"I'll go take a look." Murong Longyue couldn't bear her temper, so she stood up and floated to the place where the birds were frightened without touching the ground.
Unexpectedly, Lin Chuan blocked him behind him before he floated a foot away. Lin Chuan made a gesture of silence, and suddenly leaned down and put his ears to the ground.
In an instant, Lin Chuan's expression changed drastically and he blurted out: "Get up the tree! Hurry!"
Lin Chuan and Murong Longyue had already risen into the air, and Yu Xiaoyao was obviously half a beat too slow. The moment he jumped up, his ankle was caught by something that came out of the ground.
Fortunately, Yu Xiaoyao didn't lose control despite screaming. He bent down and cut it off with a dagger. Just when he was about to fall, Lin Chuan turned around and pulled Yu Xiaoyao off the ground.
Suddenly, dozens of tentacles emerged from the ground beneath Yu Xiaoyao. These tentacles were no more than the thickness of a thumb, and their purple skin was covered with fleshy thorns. These fleshy thorns grew upside down. Once entangled by them, they would cause scars if not dismantled properly.
Tired.
These tentacles could not stretch out more than a foot, and after seeing that they had lost their target, they all retracted back into the ground.
The people in Linchuan were standing on the branches of a tree three feet high. Seeing these tentacles receding, they all exhaled.
"What the hell is this!"
Yu Xiaoyao lifted the corner of her skirt and looked at the broken tentacle on her ankle, wanting to take it off, but she didn't dare to do it.
Lin Chuan took out a bandage from the Qiankun Ring and handed it to Yu Xiaoyao, asking her to tie her calf.
Yu Xiaoyao tied the bandage tremblingly, and the tentacles were covered with slippery mucus, which looked quite disgusting. Yu Xiaoyao's voice was trembling, and his eyes were red.
"What the hell is this!"
Fortunately, Yu Xiaoyao often dealt with those scary snakes and insects, otherwise he would definitely cry at this moment.
Seeing this, Murong Longyue couldn't bear it, so she prepared to step forward to help.
"Don't move it! This thing is the tail of a sand rat. The barbs on it have pierced the skin. You need to remove it in reverse." Lin Chuan reminded urgently.
The sand rat is a type of savage beast that lives in groups, likes to hunt in groups, and is smarter than other savage beasts.
Sand rats have few natural enemies in Xisha, and they even dare to trap sand vultures flying in the sky.
They hide under the sand dunes, exposing their long tails and swinging outwards, like sand snakes. The sand vultures can't distinguish them and will swoop down. What awaits them are swarms of sand rats.
The body shape of the sand rat is the same as that of an ordinary civet cat. Its yellow skin is three-thirds thicker than that of a sand rat, its limbs are short and short, its claws are sharp, and its sense of smell and hearing are extremely keen.
That is to say, what Yu Xiaoyao used was a spiritual weapon dagger. If the iron tip could scrape off some flesh thorns, there would be no chance of cutting off its tail tendons.
Once the sand rat's tail entangles its prey, it will drag it underground with other rats, and the barbs on its tail will secrete venom.
This venom is not fatal, but it will cause the prey to become numb all over and gradually lose its ability to resist.
When Yu Xiaoyao heard that it was a sand rat, she couldn't help but look a little ugly. She was not afraid of the sand rat, but was embarrassed by her previous remarks.
Didn’t you say that all the wild beasts have disappeared? Why are there still sand rats here?
Murong Longyue stretched out her hand a few times and then retracted it, because the severed tail was still squirming, for fear of being scratched by the flesh thorns on the fingertips.
"Otherwise, you should do it..." Murong Longyue raised her eyes and said to Lin Chuan.
Lin Chuan sighed softly, squatted down and looked at Yu Xiaoyao's white ankles, turned his hand and took out the golden hairpin, slowly inserted the tip into the fracture, and then slowly picked it up, peeling off the rat tail bit by bit.
A circle of fine pinholes appeared on Yu Xiaoyao's fair ankle, and yellow-brown mucus flowed out of the hole.
"Okay, squeeze out all the venom until blood comes out." Lin Chuan said and dropped the severed tail from the tree.
The moment the severed tail landed on the ground, it was rolled up by the rat tail protruding from the ground, and he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
"These stinky rats haven't left yet!" Murong Longyue looked at the slightly squirming soil on the ground and said angrily.
"They must have smelled our scent, especially the smell of blood. These giant rats are the most difficult to deal with. In the past, we were most afraid of encountering these beasts in the Western Kingdom.
The intelligence of the Shashuo Rat King is close to that of humans. It transmits sounds underground to mobilize the rats. The rats move in unison and coordinate seamlessly.
