Chapter 124: Capture the thief first capture the king
This is the first time Xiao Hui and Fugui have cooperated. The cooperation is not tacit, but after running for a few laps, they adapt to each other and their combat effectiveness instantly soars.
These mice that had eaten the aura-nourishing herbs were very fast, but when there were hundreds of them stacked together, their movements became slow. Xiao Hui hit him with a stick and chased them, but they couldn't keep up with Fugui and could only watch the dogs and sigh.
After a few rounds, Ye Ming discovered the clue.
These rats are stacked together like a pyramid, with a big rat with shiny fur standing on top. It grabs the tails of the two rats below with its small paws and controls the direction of the bottom rat.
To run to the left, pull the tail of the mouse on the left; to run to the right, pull the tail of the mouse on the right. Before issuing an order, look far away.
Ye Ming followed the commanding mouse's gaze and saw a big mouse sitting on a big rock on the hillside dozens of meters away.
This mouse has lived for who knows how many years. Its hair is all white and it looks very old, but its mouse eyes are shining brightly.
The white-haired mouse looked at the overall situation like a general, shaking the branch in his hand from time to time, and the mice on top of each other changed their formations to surround Xiao Hui and Fugui.
I see!
Ye Ming suddenly understood. No wonder the IQs of these mice have skyrocketed. It turns out that Gao Shu is behind them. As long as the white-haired mouse is taken down, these mice will lose their backbone and will be defeated without attacking!
To catch a thief, capture the king first; to curse others, curse the mother first.
Ye Ming made up his mind, ran the "Cangsheng Jue", poured spiritual energy into his legs, and killed the white-haired mouse on the hillside as quickly as possible.
The white-haired mouse immediately noticed Ye Ming's movements and hurriedly shook the branch in his hand. The humanoid rats immediately gave up chasing Xiao Hui and Fugui and stopped Ye Ming as quickly as possible.
All of this was just a flash of light. Ye Ming came to the big rock on the hillside in the blink of an eye, and the humanoid rats also chased after him.
Among them, the group of humanoid rats running at the front immediately changed their formation, and more than a dozen rats formed a string with their tails biting in their mouths, like a steel whip hitting Ye Ming's calf.
These mice are different from ordinary mice. If they are hit, they will not feel well even if their lower legs are not broken.
At the critical moment, a sound broke through the air in the distance, and the steel whip turned into a rat was cut in half by an electric baton. At the same time, Xiao Hui and Fugui rushed in, knocking over the group of humanoid rats.
In less than a second, Ye Ming had already caught the electric baton, jumped onto the boulder, and stepped on the tail of the white-haired mouse that was trying to escape.
"Crack!"
Firelight burst out, and the electric baton stabbed the white-haired mouse mercilessly.
"Chiji..."
A look of horror flashed in the white-haired mouse's eyes. When life and death were at stake, it bit off its tail without hesitation.
The electric baton hit the hole, and the white-haired mouse with its tail cut off jumped off the boulder and ran away.
The trees fell and the hozens scattered. Without the command of the white-haired rats, these humanoid rats were like headless flies. Ye Ming took Xiao Hui and Fugui to kill everyone. Within a few minutes, the mountains and fields were covered with rat corpses, and the smell of blood filled the air.
The air is like a purgatory among rats.
"Zhizhi..."
"Pfft!"
Ye Ming stepped on the last rat and completed tonight's rat eradication mission.
Ye Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief. These organized rats had been wiped out. Even if the white-haired rats wanted to make a comeback, it would not be easy.
Xiao Hui and Fugui walked to Ye Ming and sat on the ground to rest tiredly.
They put in a lot of effort in this battle, and Ye Ming happily reached out and touched the heads of Xiao Hui and Fugui, and injected a little spiritual energy into them.
Xiao Hui immediately looked up at Ye Ming, his eyes full of complexity.
Ye Ming had injected spiritual energy into Xiao Hui once before, but the situation was urgent and it didn't pay attention. Now that he experienced it, it turned out to be so pure.
How did he manage to refine the spiritual energy into such a pure form?
Ye Ming found Xiao Hui looking at him and immediately asked: "What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Xiao Hui immediately put away his complicated gaze, grinned and made a harmless face, and then walked aside to play with his electric baton.
Ye Ming frowned slightly. A monkey had eyes as complex as humans, which made him feel uncomfortable.
