"This man is a traitor! He must be captured! Otherwise he will teach the mice too many things! I suspect that he taught the idea of this wooden cart!"
When Zhou You saw this man, he was riding a heavy-duty model aircraft helicopter hanging at a height of about five hundred meters in the sky, and then using a variable optical magnification astronomical telescope to overlook the battlefield. Deng Tao, who was taking charge of the overall situation and commanding, also said this on the walkie-talkie
shouted.
Deng Tao also noticed this person.
Zhou You agreed with Deng Tao's decision. This man must be captured alive, but Zhou You did not agree with Deng Tao's speculation.
It is possible that this traitor has not yet gained the trust of the rats, or has not yet found a way to truly communicate with the rats to impart human knowledge.
Otherwise, the mouse should not be using a real cart with huge frictional resistance, or at least add a rolling structure underneath.
However, all this is just speculation. The truth can only be found out after arresting the person and interrogating him.
Now that it is determined to focus on this man, the next battle plan will naturally be adjusted.
Although many mice have armor on their bodies, in front of human warriors who use more powerful firearms, the wooden shell armor is still not good enough and is always easily penetrated.
Although the soldiers always had to let some rats go from time to time due to insufficient numbers, if they had to keep any of them, it would be easy and not difficult.
But if you focus on one target, you will inevitably let go of more other targets.
However, this large rat carrying people on its back is the prey of the traveling emperor.
He will take action personally just in case.
The powered exoskeleton armored warrior followed Zhou You's order and changed his position slightly, deliberately exposing a gap.
Sure enough, the large rat carrying the man immediately caught the gap, charged at him, and easily passed by.
During this process, Zhou You had been using the 10x optical zoom of a Huajia P50 mobile phone placed in the cockpit of the humanoid armor to enlarge the picture and lock it on the man riding the rat, observing the details of the man's expression.
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Zhou You keenly noticed that the moment he noticed the big rat rushing out of the encirclement, the man's face was not filled with fear and panic, but a natural smile.
It was obvious that he was rejoicing in his "escape".
Basically, based on this man's micro-expression, the other party's identity as a traitor has been confirmed, beyond any doubt.
The suspense now is to what extent he rebelled.
Youyou's eyes were always locked on the giant rat and the man on its back, and then he moved step by step in the direction in which the other person was running.
At this time, the actual fighting broke out far beyond the area guarded by Zhou You and others.
In other directions around the hill, there were also more and more rats forcing their way across the line of fire in an attempt to rush out.
There are at least 100,000 rats on this mountain at this time.
Although due to the size limitation of mice, when hundreds of thousands of mice swarmed down the mountain, they did not look like thousands of troops, let alone spread over the mountains and plains. However, if you look around, there are still rats everywhere, and there are dark shadows everywhere.
It's just that Zhou You chose the best escape location, and then met the seemingly most important giant rat and human traitor here, which was considered a gain.
The giant rat finally completely broke through the human encirclement. It probably only needed to rush forward ten meters to completely break through the first layer of defense.
Of course, this does not mean that it and the people on its back can escape.
There are three lines of defense waiting for them next.
The most likely outcome for this man and the mouse is that because they are too eye-catching, they will be taken care of by the next line of defense, and then they will both be killed on the spot.
Zhou You will not let this "tragedy" happen, after all, he still has many things to ask the suspected traitor.
As for the man on the mouse's back, there are actually many choices at this time.
If he could conjure a knife from his body now, and then stab the giant rat under him in the back of the neck, then he would have a chance to return to human society immediately.
Of course, the subsequent review is inevitable, but at least his life safety can be guaranteed.
No matter how bad it was, he could actually find a way to jump off the mouse's back, and then run directly towards Zhou You or other human warriors.
Then humans will naturally not shoot him head-on.
After all, he is still a human being, and he doesn't have to worry about the rat behind him coming at him from a distance and killing him with a long-range weapon.
But none of these things happened, and he seemed determined to run away with the mouse.
Snap!
The man's dream of escape was shattered.
The humanoid robot traveling around suddenly accelerated its speed, taking steps like a human running, reaching a terrifying speed of ten meters per second.
Not only that, while running, Zhou You even raised the right arm of the humanoid robot, and the hinged heavy crossbow arrows on the arm, which were made based on the principle of a compound bow, fired out.
