Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
However, the long line of people was winding around the maze-like underground passage, while the surrounding light was getting dimmer and dimmer.
The carbon dioxide exhaled by hundreds and thousands of people froze the air, like a thousand-pound boulder pressing on everyone’s heart.
Meng Chao became increasingly puzzled as he walked farther.
This did not seem to be the way out…
He had once sneaked into the underground passage.
Based on the flow of the air, as well as the aura from the end of the underground passage and the wilderness, he could determine the general direction of the exit.
The air in the passage before them was like a rotten swamp. It was completely frozen. He couldn’t sense even the slightest ripple caused by the gentle breeze.
Sure enough, it did not take long for a large block to appear in front of them.
There was no way forward.
Other than where they came from, the other three walls were as hard as iron.
The crowd immediately panicked.
Some people could not help but cry out loud.
A few Rat God emissaries, who were mixed in the crowd, shouted, “Everyone, don’t panic. Kneel and pray to the Rat God. As long as our faith is strong enough, the Rat God will definitely save us!”
Under their leadership, the helpless rat people all knelt down.
Meng Chao and Ice Storm looked at each other and assumed the same posture as the rat people.
Ice Storm, on the other hand, had a suspicious look on her face. She lowered her head and mouthed a question to Meng Chao, “What the hell? Are you sure this is the way out?”
Meng Chao’s mind raced, and he instantly denied the possibility that they had been deliberately left to die.
That was because this team also included many strong adult rat people.
Many of their hands had been stained with the blood of the Blood Hoof warriors. Logically speaking, they were the best cannon fodder.
Moreover, there were also many Rat God emissaries mixed in the crowd.
However, such precious human resources should not be wasted like this.
Furthermore, Meng Chao also discovered something very strange.
The team seemed to have been shortened.
They were at the back of the long team.
There should have been at least tens of thousands of people in the front.
They did not encounter many forks along the way, and there were no traces of large groups of people passing through the forks.
If this was really a dead end, where did the tens of thousands of people in front go?
“Wait, this is…”
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes and adjusted the size of his pupils, stimulating his retina and cone cells with his spirit energy.
With the help of the dim light, he discovered that the walls and the ground of the “dead end” were densely covered in carved cuneiform characters.
As the rat militia prayed sincerely, the people’s breathing, heartbeat, and vitality magnetic field gradually fluctuated at the same frequency.
Their vitality seemed to have turned into a small stream and gathered into the cuneiform characters.
The cuneiform characters sparkled, and the strokes continued to extend, intertwining and entangling with each other!
Soon, hundreds of thousands of rat people’s volunteer army soldiers were enveloped by the radiance of the cuneiform characters.
The incomparably magnificent radiance seemed to have a magical penetrative power, and gradually seeped into the skin, flesh, and bones of every rat people.
The rat militia, who had been burnt by the flames of war and smoke, became translucent and translucent.
Meng Chao spread out his hands in front of him.
He found that his two palms had also become exquisitely carved works of art that looked like glass, crystals, and colorful gemstones.
Every blood vessel, every tendon, and even every nerve could be clearly seen. He was just like a “translucent person.”
He was not an exception.
Such wonderful changes had taken place in every rat citizen around him.
Guided by the emissaries of the Rat God, the rat citizens did not panic because of the wonderful changes in their bodies.
Instead, they were ecstatic to believe that the Big-horned Rat God had really listened to their prayers and sent a “miracle” to save them.
This scene made Meng Chao’s eyes widen.
He was naturally no stranger to the miraculous changes that had happened to everyone.
He had tasted such a feeling countless times in Dragon City’s Ancient Ruins No. 1.
“This is…
“A short-distance transmigration device on the planet’s surface!
“It can also be considered a super large-scale ‘transmigration array!’”
Meng Chao suddenly understood.
No wonder the emissaries of the Rat God were confident that they could get thousands of rat people out of Black-corner City.
Meng Chao originally thought that they were daydreaming. It was almost impossible to get hundreds of thousands of rabble who had not received professional training to do so in the dimly lit environment deep underground. It was almost impossible to travel dozens of miles in an orderly manner without any chaos, congestion, or even the tragedy of trampling on each other.
Moreover, even if they could escape a dozen miles away from Black-corner City, they would be easily discovered by the Blood Hoof Army.
The centaurs of the Blood Hoof Clan were natural cavalrymen.
It was easy to catch up with the large-scale fugitives and destroy them.
The mastermind behind the temple thieves might be a lunatic.
But he was definitely not a foolhardy fool.
Since he dared to spend an astronomical amount of money to carry out such a grand plan.
Naturally, he was certain that he could get at least one-third to half of the rat population in Black-corner City to leave safely.
