Chapter 186 In the face of interests, bats have to change their schedule
Hpa-an, the capital of Karen State.
Although it is the capital city, it has a population of only more than 10,000, which is also a small town.
If some surrounding rural areas and small towns are included, the total population may be 4 to 50 million, with most residents living in rural areas.
It is very close to Thailand and also very close to the sea. Not far to the east is the Thaniam Thaung Mountains at the junction of Myanmar and Thailand. It is more than 300 kilometers long, about 75-100 kilometers wide, with an average altitude of 1,000-2,000 meters, and the main peak is 1,964 meters above sea level. It is the watershed between the Kerang River and the Bin River (the largest tributary in the upper reaches of the Chao Phraya River).
Speaking of this mountain range, it has a strange name. Some people who have a little knowledge of geography will be surprised. It seems that there is also the Tha Nien Thaung Mountain Range in China. How come it is also found at the junction of Myanmar and Thailand? And the middle section is called Nushan?
That's because many mountain ranges were named later, and the Tha Nien Ta Weng Mountains were originally collectively referred to as the eastern mountains of Nujiang.
The Nu River is more than 3,000 kilometers long. It flows from the southern foot of the Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, through two major provinces in China. When it reaches Myanmar, it changes its name to "Salween River", and finally flows into the Andaman Sea of the Indian Ocean. Naturally, there are continuous mountains along the coast, and each section has a different name.
The four major international rivers in Southeast Asia all have their sources in China. For example, the Mekong River is called the Lancang River in China, and it is the Mekong River when it enters Southeast Asia.
There are no specialties worth mentioning in Hpa An. The curry rice, fried fish cakes, and potato chips on the street seemed pretty good. Li Xiang bought some and tried them. He also got some scattered US dollars and Myanmar coins in northern Myanmar. It doesn't matter if he spends them casually at this time. They are old banknotes after all.
There are more people who believe in Buddhism here, there are various temples and grottoes, and the tourism industry is relatively developed. It seems that people can live and work in peace and contentment than in northern Myanmar.
There were many foreigners walking on the street. Li Xiang wore a hat, sunglasses, an oriental face, and used the "Pearl Darkness" skill to become less "sparkling", so he was not particularly outstanding.
However, some women would still stare at him. No way, even this is too handsome.
The destination of his trip is a famous bat cave here. It is said that there are hundreds of millions of bats inhabiting it. No one has statistics on the exact number. It is just overwhelming.
Creatures like bats usually sleep during the day and come out at night. When they are full, they go back to the cave to continue sleeping. When Li Xiang was hunting bats in the natural cave of Maolan Karst Nature Reserve in Qian Province, although it was night, there were still many people in the cave. There are still lots of bats.
This time he came to visit during the day to get familiar with the terrain, and still planned to go at night. Even if there are fewer bats in the cave at night, there are still a lot of them.
However, when he arrived at the scenic spot, he was shocked.
It was broad daylight, and many scenic spot staff brought buckets, wooden sticks, drums, and some percussion instruments that Li Xiang couldn't name, and they were playing wildly near the entrance of the cave.
The noise is disturbing to anyone, let alone the bats inside.
The bats in the cave couldn't stand it, so they naturally flew out in swarms, covering the sky in groups, with their wings making a roar. Around them, many tourists cheered, marveled, took photos, and recorded videos...
This attraction makes money from these bats.
Some bats want to go back to the cave after flying around. How is that possible? Still being driven away, I had no choice but to continue flying outside.
"Okay, don't worry about the lack of bats at night." Li Xiang sighed. In the face of profit, the bats have to change their schedule and go out to "do business" in broad daylight.
He traveled here, visited some temples and grottoes, and then returned to the Tha Ninth Ong Mountains, looking for "creatures with extraordinary potential" in the deep mountains and old forests.
The mountain range runs north to south, with a width of only a few dozen kilometers to more than a hundred kilometers. The edge is only twenty or thirty kilometers away from Hpa-an City. Li Xiang does not need to "sprint". The "cruising speed" of 900 kilometers per hour is about 15 kilometers per minute. can be reached.
In the valley, six muntjacs were grazing. In the darkness, a leopard was dormant and slowly lurked. Three minutes later, the leopard and the six muntjacs all entered Li Xiang's system warehouse.
The six-headed muntjac was not a mutated creature, but it looked more delicious, so Li Xiang accepted it. The end of the world is approaching and there is no point in protecting these animals.
The leopard was a ninth-level mutated creature. Li Xiang obtained three eighth-level mutated elixirs, the Golden Leopard Spirit Fruit. Apart from these three elixirs, no other extraordinary items were dropped.
Li Xiang took out a leopard fruit and tasted it. It was sweet and had a good texture. Once it was taken into his stomach, it was refined and filled with spiritual power.
"Leopard", in addition to animals, is also the name of a plant. It belongs to the Campanulaceae family, and Codonopsis is a herbaceous twining vine. Its fruits are edible and its roots can be used as medicine. It has the effects of clearing away heat and sedating, treating neurasthenia and other diseases. It can also be used as a vegetable. Food. It is also distributed in Guangdong Province, Yunnan Province and other places in the country.
It's just that the fruits of this plant are more delicious and easy to digest, and the seeds are relatively small, so after being eaten by animals, there is often nothing left, making it difficult for animals to spread in the wild.
The "leopard fruit" that Li Xiang got was naturally not an ordinary mortal, but a spiritual grass fruit rewarded by the system.
"Hey~, there is a wild elephant in front of us." Li Xiang saw a huge creature from a distance, and in a flash, he rode on the elephant's back.
The system immediately prompted: "The fifteenth-level mutated creature Mammoth Demon has been detected."
