Chapter 8: The Ratcatcher
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Luo Yong subconsciously walked to the table and looked at the cactus ball "Xiao Cui" on the table. I'm a little uncertain, if I go over, will I be pricked too?
At this time, "Xiao Cui" seemed to feel Rayong's approach, exuding a fluctuation of attachment, and a hint of showing off the feeling of pride, like a child who has done a good deed and is waiting for his parents to praise him.
Rayong's mood relaxed all of a sudden.
Perhaps, for "Xiaocui", she is like a parent-like existence, after all, it was born because of herself, and she should listen to what she says, and it will not hurt herself. Moreover, the current Xiaocui can only express simple mood swings, which is not particularly exaggerated.
Well, plants have mood swings, that's exaggerated enough!
Luo Yong carefully touched Xiao Cui. The thorns on Xiao Cui's body were partially shot out, and now only half of them are left, and they look bare, and they don't know when they will grow again.
"Xiaocui, good job."
Luo Yong couldn't bear to let it down, so he touched the thorn on the top of Xiaocui's head (it should be considered the top of his head) and praised it.
Xiao Cui's mood swings suddenly changed and became excited.
Sure enough, it's still a child!
Luo Yong pulled over the chair and sat on the edge of the desk, looking at Xiao Cui, who was still excited, and thought helplessly, would he want to bring a large group of plant babies in the future?
Thinking about it, a picture came to Rayong's mind, a large group of various plants chasing after him, constantly shouting "Daddy!" Father! ”
No way! It's horrible!
Luo Yong shook his head violently and shook the image out of his head.
This question will be talked about later, he has to deal with the aftermath of Xiaocui first, that little mouse full of immortal thorns, absolutely, absolutely not allowed to be seen by others!
Luo Yong picked up the tail of the little mouse and frowned a little disgusted, but he still stood up helplessly and prepared to find a place to bury it.
At this time, a sudden change occurred!
When Rayong didn't react at all, "The Secret of the Faun" suddenly worked on its own.
In an instant, the little mouse in his hand was sucked into a dried corpse, and a faint life energy entered his body through his right hand, and after running around in his body, it merged into the sea of knowledge.
In the sea of knowledge, the newly appeared phantom of the light of life was slightly condensed.
Although the growth is almost negligible, it is indeed a real light of life.
It's just a little mouse that's less than the size of a palm, but what if it's a bigger creature?
In the future, don't you have to worry about the lack of light of life?
Regardless of how crooked Rayong is, reality will soon tell him what it means to be skinny.
At this time, the voice of Suo Suo came from the warm pavilion next door, it should be that after He Xiu Fuluo's filial piety fell asleep, he went to the warm pavilion to watch the TV series.
Luo's father and mother lived in the main house on the north side of the courtyard, and the warm pavilion was sandwiched between Rayong and his parents' bedroom, with a small door leading directly to his bedroom.
It's news time, and the day's news is playing next door. It is nothing more than what new technology has been researched by the Chinese government, what accidents have happened to other federal governments, and in a few months, someone from the Marfa Empire will visit our government, and so on......
Luo Yong came back to his senses and hurriedly destroyed the corpse.
He plucked the thorns from the dried rat corpse and found a random place in the yard to bury the dried corpse. These immortal thorns must be poisonous and can't be left unattended, so Rayong found a small box and hid them all.
The sound of the news came from next door from time to time, but Rayong didn't have the slightest intention to listen.
Now thinking of the scene where Xiaocui poked the little mouse to death in the afternoon, Luo Yong still felt extremely shocked.
If you think about it carefully, when I first used my magical powers, I was afraid that the cactus would grow too big and not be able to be planted in a flower pot, so I limited the size of the cactus. After that, it just changed color, and the rest was left alone, and as a result, the spines of the cactus ball grew longer and thicker, and there were mood swings.
Thinking about it again, "Green Peony" also absorbed a little light of life, but as a result, it didn't feel emotional fluctuations at all. If you think about it, it should be that the chrysanthemum plant is larger, and the life light energy needed for growth is naturally more, and because you spend most of your energy on controlling the flower, the flower has the power to calm people's hearts.