Meng Chao had never been able to figure out the crux of his trick.
“It seems that the guy hiding behind the Rat God long discovered a super large-scale transmigration array buried deep below Black-corner City.
“No, not just one. If the transmigration array was the creation of the ancient Turan, a certain military facility wouldn’t have been built alone. Instead, there would have been several or even dozens of transmigration arrays scattered around. It would form an enormous ‘underground port’ that could absorb several hundred thousand tons of resources and thousands of troops in a short period of time.
“On the other hand, the other transmigration array must be very far away from Black-corner City.
“The reason is simple. If it were outside Black-corner City, conventional transportation would be enough. There would be no need to build military facilities such as the short-distance transmigration system on the planet’s surface.
“The enemy’s entire plan revolves around the transmigration array.
“Yes. Of course, the sewage pipes in Black-corner City lead all the way out of the city. Also, the enemy will certainly leave a lot of traces, which will mislead the Blood Hoof warriors into believing that most of the rat people escaped out of the city through the sewage pipes.
“However, that’s just a feint.
“By the time the Blood Hoof warriors realize they’ve wasted too much time inside and outside of the sewage pipes, the emissaries of the Rat God would have fled hundreds of kilometers away from Black-corner City with hundreds of thousands of rat people and the trophies they had stolen from the temple!”
Although they were on different sides…
Meng Chao did not necessarily appreciate the ruthlessness of the mastermind who used the lives of millions of rats as a bargaining chip.
However, he could not help but applaud the other party’s methods.
As for why the other party did not reveal the truth along the way and even pretended to pray at the last moment…
That involved a very mysterious psychological principle.
Humans would only awaken their most devout faith and believe in the existence of a savior during their most desperate moment.
Meng Chao could guarantee that.
After such a reversal of “the last moment and the arrival of a miracle,” all the rat people who had escaped would no longer have the slightest doubt about the Big-horned Rat God’s existence.
Even if the emissaries of the Big-horned Rat God wanted them to face the blade of the totem warriors and charge straight forward, they would not blink an eye.
Soon, the light surging out from the cuneiform characters turned into a milky-white sea of light, drowning everything within Meng Chao’s vision.
The entire world began to melt, including his body of flesh and blood.
The Turan civilization’s transmigration array seemed to use a more advanced technology than the one that the Dragon City civilization had just begun to develop.
Not only could it transmigrate more rational carbon-based intelligent life forms at once…
During the transmigration process, there were no strong dizziness, intense pain, hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, and other adverse reactions.
Soon, the sea of light that flooded Meng Chao’s eyes dissipated like a receding tide.
When his vision became clear again, the world around him had changed.
It was no longer the cramped and dilapidated walls, the burning city, the pungent smell of blood, and the rising and falling sounds of killing.
Instead, it was a field close to a dense forest. The blue sky and White Clouds, the gentle breeze, and the fragrance of the grass made people feel relaxed and happy. They almost forgot the exhaustion, pain, and fear from a moment ago.
On the distant horizon, Black-corner City had become an insignificant black dot.
Judging from the thickness of the smoke column that shot up into the sky above the black dot, this place was at least thirty to fifty miles away from Black-corner City.
Meng Chao looked around.
The rat subjects who had been transmigrated with him were staring at the world that had suddenly opened up in a daze. They could not believe that they had escaped.
When they finally realized that the man-eating demon cave named Black-corner City was far behind them, many could not help but burst into tears. They knelt down and kissed the cuneiform characters carved on the transmigration array, thanking the Rat God for the “miracle” that had descended on them.
“We are saved!”
“The Rat God has really saved us!”
“Praise the ancestral spirits. They are the ancestral spirits of the rat people!”
They were so happy that they wept. They danced and fell into madness.
Even Ice Storm was stunned.
She was not as ignorant as the ordinary rat people. She believed that what just happened was really a miracle.
However, it was also the first time that she had tasted short-distance transmigration on the surface of a planet. Unlike Meng Chao, who was already an experienced traveler, she had never experienced such a thing before.
Right then, Ice Storm was still immersed in the wonderful taste of traversing a hundred miles in an instant. She stared at Black-corner City for a long time before she spoke in a voice that only Meng Chao could hear, “I thought that only the few Towers of Light and Towers of Magic in the land of Holy Light had the technology to transform the flesh and blood of devout believers into light beams, and then transmigrate them to another side in an instant.
“I didn’t expect to see a similar device in Picturesque Orchid Lake.
“Reaper, you are right. The ancient Turan people did indeed have an incredibly splendid civilization.. The advanced orcs of today are far inferior to their ancestors!”