The Beginning of Disaster

"Everyone, get closer! Adult men, surround the elderly, children, and women. Find whatever weapons you can nearby and kill the rats. Don't let the rat swarm get near the crowd!" Qing Chen shouted. "Anyone still inside, get out and join us now! We have to leave!"

Using Puppet Master as a blade, he moved like a shadow through the long street. Every rat that tried to approach was sliced cleanly in two by the razor-sharp Puppet Master.

With Qing Chen's speed, he protected the crowd so tightly that not even a drop could get through. However, he no longer tried to use the power of lightning, saving it as his trump card.

Because he did not know whether the Shen Dynasty had regular troops lying in ambush within this city. If they did, Wu Ju would be his true trump card against firearms.

Puppet Master became completely invisible in the night. As its threads swept through the rats, Qing Chen felt them pass through their bodies without the slightest resistance.

Skin and muscle were sliced apart, bones and fascia severed. The rats turned to ash in an instant.

At that moment, Qing Chen discovered in surprise that Puppet Master was actively sacrificing the corpses of the rat swarm. The Forbidden Item that had once been picky about its food had followed him for so long that it now ate both meat and vegetables—anything at all!

When Puppet Master sacrificed the rats, its threads grew slowly. Yet Qing Chen could clearly sense that its fourth thread was indeed growing.

After the battle in Forbidden Zone No. 002, Puppet Master's fourth thread had nearly taken shape. It was only a hair's breadth away.

Qing Chen suddenly wondered whether sacrificing the rat swarm throughout the entire city could directly let Puppet Master grow