The Previous Encirclement Attempts
Shen Heng's gaze lingered on the projected Golden Rat for a moment.
Not all Calamity Beast look strange or ferocious; occasionally, some even conform to human aesthetics.
Of course, despite this, they are no different from other Calamity Beast in attacking humans.
For Calamity Beast, as long as they are not of the same species, they can generally be divided into two categories: edible and inedible.
Wang Zhi, standing to the side, had already begun his introduction.
"The Golden Rat first appeared in Zhaoyuan Subdistrict, Longzhou."
"It attacked a car transporting gold..."
As Wang Zhi explained, a video was played on the projector.
The video was taken from a camera on a traffic light during the daytime.
A minivan was driving on the road when it suddenly went out of control, swerved left and right, and overturned on its side.
Then, the Golden Rat crawled up from the ground not far from the car.
It walked over to the car, extended its sharp claws, tore a hole in the car, and crawled inside.
The video continued like this for several minutes.
Several cars suddenly stopped next to the minivan.
Subsequently, several people from the Longzhou Supervision Bureau quickly got out of the car.
Seemingly sensing something amiss outside, the Golden Rat poked its head out through the large hole in the bread, wanting to check what was happening outside.
Shen Heng's gaze paused slightly, lingering on the few pieces of gold held in the Golden Rat's paw.
According to the records in the Calamity Beast Illustrated Guide.
Golden Rat have a particular fondness for rare, bright gold ore.
Gold, being both relatively common and scarce, is especially favored by Golden Rat.
The Golden Rat Golden Rat named for this reason.
The scene continues, and the moment the Golden Rat peeks out, a sharp arrow immediately comes into view...
The next moment.
"Laugh--"
The arrow pierced the Golden Rat's arm.
It let out a sharp scream and then plunged into the car.
While the people outside were on guard, the minivan suddenly shook, but then came to a complete stop after a short while.
The video ends here. Wang Zhi continues:
This was our first encounter with Golden Rat.
"It's a pity I didn't recognize the Golden Rat right away, otherwise I probably would have had a chance to keep it."
"After that, although we tried to encircle and kill it three times, it escaped each time, and we couldn't even manage to inflict any damage on it again."
Shen Heng nodded slightly, his gaze fixed on the car that had overturned on the ground in the projection.
It's normal that the Longzhou Supervision Bureau couldn't keep the Golden Rat.
The Golden Rat only took two or three seconds from the moment it peeked out, to being attacked, and then to burrowing back underground.
It would be strange if someone could recognize the Golden Rat with just their brain, immediately come up with a plan to deal with it, execute it, and ultimately keep the Golden Rat alive.
"What were the three encirclement and suppression operations you carried out later?" Shen Heng turned his gaze to Wang Zhi.
"Those three encirclement campaigns took place in..."
As Wang Zhi spoke, he once again operated the projector.
Soon, footage of the three encirclement and suppression operations appeared in Shen Heng's field of vision.
The first time was on a van on the road, imitating the scene when the Golden Rat first appeared;
The second time was at a jewelry store one night;
The third time was in a pitch-black warehouse.
As Wang Zhi said, none of these three attempts yielded any results.
The first time, in a minivan.
The Golden Rat overturned the van again, possibly because it was injured during the attack when it crawled out of the van last time.
This time, it didn't crawl out from underground and stand on the vehicle to tear open the van as it had done before.
Instead, it extended its claws and tore the van open from the side that was touching the ground.
Inside the van, although the driver was a member of the Longzhou Supervision Bureau.
However, the van was cramped and difficult to attack, and the Golden Rat immediately checked the people inside as soon as it popped its head out.
This resulted in the plan failing.
The second time, at a jewelry store.
Perhaps that's the reason for the two attacks.
This time, the Golden Rat only peeked out from a distance, carefully observing its surroundings.
Then, after discovering someone hiding nearby, he quietly shrank back.
The third time, at the warehouse.
This time, the Golden Rat was even more alert.
It first peeked out from a distance, observing the situation.
However, because the warehouse was dark and the people were hiding on the tall wooden crates, it couldn't see them.
Nevertheless, it still tested the waters for an hour or two before making its move.
Furthermore, after making the move, he only emerged from the ground just as the target was about to land, then quickly burrowed back underground after grabbing the item.
After reviewing the three encirclements, Shen Heng lowered his eyes slightly. He pondered for a moment, then looked at Wang Zhi with some curiosity.
How come you always seem to run into Golden Rat?
He had initially thought they had some method to find the Golden Rat.
Unexpectedly, the Golden Rat came to them several times, as if they knew in advance where the Golden Rat would appear.
"This is the ability of one of our team members," Wang Zhi replied, turning to look at a young man.
Shen Heng also looked over there, and saw a young man who looked to be about twenty-three or twenty-four years old.
The young man introduced himself as follows:
"My name is Zhou Le'an, and my ability is C-Class Induction."
"This ability can Induction a creature's certain desires or enhance the allure of a certain object to a creature."
"So as long as I apply my power to a certain piece of gold and then drag it around the city, the Golden Rat will instinctively follow after sensing it."
"Next, we just need to stand by and see how long the Golden Rat can hold out."
Induction? Can it really be used like that?... Shen Heng looked at Zhou Le'an with some surprise.
Strictly speaking, this ability should actually be classified as a combat ability.
Its conventional use is to continuously use it to influence the Calamity Beast and eventually detonate Calamity Beast sanity, forcing Calamity Beast to only know how to attack randomly, thereby weakening their Calamity Beast and ultimately killing Calamity Beast.
However, due to the low ability level, this process will likely take some time, and during this period, the owner can be said to be at a disadvantage.
Furthermore, even after the ability takes effect, it only weakens the Calamity Beast's combat power, rather than having a significant impact.
Therefore, it can be said that this ability is not very useful in actual combat and is considered a relatively weak ability.
However, they developed new uses for it in a different way.
What started as a combat ability has transformed into the ability to locate Calamity Beast.
So, this is the legendary...
There are no useless abilities, only useless ability users?
Nevertheless, the disadvantages of having a low ability level are still evident.
Although he was able to attract the Golden Rat, it was clear from the previous three attempts to capture it that the Golden Rat was able to restrain its inner desires and refrain from making a move.
If it were A-Class ability, the Golden Rat Ninja would probably have jumped out and stolen the items in no time.