Chapter 17 Dark Blood

What appeared before their eyes was a carriage littered with white bones—no, it should be said a carriage littered with bone fragments. The mutated rats had completely devoured the corpses of all the survivors in the carriage, leaving not even the marrow in the bones untouched.

Moreover, the leather on the bus seats had all disappeared, swept away by the rats. The stuffing, such as sponges, was scattered everywhere, making the entire carriage look like a complete mess!

Li Chenzhou entered the carriage, picked up a handful of bone fragments, and smelled them. These fragments were remarkably clean. Not only was there no flesh remaining, but even the blood had been licked clean. The same was true throughout the carriage; not a trace of blood could be seen. However, there were many places with bite marks—presumably places that had previously been stained with blood, but even these the rats had not spared!

"These rats… they must have been starving!"

Looking at the white bone fragments scattered all over the ground, Fatty muttered, feeling a chill run down his spine.

In fact, Fatty only found the rats' consumption of the corpses a bit disgusting. He didn't realize that rats don't care whether their food is dead or alive when they eat.

Almost all animals are like this. Generally speaking, when large predators hunt, the prey is somewhat better off, at least the large predators know to bite the throat and other vital spots to prevent the prey from escaping.

But when other wild animals hunt, especially when hunting prey larger than themselves, the prey's dying process often lasts a long time. They might even still be alive when their internal organs are being hollowed out, only powerless to struggle!

The same was true for this busload of survivors. They were attacked by mutated rats about the size of cats, which tore and devoured flesh from their bodies. But they couldn't die quickly, and could only endure the intense pain coming from all over their bodies while witnessing the horrific deaths of others.

Li Chenzhou knew all this. Just like he had said before, the hamster would at most bite off a bear's ear. But he didn't explain, because even just hearing about this kind of death, even if it didn't happen to you, would make you feel uncomfortable!

After carefully examining the carriage, Li Chenzhou determined that there were definitely more than fifty mutated rats that had entered this bus, and possibly even more.

In other words, there was a mutated rat pack of at least a hundred in this area.

This was definitely not good news for Li Chenzhou, because this place was not only relatively close to the chemical factory base, but also not too far from the other bases that Li Chenzhou had helped establish.

If the rat pack broke through a base and devoured all the survivors, their level of enhancement would become higher and higher, making them increasingly difficult to deal with!

After confirming the number, Li Chenzhou turned around and got off the bus. Fatty quickly followed. There was no blood in the carriage, so naturally it wasn't bloody, but Fatty just didn't dare to stay inside any longer!

Seeing the two of them get off the bus, Gray Bear and Tian Ya, who had been on guard, were curious and wanted to get on the bus to take a look, but Duan Lei stopped them. He pointed at Fatty and said:

"If I were you, I definitely wouldn't go in to look!"

The two took a look and, sure enough, Fatty's face was pale and he clearly looked unwell.

Fatty had joined a few hours earlier than Tian Ya, and as a meat shield, he had used his skills many times in the past few days to pull zombies from a distance, so his tolerance for some bloody scenes was quite good.

But now, even he had become like this. What could the situation inside be?

Gray Bear and Tian Ya exchanged a look, knowing that the inside definitely wasn't pretty, but they became even more curious…

Li Chenzhou ignored them and instead used his mind to activate the lights of the space battle car, illuminating the surrounding ground. Then, he looked up in one direction, his expression suddenly changing!

That direction was where the prison base was located. If these mutated rats went there, the high walls of the prison wouldn't be of any use at all!

"Get in the car, let's go!"

Li Chenzhou shouted immediately, then rushed into the space battle car first. The others quickly followed suit.

"Number One! Go straight ahead in this direction, and be quick. Notify me in advance if you encounter any mutated creatures!"

Relying on his memory, Li Chenzhou pointed out the direction of the prison and issued an order to Number One.

"Understood!"

Number One agreed, and then the space battle car rushed off the highway, heading in the direction Li Chenzhou indicated…

From this, one could see the power of the Killing System. The roadbed here was very high, and ordinary cars couldn't get down it at all. Otherwise, the truck wouldn't have had to turn around on the road, leading to the mutated rats breaking through and the entire army being wiped out.

But the space battle car handled this with ease. This type of car was all-terrain and fully enclosed, and even going underwater was no problem. Li Chenzhou could even drive this car out to sea!

"This car is awesome! Haha!"

Seeing the space battle car charging forward, Tian Ya shouted excitedly, then suddenly looked at Li Chenzhou and asked in a low voice:

"Should we give this car a name? It's not good to just call it 'car,' right?"

"Good idea!"

Gray Bear immediately joined in:

"Let's call it Invincible!"

"Too chuuni!"

Tian Ya looked disgusted, then rolled his eyes and looked at Duan Xue, saying:

"This car is all black with a lot of red lines on it. How about we call it Dark Night Rose!"

"Come on! Rose? Too girly!"

Gray Bear also gave a disgusted look, but then saw Duan Xue's cold eyes shooting over, and immediately shut up.

"That's not a rose, that's blood—the blood that's inevitably seen during slaughter!"

Li Chenzhou, who was standing beside him, suddenly said, his eyes fixed on the front:

"Black is darkness, and the red lines are blood. It's telling us that if we want to cleanse the darkness of the apocalypse, we can only do it with crazy slaughter! So, this car should be called 'Dark Blood'!"

"Dark Blood! That name is cool!"

Tian Ya said with shining eyes, not knowing if he really thought it was cool or if he was just flattering!

However, since Li Chenzhou had already said the name, no one would object. Therefore, the name of the space battle car was officially changed to Dark Blood!

For this name, others were just thinking about whether it sounded good, but when Duan Lei heard Li Chenzhou's explanation, his heart stirred. He probably understood what kind of style Li Chenzhou would be adopting in the future.

"Attention, a large number of mutated creatures have been detected ninety-five meters ahead. They are approaching rapidly. Please prepare for battle!"

Just then, Number One's voice suddenly rang out. Hearing this, the others were stunned, and then they all looked at Li Chenzhou.

Prepare for battle?

Hearing this sentence, they realized that after getting this car, they didn't seem to have studied how to use this car for combat. So, it seemed like they could only go outside to fight?

But what was attacking was a large number of mutated creatures. Needless to say, it must be those mutated rats. Fighting a large number of mutated rats outside? This seemed to be making things difficult for themselves…