Chapter 186: In the face of interests, bats also have to change their routines
Hpa-an, the capital of Kayin State.
Although it is the capital, its population is only over 10,000, which makes it a small town.
If we include some of the surrounding rural areas and small towns, the total population may be four to five hundred thousand, and most of the residents live in rural areas.
It is very close to Thailand and the sea. Not far to the east is the That Nien Thawung Mountains at the border of Myanmar and Thailand. It is more than 300 kilometers long and about 75-100 kilometers wide. The average altitude is 1,000-2,000 meters, and the main peak is 1,964 meters above sea level. It is the watershed between the Klang River and the Bin River (the largest tributary of the upper Chao Phraya River).
Speaking of this mountain range, the name is strange. Some people who know a little about geography will be very surprised. There seems to be a Tam Nin Tha Weng Mountain Range in China, but how come there is one at the border between Myanmar and Thailand? And the middle section is called Nu Mountain?
That is because many mountain ranges were named later, and the Heniantao Mountains were originally referred to as the eastern mountains of Nujiang River.
The Nu River is more than 3,000 kilometers long. It flows from the southern foot of the Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, through two major provinces in China, and changes its name to "Salween River" when it reaches Myanmar, and finally flows into the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean. There are mountains along the coast, and each section has a different name.
The four international rivers in Southeast Asia all have their source in China. For example, the Mekong River is called the Lancang River in China, but it is the Mekong River when it enters Southeast Asia.
There is nothing special about Hpa-an. The curry rice, fried fish cakes and potato chips on the street seem to be good. Li Xiang bought some to try. He also got some scattered US dollars and Myanmar currency in northern Myanmar. It doesn't matter if he spends them casually at this time. After all, they are old banknotes.
There are many Buddhists here, and there are various temples and grottoes. The tourism industry is relatively developed, and it seems to be a more peaceful and prosperous place than in northern Myanmar.
There were many foreigners walking on the street. Li Xiang was wearing a hat and sunglasses, had an oriental face, and used the "bright pearl darkening" skill, which made him less "shining" and therefore not particularly outstanding.
However, there are still some women who will stare at him. There is no way, even so, he is still too handsome.
The destination of his trip was a famous bat cave here. It was said that there were hundreds of millions of bats living there. No one had counted the exact number, but they were so numerous that they covered the entire place.
Bats are creatures that usually sleep during the day and come out to move around at night. When they are full, they go back to the cave to continue sleeping. When Li Xiang was hunting bats in the natural caves of Maolan Karst Nature Reserve in Guizhou Province, although it was night, there were still many bats in the caves.
He came here during the day to scout the area and familiarize himself with the terrain, and he still planned to go at night. Even if there were fewer bats in the cave at night, there would still be a lot.
However, when he arrived at the scenic spot, he was stunned.
In broad daylight, many staff members of the scenic spot took buckets, wooden sticks, drums, and some percussion instruments that Li Xiang couldn't name, and beat them wildly near the cave entrance.
The noise is enough to make people feel upset, not to mention the bats inside.
The bats in the cave couldn't stand it anymore, so they swarmed out, covering the sky and the earth, with their wings whirring. Around them, many tourists cheered, exclaimed, took photos, and recorded videos...
This attraction makes money from these bats.
Some bats wanted to return to the cave after flying around, but how could they do that? They were still driven away and had to continue flying outside.
"Well, no need to worry about fewer bats at night." Li Xiang sighed. In the face of interests, bats have to change their schedules and come out to "do business" in broad daylight.
He traveled here, visited some temples and caves, and then returned to the Tha Ninh Thaung Mountains to search for "potential extraordinary creatures" in the deep mountains and forests.
The mountain range runs from north to south, with a width of only tens to more than a hundred kilometers. The edge is only twenty or thirty kilometers away from Pa-an City. Li Xiang does not need to "sprint". With a "cruising speed" of 900 kilometers per hour, about 15 kilometers per minute, he can arrive in a few minutes.
