As the difficulty increased, those strengthened Calico Cats began wreaking havoc throughout the high-speed rail station. In less than a few minutes, several "rats" hiding inside water tanks were forced to scramble out in disarray.
But before they could get very far, they were caught by the mutated Calico Cats and stuffed whole into their mouths.
Amid several shrill screams and the blood spilling from the Calico Cats' mouths, the number of rats on the scene decreased, while several translucent boxes glowing with white light appeared where those rats had died.
—Bai Zhi's deduction had been correct. Items did indeed drop after the rats died.
"Don't risk going over there. We don't need the items."
Reaching out to hold back the restless Tian Huo, Bai Zhi shook his head.
"It won't take long. Give me one minute."
"One minute...?"
Tian Huo soon understood what this newcomer meant.
No one knew what the newcomer had done, but the Calico Cats in the station began undergoing another terrifying transformation. If they had merely looked somewhat more ferocious before, traces of elemental power now started rippling around them.
Frost, lightning, flames, flowing water, hurricanes...
Strengthened once again, they became even more unrestrained. The entire high-speed rail station was like Utter Chaos. Yet just as they were about to become even more terrifying, everything returned to its starting point as though someone had pressed a pause button.
The Rat Costumes on their bodies fell off automatically. The Calico Cats turned into white smoke one after another and vanished. As the bell signaling the end of the Game rang out, the entire high-speed rail station slowly returned to how it had been before.
"...Did you kill all those people?"
Suddenly thinking of something, Tian Huo looked up at Bai Zhi with a strange expression.
"Either