Chapter 33: The Scourge of Agriculture and Forestry
Chen Mian completed the drawing of the anti-poison pattern a day earlier than expected, and calculated that more than ten days had passed in the past month, and she planned to start the task tomorrow.
After the second day of cultivation, the mana value reached 46, and after Chen Mian checked his equipment, he entered the personal transit space.
Choose "Agriculture and Forestry Scourge (Ordinary Level)" to enter, and she was instantly teleported into the mission transit space, she didn't hesitate too much this time, she planned to complete this month's tasks one after another in the past few days, and then pick some new spells and learn slowly.
"Agroforestry Scourge (Normal): The racecourse of Thorn Manor has recently been visited by an uninvited guest, who has been dormant in the ground, digging tunnels and rushing out when people or livestock pass by.
The manor lost several horses and a servant a leg, and the owner of the Thorn Manor, Baron Marshall, was so overwhelmed by this that he had to shut down the stable.
The uninvited guest was a burrower, and after days of not eating fresh meat, it had begun to approach the manor's woodlands.
Please help Sir Marshall solve the scourge of the manor. ”
After reading the introduction, Chen Mian chose to start the task, and in a flash, she appeared on a meadow.
As soon as he arrived at the mission world, Chen Mian immediately rode the witch's flying broomstick into the air, although he couldn't cast spells while flying, it was perfect for observing the surrounding terrain from the air.
Chen Mian rose to a height of 100 meters and overlooked the entire racecourse. After the racecourse was closed for a period of time, the grass on the ground was able to grow freely and was very lush, and the racecourse was about ten football fields in size and was surrounded by a wooden fence.
To the south was a low hill, and the trees on the hill did not look very tall, most of them were only more than ten meters tall, and Chen Mian guessed that this was probably the manor's forest farm.
Her range of activity seems to be limited to the racetrack and the woods, and even if she can vaguely see the sizable manor to the north and the people walking in the middle, she can't pass through the transparent barrier at the boundary of the racetrack.
After having a rough understanding of the entire terrain, Chen Mian controlled the flying broom to descend to about ten meters, carefully looking for the traces left by the digging insects.
Judging from the mission description, the Digger often stays underground, and when it senses a creature passing by, it will attack from underground, and it is likely to leave various holes behind.
Sure enough, she soon found a small pile of bare dirt on the west side of the racecourse, the soil was not very damp, indicating that it had been some time, and the hole had collapsed slightly.
Chen Mian continued to search for similar holes in the sky above the racecourse, and found more than ten in total, and some of the latest holes were concentrated on the south side of the racecourse, that is, near the forest farm, and no new holes were found inside the forest farm for the time being.
Judging from the size of the hole, the burrowing insect is not small, and its length cannot be estimated, but the width and height are at least more than one meter.
After exploring, Chen Mian dispelled the idea of searching in the caves, the soil at the entrances of these caves was very soft and could collapse at any time, which was not suitable for exploration, and underground, the territory of the digging insects, she would be much restricted, and even landing on the ground might be dangerous.
After careful consideration, Chen Mian rode a flying broomstick, entered the forest farm again, selected a dead wood stake, put it in the storage space, and then returned to the adjacent place of the forest farm and the racecourse, and chose a big tree to fall on the side of a relatively new hole found before.
Standing on the branches of the big tree, Chen Mian put on a mage armor for himself, and gently tapped the ground with the thick wooden stake with the mage's hand.
She thinks there are two most likely reasons why burrowers can spot prey walking on the ground. One is the sound of the prey walking and the slight tremor of the ground, and the other is the smell of the prey.
She struck the ground with a stake to simulate the sound and vibration of creatures passing by, and if she could identify it by smell, she would have to find a bait or lure her body.
As soon as he struck the fourth blow, a huge force rose against the stake, and a huge multi-legged insect rushed out of the earth.
Its long tentacles quivered with the movement around it, and the sharp hooks of its legs caught the stake, and its strong jaws bit the stake in two.
Chen Mian removed the mage's hand the moment the stake was raised, and quickly prepared the entanglement technique, and the surrounding grass and shrubs were very lush, which provided convenience for Chen Mian's spell.
