Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 32: Tomb Sweeping and Harvest

"I had originally intended to pick a solemn day to come and pay my respects and sweep the graves, but I didn't expect that I couldn't help but come here unintentionally."

Li Xiang looked at that place, tears welling up in his eyes. That place was the cenotaph of his parents. In addition, not far away was the grave of his grandfather.

However, his grandfather died young and he never actually met him.

According to grandma, Li Xiang’s father was still a minor when grandpa passed away. Grandma raised several children by herself and helped them to get married and start their own families. She went through a lot of hardships.

My grandmother was also a miserable person. She was a widow for most of her life. If she were in ancient times, she would at least deserve a chastity arch.

And his father had a miserable life, too. He lost his father when he was young, and died along with his wife in middle age. His grandmother had to wait for her son to die.

And I, too, had a miserable life. I also lost my parents when I was still a child.

It seems that the whole family has a hard life.

However, the past is the past, and life always moves forward. The coming of the end of the world did not scare Li Xiang, and he is actually very content with his current rural life and enjoys it.

Live every day well, serve grandma well, practice, improve yourself, and seek inner peace. There are not many days left like this, only about three thousand days or so.

When Li Xiang approached his parents' grave, still several meters away, a prompt box suddenly popped up in his mind: "One second-order mutant Iron-headed Queen Ant and thirteen first-order mutant Iron-headed Black Ants were found."

However, although the system gave a prompt, it did not point out its location.

There are weeds everywhere here. Even my parents' graves are covered with weeds and trees. It is not easy to find a nest of ants.

"The ant nest will not be moved for the time being, so let's get down to business first, sweep the graves of our parents and pay our respects to them first."

Parents are the most important, so Li Xiang decided to put the search for the iron-headed black ants aside for the time being. He took out a high-density knife and began to clear the weeds and bushes on his parents' graves and the surrounding areas.

He had superb knife skills, and with every cut of the sword, large tracts of weeds and trees were chopped down in a flash of cold light.

He chopped off some more branches and made a makeshift broom, which he used to sweep away the fallen weeds and trees.

Then, he knelt down and kowtowed, sat in front of his parents' grave, and told them about his recent situation. He believed that if his parents knew about it, they would definitely support him, give up the opportunities in the big city, and come back to serve his grandmother in her old age.

Suddenly I felt some pain in my left hand. I looked down and saw a huge black ant as big as a fly. It had crawled onto my hand and had just bitten me.

"Oh my god, I almost forgot about you. I didn't bother you, but you bothered me instead?"

Li Xiang thought to himself, isn’t this just courting death?

With a gentle slap of the hand, it was killed.

System: "Congratulations to the host for killing a first-order mutant Iron-headed Black Ant and obtaining 10 achievement points."

Li Xiang stood up and looked around. He saw that there were actually quite a few big black ants active nearby. So he searched carefully, tracing the source, and finally found the ants' nest.

It's just under a rock about 2 meters away from my parents' grave.

The rocks were moved away and part of the nest was visible underneath.

Li Xiang touched his belt and felt regretful because he had just released water not long ago and it was probably impossible for him to recreate the grand scene of "flooding the seven armies".

Moreover, this nest of iron-headed black ants is larger than the previous nest of flame ants in the backyard, and their nest is wider. I guess the little "water" I have is not going to be very effective.

"How about a 'Burning of Red Cliffs'?"

However, Li Xiang gave up this stupid idea immediately after taking a look at the forest. It was autumn and the air was dry. It was too risky to set fire in the forest.

Although he has a certain degree of confidence that he can control the risks, such as clearing out an isolation zone.

But this kind of thing is hard to say. Once something goes wrong, you will be the sinner.

So, Li Xiang chose a shovel, used "violent aesthetics", and displayed advanced physical skills to destroy the nest and kill all the iron-headed black ants.

The system kept popping up prompts: "Congratulations to the host, you have killed three first-order mutant creatures, the Iron-headed Black Ants, and obtained 30 achievement points."

"Congratulations to the host for killing a first-level mutant Iron-headed Black Ant and obtaining 10 achievement points."

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"Congratulations to the host for killing a second-level mutant Iron-headed Queen Ant and receiving a surprise reward: three first-level mutant spiritual herbs Golden Chanterelles."

Chanterelles: delicious, with a special fruity aroma, can clear the eyes and benefit the stomach. It can treat rough or dry skin caused by vitamin A, corneal softening, dry eyes and night blindness, and can also treat diseases caused by certain respiratory and digestive tract infections. It contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements, and has a very high edible value.

"Achievement Point Account Balance: 370 points."

Li Xiang couldn't help but laugh.

"Hey, I was really upset when I spent 100 points to redeem the monthly subscription for the 'Mutated Organism Identification Function'. I didn't expect that I would get my money back so quickly."

With this additional function, the efficiency of "killing monsters" can be said to be greatly improved. Before, it was just a matter of chance, but now it can be done by active search.

However, Li Xiang felt a little surprised. He had traveled such a long way, but he encountered such a nest of potential mutant ants?
Even if potential mutant creatures are very rare, there are so many creatures in the mountains and forests, and the base number is extremely large, so it shouldn't be that rare.

I have several potential mutant creatures at home.

But after changing his mind, Li Xiang quickly understood.

He could only detect potential mutant creatures within ten meters around him, and the animals in the forest were very alert. Perhaps they knew that Li Xiang was not easy to mess with, so they fled from a long distance.

The ants' nest is here, and the ants themselves cannot migrate long distances in a short period of time.

"Dad, Mom, I am an unfilial son. I didn't bring any offerings or paper money this time. It's not very convenient to burn paper money in the mountains. I will choose another day to pay tribute to you two elders."

Li Xiang bowed several times, placed two large bunches of wild chrysanthemums picked from nearby in front of the grave, and continued to move towards the mountains.

His grandfather's grave was not far from here, only about four or five hundred meters away, so he went to his grandfather's place again, and also cleaned the grave and the surrounding weeds and trees, and placed a large bunch of freshly picked wild chrysanthemums on the grave.

To his surprise, he actually gained something from his grandfather.

System: "A second-level mutant creature, the Red Dragon Centipede, was discovered."

Li Xiang searched the surrounding area quickly and soon saw a huge red centipede as long as an adult's palm and as thick as a finger, moving quickly through the grass. He hurriedly caught up with it and swung the shovel, leaving a trail of afterimage.

"Chi~"

With a whistling sound, the huge red dragon centipede was cut into two pieces by the shovel that fell from the sky.

Even though the centipede is dead, its two halves of the body are still struggling and jumping on the ground.

System: "Congratulations to the host for killing the second-order mutant Red Dragon Giant Centipede and obtaining a surprise reward: three first-order mutant spiritual herbs, Purple Air Coral Fungus."

(End of this chapter)