Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 284 Rat Trouble
"There are rocks piled up on the wasteland, even snow rats won't go there!" He stuffed the sign at Wei Xi and said proudly, "Besides, no one lives over there, so if we really start fighting, we won't care!"

"Last year, I went to the village to catch mice. Rats, each the size of a palm, were running around everywhere. If I missed one, within seven days, there would be another swarm! In the end, I poured boiling water into the burrows, and that was it!"

Wei Xi turned his aching neck. "No wonder the rat infestation can't be completely eradicated. How can ordinary villages provide them with firewood? There wouldn't even be enough to last through the winter..."

"I don't want to dig rat holes everywhere anymore," Qin Feng said, his face filled with misery. "Rats don't mind the dirt, they dig everywhere. They make their nests in the warm animal sheds. It smells terrible!"

All the disciples followed the order and went down the mountain, including Wei Xi and the other two.

There is gain and loss. Although it is easy to catch mice in the wasteland, the conditions are really bad: the north wind is howling, there is not even a house here, and the three of them are not much better than snowflakes floating in the sky.

"This mouthful is a mouthful of snow," Qin Feng's voice was torn apart by the strong wind. "How do we catch mice? Everyone has a quota of 100 snow mice!"

The winter wind in northern Xinjiang is as sharp as a razor, and the vast expanse of barren land makes the wind and snow even more violent.

Wei Xi pulled his two troublesome teammates to a relatively sheltered corner, "We need to build a house before dark! Even the strongest man can't stand staying like this!"

Although the wasteland was uninhabited, it was located between several villages and was a barren public land with no one to look after it. If the snow rats here were not completely killed, they could easily migrate to other places.

Fortunately, Wei Xi was good at commanding people and using local materials. She asked Qin Feng to follow her description and use his spiritual power to drive the snow to build a house that could accommodate three people.

"It's such a big snow cave," Lian Gou's eyebrows were covered with snowflakes, "we can't make a fire!"

Wei Xi looked at the other party speechlessly, "...You know we are monks, right?"

Not surprisingly, the three monks did not freeze to death.

Wei Xi even showed off his recent failed learning results - although he couldn't refine a magic weapon, he could still stew sweet potatoes.

"These snow mice," Lian Gouyue pouted and blew air on the smoking sweet potato, "it's fine if they eat the food! They're still roaming around inside... Don't throw away this sweet potato peel later, use it as bait to teach those mice a lesson!"

Wei Xi paused while chewing a sweet potato and asked, "I haven't heard of any rat infestations in the past few years. Could someone have tampered with them?"

Qin Feng slowly peeled the sweet potato skins, not even looking up. "Senior Sister Xie personally led the investigation, and we haven't heard of anyone playing dirty tricks! Besides, the villagers nearby are barely scraping by, so there's no money to be made!"

"Oh my!" Lian Gou-yu laughed before he even started eating. "Think about it, these things were scared in the mountains, and now they finally found a place with abundant grass and water! They can eat and make as much as they want!"

Wei Xi really didn't expect that Lian Gouqie had already started to plot against the mouse.

It can be seen that Qin Feng still has not squeezed out this person's true potential.

Wei Xi's failed evil fire was quite warm, and combined with the snow house that Qin Feng had specially coated with a layer of spiritual power, it brought some warmth in the windy and snowy winter night.

Snow rats don't come out to forage during the day, so the three planned to capture these monsters at night. Wei Xi originally wanted to scatter a handful of puppets on the wasteland, but the north wind would blow away many of the smaller puppets, and the larger puppets would disturb the alert snow rats.

Fortunately, Qin Feng possessed abundant spiritual energy. Over the past two years, Lian Gou had gradually drawn diagrams for commonly used spells. Qin Feng then released his spiritual energy to cover the wasteland, hoping to provide an early warning upon exiting the cave, ensuring the Mouse family's reunion in the afterlife!
It was a rare moment of free time, so Qin Feng taught the two of them how to play mahjong while they played and chatted.

"What's painted on the back of the card? Why is there a picture of a child on it?" "How should I know? I found it at home." Qin Feng still had a hard time reading the words, but luckily there was a corresponding pattern painted on the card, which was enough to entertain himself. "It might mean having many children and good fortune. It's a fashion in Jucheng."

"During the time when Vice Admiral Du took care of you?"

"Bang! That should be it," Qin Feng looked at the pattern with a slightly uncomfortable expression. "During that time, I was completely confused and had no idea what I had done or what I hadn't done..."

"Speaking of which, is Lieutenant General Du going to send someone to give you another New Year's gift?"

"Don't even think about it! The tea we usually drink is everywhere in Tingzhou, but it's definitely out of stock this year," Qin Feng threw Zhang Yaowan aside, "You can't drink more than a few sips anyway, so just quit it!"

It was almost midnight when Lingyin suddenly cried out.

Qin Feng was next. She placed the cards on the table and said, "There's a faint fluctuation of spiritual energy around us. These snow rats are out looking for food!"

Thinking they could just kill all the little mice, the three of them casually pushed open the wooden board that served as the door. Unexpectedly, the scene outside truly opened their eyes: in the air, scattered snowflakes outlined the howling wind; and on the ground, white, soft snow...

Wei Xi's eyes suddenly widened: Where was that squirming white thing? It was clearly snow mice huddled on the ground. She could even see a few nearby, their paws raised!
These snow rats rushed forward like a tide.

With a "bang", Wei Xi closed the wooden door of the temporary base and threw out a few defensive spells, fearing that these white rats would treat the three of them as midnight snacks.

"That just now..." Lian Gou said in a daze, "Is that... a snow mouse? It's really not some muddy monster lying on the ground?"

"If you don't believe me, go out and take a look." Wei Xi's tone was calm. "So many... rats from all over Qingzhou have come here to feast!"

"There are no monsters like the ones you mentioned near Yizhangyuan," Qin Feng came back to his senses and said in a deep voice, "There are so many snow rats. If we don't stop them, I'm afraid the nearby villages will suffer!"

"But there are too many snow mice out there. I'm afraid last year's method won't work!"

With so many low-level monsters, it is not a good idea to scald them with boiling water or fight them yourself. If you are not careful, you will be attacked by these beasts in groups.

"How many ice-attribute spells do you have, Lian Gou?"

"About a thousand. Two hundred of them are powerful freezing talismans for individuals, and over five hundred are freezing talismans for groups. The rest are offensive talismans..."

Wei Xi quickly wrote a message, folded it into a paper crane, and prepared to send it back to the guarded Weishuang Palace. "Take them all out. We'll make a pot for them later!"

Not long after, Wei Xi opened the door and threw out two freezing spells, freezing the snow rats near the entrance of the stronghold.

Buying time, Wei Xi and the other two pushed open the door and used their own skills to deal with the rats that swarmed in.

　I seem to have triple yang and have a splitting headache.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)