Lord of Rot

Chapter 163 Beast Whisperer?
"Good day, baby gazelle."

"Good day."

The little gazelle greeted others with a smile.

From being a slave to now having a large number of acquaintances and repeat customers, the little gazelle himself feels very dreamy in retrospect.

After thanking the benevolent lord for giving her all this in her heart, she went to the small square.

A group of people gathered there.

Holding a piece of paper and reading is the apprentice of the city hall. He is wearing pigskin boots, and he has heard of a goose feather stuck in his hat from nowhere.

It is such a ostentatious person, but everyone present respects him.

He works in the city hall in the castle!

The city hall manages the operation of the entire porcupine collar, and is the most trusted servant of the lord, and no one knows about it.

"There are a lot of mice in the castle. Lord Li Qi summons the mouse catchers. Those who are capable of catching mice can come to me. I will take you into the castle to meet the lord!"

The apprentice paused, put down the paper, and glanced at everyone present with a "contemptuous gaze", his chin slightly raised: "Of course, only a real mouse catcher will get a well-paid job."

As soon as the voice fell, the crowd erupted.

"I really want to go into the castle and take a look."

"Pretend to be a mouse catcher? You are dead! If the lord finds out that you are lying, he will definitely whip you!"

"I used to be a mouse catcher, I can try."

It's a mess, with all kinds of voices.

Some people also confidently walked to the apprentices in the city hall one after another, waiting for themselves to be valued by the lord, and then gracefully showed their mouse-catching skills, and finally soared into the sky.

The little gazelle wanted to go into the castle too, but she dared not pretend that she was a mouse catcher.

Seeing the crowd disperse one after another, she also left quickly and walked to the business district.

Today's business is about to start. Meeting the lord and visiting the castle are not as important as making money.

Castle Hall.

Li Qi looked at the six people standing in front of him.

Two boys, one with blond hair and the other with black hair.

There were four people left, three of them were middle-aged men and one was a young girl.

"A mousecatcher?"

Li Qi's gaze scanned the faces of the six people.

Before that, he had only heard of the mouse catcher, but hadn't seen it with his own eyes.

Knowing the existence of this profession is like a legend.

The porcupines had a bumper harvest, the granary was being checked and protected, and he wasn't sure if the mice had slipped in.

But the rats in the castle were so rampant that they even dared to sneak into his study.

"Then, it's very simple." Li Qi said: "No matter what method you use, whether you kill them or capture them alive, whoever catches the most mice will be rewarded."

He paused and said, "If you can catch all the mice, everyone will get a reward."

It's not a beauty pageant, and it doesn't have to be one-two-three. The most important thing is to eliminate the rats first.

"Yes, my lord!"

No one objected to Li Qi's order.

Knowing that a mouse-catching contest is going to be held, the little maids in the castle who are afraid of mice all come to Li Qi's side.

"Are you really scared?" Surrounded by Yingyingyanyan, Li Qi couldn't help but wonder.

It should be half afraid, and the other half because of the lord's own charm.

He's a bit stinky.

The girls in maid outfits made fearful "beeps" beside them, and their spirits were still very happy.

The first to catch the mouse were the two boys, running very fast and using traps made of wood.

They will first look for the mouse hole, and then put the clip in, and one can be pulled out with a light clip.

Quickly throw the mouse into the wooden barrel prepared in advance, and close the lid.

Squeak——!
There was the sound of rats screaming in the barrel, and the sound of paws scratching the barrel.

"Ah!" The little maids surrounded Li Qi.

Unlike the two boys with sharp eyes and quick hands, the three men chose practical tools, and they ignited the dried pasture.

After being ignited, the pasture emits acrid smoke and is blown into the mouse hole.

After a while, the rats escaped from the hole in a daze. The three men each guarded a mouse hole. cast a net.

"Cough cough!"

Li Qi raised his hand and slapped his nose. The method was very good, but the smell was too pungent.

He couldn't watch it live, so he had to go out quickly.

Unexpectedly, in the open space of the castle, the only mouse-catcher girl stood outside, making a sound of "pici~pici~".

Soon some mice heard the sound and ran out.

A mouse ran up to the girl, looked up at her, and didn't even run away. Instead, after the girl said "pici" a few words, the mouse obediently jumped into the bucket on the side.

"It feels like Akeke," the wine glass couldn't help but said.

Li Qi nodded in agreement.

That's right, it's very similar to Akeke's method, but there are obvious differences. Akeke uses ability to control, which should be the direct application of spiritual power, while this girl uses her mouth to imitate the voice to communicate with the mouse.

"It may be a spellcaster who has awakened the bloodline talent after the magic tide, or it may be a transcendent who has not fully awakened!"

After half a day, the six pokes were put together.

From time to time, there were scratching and "squeaking" sounds in the bucket, and the scalp of the noisy person was numb.

It is roughly estimated that there are at least fifty rats in these six buckets.

And thirty of them were in the girl's bucket.

Her bucket is also the strangest one. Others' bucket will make a lot of noise if they catch two mice, but the girl's bucket is quiet.

When the lid of the wooden barrel was opened, more than 30 mice looked up at the same time, but none of them escaped.

The rats filled most of the bucket.

"Get rid of all the rats," Li Qi said, "Treat them harmlessly and burn them all!"

"Yes!"

The end result is obvious.

However, Li Qi still kindly gave each mouse catcher a few copper stars as a reward, because catching mice was not easy.

Only the girl remained.

"What's your name?" Li Qi asked.

The girl replied respectfully: "My name is Pitts, my lord."

An onomatopoeia name.

Li Qi asked: "Can you communicate with mice?"

"Yes." She nodded. "It was discovered recently. I can understand the words of some animals, including mice, dogs, foxes, and birds."

"What did you tell those mice just now, why did they listen to you?"

Pitts replied: "I told them, just jump in the bucket and have delicious wheat."

"They trust you so much?" Li Qi asked.

Talking to a mouse is fantasy enough, but the mouse believes in what she says, and it's also interesting.

"They're... not that smart."

"I officially hired you as a mouse catcher," Li Qi said, "If you are willing to help, I think the security team, as well as the army, need your help in training hunting dogs."

Pitts was overjoyed: "Yes, I would!"

(End of this chapter)