Chapter 700 - 700 The Magical Straw Men
700 The Magical Straw Men
The army of millions of Straw men crossed the portal and entered the Tower of Stars, temporarily setting up camp in the space within the tower. Then, the golden Straw man said a few words to the other Straw men left in the valley and stepped into the portal.
“Rats hiding in the dark, I’ve prepared a great gift for you. I believe you’ll like it very much!”
An extremely evil smiling intent flashed in Li Xiang’s eyes. With a thought, his body naturally disappeared into the shadows.
Although the Straw men in the valley found it strange, they didn’t care. They continued to patrol the rice fields, drive away insects and birds, weed the rice fields, water the rice fields, and other things.
Everything went on as usual.
The valley was the Straw men’s base camp. The fierce beasts, birds, evil spirits, and demon beasts nearby were well aware of the dangers in that valley. Even when faced with the temptation of the golden spiritual rice, they did not dare to offend. There were too many fierce beasts and ferocious birds that died because of the golden spiritual rice.
That place had long become a forbidden area for evil creatures.
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At noon, in the Kingdom of Dawn.
A large group of warriors arrived outside the Star Palace. In the square, many Straw men were standing there, not moving at all. There were even tall golden Straw men among them. Each one of them looked highly life-like. From afar, they seemed no different from a real person.
The warriors did not hesitate, and each picked up one of the Straw men and walked out of the city. They moved all of them to the rice fields and vegetable fields. In addition to the Straw men that had been placed outside in the morning, the number of Straw men had reached a shocking number of hundreds of thousands.
That was only the number of Straw men in the City of Dawn. Other than that, thousands or even tens of thousands of Straw men in other cities were teleported.
Those Straw men were densely packed and scattered all over the country.
During that process, the city’s civilians were also muttering whether those Straw men were going to be useful. Would those rats really not dare to come out again because of them? Wasn’t that not taking things seriously?
However, despite their complaints, they still carried out Li Xiang’s orders properly.
“I only have about a hundred stalks of snow pear rice left. Even if I don’t sleep tonight, I’ll have to keep an eye on them. After tonight, the snow pear rice may completely mature and bear seeds. The snow pear rice is considered complete as long as there are grain seeds. It will be the real snow pear rice, a new type of rice in the future. I will protect the remaining rice tonight even if I have to die.”
Old Song squatted in the rice field. The surrounding area had been cleared out. Most of the grains had been destroyed. Only a hundred or so stalks were left, which was too little. However, that was their only hope in those few months, and they couldn’t let anything happen. It was not easy to successfully cultivate it this time, and he did not know if he could succeed next time. The factor of luck played too huge a part.
Looking at the Straw men around him, Old Song frowned slightly. No matter how he looked at them, those things didn’t seem reliable!
“I hope I can make it through the night!” Old Song muttered helplessly to himself.
Underground, the Rat Devourer already knew the situation on the surface.
When he realized that hundreds of thousands of Straw men were in the field, his face turned even gloomier.
“Putting aside the Straw men, just putting in hundreds of thousands of them, do you think I’m easy to bully? After all these commotions, I’ll lose face if I don’t make a move now. There must be other tribes waiting to see me make a fool of myself!” Rat Devourer thought viciously.
They were already in a difficult situation and couldn’t back down. It would be fine if there were only one or two Straw men. They could tell outsiders that they didn’t care about those Straw men at all. After all, it wasn’t a big deal and was just for show. But now, with such great fanfare, it was evident that they wanted to use the Straw men to deter the rats and him. If he really didn’t go, he would lose face.
“Aren’t you guys great at planting Straw men? I’ll turn all of your Straw men into broken grass later!” Rat Devourer sneered.
Time passed by quietly, and night came again.
Pillars were erected in the rice fields with crystal Qiming Lamps hanging on them. However, the Qiming Lamps weren’t lit yet, so the surrounding region seemed quiet and dark.
“It’s so late, and the sky is already dark, but the city is still brightly lit. Do you really think I don’t know that as long as you’re willing, this entire rice field can be lit up and easily illuminated? Now that it’s so quiet, there must be a scheme!”
“But so what if there’s a scheme? Today, I’m going to tear these Straw men apart and destroy all the crops in the rice fields. I have millions of rats in my rat army. This is strength. A strength that is enough to crush everything. In the face of absolute strength, all schemes are in vain. We won’t be afraid even if an army comes to encircle and annihilate us. Exchanging the rats’ lives for the Human army’s lives, this deal is worth it!”
Rat Devourer was paying attention to the scene outside, and the corner of his mouth showed a disdainful sneer.
“Rat army, kill your way out and destroy with all your might. Destroy all the rice fields and eat all the food. And find the location of the granary. I want to destroy it as well.”
Squeak…
In the underground space, countless tunnels were connected, and numerous strange cries gathered, which seemed very horrifying.
During the day, they threw Rune Bombs into the underground tunnels according to Zhou Qing’s plan. And indeed, a large number of underground tunnels had collapsed entirely. Many rats were even buried underground and died on the spot. However, there were not many casualties. In just one afternoon, the rats had dug out more hidden holes from different directions.
Not long after, huge rats came out of the holes.
There were big and small ones, and each one had bloodthirsty eyes. It was terrifying to look at them in the dark.
They sneaked into the rice fields in the dark at a breakneck speed. They were natural-born stalkers, silent and extremely fast. And they appeared near the rice fields in just a moment.
Shua!
A huge rat stomped its feet and flew into the air, pouncing fiercely at one of the Straw men. It was swift, displaying its speed, ruthlessness, and accuracy to the extreme. It opened its mouth, aiming at the Straw men’s neck.
It was confident that the Straw man’s neck would break with that bite. It would come off clean and simple with just a crack.
Pa!
However, just as the rat was about to bite its neck, a glint flashed in the Straw man’s eyes. The bamboo stick in its hand struck the rat’s head with lightning speed. With one hit, the rat was smashed and instantly fell to the ground. The force was so great that it directly split the rat’s head open, and blood flowed out of all seven holes. It was not far from death.
“Grain thief, where are you going!”
“Catch the thief! There’s a thief stealing grain!”
“So many rat thieves! Brothers, quickly attack and kill the rat thieves!”
“Brothers, protect the crops!”
Shua, shua, shua…
A series of sharp shouts rang out in the night.