Squeak~
Faint, sporadic sounds drifted out one after another from deep within the pile of corpses, growing ever denser and noisier.
Lu Feng and Ning Xiang's expressions both tightened as they sensed trouble.
"Master~ Quick~ the Lingering Fragrance Gu Bead~"
Ning Xiang called out urgently. Her experience in the Poisonous Centipede Tomb had made her far more guarded.
Lu Feng understood at once. The moment Ning Xiang finished speaking, the Lingering Fragrance Gu Bead was already in his hand.
This pearl that he had "swindled" from Gu Yuchen contained an extraordinary medicinal fragrance and was quite effective at driving away and warding off snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
Catching that familiar scent, Ning Xiang's expression eased somewhat. Before this, they had relied on this very pearl to pass through the Poisonous Centipede Tomb.
Yet the little black shadows that poked their heads out from the corpse piles one after another were not poisonous centipedes.
They were palm-sized, rat-like creatures, with long incisors and large ears. If not for their thin, lengthy tails, they might almost have resembled rabbits.
But though these creatures looked like rabbits, they were ferocious to the extreme. A few of them began gnawing on the skeletons right in front of Lu Feng and Ning Xiang.
Those hard bones did not even last a single exchange beneath the rodents' sharp teeth before being bitten full of holes.
As he watched strands of phosphorescence spill from the broken skeletons and get swept into the rodents' mouths,
Lu Feng recognized what these creatures were. They should be the Phosphorus Devouring Rats mentioned in the Records of the Strange.
Phosphorus Devouring Rats commonly lived in places littered with corpses. They fed upon Corpse Phosphorous produced through the decay of cadavers. They were relatively weak in attack and held great fear