As long as we are not walking on a mountainous road, we must be very alert, have weapons in hand, and be prepared for a surprise attack by the rat at any time."
Lin Chuan recalled the days when he enlisted in the army in the Western Country. Fortunately, the Western Country was rocky and rocky, so the movement of such a giant rat hiding underground was restricted.
The key point of the sand rat is the abdomen. The thin skin on the abdomen is used to store air. The sand rat cannot hide underground all the time. It has to poke its head out every two hours to breathe.
Lin Chuan broke off a branch, broke it into several sections, and then spread it four or five feet around.
Before the branch even hit the ground, it was caught by the rat's tail that suddenly protruded out. Lin Chuan looked at the circle of rat tails and couldn't help crying or laughing.
"The soft soil here is just suitable for them to survive. These giant rats choose to hunt at night, and they must be afraid of leaks. They have surrounded us now, and they obviously have no intention of leaving until they catch us."
"Then let's wait until dawn before leaving!" Murong Longyue sat down.
"I would rather wait until dawn, but they may not give us a chance." Lin Chuan looked a little ugly, and his voice was bitter.
"this word"
Murong Longyue's voice stopped suddenly because she heard a strange sound coming from under her feet.
Creak, creak, creak!
"What's the sound?" Murong Longyue asked in shock.
"They are gnawing at the tree roots!" Lin Chuan's expression changed, and he felt the tree branches tremble slightly again.
"Then let's jump to that tree quickly!"
Murong Longyue glanced at the blood spilling from Yu Xiaoyao's ankle, quickly looked away, swallowed, and continued: "It's just that my light body technique may not be able to carry a heavy load. Xiaoyao still has to leave it to the young master."
Murong Longyue was able to float in the air with the help of her soul power. It would be difficult to support her with one person on her back.
Yu Xiaoyao was only in the Xuanling realm and could not release his spiritual energy, let alone walk in the air with his spirit. Then he turned his attention to Lin Chuan.
Lin Chuan looked at the tree where Frightened Bird left. That tree was the closest one.
"It's not a good place to stay for a long time. This tree can't support it for long. I'm carrying Xiaoyao on my back. Let's go together..."
Before Lin Chuan finished speaking, he heard a roar, and the tree in the distance was severed from its roots, and fallen leaves flew as it fell to the ground.
The young bird in the nest is still fledgling, and when it is about to spread its wings, it is entangled by the tail of the giant rat and then dragged into the soil.
Birds that had been frightened away were hovering in the sky, and their shrill chirps echoed in the night sky.
This group of sand rats turned out to be more considerate than Lin Chuan expected. Lin Chuan watched the trees in the distance fall one by one, and his ability to control spirits could no longer support them.
Lin Chuan looked at the trees on the other side of the stream. The trees there seemed to have not been affected yet. It seemed that the group of sand rats had not thought of it yet.
"Follow me!" Lin Chuan said and carried Yu Xiaoyao, who was still in a daze, on his back. He stepped hard and the branches were bent almost to the point of breaking.
Lin Chuan jumped up high with the help of the rebounding power of the branches, walking in the air, followed closely by Murong Longyue.
As soon as the three people left, the tree suddenly fell down, and the sand rats underground also followed Lin Chuan away, not slowing down much.
Linchuan Yukong's speed is naturally not as fast as running underground. In addition to consuming a lot of spiritual energy, Yukong also consumes a lot of physical energy.
After a hundred feet, Lin Chuan was already above the water, and the group of sand rats followed them out of the ground, pouring into the stream one by one, chasing after Lin Chuan.
The leader, the Rat King, was extremely fast. He was shaped like a small wild pig, with a golden sheen all over his body. His tail was swung up to two feet long. With the height of his jump, he almost hooked Murong Yuyue, who was floating in the low altitude.
Murong Longyue was so frightened that she had to lift herself up a few points. Her soul power was limited by her body, so lifting up this few points was her limit, and she would fall after holding on for a few breaths.
How could the Shashuo Rat King miss this opportunity and jump up again? Murong Longyue had no choice but to grit her teeth and follow up, with big beads of sweat appearing on her forehead.
One person and one rat, rising and falling together, looked quite funny, but Lin Chuan couldn't help but laugh, because there was more than one sand rat of this size.
This kind of golden-skinned rat king exists at the level of the Earth Spirit Realm. One is slightly larger and the other two are smaller. They should be one female and two male.
Thousands of small scarlet eyes were particularly frightening in the night. At this moment, Lin Chuan hoped to meet the patrolling spiritual guards.
These sand rats ran on the ground without any scruples, so much so that Lin Chuan did not dare to approach the trees, for fear that these animals would jump up and pounce on him with the help of tree trunks.