However, the long procession wound this way and that through the maze-like Underground Tunnel, while the light around them grew dimmer and dimmer.
The carbon dioxide exhaled by hundreds and thousands of people made the air stagnate, like a Thousand Jin Boulder pressing down on everyone's hearts.
Meng Chao grew more puzzled with every step.
This didn't seem like an exit?
He had infiltrated an Underground Tunnel before.
From the flow of the air, as well as the scent of the wilderness drifting in from the end of the Underground Tunnel, he could judge the general direction of the exit.
Yet the air in this passage was like a fetid swamp, utterly stagnant. He could not sense even the faintest ripple stirred by a breeze.
Sure enough, before long, massive boulders appeared ahead, sealing off the path.
There was no road ahead.
Other than the way they had come, the other three sides were walls as hard as iron.
The crowd immediately panicked.
Someone could not help but start sobbing.
Several Rat God Envoys mixed into the crowd shouted, "Don't panic, everyone! Kneel and pray to the Great Horned Rat God! As long as our faith is devout enough, the Great Horned Rat God will surely save us!"
Led by them, the bewildered ratfolk all knelt.
Meng Chao and Ice Storm exchanged a glance and assumed the same posture as the ratfolk.
But Ice Storm's face was full of suspicion. Lowering her head, she mouthed a question to Meng Chao, "What the hell is this? Are you sure this is the way out?"
Meng Chao's thoughts raced, and he instantly ruled out the possibility that they had deliberately been left here to die.
Because this group included many strong, healthy adult ratfolk.
Quite a few had blood from Bloodhoof Warriors