Author: Huozhongwu

On this side of the intercom, Zhou You heard Deng Tao's roar, but he was not surprised.

Duke's lie was reasonable, and it was also expected by Zhou You.

"I made a rough estimate. Anyway, I'm afraid there are more than 2,000 people in this factory. It should be around 3,000 or 4,000. Not only the people from Dujia Village are being imprisoned here, but also the human captives from other surrounding areas.

Come here. These human captives have formed a certain hierarchical structure, and there must be a higher-ranking human captive who is responsible for management. I think it is probably Duke."

"The current situation of the human captives... doesn't seem to be too bad. Except for some who are not fully clothed, most of them can move around. They are... making tools! All kinds of wooden tools!

Wooden basins, towed two-wheeled carts... and even pedal-type wooden wheeled chariots! These people are actually helping mice add rubber to the wooden wheels! They seem to have a small laboratory, which is in

Make some small iron products that look like...iron claws?"

"There are many rats wearing wooden armor patrolling near the construction site. The rats are indeed running into the Wood Age, and may even be brought into the Iron Age by these people! There are too many things left by us all over the world now.

Steel is abandoned. Once the rats master the smelting technology, the consequences will be disastrous."

As time went by, Deng Tao continued to update aerial intelligence.

Zhou You just listened quietly at first, but after the convoy passed the fork in the road and turned onto the side road of the county road, Tang Dahe, who was guarding Duke on the MPV side, dialed the intercom.

"Mr. Zhou, Duke said that we are going the wrong way. This is not the direction to Kangyue County. Going this way is going deep into the rat-occupied area, which will be very dangerous."

"Tell Mr. Duke that I already know. Thank you for the reminder. But the purpose of our coming to Kangyue County from Le is to exterminate rats. We will go wherever there is danger."

After Zhou talked, Deng Tao sent another message over there.

"I hovered over the factory at a high altitude. There were a lot of mice moving on the roof of the office building to the east of the factory. I couldn't tell the male and female of these mice carefully, but judging from their size, they seemed to be slightly smaller.

No. I'll turn my direction slightly and try to see if I can look in from the window of the office building."

After waiting for a while, Deng Tao sent back the news, "I saw that there were many mother rats and baby rats in the shade inside the window. These baby rats should have been born recently, and they looked like little worms! The mother rats

Put these little cubs in wooden boxes, and drag them under the sun from time to time to bask in the sun. Now the mice are cultivating their ability to adapt to light from an early age. This... they really want to occupy the ground!"

Zhou You nodded and said, "I understand."

After listening to Deng Tao's description, Zhou You had many thoughts in his mind.

Unfortunately, it is not convenient to contact Huayin at this time.

Otherwise, it would be nice to get remote technical support from the National Research Institute in the capital.

"It is likely that rats are rapidly evolving from underground creatures to phototactic creatures. In the past, rats were accustomed to being nocturnal, and slowly evolved a visual system that focused more on night vision. Correspondingly, many natural enemies of rats,

Owls and snakes such as cats and mustelids are actually mainly nocturnal. So if the eyesight of mice changes and they quickly iterate from nocturnal animals to day animals, they can avoid these original natural enemies in the short term.

With the threat, it can reproduce better and can easily eliminate its previous natural enemies."

At this time, Shen Ling, who was squatting next to the laptop, retrieving and observing the data reports of the previous humanoid robots, interrupted.

Zhou You sighed in his heart. Fortunately, Shen Ling was still around and there was someone with whom he could have academic discussions.

He still remembered the topic he and Shen Ling had discussed.

At that time, the two people first assumed that rats were a form of civilization that humans could not yet understand or empathize with. Then they thought about the rats' perspective and regarded humans as natural disasters to understand the civilization of rats.

At that time, the two of them just thought this kind of empathy was quite interesting.

I really didn’t expect that the civilization of rats that the two of them had imagined so wildly would actually come into reality with such ferocity just over twenty days later.

It's really not interesting at all.

Zhou You nodded, agreeing with Shen Ling's inference, "That's true. If a race wants to transform from an ordinary animal community to a real civilization, it does need better lighting conditions and more refined visual capabilities. After all, it has to be during the day. Only by being able to see clearly under strong light conditions can we invent and create better.”

"This is also determined by the characteristics of the earth. After all, the time of light on the earth is actually longer than the time of night. If we only use one generation of mice to breed mice, we can quickly iterate from dark vision to light vision, which will really benefit us. It’s bad news. But...the rat’s behavior now leaves us with an excellent opportunity.”

While the two were talking, Deng Tao over there had already made his own high-altitude analysis.

"I am now certain that this is indeed the core nest of the rats trying to dig the mountain. There are at least tens of thousands of mother rats and more than 200,000 young rats in this office building. In this case, we can still try to use Fire attack, knocking out all the rats in the building."

Deng Tao said this.

Zhou You also thought it was okay, and he had originally considered it this way.

In fact, since the beginning of the war between humans and mice, Zhou You has already used fire attacks twice, and each time he used fire attacks, he achieved outstanding results.

