The two of them had also deduced the exact method to escape.

  Although the Blood Hoof Warriors were close to Black-corner City, they did not surround the entire city.

  With Meng Chao and Ice Storm’s strength, they could easily break out of the siege through the gaps that the Blood Hoof warriors could not defend in time.

  However, in order to discover the truth about the Great Horn Rebellion, Meng Chao insisted on escaping with the ordinary rat people.

  Ice Storm did not care about the lives of the ordinary rat people.

  But she obviously cared about Meng Chao’s attitude.

  Moreover, she had followed her mother, who was a witch, since she was a child. She had been hiding from the night watchmen and bounty hunters all year round. She was familiar with how to hide, disguise, and change into a completely different person.

  It just so happened that they had attacked dozens of temple thieves and Blood Hoof warriors consecutively.

  Apart from ancient weapons, armor, and secret medicines, the spoils of war also included a large amount of food, small props that were extremely practical, and strange raw materials.

  Many temple thieves carried tools and materials that were originally used for disguise and modification.

  Using these things, Ice Storm quickly dyed her iconic, crystal-clear skin into the rat people’s common grayish-white color.

  She also stained her back with a short and small tail that she could control with her tail vertebrae and butt muscles.

  On top of that, she pasted a few tufts of hair around her overly distinct facial features, concealing her familiar face from many viewers.

  Meng Chao, on the other hand, changed his hair color and the color of his eyes.

  He also inlaid two overly thick fangs in his mouth, causing his lips to curl up high, destroying the balance between his facial features.

  He vaguely remembered that in his previous life, the instructor of the Black Skull Training Camp had once said that there were two main ways to change one’s appearance.

  The best way was, of course, to be exquisitely carved and turned into a completely ordinary appearance.

  If time was tight and materials were limited, and it was impossible to completely change one’s appearance, then a very distinct characteristic would be created.

  For example, large and small eyes, a rosacea nose, prominent ears, buckteeth, and a huge mole on the nose wing.

  To attract the attention of others and make them ignore the other problems on the face.

  This was a rather practical trick.

  In addition, when one’s strength reached the level of Meng Chao and Ice Storm, they had precise control over every muscle, every joint, every blood vessel, and every cell in the body.

  He would slightly expand his muscles, twist his joints, and make his body rise or shrink by one round.

  Then, through the filling and collapsing of his facial muscles, he would slightly adjust the position of his facial features.

  These were all routine operations, as natural as eating and drinking.

  After this disguise, he adjusted the rhythm of his breathing and heartbeat, and restrained his battle flames and killing intent to the limit.

  The totem armor also turned into a liquid metal-like substance and disappeared without a trace.

  At first glance, the two of them were no different from the ordinary rat people who could be seen everywhere in the chaotic Black-corner City.

  After all, the rat people themselves were not a biological concept. They were the combination of the weak and losers who had been enslaved, oppressed, and deprived of all their dignity among all the advanced orcs.

  The rats that had dozens or even hundreds of bloodlines mixed in their bodies were not strange at all.

  Many of the rat subjects, spurred by the Rat God’s arrival, resisted and tried to carve a bloody path with swords, war hammers, bone clubs, and stone axes.

  The rat subjects who had survived the fierce battle with the Blood Hoof warriors also unwittingly triggered the potential hidden in the deepest part of their bloodlines during the bloody journey. Gradually, they were wreathed in flames of war and were full of killing intent.

  Meng Chao and Ice Storm were not as eye-catching as these rat soldiers when they were trying to conceal themselves!

  The two of them looked at each other and could not see any big flaws.

  Then, they quietly moved toward the center of Black-corner City, where the flames were the most violent, the smoke was the thickest, and the area where the battle was the most chaotic.

  On the way, they met several teams of Blood Hoof warriors who were searching with their red eyes.

  They did not know whether these Blood Hoof warriors wanted to find the temple thieves with stolen goods in their arms, or if they had stolen goods in their arms, but their strength was slightly weaker than theirs. It would be best if they came from the Blood Hoof group of the enemy clan.

