Akane pine is a tall and stout pine tree, generally more than ten zhang in height.

Once these trees are in forest, they attract several special species of pine caterpillars, and it is difficult for them to grow in places where the same tall trees can grow.

Zhou Chun: The red pine forest where they are now is full of red pine trees that are more than ten zhang high, many of which are more than a thousand years old.

The ground of the pine forest is covered with thick pine needles, and various thorny shrubs, thorns and weeds grow, making it very difficult to walk.

Finger-long pine caterpillars often fall from trees.

In such a place, if you don't have the guts, you really can't stay in it.

At this moment, Zhou Chun and the others put on a hat to prevent the pine caterpillar from falling on their bodies, and let Zhou Zhengyong's red-tailed monkey cut through thorns and thorns in front of them to open the way, and soon went deeper into the pine forest for more than ten miles.

"The purple flame marten likes to prey on all kinds of rats, this red pine forest is so big, there must be a lot of squirrels and mountain rats in it, and there may be golden-toothed rats, flame rats and other rat monsters."

"If we can manage to catch one, we will be able to lure that purple flame marten out with bait."

Under a red pine tree, Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong squatted down, looking at the black-brown mink dung left on the ground on the side, Zhou Zhengyong whispered his plan.

The Purple Flame Marten is a loner, and its nest is very secretive, and if you want to find its nest in this vast pine forest within three days, you can only do it if you are unlucky.

Therefore, the method of "luring the snake out of the hole" seems to be the most useful.

"Brother Yong, it's not impossible for you to do this, but those rat monsters are as timid and cautious, and it is not easy to capture them alive, especially since we don't have enough time."

Zhou Chun didn't doubt whether Zhou Zhengyong's method was useful, but he also said the difficulties.

"I'm prepared for this, so I went to the elders of the family to ask for some food that rat monsters like to eat, and I also asked for some drugs."

When Zhou Zhengyong said this, he looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Next, let's go separately and take food to find the traces of those rat demons." ”

"Okay, let's try it first."

Zhou Chun nodded and agreed with his approach.

Immediately, Zhou Chun took some dried fruit food and medicine from Zhou Zhengyong, and then acted separately with him to find the traces of those rats and monsters in the pine forest.

Both of them are proficient in the art of beast control, and their ability to find demon beasts is even stronger than those experienced cultivators.

From feces, claw marks, to nearby plant species, temperature differences such as dryness and humidity, can help them determine whether there are traces of certain types of monster activities nearby.

Take the "Golden Tooth Mouse" as an example, this squirrel-like rat-like monster beast has two golden front teeth, which can even bite through steel.

Therefore, they often grind their teeth with hard stones, and they like to inhabit places with a lot of hard rocks.

Zhou Chun shuttled around the pine forest, carefully observing the passing area through his divine sense and naked eyes, and looking for traces of the activities of rat demon beasts from subtle observations.

After half a day like this, he found a total of three places where there might be nests of rat monsters, and chose a place that he felt had the greatest chance and squatted to guard it.

I saw that he sprinkled some demon beast jerky and dried fruits containing weak spiritual power somewhere in the pine forest, and sandwiched a drug similar in shape to the dried fruit in it, and then sprinkled some collected beast feces and ant repellent powder nearby.

In this way, ordinary rats, ants, and other insects do not dare to come up and eat the food even if they smell it.

After doing this, Zhou Chun hid in the distance, and silently ran the "Lin Yin Cicada Breath Technique" to restrain his breath.

He has been cultivating both secret techniques for almost a year, and although he has not yet cultivated both secret techniques to the point of luck, he can also use them by preparing in advance.

At this moment, Zhou Chunfu was hiding among the shrubs and weeds, his body and the color of the nearby shrubs and weeds were completely integrated, and his own smell was also covered by the fragrance of the plants and trees under the effect of the secret technique.

Even if someone passes by now, it is absolutely difficult to spot Zhou Chun in the bushes with the naked eye and sense of smell.

And in order to avoid alarming the rat monsters that might appear, he also specially sprinkled some fresh beast feces with a very pungent smell nearby, so that he would not spoil things because of his own smell.

Of course, the disadvantage of this is that even if he wears a homemade mask, he has to endure the smell, which tastes sour.

Time passed gradually, and after squatting for nearly an hour, Zhou Chun finally saw a red-haired rat with a red coat appear in sight.

The big rat was the size of an adult's calf, and it was not affected by the smell of beast feces that Zhou Chun had spilled nearby.

After rolling his eyes and looking around, twitching his nose and sniffing violently, he crawled directly to the dried meat and dried fruits, and happily ate these delicious foods.

After eating all the food that Zhou Chun had spilled in one go, the big mouse turned around and prepared to return to the nest the same way.

