Chapter 360: The Rats
After climbing the mountain wall and looking at it, the old man's hands and feet were trembling when he came down, not afraid, but excited.
Thinking that it was too slow to climb down, the old man directly asked Shao Xuan to continue below, and before Shao Xuan could say anything, he had already let go and jumped down.
"I ......" Shao Xuan wanted to scold, but he didn't have time to explode and quickly catch the person who jumped down.
"Absolutely!!" the old man came down and hurried in one direction, which was where the wild mice had run.
"Even if it's not a 'thousand grains of gold', it must be something strange to make these wild mice behave like this!" The old man walked like a fly, and after a good night's sleep, he was much better in spirit, and this time he was full of strength to keep up.
Shao Xuan was also curious about what caused these wild rats to go so crazy. As he ran, there were some wild mice that sprang out from other places. Seeing Shao Xuan, those wild mice only paused briefly, and then continued to run, it seemed that compared with Shao Xuan, a strange creature, the things on the other side attracted them more, so they didn't care much about Shao Xuan's existence, and only wanted to hurry.
"There weren't so many wild mice running around before, why are there so many of them all of a sudden?" Shao Xuan said.
"It must be that thing is almost ripe!" said the old man, but his feet quickened again. After waiting for so long and looking for so many years, I once again met hope. Although he had encountered a similar situation before, he found not a thousand grains of gold, but other precious medicines, but this time, he had a strong premonition, and it was also mentioned in the ancestor's notes that when he found a thousand grains of gold, he saw rat activities around, but there were too few things recorded in the notes, and the old man could not get more information from them, so he could only look for them again and again.
This time. Surely!
From Shao Xuan to the present, although it has not been a few days, it is the first time to see the old man running so fast, and there is still fanaticism in his eyes. At this time, if someone came to block the way, the old man would probably fight with others.
The farther you run, the more wild mice you encounter. It seems that the wild mice living nearby, whether they are hiding in caves or hiding underground, near or far away, have all run out and rushed to the same place as if they were gathering, even with a kind of courage to move forward.
The movement around also attracted a number of other animals, which were only targeting the mice.
A single animal resembling a ferret intercepts several wild mice. Then he took the prey in his mouth and walked away. There was also a stupid-looking ferret that stood there as if it were about to stand there and intercept it, but the wild rats, with a rush of urgency, did not slow down at all, did not change direction, rushed over and jumped, stepped on the weasel, and jumped over. The latter ones do the same. If you put it down. These wild rats certainly don't have the guts, and they will stay away when they see a threat.
Even if you see your own kind being taken away. They don't give an extra look, they don't linger for an extra second.
However, as we get closer to the target, the rat colony grows larger, and there are many fewer animals to rob, probably seeing this situation. I didn't dare to come hunting alone, and I was bitten if I didn't succeed.
Shao Xuan and the old man followed these wild mice until they came to a place near the top of a mountain before they were forced to stop.
Why was it forced to stop?
Because they can only go so far, and go further. All occupied by wild mice. At the same time, there are also wild mice that have come from afar to join such a large team.
Although this scale is not as large as the insect tide led by Sapphire in the desert, after all, this is only a barren mountain that is inaccessible, and there are not many animals that are usually seen, and it is enough to see thousands of wild mice at once.
The field mice that stopped also wanted to squeeze forward, but the front were all rats, and there was no empty space to go again, and the first few were particularly large, and they were annoyed and turned around to bite a few to death, and when they saw that the back stopped and no longer squeezed forward, they turned back with satisfaction, and continued to stare at the top of the mountain, staring at the few plants that were swinging in the wind.
Since they couldn't squeeze forward, the wild mice behind stood up, stretched their necks and looked diagonally upward, obviously lying on the ground in a lump, and after standing up and stretching, they looked like rods.
Shao Xuan also saw the plants growing on the top of the mountain, the upright stalks were very thick, about one person tall, the leaves were lanceolate and narrow, and several bunches of dark golden ears drooped on each plant, giving people a heavy feeling. The wind blows, and the ears of grain sway.
The old man who stopped gasped, his nostrils expanding and contracting, expanding and contracting, staring at the highest point on the top of the mountain, not moving away at all, as if the whole world was left with what was there.
The frenzy and excitement in the old man's eyes were rising, and the fists hanging at his sides were clenched, and he wanted to rush over and dig up the plants and take them away.
"Is that 'Thousand Grains of Gold'?" Shao Xuan asked in a low voice.
"Yes! Definitely!" the old man's throat erupted with suppressed excitement, and the whole person seemed to ignore everything around him, immersed in his own world, and became crazy. "Haha! I found it!I finally found it!!"
Shao Xuan's eyelids jumped a few times, and a bad feeling suddenly climbed.
Sure enough, the next moment when the old man laughed out loud, the gray-white wild mice in front of him turned around and looked at them in unison, with a fierce light in their small eyes, especially those closest to the top of the mountain that were obviously at least two or three times larger than the other wild mice, and their eyes were even glowing red, revealing a fierce intent.
Several large wild mice on the top of the mountain looked at the swaying dark golden ears of grain, and then turned to look at the old man who was also staring at the ears of grain with burning eyes, and suddenly became angry, stood up and opened his mouth to let out a series of sharp "squeaks".
Shao Xuan secretly said "Oops", lifted the clothes of the old man next to him, and the totemic power in his body soared instantly, and the totem patterns that appeared like magma were accompanied by the vibration of the air flow around his body, shaking away the wild mice that jumped over with their mouths open around him, exerting force under his feet, and running in the direction of the mountain.
Probably still taking into account the ears of grain on the top of the mountain, the wild mice did not dare to chase down, for fear that they would not be able to come back in time to snatch the meal if they ran away.
Over there, Shao Xuan, who ran to the mountainside with the old man, saw that the wild mice did not chase after him again, so he stopped and put the old man down.
The old man didn't look at the totem patterns on Shao Xuan's body, at this time, there was nothing else in his eyes except for the few plants on the top of the mountain, and everything in his heart was occupied by the dark golden ears of grain.
As soon as he was put down, the old man wanted to continue running up the mountain, but was forcibly held down by Shao Xuan.
"Let go, I'm going to go, those are a thousand grains of gold, a thousand grains of gold, you know?!" the old man struggled and roared.
"I don't care if it's a thousand grains of gold or a thousand grains of, I just know that it has been occupied by wild mice, and you want to feed the wild mice?!" Shao Xuan shouted.
When the struggling old man heard this, his consciousness gradually returned to his senses, repeating a sentence in Shao Xuan's words: "Occupied by wild mice?"
Thinking of the field mice on the top of the mountain, the old man suddenly became unhappy: "No, no, no, those must not let those wild mice spoil them!"
Fortunately, there was still reason, and the old man spun around in circles, thinking about the best way.
"The ears are not yet fully ripe, and the wild mice are probably waiting for the last moment of maturity, so we just need to get rid of those wild mice before the ears are ripe. The old man said.
"How to solve it?" Shao Xuan asked. It's not that he can't help it, if he forcibly goes over to fight those wild mice, it's okay, but he needs to pay some price, after all, there are too many wild mice, and the big ones closest to the top of the mountain are more difficult to deal with than the others, and there is no guarantee that the ones on the top of the mountain will be intact when fighting.
The old man also took into account various circumstances, thought for a moment, relaxed his frowning brows, and called Shao Xuan: "Follow me." (To be continued......)