The rats hiding in the hedges, sewers, and dead grass by the river all came rushing out.
Their squeaks rang out nonstop as dense swarms of rats charged in from all directions.
These were ordinary rats, but at that moment, they seemed exceptionally frenzied.
Squealing, they rushed at us like mad.
The moment they got close, they leaped up one after another and tried to bite us.
At a glance, the rats had already gathered in swarms, densely filling the area around us.
Seeing the rats appear, none of the four of us panicked in the slightest.
I drew the Fish Bone Sword, which had already turned bluish-black, and began killing.
With one slash, I could cleave one or two to death. With one kick, I could crush several more.
Zhang Yuchen also took out his Coin Sword and kept hacking at the rats.
Mao Jing and Pan Ling were the most ruthless. They took out talismans and started throwing them.
Several booming explosions rang out, and the power of the talismans instantly blasted a large swath of rats to death...
Forget hurting us—those rats could not even touch our clothes.
In just a few minutes, a heap of dead rats lay around the pavilion, and the air was filled with the smell of rat blood.
But at that moment, two soft coughs sounded. "Cough, cough."
As those two coughs rang out, three figures suddenly appeared around the bend in the park path.
As the three figures appeared, the rats attacking us stopped with a chorus of squeaks and began backing away. They surrounded the pavilion without attacking us further.
They were a little too far away, and we had not opened the Heavenly Eye, so we could not make out the three figures clearly.
Pan Ling merely narrowed her