Family Cultivation: I have a skill panel

Chapter 330 Rat Tide Outbreak
In a dark mine.

It can only be seen by the faint light from the luminous pearls embedded on the wall. These worthless luminous pearls are smelted from bright stone powder, and there is only one every five feet.

"Squeak~"

A gray shadow quickly passed by under the dim light of the night pearl.

It turned out to be a diamond mouse crawling on the dry and uneven rock wall of the mine.

"Boom!"

At this moment, a spiritual energy bomb accurately hit the diamond mouse, smashing it into a puddle of meat and paste it on the stone wall.

"This little beast scares me"

A miner who was sitting cross-legged in a corner and taking a rest spat, his dirty face was full of disgust.

As soon as he finished speaking, another skinny miner leaning against the wall, with his chest bare, asked with some doubts:

"Brother Wang, do you feel that these beasts have increased recently? And they are not very afraid of people. They didn't dare to run out like this before. But now the creaking noise of this thing is everywhere."

"Hey, you don't care what they do. Although these diamond rats are monsters, they are just the lowest level monsters. How can they do anything to you and me, monks in the mid-stage of Qi refining?"

At the beginning of the conversation, the man knocked on the ground with a mining hoe, looked at the pits and pits on the mining hoe, and suddenly felt a little distressed:
"Oh, my hoe is almost worn out. This Yuan Gaozong is really nothing. We even let us buy a mining hoe. I haven't dug [-] catties of mine in a month. I'm exhausted. I still can't get a few pieces of spirit stones, if I knew this, you and my brother should not have abandoned the business of killing people and stealing money. It can be full of oil. Alas, it's a pity that the last vote hit the eye, and actually killed an inner disciple of the Huahai Sect, so I had to become a "stone worm" with my brother."

"Hey, it would be nice to get a life back, we are here to avoid the limelight, and we can go back to our old business after a few years"

The skinny miner grinned and licked his tongue.

Just as the two were chatting and laughing, there was a sudden rustling sound in the mine, as if a group of insects were crawling around.

"what sound?"

The miner named "Brother Wang" raised his ears and stood up vigilantly.

"Squeak! Squeak!"

Suddenly, the creaking sound of the mine was endless, and the sound of climbing the wall was getting closer and intensified.

"what happened!"

Both stood up in surprise.

At this moment, under the light and shadow of the night pearl in the mine, crawling gray figures appeared one after another, densely packed, big or small mice came out of the holes in the stone wall, gathered in groups and swarmed.

The green eyeballs the size of mung beans were shining brightly in the dimness, and the squeaking sound made by the friction of the rodents was even more creepy.

"Not good! Rat tide!! Damn it! Where are so many diamond rats hiding in this mine!"

The faces of the two who were talking and laughing just now changed drastically, and they wanted to run away without even thinking about it. Unexpectedly, a piece of diamond mouse jumped down from the top of their heads, hung on the two of them, opened their mouths and burrowed into their bodies.

The reason why the diamond mouse is called "diamond" is because the teeth and claws of this monster can dig hard stone.

It was thrown on the body, and the body of the Qi Refining Cultivator could not stop the diamond mouse's bite.

"what!!!"

In the next second, a tragic cry sounded in the mine.

Not long after, the swarm of rats receded like a tide, leaving only corpses full of blood holes on the ground.

Diamond rats don't like to eat meat, but feed on minerals, and are generally very timid, so miners usually don't care when they see one or two, but they didn't expect the "mouse tide" in groups to be so big. The scary side.

After the rats backed away, they didn't leave directly. Instead, they lay down on the spot one by one, raised their necks, and looked in one direction. They seemed to be worshiping something.

During this magical and weird scene, a slight sound of footsteps slowly approached.

Zhao Xiuxuan, who was dressed in simple short brown, came out from the shadows. On his way forward, the rats spontaneously separated from each other.

And on Zhao Xiuxuan's shoulder stood a huge Diamond Mouse with a whip-like tail.

The eyes of this diamond mouse were shining, and the expression on its face was extremely humanlike. Its four claws were like gold and iron, and the gnawing light flickered between its grinning teeth.

This is actually a second-order monster, and it is also the "rat king" of this mining area.

Zhao Xiuxuan walked up and took a look at the bloody corpse on the ground, and couldn't help frowning, feeling a chill in his heart.

"Although there is no grievance or enmity with these two people, but from what they said just now, it seems that he is also a robber who robs houses and kills everywhere on weekdays, and his death is not wronged."

After a moment of emotion, Zhao Xiuxuan glanced at the "Rat King" obediently standing on his shoulder.

This Diamond Mouse King was found after he used the Beast Control Art to control the previous Diamond Mouse, after spending a lot of thought and luck.

