"Ms. Tina, look at this rat. It was still baring its teeth and trying to bite people, but even though we were right past the entrance, it only lingered at the doorway and refused to take another step inside. Isn't that strange?" Tra said, pointing at another rat that had just run over.
Like the previous rat, this one stopped at the entrance and refused to move forward, only baring its teeth and snarling at the people inside. If not for its blood-red eyes and enormous size, they might have thought the rats had turned good and stopped eating people!
The rat snarled at the people by the entrance while trying to step inside, yet it could not help pulling its paw back, as if hesitating. Everyone found this behavior rather strange.
Tina frowned as she looked at the rat. Was there something in this cave that rats feared, or something else that prevented them from going any farther?
However, after looking around, she found nothing unusual. The inside of the cave was empty and spacious, with nothing there at all, like a huge plaza.
"Ms. Tina, should we call everyone back first and move forward only after we've investigated everything in this cave?" Tra asked. Looking at the rat before him, he felt uneasy as well. He suspected there was some kind of monster in the cave that had scared the rats into refusing to enter.
Such enormous rats had come in packs before, yet they had been frightened into not daring to come in. That meant the monster in this cave was definitely far more terrifying than the rat swarm.
Tra had also examined the cave just now. Although he had found no problems, he still had a faint feeling of unease, which was why he made the