  The two of them did not take the initiative to provoke these Blood Hoof warrior squads because they did not want to cause any trouble.

  They only left some traces, such as the sounds of slightly heavier breathing, lightly stepping on burnt dead wood, or deliberately stimulating the ancient weapons in their arms to release extremely sharp totem power, to attract the attention of the Blood Hoof warrior squads.

  They did so until four or five Blood Hoof warrior squads were successfully attracted to the same area.

  Only then did the two leave behind a few fragments of ancient weapons or totem armor, and injected a few psionic powers into them, making them shine like fireflies in the night, and then quietly slipped out of this area.

  Not long after, Meng Chao and Ice Storm heard intense fighting sounds and angry roars behind them.

  It seemed that four or five Blood Hoof warrior squads from different clans were having a heated discussion about the ownership of the stolen goods.

  Repeatedly using similar methods, Meng Chao and Ice Storm successfully diverted the attention of several dozen Blood Hoof warrior squads and passed through Black-corner City’s central area to reach the northern side.

  The chaotic situation there made the two of them frown slightly.

  Meng Chao had originally determined that there were a lot of secret tunnels hidden underground in the north of the city that could lead to the exit far away from Black-corner City.

  The mastermind behind the descent of the Rat God was planning to transport the young and strong rats out of these tunnels to form his own cannon fodder army.

  It had also been the Great Horn Army that shocked the entire Picturesque Orchid Lake in his previous life.

  Therefore, as long as he ran to the north of the city, it would not be difficult to find a way to escape.

  However, he did not expect that his intervention would trigger a series of chain reactions.

  Firstly, under his guidance, the emissaries of the Rat God had successfully closed the loopholes in the organization structure and the flaws in the implementation of the plan.

  The continuous explosion of the biogas in this life was a hundred times larger and more intense than the riots in Black-corner City in his previous life.

  It also aroused the anger of the Blood Hoof warriors a hundred times, and they threw more troops into the chaotic Black-corner City at all costs.

  Secondly, many ordinary rat civilians acted as cannon fodder who wanted to stay in Black-corner City to die and attract the attention of the Blood Hoof warriors.

  Only the sacrifice of a large number of cannon fodder could allow the temple thieves to escape Black-corner City.

  However, with Meng Chao’s reminder, a large number of ordinary rat civilians returned to their senses and stopped fighting the Blood Hoof warriors who were guarding the mansion, granary, and armory. Instead, they all rushed to the north of the city.

  According to the propaganda spread by the Rat God’s emissaries, they were there to save all the rat civilians in Black-corner City.

  The rat subjects, who had been carefully selected by them and considered strong, naturally could not watch the other rat subjects wait for death in Black-corner City.

  If they wanted to leave, they would leave, and if they wanted to stay, they would stay.

  This was the most basic belief of the rat subjects, who had been aroused by the series of “miracles.”


  Although the escape routes under Black-corner City were mostly the underground transportation routes built by the ancient Turan thousands of years ago, the underground transportation routes were very spacious.

  In order to transport large-scale weapons and facilities, the underground escape routes were built to be extremely spacious.

  Under the leadership of the Rat God’s emissary, after several months of digging day and night, all the collapsed and blocked nodes were reopened.

  However, tens of thousands of rat people poured in from all directions. For a time, it exceeded the maximum capacity of the underground escape routes.

  It blocked the entrance and exit of the passage firmly.

  Without half a day’s time, it would be difficult for all the rats to escape into the underground passage.

  At this moment, the Blood Hoof warriors also followed.

  Although most of the Blood Hoof warriors went to catch the temple thieves who were carrying stolen goods…


  Not many people were willing to come and gnaw on the bones of the ordinary rat people.

  When they met the ordinary rats in twos and threes who had lost their way, unless the other party happened to block the way, the high and mighty elders of the clan would not be bothered to waste time on them.

