"Gu..."
A shadow passed across the night sky.
Luo Qingzhou looked up and saw a big bird that looked like an owl.
Through the swamp.
There is a pile of rocks ahead, which is a rocky hill.
Luo Qingzhou had just jumped onto a huge rock and was about to look around when he suddenly heard a squeaking sound coming from below.
When I looked down, my scalp suddenly went numb!
Under the huge rock, there were densely packed scarlet little eyes shining, which almost occupied the entire valley below.
Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be giant rats the size of jackals with exposed fangs!
Those giant rats stood on their hind legs, squatting on the ground with their claws tucked in front of their chests. They bared their fangs and looked ferociously at the area under the boulder. There were at least hundreds of them!
Luo Qingzhou looked carefully again and found that there was a cave under the boulder.
The grass and trees in front of the cave were bare, the ground was charred, and there were many giant rat corpses piled up, which looked as if they had been burned by flames.
The dozen or so giant rats surrounding the cave entrance were obviously larger than the other giant rats.
At the same time, the claws that were retracted in front of the chest grew like scimitars, flashing a cold light under the moonlight, looking extremely terrifying.
"Squeak..."
It seemed that a giant rat had discovered him.
When the other giant rats heard the cry, they all looked up at him, with greedy gleams in their scarlet eyes.
Then, a group of giant rats suddenly climbed up to the huge rock.
Luo Qingzhou immediately took out a bucket of lamp oil from his storage ring and poured it along the surrounding rock walls.
The pale yellow lamp oil flowed quickly along the rock wall.
Although the giant rats had sharp claws, they were not good at climbing due to their huge bodies. As soon as they climbed to the place where the lamp oil flowed, they suddenly slipped and fell down.
A large piece of it soon fell to the ground.
There were other giant rats that were unwilling to give up and continued to climb up one after another.
But they all rolled down soon.
A few climbed up.
However, before they could climb to the top, Luo Qingzhou had already hit them one by one with his stick, knocking them away like playing golf.
By the time their bodies fell to the ground, they were a pool of blood and flesh.
"Squeak..."
The giant rats suddenly became angry and humiliated, and bared their teeth and screamed provocatively, as if asking him to go down and fight.
Luo Qingzhou put away his stick and threw a large bucket of lamp oil down, landing next to the dozen or so largest giant rats at the entrance of the cave.
The wooden barrel suddenly broke and the lamp oil spilled out.
Ever since he was besieged by poisonous snakes last time, he has prepared a lot of lime, flour, lamp oil and other items in his storage ring.
This is exactly what it came in handy for.
The barrel of lamp oil that was thrown away was all squeezed from beans. As soon as the wooden barrel broke, the aroma wafted out.
As soon as the giant rats smelled the scent, they began to drool and immediately rushed forward to lick it, making strange squeaks.
Soon, the ground in front of the cave was filled with densely packed giant rats.
Luo Qingzhou immediately threw another large bucket of animal oil in.
The barrel cracked, revealing the solidified grease.
The giant rats began to fight for food even more frantically, and their fur was immediately covered with grease.
When the giant rats in the distance saw this situation, they all rushed over.
Luo Qingzhou threw the last three barrels of soybean oil in three directions not far away.
Almost all the giant rats began to scramble for food.
The densely packed giant rats immediately divided into four waves, licking the ground and the bodies of their companions with squeaking sounds.
Many giant rats began to fight.
The people who were trapped in the cave below by this group of giant rats and had already reached their wits' end and fallen into despair, all regained hope when they saw the scene outside the cave.
However, there were too many giant rats outside, so they still didn't dare to go out.
On the boulder, Luo Qingzhou saw that the time was almost right, so he immediately took out a tinderbox, uncapped it, shook it in the wind, and it began to burn with a whoosh.
“Swish!”
He didn't aim at any particular place, but just threw the tinderbox down.
At this time, almost all the giant rats were covered in grease.
As soon as the fire starter with flames fell, it exploded with a loud bang.
Flames suddenly rose from the ground and the bodies of the giant rats, and then quickly spread around!
The giant rats with flames on their bodies were suddenly terrified and ran around screaming.
Then the fire spread everywhere.
In a short while, almost the entire valley was filled with flames.
Flames were burning on the bodies of all the giant rats, and screams of “squeak squeak squeak” suddenly rang out throughout the valley!
The people trapped in the cave were stunned when they saw this scene.
"Squeak..."
"Squeak..."
Hundreds of giant rats screamed in fear and fled everywhere.
Some rolled on the ground in unbearable pain; some screamed and jumped on the spot, opening their mouths wide to scream...
After a while, the screams gradually stopped.
Except for a few that put out the flames and escaped in panic, the rest were almost all burned to death.
The whole valley was filled with the smell of burning meat.
The people hiding in the cave were also terrified when they saw this scene. They wanted to go out, but were afraid of being infected by the flames as well. So they had to continue hiding in the cave, watching with pale faces, secretly wondering in their hearts who could have come up with such a horrible method.
Luo Qingzhou was afraid that the temperature in the cave below was too high, so he poured three buckets of water down to cool it down.
Just as he was about to shout to see if Second Brother Qin was inside, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the swamp not far behind him.
