Chapter 1 Disaster (I)

October 25 at 10:00 am

Song Qinghe suddenly received a call from Liu Xiao.

"Old Song, I just received a call from a reader. Someone in the Qinba Mountains was attacked by a group of rats!" Liu Xiao's voice was very excited.

Song Qinghe felt nervous and asked quickly: "Location? Where is it?"

"The Daba Mountains are about 10 kilometers away from Anchang Town. It is said to be in a place called Phoenix Mountain, right there."

"What's the specific situation?"

"The person who was attacked by the rat group was a resident of a nearby village. He was about 40 years old. Yesterday, he went into the mountain to collect wild game, but suddenly he was attacked by a rat group and was bitten and seriously injured. He jumped into a nearby river and saved his life. It is said that there were hundreds of thousands of rats attacking him..."

"It's finally here." Song Qinghe murmured.

"Yes! The disaster has finally come!" Even through the phone, you can feel Liu Xiao's anger: "In the past, we ran around and shouted loudly, but no one paid attention to it. From now on, the government will pay a heavy price for our inaction! Our newspaper has set up a special interview team, which is specifically responsible for the exclusive interviews of Rat Surgery. The newspaper leaders also asked me to ask you - whether you are willing to serve as a special consultant for our Rat Surgery interview."

"I'm fine with this." Song Qinghe pondered for a moment, and then said, "Where are you now? I want to meet you."

"Now I'm not available. I've already made an appointment with readers to interview, and," Liu Xiao's voice mixed with an anxiety: "I have to go to Wuling Mountains. I have a relative there. I have told her several times on the phone. I don't want to move out. This time, I even put the knife on her neck, and I have to let her family move to Zhongjiang City to take refuge."

"Okay, call me when you come back."

Song Qinghe hung up the phone. But his heart was tense. Has the disaster begun? The bamboo seeds in the mountainous areas began to bloom in May, and it has been nearly half a year now. With enough food and no natural enemies, the mice will reproduce wildly. A pair of mice can breed to 5,000 in one year. There are tens of thousands of pairs of mice in the mountainous areas and hundreds of thousands of pairs! Repeated explosive reproduction has led to the development of mice in the mountainous areas into an astronomical figure within half a year. Now, the rats in the mountainous areas have almost eaten bamboo seeds, so they have begun to target humans for obtaining food.

November 20 at 10:00 am

A group of 6 people walked up to Moyunling. This was a mountain near Yingdang Valley in Qinba Mountains.

They are college students from CUHK, with 4 men and 2 women. They hike to the Qinba Mountains on weekends.

After passing Yingdang Valley, there was no one else.

The air in the morning was very fresh, the red leaves almost fell, and the exposed mixed woods were one after another, and the bamboos growing under the mixed woods were dry. The dead bamboos were brown and began to shrink. The green mountain surface looked dead.

"It's so boring," a girl in a red mountaineering suit kicked a ball of mud far away.

"What's wrong? Jingjing." A burly boy next to him looked at his girlfriend with concern: "Who has made you unhappy again?"

"It's all you!" the girl said angrily: "You must go to the Qinba Mountains to see the bamboo sea. Where is there any bamboo sea here? The bamboos are dead - the Dead Sea is almost the same."

"I don't know that the bamboo in the mountains has died," the boy spread his hands helplessly, but said: "I heard that wild game in the mountains is very famous. We will find a village to eat wild game later, okay?"

The girl muttered a few more words, but the boy finally coaxed her.

A girl walking in front curled her lips and said quietly to her boyfriend beside her: "Wang Tian has a girlfriend like Ye Jingjing, and he suffers from him. Ye Jingjing's eldest lady's temper is notoriously difficult to get along in our dormitory."

The boyfriend looked back at Wang Tianzheng's appearance of coaxing Ye Jingjing with a bitter face, and frowned gently: "Zhou Li, why don't you go back and persuade Ye Jingjing. Everyone comes out and have fun, don't let her destroy everyone's interest alone."

Zhou Li snorted, "I'm too lazy to serve that young lady. Zhang Ming, you want to go by yourself."

While the two were talking, they saw two boys walking in front - Gu Shangquan, and Ni Chun stopped at a fork in the road.

"How to go?" Ni Chun looked at Gu Shangquan: "There is a mountain road on the left and a bamboo forest on the right. Which direction should we go now?"

Gu Shangquan took off the earphones stuffed into his ears, looked at the watch, it was already past 11 o'clock. He looked at Zhang Ming and asked inquiring, "Why don't we rest for a while, eat something before entering the mountain..."

Zhang Ming was about to agree, but Zhou Li next to him suddenly grabbed his hand: "Zhang Ming, do you hear any sound?"

"No, do you hear any sound?" Zhang Ming asked the two boys. Gu Shangquan and Ni Chun shook their heads. At this time, Wang Tian and Ye Jingjing also came to the fork in the road.

"It seems like something is screaming!" Zhou Li shouted at Ye Jingjing: "Jingjing, did you hear it?"

Ye Jingjing shook her head blankly, and Gu Shangquan suddenly said, "It seems that some sound is really coming from the bamboo forest." Ni Chun also screamed: "I heard it too, it really looks like some wild beast screaming!"

Zhou Li's face suddenly turned pale, and she pointed at the bamboo forest in front of her right and shouted: "Look at it, bamboo forest!"

The dry bamboo forest in front of him suddenly shaking.

"It's over, the whole mountain is moving!" Zhang Ming moaned.

There is no wind on the mountain, but the withered bamboo forest is shaking. The boundless dry bamboo twists, pushing the waves forward like waves.

