Swallowing the Stars: I, the New Master of Babata

"However, I seem to have heard that the Azure Emperor's parents died in the beast tide. Is that why the Azure Emperor abandoned his base in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan to come and support the Jiangnan base?"

"What do you mean by giving up? The Azure Emperor said on his social media platform that he has arranged for several high-level war gods to be stationed in the base cities of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and nearby patrol envoys will also help with the defense."

"Speaking of which, why is the Azure Emperor, as the third elder of the War God Palace and the third strongest person on Earth, still just an inspector in a base city?"

"Who told you that the position of the inspector is low? China has six major base cities, but each base city only has one inspector."

"That's the truth. An Inspector can be a high-ranking War God, but a Patrol Officer can only be succeeded by someone who surpasses the War God."

"You ask me? Who should I ask? All I know is that the Azure Emperor himself refused the promotion to Inspector and chose to stay in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan base city."

If we simply consider their status, the patrol officer naturally holds a higher position.

The Inspector can only monitor the base city, while the Patrol Officer can patrol the entire globe.

However, the inspector and the supervisor are not simply superior and subordinate; it can only be said that the supervisor is far less free than the inspector.

In ancient times, the inspector was equivalent to a central government official, and his status was indeed higher, but his real power was not as great as that of a regional governor.

However, this era belongs to warriors and monsters.

Power is truly powerless in the face of fists.

Great power originates from within itself.

Power cannot be restrained.

Therefore, even though Dong Qing is just a regional inspector, guarding his small territory in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan base city, he gives people the impression of being unambitious.

However, as the third strongest person on Earth, no one can deny his identity as the third elder of the War God Palace, the third chairman of the strongest five-person group on Earth.

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One thousand and eighty sharp crescent blades killed more than ten million rats in a minute, like a scarlet storm that swept through the dark and sunless level three rat horde.

The land, which had been covered by the rat swarm, was like a pool of polluted black water that had suddenly been purified, revealing the earth's original color.

Unfortunately.

On the land where blood flowed like a sea.

The corpses of rats and beasts were piled up like mountains.

The land, which was originally full of vibrant greenery.

It looks like a hellish scene now.

"Chirp chirp!"

A level 3 rat swarm cannot be simply compared to a level 3 beast swarm, because rats have a special characteristic: they have an exceptionally strong reproductive capacity, which can even lead to explosive geometric growth.

Under extremely idealized conditions, assuming that each pair of mice reproduces monthly, all offspring immediately participate in reproduction and there are no deaths, the number of offspring that a pair of mice can produce in a year is astonishing.

A famous mathematical model of "rat arithmetic" shows that if starting from January, a pair of mice will produce 12 offspring per month, half male and half female.

If their offspring continue to reproduce in this way, by the end of December, the total number of offspring could exceed 27 billion, comparable to the Big Bang.

But theory is just theory.

The reality is not ideal either.

Food shortages and the threat of predators prevented rats from breeding indiscriminately.

Even so, in today's world where life on Earth has become increasingly monstrous, rat swarms are the most terrifying.

Even if it's just a level 3 rat swarm.

Its harmfulness is comparable to a first-level animal tide.

A Level 1 Beast Tide, a horde of billions of monsters, with high-level lord-level monsters appearing in large numbers, and king-level monsters leading the beast tide.

A level two beast tide, with over a billion monsters, led by at least 10 lord-level monsters, and possibly including higher lord-level monsters.

A Level 10 Beast Tide consists of over ten million different types of monsters, with a maximum of over one hundred million, and no more than ten low-level lord-level monsters.

However, while a Level 3 rat swarm does not contain King-level monsters or high-level Lord-level monsters, it does have the number of a Level 1 beast swarm, with hundreds of billions or even trillions of rat beasts.

But there are still many more rats and beasts.

There is also a quantity.

Dongqing's biggest weakness used to be his ability to inflict damage, because most telekinetic weapons couldn't withstand his abuse, just like Sun Wukong before he got the Golden Cudgel, he felt uncomfortable using any weapon.

With the planetary-level psychic weapon, the Arc Blade Disc, Dong Qing was finally able to unleash his full psychic power without worrying about the weapon suddenly shattering and having to resort to punching it.

"Master, based on your current slaughtering speed, you can eliminate ten million rat beasts in one minute, one hundred million rat beasts in ten minutes, and six hundred million rat beasts in one hour."

"It will take at least ten hours to completely suppress the billions of rat beasts of the Level 3 rat swarm. It's 9 p.m. now, so it will take until tomorrow morning at the earliest."

The demon Babata appeared out of nowhere. Capable of shifting between reality and illusion, she transformed into a palm-sized demon, fluttering her mechanically beautiful wings, and perched on Dongqing's shoulder.

She was holding a very traditional keypad calculator, carefully calculating the speed at which Dongqing was slaughtering the rat beasts. As an intelligent life form, this calculation only required a thought.

The reason she uses this seemingly clumsy method to calculate is because...

The main reason is that he wants to establish a relationship with his new master, Dongqing.

After all, it wasn't Dongqing who begged her.

Instead, she took the initiative to beg Dongqing.

"You're talking about theoretical data. Theory can be used as a reference, but you can't completely trust it. In the real world, unexpected things can happen at any time."

Dongqing was in a very good mood as he unleashed his mental power to his heart's content for the first time, and his attitude towards the demon Babata was also quite friendly.

Although the origins of the demon Babata are unclear.

But she did give herself a chance for redemption.

then.

Dong Qingji was still young when his biological parents in this world perished in a level-two beast tide in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan base city, dying in the mouths of high-level lord-class monsters.

But back then, he couldn't do anything. Now, having saved 200 million people in Jiangnan Base City, he can be considered to have reconciled with his past self.

No one knows how much Dongqing longed for someone like him to descend from the sky back then, just like he is now, to shelter those who need protection from the wind and rain.

It might sound a bit awkward, or even pretentious, but this is Dong Qing's deepest concern. Because of this, he refused to be promoted to patrol commissioner and has been stationed in the base city of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan for more than ten years.

"Indeed, China reacted quickly, and the support from the Jiangnan base city is coming in continuously. Once you stabilize the front line, the level 3 rat swarm will be completely quelled in less than ten hours."

The demon Babata did not refute Dongqing's point of view, because according to her information retrieval, the Huaxia Kingdom was doing everything in its power to support the Jiangnan Base City, and martial artists and soldiers were rushing to this region.

Moreover, thanks to Dong Qing's strong suppression, the momentum of the Level 3 rat swarm sweeping across the entire Jiangnan base city was forcibly interrupted.

The death rate among Chinese soldiers and martial artists is also dropping rapidly, from one to ten to one to one thousand.

Even though the rat-beasts launched a counterattack regardless of casualties.

It takes a thousand rats to save one life.

"Azure Emperor, is this the one who ranks among the top three strongest in our China... no, among all of humanity?"

"They're too powerful, like gods! I wonder just how powerful Hong and the Thunder God must be!"

Behind Dong Qing stood millions of Chinese martial artists and soldiers.

They formed the Great Wall by using their own flesh and blood to block the third-level rat swarm.

They originally thought that no matter how strong a martial artist was, at most they could destroy a city with one blow, or form an army by themselves. In ancient times, they would be like immortals on land.

But Dongqing's strength was like that of a god; if he wanted to, he could wipe out billions of rat beasts all by himself.