  However, there were simply too many rat civilians gathered in the north of the city.

  There were so many that even a blind person could hear that there was something strange about this place.

  A few Blood Hoof warrior squads that were dedicated to their duties finally noticed the unusual movement there. They changed their direction and charged toward the crowd.

  The rat civilians that were clustered around the narrow streets were too dense.

  With a charge from the Blood Hoof warriors, they could trample a bloody path that was as messy as mud in the crowd.

  Every time they swung their war hammers and battle axes, they could easily send seven to eight or even a dozen rat subjects flying.

  This greatly satisfied the Blood Hoof warriors’ desire to kill, and they fully experienced the pleasure of being able to take on a thousand enemies by themselves.

  Under the stimulation of this pleasure, they continuously strengthened and upgraded their killing.

  Meng Chao and Ice Storm observed that in a short period of time, hundreds of rat subjects had died tragically under the Blood Hoof warriors’ charge.

  There were even more rat civilians who were either dead or injured because their formation had been shaken and their organization was in chaos.

  However, between the broken walls, there was too little space for them to roam freely.

  As for the Blood Hoof Army, they did not have enough troops to send to the north of the city.

  Along with the flames and thick smoke blocking out the battlefield, orders from outside could not be sent into the city. The Blood Hoof experts within the city were all fighting on their own.

  For the time being, the Blood Hoof warriors had not completely penetrated the rat rebel army.

  The rat rebel army was not completely helpless.

  During the half-day fierce battle, many of the rats had activated the killing techniques that were hidden in the deepest part of their bloodlines. They also understood the principle of “enough ants may bite an elephant to death.”


  With the Rat God’s emissaries lurking among them, even if they did not intend to take all the rat people away, they could only grit their teeth when everyone was mixed together. Forced to share life and death with each other, they had to go all out.

  The Blood Hoof warriors who had been stimulated by the desire to kill and had unknowingly infiltrated too deep into the rat army were soon ambushed from all directions without any fear of death.

  They were also ambushed by the Rat God’s emissaries.

  Chapter 1090 - You Can’t Catch a Wolf Without Losing a Child

  In order to support hundreds of thousands of rat people, they could all escape Black-corner City.

  There was naturally more than one Rat God emissary who had sneaked into Black-corner City.

  Other than the temple thieves who were good at hiding and cracking mechanisms…


  There were also a large number of Rat God emissaries, elite warriors who were good at fighting to the death.

  Compared with the Blood Hoof warriors, they were still slightly inferior.

  However, the mobility of the Blood Hoof warriors was being held down by hundreds of fearless rat people’s volunteer army, and their explosive power had also been exhausted.

  The sneak attack of a few Rat God emissaries still had a chance to easily take the lives of the Blood Hoof warriors.

  When seven or eight Blood Hoof warriors seemed to be running around and killing in all directions, they were quietly swallowed by the rat tide.

  The remaining Blood Hoof warriors finally came back to their senses and realized that there were still extremely dangerous assassins lurking within the seemingly weak rat tide.

  They could only change their strategy and slow down the pace of their attacks. They tried to peel off the rat tide from the outside like they were peeling onions.

  With that, the speed of their advance was naturally greatly slowed down.

  All in all, the two sides were temporarily at a stalemate in the north of the city.

  As the Blood Hoof warriors had limited numbers and did not have enough desire to attack, they could not break through the tide of the rebel army and destroy them.

  However, because of their constant harassment, the rebel army was in an extremely chaotic state.

  Many in the rebel army could summon the courage to charge at the Blood Hoof warriors without fear of death.

  However, the road to escape was right in front of them. The instinctive desire to survive made them fight to be the first to rush forward.

  No matter what command the Rat God’s emissaries issued, they were unable to restore the order of the escaping troops.

  Such a stalemate was naturally disadvantageous to the escaping troops.

  That was because the main force of the Blood Hoof Army was continuously advancing toward Black-corner City.