Under the influence of the entanglement, the vegetation around the Digger grows rapidly, winding towards the Digger before it burrows back into the ground.
Immediately after that, Chen Mian saw a magic missile pierce the carapace on its back, and the digging insect was in pain, and at the same time, it also found Chen Mian on the tree, and it struggled violently.
The burrower has many barbs on its body, and the hook claws on its legs are also very sharp, and in the struggle of the burger, the grass and trees break in response, and it rushes towards the tree in anger, biting off a large piece of bark at once.
Chen Mian grabbed the trunk of the tree, and seeing that the tree was about to be bitten off, gorgeous colored light erupted from her hand, enveloping the digging insects.
The Digger was knocked down and fell into a dizzy state, and Chen Mian seized the opportunity to blind it in one eye with another magic missile.
The burger was awakened by the sharp pain, regained its senses, and struck it again, and the tree finally began to fall towards it.
Chen Mian jumped vigorously in the direction of the racecourse, and at the same time superimposed a feather falling technique on herself, she was like a fluttering feather, slowly floating towards the racecourse.
Seeing its prey fleeing, the burrower jumped to its feet, squirting a streak of acid from its mouth. The acid struck the old man in the air, and the mage's armor was corroded and cracked.
Chen Mian didn't rush to fight back, she put on a layer of mage armor on herself again, and threw a greasy spell at the back of the digging worm, watching the digging insect rush towards her, leaving the farm for some distance before casting the burning hand.
The fierce flames scorched the digger, and Chen Mian used the buoyancy of the feather fall technique to float a few meters away from the digging insect before hitting the ground.
The digging insect rolled on the ground in pain, trying to burrow back into the ground, Chen Mian successfully hit it with a loss of will, it fell into a trembling state, dominated by fear, no longer trying to escape, and could not rise the courage to resist, so it could only roll as hard as possible to relieve the pain.
It had completely lost its threat to Chen Mian, and Chen Mian then fired a debilitating ray that made it lose the strength to roll, and slowly lost its vitality.
After Chen Mian used the Fortune Observation Technique to confirm that the Digger was dead, she carefully cleaned up the scattered flames left by the Digger's roll.
After finishing this, she did not settle the task immediately, but carefully reviewed the entire task process to see if there were any omissions, hoping to complete the task as perfectly as possible and improve the task evaluation.
Suddenly thinking of those holes, Chen Mian had the mentality of trying it out, restored the mana value, put on a mage armor on himself again, made it smaller with the shrinking technique, and then lit a light on his fingertips to enter through a relatively new hole.
The reduced height was just enough to walk in the hole, and the duration of the reduction technique was only two minutes at this stage, so she sped up and probed quickly, and every time the duration was almost up, she put another reduction on herself.
Along the cave, the soil on the cave wall gradually became much firmer, obviously reinforced, and there were many forks around, but Chen Mian looked at the one that went deep into the ground.
As there were fewer and fewer forks in the road around her, Chen Mian knew that she had chosen the right one, and her mana was gradually running out and the shrinking technique began to fail, she lay flat on the ground, her body gradually getting bigger, and then continued to recover her mana.
Finally, before the second mana was about to run out, Chen Mian entered a much larger cavern, in which she could at least walk with her normal body shape.
There were many animal bones scattered in the cave, it seemed that they were the nests of the digging insects, and Chen Mian carefully checked the situation in the cave.
In a corner that appears to be a digging bug's collection, she finds a metal seal and a saddle encrusted with gems.
The seal bears the word Marshall, and the saddle has a similar mark, apparently an item of Sir Marshall. They are all items that have no special effects, only symbolic meanings.
Chen Mian put it in the storage space and returned to the ground using the same method as before.
At this time, it was already night outside, she flew in the direction of the manor on a broomstick, this time the barrier actually disappeared, "It seems that I made the right bet", Chen Mian thought silently.
The whole manor was silent, she didn't alarm anyone, and after going around the manor, she chose to place the seal and saddle on the windowsill of a room that appeared to be a study, and then chose to settle the task.