Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 149 Ruins
Li Lijun has never raised a gopher, but she has heard of this monster.

The gopher is also a strange species. In the cultivation world she has experienced in the past, there are two worlds with this kind of creature.In the world where she was a rookie in Qi refining, she had heard of a casual cultivator who made his fortune with a gopher and became a well-known rich cultivator.In Ziwei's big world where she was a disciple of alchemy, this kind of creature was a spirit beast raised in large numbers by a certain refining sect with various spirit mines, and it was specially used to dig all kinds of spirit mines for their disciples.

Drilling gophers, as the name suggests, are good at digging holes in the ground, and they are excellent for mining or digging holes.Although they are not as precious as treasure hunting mice, they can only be used to find treasures hidden in the rocky land, but when there is no treasure hunting mouse, it is a very practical little helper.

Perhaps it is because they are often kept by human cultivators. The gophers are relatively mild-tempered, not bloodthirsty, and omnivorous. Depending on the attributes of each rat, there may be various cultivation methods, but basically they are all the same. , there is only a slight difference in the choice of cultivation medium.

Li Lijun remembered that the mouse in front of him said that it practiced daily on a piece of gold essence, and it is estimated that the gold essence is the medium of its cultivation.Its gold essence was snatched away by the giant snake, no wonder it can't practice again, unless it can find another piece of gold essence of the same level, otherwise it is more practical to snatch back the stolen thing.

Li Lijun thought for a while: "So, all you need is the piece of gold essence that was robbed at the beginning? If the gold essence is really in this cave, then it's okay for you to take it back. But the loss you caused to the village, You must double the compensation! Those who are caught must be released safely and then fully compensated. As for Liu Dalang...you can just send him back to the Yamen. What happens to him is up to the government to decide."

The mouse was overjoyed, and looked at Li Lijun with wide eyes in disbelief: "Little fairy... are you serious? You don't want to steal my gold essence?!"

Li Lijun rolled her eyes at it: "Isn't it just a piece of gold essence? I don't need it, so why grab yours? But you also have to promise me that you will not hurt anyone's life in the future! Just be honest and practice in Taibai Mountain. As in the past, digging gold mines and exchanging living needs with the mountain people, and practicing at night by yourself. You will benefit, and the people around you don’t need to panic, isn’t it cheap for both sides?”

The mouse was trembling with excitement, and it would agree with what Li Lijun said at this time: "What the little fairy said is right! What the little fairy said couldn't be more right! I am an honest monster, and I never do harm to anyone! As a last resort!" Then it paused, suddenly remembered something, and asked Li Lijun cautiously, "Little fairy... don't you plan to accept me? I just said that I am willing to recognize you as the master..."

Li Lijun twitched the corners of his mouth: "What are you doing with me? Apart from becoming bigger and smaller, blowing a little wind, and whipping people with your tail, what else can you do? Now that your tail is broken, you can't whip people, and your paws are injured. I can't dig the soil. If I accept you, I have to pay for food, am I losing money?!"

The mouse was so shocked by these words that it lowered its head to look at its right forearm, bald paw, and half of its tail that had just stopped bleeding with difficulty, and it couldn't help whimpering.

Where does Li Lijun have the time to accompany it to mourn the spring and autumn?She was still in a hurry: "Hurry up. Let the people in the cave go, so we can go into the cave to find your gold essence. Let me tell you first, if the gold essence is not here, you are not allowed to mess around! You have raised it for more than half a year. God knows what that giant snake did with your gold essence? What if it was given to other monsters? What if it was lost and damaged? If you want to settle accounts, go to it and don’t take it. Innocent people vent their anger!"

The mouse bowed its head in response.What else can it do?It is now a rat with no tail and bald paws, how can it be against the big devil in front of it?If you don't want to suffer another blow, you have no choice but to be obedient.

Although the two people in the cave were thin, they could not escape from the small hole through which the mice entered and exited. They could only reopen the original entrance and exit door.As for this hill, according to the introduction of the mouse, there were several openings, and the formal entrance was sealed long ago.When the giant snake lived here, it mainly entered and exited through a three-foot-square hole.The entrance of the cave is at the foot of the mountain to the west, where the broken stones are piled up.After the mouse caught Liu Dalang and went into the cave, he used the wind to blow the broken stones to block the entrance of the cave so that Liu Dalang would not escape.

In addition, there are several small holes for ventilation in the cave, which are almost the size of the mouth of a sea bowl. It is difficult for even a giant snake to get in and out, let alone a human.However, in the middle of the top of the mountain, there is a three-foot-square circular opening, which was originally blocked by a stone slab, and there were carvings on the slate.Maybe it was because the time was too long, the stone slab broke into several pieces, forming several gaps of different sizes.The mouse just came out of the largest gap.

It is estimated that only it can take this "road" to enter and exit the cave in the mountainside.

Listening to the mouse's narration, Li Lijun found the entrance of the cave on the top of the mountain, pushed aside the scattered rocks and mud, and observed it carefully under the moonlight. He did find traces of carvings, and it looked like some kind of rune. , much like it is used for sealing.

Could it be... this cave is the site where a senior practitioner used to seal something?It's just that the age is too long, the seal has failed, and the ruins have become a lair of giant snakes?
That really needs to be observed carefully.

Li Lijun asked about the topography of the mouse cave. It is said that the mountainside is almost hollow, but the mountain wall is thicker. There is a larger hemispherical cave in the middle, surrounded by four smaller caves like flower petals surrounding the flower core.However, due to the huge size of the previous owner, the giant snake, who didn't care about it, many places in the cave collapsed and were damaged. As a result, only three of the five caves can be safely entered, and the rest are almost like ruins.The mouse thought that it was not copper-skinned and iron-framed, so it didn't dare to go in easily, for fear of being hit by falling rocks, so it basically only moved in the three safe caves.

Today, Liu Dalang and the other two are digging soil in the hole near the entrance and exit of the giant snake.At the same time, it is also the daily living place of giant snakes.Rats live in the big hole in the middle.There is also a place for displaying some so-called "treasures" it found in the cave, and it was originally planned to pack and take away after finding the gold essence.

The giant snake ransacked it back then, and now it has to fight back against the giant snake before it can vent its anger.

The mouse tremblingly explained everything he knew, and carefully looked at Li Lijun: "That... little fairy, what should I do now?"

Li Lijun glanced at it: "What else can I do? Naturally, remove the accumulated rubble first, let those two people escape! Do you think I will meet them face to face?" She is the owner of this place, so Don't let the farmer know his details!
The mouse whispered: "But they escaped... who can dig the gold essence for me?"

Li Lijun said angrily: "Of course I have a solution, why are you worrying about it?! Why don't you hurry up and work for me? I'm in a hurry!"

(End of this chapter)