Chapter 377 - Rat Horde (1/2)

That skyscraper alone could accommodate thousands of people living and working there at the same time. If it collapsed, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Besides, the financial district near the river had loads of skyscrapers. If one collapsed, it might end up crashing into other buildings and create a chain reaction. No one could calculate just how many innocents would end up dead.

Fortunately, before the creature completely ate up the foundation of the building, it was discovered by an observant superhuman.

Since he strengthened the foundation in time and sent the people away, the attack did not result in any deaths.

But since a lot of time was wasted on saving lives, the attacker was able to escape through the complicated underground maze.

The city was not that lucky during the attack three days later.

At that time, it was the peak hour when everyone went to work or got off work.

Subway No.5 was Dragon City’s busiest area underground. An underground train that had nearly one thousand passengers in it was traveling forward swiftly.

Suddenly, the tunnel ahead of it collapsed. The train was caught off guard and crashed into the collapsed ground. The head of the train was completely destroyed while the carriages all left the tracks. Many of the passengers were squashed or thrown out of the windows because of inertia. Their bones were crushed against the collapsed tunnel, and they ended up as a bloody mess.

But that was not the most terrifying thing.

Just as the survivors were howling in pain while lying in their blood, a giant appeared behind the crippled train. It opened its mouth wide and bit open a carriage. It then started eating the passengers like a lunatic, and before the superhumans arrived, it crawled into a mysterious underground cave, where it disappeared behind countless dark forks in the tunnels.

This attack led to more than one hundred dead citizens and dozens of them missing.

But the “disappearance” basically meant that they were in the belly of the creature.

Based on the monitors in the subway and the panicked looks on the citizens’ faces, which were recorded by the CCTVs, their attacker was Gao Ye, the person who had disappeared for half a year.

After lurking around in the dark for half a year, he had grown even larger than before. His body was covered in spikes, and his mouth was filled with rows of teeth, all of which were as tough as steel.

Based on the speed with which he tore apart the carriage, his bite strength was comparable to a grinder, and it was far greater than a large tunnel boring machine that was the same size as he was.

A biologist also discovered a unique acid in the cave he crawled out of. It could instantly damage sturdy rocks and they would end up very brittle.

There was also an adhesive liquid secreted from its excretion pore. It was highly-efficient and could stick the earth he loosened while digging around, which would turn it into a substance as sturdy as reinforced concrete.

It was hard to imagine how Gao Ye had managed to gain this unbelievable ability in the wild through natural evolution.

The experts in the abnormal beast research department highly suspected that he was further modified by the abnormal beasts during the past half a year.

Meng Chao also felt that in this state, Gao Ye was becoming increasingly more like the Supernatural Entity from his previous life.

Of course, due to his interference, Gao Ye had yet to reach the perfect state of the Nine Great Supernatural Entities.

If he were the Supernatural Entity from Meng Chao’s previous life, he would have been able to eat seven or eight train carriages.

Also, his attack of the skyscraper foundations would not have been so careless. Instead, he would have made a few buildings collapse and caused a tragedy at the level of an earthquake.

In truth, Meng Chao could remember vaguely that the Supernatural Entity whose origin was Gao Ye was known as Earthquake.

Meng Chao could still stop him now. It was not too late yet.

Ye Xiaoxing’s Group 9 had always been in charge of Gao Ye’s case.

The elites of Group 9 formed a few hunting teams and chased after Gao Ye day and night. They also tried to stop Gao Ye’s next attack.

Meng Chao might not have been an official member of the abnormal beast research department, but he was the last person to have seen Gao Ye. Besides, he wanted to solve the Mystery of Supernatural Entities as well, so whenever he was free, he would join the hunting team to chase clues related to Gao Ye.

They had now been chasing him for ten days.

Even though they did not manage to catch Gao Ye, they had successfully prevented him from causing more damage.

There were a few times when they caught his tail in downtown areas and facilities related to the people’s livelihood. But he always managed to break free with his powerful tunneling abilities.

However, as time passed, the hunting team figured his movement patterns and managed to discover that he was exhausted based on how diluted his acid and adhesive liquid was. He was on the verge of collapse, and they were almost at the end of this fight of willpower and wits.

It was the eleventh day.

They were now at a large abandoned tunnel in the south of the city.

Dragon City was a 3D city that could accommodate millions of people.

Before they transmigrated, the underground was filled with air-raid shelters, basic shelters, and tunnels that were connected to all sorts of secret facilities.

After half a century’s worth of nonstop construction, destruction, abandonment, reconstruction, destruction again, and abandonment, there were now tunnels underground that were as closely packed together as in a hornet’s nest. Even the people in charge of the city construction department and engineers could not tell just how many tunnels were abandoned under Dragon City and how many abandoned shelters could be found there.

Gao Ye might have great tunneling abilities, but digging tunnels required a lot of stamina, and he also had to secrete acid and adhesive liquid far beyond what he was capable of. If he did not eat food nor was replenished by crystals for a long period of time, he would not be able to last for long.