American homeless people, surviving in the city

With the help of navigation software, Lynch quickly arrived at the area infested with rats.

Park Street, which intersects with Third Avenue here, is a narrow street with buildings on both sides that look quite like they were in the 19th century. Not far away, there is a market street that mainly sells second-hand goods.

Since he had come on foot, Lynch didn't initially notice anything different about the area.

But just a few seconds after he reached the street corner, he saw several plump Norwegian house rats tumbling out of a dark alleyway on the side of the street.

Compared to their fellow rats living elsewhere, these few rats appeared extremely arrogant.

They ran out onto the street, but showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, they played and tore at each other on the sidewalk, completely ignoring the passersby who screamed and ran away.

Seeing this harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, and the thriving scene, Lin Qi smiled with satisfaction.

This is the place he's been looking for!

After confirming that there were a large number of house rats active in the vicinity, Lynch turned and walked into a small grocery store on the street corner.

In the wilderness, he might need to use branches, ropes, and stones to create all sorts of troublesome and unreliable traps, or spend hours handcrafting a bow and arrow to test his accuracy.

But since we're in the city, we don't need to use the same tactics as in the wilderness.

Sure enough, just as Lynch had predicted, the grocery store had an entire shelf filled with all sorts of rat-catching products, as it was located in an area with a high incidence of rat infestation.

From sticky mouse traps to classic mousetraps like those in Tom and Jerry, to small family-sized rat poison, they have everything, and the price is only a few dollars to a dozen dollars, which is not expensive.

In addition to these traditional mouse-catching tools, there are also many strange and niche products on the shelves.

Looking at the shelf full of various rodent-catching products, Lin Qi quickly made his choice.

A few minutes later, he left the shop with the items he had selected and disappeared into the nearest alley.

As soon as you step inside, the relatively closed and dark alleyway is filled with a stagnant air mixed with the sour smell of rotting garbage.

This place has clearly been neglected for a long time. Even though Lynch walked into it without any attempt to hide it, the local inhabitants, the plump Norwegian house rats, paid no attention to his arrival.

Very well, you "natives," now I'll do what America did in the past and borrow your heads for a while...

Since the mice didn't seem to care about his arrival and continued rummaging through the trash can for food, Lin Qi was happy to let it go.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he installed sticky mouse traps throughout the alley.

However, the house mice that had lived there since childhood seemed to have become quite intelligent; as soon as Lin Qi placed the sticky mouse trap, they quickly swarmed around it.

After a brief sniff, they seemed to recognize this simple and crude mousetrap and all walked away, not a single mouse willingly stepping onto the sticky trap.

Even more outrageous, several of the larger and more robust rats even tried to overturn a sticky rat trap, then squeaked and squeaked as if mocking the overconfident Lynch.

Okay, that's great.

Lin Qi naturally didn't react to the rats' mockery, because the sticky rat traps weren't his main method of catching rats; they were just tools to restrict the rats' movements.

Soon, surrounded by a group of mice, Lynch, having installed all the sticky mouse traps, pulled out his real weapon from his pocket.

A specially made mousetrap slingshot!

As a passionate wilderness survival enthusiast, Lynch has a deep understanding of all kinds of tools that can be used in wilderness survival.

This naturally includes the slingshot, one of humanity's most primitive yet still deadly long-range weapons!

This mousetrap slingshot, along with a small bag of steel balls, sells for only $10 at a small grocery store.

Lynch took a liking to it at first sight, took ten dollars from his remaining few dozen dollars, and spent a huge sum to buy it.

After a few simple adjustments to the slingshot's tension and a feel for the trajectory of the marbles, Lin Qi quickly got the hang of this new weapon.

The surrounding mice were completely unaware that a great calamity was about to befall them.

Seeing that this human had inexplicably entered their territory and was standing there fiddling with something, they lost interest in Lynch.

One by one, they continued to climb up and down the trash can, searching for food. The male and female mice chased and played with each other, creating quite a lively scene.

Just as the mouse society was at peace, Lin Qi, having weighed the small steel ball and fully mastered the slingshot, tied the rubber band around it.

When I was a naughty child, I often used a slingshot to shoot birds. Back then, I could hit even small birds on treetops more than ten meters away with perfect accuracy.

Next, let's test you dirty rats and see if I'm still as sharp as ever!

Tie up the rubber band, attach the steel ball, raise your arm, and when you aim, your eyes, the steel ball, the angle of the stretched rubber band, and the prey should be in a straight line.

Lynch selected the fattest rat perched atop the trash can, feasting on its meal, and aimed between its eyes.

Without hesitation, he loosened the rubber band in his hand!

The rubber band, stretched to its limit, snapped back instantly, unleashing tremendous kinetic energy and propelling the small steel ball inside out like a tiny silver meteor.

With a whooshing sound, the enormous rat, still frantically devouring its food, had no idea what was happening.

There was a crisp "snap" sound.

The rat's left eye instantly burst open, creating a bloody hole, and red and white substances shot out, blasting a disgusting, sticky mess onto the wall behind it.

Tsk, still missed...

Lin Qi shook his head inwardly; he hadn't intended to create such a disgusting scene.

As he anticipated, the steel ball should hit the mouse between the eyebrows. The slingshot's kinetic energy wouldn't be enough to pierce the mouse's fur and skull, but it would cause a severe concussion, rendering it unconscious and unable to recover.

However, the bullet missed its mark by a tiny bit and accidentally pierced the rat's eye, causing it to die instantly and burst out in a puddle of foul-smelling liquid.

In any case, the mission is accomplished.

A crisp sound rang in Lin Qi's mind:

[Ding~ Congratulations player, you have successfully completed the daily quest: First Hunt!]

However, before he could check the mission rewards, the chaos beneath his feet startled him once again.

The sound of the bullet piercing the air startled the rats, and the fact that the large rat had died such a gruesome death caused panic among all the rats in the alley.

In an instant, the narrow space inside the alley transformed into a writhing black ocean, with countless rats scrambling to escape.

Putting aside the disgusting scene, there were at least four or five rats rushing towards the road outside the alley!

not good!

Although there wouldn't be any consequences if the rats were allowed to rush out of the alley, Lynch instinctively wanted to stop them from frightening passersby.

He raised his hand, placed the steel ball on it, and quickly aimed.

Fortunately, the sticky mouse traps he had just set up came in handy as he aimed.

Many rats panicked and rushed onto the sticky rat traps, where they got stuck, causing even more chaos.

This chaos also slowed down the rats' speed in rushing out of the alley!

Taking advantage of this precious time, Lin Qi aimed without hesitation and fired several steel balls in succession!

In just a few seconds, as if he had opened the eyes of death, every steel ball that Lin Qi fired accurately hit the back of the head of the rats that were running out of the alley.

Before the mice could even see the free sunlight outside the alley, they tumbled and collapsed to the ground, convulsing uncontrollably, completely losing their ability to run, and falling forever into the darkness behind them.

"call..."

Lin Qi lowered his hand that was holding the slingshot, rubbed his sore shoulders, and slowly let out a long sigh.

Although he didn't expect his performance to be so outstanding, it was as bizarre as that brother who always missed shots in a shooting game suddenly taking down the enemy's leader in a single shot.

But it just feels good, no explanation needed!

With everything settled, all the remaining rats in the alley scurried into the shadows. Lin Qi shook his hand and walked out of the alley.

Little did he know that everything he did in the alley was secretly filmed by someone not far away!