Chapter 52 Rat Farming

I've seen chicken farms and pig farms, but I've never seen any rat farms. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just listen to Captain Li's analysis:

"You can see that this cave has sunken down, forming a natural cliff up to 5 meters high, and even if these rats bounce so hard, they can't jump up from under that high wall. In addition, although these rats have evolved into a kind of 'water rat' that can burrow into the water to fish like cormorants, they are mammals after all and cannot have dived from somewhere else underwater, so it is clear that someone kept them here. ”

Everyone listened to Captain Li's analysis, and there was some truth, but what was the purpose of these rats being stocked in this pit?

Yang Xuedao:

"Obviously, this is the source of food for 'their', just like the pig farms in our outside world, which supply pork, this should be a farm that can supply a steady stream of rat meat, and the clever thing is that this farm does not need to be manually managed at all, and the food is fed, and the rats themselves can prey through that water eye, and 'they' only need to be responsible for harvesting and controlling the number of rats, within a certain range of reproductive cycles, and that's fine."

Everyone was amazed and amazed at the ingenuity of "their" to think of this method in such an isolated and resource-scarce cave basin to obtain a steady stream of food. However, long-term consumption of this rat meat may lead to acidification of the constitution, change the alkaline environment of the constitution, and cause a relatively short lifespan.

I pointed to this group of fat rats and said to Yang Xue: "Look at these rats, they are fatter than the ones we encountered in the crack before, and there are so many fat layers, can't they be used as fuel for lighting?" ”

As soon as the words fell, someone found a torch on the cave wall, the torch was made of bones, and it was inserted diagonally in a hole, and the head was wrapped in a layer of dark grease.

The rats saw the light of the fire and there was quite a commotion, and it seemed that they had realized that as soon as the torches were lit, they could be in danger of being slaughtered. But the question is, why are these rats so big? The eyeballs reflect red light, a bit like genetically modified white mice, and even more so with the eyes of the batmen outside, the eyes of the white giant salamanders under the water, and the eyes of the girl who rescued me from the mouth of the humanoid bat, all of them, what is the connection between them? And what kind of population is "they" that are still missing, and how many are there? How is "their" way of life different from the outside world?

Yang Xue felt that the caveman should live in the depths of the secret passage, and if we continued to walk along this passage, we would inevitably meet "them" unexpectedly, but, judging from the previous behavior of the caveman, it is obvious that "they" do not have good intentions towards us intruders, and we have also blown up the safety barrier of "them" against humanoid bats, and "they" will not have a good impression of us, if we want to continue to move forward, we have to be careful.

Captain Li looked at the fat and greasy rats, and said that since we entered this cave, we have not opened meat, and now there is no food, everyone is so hungry that their chests are pressed against their backs, let me go down and slaughter two rats to satisfy everyone's hunger. As he spoke, he drew his tiger tooth knife and let us pull the rope and let him down.

Those rats were obviously accustomed to humans for a long time, and when they saw Captain Li dragging the rope and sliding down, the rats only twitched slightly, scattered to the side, and put a few layers of the rat queen inside and out, for fear that Captain Li would be unfavorable to the rat queen.

Captain Li was also amused, so he said:

"I'll beat your two workers and sacrifice your teeth so that I won't hurt your queen......"

Those rats seemed to understand Captain Li's words, and they all let out a "squeak" sound, and what was even more amazing was that these rats seemed to have adapted to this kind of picture, watching Captain Li take the knife down, and pushed out two worker rats from the rat group, and the two "sacrificed" worker rats seemed to accept their fate, so they spread their legs, trembled and walked towards Captain Li, leading their necks to be killed.

For the rat colony, this scene is naturally very tragic, sacrificing a few individuals to save the entire population, they must have endured great suffering in their hearts. But for us, we think the scene is weird and funny, and we can't help but laugh and want to laugh.

Just when we were almost laughing at this funny scene, suddenly, out of nowhere, a pair of white-haired arms suddenly stretched out, and in the blink of an eye, they strangled Captain Li's neck from behind.

This Captain Li is not a vegetarian, he can kill the batman alive outside, why is there no room for resistance this time? It happened too suddenly, and everyone's nerves had just slowly relaxed from the tension, but unexpectedly, this unbelievable thing happened again, and they were stunned for a while.

Boss Chen said in surprise:

"Is there any mistake? How did a pair of hands grow out of this stone? ”

Yang Xue was the calmest, she was the first to react, she lay there and looked down, turned back to us and said:

"The hands did not grow out of the stone, but there was a hole in the recess underneath ......."

As soon as Mr. Mao heard this, he asked us to quickly put the rope down and let him go down, if it was too late, I was afraid that Captain Li would not be saved. I wanted to stop him, saying that it was best not to act rashly until I figured out what it was, but Mr. Mao insisted on going his own way, and when he saw Captain Li being dragged into the hole, he seemed to be more anxious than if he had lost his life.

However, among us, Mr. Mao is the best, and this duty of saving people should also be the safest for him. However, we still act together and take care of each other. Yang Xue and I pulled the rope, let Mr. Mao go down, and asked him to wait for us for a while, who knew that he was eager to save people, and if we didn't wait for us to go down, he hit the groove in the cave wall, and the person was gone.

As soon as we saw that there were no two people in the team, we were a little anxious, and hurriedly followed the rope and slid down, but fortunately, the position of the rat's nest was not too high, and we didn't have to make much effort, so we descended to the bottom, and when we saw it, Yang Xue and I were taken aback.

The recessed wall, extending a meter or two inside, there was a wall made of crystal ore, blocking the way, Mr. Mao was at a loss to check there repeatedly, as if he couldn't understand how Captain Li could be dragged into a wall.