But it hadn't gone far before it felt dizzy and its body swayed uncontrollably.

After a short time, this little gadget really couldn't bear the effect of the medicine and passed out.

Knowing that at this time, Zhou Chuncai left the hiding place and picked up the unconscious big mouse.

After lifting the back of the big rat's neck and looking at it, he said to himself: "Fortunately, it's just a first-order low-grade demon beast flame rat, if it is cultivated to reach the first-order middle grade, these few [Beast Pills] are afraid that they will not be able to fascinate it!" ”

Then he carried the flame rat to find Zhou Zhengyong.

Compared with Zhou Chun, Zhou Zhengyong's luck was much worse, and he waited for a long time and didn't get anything.

At this time, he was also relieved to see Zhou Chun walking over with the unconscious flame rat.

"Thirteenth brother, it's good that you have a harvest, this time you really helped my brother a lot!!"

With words of gratitude in his mouth, he immediately took the unconscious flame rat from Zhou Chun's hand and began to deal with it.

The undomesticated flame rat naturally needs to go through some special treatment if it wants to obediently attract the purple flame marten to prey in a fixed area.

This is not difficult for Zhou Zhengyong and Zhou Chun.

In the past, in order to capture all kinds of demon beasts alive, a family like the Zhou family had already researched and developed many methods.

At this time, Zhou Zhengyong used drugs and silver needles to stimulate and destroy the brain of the flame rat, making it go crazy, and at the same time piled up some collected purple flame mink feces around it to prevent it from escaping the fixed area.

Later, in order to prevent the Purple Flame Marten from discovering the two, Zhou Zhengyong, who did not know how to contain the secret technique, left the scene far away, and only handed over the spirit beast bag containing his red-tailed monkey spirit pet to Zhou Chun, and Zhou Chun waited for the Purple Flame Marten to come over in ambush nearby.

Squeak squeak!!

I saw the flame rat with a broken brain, scurrying wildly in a forest clearing, constantly making loud screams.

There was no spirituality in its eyes, only a frenzy, bloodshot and red eyes, which looked quite scary.

When some of the rat trappers in the pine forest heard the sound, they all came to take a look, and when they saw that the owner of the cry was a flame rat, they were so frightened that they quickly fled away.

Ordinary rats are indeed the food of these beasts, but flame rats can do magic.

Even if it's just an ordinary small fireball, it's still enough to burn a tiger to death.

Time passed, and the flame rat's physical strength gradually depleted as it continued to scream, and its voice was so hoarse that it was difficult to make a loud sound anymore.

The figure of the purple flame marten has never appeared.

This made Zhou Chun, who was secretly squatting, a little anxious.

It was already luck that they were able to catch this flame rat, and it was not easy to catch another one as bait.

It's just that he was in a hurry, but Zhou Chun didn't dare to move.

The Purple Flame Marten was extremely vigilant and cautious, and perhaps at this time it was secretly observing somewhere.

If he startled it with a rash move, then even if he could catch another flame rat as bait, it would be impossible to lure it into it again in a short period of time.

As time passed, the flame rats on the ground could no longer even make their calls, as if they had completely died.

At this time, it was late at night, and the stars and moonlight in the sky were mostly obscured by the canopy of the trees, and only the stars were sprinkled in the forest, which could only allow Zhou Chun to see the general outline of the flame rat.

He didn't dare to use his divine sense to monitor, because although his divine sense was invisible and shadowless, many demon beasts could sense it and would know that they were being watched by.

Therefore, unless the Purple Flame Marten appeared and needed to use the Divine Sense to lock its position, Zhou Chun would never dare to release the Divine Sense.

And just when Zhou Chun's eyes were already sour, and he felt that it was about to be difficult to hold on any longer, he finally found an abnormality in his sight.

I saw a black shadow flash, and a huge black shadow the size of a yellow dog appeared next to the flame rat, and with a bite of the flame rat, it flew towards the depths of the mountain forest, and the speed was extremely fast.

This scene suddenly made Zhou Chun's spirit tremble, and he immediately released his divine sense to lock on to that figure.

Sure enough, it's a purple flame mink!

The results obtained from the divine sense scan made Zhou Chun breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and then hurriedly pursued the figure.

At the same time, a long howl came out of his mouth, echoing Zhou Zhengyong, who was waiting in the distance, to help.

However, the speed of the Purple Flame Marten in the mountains and forests is very fast, and Zhou Chun will not be able to outrun it even if he blesses himself with the "Wind Resisting Technique".

Therefore, after sending the signal, he released Zhou Zhengyong's red-tailed monkey and let the monkey, which was also very sensitive in the mountains and forests, chase the purple flame mink, and at the same time sacrificed a flying magic weapon to chase after it.