My neighborhood has time-traveled.

Chapter 53 Triumphant Return

At the same time, in the western mountains, Li Wen led his team to the giant rat hole from before. They faced a huge burrow.

The cave entrance was pitch black, and gusts of eerie wind blew out.

A rustling sound could be heard from deep within.

"Is the cigarette ready?" Li Wen asked.

"Ready!" Several team members dragged over a large amount of wet firewood and dry leaves and piled them up downwind of the cave entrance.

The fire was lit, and thick smoke rose.

Someone used a sheet of metal to fan the air, continuously pouring thick smoke into the cave. Soon, sharp squeaks and chaotic running sounds came from inside the cave.

"Prepare for battle!" Li Wen gripped his battle axe tightly.

The first wave of mutated rats rushed out—these rats were nearly a meter long, with shiny black fur, exposed teeth, and scarlet eyes filled with madness.

The team members were prepared and attacked with both knives and axes. The clinking of the machetes struck the fur, sparks flying.

"Take this!"

"Watch me!"

These new evolved beings were very excited, constantly brandishing their weapons.

"噗噗"

The mutant rat's fur was cut open.

More than a dozen mutated rat corpses soon lay on the ground.

But the sounds coming from deep within the cave grew louder and louder.

Li Wen was even more ferocious, charging into the swarm of rats with a Damascus steel knife in hand.

"puff"

A knife slashed at the mutated rat's neck, severing it in half. The mutated rat struggled and convulsed.

"puff"

Another slash landed on the forehead of the other mutated rat, splitting its head open.

"Pfft pfft pfft"

As if entering an empty field, every mouse was a potential target.

Soon after, the ground around him was littered with the corpses of mutated rats.

"Back off!" Li Wen suddenly shouted.

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a huge black shadow burst out of the cave!

It's a mutated rat king that's over three meters long!

Its fur is dark black, as if it were wearing iron armor, and its tail is as thick as an adult's arm. Most terrifying of all are its teeth—two pairs of incisors protruding, each as sharp as a short sword.

"Squeak—!" The Rat King let out a piercing scream and crashed directly into the crowd.

"Bang!" Two team members were thrown into the air, spitting blood as they landed.

Three team members were whipped by the tail and sent flying into the sky.

"Chop it down!" Someone swung a knife at the Rat King's back, but only sparks flew and the sound of metal clashing rang out.

"The defense is too strong! We can't break through it!"

The Rat King turned around, its scarlet eyes fixed on Li Wen. With a leap from its hind legs, its massive body shot forward like a cannonball.

"Good timing!" Li Wen stared at it, his face showing excitement, and instead of retreating, he advanced.

The moment the Rat King pounced, he dodged to the side, his battle axe tracing an arc, precisely striking the Rat King's forelimb joint.

"Pfft!" This time, the defenses finally broke! Red blood spurted out.

The rat king, in pain, kicked its limbs and swung its head to bite.

Li Wen moved nimbly around the Rat King, aiming his attacks at vulnerable spots such as joints, eyes, and mouth.

"Clang clang clang".

With three axe blows, one of the rat king's hind legs was severed.

"Clang clang clang clang clang".

Five axe blows, and one of the Rat King's eyes was blinded.

"Clang clang clang clang clang clang clang".

The seventh axe pierced through the Rat King's gaping maw, going straight through its brain!

Its massive body crashed to the ground, twitched a few times, and then lay still.

"Brother Wen is awesome!" The team members gathered around, looking at the Rat King who had been killed with admiration.

Li Wen wiped the blood from his face. Fortunately, his strength had greatly increased after eating the mutated giant snake evolution stone, otherwise he would not have been a match for this mutated rat king.

He brandished his machete and said to his team, "Clean up the battlefield, collect evolution stones, bandage each other if you have minor injuries, and make a makeshift stretcher for the seriously injured."

the other side.

"Let's continue, there should be a few more beehives nearby." Li Hao led the way.

Over the next two hours, the team cleared two hornet nests and one beehive.

Li Hao was suspended dozens of meters above a tree, with a huge beehive in front of him.

A beehive.

He broke open the hard honeycomb, revealing golden honey inside.

The hexagonal compartments for holding honey are like tiny cups.

"I've struck it rich."

Li Hao laughed as he broke one off, and golden honey dripped all over his hand.

I put it in my mouth and took a bite.

"Um!"

His eyes lit up.

It's sweet but not cloying, with a very rich and mellow flavor.

It has a fresh, natural feel to it.

More importantly, honey contains a large amount of energy, just like evolution stones.

Once it enters the stomach, it immediately transforms into a warm current that spreads throughout the body.

A tiny sip contains the same amount of energy as an evolution stone the size of a grain of rice.

"Great stuff, great stuff."

Li Hao smiled and took a few more bites.

