Dispersed Encirclement and Picking Them Off One by One
Under the cover of night, the gale continued to howl, with yellow sand swirling across the sky. At that moment, Yellow Wind Ridge seemed like a sleeping giant, wildly rolling and wailing in the endless darkness.
Fortunately, the ravine where Annie was staying was not affected too much.
That was because it was a natural shelter from the wind. It lay in a canyon with low terrain, and more importantly, the weathered gobi cliffs around it blocked the wind. This created a negative-pressure zone that drew impurities such as sand and dust outward instead of letting them settle in the depression, so the windblown sand could not affect the area inside.
At that moment, in the campsite where the bonfire flickered, a tiny figure sat beside a large pot, eating heartily. She was intently gnawing on the food and huge chunks of meat inside, completely unaware that danger was quietly approaching.
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More than three hundred meters away, a hundred-strong army of rat demons had already approached without making a sound.
Most of them wore gray-brown leather armor, and greedy light flickered in their eyes.
Finally, when they came within roughly two hundred meters, the rat-demon army stopped.
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At the front of the formation stood the rat commandant. He was tall and powerfully built, and he held a curved saber in his hand. His hideous, double-headed form and four eyes fixed intently on the particularly conspicuous ravine and light in the night.
After watching for a while, the rat commandant waved his hand and ordered in a low voice:
"Go!"
"Scatter and form a pocket formation!"
"Split into eight groups and surround them!"
Although he had not seen that monkey, he was certain that the little