The two of them tied the hands of the three unconscious elite rats behind their backs, removed their jaws, and threw them to the side.
They put on their gray sackcloth and observed their surroundings.
From the top of the water tower, they could see the surroundings clearly. They could see dozens of chaotic scenes, which together formed the panoramic view of the rat tide sweeping through Black Corner City.
In the east, they had already broken through a few arsenals and granaries. The fully armed rat people were driven by their extreme killing intent and were attacking the mansions of the military nobles.
In the south, the fire was getting bigger and bigger. It burned half of the sky red.
The smoke was accompanied by the wind, like a demon baring its fangs and claws. It covered most of the city.
Regardless of whether it was the ruler of the city in the past or the rebels today, all of them fell into the black maze. They were muddle-headed and went with the flow.
On the west side, the black mass of people formed into escape teams. They were currently escaping from Blackhorn City through the underground secret escape tunnel.
But the capacity of the escape tunnels was limited, especially the entrances and exits. For the sake of concealment, they were dug very small. The situation was so chaotic that it was hard for the rat people to avoid pushing and shoving each other. Most of the rat people were still on the streets. They were so crowded that not even a drop of water could pass through.
If the Bloodhoof Tribe's army returned to Blackhorn City at this time, it would only take dozens of clan warriors, who were equipped with totemic armor and holding heavy weapons such as battle axes and maces, to charge back and forth three to five times, to trample all the poor rat people into meat paste.
In the north, in the empty space near the forging area, groups of rat people armed to the teeth were gathering. Then, they disappeared among the broken walls in an orderly manner.
Unlike most of the rat people insurgents who were running around blindly like headless flies, the formation of these groups was clearly more orderly. Their temperament was also relatively deep.
Meng Chao reckoned that they were the hardest workers among the rat people, the forgers with the most rebellious spirit.
By the standards of cannon fodder, they could be considered a strong army.
They were the cannon fodder that the mastermind really wanted to get out of Black Corner City.
So, a "VIP tunnel" was prepared for them.
As for the chaotic and noisy rat crowd on the streets, they were just meat shields to attract firepower. They were cannon fodder among cannon fodder.
All in all, the entire Blackhorn City was still like a volcano with boiling lava, and it was absolutely impossible for it to calm down in a short period of time.
At that moment, the hailstorm poked Meng Chao lightly. He pointed at the battlefield closest to the water tower and said, "Look over there. There seems to be something strange."
Because of the continuous explosions, the appearance of Blackhorn City had completely changed.
In the beginning, it was very difficult for Meng Chao to match the burning, broken walls with the map of Black Corner City he memorized during the half a month he spent in the Game of the Brave.
But as he confirmed the water tower, the statue, the lookout post, the intersection main road, and other landmarks, he finally updated the map of Blackhorn City's terrain and important facilities in the depths of his brain. He discovered that the location where the hailstorm was pointing was the mansion of a barbarian elephant noble.
The Elephant people were the largest tribe in the Blood Hoof Clan.
The residence of a barbarian elephant noble was naturally a massive military fortress.
Every rock used to build this military fortress was square, longer than an arm's length, and weighed close to half a ton.
Even if the iron walls surrounding the fortress had collapsed due to the biogas chain explosions and turned into sloping slopes, the barbarian elephant warriors guarding the mansion on top of the slope were old, weak, and sick.
But above the gentle slope, the barbarian elephant warriors guarding the mansion, even if they were all old, weak, sick, and disabled, when they opened their eyes wide and held their giant axes, assuming the posture of one man holding the pass against ten thousand enemies, it was not something that the Rat People Volunteer Army could overcome with numbers.
Logically speaking, the rat people did not need to care about the barbarian elephant warriors' military fortress at all.
After all, there were not many barbarian elephant warriors guarding here, and they were confused by the biogas chain explosions and did not know what to do.
They had the responsibility of guarding the mansion, and it was impossible for them to rush out recklessly and get involved in the storm that the rat people stirred up.
The rat people could, and should, go around the barbarian elephant noble's mansion and other dangerous areas. You can run, I'll guard mine.
But there were more than one thousand rat people in front of him. Their eyes were bloodshot, and they let out strange cries. As if they had gone mad, they surged up the slope and charged at the barbarian elephant warriors' warhammers and blades, who were also bloodshot.
In the violent wind stirred up by the flames, Meng Chao could vaguely hear someone shouting at the top of his lungs among the rat people. "Charge! Kill! The Great Horned Rat God will protect us and kill these barbarian elephant warriors!
"The barbarian elephant people have the biggest appetites. There must be an endless supply of Mandala Fruits in this house's granary. We can only eat if we take down this granary. Otherwise, even if we escape Black Corner City, we'll starve to death!"
At first glance, these words sounded very reasonable.
Countless Ratfolk Volunteers were motivated.