In the valley, six red muntjacs were eating grass. In the dark, a leopard was lurking and slowly crept over. Three minutes later, the leopard and the six red muntjacs all entered Li Xiang's system warehouse.
The six red muntjacs were not mutants, but they looked tasty, so Li Xiang collected them. The end of the world was approaching, and there was no point in protecting these animals.
The leopard was a ninth-level mutant creature. Li Xiang obtained three eighth-level mutant spiritual medicines, the Golden Leopard Spirit Fruits. Apart from these three spiritual medicines, no other extraordinary items dropped.
Li Xiang took out a leopard fruit and tasted it. It was sweet and had a good taste. After it went into his stomach and was refined, his spiritual power surged.
"Golden Leopard" is not only an animal, but also the name of a plant. It is a herbaceous vine belonging to the Campanulaceae family and the Codonopsis pilosula genus. Its fruit is edible and its root can be used as medicine. It has the effects of clearing away heat and calming down. It can treat neurasthenia and other symptoms. It can also be eaten as a vegetable. It is also distributed in Guangdong Province and Yunnan Province in China.
It’s just that the fruit of this plant is delicious and easy to digest, and the seeds are relatively small, so after being eaten by animals, there is often nothing left, making it difficult for animals to spread in the wild.
The "Golden Leopard Fruit" that Li Xiang obtained was naturally not an ordinary kind, but a spiritual herb fruit rewarded by the system.
"Hey, there's a wild elephant ahead." Li Xiang saw a huge creature from afar, and with a flash of his body, he rode on the elephant's back.
The system immediately prompted: "A fifteenth-order mutant creature, the mammoth demon, has been detected."
This wild elephant had never been ridden by anyone before, and it was extremely furious at the moment. It stamped its feet and twisted its body desperately, trying to throw Li Xiang off.
Li Xiang showed no mercy and beat the elephant to death with one punch! Elephant meat is said to be very unpalatable, and Africans would rather eat dirt than elephants.
There were once some rich people who wanted to try something new. Where there is demand, there is a market. So, someone hunted an elephant and sold it to the rich man for tens of thousands of dollars.
As a result, the rich man said after tasting it that it tasted terrible. Maybe the nose and tongue were a little tender.
However, elephant skin can be used to make drums, and ivory is a rare material. It is hard but easy to carve, and is often used to make precious handicrafts and some decorations. It can even be used to make medical equipment, bone nails, orthopedic devices, etc.
So Li Xiang took the elephant's body. Even if it tasted bad, and there was nothing to eat in the end of the world, it was still a dish of meat for ordinary people, right? Of course, he would keep the delicious ones for himself, and share the unpalatable ones with ordinary people. Eating meat was always better than eating only rice.
System: "Congratulations to the host for killing the fifteenth-level mutant creature, the mammoth demon elephant. You will be rewarded with 1,500 achievement points, three eighth-level mutant spiritual medicines, the Jade Feather Golden Leaf Acacia Grass, and a thirteenth-level extraordinary item, the Black Iron Mountain Pulling Rod."
"Oh my god, why does this grass stink so much?" Li Xiang took out the three spiritual herbs and looked at them. At first, they had a foul odor and a strong smell of gas, but Li Xiang pinched his nose and tasted a small piece of the leaves. His eyes lit up. They tasted quite good. If you chewed them slowly, you would get a sweet aftertaste of green grass.
Little do people know that this is an upgraded version of Thai stinky food, which is also a local delicacy.
This elephant loved to eat this kind of grass when he was alive.
"Black Iron Mountain-Pulling Rod!" Li Xiang put away the spiritual herbs and saved them for later consumption. He waved his hand and a heavy iron rod came into his hand. One end was thin and the other was thick. It was two meters long and shaped like an elephant's trunk. It weighed at least eight or nine hundred kilograms, but it was still a little light for Li Xiang, who had a strength of twenty or thirty thousand kilograms.
