Chapter 654 - 459: Trouble Comes to the Home (Part 3)
The Rat-man corpses were quickly dragged away by the laborers tasked with disposing of the bodies—Malin had them dressed in full-cover rubber suits. The members of the Benevolent Church, who were digging the mass graves, surely never expected guests to come at a rate exceeding their grave-digging speed.
Malin once again moved to the front of the team, this time followed by a squad of Half-humans armed with lighting flares and shotguns, responsible for illuminating the path ahead.
The Rat-men’s hissing roar came from far away.
Their comrades could no longer respond, while the orderly footsteps echoed in response towards the distance.
"The contamination isn’t too severe, it seems they haven’t been here for long," reported the inspector from the Half-human squad, tasked with checking the level of contamination in the underground aqueduct, which partly relieved Malin—the Rat-men must have treated this aqueduct as part of their underground realm, they most likely had yet to start digging their underground metropolis—of course, not because they were lazy, but because when Malin constructed the aqueduct, all the ground stone was hardened and unified by Spell Formation, turning it into tons of rock that the Rat-men couldn’t possibly hope to dig through in short order. Even using Spiritual Energy or some other means would make enough noise to alert the entire city.
But judging by the actions of these Rat-men, they seemed to prefer working quietly, without alerting the whole town.
As for why that group of children suddenly discovered something was wrong in the underground aqueduct, Malin pondered for a while and could only attribute it to good fortune.
These days, when you’re on a lucky streak, nothing can stop you.
Of course, if later on your luck takes a nosedive and you lose your life, then you can only blame the Goddess of Fortune for being a fickle lover.
...Well, Malin couldn’t exactly say it was the work of some parrot, could he?
As the team went deeper, the passageway began to broaden—this was the corridor before reaching the node, and Malin stopped in his tracks when he heard a multitude of soft footsteps.