Kapitel 20: Rat Grave
Redakteur: Henyee Translations
Luo Fan looked at the fleeing silver rat; he did not have any energy left to pursue it.
His movements were too slow, and he could only be on the defensive.
Fortunately, after a difficult battle, he had killed all these rats.
The bodies of 40 to 50 rats were densely piled up on the floor.
The surroundings were covered in blood, and even some distance away was also stained red in blood.
Looking at the carcasses all over the ground, Luo Fan was still a little uncomfortable. After all, he had just killed so many lives.
The discomfort lasted for three seconds before the seven intestines started to move into action.
They all inserted into the carcasses around and started to absorb them.
And the first thing Luo Fan had to do was to join the severed intestine.
With the bite from that silver rat, the intestine was severed in the middle.
The severed segment was connected to the claw and lay on the floor.
Luo Fan aligned the severed intestine, and then split the cells to join the two segments.
With his powerful self-healing, Luo Fan's severed intestine was restored and made whole.
He tried to move around and did not feel uncomfortable.
Apart from being a little shorter than the original intestine, there was nothing different about this intestine.
Then, he started to absorb the dead rats on the ground.
These were all his spoils of war. They were also the source of his strength.
If he wanted to become stronger, he had to continuously absorb energy.
However, there were indeed too many rats here. Luo Fan did not know how long it would take to finish absorbing them.
Moreover, even if Luo Fan were to absorb energy now, it would be impossible for him to use it to increase the mass of his body. If his body size continued to increase, the rat hole would not be able to accommodate him anymore.
"I should absorb that silver rat first."
After some consideration, Luo Fan decided that bio-energy was more important compared to energy.
There should be more bio-energy in the silver rat's body.
The few intestines were extended, and the claws started to bite the flesh from the silver rat's body and send it into the intestines, bite by bite.
Immediately after, the flesh was digested, and information was fed into Luo Fan's intellect.
He was delighted. There was indeed a lot of bio-energy in the body of the silver rat.
For the past two days, he had been absorbing ordinary rats. It had been a long time since he had felt such rich bio-energy.
"However, this is still not as good as that big fish. In terms of mutation, that big fish is probably long above these rats."
A large silver rat had been completely absorbed by Luo Fan.
He had obtained a total of 3.5 grams of bio-energy, around 3.5 times that of an ordinary rat.
At this moment, Luo Fan had some idea about the combat prowess of the big black fish.
If a silver rat with 3.5 grams of bio-energy in its body was so difficult to deal with, then the combat prowess of that big black fish must be even more terrifying.
It was a pity that the big black fish's stomach did not digest Luo Fan, and in the end, Luo Fan broke out from its body.
If Luo Fan had not destroyed its brain from inside its body, a hundred Luo Fan would not have been able to defeat the big black fish in a head-on confrontation.
Back then, when Luo Fan was in the body of the black fish, he was very weak. His eyeball was only the size of a ping-pong ball.
It was nothing like now. It was almost the size of a small ball.
Then, Luo Fan proceeded to absorb the second dead rat.
And, all the bio-energy and energy in his body were used to upgrade his cells.
Due to the expansion of his body size, most of the images shown on Luo Fan's Form Distribution were white. Only the peripheral layer was green, and there was even less blue.
"I can't continue to increase my size, otherwise, I'll be trapped inside this hole. If I become larger, it will be very inconvenient for me to move around here."
Luo Fan knew himself very well. He understood that his current size had reached its limit.
If he wanted to continue to explore the rat hole, he could not continue to increase his size.
"Use it all for evolution."
The energy began to gather towards the white areas, and Luo Fan also applied the bio-energy.
Luo Fan let the bio-energy begin to upgrade the cells of the eyeball. Level-3 eyeball cells had the function of receiving and transmitting information.
He had observed that the mutant rats were very intelligent, so he might have an unexpected gain from upgrading the eyeball cells.
It took about a day for Luo Fan to absorb all the three rats.
Currently, the absorption rate of his eight intestines had greatly increased. Every bite was a large piece of meat.
[Level-2 cell coverage 27.6%, Level-3 cell coverage 0.0016%.]
According to the data obtained from the Form Distribution, Luo Fan's mass was about 5kg, and he had about 2.5 trillion cells in his body.
There are 0.69 trillion cells above level-2, and 36 million cells above level-3.
Most of the 30 plus million cells were consolidated on that bone spike.
After absorbing so much energy, even level-2 cells were not predominant.
"It's really difficult to upgrade to level-3 cells. I need more bio-energy."
Luo Fan silently decided.
Then, he looked at the dead rats around him and decided to place them here for now.
He planned to continue exploring this rat hole.
Firstly, he was afraid that the silver rat would continue to find reinforcements.
Second, he also wanted to explore and find out what other dangers were in the rat hole before coming back to absorb these carcasses.
Third, letting the carcasses ferment for a while and the microorganisms decompose them would make them better for his absorption.
With these three reasons, Luo Fan moved forward and continued to explore the rat hole.
However, after advancing for a little while, he had found the place where the pack of rats congregated.
It was another vast space. The dried bodies of some creatures were accumulated here. These were not just humans, but also dogs, chickens, and ducks.
These dried corpses had obviously been eaten.
However, there were no rats seen gnawing here. They had probably all gone to attack Luo Fan.
There were several forked paths in this space.
Luo Fan checked them one by one. Only one was leading to the bottom.
It seemed that the main nest of the rats was underground.
"I wonder if there are any more powerful rats inside this rat hole besides the silver rats."
With unknown territory ahead, Luo Fan began to be careful.
Just as he was about to move forward, a large rat scurried past him from not far away. It was very fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"To be able to encounter a rat, it looks like I have come to the center of this rat nest."
Previously, Luo Fan had not come into contact with a single rat all the way, but here, he was already able to encounter a passing rat.
Luo Fan held the flashlight and followed the path down.
The path here was a little wider. He crawled forward for a while and came to another space.
"Eh!"
Luo Fan's flashlight illuminated the surroundings, and mounds appeared in his eye.
"Where is this?"
One intestine struck and shattered a mound.
A rat's carcass was revealed.
"A rat grave?"
Luo Fan was shocked. How could a rat build a grave?
"Could it be that these rats already had the beginnings of a civilization?"
"Is this a golden rat?"
It was only at this moment that Luo Fan realized that all the rats buried here had golden spots on their bodies.
Apart from the golden spots, the rest of their bodies were all silver.
"Do golden rats represent rats of a higher hierarchy?"
"There are actually rat graves here. It looks like the underground world is more vast than I thought."
-- Geschenk
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