Diamond rats live in groups, and there is a high probability that there will be a mouse king leading the group. This mouse king may be a second-order monster or a first-order monster.

The one that Zhao Xiuxuan found in the mining area turned out to be a Tier [-] monster.

This mouse king is timid by nature, and has been curled up in the depths of the ground away from the ore veins, relying on other diamond mice in the group to feed it ores. As a bait, this made the beast fall into the trap.

Once the Shu King is controlled, all his groups are under his command.

And what Zhao Xiuxuan has to do is to create an astonishing accident in this mining area, so as to achieve his purpose of changing the mining area.

This is the tragic scene in front of him.

"However, it seems that one or two people are not enough to close the entire mining area, and the chaos must be expanded."

After stopping to think for a moment, Zhao Xiuxuan controlled the group of rats and left again.

In the next few days, in other parts of the entire mining area, an alarming "rat wave" began to be staged one after another.

In the beginning, they simply crawled past the miners, and the miners escaped their lives by a narrow margin. After hearing this, the other miners didn't care, thinking they were just diamond rats, and they couldn't make any waves.

"Boss Bi" wanted to dominate the mining area for himself, and even pressured other miners not to let them tell Yuan Gaozong's disciples about this, lest the mining area be closed and the benefits he had finally held in his hands be lost.

However, as the "rat tide" appeared more and more frequently, and several miners were drilled with blood holes all over their bodies, the miners finally realized the seriousness of the matter.

"squeak"

The cry of the diamond mouse, which sounds insignificant on weekdays, now makes the miner's body feel cold and shivering when he hears it.
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"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Several consecutive explosions sounded in a certain mine.

"Rat tide! Rat tide is coming!"

I don't know who it is, but I yelled.

Immediately following, low-level spells such as Fireball, Wind Knife, and Reiki Bomb flew across the narrow mine.

"Quick! There are more over there! Ah!"

Boss Bi, with the scar on his face, was instructing the miners to prevent the tide of rats from rushing over. However, the diamond mouse that fell from the top of his head bit off a piece of flesh on his shoulder, and he was in tears from the pain, his fierce face It was full of panic.

"Boss Bi!"

"!!"

There were screams one after another in the mine.

It's been a long time.

After the tide of rats receded, a field of corpses of diamond rats was left behind, as well as the mutilated corpses of the two leading brothers Bi Boss and Hei San.

Although the other miners also had injuries of various sizes, fortunately none of them were life-threatening.

The miners who survived looked at each other, and they all felt a little incredible.
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stewardship office.

"Snapped!"

Xia Yingqi slapped the table viciously, and the intact table fell apart.

"There's a rat wave! Why didn't you report it!"

The expression on Xia Guanshi's face was burning with anger, and his brows were almost raised.

He is angry and anxious at the moment.

He was so angry that the miners didn't report the rat swarm in the first place, so it took him two days to discover the existence of the rat swarm when he discovered that someone's jade badge suddenly disappeared for no reason.

What is urgent is that if there is such a large-scale rat swarm, then this mine must be properly wiped out, and the rat king who leads the rat swarm must be removed. If it is troublesome, it cannot be re-mined within a month or two. up.

Standing in front of him were all the surviving miners. Zhao Xiuxuan also stood in the crowd in a panic.

Five or six bodies were still lying on the ground.

One of them knelt on the ground and pointed at a dead body and tremblingly said:

"My lord, it was Bi Chong and Hei San who deliberately concealed it, so that we wouldn't let us know about the appearance of the rat wave!"

"Hmph! That's unreasonable. In this way, it's clean for these two people to die!"

Xia Yingqi stared at the two corpses viciously.

"Brother in charge"

In the stone house, a chubby disciple surnamed Sun came out to comfort Xia Yingqi and said:
"Brother, don't worry. Fortunately, the number of miners who died this time is not too many. It is a blessing in misfortune. Now the only way is to let the sect send people to clean up the mine and remove the rat king inside."

Speaking of this, he paused, frowned and said:

"It's strange to say that monsters like diamond rats are very timid. When they see people, they hide and hide. How could there be a rat wave? Could it be that something happened in the mine?"

Xia Yingqi regained some sense at this time, he glanced at the disciple surnamed Sun, and then said:
"There are many reasons for the outbreak of the beast horde. How can we figure it out in a short while? We will not know until the Zongmen's help arrives and we go down to the mine to catch the mouse king. During this period, no more digging in the mine is allowed. , the more people there are, the more it will stimulate the crazy Mouse King, and I'm afraid it will be more difficult to deal with."

Speaking of this, Xia Yingqi had a headache.

All the mines are closed, and it is not known when they can be mined. In this way, it is not known whether his task can be completed.

The disciple surnamed Sun naturally knew what he was worried about, so he quickly comforted him:

"Brother in charge, don't worry. When the help arrives, you can easily get rid of the rat king. It will take more than a month at most. It won't delay the task that the senior brother has set in the sect."

