For Hughes, today is an uncomfortable day. His temporary home was invaded... and his second favorite comfort, a small bed, was taken away... As for the first, of course, the photos of his wife and children

Got it!

I have to go out every night to explore the hidden secrets of this country. It can be said to be a very hard and thrilling job...

Just like this, I have to be tied up in my own little nest every day, not getting the relaxation I deserve, as if I am just a guest.

For Hughes now, the morning sun is as beautiful as the sunset, a message that reminds him that he can go home and sleep.

After a tense night, his body and brain were exhausted, Hughes opened the door of his temporary cabin... only to see a huge unknown object running towards him... which shocked Hughes, although it was

Tethered by chains...but it still looks scary. This is usually called a door-opening kill in horror games...

Seeing such a huge creature jumping up and down on the floor while he was sleeping. Hughes felt like he was not well... What are you trying to do... Can you please stop trying to scare people with these little surprises?

With a look of helplessness, Hughes walked around the tied monster, walked towards Ashes who was lying on the bed, and slapped Ashes on the shoulder hard, but the shock made his hands hurt... Hughes covered his hands and cursed secretly.

"Damn, why is this guy so solid..."

"Oh, you're back, how was your harvest last night?" Ashes also felt Hughes's greetings, sat up and looked at Hughes with a helpless look on his face, and asked with a smile.

"It doesn't matter what happens to me... the key thing is, what did you bring back to my house!" Hughes pointed at the ferocious little animal struggling in his direction on the ground and said helplessly.

"Oh, you're talking about this...I brought it back to study, and I need your help on this matter!" Hughes jumped out of bed with a smile, walked towards the big rat grinning at him, looked at Hughes and said

.

Hughes pinched his chin and looked at the little monster roaring fiercely on the ground for a long time. He was stunned and didn't recognize it... he couldn't help but curiously asked, "So... what on earth is this?"

Ashes grabbed the big mouse by the back of the neck, lifted it up in front of Hughes and said, "As you can see... this is an ordinary mouse!"

Hughes looked at the monster in front of him with its mouth open and yellow fangs exposed. He was speechless for a moment and couldn't say a word for a long time. After carefully looking at Yi Fan, he said hesitantly, "You call this an ordinary mouse? You

Did you take the wrong medicine today..."

The big mouse put down the ashes and shrugged and said, "In other places, this kind of mouse may not be an ordinary mouse... But in the center, I can only say that he is very ordinary."

Hughes was stunned. She was quick-witted and understood the implication of Hui Jin's words instantly. She looked at Hui Jin in shock and said, "You mean...there are a lot of these things in the center?"

Ashes also nodded seriously to Hughes and said, "There are at least three hundred of them, and they can hardly be killed..."

"What do you mean by almost not being able to kill them all? Isn't it a simple problem for you to kill more than three hundred animals?" Hughes said in confusion after hearing Hui Jin's words.

Ashes nodded and said, "It's very simple. The problem is... I can't kill all the rats in the sewer. The number is too many..."

"Why do you have to kill all the rats...Aren't there only more than three hundred of these monster-like rats? Just..." Halfway through, Hughes suddenly froze, Yajing turned around, and then looked at her face with horror.

Ashes said, "You mean, this big rat came from a small mouse?"

Ashes nodded helplessly under Hughes' horrified eyes and said, "That's right. I found the mouse nest and burned it with a fire. But as soon as I turned around, a group of little mice turned into

Big mouse…"

"What's the reason? It can't just grow bigger for no reason! Could it be some kind of alchemy or synthetic beast?" Hughes asked eagerly.

Ashes shook his head gently and said, "These little rats started to change after eating the corpses of the big rats... It's not alchemy or anything like that, it's most likely the trouble caused by the things I threw away."

After speaking, Hui Jin helplessly covered his forehead...

Hughes looked at Ashes with a look of helplessness on his face, opened his mouth, and after thinking about his words, he said elegantly, "What the hell did you lose, you damn bastard!"

Hui Jing scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Hahaha, that's a good question. The question now is that I don't know!"

Hughes wanted to stab this bastard to death, covered his face and said, "What you threw, don't you know what could cause such a result?"

Hui Jin touched his head and said with a smile, "I really don't know, because more than one of the things I threw could have such consequences... So I really can't guess which one it is..."

