Chapter 10: The Desert Fire Rat
"It seems that you still have to know the fire rat in the desert for a while!" Yang Rui is not an ordinary rich man, he quickly calmed down again, although he did not want to take the initiative to provoke this level of spirit beasts, but in order to survive, he only had one try, you must know that in this Western Regions desert, except for foreign beasts and some spirit grasses, ordinary animals and plants will never be found.
Searching for memories, Yang Rui seems to have heard those mercenaries talk about this fire rat before, a first-class spirit beast among foreign beasts, with a keen sense of smell, weighing a hundred catties, with a hair length of nearly one meter, thin as silk and extremely tough, and likes places where the fire attribute is strong, and dies when he sees water. It seems that this center of the Western Desert is really a living paradise for these fire rats!
Now that he had decided to hunt fire rats, Yang Rui gradually collected his mind and entered a state of practice, recovering the energy consumed by hurrying, waiting for the coming of the night.
When Yang Rui was in a hurry during the day, he had tried to carefully inhale a small amount of the vitality that was full of fire attribute elements here, and found that he had disappeared into the black hole of the dantian as before, and it did not bring any discomfort to his body. On the contrary, as the gathering qi continued to run, Yang Rui found that he quickly adapted to the hot environment here, and his tongue was not as dry as when he first entered the desert. Therefore, Yang Rui now basically spends all his time outside of rushing on Yuan Qi cultivation, although the dantian still does not feel full, but at least the body is much more comfortable.
In the middle of the night, two bright moons rose over the vast river valley plains, reflecting the endless desert. The canyon area under the moonlight is a silvery white patch, wide and peaceful. The lines outlined by the shadows of the ravines, hills, and cliffs decorate this canyon area into a carved silver plate, and if it were not for the harsh environment and the threat of exotic beasts, it would have become a sacred place for people to watch.
Suddenly, a figure separated from a shadow, and soon disappeared into another shadow, Yang Rui, dressed in a black power suit, inserted the dagger sent by Zhang Lao into his boots, and carefully walked through the valley bottom, searching for the traces of the spirit beast fire rat.
After nightfall, Yang Rui was pleasantly surprised to find that the dagger was actually a blade that sharpened iron like clay, and it may have been because of the casting of spirits, it actually emitted a white fluorescence of fish scales in the night. Seeing that Yang Rui couldn't put it down, he thought that this old man had finally become a good person.
Turning over a small hill and turning a bend formed by a cliff, suddenly there were dots of dark red fluorescence in the river valley in front of him, Yang Rui lowered his body and slowly got closer to see, a small group of rat spirit beasts the size of an adult came into view.
I saw that the fire rats were glowing dark red all around them, and their supple hair was almost hanging to the ground, and they were gnawing at the huge dead wood scattered here and there in the river valley with their powerful front teeth. Yang Rui gasped and quickly retracted his head, shivering all over his body. Rao is a person as bold as a tiger, and suddenly he sees a big mouse about the same size as himself, and he will feel creepy and goosebumps all over his body, and now it is not one but a group.
Yang Rui took a few deep breaths and tried to calm himself down, after all, this was the first time he had encountered a strange beast at close range in the wild, except for the transport spirit beast he had raised. Moreover, these strange beasts all have the strength of the Luck Realm, think about the appearance of a group of Yang Guangsheng standing in the valley over there? Unfortunately, you must successfully hunt a fire rat tonight, otherwise you will be hungry from tomorrow.
Yang Rui tried his best to hide his breath, quietly hiding in the shadow of a cliff, waiting for the opportunity to make a move. Finally, I saw a fire rat running alone to a tributary in the river valley in search of food, and hurriedly followed quietly.
This playful fire rat was not as big as the other fire rats, and the light on its body was relatively faint, apparently a young rat, gnawing on a few smaller dead branches with a bow left and right. Suddenly, an instinctive sense of danger came to the young rat, and the long hair on his body suddenly stood up like a silver needle, Yang Rui didn't expect that the long hair of the fire rat could be erected as a protective root when facing the enemy, so he was also caught off guard, and his body stagnated in the air, and when he fell, the young mouse had already jumped forward and fled back.
However, after missing the blow, Yang Rui did not chase after him, but immediately retreated into the shadows. As soon as they hid, they saw a group of fire rats rushing to the place where Yang Rui attacked the young rats just now, looking around fiercely, knowing that this river valley belonged to their fire rats, and no one had ever dared to invade easily, let alone attack their cubs.
Although the intelligence of the fire rat is not high, but all the foreign beasts will have a strong sense of territory, and when they find that there is a foreign invasion, they will go crazy and expel the other party from the city, which is also the reason why there are no other foreign beasts in this area except for the fire rat.
Alas, it seems that tonight's hunting activity is in vain, just as Yang Rui was complaining in his heart about the failure of the operation, he suddenly startled and noticed that the group of fire rats were sniffing in the air with their noses!
