Starting From A Fisherman To Cultivate Immortality And Live Forever

Chapter 18: Carrot and Stick

"Professor, should we continue to go deeper?"

"Professor... we're just like headless flies here!"

Deep in the mountains, the research team, being watched by the spirit mouse Xiao Bai, had only traveled a few hundred meters when an unexpected incident occurred. A male student carrying a backpack slipped and slid down a small slope for several meters.

Although he only suffered a minor scrape, it made the others in the group hesitant to continue.

The deep forest seemed beautiful, but staying here made people feel uneasy all over.

Especially when the old hunter's hunting dog refused to move forward, eventually even exhausting the old hunter himself, forcing him to give up on this expedition.

They had previously taken pleasure in watching the old hunter struggle with his dog.

Now they were filled with fear and anxiety.

However, the professor leading the team did not want to leave empty-handed.

He wanted to reassure everyone and prepare to make a big promise.

Before he could speak, he heard a cry of alarm.

"Found a rat?"

"No! It's a snake! Everyone be careful!"

The professor turned around and was shocked to see five or six colorful venomous snakes rushing out of the bushes. After spotting their team, the snakes immediately stopped moving and assumed an attacking posture.

These snakes had been stirred up by Su Ping, who had come to this place and intentionally directed them in this direction.

Su Ping, who was preparing to train a group of mice, did not want to divert his attention from the spirit mouse by focusing on this team.

So he decided to create a little trouble for them, making them realize the difficulty and retreat, while not revealing any abnormalities on his side.

"Don't run! Don't panic, everyone slowly retreat together!"

A tall student wearing a duckbill cap stepped forward, waving his arms nervously and standing beside the professor.

The next second, before these people could react in any other way, Xiao Bai, standing on a tree branch, released his extraordinary spiritual pressure, stimulating the snakes below.

A scream came from under the tree, followed by shouts of running and the sound of footsteps.

After being bitten by the snakes, the team quickly rushed out of the mountains and received emergency treatment.

Fortunately, even if they were unprepared, the receiving party had prepared snake antivenom.

As a city near the nature reserve, Yushu City had considerable experience in treating snake bites and mushroom poisoning.

No one in the team would die from snake bites.

But after this attack, the team did not dare to venture deep into the mountains in the short term.

It was not that someone had a sudden idea and suspected that the rats they were investigating were causing trouble.

It was just that this kind of obvious joke, which was obvious to others, couldn't even pass the group meeting, let alone be submitted as a formal report for review.

"Now, no one will disturb us."

Deep in the mountains, near a pond.

Su Ping sat cross-legged, smiling as he looked at the densely packed group of mice crawling on the ground in front of him.

At the forefront of the group, Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui, the spirit mice, stood up and chattered to the group.

There were about three thousand rats that qualified to come before Su Ping. Each one was an elite among rats, intelligent and human-like.

In the cultivation world, these rats belonged to the category of creatures with spiritual intelligence, just like Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui.

"Has the human lifestyle of the information age also influenced these rats?"

"There are more rats with spiritual intelligence than I imagined!"

"This is also a good thing for my future plans!"

When Su Ping saw that the time was almost right, all these rats had submitted to the pressure exerted by the two spirit mice.

Next, he would add the blessing of delicious food under this pressure.

Carrot and stick, whether they were extraordinary or not, this move was still effective!

Su Ping took out a storage bag and took out hundreds of kilograms of additive bread.

He smelled the enticing aroma emanating from the bread.

The mouse swarm immediately became restless.

Squeak!

Little White, the spiritual mouse, was full of disdain for its counterparts in this otherworldly realm. It immediately let out a sharp cry and turned into a blur as it rushed into the mouse swarm, biting off the head of a mouse.

Squeak squeak!

Little White stood up straight, like a supervisor wielding a whip, sweeping through the mouse swarm. Its imposing pressure reached its peak, directly suppressing the commotion.

Little White snorted coldly, then quickly got down on all fours and crawled to Su Ping's feet, tilting its head and showing a pleasing expression.

"Eat."

Su Ping divided the bread into two pieces and gave them to Little White and Little Grey.

They were allowed to eat first, until they were full and satisfied, and then they distributed the remaining bread to the mice in the front three rows.

After the front mice finished eating, they were then distributed to the rest of their kind, establishing a team organization within the mouse swarm during the distribution process.

Afterwards, Su Ping thought of a secret technique from the inheritance obtained by the Mouse Daoist and passed it on to Little White and Little Grey.

Squeak squeak squeak!

Little White and Little Grey activated the secret technique and successfully formed a weak but real connection with an elite mouse each!

This connection was similar to the contract formed by Su Ping using Beast Taming Technique on Little White and Little Grey.

However, it did not have a compulsory effect on both parties, but only created a remote communication bridge.

But even so, it was enough.

The mouse swarm, which was under double suppression, had already obeyed the commands of Little White and Little Grey from the depths of their souls.

This secret technique solved the problem of command!

The only problem was that this technique also required mana consumption.

Even though the consumption was not much, it couldn't withstand the fact that the Water Blue Star had no spiritual energy, plus there were a considerable number of mice that needed to establish a connection.

Fortunately, Su Ping was not a fussy person.

With a wave of his hand, he exchanged 10 fishing coins for a bottle of mana potion.

Relying on the ability to continuously restore mana during the effective period of the mana potion, Little White and Little Grey quickly raced against time. After successfully using up Su Ping's entire bottle of mana potion, they established a connection with the 3,000 elite mice present.

Therefore, in the deep forest near the rarely visited pond.

If someone were nearby at this moment, they would be astonished and unable to speak.

Because near this pond, there were thousands of mice arranged in an O shape one moment, and a Z shape the next.

And at another moment, they even formed a complex Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation!

Su Ping was also having fun, no, he was seriously exploring the limits of these mouse swarms through practice.

He even let Little White and Little Grey each lead 1,500 mouse soldiers and conducted a battle between the mice.

The winner could eat more bread.

The loser could only drink water to heal their injuries.

"When there are a lot of them, even mice fighting can be quite exciting."

"But as individuals, they are still a bit weak."

"But there's no need to rush. When the Mouse Daoist arrives in Golden Sparrow City and prepares the secret medicine to enhance the physical fitness of mice, these mouse soldiers will have a bright future!"

Little White, Little Grey, and this mouse swarm had established a connection, so they no longer needed to stay here.

After Su Ping stood up, Little White and Little Grey immediately leaped up and perched on Su Ping's shoulders.

Then, Su Ping put on his straw hat and picked up his fishing gear.

Since he was already here, he might as well try out the possible fishing spots along the way.

Otherwise, it would be a wasted trip!

And who knows, maybe he would come across another fishing spot?

(End of this chapter)