That's why I don't understand why these beasts dance at the door and imitate how people walk?
There has to be a purpose for doing this, right?
You can't just be bored and want to put on a show for Sharp Mouth and the others, right?
When I saw the three sharp-mouthed people sitting there and watching happily, with all their attention on the mouse, I suddenly thought to myself that something was wrong.
Maybe these beasts did it on purpose to attract the attention of the sharp-tongued ones.
Maybe the mice are already doing something fishy somewhere they haven't noticed.
I quickly yelled at Jianzui: "Why are you all sitting there? The purpose of our patrol is to look around and prevent loopholes and problems in some places. Go around the fence and check."
Jianzui was yelled at by me a few times, and he was obviously unhappy: "What's there to check? Haven't we checked it all before? Besides, in addition to the outer ring, we also have an inner ring with double layers of protection. These beasts are afraid Quicklime is so scared, what could possibly go wrong?”
I told him to stop talking nonsense and go take a look.
Because I was worried, I walked towards the back of the cabin with a flashlight.
When I walked behind the wooden house, I was dumbfounded.
Beside the inconspicuous fence at the back, there were many big rats standing there peeing.
They urinate standing up like humans, peeing against the limestone layer.
The urine was still in the same place, obviously trying to break out a gap in the lime layer with the urine.
What frightens me the most is that these beasts have probably been taking turns peeing for a long time, and there has been an obvious gap. One or two courageous rats have already stepped in and peeed tentatively into it.
I shouted hurriedly: "There is a gap behind, come quickly with quicklime!"
As soon as I shouted, there was a rush of footsteps in the wooden house, and then Jianzui, his brother, and Zhao Hu's braid all ran over.
They pointed their flashlights towards the gap and were all dumbfounded.
"What...what's going on? How did they make a gap?"
Jianzui knew he was in trouble, and his expression looked extremely panicked at this moment.
I said you ask me who to ask, you have been standing guard just now, you should know better than me.
Zhao Hu even pushed him angrily and cursed: "Are you still there watching the mice dance? You are asked to stand guard and patrol, and you sit there and watch the mice dance. Do you want to kill all of us?" "
"I...I didn't expect things to turn out like this. These beasts are so cunning. It seems that they are dancing to attract our attention so that other rats can sneak in and create openings here."
"You are worse than a mouse, and you can be fooled around by mice."
Sister Xiao Yeyuan and Brother Lei also ran over at this time and asked us what was wrong.
When they saw that there was a gap of nearly one meter in the outer lime layer, they also became nervous and angry, and they all blamed Jizui.
Xiaoye was the angriest one. She said a lot of cruel words and asked him why he was treating everyone's lives as a trivial matter.
I thought that everything had happened, and the top priority was to find a way to remedy it quickly. I asked someone to bring quicklime over quickly, intending to plug the gap again.
Jianzui knew that he was the cause of this disaster, so he was very active and immediately ran to get quicklime, but it was already too late when he got it.
A few mice happened to run in through the gap. After making sure nothing happened, they ran towards us, stopped in front of the second layer of lime, and bared their teeth at us.
Seeing this, other rats naturally poured in from the gap like a flood that burst a bank. After entering, they scattered to both ends and soon surrounded us again.
The donkeys and mules tied up in the wooden house also became restless at this time, and it was obvious that they were all seriously frightened.
I secretly thought it was very dangerous at this time. If I hadn't asked them to spread another layer of lime before, we might have been attacked by rats now.
Although the second layer of barrier is functioning at this time, preventing these beasts from entering for a while, I know this is not a long-term solution.
The number of them is too great. If we continue to use urine to hit the second layer of lime, it will be a matter of time before they break out of the gap. What will we do then?
Sure enough, what I worried about happened in the blink of an eye.
Zhao Hu suddenly pointed to a place and shouted: "Look there, another mouse started peeing."
I shined my flashlight and saw two big rats standing up to urinate on the second layer of lime seven or eight meters away. Many rats in other places followed suit.
Everyone panicked at this time and asked me what to do.
I tried to calm myself down, and then thought about the solution. Anyway, using quicklime to repair it probably wouldn't work. After all, there were too many of them peeing everywhere, and it couldn't be repaired at all.
Zhao Hu suddenly had an idea at this time. He said: "I'll kill a few of them without using my gun to see if I can scare them away!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and went to get the shotgun.
But when he was about to shoot, I stopped him and said don't shoot. It might be more troublesome if he did.
He asked me why.
I said: "The main reason is that there are too many rats. We only have three guns in total. The gunpowder and iron sand are limited. What if there are still countless rats rushing here after shooting? And as soon as you open Using a gun will definitely anger them, and their attack will probably become more violent, and we will all die here."
Zhao Hu said a little anxiously: "Then what do you think we should do? We can't fight or kill them. Do we have to negotiate with them?"
I actually have this plan.
In my opinion, the purpose of these rats is still for those cultural relics.
When Master Zhao Hu first encountered these rats, the rats did not take the initiative to attack or kill anyone. They only told his master in a dream that there was a large tomb five kilometers east, apparently trying to lure them away.
Although one person died later, it was from starvation and not directly caused by rats.
This time, let’s not talk about what caused the problem with the thick eyebrows. We only said that the thick eyebrows reminded us in the tree hole to put down our treasures. He also told us that there was a big tomb five kilometers to the east.
Apparently they don't want to harm us either.
I think it was because we took away the cultural relics that they had to chase us.
Thinking of this, I said: "Indeed, we have to negotiate with them. Their purpose must be to recover the cultural relics. Let's just return them."
"Ah? Is this feasible?" Zhao Hu still thinks this method is not feasible: "I think it's quite annoying. We have already shot and killed many animals on the way back. This gap has been forged. And I think it’s a joke to negotiate with these beasts, they’re not human either, so how can you negotiate?”
I said I have to give it a try, just in case it works. If it doesn’t work, just return one or two pieces first and see how they react.
Brother Lei immediately said: "Then try yours first, don't try mine."
I glanced at him and said angrily: "You take one piece and we will take one piece. If we don't agree, we will cancel the cooperation from now on. You can go wherever you want. Your life and death have nothing to do with me."
