Chapter 16: Exploring the Rat Hole

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Soon, Luo Fan arrived at the entrance to the hole.

The hole was half a meter high. At this moment, Luo Fan was less than 30 centimeters tall, with the height of the octopus limbs included. This hole was still relatively high for him.

Cheering himself on, Luo Fan proceeded to explore the hole.

After having come back from the dead, Luo Fan had understood, after this ordeal, that only by making himself strong could he resist the dangers of the outside world.

If he continued to hide and run, he would eventually be eliminated. In order to evolve, he was willing to take the risk.

Moreover, this time, he only wanted to explore the situation inside. If necessary, he would not get into a conflict with the rats.

Hence, the huge eyeball crawled into the rat hole.

Instantly, everything before the eye became dark.

The store was impervious to light, and very dark.

And this rat hole was deep, so deep that one could not see the bottom.

At this moment, Luo Fan could not help but be a little frightened. This dark rat hole was obviously very dangerous.

Furthermore, he was not used to exploring caves.

However, after some thought, Luo Fan still went down.

After all, he was not someone to be trifled with now, and the rats might be even more afraid of him.

Luo Fan dragged the eyeball and crawled into the dark hole. The entire world turned dark.

The space shrank, giving one a feeling of suffocation.

He went all the way down.

“The rat hole had also become larger with the mutation of the rats.”

Luo Fan felt that he had already walked more than 30 meters, but he still could not find the main nest of the rats.

“I must be very far away from the supermarket by now, and about five or six meters underground. I can no longer feel the aridity caused by the flames.”

Luo Fan discerned as he continued to climb down.

The rat hole was a downward slope, and the further he walked, the further away he was from the surface.

After advancing for tens of meters, Luo Fan finally came into contact with a vast field.

However, it was pitch-black around him, and he could not see anything. He could sense himself coming out of the narrow cave with the sense of touch from his intestines.

As for how vast this place was, Luo Fan could not sense it.

“If only it could glow, I would be able to see the surrounding scenery.”

The surrounding darkness made him very miserable.

Level-3 eyeball cells could generate heat, but they did not have the ability to produce light.

At this moment, he could only rely on his eight intestines to slowly explore his surroundings.

Luo Fan’s body moved, and his eight intestines felt their way around the space like a mine squad.

In this dark and vast underground world, a large eyeball was feeling the ground continuously with its organs.

“There should be something here. Since this is where the rats lived, why is it so empty? Is this not the nest of the mutant rats? Have I made a wrong guess?”

“And there shouldn’t be any mutant rats here. I haven’t sensed any sound since I came here. Since there are rats, they will definitely make some noise.”

Luo Fan was still speculating when…

His eight intestines suddenly touched something.

It was a little sticky, a little hard, and a little moist.

The intestines touched it, feeling the area around that thing.

It seemed like a branch, but it was very smooth…

“Hmm? This isn’t a bone, right?”

Luo Fan was suddenly surprised and continued to feel it, further confirming his guess.

And it seemed to be a human bone.

Luo Fan hurriedly continued to explore further down, and in the end, he felt some bones again.

“It is indeed a human corpse!”

He was shocked. Moreover, this person’s corpse was very intact.

This city had experienced a big fire, but the corpse here was very moist. There was still rotten flesh on the bones, which was still stuck to the bones.

This was why Luo Fan felt moisture and stickiness.

“This human corpse must have been dragged into this rat hole before the fire. Otherwise, there could not have been moisture after the fire. It seems that this place is not simple!”

Luo Fan retracted his intestines and continued forward.

As he was exploring, he discovered a problem with himself.

“Now that I have the spiked tails, the needle-like mouthpiece on my intestines appear redundant. Furthermore, my size has increased, so I definitely won’t absorb rotten meat in the future. Such a mouthpiece will be difficult for hunting food.”

“When I have the time, I’ll have to change the mouthpieces to a more convenient form.”

Luo Fan thought about his physical structure as he continued to explore.

He had just walked a short distance when his intestines touched another human corpse.

“A second one. It looks like there are many human corpses here.”

Luo Fan did not hesitate for long. After discovering the corpse, he continued forward.

Soon, he discovered a third, a fourth…

The place was dim and dark, and he could not see anything.

Otherwise, Luo Fan would have definitely seen the densely packed human corpses lying in this flat space.

Even so, Luo Fan could already feel the densely packed corpses here by relying on his own senses.

“Why are these corpses here?”

One possibility was that these people were the corpses outside, before the fire burned, and had been dragged here by these rats.

There was another possibility, which was that the rats had dragged them in alive and killed them.

Luo Fan was leaning toward the first possibility. If it was the second, it would be too terrifying.

Moreover, if it was the second possibility, there should be many more rats here, and there should not be none in sight.

Luo Fan searched around again and finally found that the only thing in the entire space was the ground full of corpses.

“Could it be that there were only those two mutant rats that I have killed in this rat hole?”

He could not help but wonder if the two rats were the cause of so many corpses.

“Those two rats were not powerful. How could they have gotten so many corpses?”

“No! There must be other passageways.”

It was impossible for a rat hole to be singular. Immediately, Luo Fan started to feel the surrounding walls.

Not surprisingly, he found another passage on one side of the wall.

“Indeed, there is another passageway here.”

Luo Fan crawled in and started to explore the second space of this rat hole.

As soon as he entered the passageway and had walked for about a hundred meters, Luo Fan’s intestines felt a faint tremor.

This meant that there were living creatures ahead.

“There are still many rats living in this rat hole.”

He became careful and slowed down.

In the end, the vibrations became more and more intense.

“No, there are too many rats.”

From the frequency of the vibrations, there should be at least ten mutant rats ahead.

“If I were to barge in rashly, I’d definitely be shredded into pieces in an instant.”

Worried, Luo Fan stopped his advance.

“I need to lure the rats out and defeat them one by one. However, reality is not a game. It is impossible to lure the rats out one by one.”

“I need to go back and arm myself before exploring this place. I remember that inside the supermarket, there should still be some weapons.”

Then, Luo Fan started to return the way he had come.

After determining the number of enemies, he began to make preparations to kill them..