The crossbow arrow was fired in advance and accurately hit the giant rat's head, nailing it to the ground.
The middle-aged man on the back of the giant rat also rolled forward due to the sudden deceleration of the giant rat, and fell to the ground.
He seemed a little dazed after the fall. After standing up, he looked around unsteadily and did not make the next move for a while.
Zhou You had already controlled the humanoid robot and walked over, leaning down and squatting in front of the middle-aged man.
Now, without talking around, the middle-aged man himself knew what the situation was.
After a brief period of confusion and stiffness, the middle-aged man's expression suddenly changed. He cried bitterly and threw himself at the feet of the humanoid robot, moaning repeatedly.
"Oh my God! Someone has come to save me!"
The man was very excited.
If Zhou You hadn't been observing him, he might have thought that this man was rejoicing at being rescued.
But Zhou You didn't expose him, he just randomly summoned two soldiers wearing powered exoskeleton armor and arranged them to be the man's bodyguards.
Of course, based on the current situation, there is actually no difference between the so-called bodyguards and the jailers who guard prisoners.
After settling the man, Zhou You immediately controlled the humanoid robot and returned to the main battlefield.
This first line of defense will definitely be broken sooner or later, and the interception rate is probably about ten percent, which is pretty good.
After all, the number of human warriors was too small. In this small area, there were only Zhou You and about twenty other warriors wearing armor.
Seeing the tight defense here, the rats inside had already adjusted their strategies in time, and more rats began to try to escape from other directions.
Zhou You and his direct followers were indeed unable to stop them, beyond their reach.
The rest of the battle was rather lackluster.
Zhou You seized the opportunity and took action twice. About a dozen rats gathered together to charge. They were just enough to be taken care of by the flamethrower, so it was not a waste of resources.
As for other powered exoskeleton armored warriors, they have successively exhausted their long-range ammunition and can only chase and kill enemies on foot. Their efficiency has dropped significantly, and the power reserve of their powered armor has also been declining rapidly.
To be on the safe side, Zhou You ordered these soldiers not to pursue too enthusiastically, lest they would exhaust the armor's power early and end up being surrounded by rats.
Soon, gunshots and explosions were heard from behind Zhou You and others.
It was the soldiers on the low-altitude single-person airship who were using thermal weapons to mow down the rats that had successfully broken through.
After a while, the first line of defense led by Zhou You personally had been completely breached. Instead of expanding the defensive area, many elite ground troops began to gather together to form a defensive posture.
The fire line at the foot of the mountain has gradually extinguished.
The mountain fire has basically started burning and is spreading up the mountainside, like a doomsday scene.
But by this time, no more rats had broken through.
It seems that most of the mice that could escape have already escaped.
Other ground troops further behind have also opened fire one after another, the gunfire is more intensive, and the sound of explosions is rising one after another.
On the other side, Yin Yan ventured to the top of the mountain again, lowered the altitude slightly and carefully verified the situation, confirming that there were indeed no more rats on the mountain, and reported the matter to Zhou You and Deng Tao.
Zhou You thought for a while, and ordered the twenty-odd soldiers who had followed him to stay put and wait for the war to end. At the same time, he also "protected" the middle-aged man who introduced himself as Duke.
He took long strides and walked outside, and began to rely on the stronger performance of the humanoid combat robot to continuously hunt the rats from behind.
Some soldiers proposed to take off their exoskeleton armor that was about to lose power, and like other members of the ground forces, they only relied on the thin layer of armor on their bodies and the melee weapons in their hands to participate in the clearance.
But Zhou You rejected these warriors' proposals.
Now it seems that our own four lines of defense have formed a siege on the rats. The fundamental reason is that the human equipment is well-equipped, and the rats' many desperate raids have been defeated by the thick and strong exoskeleton armor.
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The elites like myself have become nails driven deep into the formation of the rat army. The rats hate them deeply, but they have no choice but to completely ignore them.
So the mouse has only one option: escape.
But once humans voluntarily give up the benefits of equipment and reveal flaws, rats will find opportunities to cause harm.
You can be sure that rats will change their tactics without hesitation and start killing humans.
