Just as Zheng Tan thought, the red rat looked indeed clever and cute, but behind that facade lay a fierce nature and, fundamentally, a tendency to bully the weak and fear the strong.
The way those researchers treated the red rat made it clear that, in this period, it had not encountered any threat at all. It got the best food and drink, even the wood for gnawing was custom made, with hardness meticulously calculated and chosen from several types suitable for its teeth grinding needs. Even after killing two of Dean Xie's carefully bred lab mice, no one punished it; instead, they contacted other research institutes with their lab mice to discuss countermeasures, implementing a "sustainable development" strategy; for all you know, it might even start receiving international aid. Anyway, the red rat's future looked prosperous.