At present, the most powerful weapon in the hands of human beings is neither various nail guns nor various swords and crossbows, but it is still fire. Just like the ancient humans used fire to drive away wild beasts such as lions, tigers, leopards and bears. Same.

But Zhou You himself was not sure how long the fire would last and how many times the rat would make such low-level mistakes.

But what is certain is that as long as all the rats in the world cannot be burned out with one fire, rats will sooner or later understand the principles of fire prevention, and sooner or later they will no longer make these stupid mistakes. Combustible materials that are easy to spill and used for fire attacks will be consumed sooner or later.

These are all hidden dangers in the future.

The habit of always thinking the worst about things naturally turned in this direction.

Of course, no matter how worried he was, the current battle plan would not change much.

Ever since, the marching team started the second round of filling gasoline bottles again.

Deng Tao, who was at the front, repeatedly checked the distribution of humans in the factory. After confirming that there were no humans in the office building, he temporarily left the sky above the factory and flew back in the direction where the remaining rat army fled.

Deng Tao's current task is to track and observe the movements of the mouse deserters and report to the convoy at any time.

After the drone squadron on the convoy takes off while traveling, Deng Tao will seamlessly take over the command post and begin directing the enemy-baiting operations in the field.

The mission of this highly mobile team is to intercept and delay the return of the defeated rat army to the factory as much as possible.

Three minutes later, after simple preparations, twenty drones took off from the moving car almost simultaneously.

These drones are fully loaded with ammunition reserves, and top sharpshooters such as Luo Xun and Yin Yan are hoisted below.

Next, this drone squadron will retreat slightly and attack from the rear of the defeated rat army, pretending to be pursuing them from the direction of the high-voltage power tower.

The purpose of this operation was not to cause severe damage to the defeated rat army.

After all, there are only twenty drones, so even if they use full firepower, they probably won't achieve much results.

The real purpose of the operation is to mislead the commanding rat king among the defeated rats, forcing him to misjudge the situation and make him think that humans have not found his lair, and then actively issue instructions to make the rats temporarily change direction and escape to other places.

, in an attempt to mislead humans so as not to expose their lair.

Then, this will naturally further delay the return of the defeated rats to the factory.

This method really worked, and the convoy arrived at the intersection of Dujiacun almost ten minutes earlier than the defeated army who walked almost in a straight line over the mountains and ridges.

There were more than two hundred rats, both male and female, moving around the intersection, presumably serving as sentinels.

As soon as they spotted the convoy, there were at least dozens of rats running away in different directions.

Some rats wanted to go in the direction of high-voltage power towers, while others headed toward villages and towns, presumably to warn other rats in the factory.

This time the combat team did not adopt the strategy of pulling out nails in advance, mainly because the terrain in the villages and towns was too complex and it was impossible to achieve it.

For example, those sewer pipes along the streets built by humans are simply natural mobile trenches for rats.

In the command car, Gao Zhanying expressed concern about the situation.

Zhou You shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter. The rats' main fighting force is at the high-voltage power tower, and they have been reduced to a defeated army by us. The people left behind in the factory are not a worry."

Gao Zhanying shook his head helplessly, "But I'm worried about those people trapped in the factory."

"It doesn't matter, we will arrive before these so-called sentries. Pass it on and let Big G get to the front of the team. The whole army will speed up and rush forward to arrive at the gate of the factory as quickly as possible."

Two minutes later, the team drove straight to the entrance of the factory by re-repairing the lines, focusing on strengthening the pure steel plate hood and using a large G-shaped collision angle welded with a large number of I-beams and angle steels.

Just as Zhou You predicted, humans did arrive first.

At this time, even the fastest rat sentinel could only run half the distance.

The rats in the factory did not have time to react in advance to the dangers outside.

Subsequently, the rear compartment doors and windows of twenty cars were opened at the same time.

Two thousand soldiers, already fully armed and ready, filed out.

Zhou You, who controlled the humanoid armor, opened the door of the off-road vehicle and took the lead.

Behind him, various small and medium-sized electric armored vehicles drove down one after another along the electric telescopic truck unloading board.

For example, electric-driven tanks, mini armored vehicles, multi-functional combat robot dogs, and even multi-legged robotic arm robots.

Behind these electric armored vehicles are elite warriors wearing powered exoskeletons.

Behind the elite warriors, there are infantry troops all wearing alloy armor and carrying both cold weapons and hot weapons.

When attacking high-voltage power towers, due to inconvenient transportation, it is the air combat power that really shows off its power.

But now that vehicles can drive directly to the vicinity of the combat area, it is naturally the turn of the ground combat power to be used.

The candidates for the battle are basically the same group of people, but the main equipment used is very different.

It is this batch of ground armaments that the human army needs to adapt to.

Although these equipment have been verified many times in previous small-scale battles, large-scale battles and small-scale battles are different concepts.

This is both a combat operation and a military training exercise.

At this time, the large iron gate of the factory area was tightly closed.

I don’t know whether the door was closed like this before humans shrank, or whether it was occupied by rats and then found a way to close it.
To be continued...