Chapter 18 The Mouse

At this time, Charles thought more. Rats have always been at the bottom of the ecological chain. With so many rats, there must be other predators on the island. As for what it is, he doesn't know yet, at least it is definitely not a cat.

While Charles was thinking, the rats had receded, and there was not even half a fish bone left on the yellow-white sand.

"The sailors are anchored, the weapons and explosives are ready, and they are ready to disembark." Charles gave an order, and the crew began to move.

For this exploration, he prepared more explosives. Although gunpowder may not be useful, it is better than nothing

If the only danger on the island was the rats, these explosives would surely come in handy.

The two wooden boats were put on the surface of the sea, except for the disabled bandages who were left to watch the boats, everyone else got off, and a cloth strip was tied around their shoulders.

The name and position of each crew member are written on it, to ensure that when returning to the ship, there will be no one more or one less.

The crowd walked slowly between the rocks. The old crew members who had experience once were in a calm mood, while the other newcomers had a bit of mood swings, and they were taken aback by the slightest sign of trouble.

The rocks on the island became looser and looser, and some animal bones began to appear sporadically on the ground.

A little disappointment appeared on Charles' face. At present, it seems that the passage to the surface should not be here.

Just when Charles hesitated whether to continue walking in, suddenly a red light floated among the rocks in the distance.

Charles shrank behind the huge rock, and whispered to the others: "Hurry up and put out the fire!"

Although the rest of the crew didn't know why, Shan followed the captain's order.

Without the light of the torch, the red in the distance became more and more clear, and that bright color appeared and disappeared between the rocks, floating towards this side.

When they got close, everyone could clearly see the true color of the color.

The creature as a whole looks like a swollen leech, with a length of five meters by visual inspection. The red light is emitted from the light spot buried under its translucent skin, and it flickers and disappears very frighteningly.

Although the leech has no wings or wings, it can fly freely in the air. It seems to be looking for something. The six eye stems growing on the front of the body are constantly twisting and looking around.

The human beings shrunk behind the rock did not dare to breathe, and some timid ones even closed their eyes and trembled.

Charles stared at him and stared at the stalks of his eyes. Just by looking at it, he knew that it was not a peaceful thing, and he tried not to provoke him if he could.

"Gulu" someone's stomach suddenly rang. Although the sound was small, it was undoubtedly like a thunderbolt in the silent environment.

"Shua!" The leech's eye stalks swept towards the human in an instant, and the thorny mouthparts let out a terrifying growl, and after a slight flash of the translucent body, it disappeared directly on the spot.

"Oops! That thing will be invisible, it's coming!!"

Charles held the dynamite around his waist in his hand, with a tense expression and a determined expression, waiting for the monster to come out and fight to the death.

The other crew members also clenched their weapons tightly, and everyone's heart began to beat faster.

Charles counted the seconds silently in his mind, just when he was about to throw the explosives in his hand, the dark environment was illuminated by red light. The leech appeared out of thin air above a rock, its eye stems looking into the distance.

"Squeak~" The sound of the mouse came from there, and it became louder and louder, as if it was deliberately made.

The leech twisted its swollen body and quickly swam towards that side, and the red light disappeared.

In the dark, Charles, who was sweating coldly, let out a sigh of relief. He really didn't expect to be saved by the mouse.

He turned around and was about to talk to the person next to him when he saw a pair of green eyes appearing on his left side.

But this was just the beginning, pairs of eyes lit up, and more and more, the layers of eyes looked at people's scalp numb.

Charles took out a match and stroked it vigorously on the rock wall. The fire illuminated the surrounding area. They were mice. Countless endless mice surrounded them like arhats, and they were surrounded by mice!

"Hello! My name is Lily, nice to meet you!"

The sudden female voice froze everyone's subconscious attacks.

After simple identification, Charles noticed that the speaker was a white mouse standing among the group of mice. The behavior of the white mouse was completely different from his kind, and his eyes were full of agility.

The mouse seemed to recognize that Charles was their head, and jumped in front of him and looked up at him. "Hi, my name is Lily, what's your name?"

Charles looked around at the mice and whispered, "Charles."

Just as the two of them had just finished their initial conversation, there was a sudden roar from the direction where the flying leech had just left.

"Oh! Come on, come on, my friend can only hold it temporarily, that thing is coming back, I will take you to my house."

After the white mouse finished speaking, it quickly evacuated with other mice

Seeing the red light rising again in the distance, Charles did not dare to stay, and led the crew to follow quickly.

Compared with that kind of monster, at least these mice still have the possibility of communication.

In the darkness, Charles and his party followed the mouse for a while, and finally they came to a hole more than one meter high.

When they went in holding the torches, in the darkness, their eyes were fixed on the humans who walked into their caves, and the sounds of rustling kept ringing,

More than a dozen torches were lit and thrown into the air. The flames illuminated everything here. In the cave, which was nearly the size of a football field, there were all black and brown mice staring at them.

Mice are not strange, but some mice hold bone tools like humans, which is a bit weird.

Among them, the low dome houses are neatly arranged, and Charles even saw a big mouse teaching the little mouse to recognize numbers! Charles felt that he had suddenly come to Lilliputian.

The white mouse moved a toy-sized stool from somewhere, jumped on it and sat down, "Can you take me home? I miss my mother."

A group of rats came up, and a bowl of brown liquid was placed in front of every human being, as if to entertain guests.

go home? Charles looked around at the strange rat holes all around him. "Isn't this your home?"

"Of course not, I'm not a mouse! I'm a human!" The white mouse stood on the stool and argued furiously.

"Human?" All the crew members stared at the little mouse in front of them, no matter how they looked, they couldn't tell that it was a person.

Seeing that Charles and the others didn't believe it, Lily the white mouse quickly began to explain.

"I'm really human. Mom and Dad took me to Hefang Island by boat to see my grandfather, but I encountered a whirlpool and I fell into the sea. When I woke up, it was like this. I don't know why. .”