New Food Has Appeared! Charge!

In front of the West District Abandoned Mine Pit.

After a world-shattering explosion, the sky seemed to rain dust, and occasionally small, scorching gravel hit the onlookers, eliciting "Ao Chi" screams and coughs.

Only Li Wei and his Gnoll Miner Group remained motionless, watching the mountains collapse before them.

But Li Wei did not rush in with the miners immediately, as doing so would likely result in deaths, and deaths due to foolishness.

As a gentle breeze of air convection swept through, carrying away the vast amount of dust in the air, a circular tunnel with a diameter of over ten feet appeared before everyone.

What was truly shocking was that the cliff walls around the tunnel had turned into a liquid, vitreous state due to the high temperature caused by the sudden appearance of the Great Fireball. At the very bottom, a pool of molten magma had accumulated, emitting a daunting red glow. However, it was dimming at a visible rate, forming a dark and hard shell, like asphalt.

The Gnoll Leader Huozi, standing beside them, was about to lead his tribe members in, but Li Wei stopped him with a hand gesture.

Huozi, with his keen senses, twitched his erect ears. Indeed, he heard dense footsteps and another kind of chirping noise.

Not long after, dense red light spots appeared in the tunnel, as dark as the abyss, and at the same time, the noisy sound became more pronounced.

As the first ones emerged into the light, people finally saw their figures clearly. They were rats, each the size of a goblin, standing bipedal, their eyes filled with a fierce glint and undisguised hunger, as if ready to devour people at any moment.

"The nest of the Cavens Rats! I remember now, the Duergar mentioned they once resisted a Rat Tide Riot for Zelandia. So it's true! Run! Run! These demons actually let them out!"

At the same time, a panicked sound was struck from the Broken Iron Bucket in the center of Zelandia.

Screams erupted everywhere. The onlookers, who had been watching, were instantly terrified by the vast Rat Tide and fled backward as if in a stampede. Even some Human Laborers and Half-blood Goblins hired by Hogg Mining tried to escape, but they were stopped by the Gnoll Warlords:

"Battle Deserter, execute!"

The Human Laborers and Half-blood Goblins turned ashen-faced upon hearing this.

The Orc Brothers, however, remained relatively calm, seemingly believing that with their brute force and stamina, they could hold out for a while even against the Rat Tide.

On the other side, the Drow Boy did not flee either. Instead, he took off his cloak, tied it into a rope, and bound the girl to his back. He held a stone knife in each hand, on full alert, while his eyes kept scanning Li Wei and the Gnolls, who remained as calm as a mountain, seemingly pondering what their reliance was.

At this moment, Li Wei's self-muttering voice seemed to drift from the front:

"They really are bamboo rats. The intelligence from those dead dwarves wasn't wrong."

But then Li Wei's voice became excited and fierce. He shouted:

"Brothers! Do you see? New food has appeared! Our dinner for today is secured! For Roasted Bamboo Rat! Charge!!! Awoooo~"

"New food! New food! Roasted Bamboo Rat! Ooo-ga!" Pipim, perched on Li Wei's shoulder, heard about the new food and, with saliva flying, waved his Coral Fork, joining in a kind of unclassifiable wailing.

The One Wolf and One Fishman plunged into the rat nest like a meteor. At the same time, to avoid scaring the Rat Tide away, he deliberately restrained his Dragon Might to the extreme, fearing that even a trace of it would cause him to lose his dinner.

As soon as Li Wei entered the Rat Tide, he brandished his weapon like a pinwheel, as if a Max Level Swordsaint had entered the arena and activated a [Pseudo-Blade Storm]. The entire Rat Tide erupted, like a red-hot branding iron embedded in cheese.

"Red Fang Tribe! For Master's hon-" Huozi, holding his long saber, shouted the slogan, but suddenly felt it wasn't quite right. It might lower the Master's status, so he immediately changed it to:

"For dinner! For braised rat meat! Charge!!! Awooo!"

He led the gnoll warriors, their eyes red from the stimulus of food, charging into the rat tide as if under Mass Bloodlust, a flurry of chopping vegetables.

Looking at them, it wasn't like they were going on an expedition or opening a new mine, but rather like construction workers at the communal cafeteria during mealtime, the brawny construction workers afraid they'd miss out on food if they were a step late.

What a joke, just a bunch of rats weaker than goblins, what does it matter how many there are.

Many of them had experienced the Riverbank Battle, which could be called a meat grinder, and they still couldn't forget the terrifying scene where their Master sat down with a Buttocks, and a single Dragon Roar caused six thousand goblins to stampede instantly.

Therefore, they were afraid that Li Wei might not be able to hold back and reveal a bit of Dragon Might, scaring these rats away, which would be troublesome. They wanted to hoard as much food as possible before such a situation occurred.

And this was probably one of the few large-scale freebie opportunities they would never encounter again – those Cavens Rats, having suffered a huge loss, would probably never dare to make a large-scale appearance again after today.

Although the Orc Brothers and the Drow Boy didn't know the inside story, they were also shocked by this deafening Terrifying Battle Intent.

Orcs were creatures easily susceptible to emotional contagion. Seeing their allies so powerful, they immediately cast a berserk on themselves without a second word, their eyes red as they charged forward, smashing every rat they saw.

The Drow Boy followed at the rear of the main force, and once he found a straggler rat, he would aim for its throat and deliver a finishing blow, an One-hit Kill.

The human miners and Half-blood Goblins, who had been trembling in fear of the rat tide, were now looking at each other in disbelief at the completely opposite scene before them. After thinking about it, they gritted their teeth and followed.

They couldn't be weaker than a child.

As those crazy gnolls surged into the mine pit, the West District Abandoned Mine Pit fell into a Pin-drop Silence.

The refugees who had been scrambling to escape the area didn't know who turned back first, and then they saw a scene they would never forget in their lives.

A group of Gnoll Warriors, in order to protect Zelandia, charged into the Endless rat tide, risking their lives.

But the rumbling sounds and shouts coming from within at regular intervals didn't sound quite right.

"Our hunger! Is above yours!!!" This seemed to be the voice of that Gnoll Boss, Hogg.

"Ah ha! Roasted Rat Meat! Boiled Rat Meat! Rat Meat Barbecue! Braised Rat Meat! Stewed Rat Meat! Golden Grilled Rat Meat! Cured Rat Meat! Dried Rat Meat!" Another one has gone mad.

"Boss, stop talking! I'm hungry again after just eating breakfast! Awooo awooo!!"

"Damn it! Don't slaughter them all! Leave some live ones for breeding! We'll live by raising bamboo rats from now on!" Li Wei said, exasperated as he watched the rat group, which was showing signs of collapsing and fleeing, getting smaller and smaller.

After a long while, Duergar Tiger, who had ordered a complete halt to production in the East Mine Area and brought thousands of troops, saw such a peculiar scene.

Clang.

The old dwarf's hammer fell directly to the ground. Looking at the gnolls who seemed to be having a Carnival Party, he couldn't help but murmur:

"Dinggelian's hammer, what kind of bandits are these? I shouldn't have heard of them. It seems the sky in Zelandia has truly changed."

"Guild Leader! What should we do now?" a dwarf beside him asked, swallowing.

"What else can we do? Grab our hammers and go! If we're any later, we won't even get rat soup for dinner!"

Tiger, worthy of having dealt with Drow for decades, adjusted his mindset in an instant. He suddenly seemed to remember something important and shouted:

"Quick! Quickly call back Nuoli, who went to the Upper City for reinforcements! Immediately! Hurry!"