The Transcendents who were leaping desperately between skyscrapers and racing over to provide support witnessed an unbelievable scene.
Originally, hundreds of manholes scattered throughout the district had been continuously spewing black torrents—the horrifying tide formed by countless rodent beasts carrying deadly viruses and Blood Pattern Flower Spores.
The Rat Tide was simply too violent and dense. No matter how fiercely the Transcendents on the ground fought back, they could not completely block these stormy waves that seeped through every crack.
Many Transcendents had been scratched and bitten by the feral rats, forcing them to inject large amounts of Frozen Inhibitor Agent into their bodies.
Though it temporarily halted the invasion of the virus and Blood Pattern Flower Spores, it also stiffened their muscles, dulled their reactions, and temporarily robbed them of their combat strength.
In quite a few places, the Rat Tide gushing out of the manholes had even piled up into bulges two or three meters high.
The black bulges were like grotesquely swollen tumors, expanding and contracting as though they possessed evil life.
From their lofty vantage points, the reinforcements observing the situation could easily imagine how many casualties would result when these bulges burst one after another, scattering even more feral rats into the dense crowds.
Yet as rolling thunder-like chains of explosions erupted from underground, streams of blazing fire shot violently out from the depths of the manholes, instantly engulfing the bulges and tides composed of thousands upon thousands of feral rats above them.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
They were like red lotus fireworks blooming throughout the streets and alleys.
Countless feral rats struggled, howled, and screamed amid the blazing red lotus flames.
Even the Blood Pattern Flower Spores inside their bodies extended tender fleshy shoots, waving them futilely before dancing madly into ash alongside the rodent