They ate it in big mouthfuls until they had eaten all the honey in their hands.

His hands and mouth were covered in golden honey.

He casually wiped it with his own clothes.

He flew down to the bottom of the hive, gently nudged the entire honeycomb, and plucked it off.

It is five meters in size.

He dragged the enormous beehive to the ground slowly.

"What a huge beehive!"

Everyone was shocked and crowded around.

"Golden honey, tsk tsk tsk."

"This is good stuff!" Niu Dazhuang took a little, tasted it, and his eyes lit up. "It's sweet and fragrant, it must be nutritious!"

"These, like evolution stones, contain powerful energy. Everyone come and take some to eat."

Li Hao put the honey on the ground, and each person came over and broke off a piece for the other.

"Thank you, Captain."

A female team member accepted the honey with a grateful expression.

This is good stuff.

Everyone received a small piece of honey and ate it with great relish.

"It's so delicious!"

"I feel so hot."

"It really is like an evolution stone."

"I feel like this small piece is worth several evolution stones!"

The team members became as excited as if they were drunk.

He felt hot all over and his face was flushed.

Some of them even had steam emanating from their foreheads.

Li Hao looked at everyone and a smile appeared on his lips.

This can be considered a perk he gave to these team members.

After eating the honey, he had several team members carry the beehive together.

As the sun began to set, Li Hao's team embarked on their journey home, laden with rich spoils.

When the two teams returned to Dawn City almost simultaneously, the setting sun had already dyed the sky orange-red.

At the city gate, Wang Hao was already waiting with many residents.

"They're back! They're back!"

"Clang, clang, clang." The gong rang out.

The first thing that caught the eye was Li Hao's team. The team members were carrying a huge mantis king carcass, a five-meter-long giant honey, a dozen mutated mantises that were taller than a person, and hundreds of wasps and bees.

When the two-meter-tall praying mantis and the giant honeybee were placed on the ground, gasps of surprise rippled through the crowd.

"What a huge mutated praying mantis!"

"Is this a beehive? It's huge!"

"This is honey from the honeycomb; it's golden yellow and so beautiful."

Immediately afterward, Li Wen's team appeared. The three-meter-long mutated rat king was carried by several people on wooden poles, with the team members dragging more than a hundred ordinary mutated rat carcasses behind it.

"My God... so many mutant rats..."

"This is the Rat King! It's so big! This world is terrifying!"

"Luckily, we have Li Hao and Li Wen..."

Wang Hao quickly stepped forward, glanced at Li Hao and Li Wen, and then carefully checked the group: "Is anyone injured?"

"Twelve people sustained minor injuries, all superficial wounds, while two people sustained serious injuries and have received emergency treatment," Li Wen reported.

"No one died," Li Hao added.

Wang Hao breathed a sigh of relief: "Great! That's wonderful!"

He turned to the onlookers and shouted, "Everyone saw it! These are the soldiers of our Dawn City! They protect our safety with their lives!"

A burst of enthusiastic applause and cheers erupted.

The women brought hot water and clean strips of cloth to clean and bandage the wounded.

The children circled around the giant Rat King and Mantis King with curiosity, feeling both scared and excited.

"Brother Li Hao, your room is all tidied up." Chen Sihan jogged over, followed by Su Tiantian, Zhang Xiaonan, Su Xiao, and Zhao Xiaoyu.

Su Tiantian looked at the praying mantis and exclaimed, "Wow, what a huge mutated praying mantis!"

Zhang Xiaonan pointed at the Rat King, "This mutated rat's corpse is even bigger, bigger than a wild boar."

Su Tiantian smiled sweetly, "Brother Li Hao, Brother Li Wen, you guys are amazing!"

Wang Hao, who was standing nearby, asked if the honey was safe to eat.

"Sure," Li Hao nodded. "Not only does it taste good, but it's also more effective than regular evolution stones."

This!

Wang Hao and those around him gasped.

baby.

This honey is absolutely the best of the best.

Nearly five square meters of honey is equivalent to so many evolution stones!

"You've really worked hard. I remember the beehive was very high up in the tree. It must have taken you a lot of effort to get it there," Wang Hao said with admiration.

Niu Dazhuang excitedly told him, "Captain Wang, you don't know yet, do you? Brother Hao can actually fly!"

Zhang Jinfeng chimed in, "Yes, Brother Hao can fly. Thanks to him flying up to a tree sixty or seventy meters high, Brother Hao took care of the beehive, as well as the wasps and bees."

"Yes," Liu Xueqin and the other team members nodded.

"Li Hao, you can actually fly!" Wang Hao exclaimed, then looked behind him. "You've evolved wings too?"

But Li Hao's back was empty.

Upon closer inspection, it didn't look like Liu Xueqin's back, which was bulging, and it didn't seem to be hidden inside her clothes.

What exactly happened?