Hughes felt that his outlook on life had been subverted... What kind of dangerous person is this guy... The things he lost could actually do such a thing. Looking at the giggling ashes, Hughes asked worriedly, "What should we do now?"

, and why have I never seen those rats before?”

Ashes looked at Hughes and said seriously, "That's a good question. This is the crux of the problem. Almost all the people who saw these rats in the sewers were eaten by them. As for why the rats don't go to the streets, it's because some people have been eating them."

Cleaning them up in secret!”

"I understand. I hope you can find the things you threw away soon...solve this trouble as soon as possible...as long as these rats don't come out to hurt people." Hughes breathed a sigh of relief. As long as these rats can't leave the sewer, at least it will be fine.

My wife and children will not be hurt by these rats...

But when he thought about his original plan to sneak into the underground from the sewer, Hughes broke into a cold sweat. Fortunately, he didn't have time to go to such a dangerous place as the sewer... Otherwise, he wouldn't know if he had been eaten clean...

"But this problem is very serious now. I just want to find out what it is as soon as possible. It would be great if it only affects mice... But I'm afraid..." Hui Jin looked at the huge mice on the ground and said worriedly.

Hughes also frowned and asked, "Are you saying that this change may not only affect this group of rats, but other creatures may also be affected?"

Ashes shook his head and said, "I don't know, it's just a possibility, and I was afraid that this would happen, so I caught a mouse and came back to study it, and then I need your help!"

Hughes took a deep breath and said, "Tell me what you need me to do. I will never shirk it!"

Ashes nodded and said, "I need to know the change process of this group of rats. Are there so many in the beginning or are there just a few in the beginning and gradually become so many... Also, has the government studied this damn group?"

Rat! You need to check this, after all, you are a professional."

Hughes nodded, Ashes turned his head and looked at the big mouse on the ground, frowned and said, "The next step is my business... Let me take a good look at what turned you into this..."

After saying that, Hui Jin squatted down, held down the struggling big rat, and nodded gently to the fire prevention girl beside him.

Under Hughes's curious eyes, the fire-proof woman also slowly squatted down, put her hand on the mouse's head, and then a faint fluorescent light flashed...

Hughes felt that the scene in front of him was very familiar, and he suddenly remembered, wasn't this what Ashes and Fireproof Girl did when they saw the body of the Alchemist's daughter?

After watching it quietly for a while, the big mouse visibly stabilized... and became no longer manic and restless...

Fireproof Girl and Ashes let go of their hands one after another. The rat that had been struggling turned out to be like a normal rat and began to look for a way to escape, no longer so terrifyingly aggressive...

Ashes frowned, took out the soul-absorbing gloves from his backpack, and pressed them on the restless mouse's head. Scarlet light flickered at the intersection...

After a while... Ashes clenched his fist and retracted his hand, but the mouse struggled twice and then lost movement.

He spread out his hand with the soul-absorbing glove. On top of the scarlet glove, lying quietly was a gray-black unknown substance...

It is said to be an unknown substance, because Hughes really doesn't know how to describe this thing... it is a palm long and half a palm wide, and it is like a cloud of mist billowing in Ashes' palm, like a wriggling maggot...

Hughes looked at the unknown object in Hui Jin's hand, then looked at Hui Jin's tightened brows, and asked curiously, "What... is this?"

Hui Jin frowned and said with a heavy heart, "Scum!" Hughes was stunned and said in confusion, "Scum? Who are you scolding? Is this something inhumane?"

Ashes shook his head, then nodded and said, "I didn't curse anyone... This thing is called human sediment, or... scum for short! And the existence of this thing is indeed not very humane!"

"Is this the thing that turned an ordinary mouse into such a monster?" Hughes took a closer look and saw that the thing called human heart sediment in Ashes' hand seemed to be some kind of terrifying poison...

"Yes, this thing is the sediment of human souls. It is a very vicious product. Devouring human flesh and soul will produce such sediment..." Ashes said to Hughes with a gloomy face.

Ashes now felt like he was in Anor Londo, fighting a bunch of fat religious people... and then taking this thing out of their body fat.

But how did this thing appear... I don't have a lot of human heart sediment in my backpack, and I haven't lost it. Plus, I can't get so many big rats...

In other words, the things in this world can extract the sediment of people's hearts... What's wrong? The lower body of the Eater God's body fell here?
Chapter completed!