Twenty to thirty Rat People who could be considered strong got a huge Datura tree trunk from somewhere and carried it on their shoulders. Like a battering ram, they fiercely rammed into the Mammoth Warriors who were guarding the top of the slope.
The barbarian elephant warriors roared and swung their battle-axes at the front of the battering ram. They cut the Mandala Tree trunk in half.
The rat people who had formed in a hurry did not have great teamwork. They instantly fell to the ground.
The barbarian elephant warriors' battle-axes flew up and down like two fierce tornadoes. In an instant, they killed a lot of rat people.
But the rat people who survived were so excited that their fighting spirit burned their brains. They did not care about their own deaths at all. They only cared about whether they could bite off a bloody piece of flesh from the barbarian elephant warriors before they died.
Even Meng Chao, a Ghost Assassin who had returned from the apocalypse, frowned and could not bear to watch the horrifying battle.
The main point was that this was a battle that could have been avoided. In fact, it should not have happened.
"The Mammoth people's appetites are incomparably huge, and their granary must contain an astronomical amount of food. That's why we need to break through this residence and occupy the granary. Otherwise, even if we manage to escape from Blackhorn City, everyone will starve to death." These words sounded very reasonable.
But when he thought about it carefully, it did not make sense.
After all, the Blood Hoof Warriors had gathered Mandala Fruits and totem beast flesh from all over Blood Hoof Territory was prepared for the military operation that would last for several years.
Compared to the huge appetites of the warriors, the rat people's appetites were even smaller than those of sparrows.
The amount of food stored in Black Corner City definitely far surpassed the amount that the rat people needed to consume.
The problem was not that they could not find enough food.
It was whether they could transport all the food out.
Hence, there was no need for them to attack the barbarian elephant fortress. It was a hard bone that was difficult to chew. Even if they sacrificed thousands of precious lives, they might not be able to bite, chew, and swallow this bone.
If they had the time and price to pay, wouldn't it be better to search for the granaries of the other families and the coliseum?
"There is indeed a problem. This is not a decision that any commander with a brain would make."
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes. His gaze was like a sharp blade as he scanned the moving rat people. He tried to find the person who had shouted for everyone to charge forward and die.
But even if he found this person, so what?
There was a high chance that he was just a chess piece that had been bewitched, brainwashed, and used.
"The key is the motive. Why would someone want these rat people to attack the barbarian elephant noble's mansion at all costs?" Meng Chao mumbled.
His mind raced, and he immediately understood.
He turned his gaze and looked into the depths of the barbarian elephant mansion like an arrow.
Based on the information he gathered in the Game of the Brave, this mansion should belong to a barbarian elephant noble known as Stone Shatterer.
This mansion should belong to a barbarian elephant noble known as Stone Shatterer.
The history of the Stone Shatterer Family could be traced back to three thousand years ago.
They were one of the meritorious families that rebuilt the Blood Hoof Clan after the Major Destruction Order.
And the Stone Shatterer Family rose to power in the beginning because they discovered an ancient temple with more than three thousand years of history under Black Corner City.
When he thought of this, Meng Chao pressed his temples gently and rubbed the bridge of his nose to stimulate different areas in his eyes.
By injecting spirit energy into his optic nerves and cone cells, the limits of his vision could be continuously extended, and he could read the rich information contained in all sorts of visible and invisible light.
Three minutes later, he locked onto the temple that was shrouded in flames and smoke.
He also noticed the indistinct figures of the hooded cloaks around the temple.
He had to admit that these people were experts in stealth, infiltration, and lying in ambush.
When he put on the dusty gray cloak, he practically became one with his surroundings.
If Meng Chao had not predicted their existence beforehand and searched the area around the temple carefully, it would have been impossible for him to notice their existence.
At that moment, the hooded cloaks were around the temple. They untied the bulging bags on their backs and set up the tools in them so that they could forcefully break the defense system of the temple.
Naturally, there were guards from the Stone Shatterer Family stationed around the temple.
But the temple guards were terrified by the roaring rat people. They rushed to the outer defense line of the family fortress and suppressed the rat people revolutionary army's frontal attack.
He did not expect at all that there would be a Treasure Hunting Squad with an even more mysterious whereabouts infiltrating from behind without a sound.
'I knew it.'
Meng Chao's gaze was cold. 'The person who incited the rat people to fight back doesn't care about their lives at all.
'From the moment the biogas chain explosion happened, he was prepared to sacrifice thousands … No, he was prepared to sacrifice hundreds of thousands or even millions of rat people's lives to disrupt the order in Black Corner City as much as possible so that he could attract the Blood Hoof Warriors' rage and firepower.
'Just like what I'm seeing right now. More than one thousand rat people have fallen under the axes of the Barbaric Elephant Warriors, but even if they used more than one hundred lives in exchange for one Barbaric Elephant Warrior being heavily injured, they will only end up with the Barbaric Elephant Warrior being heavily injured.
'The people who are really benefiting from this are the people who stole the temple without anyone noticing!'
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