Commander Li's eyes followed the rat as it disappeared beneath the broken foundation of one of the damaged buildings near the eastern barricade.
The thing moved quickly despite the strips of flesh hanging from its body, its swollen tail dragging through the mud before vanishing into the darkness beneath the concrete.
Then another rat followed it inside and Li's expression hardened slightly.
Most people would have ignored it. A rat was a rat, especially now. But after seeing zombie birds dive at people's eyes and watching undead cats climb over piles of bodies like predators hunting prey, Li no longer trusted anything small enough to disappear into places people stopped paying attention to.
The rats had come from somewhere. And judging by the condition of them, whatever was breeding them was getting worse.
"Commander?" Sun Ming asked from behind him.
Li tore his gaze away from the hole. "Come with me."
No one questioned him.