He immediately leaped onto another rock on the right, then after a few jumps, he landed on a big tree in the distance. He jumped directly onto the treetops, hid among the dense branches and leaves, and looked towards the swamp.
After a moment.
Two figures ran out of the swamp, as if they smelled something or saw the fire, and immediately jumped onto the boulder where he had just stood.
Looking at the giant rat corpses all over the ground in the valley below, as well as the remaining giant rats that were still struggling, both of them stood there in a daze.
One of the tall figures, holding a whip, with long legs and a slim figure, was actually Princess Nangong.
After Luo Qingzhou saw clearly that it was her, he hid in the tree canopy and didn't dare to go out.
At this time, several people hiding in the cave below walked out of the cave carefully. After seeing that there was no danger around, they immediately looked up.
When they saw the two figures standing on the boulder, one of the young men exclaimed in surprise: "Mei Jiao! It's you!"
When Luo Qingzhou heard the voice, he immediately felt relieved.
It was the voice of Brother Qin.
"Mei Jiao, good trick!"
Qin Wenzhen's voice also sounded.
Nangong Meijiao then noticed the person standing below. She looked down, stunned for a moment, a look of confusion on her face.
The woman next to him whispered, "Miss, they seemed to have been trapped in the cave below by these giant rats, and then someone killed the rats with fire and saved them. That person should have left not long ago."
Then he said with a strange and puzzled look on his face: "Miss, have you been chasing that man just now? He not only helped us kill those people who had bad intentions towards you, but also helped us save the Qin family father and son. Moreover, he also likes to throw lime when fighting. Could he be Miss's friend?"
Nangong Meijiao was slightly startled when she heard this, a complicated light flashed in her eyes, and she murmured, "Friend?"
"Mei Jiao!"
Qin Chuan led a few people and climbed up from the rock wall of the col. He said with gratitude, "We have been trapped here by these evil rats since dusk. We have tried every means, but we still can't scare them away. I thought we were going to die here tonight. Fortunately, you came. Was that oil you just threw? Why do you have so much oil on you?"
Nangong Meijiao's mind suddenly emerged with scenes of when she was trapped in a cave in the black woods of Mo City, encountering a group of poisonous snakes.
He also threw a bucket of oil out, which burned into a wall of fire, preventing the poisonous snakes from entering the cave...
"Brother, we were not the ones who set the fire just now. We just arrived."
Nangong Meijiao looked at him and asked quickly, "Did Second Brother see that man just now? Or did you hear him speak?"
Qin Chuan was stunned when he heard this, and said in surprise: "Isn't it you? We were hiding in the cave below just now and didn't see anything."
Qin Wen Zheng and others were also filled with shock and disbelief.
If not them, then who could it be
Who would go to such great lengths to save them? And after saving them, they would just leave quietly.
Qin Wenzheng frowned and said, "Meijiao, is she your friend?"
Nangong Meijiao was silent for a moment, clenched the whip in his hand, turned his head and looked at the darkness around him, but unfortunately, he did not see the figure.
“That should be it.”
She said calmly.
They looked at each other and said nothing more.
Qin Wenzheng said, "We have collected a few Nine-Leaf Grasses. I asked someone and they said that this herb cannot be stored for a long time. If it is stored for a long time, it will lose its effect, and it cannot be moved back for planting. Let's go back first and come back next time. I guess your aunt and the others at home are worried and can't sleep."
Nangong Meijiao raised her head and looked around again before nodding.
Luo Qingzhou had already taken a detour and left before them.
When he returned to the swamp, he found that the young man whose spine he had broken was not dead yet.
A huge crocodile suddenly crawled out from the mud next to him. It seemed to have heard his groans and was crawling towards him with its bloody mouth wide open.
When the young man heard the noise, he turned his head and was immediately frightened to death.
When Luo Qingzhou passed by, he shouted in panic: "Brother, save me! Save me! I still have gold coins at home, and I still have a wife and mother. I'll give them all to you, all to you... By the way, brother, a girl was asking about you just now. I didn't say anything, and she..."
"puff!"
Luo Qingzhou threw a handful of lime into his mouth and then left quickly.
"Bah! Bah! Bah! You little bastard! You're going to die a horrible death! Ah—don't come over here!"
The young man cursed a few words and suddenly screamed in fear.
Not long.
Qin Wenzhen and his group entered the swamp.
The young man and the giant crocodile have disappeared.
There was only a pool of blood and some lime powder on the spot.
Nangong Meijiao glanced at it vaguely, and when she was about to pass by, she was suddenly stunned. She immediately walked closer, squatted down, and looked at the lime powder on the ground.
It clearly didn’t exist before!
"Auntie Mu, let's go first!"
The bright light returned to her eyes. She immediately stood up, and with a "whoosh" she rushed out, running out of the swamp at the fastest speed.
"Bitch, if you have the guts, don't run away!"
She gritted her teeth, bounced her long legs on the ground, and jumped out as lightly as a nimble deer, her towering chest also bouncing playfully.
Qin Wen Zheng and his companions looked at the two men who hurriedly left and looked at each other.
When Luo Qingzhou heard the footsteps behind him, he immediately sped up.