Chapter 245 Listen to the heartbroken voice to congratulate the new helmsman, Chaos Dreig!
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In almost one morning, those nasty little things had grown to the size of a rubber ball, and they kept scurrying back and forth in the grass. It seemed that the entire courtyard was full of them.
Lin Chou knew that the scientific name of these mice was white-tailed moles.
After the cataclysm, they play the role of scavengers. Fresh fruits, dead leaves, and even accumulated humus are their food. When they are born, they are only the size of a finger. If there is enough food, they can grow to a body size of
Ten centimeters long, a complete white-tailed mole weighs more than sixteen kilograms.
Their body shape is very similar to that of fur balls, both being cylindrical.
The forelimbs are thick and short, the palms are particularly enlarged and wide and flat, with strong shovel-like claws to facilitate digging and foraging for food. The hind limbs are powerful and fast, the outer ears are completely degenerated, and there are almost no eyes.
In fact, their eyes are just decorations, equivalent to being blind.
White-tailed moles rely on vibrations in the ground to sense danger, and can use their shovel-like claws to dig out a shelter in the ground in half a second, which is very cunning.
However, due to their large size, tender meat, outstanding reproductive ability and rapid growth, etc., white-tailed moles are the favorites of rat farmers in Xiacheng District, Mingguang Base City, and their selling prices are much higher than ordinary rats.
, and the red-cheeked bamboo rat are the two kings of the rat world.
The white-tailed mole's lanugo hair is only one centimeter long, and is slightly gray and a little pink. I don't know how many moles there are in the yard, but their shed lanugo hair is floating in the wind, covering almost every inch of space.
Lin Chou sneezed repeatedly, and along with the floating lanugo came the fishy and disgusting smell of feces.
"call!"
The strong wind blows, and the mole's tiny lanugo hairs are carried away to the distant wilderness like a suspended stream.
"Your uncle!" Lin Chou was in agony.
So, the rat hunting operation began.
Furball Mao Niu, Chi Lin Chou, and the Nepenthes Fences all joined the war.
The pitcher plant was the most powerful, with dozens and hundreds of meters of vines covering the sky and the sun, rumbling against the ground, shaking Xiao Wu's simple house.
The white-tailed mole is extremely agile and petite. Compared with pitcher plants that can easily reach hundreds of meters high, it is like an ant or an elephant.
The effect is conceivable. When anti-aircraft guns hit mosquitoes, we won’t say whether they can hit them.
Just with the pitcher plants' hammering posture on the ground, within a few minutes, the ground hundreds of meters around them can be tamped into a foundation that can be used to build high-rise buildings.
The pitcher plant fence is completely defeated.
The fur ball took action, and mycelium spurted out from the ground like fireworks. From time to time, moles would scream "squeak" and be pushed out of the soil, exploding into blood mist.
The hairy cow also performed a miraculous feat this time, rolling across the ground at lightning speed, biting out moles one by one, throwing them into the air, and then being torn into pieces by the hairy ball's hyphae.
Lin Chou was deeply relieved. Then he looked at himself and Chi. They had been busy for half an hour and couldn't even catch a mole.
Secretly gritting one's teeth, just one, just one!
Don’t forget about the special skills of the God of Chef menu. When I make it into a dish and add it to the menu, I’ll see how you still run away!
Two hours later, the fur ball stopped attacking, not because the mole was completely eliminated, but because it... lost its strength.
The size of the hair ball that had returned to normal had shrunk by almost a third, and even the hyphae on its surface had wilted. Lin Chou felt distressed when he saw it, and quickly put the hair ball in his pocket to let it rest.
Looking at the hole-riddled ground and the second-generation moles emerging from countless mole holes, Lin Chou sighed deeply. White-tailed moles are so scary.
Once they sense a danger endangering their population, moles hiding in deep caves, as long as they are over eight centimeters in size, can rapidly mature in just a few minutes, and then engage in some indescribable behavior crazily.
, a litter of at least hundreds of second-generation moles will be born within an hour, and then disperse or escape one after another.
A generation of moles will die instantly, paying for their explosive reproduction.
But as long as a pair of moles successfully escape, and they are given another two or three days to eat and grow, there will be no pressure at all to form a swarm of rats again.
There is no breathtaking operation, no incredible strength, the brain circuit is not very easy to use, and he is even blind and deaf.
But the white-tailed mole used this clumsy method, as simple as picking its feet, to thrive in the land after the cataclysm and spread to everywhere that humans could or could not see.
In a way, this is a complete crushing, an unreasonable fight.
...
Rat farmers raise all kinds of rats in all-metal cages with no gaps, lest they cause a rat infestation in the base city, unlike Lin Chou's situation.
It came so suddenly, without any precaution.
Lin Chou is really frowning this time. I have worked hard to evolve for millions of years to reach the top of the food chain, not just to watch you bunch of prodigal rats eating me, drinking my food and then urinating in my yard!!
Well, although the situation of mankind was very embarrassing after the cataclysm, and standing at the top of the food chain became just talk, but it was not the mole's turn to come out to dominate, right?
Lin Chou couldn't help but think of a book he had read. It was said that before the catastrophe, there was an extraordinary artifact that could poison an entire nest of rats when mixed with food or sprayed on the ground. This artifact
The name was "Poisonous Rat Strong" and the number was a2118. It was later completely banned because it was too toxic.
This tm.
Humanity before the catastrophe was so happy and had such an enviable luxury.
"Boss, what should we do?"
Chi also has some worries about happiness.
Mole is a rare delicacy in the tiankeng. Its meat is tender, red and white, plump but not greasy. Every time a nest is captured, the clan members will carefully make it into dried meat and hide it.
Enjoy slowly.
Now that I see this mountain full of moles, how can I not miss the delicious food?
It’s just that the smell now is so... it’s almost unbreathable!
Lin Chou feels distressed. This handsome yard is almost turning into briquettes for me.
Lin Chou said with trembling hands, "In the cabinet, in the cabinet."
"kindness?"
"instant noodles!"
"oh oh."
Chi Dianer took a pack of Kang Shuaibo Spicy Beef Noodles and whispered,
"Boss, it's not appropriate to eat instant noodles at this time. The taste is... ugh!"
"Crack!"
Lin Chou squeezed it with one hand.
"Click."
The sound of instant noodles breaking is crisp and lingering.
"Click! Click! Click!"
Chi Speechless,
"..."
Lin Chou raised his head, "Did you hear that?"
"Wha, what?"
Is the boss going crazy after being tortured by these rats?
"Crack!"
"Listen, I'll make a heartbreaking sound for you."
"..."
The broken instant noodles were scattered on the ground by the lost Lin Chou. The two second-generation white-tailed moles hadn't opened their eyes yet. They kept sniffing with their long pink noses. They staggered and crawled under Lin Chou's nose, acting as if there was no one around.
I ate the crumbs.
"Click, click."
Lin Chou's expression froze, and the paper bowl of instant noodles fell from his hands and fell to the ground.
The two little moles were startled, screamed and ran away, then turned back cautiously.
In the end, the two mole cubs quickly disappeared from the two men carrying paper bowls.