Chapter 140 The Wisdom of the Rat King and the Role of Natural Enemies(1/3)
Author: Huozhongwu
Duke was dragged away by ten representatives of human peons.
Everyone wanted to drag him back to the gate of the processing factory.
Where did he start causing the disaster, and where did everyone plan to end his life.
In addition, some labor representatives had already left to inform others who were eating in the cafeteria car and receiving treatment in the medical car but who were still able to move.
Obviously, everyone, including Wang Wenming, was very happy that Zhou You and Deng Tao could give them the right to deal with prisoners.
Originally, Zhou Yu had no intention of watching Duke's execution.
But more than ten minutes later, when everyone used scalpels to cut Duke into about a hundred cuts, Zhou You still passed.
It's not that Zhou You thought these people were too cruel and planned to stop them.
Since Duke regards himself as a fellow rat, Zhou You naturally has no sympathy for this person.
Something else happened.
I got a surprise when I traveled around.
The last combat team that went to chase the rats came back.
The leader of this team is none other than Luo Xun.
On the way back, Luo Xun controlled the drone to hover at low altitude, following an armored truck modified from a children's toy car.
On the roof of the truck, a small rat was fixed with a rope.
The mouse has two barbed crossbow arrows stuck in the thighs of its four legs.
The tip of the arrow was nailed to the wooden board, fixing the mouse like a specimen.
Based on Zhou You's original habits and personality, he would not be in favor of treating another intelligent life like this.
However, the war between humans and rats has been going on for so long. Zhou You has witnessed more and more human tragedies caused by rats. His views on good and evil and his outlook on life are also undergoing some irreversible changes, big or small.
Small changes.
Under the subtle influence of the external environment, his character changed in a direction that was originally impossible.
Zhou You himself also realized this.
Before meeting someone like Duke, Zhou You was still consciously controlling his personality change, not wanting to become too cold-blooded.
But in a way, Zhouyou actually has Duke to thank for it.
Today I traveled through Duke and learned a new important lesson, which made up for the "shortcomings" in the lives of normal people that he had known and encountered so far, and re-experienced the lower limit of human nature. At the same time, this also
It deeply reminded Zhou You that although there are many good people in the world, it does not mean that there are no bad people.
Only the Holy Mother would always want to save evil people, or even if she wants to kill evil people, she still wants to hear the other person confess before they die and promote the so-called justice.
But Zhou You doesn't want to be a holy mother now. If he wants to deal with evil people, he can only be more evil than evil people. He chooses to be evil.
When Zhou You arrived at the door of the processing plant, Luo Xun had just untied the parachute-level five-point support sling on his back.
When she saw Zhou You coming, she immediately ran over happily and said, "Haha, Zhou You, didn't you always say you wanted to catch the Rat King before? I feel like I helped you realize your long-held wish this time.
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Zhou You was surprised at first, and then asked overjoyed: "Are you sure? Luo Xun, how do you know this is the Rat King's? What is your basis for judgment?"
He really didn't expect that Luo Xun would solve the pain points and difficulties that he had not been able to solve until now, so he began to worry that Luo Xun had just caught a mouse and deceived himself and exaggerated.
Although the hair on the mouse that was being dragged down with the wooden board was slightly silvery in the midday sun, which made it look a little special, the special appearance was not enough to prove that it was the rat king.
Luo Xun recalled it carefully, and then said: "Didn't you ask the ground troops to chase them out of the village road to the ground? I was also worried that someone would attack blindly because of their red eyes, so I went to the end of the intersection over there in advance and waited.
.But everyone has good execution skills and no one rushes in blindly. So I transferred my main energy to the mouse. I also borrowed this one..."
Luo Xun pointed at the high-end drone she used.
Under the sling of the drone, there is a small tube, which is an optical sight disassembled from a sniper rifle in the past. It has extremely strong optical magnification performance.
"I first raised the altitude to more than 100 meters above the ground, and then used a telescope to carefully observe the rats moving on the ground from a high place. I found this guy. Instead of running away away, it actually hid on the roof of a house.
He was observing the situation from a high position. What’s even more amazing is that almost all the mice’s dynamics would change to some extent after passing under the house.”
"For example, we turned around and walked back, trying to distract our pursuers, and at the same time create a gap for another group of rats. Or for example, a group of rats originally wanted to flee eastward, but after passing the house, they immediately turned to the southeast again.
direction. Another example is that some mice didn't run very fast at first, but suddenly accelerated inexplicably and just avoided the sweep of our searchers. Anyway, there are many situations like this. Then I definitely think it has
What a problem!"
