While Lin Qiao and Teng were making guesses about the number of those creatures, a red figure flashed across the air and darted before her car like a shooting star.
“Hey, the cat pulled ahead!” Teng said with surprise as he reached his head outside the window and popped his eyes to look around, as if he were really able to see the cat.
“It’s been following behind us quietly,” Lin Qiao was also confused, “How come it suddenly went ahead of us?”
Duan Juan who was driving joined the conversation, “Why is the cat not like the other underground creatures? All the other creatures emerge in herds. They ruin the environment and attack other animals once they come out. Why is the cat alone? Is it a rare species?”
The boy was about forty-five days old. His cheeks had grown chubby, and his eyes were bright all the time. He had delicate nose and mouth, and pink cheeks. His body temperature was much lower than that of normal human babies, but still, he had been very healthy and energetic.
Teng felt a slight pain, so he raised a little hand and slapped off his mother’s hand, then ignored her as he stared at the frontal area through the windshield. Meanwhile, he said, “I can feel it! I have a very keen intuition! Wait and see! The big red cat will solve the problem for us!”
Lin Qiao looked at him with disbelief, “How do you know that? The cat has gone ahead of us, but you don’t know for sure that it’s able to drive the whole group of underground creatures away.”
“As I’ve said, I can feel it,” Teng raised his chin and said proudly, “I won’t be wrong!”
Meanwhile, the car moved closer and closer to those creatures. After entering the dangerous zone, Lin Qiao told everyone to get off the car, then put the cars into her space. After that, she carried Teng and moved toward a relatively tall hill, with the others following behind her. Soon, they found a few trees on the hill to hop on and looked ahead through the distance.
As same as regular rats, they had sharp noses, as well as large and round ears. However, they didn’t have any hair. Their forepaws were large and strong, and rear paws were relatively small. They also had short tails.
Their number wasn’t very large. Only thousands of them were seen, not even one in ten thousand as much as the rats that Lin Qiao had seen in the zoo area.
They all seemed panicked under the cat’s attack, running desperately in all directions. Only the enormous, level-seven one among them, which was about half the size as the cat, had been attempting to attack the cat. However, the cat dodged nimbly every single time and turned to leave a few deep scratches on its body.
By now, the huge rat was already covered in wounds.
