Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship

With no settler rats or rat thralls blocking his way, Yang Yi walked toward the mound in the center that looked like a small mountain of a rat nest.

Along the way, the piles of garbage grew thicker and thicker, forming an upward slope.

Yang Yi kept his eyes on the ground as he moved forward. There were too many dormant settler rats and rat thralls; if he wasn’t careful, it would be easy to step on one.

As he drew closer to the rat nest, the number of rats and rat thralls around him had reached a frightening level. Just hearing their breathing created an oppressive sense of pressure.

At the same time, the stench rising from the garbage underfoot became increasingly intense. For Yang Yi, whose sense of smell was sharp, it was practically torture.

At this point, his sense of smell was basically useless.

He put on the silver beaked mask Suna had given him, blocking out the stench. He felt much better immediately.

From where he stood, the Rat King’s nest was still about forty meters away. But there was no suitable place left to step. The ground ahead was covered entirely with rats, spread out like a black carpet.

If he stepped on them directly, he would likely wake them.

Many rat thralls were buried among them as well, with only a hand or a leg sticking out, like weeds growing from the soil. If one tried to pull them out, a rat thrall would certainly come up, perhaps even a conjoined nest.

“Here should be good enough…”

Yang Yi muttered to himself.

He didn’t move any farther forward, worried that disturbing the dormant settler rats might trigger a chain reaction.

Besides, the density of rats here was already high enough.

He took out the unknown potion Suna had given him. After thinking for a moment, he put three bottles back, in case these rats had nests elsewhere.

The remaining seven bottles he opened and sprinkled over the pile of rats ahead.

The liquid was peculiar, with extremely strong volatility. Before it even touched the rats, it had already completely evaporated.

Large amounts of pheromones dispersed, spreading rapidly through the air.

The first to react were the smaller settler rats. Their noses twitched, as if they had smelled something, and they began to wake up.

Then the adult settler rats reacted. After them came the rat thralls, and even the conjoined rat nests.

The entire mass of rats began to stir and tremble, including the garbage pile beneath Yang Yi’s feet.

“Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!!!”

(So strong!!!)

Sharp, rapid squeaks rose one after another, filling the entire space and echoing again and again.

Yang Yi seized the moment and slipped away.

There was no point in staying any longer.

As he retreated, the poison within the settler rats had already begun to take effect. They started confronting one another with twitchy agitation.

“Squeak?” (What are you staring at?)

“Squeak!” (What if I am!)“Squeak squeak!” (I’ll bite you to death!)

The settler rats began to wrestle and fight, tearing into each other as if they shared a mortal grudge.

And the reasons for their attacks were all over the place. Some were so absurd they could only be described as ridiculous.

“Squeak squeak squeak!” (Your body is covered in black fur, disgusting!)

“Squeak squeak.” (Shifty-eyed rat, go die!)“Squeak!” (Ugly rat head. Let me bite it off!)

Before long, the entire warehouse had turned into a rat hell.

The rats were either fighting or on their way to fight, biting and ripping at each other while blood and organs splattered everywhere.

But if someone paid close attention, they would notice something strange: the fluids flowing from the rats’ bodies were slowly evaporating, releasing the same pheromones, and continuing to infect other settler rats.

Yang Yi was attacked as well. A large number of rats jumped onto him, frantically gnawing at his rat-skin suit.

The rat head on his chest was bitten the worst. It was torn directly into pieces, exposing the black armor underneath.

Other parts were bitten too, but the attacks were mostly focused on the rat heads on the suit.

Because of this, the transformation was canceled.

Strangely, when the rats realized Yang Yi was human, their aggression dropped sharply. Instead, they started chewing on his Ratman Hero cloak.

“Damn it! Don’t chew my cloak!” Yang Yi cursed, quickly putting the Ratman Hero cloak back into his ring.

Without the cloak, the settler rats stopped bothering him, and he ran smoothly into the corridor he had come from.

There were far fewer rats here, and they were all rushing toward the central warehouse. None of them had the time to pay attention to Yang Yi, as if something major had happened inside.

Yang Yi reached the stairs and saw that the elevator was descending. He could also hear footsteps coming down the stairwell.

The patrol rat-thrall tactical squad had probably returned.

He looked around and noticed another room ahead, so he ran straight toward it.

It seemed to be an automatic door.

When Yang Yi approached, the indicator light on the door turned green. He entered successfully, and the metal door closed behind him.

Before long, hurried footsteps sounded in the corridor again, rushing toward the central warehouse.

Yang Yi let out a long breath. He had managed to retreat unscathed.

Now all he needed to do was wait quietly and deal with the aftermath later.

He took out the Light Container, increased the brightness to dispel the darkness, and examined his surroundings.

This appeared to be a small production workshop, but it had been abandoned for a long time. Dust and rust were everywhere, and the floor was scattered with rat droppings and urine stains.

Fortunately, the rats inside had already left, probably escaping through the ventilation ducts and heading toward the chaotic warehouse.

After confirming it was safe, Yang Yi picked up some discarded parts from the ground. They looked like mechanical arms, along with some barrel-shaped shells.

This was probably a robot production workshop, though it had never reached mass production.

Yang Yi took a few photos, then chose a corner against the wall to sit down and check the activity log.

Earlier he had been too busy moving to look at the potion’s information. Now he finally saw it in the log.

【Name: Rat’s Doomsday】

【Type: Consumable / Potion / Unique】【Quality: Top-grade】

【Description: An original potion created by the witch Suna. It is a special biological pheromone made from settler-rat toxin, sea-brewed rum, and porcupinefish cyst toxin. It is especially effective on rodents, particularly settler rats. Those affected first become excited as if drunk, experiencing hallucinations and auditory illusions while their sense of pain is blocked. After that, they begin attacking other rats, falling into an extreme state of hatred and hostility toward their own kind. The rats will welcome their doomsday! 】

“So powerful?” Yang Yi said in shock.

This potion was like the opposite of settler-rat toxin.

The toxin made people fall in love with rats, eventually merging with them, their bodies turning into nests for the rats. This potion, however, made one hate rats and attack them madly, and it worked especially well on rats themselves.

So, the central warehouse must already be in complete chaos.

Boom!

Bzzz! Bzzz! Bzzz!

The sounds of firearms, and even beam guns and rotary beam guns, echoed from the warehouse.

The battle inside seemed to have escalated further. Weapons were already being used.

If he had stayed in the warehouse, he might have been hit by stray shots, maybe even injured.

“Good thing I got out!”

Yang Yi smiled. At the same time, he sent Suna a private message, telling her that the plan had gone smoothly and the poison had been successfully deployed.

“The rats have started fighting. Hopefully, they’ll take care of the weapons and not break them all. I want to sell them for money.”

He sent the message to Suna.

“Oh right, there are a lot of robot parts here. I’ll send you some photos. See if they’re useful. Maybe you can repair those two broken robots.”

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