My Cell Can Infinitely Evolve - Chapter 30

Chapter 30: Exploring the Hole, Baby Rats

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Luo Fan left the chamber where the golden-haired Rat King lived.

There were four or five different routes connected from here, so he had to choose one of them to take action.

After leaving the Rat King’s chamber, Luo Fan finally saw how big this place was.

Side roads kept appearing, and before he knew it, Luo Fan had returned to the original spot.

There were also many rooms here. Every rat’s nest had a passageway connected to it, and the rats had formed a family unit and lived inside.

Luo Fan turned on the flashlight and shone it on one of the nests.

There was a nest made of thatch and it looked very comfortable.

On top of the thatch, there was a thigh bone with no flesh left on it, giving it a clean and pure feeling.

And near the thigh bone were some dead baby rats that had already dried up and became flat.

These baby rats had no hair, and they were red all over.

At this time, it appeared as if all the moisture in them had been dried up by the sun. They were like hardened slices of dried sweet potatoes, the kind that would crumble upon contact.

“They are all dead.”

Luo Fan retracted his gaze and looked at the other nest.

It was also a nest made of thatch and all the baby rats inside had died.

The number of baby rats had exceeded Luo Fan’s imagination. Almost every nest had seven to eight baby rats, and some had more than ten.

No wonder that doctor had written in the diary that there was not enough food. How could there be so many rats?

Furthermore, he had also said that he wanted to carry out family planning for the rats. Looking at all this, he had understood how the doctor felt at that time.

The more rats there were, the more he could not control them.

The stored food was constantly being stolen by the rats. Those rats were like thieves stealing the food he had saved for the future.

Perhaps it was because of these things that the doctor chose to commit suicide as he could not continue to live.

Apart from these, there were also dead bodies in some places. Corpses of rats, humans, and all kinds of living creatures…

They were so densely packed that they almost formed a mountain.

This should be the place where food was stored, but the food had already been gnawed down to bones.

Even the carcasses of those rats were no exception. They had been gnawed clean by their own kind.

Perhaps that doctor had not known even till his death that the cave had been flooded with rats to such an extent.

Then, Luo Fan continued to explore.

He had found an upward path.

He walked up the path and saw light not far from the entrance to the cave.

“This path leads outside. What’s that mountain-like thing?”

At the entrance of the cave, there was a small mountain that had blocked the sunlight, causing the cave to be dim.

Luo Fan quickly crawled over. His eight intestines carried his body and sent him quickly to the entrance of the cave.

At this moment, Luo Fan could finally see the full appearance of the hill.

This was a hill made of soil.

When the rats were digging the cave, they had transported the earth inside the cave and piled it up there.

“I see.”

Luo Fan went out of the cave and looked outside.

It was gray outside, and the sun was very dim.

The whole world was enveloped in darkness, and he could not see anything in the distance.

The fire two months ago had destroyed almost everything in the city.

It burned up everything it encountered.

The burning produced dust particles which floated into the sky and shrouded the entire city.

However, two months had passed.

Logically speaking, the city should have become clear. It was impossible for it to still be shrouded by the great smog, making one unable to see anything tens of meters away.

“There’s something wrong with this city. The great smog is not dissipating.”

Luo Fan observed his surroundings. It was very quiet after the fire.

There was no sound or vibration around him.

It was as if he was in an illusionary world, one enveloped by a great smog.

Although this world was very quiet, Luo Fan did not think that it was safe.

The smog had lingered for a long time, proving that there was something wrong with the city.

“I should return to the rat hole and hide first. I’ll slowly plan my next step. If I go out rashly now, I’m afraid I’ll encounter danger.”

The great smog which had lingered for so long deterred Luo Fan.

Then, he turned around and returned to the hole to continue exploring the Kingdom of Rats.

He wandered around for a while and discovered several more paths leading to the outside world.

These paths were all used to transport earth from the cave to the outside world.

Luo Fan had also gone out through these passages and saw that the world outside was all gray.

Now, he was sure that this city was really enveloped by the great smog.

He returned to the rat hole.

The complexity of this rat cave had exceeded his imagination. It was like an underground city.

Luo Fan continued to explore, there were rat holes all around.

As expected, they were all filled with dead baby rats.

At this moment, Luo Fan’s intestines suddenly felt damp.

“There’s water underground.”

Luo Fan lifted his intestines and gently touched the ground, which was already wet.

“There might be a river ahead. I’ll go and take a look.”

With this thought in mind, he continued to walk forward.

The ground became increasingly wet, and there was more and more water.

On the wall above, water droplets had already condensed and were slowly getting bigger before dripping down to the ground.

Luo Fan walked forward. It did not take long before he saw a vast expanse ahead.

At the end of the passageway, there was a wide underground cave connected.

His entire view widened, and there was a hint of moisture in the air.

“Could there really be an underground river here?”

Luo Fan was overjoyed. There might be resources for survival in the underground river.

Moreover, it might even be connected to the road out of this city. If he followed the underground river, he might be able to directly get out of this city that was enveloped by a great smog.

Ever since Luo Fan regained consciousness, he had not seen many normal things.

He had never seen a human city, a living human, a forest, or a flower bed.

What entered his vision were rotting corpses, a city of corpses enveloped in a sea of flames, large fish at the bottom of the river, a rat cave…

Although he had awakened for more than two months, he was still very tired every day.

Luo Fan came inside the cave with some excitement and approached slowly.

With the light from the flashlight, he saw the “underground river” in the cave.

Instantly, Luo Fan’s heart turned cold.

This was not an underground river. This was clearly a huge swamp.

The swamp was relatively sparse. There was a large amount of liquid inside, and countless pieces of trash were floating on it.

There were all kinds of plastic bags, beverage bottles, cans, and some things that even Luo Fan could not tell.

Rotten food, feces, and urine…

Apart from this, there were also some carcasses of creatures floating on it. All of them were almost reduced to bones, floating on the swamp.

Countless flies were flying above the swamp, which was the paradise of their dreams.

“It seems that I had been too imaginative. This place is actually a huge swamp.”

The joy in Luo Fan’s heart vanished. Then, he thought,

“However, there are actually flies here. There might be some places connected to the outside world. Perhaps the fly eggs, which have been parasitic on this trash, have followed the trash here.”

However, Luo Fan was still quite averse to this swamp of smelly water..