The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 55 The King Patrols the Mountain
The child ate the delicious food he had been longing for in his dream.

The mountain rats went wild the moment they tasted the first mulberry.

"Squeak! Is there really a magical fruit in the world? If we eat this fruit, will we be able to live for seven or eight years?"

"Squeak! Your Majesty, are you a god from the heavens who governs the mortal rats of the human world?"

"Squeak! Your Majesty, would you like to take on a follower? I'll bite wherever you point, a loyal follower with absolutely no disloyalty!"

"Squeak! I'm the king's loyal little sister, the kind who can warm up a mouse's nest!"

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King Atu: Thank you, but I have no plans to find a partner from another ethnic group.

However, it was quite satisfied with its underlings' keen eye for identifying mice.

It's a remarkably intelligent rat from the apocalypse; the loyalty and resolve of its underlings still need to be tested.

"Chirp chirp. We're heading all the way to the border town in the northwest. I've heard the sandstorms there are fierce, and it snows heavily in the winter months. Two-legged creatures have to resort to robbing to fill their stomachs. Life in the border town is not as good as it is now for you!"

Ordinary rodents are still quite afraid of the cold.

In environments below -10 degrees Celsius, it is easy to freeze to death without sufficient food.

Most of the mountain rats shook their heads like rattles when they heard that the border town would have heavy snow for several months of the year.

Their lifespan is only one to two years.

It's such a waste to spend half your life on the road.

However, there were also more than thirty adult mountain rats, two months old, who were very curious about the outside world.

"Squeak, Your Majesty, I'm not afraid of the long journey. Before the winter month, we prepared our winter food and dug a very, very deep cave to hide inside and not come out."

"Squeak! I want to go and feel the wind and sand of the Northwest, and see the scenery beyond the Great Wall! I want to follow the King to broaden my horizons, I don't want to be that short-sighted mouse!"

"Squeak. Anyway, there's no future in staying here on this barren mountain. My mouse mother says that the two-legged creatures will come and dig up our burrows when they're short of food and meat in winter! I believe that following the King will definitely lead to a better life."

"Squeak! My king, my king, I will live and die for you, and I will even bear you little mice!"

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King Atu was ultimately defeated by the sweet words of the mountain rats.

I was completely overwhelmed by the constant calls of "Your Majesty".

Finally, they officially incorporated these thirty-six rats into their household.

With such a loyal follower, the leader was in a frenzy.

It planned to take its little brothers and go roaming in the forest ten miles away from the desolate mountains.

Oh, it's not wandering, it's foraging for food!
The mountain mouse is also known as the mountain ground mouse.

Adults can grow to nearly 20 centimeters in length, with their tails shorter than their bodies.

They prefer to live in jungles, are good at digging burrows, and are fierce in nature.

To survive, the mountain rats spend their days searching for food.

They also fear being eaten by natural enemies such as weasels, foxes, eagles, owls, and snakes.

They always live cautiously and timidly.

At the slightest disturbance, they would immediately scatter and then flee back into their caves.

In fact, they are omnivores.

They don't eat soil or sand, but prefer grains, various plant roots and fruits, and even animal carcasses can fill their stomachs.

The barren mountain where they live is so infertile that the adult rats don't grow to the size of normal mountain rats.

The sight of his underlings' miserable state saddened even King Atu.

And so, I immediately took them on a patrol of the mountains.

The way the king patrols the mountain is absolutely stunning!

It killed a weasel with a single swipe of its claw.

Several foxes saw the weasel's gruesome death from afar and were so frightened that they turned tail and ran away.

Even the giant python that could swallow their entire family of rats whole was torn into several pieces by the king's claws. The king even kindly skinned them and treated them to a fresh snake meat buffet!
The fate of these thirty-six mice, who were just over four months old, was completely rewritten tonight.

King Atu raised his head high:

Look, look, it used just a little bit of the same methods its master used on it, and it's already confused these little brothers so much they're completely disoriented.

This forest is home to a variety of small animals and also plenty of wild fruits.

Although most wild fruits are not yet ripe, the mountain rats are not picky eaters.

They'll eat anything that won't kill the rats!
Mountain rats can climb trees, but their climbing height is limited.

With limbs that are too short, picking fruit from the treetops is very risky.

King Atu doesn't have this kind of trouble.

This thing can go anywhere, whether it's in the sky or on the ground.

It scrambled up the tree, grabbed a branch with a dense cluster of fruit, and bit the entire branch off.

The mountain rats under the tree were celebrating as if it were New Year's Day, their bellies bulging from all the food.

That night, the legend of King Atu was born in this mountain forest.

legend:

There was a rat, much larger than a mountain rat, with silver fur.

It slaughtered all the ferocious beasts on the mountain, including a giant python that had lived for thirty years.

From now on, anyone with a modicum of sense who sees it should stay far away.
The underlings almost choked to death in the mountains.

They continued surfing until the sky was faintly tinged with blue light before finally stopping.

"Chirp. Go back and say goodbye to your brothers, sisters, and Rat Mother. Then follow those two-legged creatures from a distance. I will come out to find you every night."

"Squeak! Yes, Your Majesty!"

Gan Minglan sensed Atu's approach and put him into her spatial storage without even opening her eyes.

It wanted to share its evening's glory with its owner, but unfortunately, the owner didn't come into the space after waiting for a long time.

A-Tu: Waaaaah, my happiness has been halved!
The officials' pleasure in torturing the prisoners was halved, and the medical expenses they paid for the doctor last night were causing them great distress.

They stayed up until dawn, and the doctor examined them thoroughly again, inside and out.

They wouldn't stop until they were sure there was no smell that would attract mice.

The two leaders were able to lie in the carriage and catch up on sleep during the day.

The officers who were on night duty last night and were now on the day shift were a bit irritable.

The sound of a whip cracked.

"If you old codger can't walk anymore, I'm going to tie you to a horse's tail and drag you along!"

"Sir, please have mercy! Let me catch my breath, I can still walk, I can walk!"

"Hmph, you bunch of dragging our feet, if you really don't want to leave, just say so. There's plenty of yellow earth to bury people. We'll just work a little harder and dig a hole for you!"

"Hey, hey, hey! I'm leaving right now, I'm leaving right now."

"Snapped"

Ouch.

The hot-tempered officer whipped several old men that day.

The old ladies with bound feet were so frightened that their bound feet left afterimages.

Thanks to the effectiveness of the herbal medicine her daughter-in-law gave her last night, the blood blisters had scabbed over by the time she woke up this morning.

What made her happiest was that her son didn't despise her as his mother!
He even personally treated her wounds and applied medicine to them.

This made her son, who had recently felt a distance between them, become the good son he used to be again.

Luo was overjoyed and didn't feel any pain while climbing the mountain path!

(End of this chapter)