"I hope so"

Xia Yingqi replied blankly, then coldly swept towards the miner and said:

"As for you, even though the mine is closed now, none of you can leave. Just stay here and wait until the rat tide is resolved before you go in and continue mining. However, during this period, your rewards will not be issued."

As soon as this remark came out, many miners showed frustration on their faces.

These people rely on mining to earn spiritual stones. They cannot mine, and they can't even get a few basic spiritual stones every month.

However, in front of the Foundation Establishment cultivator, how dare they say anything, even if there are all kinds of complaints, they only dare to think in their hearts, and never dare to touch the supervisor's brow at this time.

Afterwards, under the arrangement of the disciple surnamed Sun, everyone was arranged to rest in an abandoned mine in the east corner of the stone house that day. A large group of miners crowded together, sleeping like a Datong shop.

And Zhao Xiuxuan quietly followed the disciple surnamed Sun out of the mine, and came to a deserted corner.

The disciple surnamed Sun suddenly turned around with a smile and said:

"Just now, you were winking at me frequently, and you were still following me. For the sake of being a good man, you can talk about anything."

Zhao Xiuxuan looked around, and before he could say anything, he handed over three spirit stones. No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still a piece of meat, and three spirit stones are enough to drink a pot of spirit wine. Put it in your pocket.

"Senior brother Sun, please take a message for me to the steward, just say that I want to go to the Yizi mining area to dig temporarily."

After receiving the spirit stone from the disciple surnamed Sun, Zhao Xiuxuan opened his mouth to express his request.

"Oh, B-word mining area"

Brother Sun glanced at Zhao Xiuxuan, touched his chubby belly, unexpectedly didn't ask any more questions, just nodded and said: "You wait here."

Brother Sun then left.

After his figure left, Zhao Xiuxuan's expression changed, he touched his nose, wondering what he was thinking.

After a while, Senior Brother Sun beckoned to Zhao Xiuxuan from afar, as if saying that the Master in charge wanted to see him.

A smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Xiuxuan's mouth, and then he walked over.

Inside the stone house.

Xia Yingqi looked at him strangely and said:

"I can understand that you want to temporarily go to other mining areas to mine, but why did you choose the B-brand mining area?"

Xia Yingqi was not angry at Zhao Xiuxuan's request to temporarily change mining areas for mining, and even asked why.

Of course, this is also because of the foreshadowing that Zhao Xiuxuan made before, if it was a different miner, let alone asking this question, he would not even meet him.

Zhao Xiuxuan seemed respectful and said:

"My lord, to tell you the truth, I heard from other miners that the ore in the B-zi mining area is rich. I was thinking, if I can go to the B-zi mining area, I can dig more Jinting Sand Mine, and naturally I can earn more. spirit stone, and"

Zhao Xiuxuan hesitated for a moment, paused for a while before continuing:

"Your Excellency may have already guessed that the reason why I can dig more ore than others is precisely because I practice a scroll of spiritual veins that I got occasionally, and I can be regarded as a half spiritual master, so I can mine more ore more than others. It is easy to find ores, adults also know that if a spirit vein master wants to practice, he must have a spirit vein ore deduction, I am mining this time, in addition to earning spirit stones, I naturally come here for the purpose of cultivation."

Speaking of this, he seemed to be afraid that Xia Yingqi would not agree, so he quickly added:
"My lord, I found the stone medicine spirit ginseng through the spirit pulse technique. If I find anything in the B-size mine, I will definitely dedicate it to my lord."

As soon as these words came out, Xia Yingqi's eyes lit up, but after thinking about it carefully, he still refused:

"Let's put this matter aside for the time being. The disaster of the rat wave is still undecided. If it is resolved quickly, it will only take a few days. If you are sent to other mining areas in this way, I am afraid that the gain will not be worth the loss. Well, you wait first, if the rat wave We won’t be able to resolve this matter for a while.”

Xia Yingqi didn't say enough, but it was impossible to send him to the Yizi mining area now.

Although Zhao Xiuxuan felt a little pity in his heart, he knew that there was no chance, so he bowed his hand and then withdrew.

Squeeze in the mine and wait patiently.

Half a day later, two figures suddenly came galloping from outside the mining area.

Xia Yingqi who was in the stone house also came out to greet him.

The two figures stopped, revealing the figures of two monks, a man and a woman.

Let alone the man, Zhao Xiuxuan was secretly surprised by the appearance of the female cultivator.

Wearing a long green dress, with a flowing cloud bun on her head, she has a demure demeanor, with black eyebrows and plain lips.

It turned out to be Yao Xian who was supposed to be a maidservant in Muyue Lake Cave Mansion.

"Why is this woman here?"

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