  Every half an hour, a Blood Hoof Battle Group would arrive at the foot of Black-corner City and send more troops into the city.

  As for the fire and chaos in Black-corner City, they could not continue indefinitely.

  When the flames that engulfed the entire city were extinguished and most of the regions were cleaned up as well as controlled, the Blood Hoof Battle Group could communicate effectively with each other. Then the orders from outside the city could reach the elite warriors on the front lines unimpeded.

  That would be the death of the rat rebel army that was still stuck in Black-corner City.

  “If this continues, things won’t work out.”


  Meng Chao observed for a moment and came to a conclusion. “The rat rebel army is retreating too slowly. At this rate, at least one-third of the rat rebel army will remain in Black-corner City, waiting to suffer the wrath of the Blood Hoof warriors.”


  “There’s nothing we can do.”


  Ice Storm said, “Their opponents are the Blood Hoof warriors, who are extremely ferocious. Even if the enemy is afraid of the Rat God’s emissaries and does not dare to charge into the depths of the rat tide, the harassment from the periphery alone is enough to make the rat volunteer army suffer.

  “In such a situation, forget two-thirds of them, even half of them would be lucky enough to escape.

  “Therefore, we must think of a way to reduce the pressure on the rat people’s Liberation Army in the periphery.”


  Meng Chao thought quickly and asked Ice Storm, “How many extra ancient weapons, armor scraps, and secret medicines do you have on you?”


  “Not many. I lost them all just now.”


  Ice Storm paused for a moment and could not help but say, “Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to hear the word ‘extra’ in front of ancient weapons, armor scraps, and secret medicines.”


  “Then, we’ll extract some more from the totem armor’s storage space.”


  Seeing the heartache on Ice Storm’s face, Meng Chao could only say, “Don’t worry. You don’t have to take advantage of the situation if it’s not what you want. Besides, we don’t even know if these guys are alive enough to take these ancient treasures away from us!”


  The two of them sneaked up to the Blood Hoof warriors in front of them. One of them was neither too far nor too close.

  Then, they took out a few spoils of war from their totem armors.

  These spoils of war, which had been worshipped in the temples for at least three to five hundred years, were all divine weapons filled with murderous intent.

  Even though the totem power was temporarily sealed, it still trembled slightly and faintly let out a tiger’s Roar and a dragon’s roar.

  It was as if it couldn’t wait to release its most violent power and drink the blood and life of the enemy.

  When Meng Chao and the Ice Storm injected several streams of spirit energy into the weapons, unlocking the seals and activating the brutal souls, the weapons shot out beams of light that were invisible to the naked eye. However, they could be clearly sensed by the totem warriors. They were as clear and dazzling as fireflies that had been struck by lightning in the dark night.

  Unsurprisingly, the raging flames of the weapons were immediately sensed by the Blood Hoof warriors who were suppressing the rat rebel army right in front of them.

  The Blood Hoof warriors were immediately aroused.

  “Such intense killing intent!”


  “Yes, it’s the aura of the godly weapons!”


  “Such surging totem power can only be sensed by the fragments of Thousand-year Armor!”


  Looking at each other in bewilderment, every Blood Hoof warrior saw greed and wavering emotions in each other’s eyes.

  These Blood Hoof warriors did not come from the major clans in Black-corner City.

  The powerhouses of the major clans were hunting down the temple thieves, trying to take back or steal the ancient treasures.

  Only the third-rate warriors from the vassal clans had received a vague order, “Suppress the rat rebellion and restore order in Black-corner City.”


  But they were not fools.

  They soon figured out where the powerhouses from the noble families who had entered the city with them had gone and what they had gotten.

  Compared to the powerhouses from the noble families who had seized a large number of ancient treasures, not only had they made up for all their losses, but they had also made a small fortune.

  It was obviously a laborious and unrewarding task to suppress the crazy and fearless rat volunteer army.

  The rebel army of the rat people was like a stone in a toilet. It was smelly and hard. If one was not careful, they might even knock off a few of their teeth.