However, Ye Ming didn't delve too deeply into it. After all, Xiao Hui has lived for hundreds of years, and his mind must be stronger than that of ordinary monkeys. It just can't speak, but it actually knows a lot. It can be seen from riding a light cavalry in the form of wealth. It has experienced before
A lot.
Ye Ming is not afraid that Xiao Hui will do something unsatisfactory to him. This monkey still wears a golden hoop. Didn't the Monkey King go to the West with Tang Sanzang to worship Buddha and seek scriptures honestly?
No longer thinking about Xiao Hui, Ye Ming lowered his head and glanced at Fugui. The silly dog squinted and stuck out his tongue, enjoying the comfortable feeling of spiritual energy nourishing his bones and meridians.
After resting for a while, Ye Ming asked Xiao Hui and Fugui to collect the rat carcasses all over the mountains and plains. He went down the mountain and took a shovel to dig a hole and bury the rat carcasses to prevent them from rotting in the summer and attracting mosquitoes and flies, which would not only pollute the environment but also spread bacteria and viruses.
When Ye Ming returned with the shovel, the fish belly was already white in the east, and the villagers who got up early had already finished their meals and went up the mountain to loosen the soil and weed the fields.
Two villagers were walking up the mountain, talking and laughing, carrying hoes, but the next second, one of the villagers closed his mouth with a look of shock on his face.
Another villager followed the other person's gaze curiously, with the same surprised expression on his face.
I saw a hill appearing on the hillside not far away, and this hill was made of piled rat corpses.
The two of them had never seen so many rats in their lives, and they immediately screamed in surprise.
The sound attracted the villagers behind, and everyone rushed over. When they saw the rat mountain, they were all stunned.
"There are so many rats. I'm afraid all the rats in Cuiwei Mountain are here, right?"
"What killed it? It couldn't be that the rats ruined our medicinal materials and angered the mountain god, so he took action, right?"
"I saw Ye Ming going up the mountain last night and saying he wanted to catch mice. Wasn't he the one who did it?"
"How is it possible? There are so many rats. Even if they line up for him to kill, he won't be able to kill them all in three days and three nights!"
"Then who killed so many rats?"
While the villagers were speculating, Xiao Hui was carrying two dead rats, and Fugui was holding four or five dead rats in his mouth, and strutted to the front of the rat mountain, throwing aside the rats in his hands and mouth.
"Isn't this the monkey and native dog that Ye Ming raised? Did they kill these mice?"
"Do you still have to ask? They must have killed them, but I never thought that monkeys can also catch mice!"
At this time, Ye Ming came over with a hoe, and the villagers immediately surrounded him and kept praising the monkeys and native dogs he raised.
"Xiao Ming, you have really done a lot of harm to our village. Unless these rats die, all the herbs we grow will be destroyed!"
"Yes! Yes! I was still counting on you to collect the medicinal materials and earn money to marry my son! Yesterday I sighed and told my son that I was afraid that I couldn't get the money for the gift. Now it's better, and the mice are dead.
It’s all gone, there will be a bumper harvest of medicinal materials, my son will marry a wife, and I will be able to have grandchildren next year!”
Ye Ming waved his hand and said: "This is what I should do. We are dependent on each other. The medicinal materials were destroyed by rats. This is also my loss. You don't need to thank me!"
What Ye Ming said was not unreasonable, but the folks still wanted to treat Ye Ming to a drink to thank him.
"We don't have to drink. You should help me bury the mouse!"
Ye Ming, Xiao Hui and Fugui killed nearly two thousand rats in one night. The pile formed a mountain. There was no excavator here. If Ye Ming had to dig holes and bury them with shovels, they wouldn't be able to bury them all even in the dark.
The villagers readily agreed, saying that you should leave this matter alone and leave it to us. If there are not enough manpower, we will call for help.
The villagers started digging holes to bury the rat corpses in full swing. Ye Ming wanted to help but was stopped and refused to do so.
Seeing that there was nothing to do, Ye Ming took Xiao Hui and Fugui down the mountain.
Before arriving home, Ye Ming saw two official cars parked in front of his house, and Ye Jinxian was talking to several men in uniforms.
"what happened?"
Ye Ming walked over and asked, and one of the middle-aged men in uniform looked at Ye Ming.
"Are you Ye Ming?"
Ye Ming nodded.
The middle-aged man took out his ID and waved it in front of Ye Ming's eyes: "There is something that requires your cooperation in the investigation. Come with us!"