Chapter 44: Ron Farming
Thin strips of cloth were wrapped around ropes and fastened around the necks of two low-intelligence moonlight rats, the other end held in the Shadow's hand.
Having already agreed to be lame, Ron naturally took his lame daughter with him on the way back.
The emaciated Shadow apparently heard Ron's conversation with his father, and only chirped when Ron spoke with him and offered to take her back to the central area of the Moonlight Rat Territory.
However, perhaps in order to prevent Ron from breaking his promise, the lame handed over control of the two low-intelligence moonlight rats to the Shadow Paws, and only the shadow could make the two moonlight rats with intelligence more similar to that of the hounds obedient, and the other moonlight rats did not let alone control, and even getting close to them would cause them to commotion and roar.
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"Squeak!"
Haven't the four group leaders come back yet?
"Squeak!"
No!
Passing by the warehouse on the way back, Ron asked the patrolling Moonlight Rat guards again with Hatcher, and got the news that the four Moonlight Rat Captains had not yet returned.
Finding food for the population is not something that can be done by a few rats alone, so when the four moonlight rat group owners left, they naturally brought their own guards. Whether it is the four moonlight rat group owners or their guards, they all belong to the backbone of the moonlight rat population, and once they are lost, the impact on the rat population is absolutely immeasurable.
"Squeak!"
I can only wait patiently!
With that in mind, Ron instructed the guards to continue patrolling, keeping an eye on the movement of the tunnel in the grain warehouse, and to report to him if something went wrong.
Then, by placing the Shadow's nest next to Longbeard and letting Beard take care of his new companions, Ron was finally able to return to his comfortable nest.
"Squeak!"
Ahh
It's finally time to get a good night's sleep!
Putting down the small crossbow and the small backpack containing the fungus blanket, Ron threw himself into the soft cloud fox fur, curled up lazily in a ball, and violently stretched into a large shape.
I have to say that what was originally just a simple reconnaissance operation eventually turned into a war between Ron and a rat against hundreds of beetles in the entire Worm Castle, which is also quite a bizarre development.
Fortunately, Ron had the advantage of being more agile, and at the same time, he was blessed by the [Moonlight Heart], his physical reserves were beyond imagination, and his mind was always clear, which finally captured the sweet fruits of victory.
However, the fierce battle also brought Ron's physical strength close to the cordon, and then went to the edge of the territory with Longbeard to deal with the tail of the hand, which made Ron's physical strength and energy light up red.
In fact, on the way back, he had already hacher.
"Squeak!"
Can't sleep yet!
There's one more thing to deal with!
Rubbing his face against the soft fur with some attachment, Ron propped up his torso on his forelimbs and crawled out of the nest.
"Squeak!"
Where should I put it?
Looking around, Ron searched for a suitable spot.
Ron's nest was at the bottom of a dry sewer, connected to the outside world by a slender passageway, with freshly placed rice and water at Ron's feet, a growing coin mound on his right, and a little more empty farther away.
"Squeak!"
Plant it right here!
Ron's nest is clean, but there is plenty of space in the dry sewers, and there is still plenty of room for Ron's nest, where the coin hill occupies.
Ron doesn't clean up these spaces, so there's a lot of dust piling up. Now, this dust will be the basis for Ron's mushroom blanket.
"Squeak!"
How to plant it?
Thinking back to the busy figure of the beetles, Ron picked up the cloth bag, grabbed another handful of the newly replaced rice, and hurried to the corner of the nest's sewer.
Slightly testing the thickness of the dust with his hind legs, Ron sprinkled the rice on the dust, then opened the cloth bag and took out the fungus blanket and covered it over the rice and dust.
Then, thinking about it again, Ron turned to pick up the clay pot containing his edible water, and spilled a small portion of it onto the fungus blanket.
"Squeak!"
Grow faster!
Perhaps, the future food of the rat colony will depend on you!
After watering, Ron brought the pot back to the nest and chewed the rice with the water in the pot.
Rice, of course, is raw, husked.
Under Ron's rapidly wriggling front teeth, the thin rice skin was removed, and the white balls were crushed by Ron's front teeth, so that a faint smell of starch was melted by the saliva and turned into a sweet taste.
"Squeak!"
Delicious!
Although he ate three nuts after the battle, it was only enough to support Ron's subsequent actions, and it was not enough to replenish his depleted physical strength.
So, Ron, who is now in a safe area, can finally let go of his belly and eat to meet his body's needs.
"Click~"
The continuous gnawing sound gradually reduced the amount of rice that was half a moonlight rat next to Ron, and finally only a thin pile of rice husks remained, and the water in the clay pot next to it was also drunk by Ron.
Flapping his belly in contentment, Ron curled up back into the cloud fox's fur, revealing only the shiny black tip of his nose.
So, a soft snoring sounded, and Ron finally fell into a dark and sweet sleep.
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The white threads slowly derive, wrapping the round particles, and then the silk threads derive finer fluff into the particles. As a result, the particles begin to slowly crush, melt, blacken, and rot.
As the particles change, the white silk threads gradually become thicker, and more silk threads are derived from them, exploring the surroundings and wrapping more grains.
There are more and more silk threads, which are interwoven into a fine mesh cloth, and gradually become thicker.
Then, a white dot similar to a sesame seed suddenly emerges from the thickest silk thread and then inflates like a balloon.
At the same time, a little bit of fluorescence rises from the mesh made of silk threads, illuminating this square inch into a psychedelic scene.
............
Waking up from a deep sleep, Ron wiped his hair with the remaining water from the clay pot.
Next to the pot was a thin pile of rice husks—the empty husks that Ron had eaten the night before, and it was clear that the long beard hadn't had time to be replaced.
"Squeak!"
What's the long beard doing?
The hunger pangs of an empty stomach in the morning made Ron a little uncomfortable, because in the past, small things like food didn't need Ron's attention.
However, when Ron turned his head to look at the corner of the nest space, these unpleasant feelings immediately dissipated.
Because, in the corner of the nest space, there is a faint white shimmer flickering, illuminating a square inch of land, and several white balls of different sizes look particularly cute in the shimmer.