Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 890 - 365: The Evil Rat Rumor

A gentle squeeze of the severed palm could seep out still-fresh blood. Zhou Xuan immediately realized—inside the tent, disaster had struck.

He placed his palm back where it was, wanting to see clearly the "scenery" in the tent.

Though once he employed Turtle Breath, he would blend into Heaven and Earth like "Mountain Ancestor" Li Changxun said, so long as there weren’t any obvious movements, he was almost invisible and unlikely to be noticed.

Yet he still chose not to lift the tent flap and enter inside—whether lifting the flap would trigger the break in Turtle Breath Technique’s concealment was currently unclear to Zhou Xuan.

Thus, like taking a stroll, he circled the tent, found a crevice in the fabric, and peered inside.

There were no lights inside the tent. Although electricity was excessive luxury after the mountain products barter in Mingjiang Prefecture, people couldn’t afford it.

Therefore, in the tents blooming like wildflowers behind the Medical College, Mingjiang people used kerosene lamps for lighting at night.

However, at this moment, not even a kerosene lamp was lit inside, leaving it utterly dark.

Fortunately, once Zhou Xuan entered the Turtle Breath state, not only could he gather all his aura and perception, but he could also enhance his hearing and vision.

Even in a pitch-black environment, it looked like daylight to him.

When his gaze penetrated the tent, despite Zhou Xuan being a veteran, he was shocked by the sight within.

There were over ten civilians inside, men and women, old and young.

These people were assisting a pregnant woman with delivery, but it wasn’t a "natural birth"; rather, it was a caesarean section. A man was crazily digging into the woman’s belly with both hands, carving a tearing wound, then grabbing a thin black thing, pulling it out.

Upon closely examining this black object, Zhou Xuan realized it was a rat tail, meaning—the pregnant woman wasn’t carrying a baby, but a rat!

The man tugged at the rat’s tail to pull it out but couldn’t get the rat out of the belly; helpless, he signaled to his companions around him.

The companions then bit off the pregnant woman’s left palm with sharp teeth and handed the severed hand to the man.

The man took the severed hand and kept squeezing it, letting the blood drip into the bloody cavity.

The scent of fresh blood tempted the black rat in the belly, and soon, a fat rat’s backside emerged, shaking unstoppably.

Seeing more of the black rat’s body emerge, the man threw the severed hand on the ground, then continued pulling the black rat.

Zhou Xuan also noticed at this time that the woman’s other hand had long been severed. Thus—the palm he picked up beside the tent had come from such an occurrence.

"A rat in the belly, they assisted with the birth, the rat doesn’t want to come out, so they tempt it with living human blood?"

Zhou Xuan was puzzled, still unclear on what these people wanted to do.

With greater force this time, the man finally pulled out the rat with much effort.

The black rat was very fat, had no eyes, and was blind.

"Earth Abyss vile rat, unholy soil reincarnation?"

Seeing the newly-born black rat, Zhou Xuan recalled the last Child of the Earth Abyss.

"Too bad your vile rat reincarnation met its demise with me."

Zhou Xuan was determined to act, planning to kill the rat, and cleanse this room of rat accomplices, leaving one alive for interrogation,

But the people inside the tent acted faster than Zhou Xuan; once the black rat was born, they swarmed over, each opening their mouth and extending their hands, tearing the black rat apart for a meal.

The rat’s soft bits, like blood, meat, tendons, and internal organs were immediately chewed and swallowed, whereas hard parts, such as the bones, were slowly grinding in their mouths,

This was the "bone grinding" sound Zhou Xuan heard a short while ago.

After finishing these actions, the midwife-like man stuffed the two severed hands into the blood cavity on the woman’s belly.

Once stuffed inside, they miraculously melted, then like a sticky glue, sealed the bloody hole on the woman’s belly.

After completing these actions, the man waved his hand in the room, softly said: "Time to sleep, once the rat is removed, Zhou Xuan will not discover our whereabouts, so sleep."

This is when everyone inside the tent started taking off their clothes to lie down.

Their bodies laid bare in Zhou Xuan’s view.

"Are they all transforming into rats?"

Seeing these people, Zhou Xuan noticed varying degrees of rat features on them; some had rat tails growing between their buttocks; some had patches of black short hair appearing on their skin; some had faces already resembling large rats; others grew whiskers like a rat.

The ones with the least signs showed two rat-like incisors when yawning.

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An inexplicable rat transformation had occurred among the people inside a single tent, what about the other tents?

Zhou Xuan temporarily set aside his desire to kill, not thinking to first eliminate the "rat-transformed people" inside this tent, but instead continued relying on the Turtle Breath Technique to explore every tent within the swimming pool.

Some tents were also experiencing "birth of vile rat" events,

Others had people secretly discussing within them.