Danger on the Road, Taking Action

Everyone in the Cao family, from Liu Xiuxiu and Cao Jiancheng down to Dabao and Xiaobao, was speechless at Cao Fengqi's showing off.

Getting a level 4 weapon counted as bad luck?

Even so, they were all delighted for him.

For dinner, the family had four dishes and a soup, with plenty of fruit and wine.

After eating and drinking his fill, Cao Fengqi did not continue exploring.

He needed a good rest to conserve his energy for tomorrow's dangerous operation.

"Splatter!"

"Damn it, this rain won't stop, and these black clouds won't move on either. Fucking ****"

Early the next morning, the Cao family began taking down their shelter after breakfast.

Their neighbor Song Qianyuan looked a little pale as he watched the rain falling from above, cursing under his breath.

"Let's go, let's go."

A shout came from ahead.

The main migration party was setting off.

Cao Fengqi had already grown used to getting up and traveling every day.

"The sky ahead seems to be getting darker and darker. The clouds are getting thicker too."

"Hang in there. We'll reach Tianbei Base City in less than half a month. I hear lots of people have gathered there, and there's plenty of food. It's very safe."

"Our family doesn't have much food left. I hope it'll last until then."

Voices drifted over from all around. Many people looked pale and weak, clearly suffering from a lack of food and nutrition.

The Cao family were full of energy. Not only had they not lost weight over the past few days, but they had all put on a little, and their faces glowed with health.

"Huh? Why did everyone suddenly stop up ahead?"

"What's going on? We've only been traveling for two hours, and we're stopping already?"

After two hours of travel, the procession suddenly ground to a halt. People looked toward the front of the long, winding line in surprise.

Cao Fengqi looked curious as well, but suddenly his gaze sharpened, and he looked to the right.

To the right was a wasteland beyond the road. The former cropland had long been abandoned, and after successive assaults by black snow and black rain, it had turned into an expanse of black, giving off an oppressive air.

There, densely packed red script alerts appeared.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" "Clack, clack!"

Less than five seconds later, a dense chorus of earthshaking shrieks rang out, drawing closer from afar, piercingly sharp!

Everyone was startled by the sudden noise.

"What's that?"

"Calamity Rats! A swarm of Calamity Rats has appeared on the right! Watch out!"

"Ah, evil beasts! They're evil beasts! So many evil beasts!"

"Run! Run!"

In an instant, cries of warning, shock, and terror rang out.

"Don't panic. They're just Calamity Rats, the weakest kind. They'll make a fine meal for us."

"There are so many of us. Why should we be afraid of a bunch of Calamity Rats?"

"Keep the children in the back. Everyone in Team 55 who's capable of fighting, get ready. Whoever kills a Calamity Rat gets to keep it."

Calm voices rang out from both ahead and behind.

Cao Fengqi's family belonged to the Liangmin County migration party's 55th Street team. An influential middle-aged man in the team called out loudly to organize everyone!

"Xiu'er, Chunying, protect Dabao and Xiaobao."

Cao Jiancheng immediately turned to instruct his wife and daughter-in-law, then looked solemnly at Cao Fengqi. "Son, you'll be all right?"

"What a joke!"

Cao Fengqi smiled when he heard that.

"Heh."

Cao Jiancheng smiled too. He knew his son had the level 4 defensive equipment, the Blue-Patterned Robe, as well as a level 4 saber, a level 4 bow and arrows, and the level 4 Arcane Musket.

"Brothers and sisters of Team 55, let's advance together and form a defensive wall! Don't let them charge through and hurt the elderly and children behind us!"

"Just a bunch of Calamity Rats. I couldn't find them in the Lost Land even when I wanted to. Now they've come to us, just in time for an extra meal."

"That's right. Thank you for nature's bounty, haha!"

Some people panicked, but more had bright eyes and were full of fighting spirit, gripping their sabers, spears, and clubs.

