Damn it!" "It's that old fox from the City God Temple! We've run into her! Get out of here!"

Too late!

The woman's head suddenly split open, and a row of jagged, sharp teeth snapped at her. Countless fox heads appeared from all directions, baring their teeth and biting at her.