Chapter 160: The Night of the Killing Rat

The two-headed rat is a low-level small beast that originally lived in Zezhou in the south. This rat has an astonishing appetite, not only has two heads, but also has two stomach pouches, the main and the secondary, which can compress and store food for regurgitation when there is a shortage of food.

Every 10 years or so, the two-headed rat will go through a migratory foraging activity that is large enough to form a rat tide. Wherever they pass, the crops will be devoured!

Long before the rat tide arrived, the city lord had people spread a bounty announcement everywhere: ten days before the rat invaded Sanshan County, anyone who killed a rat could go to the designated place in Sanshan City with the cut rat tail and exchange it for fifty fragrant fruits or five hundred dream coins.

Soon after the news spread, a large number of cultivators flocked to Sanshan City to confirm that the news was true, and then quickly rushed to the area affected by the rat infestation.

Nearly seven layers of fertile land in Sanshan County are planted with hemp grains. This crispy, golden-grained grain is a staple food of the local mortal people, but it is extremely popular with the two-headed rat.

Just a few days ago, a rat influx hit Sanshan County, and millions of two-headed rats quickly dispersed and invaded the crops to frantically eat grain. At present, the hardest hit areas of rodent infestation are mainly concentrated in the south, most of the southeast, and most of the southwest.

Bian Yao and Twilight Song rushed to the road, traveled hundreds of miles in half a day, and finally arrived at the hard-hit area in the southwest at sunset.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the villages were silent, and no villagers could be seen.

The two men passed by the village and saw that the doors were all closed, and the villagers had already taken refuge in the houses, and the brave ones peeked out through the windows or through the cracks.

They rounded a crooked river, walked up the field path, and found a number of newly beaten rat holes.

The fields of crops that have been trodden by the rats are slanted or poured into patches of golden grain, and many of the half-ripe hemp grains have almost all been eaten up.

In the distance, I could see the figures of some cultivators, all of whom were armed with weapons, and most of them walked in groups of three or five, walking through the crops.

All the cultivators who participated in the extermination of the alien rats were mainly dreamers.

Generally speaking, a dream cultivator can only have the ability to hunt down the two-headed rat by himself if he has reached the late stage of the dream madness. However, the efficiency of acting alone is relatively low, so those dreamers in the later stage often choose to partner with others to hunt and kill strange rats.

The two-headed rat is nocturnal and the size is similar to that of ordinary cats and dogs, but their explosive power and hidden physical strength are extremely amazing! When fleeing or attacking, the speed of the rat's movement is almost comparable to that of the later dream maniac, and it is difficult to hunt!

The most troublesome thing is that once the rat is besieged and frightened, the blood in the body will be intensified, thus revealing a fierce and brutal side, becoming extremely aggressive and dangerous!

The sunset on the horizon fades away, and smoke rises in the quiet village.

In sight, more than a dozen groups of people and dozens of cultivators were scattered among the fields near and far, some were squatting beside the rat holes, and some were hiding in the hemp grains in a deep voice, hiding their bodies with crops, all with solemn faces, and waiting solemnly.

On a certain ridge, while turning his head and looking around, he listened to the movements around him.

A few feet away, Twilight Song stood quietly in the Magu bushes, holding her breath and concentrating, motionless.

Soon, the sky darkened and twilight quietly fell.

Suddenly, a shout came from not far away: "Come out and be careful!"

In the twilight, I saw four figures, moving quickly in the valley, slowly narrowing the encirclement.

"Beware! It's getting faster!"

"Oh no! my hand is covered!" said one of the men, but before he could finish speaking, he suddenly let out another scream.

"Don't howl, it's better to lose an arm than to lose a life!" a man next to him shouted in a rough voice, as he thrust the long knife in his hand into the ground and bandaged the man with a cloth.

The two-headed rat has venomous teeth, can secrete venom, and even its saliva and claws are highly poisonous!

With the physique of a mortal, even if the skin is scratched by a strange rat, it will die in a very short time! If an ordinary cultivator is bitten, he will be crippled at the least, and if he cannot detoxify or block the spread of the toxin in time, it will be equally difficult to live!

In just a few days, many practitioners have been maimed or killed.

A clear summer night with shining stars.

Bian Yao listened to the movement not far away, and a trace of nervousness arose in his heart, he suddenly turned his head and said, "It seems that the rumors are true! This two-headed rat is extremely poisonous, you have to be careful!"

"Worry about yourself first, don't let me get a chance to cut off your limbs!" replied Twilight.

