"Professor, should we continue deeper?"
"Professor...we're like headless flies here!"
Deep in the mountains, the research team, being watched by Ling Rat White, had only advanced a few hundred meters when an accident occurred. A male student with a backpack slipped and slid several meters down a small dirt slope.
Although he only sustained some scratches,
it made the others accompanying him feel like retreating.
This deep mountain forest looked beautiful, but staying there truly made one uncomfortable all over.
Especially since the old hunter's hounds stubbornly refused to move forward, eventually dragging the old hunter himself until he ran out of strength and had to give up on this big job.
As much as they had gloated when they saw the old hunter struggling with his hounds before,
they were now just as terrified and uneasy.
However, the professor leading the team still didn't want to return empty-handed.
He wanted to reassure everyone and was about to paint a grand picture.
Before he could speak, he heard a cry of alarm.
"Found rats?"
"No! It's snakes! Everyone, be careful!"
The professor turned around and saw five or six colorful venomous snakes rushing out from the bushes. After discovering their team, they immediately stopped moving and adopted an attacking posture.
These venomous snakes had their nests overturned by Su Ping, who had come to this area, and were intentionally driven in this direction.
Su Ping, preparing to train the rat pack, did not intend to divert his attention and that of a Spirit Rat to this team.
So he decided to create a little trouble for them, making them retreat in the face of difficulty while not exposing any anomalies on his side.
"Don't run! Don't panic, everyone, slowly retreat together!"
A tall male student in a baseball cap stepped forward, nervously waving his arms and standing beside the professor.
The next second, before these people could react further,
as White, standing on a tree branch, used his extraordinary Spiritual Pressure to stimulate the venomous snakes below,
a scream came from under the tree, followed by shouts of "Run!" and the sound of scattered footsteps.
After being bitten by the venomous snakes, this team quickly rushed out of the mountain forest and received emergency treatment.
Fortunately, even if they hadn't prepared themselves when they came here, the reception party had prepared snake medicine.
Yushu City, as a city close to a nature reserve, had considerable experience in treating snake venom and mushroom poisoning at its hospitals.
No one in the team would die because of the venomous snakes.
However, with this experience of being attacked,
this team would not dare to venture deep into the mountain forest again in the short term.
It wasn't that someone suddenly had a wild thought, suspecting that the rats they were investigating were behind it.
It was just that such a guess, which seemed obviously ridiculous to others, couldn't even pass the small group meeting, let alone be submitted as a formal report for review by the higher-ups.
"Now, no one will disturb us."
Deep in the mountains, near a pond.
Su Ping sat cross-legged, smiling as he looked at the dense rat pack prostrating on the ground in front of him.
At the very front of the rat pack, Ling Rat White and Little Gray stood up human-like, chattering and lecturing the rat pack.
There were about three thousand rats qualified to come before Su Ping, each one an elite among rats, intelligent and understanding of human nature.
In the Cultivation World, these rats would belong to the spiritual kind, just like White and Little Gray.
"Has the human life in the information age also influenced these rats?"
"There are more spiritual rats than I imagined!"
"This is a good thing for my next plan!"
Su Ping saw that the time was right; these rats had all submitted to the Spiritual Pressure of the two Spirit Rats in a short time.
Next was to add the grace of delicious food to this layer of Spiritual Pressure.
The carrot and stick approach, whether supernatural or not, was still a winning move!
Su Ping took out his Storage Pouch and retrieved over a hundred catties of fortified bread.
Smelling the unusually enticing aroma emanating from the bread,
the rat pack immediately stirred.
Squeak!
Ling Rat White was full of disdain for these otherworldly compatriots. It immediately let out a sharp squeal and transformed into an afterimage, rushing into the rat pack and biting off a rat's head.
Squeak! Squeak!
Ling Rat White stood upright, sweeping over the rat pack like an overseer waving a whip, and his Spiritual Pressure exploded to its maximum.
It directly suppressed the commotion.
White snorted coldly, then quickly got down on all fours and lay at Su Ping's feet, looking up with a fawning expression.
"Eat."
Su Ping gave two pieces of bread to White and Little Gray.
They ate first, and once they were full, they distributed the rest to the rats in the first three rows.
After the front rats finished eating, they in turn distributed to their remaining companions, which helped establish the rat pack's respective team organizations during the distribution process.
Afterward, Su Ping thought of a secret technique from the Legacy Shu Daoren had obtained and passed it on to White and Little Gray.
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!
White and Little Gray circulated the secret technique, and surprisingly, each successfully formed a weak but real connection with an elite rat!
This connection was similar to the contract formed by the Animal Controlling Technique Su Ping used on White and Little Gray.
However, it had no mandatory effect on either party, only creating an invisible, long-distance communication bridge.
Even so, it was enough.
The rat pack, under dual suppression, had already obeyed White and Little Gray's commands from the depths of their Souls.
This secret technique perfectly solved the command problem!
The only issue was that this technique also required the consumption of magical power.
Even if the consumption was not much, Water Blue Star had no Spiritual Qi, plus the absolute number of rats that needed to establish a connection was not small.
Fortunately, Su Ping was not a finicky person.
With a wave of his hand, he spent 10 fishing coins to exchange for a bottle of magical power potion.
Relying on the ability of the magical power potion to continuously restore magical power during its effect, White and Little Gray raced against time, and after spending Su Ping's entire bottle of magical power potion, they successfully established connections with the three thousand elite rats present.
Thus, by the pond in the remote depths of the mountains.
If anyone were nearby at this moment, they would surely be astonished, their mouths agape and unable to speak.
Because by this pond, thousands of rats were forming an 'O' shape for a while, then a 'Z' shape.
And then, they even arranged a complex Eight Gates Golden Lock Array!
Su Ping was also having fun, oh no, he was seriously understanding the limits of these rat packs through practice.
He even had White and Little Gray each lead fifteen hundred rat soldiers, and then they conducted a rat-on-rat battle exercise.
The winner got to eat more bread.
The loser could only drink water to recover.
"When there are many, even rat fights are quite spectacular."
"It's just that as individuals, they are still a bit weak."
"But there's no need to rush. Once Shu Daoren arrives in Jinque City and prepares the secret medicine to enhance the Physique of rats for me, these rat soldiers will have a promising future!"
Ling Rat White and Little Gray had established a connection with this rat pack, so they finally didn't need to stay here.
After Su Ping stood up, White and Little Gray immediately jumped up and lay on Su Ping's shoulders.
Then, Su Ping put on his bamboo hat and picked up his Fishing gear.
Since he was already here, he might as well try out any possible Fishing spots along the way.
Otherwise, it would be a wasted trip!
And, what if he could encounter another Fishing spot?