Chapter 98 Gerbil Hole
On the other side, with the help of the giant scissors magic tool, Achen and his two companions quickly harvested a large number of third-tier spirit reeds.
Just as they were about to wrap up and take a break, Nie Xiaoxiao spotted a hole in the trimmed spiky bushes.
The hole looks smaller than a sewer manhole cover, just big enough for one person to get in and out.
Finding such a hole in this place was naturally strange to her. Just as she was about to call Ah Chen and Lele over to take a look, she saw a grayish thing with two big ears on its head crawl out of the hole.
She immediately covered her mouth, forcibly swallowing the scream that was rising in her throat.
The thing finally crawled out, and it turned out to be a round, half-human-sized rat!
Judging from the spiritual power it exudes, it should be a third-tier demon beast.
Ah Chen noticed her unusual behavior and followed her gaze, only to find himself staring at the large rat.
The big rat turned around and leaped into the air, landing a full ten feet away from them.
It made a squeaking sound, and soon the three of them heard a rustling sound under their feet, as if more than one animal was crawling over the ground.
"This is... a level 3 gerbil?" Ah Chen finally realized.
Ever since Senior Xiao Shi moved into his room, he has read many books, either voluntarily or under duress, including the Encyclopedia of Spiritual Plants and the Encyclopedia of Monsters.
Ah Chen has an exceptional memory, especially when he encounters a monster that resembles a mutated beast he has seen before; he will make a point of carefully observing its habits.
This gerbil was exactly the one he had seen before, but the book he read said that gerbils were usually first or second tier, but he didn't expect that the gerbil here was actually third tier!
"Gerbils? Do they eat people?" Nie Xiaoxiao asked.
"Probably, after all, gerbils are rats. Rats are omnivorous, eating grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables, insects, various animals, and carrion."
"If they get extremely hungry, they'll even eat paper and cloth," Ah Chen said.
"Huh? What if we get surrounded by this swarm of gerbils?" Nie Xiaoxiao asked.
"Probably not. Gerbils don't usually live in large groups because their burrows aren't very big. After all, the soil in the desert is loose, making it difficult to dig spacious burrows, so it's impossible for them to gather in large groups," Achen said.
"So, as long as we don't provoke it, we should be safe?"
“Yes, didn’t you see that its first reaction upon seeing us was to run away?” Ah Chen said.
Having confirmed that the gerbil was not in danger, the three were temporarily relieved.
"Shouldn't we be trying to figure out how to cross this desert?" Nie Xiaoxiao asked, gazing at the vast sea of sand in the distance.
"You have a plan?" Ah Chen asked.
“If I had a way, I would have flown there long ago,” Nie Xiaoxiao said.
Previously, everyone had considered flying over there, but since so many sand scorpions could be hiding beneath this desert, it was hard to guarantee that there wouldn't be flocks of birds in the sky.
The number of birds is never small, and if they meet in mid-air, the probability of them escaping is even lower.
"Hey? Do you think we can pass through here?" Lele suddenly asked.
"Borrow a path? Borrow a path from whom? Would those sand scorpions allow us a path?" Nie Xiaoxiao asked.
“Of course not, since we’ve already officially started a war with them, and it’s impossible for us to turn hostility into friendship.”
"But we can borrow a path from these gerbils," Lele said.
“Right, right, how come I didn’t think of that? These gerbils are good at digging burrows. If we just follow this burrow entrance down, we’ll definitely find an underground passage,” Nie Xiaoxiao said.
"But aren't you afraid that we'll get surrounded and slaughtered by those gerbils after we go down?" Ah Chen asked.
“I do have some things that might be able to repel rats,” Lele said.
"This is a powerful rodent repellent spray that old man Augustine formulated using the mutated mint leaves and mutated lemon fruits that I provided to him."
"Luckily, I didn't go hunting during that time, so I left this thing behind." She took out a spray gun and two bottles of spray.
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