Chapter 38 Something went wrong and turned into a monster
"The grain-eating rat is only the lowest creature in the entire Yangkui Domain, but even such a creature caused chaos and almost caused heavy losses to our Lu family."
Lu Ya sat cross-legged on the Qingshan Shield and sighed slightly. The family's ability to withstand risks was really poor. There was not even the simplest formation on this spiritual field that was related to the family's lifeblood.
The number of formations is one of the indicators to measure the strength of a family.
Clan-protecting formations, spirit-gathering formations, concealment formations, attack, defense and other formations are all indispensable for a strong family.
But if any of the above formations were extended to the scope of the family, the price paid would be far beyond what the Lu family could afford today.
The only clan-protecting formation in the clan was originally deployed when the Lu family's ancestors were there. Lu Ya had every reason to believe that this formation had been in existence for a period longer than the eldest elder of the Lu family.
"It's a long road ahead."
Lu Ya looked at his clan members who were a little disgraced from cleaning up the battlefield, and silently added the goal of strengthening the family's ability to resist risks to his future plans.
However, these are not something that can be achieved in a short period of time.
Lu Ya sighed and joined the team cleaning the battlefield.
A few half-year-old children of the Yang generation who were only at the first or second level of qi training were currently cleaning up the rat carcasses while laughing and playing.
Lu Ya even saw Lu Sen, the child of his seventh uncle's family, holding a roasted golden thigh in his hand and chewing it with relish.
Although Lu Ya already had speculations in his mind, he still had some expectations.
"Lu Sen, what did you eat!"
Lu Sen is the child of the seventh uncle's family. He is only in his early thirteen years. When he saw Lu Ya, the best person of his generation, coming over, he immediately smiled and said, "Second brother, he is a grain-eating rat. He is very fat."
As he said that, he handed a large portion of the leg meat in front of Lu Ya, seemingly gesturing to Lu Ya to try it.
‘This is edible too! ’
Looking at the golden rat leg handed over by Lu Sen, Lu Ya calmly moved back half a step.
In his understanding, creatures like mice are full of viruses and bacteria, and if you are not careful, you can get a "three-day trip to the hospital" gift package.
Once when he was on a business trip to the south, he saw a dish called "Sanzhi'er" in a local restaurant. It was expensive, and he ordered it without knowing why.
Before "San Zhi'er" came, he ate very happily. After "San Zhi'er" came, the floor in front of him ate very happily.
"Why don't you put it down first, and we can finish the work at hand and then go home for dinner."
Lu Ya endured some discomfort and put forward constructive suggestions to Lu Sen.
"Okay, listen to my second brother, I'll go to work right now."
Despite his young age, Lu Sen was as strong as a calf. After hearing this, he showed off the roasted rat legs in his hands, then picked up the tools and went to work.
Lu Ya: "."
"Be sure to clean it up without leaving any residue. Remember to use exorcism to clean it again after handling it."
Lu Dingbo directed everyone to clean up, and at the same time kept giving instructions.
"Chief, what are you worried about?"
When Lu Ya passed by Lu Dingbo, he saw his frown and couldn't help but ask.
Lu Dingbo glanced at Lu Ya, frowned slightly, and explained: "Too many grain-eating rats died this time, and the resentment was too great. This kind of environment is most likely to breed evil spirits and weird things. Once they are born, we must Use the power of thunder to crush it and kill it, otherwise the harm will be endless."
"Evil and weird?" Lu Ya has always heard that there are all kinds of evil and weird in this world, and all kinds of dangers and horrors.
But he had never seen it before. After hearing what Lu Dingbo said, although he didn't want any evil spirits to arise, he still inevitably had the idea of seeing a real evil spirit.
He took the opportunity to look at the exorcism technique that had already reached its peak, and his mood suddenly became calm.
Then he comforted Lu Dingbo and said, "Clan Chief, evil spirits are not born so easily. Besides, there are so many of us here, even if there are us, it will be enough to deal with it."
Lu Dingbo nodded. He agreed with Lu Ya's words, but there was nothing wrong with being cautious.
The grain-eating rats attacked the spiritual field for a whole night, and it was extremely difficult to clean it up at this time.
Until the afternoon, three rat piles as high as hills were piled up a hundred meters away from Lu's spiritual field.
Then the flames ignited, and the pile of corpses suddenly turned into three huge torches, with a burning smell mixed in the billowing black smoke.
Under Lu Dingbo's arrangement, all clan members below the late stage of Qi practice returned to their families, while a few people in the later stage of Qi practice stood not far from the "torch", watching the fire slowly get shorter.
Lu Yuan stood next to Lu Ya and said to him when he saw this: "If the number of grain-eating rats is small, they can be chopped into pieces and directly used to fertilize the fields. This way the harvest next year can be increased by at least one to two percent.
However, in this case, this approach is not suitable. "
Lu Yuan picked up a ball of soil soaked in black from the ground and continued: "It may be a waste to burn it into ashes, but it has some effect."
Lu Ya nodded to express his understanding.
"Speaking of which, when you came to play in the spiritual field when you were a child, you always shouted to eat corn rats," Lu Yuan looked at the torch with nostalgia in his eyes, completely ignoring Lu Ya's feelings next to him.
"Stop talking about this, father, tell me why this corn-eating rat is so crazy."
Lu Ya tried his best to find a topic to avoid returning to this embarrassing and sensitive topic when he was a child.
Lu Yuan's eyes were full of confusion: "This matter is really strange. I have been planting spiritual grains for my father for many years, and I have been dealing with grain-eating rats for more than ten years. Logically speaking, they are timid and cautious by nature, greedy but cherish their lives. They will never do this. It's only right to do such a crazy thing.
But in fact, they did just that. With so many monks defending them, it was not so much that they were attacking the spiritual field, but that they were dying. "
Lu Ya nodded in agreement and asked doubtfully: "It is indeed to die, but what is their purpose? Is it just to die?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he denied himself, "Even if the grain-eating rats are willing to die, the rat king among the grain-eating rats will not let them do so. There must be some reasons that we don't know."
Lu Ya rubbed the finely intertwined lines on the handle of the knife with his fingertips. The reason behind this made him slightly uneasy.
Thinking of the news told by the shopkeeper of the magic weapon shop before, Lu Ya had a horrifying thought in his mind.
But when he thought about the difference between the big demon and the grain-eating rat mentioned by the shopkeeper, Lu Ya rejected this ridiculous idea.
After waiting for a while, the three large torches gradually went out, and the remaining wisps of black smoke gradually dissipated in the cold wind.
After a series of exorcisms, Lu Dingbo felt relieved and led everyone to turn around and head towards the family.
Lu Ya took the initiative to stay and accompany his father and others to guard the spiritual field.