Oops! The fire rat has a strong sense of smell, and although he was careful to hide his breath with grass ash before, he probably still noticed a trace of my presence in the air. Sure enough, after sniffing for a while, the group of fire rats gradually gathered in the direction where Yang Rui left, trying their best to identify the enemy's almost disappeared scent.
I saw a leading giant rat suddenly let out a sharp cry, and the fire rats rushed towards the place where Yang Rui was. Yang Rui ran away when he saw that the situation was not good, but he didn't expect to get into trouble if he didn't get dinner.
While running, Yang Rui didn't forget to look back, Mom, those fire rats are extremely fast, obviously very familiar with the terrain in this valley, and the distance of more than 100 zhang was suddenly shortened to dozens of zhang. I saw a group of dark red points of light gathered together like a beating flame, speeding through the river valley, and a small black dot in front of the flame was running lifelessly.
Seeing that he was about to be overtaken, Yang Rui jumped into a descending tributary in a hurry, slid down the slope, and the flame followed with a sharp brake.
Yang Rui crawled to the bottom of the tributary and found that it was actually a dead end, with only a hole several feet wide in front of it, like the mouth of a monster standing there quietly. I think it used to be the entrance to an underground undercurrent, and when you look at it from the outside, you can't see anything, and you don't know what's inside.
was hesitating to escape in, but the fire rat behind had already caught up, and the red-eyed one who rushed to the front jumped towards Yang Rui. Yang Rui dodged and collided with the fire rat, and as soon as his footsteps slipped, he fell into the hole with the fire rat in his arms.
The moment he fell into the hole, Yang Rui's eyes were dark, and he felt that he was generally falling, occasionally hitting some weathered rock walls, but it was still unabated.
In the process of falling, Yang Rui did not forget to hold on tightly to the huge fire rat with dark red fluorescent hair, pulled out the dagger in his boots and went to the place where he didn't know what it was**. The fire rat let out a piercing scream, turned its head and bit Yang Rui's body frantically. Yang Rui kicked the fire rat up with both feet, which could be avoided, but his hand was tightly pulling the long hair of the fire rat to prevent it from being too far away from him.
With the light on the fire rats, Yang Rui saw that they were falling in an almost vertical tunnel about ten zhang wide, and it was estimated that they had gone hundreds of zhang underground in terms of time. Just thinking about it, the road in front of me suddenly came to an end, and there was a huge bottomless underground cave below, and I was afraid that there would be no bones left if I fell!
Yang Rui was in a hurry, kicked hard to the rock wall around him, pulled the fire rat to the other side of the road and jumped over, the fire rat instinctively stretched out its claws and pierced into the rock wall of the road, so that the momentum of the fall finally began to slow down, at the moment when it was about to fall out of the road, the fire rat opened its mouth wide and bit a giant tree root growing on the edge of the road with its powerful front teeth, and finally stopped.
Yang Rui tugged on the long hair of the fire rat tightly, looking at the bottomless cave at the bottom of his feet, and his heart was a little hairy. Looking up at the fire rat, rolling his eyes, covered in blood, his two paws were constantly loosening in the struggle, and he was about to be exhausted.
Hmph, I, Yang Rui, still have a lot of things to do, do I have to give my life here today? Thinking of this, Yang Rui regained his composure and carefully observed the environment around him.
In fact, Yang Rui had a strange feeling since just now, it had been so long, how could it be that only himself and the fire rat had come down? Could it be that the other fire rats knew in advance that there was a big cave below him? Zhi Lu Dao himself must have died, so he didn't chase it down? He had never heard of this level of spirit beast fire rat having such a high IQ.
Rubbing his eyes, it turned out that the vitality fluctuations here were different from the surface above, the restless fire attribute vitality was gone, and he could faintly see that the vitality here had a trace of blue water attribute fluctuations. It seems that the fire rats smelled the moisture down there, so they didn't follow up.
This is really admirable to the creation of the natural world, if those fire rats did not rely on instinct to avoid the water, then they have all fallen under the deep cave. And the reason why Yang Rui chose this tributary to escape is that it is unknown whether he noticed the strangeness of the vitality here in a hurry.
Taking a breath of the thin water attribute vitality, Yang Rui felt much more energetic, and finally noticed the giant tree root that the fire rat was biting. I don't know how many years the roots of the tree have existed in this cave, and it seems that they have become fossils, and they extend along the road to the cave below, and the roots grow downward, but I don't know if they can reach the bottom of the cave.
Seeing the giant tree root, Yang Rui did not delay, pulled the long hair of the fire rat in his hand hard, swung in the air, shook it vigorously towards the huge tree root, looked at a horizontal branch, and flew to the root of the tree with a let go. At this moment, a few gravel fell from his head, and the unlucky fire rat finally died of blood loss, let go of his mouth, and fell towards the abyss!
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