"In addition, when other rats face us, they will basically rush towards us like crazy once they are sure that they cannot escape. But before they go all out, they will definitely try to escape. After all, I can be sure that all rats
I had received the instructions from the Rat King to give priority to escape. But when I lowered my altitude and prepared to shoot this guy, dozens of particularly strong guys actually came out from the small house behind the roof and came to shoot me.
It blocked the gun and tried to cover its escape!"
"My team and I spent a lot of effort to catch it alive. Also, it is difficult for other rats to survive. The thought of killing the fish and breaking the net is very strong. Even if it is severely injured and all the limbs are cut off, but
As long as someone comes close, it will still get cold and have to bite it. But it didn't. After I shot all its limbs, it was actually willing to let us fix it on the board. Its desire to survive is obviously abnormally strong! It is absolutely
There’s a problem!”
After listening to Luo Xun's words, Zhou You came to a conclusion in his mind.
Luo Xun's judgment is probably correct.
Even if this silver rat is not the highest rat king in this entire group, it is certain that it has at least reached the level of rat king.
I have never been able to find the Rat King before because the Rat King also knows that humans will definitely carry out decapitation tactics, so he usually hides very deep, and will not deliberately arrange guards for himself, which will expose his own existence.
But during the escape maneuver, the rat king finally couldn't hold himself back and had to take risks and make unusual moves.
It itself also knew that this behavior was quite dangerous, so it arranged additional guards for itself, which led to its identity being exposed in the end.
Zhou You gave Luo Xunbi a thumbs up, "Good job. Have you observed the changes in the mice when they got closer to it than how many meters away?"
Luo Xun recalled for a moment, and then said: "It is on the roof, and the straight-line distance between it and the mice on the ground is a bit far. I think about it, it should be more than two hundred meters away, and it will be affected by it.
Influence."
"More than two hundred meters..." Zhou You pondered for a moment, then asked: "Then is there any obstruction between the rat king and the rats who have received the order?"
Luo Xun continued to recall, and then said: "Sometimes there is, sometimes there is not. For example, when our ground troops pass by on the ground, it will shrink behind the parapet on the roof, but the movement of rats passing below will still be
Change occurs.”
"I see."
At this moment, some of the doubts I had before traveling around were finally answered.
He deduced the mysterious communication methods of rats.
In the past, Zhou You had suspected that mice were transmitting information in a biological radio method similar to brainwave induction.
Now he is sure that it is brain waves!
This is bizarre, unreasonable, and even unfair to human beings.
Why is it that after so many years of human evolution, we still can only rely on language and visual communication? The so-called telepathy basically only exists in literary and artistic works.
However, mice, a creature that originally lived at the bottom of the mammals and could bully anyone they saw, had brain wave sensing that was equivalent to a special function for humans when they first became intelligent beings.
And this is not just pure induction, it can even be used to transmit information through the air and through walls!
It transmits information faster than pheromones, has a wider propagation range, is not easily blocked, and can also be transmitted one-to-many at the same time.
This is just like the WIFI signal, as if the Rat King is the router and the other mice are terminal devices, and maybe each terminal device can in turn send information to the Rat King.
This is simply outrageous.
But this is the established fact that is clearly placed in front of Zhou You!
Zhou You walked forward with his hands behind his back, stood in front of the Silver Rat King who was fixed on the wooden board, and looked at him carefully.
This rat king is not that big, and is even smaller than most rat warriors.
In addition, the silver color on its body is not conspicuous. Just under the sunlight, you have to find a specific reflection angle to see its specialness.
At this time, the rat king's limbs were bleeding, his eyelids were drooped, and he looked dying.
But it still felt Zhou You's approach.
It reluctantly raised its head, its dark eyes rolling around, and its eyes swept around Youyou's face, seeming to be looking at the person in front of it curiously.
The strange thing is that Zhou You can't see any fear or panic in its dark eyes.
Although Zhou You currently doesn't know what the mouse's facial expressions mean, he just feels that the other person is very calm.
"Is Duke not dead yet?" Zhou You turned to the side and asked.
Dr. Lin Ziying responded with a slightly complicated expression: "You are still alive. Mr. Wang and the others cut very carefully, only cutting a small piece of flesh at a time. Human beings' self-healing ability has become much stronger now, and the amount of bleeding is much smaller than before."
He will probably live for a while longer."
As a medical worker, Lin Ziying actually did not agree with the execution method of the peons.
She believed that this execution method of killing one person with one knife, slowly peeling off the skin and removing the bones by a thousand cuts was a bit too cruel.
To be continued...