The Preparation Duration passed quickly. A few minutes later, the entire High-speed Rail station had fallen completely silent.
It would have been hard to say with their original sizes, but now that they had become rat-sized, hiding nineteen people was no problem.
As the Countdown on the Big Screen reached zero, three utterly ordinary-looking Calico Cats suddenly appeared inside the High-speed Rail station. They were not the Monsters Bai Zhi had imagined, just a few perfectly ordinary cats.
After appearing, the cats spread out on their own and began searching the High-speed Rail station. But everyone present was a shrewd veteran—how could they be found so easily?
Thus, several minutes passed, and the cats still found nothing.
Just as Bai Zhi was wondering where the difficulty of this Game lay, a Bell Sound suddenly rang out within the High-speed Rail station. As the sound faded, Bai Zhi watched with his own eyes as the Calico Cat pacing in the distance suddenly began undergoing cell division.
—A few seconds later, the Calico Cat split into two.
With the number of rats unchanged, the number of cats had doubled.
"...Three minutes."
"What?"
Turning her head, Tian Huo frowned at Bai Zhi.
"Every three minutes, the number of cats doubles. After fifteen minutes, the number of cats will surge to ninety-six. After thirty minutes, it will reach a terrifying three thousand and seventy-two."
Looking at the scene outside, Bai Zhi shrugged slightly.
"Although this Game seemingly hasn't given us a time limit, it will end in half an hour at most. Three thousand Calico Cats are enough to search every corner of this High-speed Rail station."
"Three thousand... that many?"
Tian Huo frowned.
"More than that. If the number of cats changes every time they catch a rat, the scale will only grow