The number of the huge rat swarm exceeds at least 1,800.

The investigators tried to analyze it purely with the naked eye, and found that at least one-third of the rats, that is, more than 600 female rats.

The average cycle from pregnancy to delivery in mice is three to four weeks. If you observe carefully, you can already see a little difference in the mice that are ten days pregnant.

Although it may seem a bit arbitrary for investigators to draw conclusions based on visual observation, the error is not too large.

Moreover, the basement battlefield has also made a judgment. There is not a single female rat corpse on the ground, they are all male rats!

All these signs indicate that since humans shrunk, rats have immediately taken advantage of their reproductive speed to start breeding crazily.

In addition, investigators also found several nests in the direction the rats came out.

These nests hidden in tree holes or mud holes are all baby rats that have not yet opened their eyes and can only stagger and crawl.

In any nest, there can be as few as a dozen or as many as dozens of baby rats.

Preliminary estimates suggest that the total number of such young rats in the community exceeds at least 800.

This is particularly scary because it takes about ten days for a mouse to open its eyes from birth.

Based on the fertility of mice and conventional population analysis, it can be inferred that these 1,000 rat pups born within ten days come from about 200 female rat mothers.

Female rats can generally give birth to 5 to 10 babies in one litter.

Combined with the above data, this proves one thing: since humans shrank and the wisdom of rat groups began to increase, the survival rate of young rats has been greatly improved.

In the basement, Jiang Qianyun began to lead the team to count the results of the battle and count the casualties.

The result is not good, but not bad either.

Only a few of the reinforcements led by You were slightly injured; no one was killed or seriously injured.

The second group of reinforcements brought by Jiang Qianyun were all unharmed.

But some of the first combatants trapped in the basement were killed.

A total of four people died, six were seriously injured, and almost all the remaining survivors were injured.

Among the dead were He Zhongyou and three others.

Yuan Yi Ke was slightly injured.

Luo Xun suffered minor injuries, but was completely unconscious at this time.

In the previous battle, Luo Xun was awakened as a trans-limiter before the battle, and her precision shooting ability was greatly improved in a very short period of time.

Luo Xun, who transformed into a real sharpshooter, is one of the main reasons why the trapped people can persist until now.

Another main reason was that He Zhongyou was still standing at the ventilation hole. He did not fall down even after he died. Instead, he was supported by two short guns stuck on the rat corpse on the ground. He Zhongyou was still standing.

Zhou You silently looked at He Zhongyou who was covered in blood in front of him, feeling unable to let go for a long time.

On He Zhongyou's body, the armor he wore fell off and fell into pieces.

He has almost lost his human form.

You can even see white bones on his arms and thighs.

The blood under his feet was even more diffuse, completely mixed with the flesh and blood of the rat, making it hard to distinguish.

Although Yuan Yike beside him had already told himself that He Zhongyou had stopped moving two or three minutes ago and had always maintained the standing posture, Zhou You couldn't help but put his hand in front of He Zhongyou's nose to try it.

He was unwilling to do so.

well.

Indeed, he was completely out of breath.

Zhou You looked back at the other side of the corner.

There, Dr. Lin Ziying was leading Lin Yao and several others to conduct final verification of the conditions of the three deceased.

Two of them have been verified and are being carried and put into body bags made of disposable fresh-keeping bags.

There should be no miracles happening to the third person, and he is already dead. It just needs Dr. Lin's medical evaluation.

In addition, several family members of the victims happened to be working as construction team members on top.

At this moment, these family members were throwing themselves beside the three corpses, crying in grief.

"well."

Zhou You sighed, then looked back at He Zhongyou, raised his hand, and gently helped him close his eyes.

Only today did Zhou You really take notice of He Zhongyou, and he even planned to promote this veteran who has been performing better and better recently and is rising rapidly. He is an absolute rising star.

But he never expected that just tonight, the other party would sacrifice himself here in such a heroic manner.

At this time, Yuan Yike was standing silently next to Zhou You.

Li Xiaoling is using hydrogen peroxide to disinfect the wound on Yuan Yike's arm to remove blood. There are hemostatic gel and hemostatic bandage beside him.

Yuan Yike seemed unaware of his injuries and just looked at He Zhongyou blankly.

Her face was full of self-blame, and she said faintly: "If I can also awaken, and there is another over-limit person here, He Zhongyou may not die."

Zhou You was shocked, "He has awakened?"

"Yes. The first one to awaken was Luo Xun. After Luo Xun's awakening, our originally precarious defense line suddenly stabilized a lot, but she quickly ran out of ammunition and could only use her sword to fight in close combat. The threat to the rats was as great as

The lethality has dropped a lot. We are gradually unable to defend the entrance to the cave."

"But then He Zhongyou suddenly became a lot stronger and became extremely fierce. But at that time, his consciousness was a little vague, and he only had fighting instincts. He shouted that he had not embarrassed Class 7 and 8, and he had not embarrassed the old squad leader.

He was chopping randomly around him."

"His comrades nearby were also almost accidentally injured by him. Everyone had to separate their formations slightly. He was almost responsible for a frontal front that was more than two decimeters long."

"I kept calling him, trying to bring him back to his senses, but he ignored me at all. I had no choice but to let him take charge of the longest front line alone. The mouse thought he was alone, so he turned to him

It is the main breakthrough point. The defensive tasks he undertakes are too heavy."

"Later, he was knocked down once and was even dragged into a swarm of rats. At that time, his weapon had been taken off. I saw that his condition was extremely critical. Although he had turned around, I still couldn't catch him. I also followed him.

I wanted to rush in and save him, but I was too weak to break through, so I could only lead two other people to fill the gap created after he was dragged away."

"I thought he was dead at the time, but I didn't expect that more than a minute later, he took off his shoulder armor as a weapon, fought back from the rats, and once again defended the front."

"But at that time, a large piece of his armor had been torn off, and he was covered in injuries. I wanted him to retreat to the second line, but he still ignored me. Until... until after the music started playing outside,

The pressure on our side of the battlefield dropped sharply, and when we started to try a little counterattack and push out, he failed to follow us, and we found that he could no longer move at all."

"Your cousin-in-law wanted to help him to the back to rest, but he refused, saying that he didn't want to lie down and die, but wanted to die standing up. He also asked your cousin-in-law to apologize to me on his behalf, saying that he had been disobeying me today.

Order. He thinks that my judgment was wrong and he cannot retreat. He must bear the greatest pressure himself so that everyone else can survive and the defense line will not collapse."

"He also said that although it turned out that he was right, as a soldier, he should not disobey orders and still have to apologize to me. As soon as he finished saying these words, he died. Look at his neck, the aorta has long been damaged.

It was bitten, it was bitten through, and it was bleeding all the time.”

"Why... why can't I awaken? Is my instinct really that weak? When I saw the two awakened people, Luo Xun and He Zhongyou, I instinctively felt that I was safe and didn't need to fight hard? But I obviously wasn't like that at the time.

That’s what I thought! Blame me, blame me!”
Chapter completed!