At the end of April, the night was windless and the fields were slightly hot.

There were shouts in the distance, and the two of them held their breath and said no more.

After a while, a few feet away in the valley, there was a sudden sound of scurrying, followed by a "squeak", as if some animal was gnawing something.

Bian Yao turned his head to look at Twilight Song, nodded at him slightly, and then stared at the location where the sound came from, slowly raised his finger, and waved it forward.

At some point, Twilight's right hand was pressed against the hilt of the sword, and he bent his knees slightly, his eyes intent.

Suddenly, three stones appeared above the valley at the same time, and quickly smashed down in the east, south, and north directions, making a "snap" sound.

Suddenly frightened, the rat quickly cleared the bushes and hurried towards the west.

Under the bright starlight, a fast-moving black shadow appeared, with two fist-sized heads connected to the neck, and a panicked "squeak" sound came out of the mouth, and the four eyes glowed with a faint green light, faintly intimidating.

Suddenly, a cold light swept up, like a flash of lightning, slashing towards the black shadow in the valley.

In a moment, the two rat heads broke off together, and the movement stopped abruptly!

With a flick of her wrist, Twilight Song unleashed a sword light that cut off the rat's tail.

The first rat's tail is so easy to get!

Bian Yao ran over quickly, first grinning and putting the rat's tail into the space bag, then took out the luminous stone and took a closer look at the corpse of the strange rat.

The valley under the starlight was a little hazy.

In the valleys near and far, those cultivators kept moving, chasing and hunting strange rats.

Bian Yao suddenly stood up and quickly looked around, finding that the attention of those cultivators had all fallen on the strange rats, and no one was paying attention to his side at all.

His mind moved, and the dream clone instantly appeared beside him, holding the Usha Blade in his hand.

Without saying a word, Twilight Song suddenly turned her head to look not far away, and in the world at the end of his vision, the stalks of the tufts of hemp grains were shaking.

Bian Yao's dream clone walked to Twilight Song's side and said a few words to him, and then the two of them separated left and right, and quietly outflanked the cluster of Magu.

Soon, the rat heard a noise approaching and began to flee around the valley.

Bian Yao's clone and Twilight Song are in hot pursuit, while the main body bluffs on the periphery, disrupting the judgment of the rat and creating opportunities for the two main attackers.

The strange rat was chased and intercepted, completely confused, and its ferocity was gradually aroused, and I saw it suddenly turn around and launch a quick attack on the remote from the side.

When the rat bit the doppelganger's calf, he jerked his leg up and threw it into the air.

Suddenly, Twilight Song suddenly jumped up, a sword light flashed, and the strange rat split in two in mid-air.

And so, the second rattail is in hand, and we continue to look for the next target.

The night covered the land, and more and more rats came out of their burrows and scurried into the valley to eat.

In this way, the three figures kept wandering through the fields, looking for targets to hunt.

In this process, Bian Yao is responsible for using illusory attacks to confuse and bait the rats, and the clone and Twilight Song are mainly responsible for chasing and killing!

The three of them kept shifting their positions, always keeping a certain distance from the other practitioners.

Over time, they have accumulated a certain amount of experience in killing rats, and in a series of processes such as baiting, containment, and killing, the cooperation between the three parties has become more and more proficient.

The poison of the strange rat has no effect on the remote around him, so when he chases and kills the strange rat, he can launch a close-range attack without any scruples, and he doesn't have to worry about being attacked by the strange rat!

With Twilight Song's current realm and strength, his speed is still above that of the late-stage dream madness, even if the strange rat increases his speed to the extreme, he is still suppressed!

Based on these factors, their efficiency in killing rats far exceeds that of other cultivators.

In the second half of the night, in the early hours of the morning, the rats began to return to their burrows, and their numbers gradually decreased.

That night, they killed fifty-two two-headed rats and obtained the same number of rat tails.

Before dawn breaks, Bian Yao dissolves the dream clone, and then leaves the village with Twilight Song, and goes to find a place where no one is around.

The next night, they got forty-eight rat tails.

On the third night, they spent a lot of time looking for rats, so they only got thirty-nine rat tails. Obviously, after the killing of cultivators, the number of rats has begun to decrease.

In this way, in three days, they obtained a total of 139 rat tails, which exceeded expectations.

After resting for half an hour, and when the sky turned bright, Bian Yao and Twilight Song ate a few spirit fruits, and then quickly rushed to Sanshan City.