To the northeast of Linhai.
Two vehicles were traveling at high speed on the road.
In one of the cars, a woman with her hair in a ponytail was pressing her hand against her earpiece.
" Captain Wang, this is a support team from the Heyuan Supervision Bureau. The five of us are approaching the northeastern area of Linhai and should arrive within three minutes. We'd like to ask you something..."
"Understood! Requesting instructions on our priority tasks..."
"The team consists of two Tier 3 members and three Tier 2, with abilities respectively..."
"Okay, understood!"
Communication ended.
Wu Bingzhi lowered his hand.
The girl driving the car turned her head to glance at her, then quickly looked away and asked:
"Sister Wu, how is Linhai doing now?"
"Yeah! Yeah!" came a curious voice through the earpiece.
Wu Bingzhi glanced at his teammates in the driver's seat, then raised his hand and pressed and held a button on his headset to switch to the team channel.
"Military support arrived a while ahead of us, and the situation is gradually improving, but there are still many Sharp-Horned Rat wreaking havoc outside."
"A lot? How much is that?" You Xin, who was in another car, asked.
"It's difficult to get accurate real-time figures, but we expect it to be around 100 meters," Wu Bingzhi said.
"Hiss--More than a hundred, and so many!" You Xin couldn't help but gasp.
" The Calamity Beast are scattered. Even if you can kill Calamity Beast instantly, the process of traveling and searching for them will still take a lot of time," Wu Bingzhi said.
Upon hearing this, everyone nodded silently.
As they talked, the vehicle approached Linhai.
You Xin listened with some confusion to the barely audible announcement.
"Why are there still reports on the location of the Calamity Beast? Did you check the surveillance footage?"
Wu Bingzhi looked up at the thick fog outside the window and listened quietly for a while.
"The fog is too thick; the surveillance cameras probably aren't very clear, and some of the points mentioned in the report don't seem to be monitored by Hoi An. It's more likely the work of a member of the Linhai Supervision Bureau."
"This... ability?" You Xin looked out the window in surprise. "What kind of ability? What level is needed to monitor an entire city?"
Wu Bingzhi did not respond; she was also somewhat curious.
"If that's the case, I might know!" a voice suddenly sounded in the earpiece.
Wu Bingzhi was slightly taken aback.
You Xin then turned his head directly to look at the figure sitting behind him.
"Brother Gu, you know?"
"Hmm." Gu Chang nodded slightly, "It should be Hearing Enhancement."
"How did you know?" Wu Bingzhi asked.
"I met this person two years ago. Linhai sent him to a meeting at headquarters. Because his ability and rank were relatively low at the time, the rest of us from Lingnan had a deep impression of him," Gu Chang said.
Wu Bingzhi nodded slightly upon hearing this.
" Hearing Enhancement? Judging from the name, isn't it just about enhancing hearing? Can you even tell the rank of Sharp-Horned Rat by its hearing?" You Xin asked with some doubt.
Indeed, while not all reported Calamity Beast have a clear rank, a considerable number do, including their location, movements, and rank.
They didn't feel that the other party was talking nonsense. The fact that it was reported in such an event and continued to exist meant that it must be true.
Gu Chang pondered for a moment and said, "I'm not sure about that. I guess it's because its Ability Evolution once."
"Oh, I see!" You Xin nodded.
"Alright, this isn't within our jurisdiction." Wu Bingzhi turned to look at the driver.
" Youyi, drive towards the sea. The Sharp-Horned Rat come ashore from the sea, and we can't be sure if there are any more Sharp-Horned Rat there. Luckily, Gu Chang's ability can..."
Gunfire flashes, waters surge, illusions overlap...
As more and more people came to help, the rampant Sharp-Horned Rat rapidly declined.
Somewhere in Linhai.
Wang Hai stood silently in place.
Although the number of Calamity Beast was decreasing, his face did not show much joy; instead, it remained somber.
The rampant rat population has indeed been decreasing.
But their leader, the matriarch, remained unaware.
He thought for a moment, then reached out and pressed a button on the headset.
" Shen Heng, are you aware of the presence of the Sharp-Horned Rat Matriarch?"
On a tall building.
Shen Heng, who had been briefly resting with his eyes closed, opened them.
With the number of Sharp-Horned Rat rapidly decreasing, he was finally able to take a break from his arduous tasks and rest a little.
Shen Heng quickly reviewed the information he had just sensed in his mind and said:
"The location within a five-kilometer radius is unclear, but the mother of the Sharp-Horned Rat was not found within a five-kilometer radius."
A radius of five kilometers is currently the limit of Shen Heng's ability to image using sound waves.
Beyond that distance, he could only roughly determine the location of the Calamity Beast by sound; he couldn't obtain any other information.
This is why a significant portion of Shen Heng's reports stated that the situation of the Calamity Beast was unknown and urged caution.
Upon hearing Shen Heng's news, Wang Hai paused for a moment and said:
Do you think the mother of the Sharp-Horned Rat is five kilometers away?
Upon hearing this, Shen Heng lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment before saying:
"It shouldn't be, no, or rather, it should be about five kilometers away, but it wasn't involved in this attack."
"If it was involved in this attack, the casualties in the areas it visited would far exceed those in other areas."
But currently...
Shen Heng paused for a moment, then said:
"None of the police officers, martial artists, or the current military personnel who participated in the resistance have reported such a large number of casualties."
"Well, where do you think it went?" Wang Hai asked.
Shen Heng paused for a moment; this was the same question he had just been pondering.
Where did the Sharp-Horned Rat Matriarch go?
A rat swarm was attacking the Linhai, but it never actually appeared. Why is that?
"Do you think it might be using the rats below as bait?" Wu Cheng's voice came through the earpiece.
"By using the rat swarm, we can draw our attention back."
"Then it secretly went ashore and hid."
"That way it can survive for a long time again."
"You think everyone's like you!" Han Ling said, somewhat exasperated. "Using the entire rat swarm as bait is too much of a price to pay."
"Then we can keep a dozen or so, since we have that many!" Wu Cheng said.
Han Ling was speechless and didn't know what to say.
The others also fell silent.
Silence fell over the headset for a moment.
Shen Heng pondered.
Wu Cheng was imagining what the Sharp-Horned Rat Matriarch might do based on his own ideas.
However, it must be said that this is indeed a possibility.
Especially now, in a situation where it hasn't been discovered yet, it's just...
More than two years ago, after one of its companions was killed, it began plotting to destroy the Sharp-Horned Rat Linhai. Could it really be like this...?
"Boom--"