Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Squeak squeak squeak!
Seeing the black gasoline pouring down, the devouring rats began to panic.
Especially the devouring rats that had escaped from the fire last night, the fear of gasoline was carved into their DNA.
The moment they smelled it, they became restless and ran forward desperately, trying to escape this area before the gasoline spread.
The remaining devouring rats also felt the danger in the air and fought to leave this place.
Seeing the group of rats rushing toward him, Hubert took out a windproof lighter from his pocket, lit it, and threw it into the trench in front of him.
Whoosh!
The gasoline in the trench was ignited. A two-meter-high and half-meter-wide flame wall blocked the entrance of the hole, completely blocking the retreat path of the devouring rats.
Seeing that the wall of flames was blocking the path forward, the devouring rats panicked. Some wanted to turn around and find another path, while others wanted to charge through the wall of flames.
Seeing that some of the devouring rats were unwilling to give up, Hubert instantly had a few tear gas canisters in his hands and threw them over.
Huff huff huff!
Thick smoke spread out among the devouring rats.
The irritating gas made the rats completely collapse. They all turned back, trying to find a new passage.
However, this battlefield was arranged by Hubert. Not to mention the passage, even some of the wider gaps were filled with stones. How could there be a second passage?
Therefore, the rats’ escape was definitely futile.
At this time, the depression in the cave was almost filled with gasoline. Hubert saw that it was about time, so he lit a windproof lighter and threw it over.
Whoosh!
The flame that brought upon death began to burn. The flame quickly spread to the entire cave, igniting every devouring rats.
The screams of the devouring rats echoed throughout the cave. Hubert could smell the burnt smell even through the oxygen mask.
Although the scene before him was very cruel, Hubert knew that he was doing the right thing.
If the devouring rats could not be eliminated, the entire sanctuary, and even the entire population of St. Louis, would become food for these rats.
Once the population of the devouring rats exploded, it would not only be a city, a state, or even a country that would suffer a catastrophe.
It could be the entire human race.
Therefore, the devouring rats had to die.
Some of the devouring rats were unwilling to die and tried to escape from Hubert.
However, Hubert was already prepared.
After passing through the tear gas fog and the half-meter-wide wall of flames, the devouring rats’ mobility had become extremely slow. They were easily killed by Hubert’s Holy Light Bomb.
The fire burned for half an hour before it gradually died out. The cave was filled with charred corpses.
Hubert waited for half an hour. When the smoke in the air had dissipated a little, he picked up a gas canister and walked into the cave.
Although the fire was very big, there were also a lot of devouring rats. Many of the devouring rats were not burned into ashes. There were still some charred corpses.
Hubert even saw two surviving devouring rats. He did not know how they managed to stay alive in such a big fire.
However, their good luck ended here.
Hubert used a gas canister to burn them to ashes.
The living devouring rats could not be left alive. The corpses of the dead devouring rats could spread diseases. They could not be left alone either.
Only the devouring rats that turned into ashes were good devouring rats.
Hubert burned all the devouring rats’ bodies into ashes.
After that, Hubert checked a few more times to make sure that he did not miss anything. Then he let people in to clean up the ashes of the rats. At the same time, he began to dig a secret passage to the outside world to ensure that when the shelter was besieged by strong enemies, there was a safe way to escape.
In addition to digging a passage to the outside of the city, Hubert also had people set up alarm devices in all the manholes leading to the sewer.
Although this device could not prevent people with ulterior motives from entering, it could at least let them know who had entered the sewer. After all, it was the last escape tunnel, so they could not be too careful.
After dealing with these matters, Hubert began to think about how to upgrade his loyal subordinates.
Although the battle of the church last night was very successful, it was based on his presence and the advantage of the terrain.
If he had not been there last night, or if the terrain advantage was not so great, the sanctuary might have been breached by the devouring rats last night.
In general, it was because his subordinates were not strong enough.
As for how to improve the strength of his subordinates, Hubert, who had experienced the five years in the Cataclysm, had many ways.
The simplest way was to consume the corpses of other monsters.
Through people’s research, the main reason that caused humans to become monsters was a substance called magical elements.
Magical elements were a double-edged sword. Although it changed the appearance of humans, it also allowed many people to grasp supernatural energy that they could not grasp before.
For example, Hubert who had turned into an angel, Father Marlin who had turned into an ancient tree of life, and Chloe who had turned into a pea girl.
As long as one accumulated a large amount of magical elements in their body, they could increase their own strength, make their superpowers stronger, and even obtain new superpowers.
And eating the corpses of a large number of monsters was the simplest way to obtain magical elements. It could allow the various magical elements in the bodies of the monsters to accumulate in the body, thus rapidly increasing the level of the eaters.
However, there was a problem with this method. If a large number of the corpses of the monsters were eaten in a short period of time, some viruses would remain in the body.
The virus would make the eaters more and more irritable and crazy. The violent symptoms could only be alleviated by eating the monsters’ corpses.
The more they ate, the more manic they became. This formed a vicious cycle. Eventually, the virus would cause the eaters to go crazy and become irrational monsters.
In the previous life, many strong powerhouses in the early period of the Cataclysm had gone to their deaths step by step.
As someone who had seen many tragedies like this, Hubert naturally would not let his subordinates follow this path.
Other than eating the corpses of monsters, the second method was much safer, which was to eat some special enchanted plants.
After the magical elements were extracted and transformed by these special plants, although the effect was less efficient than directly eating the corpses of monsters, there were no side effects.
As long as it was eaten for a long time, it was a stable way to increase one’s strength.
Later on, people gradually realized the value of this special plant and began to desperately search for these special plants, and even fought for these special plants.
Every time a special plant was found, there would be a bloody storm.
And Hubert, who had returned from the Cataclysm, was very clear about the location of those special plants.
He wanted to get his hands on those treasures before everyone knew they could safely increase their strength.