Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

However, the scene that the group had anticipated—the Rat King being hit by the throwing knives—did not happen. Several throwing knives struck the Rat King's head, making a few "clink" sounds before falling to the ground, and the Rat King was completely unharmed.

Seeing the Rat King's disdainful gaze, Zhou Yang's heart skipped a beat and he immediately shouted, "Yan Fei, get out of the way! It has metal powers!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several throwing knives that had fallen beside the Rat King rose into the air and shot straight toward Yan Fei with a "whoosh".

Yan Fei knew the Rat King was difficult to deal with when the throwing knife was deflected. After hearing Zhou Yang's words, he became even more vigilant. So when the Rat King controlled the throwing knife to shoot at him, he subconsciously turned to the side and narrowly dodged several knives. One of them even grazed Yan Fei's cheek, leaving a cut that instantly bleeds out.

"This Rat King is amazing. It can actually turn its body into metal to block attacks and can also manipulate metal."

After Yan Fei retreated to a safe distance, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Even he, a human with metal powers, had never thought of using his powers to metallize parts of his body, yet a rat knew how to use this method for defense. He felt ashamed just thinking about it.

Chai Jin grabbed a handful of hair in frustration: "What do we do now? Metal abilities aren't working, fire and lightning are useless... Damn it! We can't even beat a rat!"

The group was extremely worried and racked their brains for a solution.

Zhou Yang had been racking his brains for a long time when he suddenly saw the Rat King turn its head and stare in his direction, and he felt a sudden panic. At first, he thought that there was something on him that attracted the Rat King, but then he realized that he only had his space on him, and besides, the Rat King shouldn't be able to sense things inside his space, so what was it looking at?

He couldn't understand it, so he looked around again and again until he saw the family of big yellow rats squatting at his feet, gnawing on the corpse of a mutated rat that had been roasted by a fire-type ability user and dragged there from somewhere...

Yes, weasels are also one of the natural enemies of rats.

These three weasels, who have been ruling this mountain, couldn't possibly have not dealt with this group of mutated rats. Aren't there still several mutated rat corpses lying in the empty room where the food was stored before?

This rat king must hate the Yellow family.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yang smiled slightly, then squatted down and looked at the three little creatures: "Don't rush to eat yet, help me kill this rat king first, okay? Don't tell me you can't beat it, I don't believe it."

Upon hearing this, Da Huang and Er Huang stopped chewing, looked at the Rat King, then at Zhou Yang, and seemed somewhat conflicted.

It's not that they can't beat them, it's just not worth it. They could catch a whole bunch of rats and eat them in the time it takes to fight one of them. That's not very cost-effective.

Seeing that Dahuang and Erhuang weren't too happy, Zhou Yang could only continue to coax them: "If you kill it, all the mutated rats killed outside will be yours, how about it?"

Da Huang and Er Huang blinked at Zhou Yang, their eyes filled with disdain.

Wasn't it supposed to belong to them? How did it become a meal only available after finishing work?

Seeing that the two weasels wouldn't agree, Zhou Yang finally had to use his trump card, saying in a voice only the two weasels could hear, "After you beat it up, I'll give you a big bowl of spring water!"

Upon hearing that the reward was spring water, Da Huang and Er Huang immediately perked up, patted Zhou Yang's knee, and ran straight to the front of the group, barking at the Rat King.

I don't know what the two little things were arguing about with the Rat King, but it made the Rat King so angry that he turned his fur into needles and stabbed at the Big Yellow couple.

Unfortunately, the Yellow couple easily dodged with a twist of their hips, making faces at the Rat King as they ran.

Could the Rat King tolerate this? Absolutely not! So he chased after the weasel couple without hesitation.

Big Yellow and Second Yellow were quite something, they kept hanging on the Rat King at a steady pace, and every now and then they would take turns farting at the Rat King, making the Rat King's eyes and nose run.

Zhou Yang and the others stared in disbelief at the chase between the weasel and the rat king, as if they were watching a live version of Tom and Jerry.

"Can Big Yellow and Big Yellow manage?"

"It should be possible..."

Everyone was watching with great interest when the Rat King suddenly stopped, then convulsed all over, and within seconds collapsed to the ground, foaming at the mouth.

Zhou Yang and the others: "..."

The Rat King just collapsed like that? It looks like it died of poisoning... Are weasels really that smelly?

Several people spontaneously gathered around to check, and as soon as they reached the Rat King, they saw Little Yellow gradually appearing on the Rat King's back.

At this moment, it was still biting the Rat King's neck tightly, and only when it was sure that the Rat King's body was not moving did it let go of its mouth, and then looked at Zhou Yang with a fawning expression.

Alright, case solved. The big yellow couple confronted the rat king head-on, attracting his attention, and then the little yellow rat attacked and killed him.

Zhou Yang: "..."

Very good. This family can not only stun people and become invisible, but the smaller ones also bite and are poisonous. They are excellent at guarding the house.

Seeing the Rat King die so easily, Shen Zechuan and the others gradually lowered their guard when looking at the weasel family, no longer daring to underestimate these little guys.

As expected, you can't take anything in the apocalypse with a normal mindset. These little things that look cute are actually not to be trifled with at all. I must keep my distance from them in the future.

With the death of the most difficult Rat King, the mutated rats outside immediately fell into disarray, and Li Li led his soldiers to launch a counterattack.

Without the Rat King's orders, these mutated rats stopped fighting desperately. Realizing they couldn't win, they began to scatter and were quickly dealt with. However, some still managed to escape.

Because he had promised the weasels that he would feed the mutated rats, Zhou Yang shamelessly went to Li Li to ask for the mutated rat corpses after the rat extermination operation was over.

Li Li also heard from Yan Fei and the others that the Rat King was killed by a family of weasels, and that they didn't need the corpses of these mutated rats. So he told Zhou Yang to pick them up as he pleased, leaving them all for the weasels to eat. He also sent a small team from his group to help Zhou Yang pick out the rat corpses.

Zhou Yang selected the rat carcasses that were still relatively intact and put them into his spatial storage. As for those that were chopped into pieces or burned to charcoal, Zhou Yang didn't want them at all.

Of course, Zhou Yang didn't forget to give them the spring water he promised, and he prepared a basin for each rat before picking up the corpses.

By the time Zhou Yang and the others finished cleaning up the mutated rat corpses, it was almost dawn.

Everyone was exhausted by the mutated rats, so they decided to start loading the trucks right away and try to finish as soon as possible to get back to base. There were just too many unstable factors in the wild.

Everyone hurried along, and finally managed to load all the remaining grain onto the carts before sunset.

After a final check of the convoy, Li Li reported to the base and then took the lead in setting off.

Zhou Yang and the others also got into their own off-road vehicles and followed at the back of the convoy.

Pea continued to run alongside the car on her own, while the Big Yellow family clung to Zhou Yang, hitching a ride with him.

Because the convoy was carrying overweight grain, it traveled slowly. Although it only took half a day to get there, it took nearly two hours to get back.

Fearing delays, everyone even made do with dry food in the car for dinner.

Fortunately, the journey went smoothly. Apart from encountering some zombies, they didn't encounter any other dangerous situations and finally returned to the base in the early hours of the morning.