  Even if they killed thousands of rat people in one go, the spoils of war they would receive would be nothing more than mandrake fruits soaked in fresh blood, poorly made bone maces and stone hammers, and something that the Blood Hoof warriors did not even care about: so-called “armor” that was made of tree bark and bone chips.

  As for the military exploits that the Blood Hoof warriors valued the most—suppressing the rat population—what kind of military exploit could that be?

  In the future, when they boasted about their martial arts in the taverns and casinos, they would not be able to use the example of suppressing the rat population to prove their valor, would they?

  Not to mention, the rat population that had gone mad really seemed to be possessed by demons. It was quite tricky.

  More than a dozen Blood Hoof warriors had disappeared into the chaotic and noisy rat tide.

  Like all Turan warriors, the Blood Hoof warriors were not afraid of death.

  However, it was one thing to die by the hands of the Gold Clan’s powerhouses or the land of Holy Light’s mages.

  It was another thing to die by the hands of the lowly rat subjects.

  The former was a glorious sacrifice.

  The latter was a curse that was even scarier than death!

  No one could bear the humiliation of having their soul fly up the sacred mountain with the other sacrifices after their death, only to be discovered by the ancestral spirits on the sacred mountain that they had actually died in the hands of the rats, and then kicked down from the clouds into the abyss.

  Since there was no benefit in actively attacking, it might instead bring about the humiliation of eternal damnation.

  No matter how strong their limbs were and how cruel their temperament was, the Blood Hoof warriors would quickly calm down and settle the score.

  They did not want to continue fighting with the rat militia.

  Instead, they wanted to join in the pursuit of the temple thieves and retrieve the stolen treasure.

  However, the two sides had already come into contact. It was even more shameful for the criminals to run away without fighting against the rat militia. It was not something they, who did not have a background, could bear.

  Therefore, they had always been doing their duty and advancing slowly and steadily.

  At this moment, they were so close to each other that they were emitting the aura of an ancient supreme treasure. It was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back.

  “With a great enemy in front of us, we naturally can’t leave the north of the city. However, the aura of an ancient supreme treasure is emanating from nearby. If we go over to check it out, it can’t be considered a violation of military orders, right?”


  “Of course not. It is very likely that we will find the temple thieves by following the aura of the ancient treasure. Is it more important for the ordinary rat citizens or temple thieves?”


  “The ordinary rat citizens are all blocked here. It’s impossible for them to break out of the siege in such a short time. However, the temple thieves are few in number and mysterious. If we let them slip away and take a lot of the treasures in Black-corner City, none of us will be able to bear the responsibility!”


  The extremely good reason instantly raised all the courage and fighting spirit in the Blood Hoof warriors.

  It made them turn their spearheads without hesitation and pounce towards the direction where the ancient treasure was emitting totem power.

  Following that, a farce that had happened dozens of times in Black-corner City was repeated again.

  When this Blood Hoof warrior squad pounced on the place where the ancient treasure was emitting totem power, they happened to bump into another squad that came looking for them with murderous intent.

  It was a squad that had been born and bred in Black-corner City.

  But there were only three of them.

  The two sides met on a narrow path. They stared at each other, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment.

  Perhaps, if they were given more time to evaluate each other’s strength, they could come to a friendly agreement, such as “Two for one, five for five.”.

  However, just when they were caught off guard and their nerves were stretched to the limit, and they were even on edge, the walls on both sides of the street that they were in, which had been hit by the explosion and scorched by the flames, suddenly collapsed.

  For a moment, gravel flew everywhere and dust covered everyone’s sight.

  In the chaos, the sharp whistling of blades could be heard.

  Someone screamed, and blood blossomed in the dust.

  “They’ve made their move!”


  No one knew who had shouted those words, which sounded like a curse.

  It made the two groups of Blood Hoof warriors pull out their weapons as if they were possessed, and they pounced on each other when they were supposed to fight side by side.