In the early morning of this morning, about five kilometers outside the southern city wall of Binhai City, a magic-toothed rat with a body length of about 40 centimeters was quietly and cautiously sneaking underground.
Because the Demon Tooth Rat is at the bottom of the food chain among alien beasts, it usually only comes out at night in most cases.
But the recent period has been mid-autumn, which is the time when various fruits in the forest mature and fall to the ground. Therefore, in order to store enough food for it to survive the cold winter, the Demon Tooth Rat must abandon its original schedule, day and night. Fight for every bit of food you can get.
The main reason is that the severe cold last winter was too severe. Many animals that only stored winter food based on previous years' experience died suddenly in the cold winter because they could not obtain enough energy.
As for other alien beasts who wanted to form a beast tide to rob a wave of human cities, because the leading seventh-level alien beasts retreated with one death, the remaining leaders of the fifth- and sixth-level alien beasts gave up immediately. With the plan of attacking Binhai City, he quickly hid in the deep mountains and old forests.
Which of these mid-level beasts living near Binhai City has not heard of Wang Xiaoyang's illustrious reputation? Especially after the cold-scaled horned python also lost its life this time, how could they dare to touch this bad luck!
As for the seventh-level iguana, it was originally stolen as a surprise soldier, but in the end it was suppressed to death by Marshado quietly in the shadow space, so most alien beasts and humans don't know that there is such a thing. A strange beast.
Therefore, under the accumulation of these conditions, almost all the mid-level alien beasts near Binhai City were wiped out, and a large number of low-level alien beasts also froze and starved to death due to the severe cold.
Only a small number of middle- and low-level alien beasts with their families and families were left because they had no way to go elsewhere to compete with other alien beasts for territory, so they stayed.
Among them, the Demon Tooth Rat clan is naturally indispensable. As the lowest-level alien beast with average strength of the first level and the second level, the most powerful thing about the Demon Tooth Rat group is naturally its strong reproductive ability and life-saving ability.
For example, although last winter was very cold, they could dig deeper burrows underground to reduce the intrusion of the cold.
As for the most important issue of food, the large number of strange beasts that froze to death and starved to death last year and the food they did not eat before dying have become the things that allow some groups such as the Demon Tooth Rat to survive.
This is one of the reasons why Wang Xiaoyang decided to urgently launch plans to expand the new urban area this year.
If we don't take advantage of the alien beast vacuum that was created last year to expand the new city, it will be too late for the alien beasts to come back in two years.
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"Zhizhi..." The Demonic Tooth Rat, which was sneaking quietly underground, always felt that something was not right about today's situation. In the past, I could encounter roots, stems, fallen fruits and other foods while walking around, but today I couldn't find many traces of them.
And for some reason, the Demon Fang Mouse always felt that walking underground today was not as strenuous as before.
"Am I getting stronger!" The brain capacity of the Demon Tooth Rat cannot support it to think about too many things, so it can only try to think in the best direction.
It was precisely because of this little misunderstanding that the Demon Tooth Rat's self-confidence continued to expand, and finally it made the decision to go out and explore.
Just do it, the Demon Tooth Rat stood up and crawled to the ground. However, before its wet nose had time to take a breath of fresh air, it was so frightened by the scene in front of it that its eyes almost popped out: in its memory, it was okay. In the dense woods, the fruit trees, pine trees, and other unnamed large trees that were supposed to have lush foliage and abundant fruits have all disappeared, leaving only tree stumps of various sizes arranged in a messy manner.
"Squeak——" The Demon Tooth Rat was so frightened by the sight that he lost his mind that he didn't even care that the high-pitched scream might expose him.
"Squeak!" Quickly coming to the tree stump closest to it, the Demon Tooth Rat looked at the huge stump that could almost fit three or four of itself, and couldn't help but feel extremely frightened by the existence that could cause such a result.
"Ah!" A somewhat honest voice suddenly sounded behind the Demon-Toothed Rat, almost frightening its soul away. It was so frightened that its body jumped three feet high, and then it didn't look back. ran towards the front.
Then, before the Demonic Tooth Rat ran far away, as more and more strange beasts appeared here, it instinctively began to dig holes, and disappeared from the ground within a few seconds.
"Ah?" The big-tailed raccoon was also shocked by the operation of the magic-toothed rat, and his pair of beady eyes could not move.
Originally, it just wanted to say hello to the strange guy. Why did the other party have such a big reaction?
However, the big-tailed civet did not remain stunned for too long. After all, they had just cleared away all the trees here in the past few days. Now they finally waited until the earth dragon brothers had loosened the soil, and then they had to continue to remove the remaining trees. The stumps underneath were cleared out.
After that, Big-Toothed Raccoon and Bai Pengpeng had to work together to dig the cotton wool and seeds scattered on the ground into the soil using the [Farming] skill. In this way, they barely completed the first step of cultivating the land.
Originally, these things had to wait until the follow-up development team delivered various tools and equipment, and then Jiang Zheng would start leading the team members to do it slowly without making a big fuss. The plan was to complete it within a month.
But now that they have the elves, Jiang Zheng and the others find that they only need to tell the leaders of each elven group their planned plan, and then they can find a place to hide with peace of mind.
Big-tailed civets and earth dragon brothers don't have to worry about making too much noise and being discovered by other strange animals.
After all, with their appearance there, they could perfectly pass themselves off as alien beasts coming to seize territory.
"Hey!" He stretched out his two short hands and rubbed his head vigorously to wake himself up. The big-tailed raccoon quickly put down the episode and devoted his energy to a new job.
On the other side, the Demon Tooth Rat hurriedly fled underground and dug down for several meters until it felt safe, then finally stopped to take a breath.
As the bottom of the food chain, its keen perception tells it that the lowest among the strange alien beasts that appeared on the ground just now are the second level.
"Strong". And that
The "powerful" ethnic group is obviously not an existence that it and its people can easily provoke. In this case, the Demon Tooth Rat had no choice but to abandon this food collection place he often visited and prepared to look for some further places.
"Throw~throw~" The Demon Tooth Rat, who was deep in thought, realized that another strange beast had appeared beside him at some point.
The strength is...level three! !
"Squeak!!" The demon-toothed rat used all its strength to suck milk, just hoping to escape with its life.