Is it an earthquake? Everyone thought so in an instant.

"Ah! It's a mouse!" The sharp-eyed Ye Jingjing was the first to scream.

Zhou Li subconsciously threw herself into Zhang Ming's arms.

The earth was trembling. A metal-like sound was approaching, and a layer of black and velvety things whizzed like a flood in the dry bamboo forest.

"Run!"

Zhang Ming still got off his travel bag, pulled Zhou Li back and ran away, and the other four people followed him and ran around.

Before he could run 100 meters, Ye Jingjing suddenly let out a shrill scream, and six people stopped. There was something black surging on the road ahead, and the ink oozing out of the woods on the left was spreading. The black waves spread up the hillside, and the road disappeared!

"It's over, we are surrounded by mice!" Ye Jingjing cried out. If it weren't for Wang Tian's support, she would have almost collapsed on the ground. Wang Tian wouldn't be much better, and his palm holding Ye Jingjing was shaking nervously.

The six people stood still. At this time, the entire hillside was flooded with black waves, and the sound of metal gritting teeth was overwhelming, and the black and fluffy carpet was about to rush to the bottom of their feet.

"The mouse is coming!" Zhou Li screamed in despair. Several mice rushed to her feet, and their teeth rushed up! Zhang Ming and Wang Tian stretched out their feet to kick the mice, but their feet were so soft that they couldn't use their strength.

"Let's run back!" Ni Chun shouted loudly: "It's only 100 meters away from the fork in the road. As long as we rush through the 100 meters desperately, we can run out of the mountain road on the left side of the fork in the road!"

There is only one way! Six people turned around and ran towards the fork in the road. Ni Chun and Gu Shangquan rushed in the front, and Zhang Ming and Wang Tian dragged two girls with weak legs and feet and ran behind.

Before running 20 meters, the group of rats gushing out of the dry bamboo forest had already flooded the forks of the road. The dark earth was trembling, and layered rats rushed towards them like raging waves.

Zhang Ming felt chill all over, and in an instant he had lost the courage to rush out of the rat group. He dragged Zhou Li to the mountain rock next to him. Wang Tian and Ye Jingjing hesitated for a moment and followed him to the mountain rock.

However, Ni Chun and Gu Shangquan had already rushed into the group of rats. After a few steps, Ni Chun was the first to scream in despair. When he ran on the rat, his body lost his balance and fell to the ground in a crooked manner. He hurriedly got up and fell down again. When he was about to get up, there were already groups of rats on his body...

Gu Shangquan didn't run 50 meters. The broken rat made the tourist shoes covered with flesh and blood. Such shoes began to slip after a few steps. As soon as the person fell, they were swallowed by the mouse. The black rat waves covered the human body tightly, forming two huge tumors. The tumor was peristaltic and oozing out a stream of blood, and a dull and terrible scream was made from the tumor, and then the tumor stopped moving...

Zhang Ming stumbled under the rock, held Zhou Li and climbed up the rock. In the blink of ankle, his legs and feet were buried by mice, and his ankle and calves immediately came to his calves. The huge fear made his limbs almost stiff. But at least he held Zhou Li onto the rock.

Ye Jingjing fell down as soon as she ran under the rock. Before she could get up, her body was covered by a mouse in an instant. Countless mice crawled on her face and bit her blood. Ye Jingjing stretched out her hand and let out a ghostly scream: "Save me--"

Wang Tian was about to reach out to pull her, but a few mice had already climbed onto his neck and bit it hard. A blood arrow shot out from the carotid artery, splashing the rat on his neck into a red rat. Wang Tian rolled his eyes and slowly fell down.

Zhang Ming was trembling all over and climbed up desperately with the rock. The moment he climbed onto the rock, Zhang Ming was stunned. There was a hillside behind the rock, but now the hillside was covered with a layer of black and fluffy biocarpet. Zhou Li was squirming on the ground 10 meters away. Zhou Li's whole body was covered with mice. One hand stretched forward in vain. Her palm had already turned into bones, and her mouth made an vague sound: "...Don't eat me...Don't eat me..."

"Fuck!" Zhang Ming let out a shrill howl. He kicked a few rats flying with his feet and staggered toward an old pine tree on the right. It is impossible to rescue Zhou Li. Even his girlfriend doesn't care about it now. If the opponent is a beast, he can fight, but there are countless rats in front of him. If he hesitates, he will be eaten immediately!

Zhang Ming finally ran to the pine tree and fell twice at a distance of more than 10 meters. Even his burly and strong body is now as heavy as lead. His feet are still buried in the pile of rats, and his lower body is as painful as fire. His strong will to survive makes him climb up desperately regardless of the pine tree.

Finally climbed up, Zhang Ming quickly grabbed the rats on his body - more than 10, and threw them down hard. Looking at Zhou Li, his face was almost eaten up by mice. There were a few mice on the bloody skull lying on his eye sockets. The broken down jacket was shaking constantly. I don’t know how many mice were biting inside. The layers of mice around him rushed towards Zhou Li like black waves. Every second, countless mice desperately crawled into the down jacket...

Zhang Ming trembled and took out his cell phone from his pocket, but he couldn't press the buttons on the cell phone. Until now, he realized that all the nails on his five fingers of his right hand were turned on, and his fingers were swollen and shiny like carrots. There was no way, so he had to put the cell phone on his legs and dialed the police station with his left hand:

"Hey, the police station... giggles..." Zhang Ming heard the sound of his teeth trembling: "Help... We met a mouse... It's so miserable, giggles..." Zhang Ming suddenly burst into tears.
Chapter completed!