Right at that moment, all the rats in the pile suddenly scattered in panic. Maybe because there were too many of them, they could only crowd away slowly.
It took a while for them to all run away. As over ten-thousand cat-sized rats all escaped, the thing which was under the rat pile was exposed.
That was a large block of ice as Lin Qiao had thought. An orange colored animal with black stripes was faintly seen, lying inside the ice.
It was still able to move, but only its upper body. Its lower body seemed to have been disabled. It looked like there was still some space inside the ice block, and the animal was only trapped in it.
Then, Lin Qiao understood why those rats were running. After all in a short while, that boa wriggled over.
It crawled to the ice block, then reared up its head and gazed straight at the adult tigers inside the ice.