What Are You So Happy About? Tell Me!

"The balance has been broken." Xiao Wuhen gritted his teeth. "The balance that lasted for centuries... what exactly happened?"

Lin Ming did not think that far ahead. His gaze was like that of an eagle, piercing through layers of rat swarms and dust as it rapidly swept across the rear of the Beast Tide.

To capture bandits, first capture their leader. The sea-of-rats tactic was troublesome, but as long as he killed the Rat Queen directing them, the rat swarm would lose its unified command and descend into chaos.

His gaze finally locked onto a slightly raised mound behind the Beast Tide.

A giant rat crouched there. It was not especially enormous, only slightly larger than an ordinary water buffalo, but its fur was snow-white without the slightest trace of another color, smooth as the finest silk. Its eyes were an eerie ruby red.

Unlike the other Mutated Beasts, it did not howl madly or charge forward. It merely crouched there quietly, occasionally raising a forepaw to lightly groom the whiskers by its mouth. Its ruby-red eyes were calm and indifferent, carrying an air of lofty superiority, like a monarch overlooking the entire battlefield.

Dozens of even larger rats guarded it from all sides. Their auras were ferocious, the weakest of them at the peak of the Fifth Tier, while several had even reached the Sixth Tier—Rat Generals!

Beyond them was an endless rat swarm, layered upon layer like a tide.

That was it!

Lin Ming's eyes narrowed. That hidden source, deeper, colder, and more filled with an aura of "intelligence" than every other Mutated Beast around it, came from that white giant rat! The Gold-Eating Rat Queen at the Sixth Tier, Late Stage, close to the Seventh Tier!

"Found you." A cold curve tugged at Lin Ming's lips.

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