Cold Storage Warehouse

After so many years of roaming the world—counting both his previous and current lives—Ye Bai had never seen anything this absurd.

Not only could the Thousand Changes Silkworm devour Crystal Cores to learn skills, it could even replace them with higher-tier skills of the same type.

The Steelize skill could make its entire body as hard as steel, greatly boosting its defensive capabilities. The Harden skill made its entire body rigid, increasing its defense.

Steelize was essentially the advanced version of Harden.

If Ye Bai had not possessed the Eye of Insight, he would never have noticed this subtle anomaly, much less discovered the Thousand Changes Silkworm's uniqueness.

If every skill could be replaced like this, then the Thousand Changes Silkworm would be insanely overpowered.

Ye Bai's heart pounded wildly, but the prerequisite was that the Thousand Changes Silkworm itself had to possess many skills.

"Thousand Changes Silkworm, use Steelize, then Roll."

A metallic gleam spread across the Thousand Changes Silkworm's body. When it curled into a ball and used the Rolling Skill, even the asphalt road was crushed into spiderweb-like cracks beneath it.

It slammed heavily into an iron fence, leaving the fence deeply dented and twisted out of shape.

"After using Steelize, the Thousand Changes Silkworm's defense increased severalfold, and its weight also rose severalfold. The force of its Rolling Skill's Ram became much stronger."

Ye Bai was quite satisfied with this.

Just then, a manhole cover shot into the air with a bang, and numerous Burrowing rats crawled out of the sewers.

"Strange. I clearly emailed the Pet Beast Guild. By all rights, the Burrowing rats should have been brought under control already."

"Why are there still so many Burrowing rats?"

Ye Bai could not make heads or tails of it.

Jiaying City's large Cold Storage Warehouse stood near the city's largest dock.

The Cold Storage Warehouse held an enormous quantity of frozen meat, enough to supply every resident of Jiaying City with meat for a month.

A cargo ship chugged to a stop beside the dock.

Quite a few people unloaded frozen meat from the cargo ship.

The dock instantly became bustling.

"Hurry up! We have to get our smuggled frozen goods into storage while Jiaying City is under lockdown!"

A thug wearing sunglasses and a gold chain around his neck shouted at everyone.

"Brother Long, I heard a Beast Tide has appeared here. It won't affect our business, will it?"

A bald man spoke to Brother Long, the thug.

He was somewhat worried about the Beast Tide's impact on Jiaying City.

Brother Long, with thick brows and large eyes, stared fixedly at his underling. "The timid starve to death; the bold eat until they burst."

"We can't suspend our business just because there's a Beast Tide."

"Besides, according to intelligence from my informant, the Beast Tide has already been brought under control."

"That's why we can use this opportunity to transport over several hundred tons of uninspected frozen goods from overseas."

"We'll use Jiaying City as our hub and distribute the frozen goods to other cities. As long as we fully move this batch, we'll earn at least ten million Alliance Coins this time."

"What's there to fear from a Beast Tide? What we fear most is having no business."

"I'd welcome a Beast Tide every day."

Brother Long burst into laughter. Just then, screams rang out from the cargo ship.

"What is this? Get away!"

"Help! Someone, help!"

"Burrowing rats! So many Burrowing rats!!!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Several gunshots rang out, then everything fell silent.

Brother Long gave his group of underlings a look, signaling for them to check what was happening.

The underlings swallowed nervously, grabbed the pistols hanging from their waists, and slowly approached the cargo ship step by step.

The moment they boarded, they saw countless red-eyed Burrowing rats gnawing on the sailors' corpses.

Their sharp teeth tore through flesh, producing chewing sounds that made one's blood run cold.

Blood Qi seeped from the Burrowing rats' bodies, forming corrosive Blood Mist.

Brother Long's underlings were instantly seized by terror. Just as they tried to leave, the Burrowing rats discovered them.

A string of screams abruptly rang out, and then the ship fell silent.

Brother Long heard the repeated screams, but he ultimately could not bear to abandon an entire shipload of goods.

So he gathered his courage, seized an AK47, and rushed aboard.

"Aren't they just some Burrowing rats?"

"I refuse to believe they can withstand bullets!"

The moment Brother Long reached the deck, he regretted it immediately.

As far as the eye could see, the cargo ship was packed thick with Burrowing rats.

They were using their sharp teeth to gnaw through the entire cargo ship.

Several holes had been bitten into the containers on board. The Burrowing rats dug out large quantities of frozen meat from them and began devouring it ravenously.

Many skeletons dressed in sailors' uniforms lay on the ground.

The bones were scattered everywhere.

The moment the Burrowing rats sensed the aura of a living person, they surged over with red eyes like a rising tide.

Brother Long raised the AK47 and fired wildly.

Bullets struck the Burrowing rats. Quite a few fell after being hit, but even more surged forward.

They seemed utterly unafraid of death as they bared their fangs and claws and pounced on Brother Long.

"Don't come over! Don't come over! Help!"

One Burrowing rat leaped onto the back of Brother Long's hand and savagely bit the hand holding his gun.

Brother Long felt a piercing pain shoot through his heart, and the gun in his hand was flung away.

Just as Brother Long tried to pick up the gun from the ground, the Burrowing rats surrounded him from every direction.

"Ahhh!"

Brother Long soon fell silent. Chewing sounds filled the scene. Before long, the Burrowing rats scattered with a crash, revealing a skeleton that had been gnawed completely clean.

Even the thick gold chain on the skeleton had been devoured by the Burrowing rats.

The skull stared blankly at the sky covered in dark clouds.

Jiaying City's patrolling drones quickly discovered the anomaly and reported it to the Jiaying City Pet Beast Guild.

Bang.

Wang Jinyin slammed his hand heavily onto the desk. He was furious.

He had only managed to stop the Beast Tide by following the clues in that email. Yet despite guarding against every possibility, there were still reckless people who had taken advantage of the gap to smuggle frozen goods.

The Beast Tide that had originally been brought under control now showed signs of rising from the ashes.

"Bad news, President. According to our investigation, this ship stored several hundred tons of 'Zombie Meat.' Once the Burrowing rats obtain large amounts of flesh and blood, they will grow rapidly and quickly advance into second-tier Berserk Blood Rats."

"The large Cold Storage Warehouse near the dock contains enormous quantities of frozen goods. If the Burrowing rats find it, the consequences will be unthinkable."

"Jiaying City will face a catastrophe of annihilation."

"We must immediately send people to stop them."

The secretary's face went pale in an instant. She understood the severity of the situation.

I obviously never wrote the protagonist as a simp, okay~