"It's great for shooting bats at night." Originally, Li Xiang was planning to pick up many small stones as hidden weapons and scatter them in handfuls like a shotgun, but when he got a heavy black iron rod, he couldn't wait to try out the new weapon.
This black iron mountain-pulling stick has two extraordinary properties, namely "armor-breaking" and "shock". Once it is hit, any armor below the thirteenth grade will be shattered, and it can then emit a "shock wave" to shock the enemy's mind, not just his body.
"I wonder if it can break my Black Mountain Black Armor?"
But Li Xiang is not that stupid and he will definitely not try it.
Holding a black iron mountain-moving stick in his hand, he suddenly jumped up and hit a huge rock about seven or eight meters high.
With a loud "boom", the huge rock broke into pieces and debris flew everywhere. At the same time, a strange "shock wave" radiated out from this point. Many birds fell and some wild beasts fell down one after another, unable to escape.
"Oh my god, is this an ultrasonic weapon?" Because the shock wave is silent and invisible, and ordinary people cannot hear it.
With this black iron mountain-pushing stick, Li Xiang felt that he would be more efficient in hitting bats.
However, this "shock wave" has a shortcoming. First, its power is not as great as imagined. For example, some large wild beasts fell down, but stood up again after a short while. Although they seemed to be stunned and some of them were bleeding from the corners of their eyes and nostrils, they were not dead.
Second, it can only attack indiscriminately and cannot be targeted.
If there are teammates or ordinary people around, it will be inconvenient to use to avoid accidental injuries.
…
In the dead of night, Li Xiang appeared at the entrance of the bat cave holding a large stick shaped like an elephant's trunk.
After he went in, he took out a huge rock about seven or eight meters high from the system warehouse and blocked the entrance of the cave.
With the ability of night vision, everything in the dark cave is visible without any secrets.
The bats were so densely packed that there were at least tens of thousands of them! These bats had been tossed around all day and had not gotten enough sleep, so they were hanging upside down on the top of the cave, snoring. On the ground, there was a thick layer of bat droppings that smelled foul, making it impossible to step on.
Fortunately, Li Xiang was wearing the Black Mountain Armor and was not afraid of getting dirty. At worst, he could just wash it in the river afterwards.
"Get up, get up, don't sleep any more!"
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Li Xiang shook the stick gently, and suddenly, a powerful ultrasonic vibration spread out. Ordinary people could not hear any sound, but for these bats that use "ultrasound" to echolocate, identify terrain, and find food, it was simply a "disaster."
Some young bats fell directly and died, while some adult bats may have stronger resistance and flew around. Although they can also emit ultrasonic waves and have a higher tolerance to ultrasonic waves than ordinary birds, the external ultrasonic waves greatly interfered with their judgment. Many bats collided with each other, and many accidentally hit the mountain wall and squeaked.
They wanted to escape, but they couldn't find an exit. Even if they found one, the entrance to the cave had been blocked by Li Xiang with large rocks. Although there were small gaps, the shock waves emitted by the elephant trunk stick made all the bats become real "blind".
System: "A fifth-order mutant creature, the Blood Flame Demon Bat, has been detected..."
"A third-order mutant creature, the Blood Flame Demon Bat, has been detected..."
"A sixth-order mutant, the Blood Flame Demon Bat, has been detected..."
…
Li Xiang couldn't tell them apart, so he killed them all naturally. He leaped up, wielding the black iron mountain-pulling stick in his hand, and performed a set of extremely powerful stick techniques. With the strength of twenty to thirty thousand kilograms, this stick was simply a killing weapon. Anyone who touched it would die, and anyone who hit it would shatter into pieces.
Blood mist splattered, covering Li Xiang's armor.
"This is a bit disgusting." Li Xiang changed his stick technique and began to reduce the strength.
He thought that stick techniques cannot be simply rigid, because all martial arts, when they are advanced, must pay attention to the combination of rigidity and flexibility, the changes of yin and yang, and being simply rigid does not count as top-level martial arts.
