Immortality: Raise an ant queen and add some immortality

Their burrowing is different from ordinary mice. They usually choose smoother or more hidden rock formations, and then dig a hole just small enough for them to pass through. It was about two to three meters deep in a meandering way, and then the interior began to be widened and expanded.

The purpose of this is to prevent enemy invasion.

The rock rat's eyesight is not very good, and its running and jumping is far less agile than that of ordinary rats. It can even be called clumsy.

If an enemy accidentally invades the nest, the entire family will be in a state of despair.

After a long period of evolution, they have accumulated a set of self-protection methods.

This extremely long narrow passage itself can stop most enemies, and only smaller snakes can get in. Most rats are afraid of snakes and often fall prey to them.

The rock rat is an exception.

They have extremely strong endurance and strong biting ability.

Unless they encounter venomous snakes, they can often use their sharp teeth to bite through the hard snake scales, and then easily break the snake's body and bones.

Snakes have only two methods of killing prey.

One is venom attack, and the other is entanglement and strangulation.

A python as thick as a forearm can crush the bones of an adult.

Many non-venomous snakes rely on this trick to kill their enemies. They will also bite their prey when attacking, but their sharp teeth make it difficult to cause serious damage to the prey.

With its powerful gnawing ability, the rock rat can chew off the snake's body before the snake has completed strangulation.

They also have an interesting defense method. When digging and building a mouse nest, they will leave a stone just enough to block the mouse hole. When they sleep in their nests, they push rocks to block the entrance.

Based on their habits, we know that it is not easy to catch a rock rat.

But this is not a problem for smart humans.

Many rat hunters who specialize in this will catch them by setting traps or using smoke.

If you want to dig their rat holes to catch them, it will definitely make you doubt your life.

Rock rats are difficult to catch, and they only appear on cliffs in the wild. Their numbers are relatively rare, which is why they are relatively expensive.

Buying ten of them for one tael of silver is equivalent to one hundred cents each.

It may not seem cheap, but in fact many people may spend more than half a month just to catch a rock rat. They must brave many dangers to enter the mountains, climb up the cliffs, and then find a way to capture the rock rats.

If you are lucky, you may catch several at once.

If you're not lucky, you might come away empty-handed.

"Here, here's one tael of silver. I'll buy ten of them."

Qin Niu paid the money directly and selected the rock rat himself.

The price is unbelievably cheap.

He caught ten in total.

It's a pity that only one of the thousands of rock rats has the blood of the gold-eating rat.

"Is there a better cage to buy?"

Qin Niu asked the vendor's wife.

She had no reaction.

Such disrespectful behavior is obviously not normal.

Her husband pushed her and made some gestures. Then he gave Qin Niu a smile that was scarier than a ghost.

"I can't hear, I'm sorry. This cage can contain them. Only rock rats with the ability to eat gold can chew through these ordinary iron cages." She explained to Qin Niu with a smile on her face.

It turns out that both husband and wife are disabled.

"fine!"

Qin Niu waved his hand and smiled at the couple.

The three of them walked to an open area not far away, and Qin Niu stopped.

"Wanyan, let your cat eat a rock rat. I read in the book that cat pets can get great benefits from eating rats." Cats and rats are natural enemies, and there is a reason why they love to eat rats. .

The book mentions that rats can provide cats with some special energy.

After the cat eats it, it will feel very comfortable and even easier to advance.

"Well, it's up to you! But weren't these rock rats bought for Xiaoqing as pets? It would be a pity to feed them to my cat!"

"Only one of the ten is really useful, the others are just foils."

Qin Niu said, throwing out a rock rat for Wang Wanyan's cat to prey on.

It is now a level four pet after all. It captures the rock rat in an instant, then bites it to death, cruelly tears it apart, and chews it.

Cats have relatively pointed teeth, and their bite force is not their strong point during combat.

But cats' agility makes up for almost all of their shortcomings.

Many people don't know that cats are known to be invincible among beasts of the same level, but their endurance is very poor. The most typical one is the cheetah, which has perfect hunting technology and its hunting success rate is very high.

But when encountering slightly stronger spotted hyenas, or even wild dogs that are much smaller than them, they can only abandon the prey they have captured and run away.

Because the cheetah's defense is weak, its endurance is poor, and its biting ability is far inferior to that of the hyena, it cannot be defeated at all.

Wang Wanyan was somewhat willful when she chose her own cat as a pet.

Qin Niu has always been doting on her, and as long as she likes it, he will let her do it.

Now that he had the opportunity, Qin Niu wanted to help her improve this cat as much as possible.

Ancient banyan tree blood is a good treasure. Although it failed to evolve special abilities after eating it, it has undergone some transformations and gained some accumulation.

These rock rats are much more advanced than ordinary rats, and feeding them in large amounts may help them evolve some special abilities.

"Meow!"

It made a cheerful cry after eating a rock rat.

This is a delicacy that it is difficult to eat normally.

Qin Niu didn't bother with it and threw all the remaining eight ordinary rock rats to it.

For this cat, it's like eating snacks, one bite at a time and it's very satisfying.

The nine rock rats lowered their belly, and its belly was only slightly bulging. Look at its appetite, it can eat forty or fifty in one meal.

"Xiao Qing, I'll give you this rock rat. We're almost done shopping. I'll go out to visit the ghost market later. Now I'll go back to my residence."

The three of them played and ate. They were tired from traveling all day and needed to go back and have a good rest.

Rat City has a wide range of animal pets, and there are many high-quality pets.

But the price is also very expensive.

A special pet costs tens of thousands of taels of silver. This price is outrageous.

The animal pet market here is completely at two extremes. Ordinary animal pets are extremely cheap, while special animal pets are astronomically expensive. If you want to catch leaks, you have to know how to identify them, and you also need to be lucky.

If it has already been selected by many people when selecting, the chance of picking up a big leak is very small.

Back in Yi Cheng, the owner of the pet food store really kept his word and had sent people to deliver the feed to their rooms.

"Four bags of animal pet rations have been added, weighing two hundred kilograms. Can the two horses pull it?"

Wang Wanyan asked worriedly.

"It's okay. If it can't be pulled, I will buy two more horses here tomorrow. If the four horses take turns pulling the cart, the speed will be much faster." This is just a small thing.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Gang has all kinds of mounts at affordable prices. All you need to do is buy two horses.

"Xiao Qing, I give you this low-level contract talisman. Now you can subdue this rock rat."

The rock rat Qin Niu picked was not in good condition.

The rat's fur stood on end and was slit, and his figure was thin and malnourished. Its teeth don't look that good either. The two most important front teeth are a little 'skinny', and the gap between them is wide.

It's hard to imagine that such a rock rat actually has the blood of a gold-devouring rat.

And its bloodline is quite strong.

Xiao Qing took the talisman and without any doubt, he directly started to conquer the rock rat. (End of chapter)