Chapter Twenty-Nine: Making Leather Armor
"Squeak!"
Come in!
Seeing the four Moonlight Rats appear, Ron immediately summoned them into the warehouse. As soon as they entered the warehouse, the four Moonlight Rat Group Masters looked around, and their faces immediately became serious.
In the Moonlight Rats, although their intelligence is not as good as Ron's, they are similar to Long Beard, which is enough to understand the seriousness of the events unfolding in front of them at this moment!
"Squeak!"
It's serious, and as you can see, we're running out of food!
Now, we have two things to do, the first is to get enough food for the rats to survive the winter!
The second thing is to find the bastards who stole our food! Teach them a hard lesson so that they don't dare to steal our food again!
Which one do you choose?
Looking at the expressions of the four moonlight rat group leaders, Ron also knew that they understood the current grim situation, but Ron did not give them a chance to speak, but squeaked a series of rapid chirps to fully express his meaning, and at the same time, such a strong state also made the four moonlight rat group leaders stunned.
After all, it wasn't a month or two since the yellow-haired yellow fur who was devoured by Ron ruled the moonlight rat colony, and he hadn't performed so strongly before.
"Squeak!"
Let us discuss!
However, after a moment of stunnedness, Scarface, the relatively eldest of the dead group leaders, immediately spoke, and then he gathered several other moonlight rat group leaders together, and kept making a slight squeak, obviously discussing.
As the leader of the Moonlight Rat Colony, Ron does not have the habit of eavesdropping on the deliberations of his subordinates, in fact, the leader of the Moonlight Rat Group says that it is the Moonlight Rat Leader's subordinates, rather than the Leader's reserves, they are relatively independent, and at the same time always ready to challenge, once successful, they will be the new Moonlight Rat Leader!
"Squeak!"
"Squeak squeak!"
"Squeak!"
“......”
The slight faint squeak continued, and the amount of information exchanged between the four group leaders seemed to be large, but instead of paying attention, Ron walked to the cavern in the deepest part of the warehouse again, and carefully observed the rough scratches at the entrance.
"Squeak!"
These scratches, as if ...... It seems to be a scratch of an insect!
Since he has been hunting cockroaches in the past few days, Ron was deeply impressed by the arthropods of insects, so after taking a deep look at the scratches from the digging cave, Ron immediately compared the scratches with the arthropods of insects in his mind, but found that they unexpectedly matched!
"Squeak!"
"Could it be a bunch of cockroaches stealing the food from the rat colony?
No, no, cockroaches are not social insects, and cockroaches don't dig such rounded burrows in size!
It should be a social insect, such as ...... Ant?
But is there such a big ant?
Upon discovering valuable information, Ron's mind immediately began to work quickly, making assumptions and eliminating them. And when Ron's mind shifts to the ant, the most widespread social insect, it all seems to be revealed.
"Squeak!"
Chieftain!
We've got it done!
We chose to go for food!
But just as Ron wanted to continue thinking about it, a chirp came from behind, and it was Scarface, the main heart of the four group leaders, who was chirping.
The tweets also indicate the willingness of the four moonshine rat herds, who eventually chose the option of getting food for the colony. At the very least, compared to the other option listed by Ronro, it is safer to find food than to find monsters that steal it, and it will be possible to gain a higher reputation in the population.
Ron's thoughts were interrupted, and he couldn't go on for a while. So he walked out of the depths of the warehouse, squatting in front of the four group leaders, and at the same time, his fiery red eyes swept over the four moonlight rat group leaders, causing them to involuntarily bow their heads.
"Squeak!"
Very good!
Then find enough food for your population to survive the winter before the next full moon!
I can give you access to send the Leader's Guard and most of the Moonglow Rats, but you can't deliberately let the Moonglow Rats die to reduce the amount of food you get, understand?
Ron also thought about it before proposing one of the two options, and if Ron had to choose first, finding food would have to be Ron's choice.
After all, it is the surface world that is looking for food, and the small moonlight rat has more hiding places, and the target of the search is food, and there is no need to fight, which is safer and has a more obvious contribution to the population.
And the results of such a discussion show that the intelligence of the four moonlight rat group leaders has also increased a lot in the past half a month, and will not be affected by the moon.
"Squeak!"
Got it!
At Ron's last question, the four Moonlight Rats raised their heads and let out a uniform chirp to confirm the task. Then, under Ron's gaze, the four Moonlight Rats slowly left the warehouse, and under the protection of their own guards, they scattered back to their nests.
Next, they will lead some of the more intelligent moonlight rats to the cold and windy ground to find enough food for the moonlight rat population to survive the long winter.
Ron, on the other hand, returns to the depths of the warehouse, looking at the swarthy round cavern, and puts himself in the role of a hunter.
So, after thinking for a while, Ron let out a chirp and called the longbeard waiting outside the warehouse to his side.
"Squeak!"
Go find some leather and hemp rope!
............
The efficiency of the long beard was extremely high, and Ron only ate lunch in his nest, and a team of moonglow rats sent all the leather and several hemp ropes that Ron needed into Ron's nest.
Then, after careful selection, Ron picked out a piece of soft cowhide from the pile of leather, and then disassembled a piece of hemp rope into thin threads.
"Squeak!"
That's how it should be, and that's how it should be!
Although he hadn't seen the process of making leather armor, Ron had seen leather jackets and leather waistcoats after all. So, like drawing a gourd, Ron stretched out his sharp claws, cut the tough cowhide into the shape he wanted little by little, and then poked small holes with his claws at the edge of the cowhide, and then connected them one by one with twine.
The work took Ron an entire sleep cycle, as the leather was tough and needed to be cut many times, and the twine joints had to be connected in series several times to prevent one twine from breaking and the whole piece of leather armor from being scrapped.
When Ron finally put on the cowhide vest he had sewn, a pale green cue crossed his eyes.
"Equip Leather Armor (Rough), Defense +1!"
"Squeak!"
It's really a casual system, so it can also be considered leather armor?