Chapter 1417: Chapter 588: The Third Summoning Altar

Wang Tao never expected that after the two little creatures ascended to Level 5, they would be able to instantly kill a Level 5 Zombie Lord with a hundred thousand blood! Despite being the same level, their strength was just too much.

“Chirp chirp–”

After killing the Mutant Rat, the two little martens didn’t even glance at the spoils of war but hurriedly ran to Wang Tao and chattered for credit.

“Amazing, amazing!” Wang Tao said with a laugh while he rubbed their little heads, somewhat astounded, “I never imagined your combined damage would be this high!”

“Chirp chirp~”

The two little martens vied to explain to Wang Tao.

After listening for a bit, Wang Tao also roughly understood.

Normally speaking, in such a cold environment, those monsters and zombies would evolve some resistance to the cold. They might not necessarily possess Abilities related, but certainly, they would have some resistance.

But this Mutant Rat had low Fire Attribute Defense, which was understandable, but its Ice Attribute Defense was also low.

Well, that’s too bad then, with the little martens’ ice and fire combined, it was an immediate kill.

“So that’s it…”

Wang Tao nodded first, then said with some puzzlement.

“That’s not right, in this kind of environment, even we humans outside have developed some resistance to the cold. But according to what you’re saying, this rat had no Ice Attribute Defense at all… Unless, it was lured out of hiding by the Awakening Fruits!”

Wang Tao felt this possibility was very high.

As for why the Mutant Rat had such high Internal Impurity, looking similar to a Zombie Rat, Wang Tao guessed that it must have fed on zombies, and plenty of them at that. After all, rats are omnivorous animals, and it’s not impossible for them to feed on zombies with nothing else available. Not all creatures possess Lightning Ability, and consuming too many zombies could be fatal, even without contracting the Zombie Virus.

Wang Tao quickly collected the spoils of war from the Mutant Rat and had Lightning devour the corpse.

He then carefully searched the area but didn’t find any other traces of Mutant Rats.

Wang Tao felt there couldn’t just be one Mutant Rat since rats typically moved in groups.

“Let’s wait, the ripe Awakening Fruits will attract the nearby creatures, if there are other Mutant Rats, they should be drawn here…”

After waiting for about an hour, the Awakening Fruits finally ripened.

The tree began to rot, and the golden, dazzling fruits seemed to be on the verge of falling at any moment.

And just at that moment, Wang Tao suddenly turned his head, noticing pairs of red glowing eyes appearing in the ruins not far away. They were staring intently at the Awakening Fruits, seemingly ignoring Wang Tao completely.

“As I thought, there’s a batch of Mutant Rats!”

Wang Tao was not too surprised.

Squeak, squeak, squeak–

The Mutant Rats stepped out from the darkness; their size was smaller compared to the previous one, and naturally, their Levels were also lower, mostly Level 4 elites and Level 5 Lords.

However, they were just like the previous Mutant Rat, their bodies all decayed with high Internal Impurity, looking as though they could turn into zombies at any moment.

“Kill them.”

Wang Tao immediately waved his hand, and his creatures surged forward.

Although there were many Mutant Rats, sheer numbers were useless in the face of absolute strength.

By the time Wang Tao stored all the Awakening Fruits into his Space Backpack, the battle had also ended.

The corpses of the Mutant Rats littered the ground.

Looking along the line of bodies, a hole in the ruins could be seen.

“This should be the nest of these Mutant Rats, let’s go in and take a look.”

Wang Tao was very curious. After all, this was the territory of the Catastrophe-Level Radiation Zombie, and with all zombies dead, it was surprising that a group of Mutant Rats could survive… How did they manage to stay alive?

Upon venturing deeper into the cave, Wang Tao found it to be much deeper than he had imagined. Gradually, Wang Tao understood why these Mutant Rats were still alive–because their nest was deep, so deep that the Radiation from the Radiation Zombies could not reach them.

Furthermore, as he moved deeper underground, the environment became warmer. Wang Tao also noticed many cloth strips that looked like clothing and a lot of coagulated black blood.

When he reached the bottom, Wang Tao saw a large number of zombies!

Only these zombies had their limbs gnawed off, rendering them unable to move.

“I think I understand why these Mutant Rats have no resistance to cold…”

Seeing this scene, Wang Tao suddenly realized.

No wonder those Mutant Rats had almost no resistance to cold–they lived in such warm underground areas and even stored so many zombies as food, they didn’t need to go out, thus they didn’t need to evolve resistance to the cold. At least not until they had eaten all these zombies.

However, the high level of Internal Impurity in those Mutant Rats hinted that they might turn into Zombie Rats before they ran out of food.

“Let’s kill these zombies later.”

These zombies weren’t highly leveled, and there were no Zombie Lords among them, but since they had Crystal Cores, it would be a miss not to take advantage since he was here.

“Eh?”

Wang Tao thought there wouldn’t be anything else in this underground cave other than the zombies, but to his surprise, he found a Summoning Altar!

“There’s actually a Summoning Altar…”

This Summoning Altar was huge, right in the place where the Mutant Rats slept, covered in rat droppings.

Wang Tao crouched down and touched the Summoning Altar; with a thought, the Summoning Altar rapidly shrank and appeared in his hand.