And because the cactus ball is too small, the demand for the light of life is naturally less, and it has a certain aggression itself, which will evolve attack power. However, with Xiao Cui's size, it can also deal with rats and cockroaches, and even larger things can't do anything.
As for how does Xiao Cui have mood swings? Rayong didn't understand it either, but when there were more examples in the future, maybe he could analyze it.
Xiao Cui on the desk felt Rayong's approach, exuding a happy emotion. It turned out that Rayong had unknowingly walked to the desk.
Luo Yong took a look at the situation and found that on the position of the immortal thorn that was originally shot away, thin thorns had begun to grow, and I believe that it would not be long before Xiao Cui could get rid of his current bald state.
Outside the window, a blue crescent moon rises from the horizon, reflecting the green starfish like a blessed cave.
The impact of today's events on him was too great, and now he can't calm down at all, and his thoughts are always drifting to the cactus ball and the little mouse that has been sucked into a dried corpse.
I tried to cultivate just now, but I also failed.
Luo Yong sighed, it seems that there is no way to cultivate today. If you can't even eliminate distracting thoughts, how can you cultivate?
After thinking about it, Rayong simply found a flashlight and came out, preparing to go out at night to catch a mouse for an experiment.
Rayong held the flower pot with Xiaocui in his left hand, opened the door, and crept out through the side door.
This season is the season of good harvest, and it is also the season when rats hoard food for winter, and rats can definitely be found in the granary.
The granary is less than two hundred meters away from the Luo family's residence, and it will be there in a while.
There is a rat plague in the granary every year, and Rayong used to catch rats and put rat cages with his parents when he was a child. However, food prices have continued to fall in recent years, so there is no need to care about these rats. Anyway, even if they eat openly, they can eat dozens of catties of grain, and at the current price of grain, it is only a few dozen yuan.
Hopefully those rat traps are still there.
Rayong quietly opened the granary door. In the dark, more than a dozen pairs of soybean green eyes scattered and disappeared in an instant.
The corners of his mouth twitched, it seemed that their family had been too relaxed in the past few years, and the number of these rats seemed to have increased several times compared to before. In the past, when he came to the granary at night, he saw a few rats at most, but today he actually saw more than a dozen at once! The total number of rats in this granary is not to be in the hundreds.
Turn on the light, the previous rat trap cage is still there, but some parts are loose, Rayong can use it with a slight adjustment.
After placing the rat trap in all corners of the granary, he turned off the lights, and the rest was to wait for the rabbits. Anyway, he can't cultivate, so he'll be on a par with these rats tonight.
Placing Xiaocui on the ground in front of him, Rayong sat cross-legged in the corner of the wall, placed a triangular fork on his knee, closed his eyes and contemplated.
In the darkness, the sound of Si Si Suo was heard again.
Luo Yong practiced the "Faun Shen Jue", and the breath on his body was somewhat similar to that of plants, and sitting still at this time could minimize the vigilance of the mouse, and if he didn't pay attention, he wouldn't find anyone at all.
After a while, Rayong's ears moved, and two or three meters to his left, there was a slight friction sound.
He knew it was the sound of a rat's tail dragging on the ground. However, it was still far away, and if he moved a little, the rat would run away in fright.
Rayong quietly opened his eyes, but his breathing was more soothing, and there was hardly any sound.
After a while, the grinding sound gradually approached.
Rayong's eyes were also fully adapted to the darkness, and he could roughly see the location of the mouse. It was a large rat with a body length of nearly 30 centimeters, and a tail of more than half a meter.
These rats may be less courageous than the tip of a needle, but if you underestimate them because of this, you will surely learn a hard lesson.
Dogs will jump over walls when they are in a hurry, and rats will bite when they are in a hurry. There is a neurotoxin on the teeth of this mouse, which is not poisonous, but can magnify people's pain dozens of times.
Thinking that his cousin Luo Jiajun was accidentally bitten, but a wound the size of a fingernail, he howled in pain for three days, until his voice was hoarse and completely speechless, and he was still lying on the bed humming. You can imagine how much it hurts. Since then, my cousin has seen the rat change color and never entered the granary again.
That taste, Rayong didn't want to try at all.
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