"Goodness!"
"Is this the racial advantage that non-human extraordinaries possess?"
"In this world without Spiritual Qi, can they command their own kind so easily just by their extraordinary charm?"
"It's much stronger than I anticipated."
Su Ping sensed the messages from Ling Rat White and Ling Rat Xiao Hui, and while he was amazed, he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The outstanding performance of the Spirit Rats allowed him to gain a certain level of self-preservation ability much faster than he had expected.
However, from the current information, Ling Rat White and Ling Rat Xiao Hui's command over the rat group was not yet stable, and no command system had been established.
Currently, it was just the rats instinctively following their lead.
For them to be of great use, he would still need to personally help, learning tricks from the Cultivation World and providing resources.
After all, what Su Ping wanted was an army built from a rat swarm!
And for an army to be established and maintained, besides relying on will, food was indispensable!
Fortunately, Water Blue Star had already entered the information age, and with highly developed productivity, basic resources would not be lacking.
The resources to feed a large rat army would not cost much.
While Su Ping was deep in thought,
The rat swarm, due to its excessive numbers, was slowly directed to leave the sewers and head towards the city outskirts.
Tonight, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse.
A few drunkards, after finishing their skewers at the night market, were in no hurry to return. Instead, they walked together to the nearby riverbank park, strolling along the path, enjoying the river breeze to sober up, and praising each other's glorious past.
Suddenly!
A scream from not far away startled them.
Then a high-pitched cry of: There are rats!
Made the drunkards' courage double, and they quickened their pace, ready to rescue the beauty from the rats!
"Don't be afraid, mere rats, eat my Old Sun…"
The fastest runner among the drunkards was the tallest and seemingly often-exercising bald middle-aged man.
He rushed into the small grove and saw a pair of sisters huddled together, screaming.
He then saw the rat swarm, under the moonlight, continuously crawling out of the sewers where the manholes had been pushed open!
The dense, indistinguishable, yet rapidly wriggling rat swarm was like an unspeakable horror, with bared fangs and claws, under the moonlight.
Just one glance completely sobered up the middle-aged man.
As actively as he had shouted just now, he now moved his steps as carefully as possible, fearing to disturb the rat swarm ahead.
"Old Niu, why are you running so fast today!"
"Oh my god! Is this what you call 'there are rats'?"
The middle-aged man wanted to be discreet, but his companions who arrived later kept making noise.
And as the middle-aged man, sweating coldly, shouted for them to be quiet,
Suddenly, there was a commotion within the rat swarm ahead. At least half of the rats stopped moving and turned their heads in unison, staring coldly at everyone with their gray or red eyes.
A single rat was undoubtedly afraid of people.
But when they formed a rat tide,
It was people's turn to be afraid.
And he wondered if it was just his imagination.
The middle-aged man, whose eyesight was still the best, noticed the white rat surrounded by the rat swarm, turning its head to look at him… its eyes seemed to be full of humanity and spiritual light!
And their gaze seemed to be full of disdain?
"This rat isn't turning into a spirit, is it!"
For some reason, this terrifying guess popped into the middle-aged man's mind.
And he quickly recalled snippets from miscellaneous books he had read these past few days about rats becoming spirits and turning into 'Chuma Xian' (animal spirits possessing shamans).
"May the Boundless Heavenly Venerable bless us, may the Jade Emperor bless us, may the Bodhisattvas bless us, may the Holy Father, Holy Mother, and Saint bless us!"
The middle-aged man was panicking, unconsciously muttering all the divine names he could think of to seek protection.
Ling Rat White stared coldly at these shouting Mortals.
As an extraordinary species, it was submissive in front of Su Ping.
But facing Mortals, it felt inherently superior.
It bared its fangs, intending to teach these Mortals who were disturbing its guidance of the rat swarm a lesson.
However, Su Ping's latest instructions suddenly came to its mind.
Squeak!
Ling Rat White's body trembled, and it raised its head, letting out a piercing shriek that sounded like thunder to its surroundings.
Immediately, the rats that had turned their heads rejoined the rat tide like streams merging into a river, heading towards the outskirts.
After a while, no new rats emerged from the sewer opening to join the rat tide.
The park by the riverbank finally returned to quiet.
It also allowed the group of people, who had watched the entire process dumbfounded and dared not breathe, to let out a long sigh of relief.
"Old Niu, was that white rat looking at us just now?"
"You noticed it too, I suspect that rat has become a spirit!"
"It must have become a spirit! How could an ordinary rat make such a loud sound!"
"So creepy! I have to find a Monastery or a Daoist Temple to worship tomorrow…"
They regained their Life Qi as they quietly discussed this strange event.
Meanwhile, on the internet, news of rat swarms emerging from several sewers in the park, then converging into a rat tide and moving away from the urban area, gradually gained traction as passersby and surveillance cameras captured videos.
Inside a residential building full of Life Qi in the residential area where East King Temple was located.
A middle school student, who had just been lectured by his parents due to a teacher's complaint, sighed and lay back on his bed.
Picking up the tablet he had secretly registered using his grandfather's ID, his attention was suddenly drawn by a message in his class group chat.
"Wow! Rats, so many rats!"
The middle school student clicked on the message and saw the video, excitedly noticing Ling Rat Xiao Hui, which stood out like a crane among chickens in the video.
At the age where he loved 'King's Path' stories, the student's entire face flushed with excitement:
"It's it! It's it! It must be the rat that scared away Big Yellow!"
After seeing Ling Rat Xiao Hui again, confirming that it wasn't his imagination, and realizing the commotion it had caused,
The middle school student couldn't stay calm.
He began to fantasize about whether he was the fated one, destined to embark on the King's Path with the help of this miraculous Spirit Rat!
The more he thought, the more engrossed he became, holding his tablet and watching the video over and over again.
Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night for this middle school student.
Su Ping was completely unaware that he had caused a child's insomnia.
He was trying his best to direct Ling Rat White and Ling Rat Xiao Hui, using their abilities to minimize the impact as much as possible.
There was nothing he could do; Ling Rat White and Ling Rat Xiao Hui couldn't make the rat swarm follow their every command, yet they were following close behind.
At first, it didn't matter, but as their numbers gradually increased, they became somewhat uncontrollable.
If he didn't quickly lead them out of the city to find a place to settle in the suburban mountains,
By the time Su Ping had no time to pay attention,
It was likely to cause another major disturbance.
Su Ping didn't want people to come here later to gather material for some 'Rat Horror' movie.
Fortunately, his hometown, Yushu City, was just a small city. While it had simple folk customs and beautiful scenery, it also meant large mountainous areas and many places rarely visited by people.
As long as there were no casualties, this matter wouldn't escalate much.
Even if it attracted the attention of some people and prompted experts to study it, its priority wouldn't be very high.
The world was vast, and there were actually countless true and false strange occurrences every year.