By that time, our own casualties will inevitably increase, and the rats may even take the opportunity to launch a counterattack.
Therefore, he chose to let other fighters continue to be their thorns, while he could use the strength of the humanoid robot to obtain more kills.
Zhouyou rarely uses the flamethrower, and most of the time he uses the high-pressure airbag machine gun pretending to be on his left arm and the hinged compound crossbow on his right arm.
His killing efficiency is not very high, he only takes one shot every five seconds on average.
But he was steady enough and almost never missed. Every shot and arrow hit as hard as possible.
Time passed little by little, and the battle gradually entered the final stage.
Even though the drone squadron had been working non-stop throughout the entire process and had turned on the most intense pursuit mode, about 30% of the rats still managed to escape.
There is not much time to take inventory of the battlefield, so we can only make preliminary estimates of the results.
What is certain is that at least tens of thousands of rats died in this hill today.
But what really caused the most damage was not the guns, crossbows, arrows and shells of the combat team members. After all, the ammunition inventory was actually not used at all.
The number of rats that died directly at the hands of humans should not exceed 15,000.
What is truly deadly is fire.
The number of rats buried in the flames reached more than 50,000.
The fleet sets off immediately after simple integration.
In the off-road vehicle, Zhou You, who had taken off his equipment, was sitting on a chair fixed with strong glue on the dashboard, looking at the man sitting on the small bench in front of him.
"I heard someone say your name is Duke before, right?"
Zhou You asked.
The middle-aged man nodded slightly nervously, "Yes sir."
An elite team member stood next to Zhou You and asked, "There is a Dujia Village in Tongming Town. Are you from Dujia Village?"
Although this elite team member is now in Lelai and has joined the Zhou family in Lelai, he is a native of Kangyue County and is familiar with the situation in Kangyue County, so he was transferred to assist in the interrogation.
Hearing this, Duke hesitated for two seconds and then said: "No, no, I just happen to have the surname Du, and it has nothing to do with the Du Village."
The elite team member frowned slightly, then quietly approached Zhou You and whispered: "This person does not admit that he is from Dujia Village. But in fact, the earliest family in Dujia Village with the surname Du came here when Huguang filled Sichuan.
The accent is a little different from that of people from other villages. I can hear this person’s accent...I’m sure he is definitely from Dujia Village, but I don’t know why he doesn’t admit it. I suspect there is something wrong here.”
Zhou You nodded to show that he understood.
In fact, Zhou You knew there was something wrong with this person without the team members reminding him, and now it was just one more piece of evidence.
Duke over there felt a little frightened when he saw Zhou You whispering to others. He quickly adjusted his posture, then jumped up from the small bench, and then quickly made a posture of prostrating himself to the ground.
Duke howled loudly, "I am really grateful to all of you for your kindness. You don't know what kind of life I lived during the past few days when I was controlled by rats. Is that really true?"
It’s so painful to live like a year. Look at the direction of your convoy, is it coming from Lelai County? Is it going to Kangyue County? Yes, this is how it should be! You guys will kill all those corrupt officials in Kangyue County.
Caught them and shot them, right? Your equipment is really powerful, and your fighting ability is really powerful. It must not be difficult, and you can easily kill those motley crew!"
"Kang Yue and this group of officials who have nothing to do with their bodies have done a lot of harm to ordinary people like us! They really don't do anything about human affairs. They just watch us low-level people being unlucky, and they spend all day in the county town having fun. You know what you don't have the ability to do.
Selling land, trading power for money, engaging in corruption, engaging in women, and then taxes will be collected. If something really happens, even if the power has been there for so many days, they will not even send someone down to take a look, let alone come to rescue someone.
Oh my God, this is totally unreasonable!"
Zhou You listened to this man talking very fast and cracklingly a lot in a very short time, but he didn't rush to interrupt him and just listened silently.
To a certain extent, Zhou You knew the local situation better than Duke, a native of Kangyue.
It's hard to say how capable the officials in Kangyue County are.
But in theory it shouldn't be as bad as he said.
This guy seems to be a cynical keyboard warrior.
This kind of person is originally completely dissatisfied with reality in his heart, and then he just listens to the wind and it becomes rain, and then he makes up for it and adds fuel and jealousy in his mind, so that everything he sees is black, so black that it is endless.