Just like Guo Jing's Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, it is originally extremely hard and strong, but when it is practiced to a high level, it can also produce soft power.
The more he fought, the more adept he became, and his understanding of the stick techniques grew. In the end, he was able to use a black iron stick weighing eight or nine hundred kilograms in many different ways. Not only was his killing efficiency higher, but he also saved more spiritual power and strength.
The most important thing is that no more bats were blown into bloody mist. Every dead bat looked completely intact on the surface, with its skin unbroken, but the flesh, organs, and brain inside had already been shattered into a small lump of mud.
Moreover, the soft force stirred up by the huge stick was strong and finally formed a vortex in the cave, sucking all the bats in. It looked as if the bats were actively crashing into the stick, seeking their own death.
In fact, the bats were unable to escape the suction caused by Li Xiang stirring the iron rod.
"So this is how the 'stir' technique of stick technique is used." Li Xiang understood it very well. Sure enough, the power is greater when hardness and softness are combined.
That night, Li Xiang killed more than a thousand potential mutant blood-flame bats, gained nearly a hundred thousand achievement points, and more than three thousand first to eighth level elixirs. In addition, he also obtained a small extraordinary object, a beautifully shaped but somewhat dark blood-flame magic ring.
It is not of high grade, made of silver, and only of the seventh grade. It is not of much use, but it can release a ball of blood flame the size of a millstone. This is a kind of magic flame, and its temperature is estimated to be around four to five thousand degrees, which is higher than ordinary fire.
Even tungsten steel can be easily melted. The only difference is that the fire is not very strong, and there is a cooling period after use.
This blood flame ring should have been dropped by a tenth-level bat king inside.
Because he had honed his martial arts this time, it took Li Xiang a little longer. It was a full three or four hours before he finished the work. No one in the bat cave was spared.
Finally, Li Xiang removed the huge rock that was blocking the door and disappeared into the darkness.
He did not return to the deep mountains and forests, but went to the seaside, washed the dirt off the Black Mountain Black Armor in the sea, and finally used spiritual power to shake it clean.
The boulder was just an ordinary stone and was of no use, so it was thrown directly into the sea.
He displayed his extreme speed and walked on the waves of the sea. This was not the wave-walking technique, but simply "floating on water" caused by the speed. The energy from his running created waves, just like a speedboat breaking through the waves.
After playing for about half an hour, we saw an uninhabited island, so we built a bonfire and had a barbecue.
There were wild game and some unknown fish caught from the sea, which tasted pretty good. One of them looked like a sea bass, with a pointed mouth, and it was obvious that it was not poisonous and was edible.
This is the sharpnose seabass, also known as the golden eye seabass. It is a nearshore shallow-water fish in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans and is also artificially cultivated.
There are actually thousands of fish parasites in the sea. The most common ones include Anisakis and Diphyllobothrium, which can also infect humans. However, Li Xiang was not afraid and also tried the sashimi.
Even if there are parasites, his spiritual body is highly developed and he is immune to all diseases. Parasites or some bacteria in the sea cannot harm him.
After dawn, the staff at the scenic spot went to work and were dumbfounded.
Many tourists come here to see "bats coming out of the cave", but unfortunately, there are no more bats here.
The tourist attraction manager reported the case and the relevant departments came to investigate but they had no clue.
"Hiss~" A police officer sorted out all the clues and suddenly thought of the strange events that happened recently in northern Myanmar and Mandalay. He couldn't help but take a breath and said, "Could it be that the mysterious man came to our Hpa-an?"
"No way? I heard that the mysterious man and the mysterious force are only interested in precious jade and gold, or they just want to slaughter some drug lords. I haven't heard that they also like to kill bats?"
Someone bowed to a Buddha statue in the distance, and then said to everyone seriously: "I think it was this scenic spot that offended the Buddha, causing the Buddha to bring down a disaster."
Someone said: "I told you not to use bats to make money. Now you have caused trouble!"
(End of this chapter)
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