That was especially true of the older generation. They had trained in the Lost Land for ten years, and now, faced with Calamity Rats, the lowest-level evil beasts, most of them could kill one on their own.

The Calamity Rats were packed so densely that there was no end to them in sight.

But the Liangmin County party was enormous as well. Near the front in particular, some extraordinary beings had already charged straight into the swarm.

"There aren't that many on our side!"

Cao Fengqi stared at the Calamity Rats, which were rushing toward them and had reached a point two hundred meters away. "Each person only needs to deal with five or six at most. Huh? No, that's not right."

Suddenly, his gaze sharpened. The script showed a dense mass of red alerts ahead, clearly outlining the Calamity Rats' bodies.

But among those red alerts were some elongated creatures three meters long.

He couldn't see those elongated creatures with his naked eyes.

"There's another, more powerful kind of evil beast hiding among the Calamity Rats."

Cao Fengqi's gaze flickered. "There aren't many, but a sudden attack from them would still be extremely dangerous."

"Kill them! Meet them head-on!"

"Haha, the ones up front are mine! Don't fight me for them!"

Before the Calamity Rats could reach them, some of the people in Team 55 around him could no longer hold back and sprang into action.

"Son, let's go," Cao Jiancheng said, looking at him.

"Dad, take this saber for now. You go ahead."

Cao Fengqi looked at his father, handed him the level 4 Mystic Cold Saber, and took out the Arcane Musket.

"Hm? All right!"

Cao Jiancheng froze for a moment, then nodded.

He knew his son's combat skills weren't very good, and it was safer for him to attack from a distance with a gun.

Cao Jiancheng took the long saber and charged straight ahead with the others.

Cao Fengqi looked at his family's vehicle, then leaped directly onto it.

Liu Xiuxiu and Liu Chunying looked at him in surprise.

Behind them, the elderly, children, and frail women who had stayed back all stared ahead nervously.

"One!"

Following the position outlined by the script, Cao Fengqi narrowed his eyes slightly, aimed the Arcane Musket precisely at the evil beast whose form he couldn't make out, and pulled the trigger!

Gunmanship also fell under shooting techniques.

With sixth-stage shooting techniques and the cheat, he never missed.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out.

The Arcane Musket's bullet instantly flew past the people advancing to meet the Calamity Rats and struck the center of what appeared to be the evil beast's head.

"Screech, screech, screech."

The next moment, a sound louder and more piercing than the Calamity Rats' cries suddenly rang out.

At the same time, an evil beast with a deathly pale body made up of bony segments gradually appeared.

It writhed there in pain, its bony segments clacking against one another.

"It's pretty big, but a little weak. What kind of evil beast is that?"

Looking at the evil beast, which had lost its ability to fight and was close to death after a single shot, Cao Fengqi raised his eyebrows.

"Hiss, it's a Color-Changing Skeletal Centipede! Watch out, there are Color-Changing Skeletal Centipedes hiding among the Calamity Rats!"

The conspicuous evil beast that had suddenly appeared also immediately caught the attention of the people charging forward.

A middle-aged man recognized the evil beast and shouted a warning.

Remembering the gunshot, he immediately turned to look back.

At a glance, he saw Cao Fengqi standing on high ground with an extraordinary-looking firearm in his hands.

"A Color-Changing Skeletal Centipede? That powerful evil beast that can blend into its surroundings? Be careful, it's much stronger than a Calamity Rat!"

"There are Color-Changing Skeletal Centipedes?"

Some people's expressions changed drastically when they heard the name.

They were confident they could handle Calamity Rats, but against the more powerful Color-Changing Skeletal Centipedes, which could blend into their surroundings, they had no confidence at all. Many were simply no match for them.

The people who had been preparing to meet the Calamity Rats forced themselves to a stop, their expressions changing.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Bang! Bang!

As soon as they finished speaking, gunshots rang out from behind them again.

They saw Color-Changing Skeletal Centipedes appear one after another among the charging Calamity Rats and fall, one by one!

"Now, there aren't any left!"