The power outage cannot really be attributed entirely to the incompetence of local officials as Duke cursed.
The collapse of power supply occurs in many places across the country, not just in Kangyue.
Moreover, Kangyue County also suffered heavy rains and mudslides.
This is a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster. The power outage is really not the fault of Kangyue County.
Let's talk about Lelai County. If the Zhou family and the county government hadn't responded promptly and won the difficult substation battle, Lelai's situation would have been much worse than Kangyue's.
Duke kept talking, expecting to get some response, but saw that the leading man on the other side remained silent, wondering secretly in his mind whether he had hit an acupuncture point.
So Duke kept his mouth shut for a few seconds, wanting to wait for the other person to speak before testing him out.
But Zhou You still didn't speak, and just looked at him condescendingly, neither coldly nor enthusiastically, as if he was looking at a dead thing.
Duke thought about it and decided to try again, "Sir, you are really young and promising. I think everyone respects you very much. You should be the supreme commander of this army, right? I want to know if I am lucky enough to be your
Where are the subordinates?"
Zhou You finally spoke and waved his hand, "No, you, your, I sound strange. I personally have a little doubt now. As far as I know, in the past, mice usually only had one use for catching humans, and that was when they caught humans.
For food. I am very curious as to why you are still alive and even have a rat as big as your mount, which surprises me."
Duke pretended to be stunned on the spot, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face, and deliberately said angrily: "Sir, what do you mean by this? It sounds like you would rather I was dead? This... this seems a bit too much.
Are you being unkind?"
Zhou You smiled and shook his head, "That's just my analysis, but it's not my hope. I believe you can understand what I mean. So there's no point in pretending to be confused because you understand. Tell me why you can live, you are
How did you communicate with the leader among the mice? I want to know everything you went through from getting up to going to bed these days."
When Duke heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly became excited.
He finally found a chance to roar out what he really wanted to say.
"What do you mean? Do you suspect that I have rebelled? I have taken refuge in rats? Isn't this nonsense! I am a human! I am a human being! These are rats again! This man and the rats are at odds with each other! If it were the internal affairs of human beings in the past
War, you said I was going to become a traitor, I think it is still possible, but now you want to say I became a traitor, I have never thought about it! Why do you think I am still alive? How can I explain this to you?
After they caught me, they refused to kill me. They even provided me with food and arranged for a big rat to carry me. They carried me with them wherever they went."
"What can I do? I'm just an unarmed ordinary person. Is it possible that I can still resist? I don't know what kind of leader the rats are. As for communication, that's impossible! I can't speak rat language.
I don’t even know if they have rat language, and rats can’t speak human language! From the beginning to the end, the big rat that you shot to death with an arrow followed me the whole time, and watched me wherever I went.
There is no way to escape."
"And if you ask me what I'm doing from waking up to going to bed these days, I can't tell you one, two, three, four, five. Really. Anyway, the first thing I see when I wake up and open my eyes every day is this big rat.
, and other mice often passed by me. Then I just stayed there all day in a daze. After all, I had to squat in the hole most of the time. I couldn't see the light for several days, and my eyes were almost blind. Yes.
Sometimes a mouse would pounce on me and want to give me a bite, but if the big mouse squeaked twice, the mice that wanted to bite me would run away. I thought, maybe it is the leader of the mice?"
"Also, about three days ago, in the middle of the night that night, I was suddenly woken up, and then the rats came running up the mountain together. I didn't know what they wanted to do at first, but then I found out
They actually tried to dig this mountain down! Wouldn’t the electric tower on top collapse? I thought that this was not possible! I had a fight with the big mouse at that time, and I had to prevent the disaster from happening! You see
The scratches here...here...and the scratches here were all scratched by rats."
"It's a pity that I am really weak and can't do anything. I am so anxious. You don't know that after I saw the fire you set outside, my first reaction was not to be anxious to escape. I am happy
Ah! I even wish I could be burned to death too. Sigh, now that I think about it, I wish I hadn’t just been carried out by the big rat. I should have stayed on the mountain and been burned to ashes, so I wouldn’t have.
As for being doubted by my compatriots after finally surviving, it’s really… I really don’t know what to say…”
As he talked, a few tears came out of Duke's eyes.
A middle-aged man could actually tell Lin Daiyu that she was wronged.
Zhou You smiled and said, "You don't have to be too excited. I have no intention of targeting you. There is a need for review. After all, there is a war situation between humans and rats. Even in the previous human civil war, the escaped prisoners will still have to go through it."
Political censorship, the same thing. You don’t have to have these unnecessary emotions.”
"Yes, yes, I understand. I have no objection, I really have no objection." Duke waved his hands repeatedly, "But I have said so much and everything that needs to be explained, now you still can't believe me?"
Zhou You shook his head, "I can't believe it, but I don't have too many doubts. In fact, it doesn't matter whether I believe it or not. Now I still have to tell the facts and the basis. So, can you tell me, are you the only prisoner of the mouse, and no other humans?
?Also, where did these rats gather before they brought you here? Did they build any cities or tribes? Did the rats carry out any production and living activities? For example, where did the wooden helmet and the flatbed truck come from?
?”
When Duke heard this, he shook his head decisively, "It is true that I am the only prisoner alive. Anyway, I stayed in the cave for many days and never saw another person. As for where you lived before coming here, then I am
I really don’t know. Firstly, now that I have become smaller, my sense of direction has become very poor. I can’t tell the difference between south, east and north. Secondly, whether I was captured or transferred, it was always at night.
What happened.”
"I can't see the road clearly at night! There are cities and inhabited tribes, what are these? I really don't know this. After all, I only stay in a cave for a long time. I don't dare and can't move around. I don't know more.
situation. Oh, by the way, when the wooden helmet and the pallet truck first appeared, I was really shocked. They must have figured it out by themselves! I thought these mice were too smart and scary.
No monkey in the zoo has ever seen such a powerful one. I was also thinking about how to inform people outside. Now it’s okay, you all know it, and you will definitely be more defensive in the future."
Zhou You smiled and said: "You are quite worried about the country and the people? But the way you looked just now, it seems that you are very dissatisfied with Kangyue County Government?"
Duke waved his hand bluntly, "Those corrupt officials are the business of those people, but I still remember that I am an individual, and of course I care about my compatriots!"
Zhou You: "That's right. In this case, you go and take a rest first. I still have things to deal with here."
Duke was taken down and sent by drone to another car, Uncle Zhou You's MPV.
An observation cell with an area of about 0.8 square meters has been temporarily modified in the MPV.
There is a surveillance camera installed in a corner of the cell, and it is quite complete with all the daily necessities.
Before capturing Duke, Zhou You never thought about the need to prepare a cell.
After all, so far, except for scientific workers and scientific research institutions, humans really don't need to capture any rat captives. If they are captured, they will have no way to communicate. Moreover, those rat captives are more irritable than the last, and they will think about it whenever they get the opportunity.
It pounces on someone and bites them.
Therefore, neither the Zhou family nor the Lelai County government had the habit of keeping prisoners, and they only killed them all without leaving any prisoners.
When there were no outsiders in Zhouyou's off-road vehicle, Deng Tao's voice rang out from the intercom placed next to Zhouyou.
On Deng Tao's side, the roar of the rotating wings of the helicopter model could still be heard. Fortunately, the walkie-talkie on Deng Tao's side was a high-end model. It not only had a long communication range, but also had an active noise reduction function, which did not affect the conversation.
"Zhou You, do you believe what Duke said?"
Deng Tao asked.
Zhou Youyu shook his head, "I don't believe it."
After that, Zhou You shared with Deng Tao all the doubts he had from the first time he saw Duke to the present, as well as his doubts about Dujiacun.
Finally, Zhou You speculated: "He said that the big rat is the rat king. I don't believe it at all. At present, we still don't have the information transmission method of rats, but what is certain is that it must not be within the range of human perception. So.
Unless the Rat King also masters human language, there is no need for the Rat King to reveal his identity in front of Duke. In addition, I think this man has a strong ability to quibble. There is definitely a deep connection between him and the mouse, but the language is not
Completely disguised as a pure captive who doesn't know anything about anything. He looks... not honest at all. This person's character seems to have the foundation to become a rapist..."
At this time, Deng Tao, who was high in the air, interrupted, "Duke said earlier that he was not from Dujia Village. But now, I think this matter is indeed a big problem."
Zhou You: "How to say?"
Deng Tao: "The 20,000 to 30,000 rats that escaped were scattered at first, with no fixed direction at all. But now, I found that these rats were still looking up at the sky when they were escaping. If there are our drones and
When the airship was nearby, they continued to run around. But after the drones and airships were out of sight, these rats ran out a lot, then began to change their directions and gathered in the same area, which is Tongming Town! I doubt it
The destination where they finally converged was Dujia Village in Tongming Town! Fortunately, the helicopter's altitude was high enough and the astronomical telescope's magnification was sufficient, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to observe this situation."
As soon as Deng Tao finished speaking, the elite soldier whose hometown was also in Kangyue County had already clicked on the map and marked the location of Dujia Village on the map.
Zhou You took a look.
If you want to go to Dujiacun from here, you need to take the county road in front of you, and you have to make a detour of more than six kilometers, which is quite troublesome.
The good news is that the roads in that county are quite winding, but the straight-line distance between Dujiacun and National Highway 318 does not exceed five kilometers.
Because Deng Tao was at a high altitude, the high-power walkie-talkie could still maintain operation and communication, but the call quality declined slightly.
Zhou You thought for a while and then said immediately: "Brother Tao, please go over and take a look at the specific situation. By the way, does the helicopter still have enough fuel?"
The pilot's silent voice sounded again on the intercom, "That's enough. I used a lot of lightweight modifications on this helicopter, which is relatively fuel-efficient. I also used an oversized fuel tank, and the fuel tank is also of a high grade that is more resistant to burning."
Gasoline is not the aviation kerosene commonly used in previous model aircraft, and the system estimates that it can remain airborne for at least another hour and a half."
"That's good."
Immediately, the helicopter in mid-air began to accelerate to a propulsion speed of forty kilometers per hour, no longer paying attention to the army of mouse deserters on the ground, but went straight to Dujia Village, Tongming Town, and arrived in the sky above Dujia Village in less than seven minutes.
During this period, Zhou You had also seen a brief description of Tongming Town and Dujia Village from the offline version of the "Guide".
Compared with Lelai County, the economic level of Kangyue County is actually better.
There are many specialty industries, especially the cultivation and processing of lemons.
Natongming Town is also a lemon planting and processing demonstration town in Kangyue County.
The distance between Dujia Village and Tongming Town is not far, so it can be regarded as enjoying this good wind of economic development.
Many small and medium-sized lemon plantations in the village are doing well.
There are also two lemon by-product processing plants owned by the village collective, and the economy is relatively developed.
Most of the Du family members in the village are related to each other. After making money, they basically built new houses closer to each other. A few years ago, a small settlement with about forty or fifty self-built buildings by farmers was formed along the county road.
point.
Many small western-style buildings are beautifully and neatly built.
As the economy gets better and better, many foreigners have come to Dujia Village to find jobs and buy houses in recent years, which has led to more and more houses being built there. There must be at least a hundred buildings scattered around.
Not only that, there is also a big boss from Tongming Town who came back to take a look two years ago and spent hundreds of millions of yuan to build a slightly larger lemon by-product processing factory in the village.
Now the factory has been fully repaired and a lot of equipment has been installed. It was originally in trial production for a month or two and was expected to be officially opened. Unfortunately, it is all gone now.
When the accident happened, the big boss happened to bring his whole family to the factory. On the one hand, they were on vacation and relaxing, and on the other hand, they were watching the trial production of their own factory. Unfortunately, they could not escape.
Now the entire Tongming Town has become an enemy-occupied area, and the big boss's family doesn't know what the situation is like.
When the Kangyue County Government was sorting out important missing persons, it also included the big boss's situation in the report. However, it appeared in the data archive of the "Guide", so Zhou You and others were able to obtain more detailed information about Dujia Village.
information.
"Wandering around, something is wrong. There are people in the Du family village! There are really people, and there are quite a few! Of course there are more rats! At least one or two thousand people are locked up in the factory that has just been completed and the exterior walls have not been painted with latex paint! Du
Ke is lying! Not a single word of his is true! He is far from the only prisoner!"
On the intercom, Deng Tao shouted emotionally and angrily.