This wild elephant had never been ridden before. At this moment, it couldn't help but become very angry. It stumbled and twisted its body desperately, trying to throw Li Xiang off.
Li Xiang showed no mercy and beat him to death with one punch!
Elephant meat is said to be so unpalatable that Africans would rather eat dirt than elephants.
There used to be some rich people who wanted to try something new. If there was demand, there would be a market. So, someone hunted the elephant and sold it to the rich man for tens of thousands of dollars.
As a result, after the rich man tasted it, he said it was super unpleasant. Maybe the nose and tongue are a little more delicate.
But elephant skin can be used to make drums, and ivory is a rare material. It is hard but easy to carve, and is often used to make precious handicrafts and some decorations. It can even be used to make medical equipment, bone nails, Orthopedic devices, etc.
So Li Xiang took away the elephant's body. Even if it tastes unpalatable and won’t be eaten in the apocalypse, it’s still a piece of meat for ordinary people, right?
Of course, he would definitely keep the delicious ones for himself, and share the unpalatable ones with ordinary people. Eating meat is better than just eating rice.
System: "Congratulations to the host, for killing the fifteenth-level mutant creature Mammoth Demon Elephant, you will be rewarded with 1,500 achievement points, three strains of the eighth-level mutant elixir Green Feather Golden Leaf Albizia, and a thirteenth-level extraordinary item Black Iron Mountain Stick. ”
"Let me go, why is this grass so smelly?" Li Xiang took out the three spiritual grasses and looked at them. At first, the stench hit his nose, with a strong smell of gas, but Li Xiang pinched his nose and tasted a small piece of the leaf, and couldn't help but squint his eyes. Yes, it tastes quite delicious. If you chew it slowly, you will get a grassy aftertaste.
As everyone knows, this is an upgraded version of Thai stinky dish, which is also a must-have in the local area.
This elephant loved to eat this kind of grass when he was alive.
"Black iron mountain stick!" Li Xiang put away the spiritual grass and kept it for later. He moved his hand and picked up a heavy iron rod. It was thin at one end and thick at the other. It was two meters long and shaped like an elephant's trunk. Almost, it weighed at least eight or nine hundred kilograms, but it was still a little light for Li Xiang, who weighed twenty to thirty thousand kilograms.
"It's good for shooting bats at night." Originally, Li Xiang was going to pick up a lot of small stones and use them as hidden weapons, and throw them out in large quantities, just like shotguns. But after he got a new heavy black iron rod, he couldn't wait to do it. Want to try new weapons.
This black iron climbing stick also has two extraordinary attributes, namely "Armor Breaking" and "Concussion". As long as it is hit, armors lower than the thirteenth level will be shattered, and then it can emit a burst of energy. A "shock wave" that shocks the enemy's mind, not just their body.
"I wonder if you can break my Black Mountain Black Armor?"
But Li Xiang is not that stupid and will definitely not try it.
Holding the black iron mountain stick in his hand, he suddenly jumped up and hit a huge rock seven or eight meters high.
With a "boom", the giant rock was torn into pieces, and debris flew everywhere. At the same time, a strange "shock wave" radiated out from the center of the circle. Many birds fell one after another, and some beasts were unable to escape and fell down one after another.
"Here, is this an ultrasonic weapon?" Because the shock wave is silent and invisible, and cannot be heard by ordinary people's ears.
With this black iron climbing stick, Li Xiang felt that he would be more efficient in hitting bats. But this "shock wave" has a shortcoming. First, it is not as powerful as expected. For example, some large beasts fell down, but soon stood up again. Although they seemed to be stunned, some There was still bleeding from the corners of his eyes and nostrils, but he was not dead.
Second, they can only attack indiscriminately, without any way of targeting.
If there are teammates or ordinary people around, it is inconvenient to use to avoid accidental injuries.
……
In the dead of night, Li Xiang appeared at the entrance of the bat cave carrying a big stick shaped like an elephant's trunk.
After he entered, he took out a huge stone seven or eight meters high from the system warehouse and blocked the entrance of the cave.
Under the power of night vision, everything in the dark cave can be seen without any secrets.
The bats are densely packed, at least tens of thousands!
These bats had been tossing around all day in broad daylight and had not slept well. At this time, they were all hanging upside down on the top of the cave, "sleeping soundly." On the ground, there was a thick layer of bat droppings that exuded a foul odor, making it impossible to get down.
Fortunately, Li Xiang was wearing black mountain black armor and was not afraid of getting dirty. At worst, he could go wash in the river afterwards.
"Get up, get up, don't sleep!"
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Li Xiang shook the stick slightly, and suddenly, a powerful ultrasonic wave vibrated away. Ordinary people heard no sound, but for these bats who use "ultrasonic waves" to echo localize, identify terrain, and find food, it was simply a sound. A "disaster".
Some baby bats simply fall down and die, while some adult bats may be more resistant and fly around. Although they can also emit ultrasonic waves themselves, and their tolerance to ultrasonic waves is higher than that of ordinary birds, external ultrasonic waves greatly interfere with their judgment. Many bats collide with each other, and many of them accidentally hit each other. The ground hit the mountain wall and screamed.
They wanted to escape, but they couldn't find the exit at all. Even if they found it, the entrance to the cave had been blocked by Li Xiang with big rocks. Although there was a small gap, under the interference of the shock wave emitted by the elephant trunk stick, all these bats became A real "blind man".
System: "The fifth-level mutated creature Blood Flame Demon Bat was detected..."
"The third-level mutated creature Blood Flame Demon Bat has been detected..."
"The sixth-level mutated creature Blood Flame Demon Bat has been detected..."
……
Li Xiang couldn't tell the difference, so he naturally killed them all. He stood up, waved the black iron mountain stick in his hand, and performed a set of extremely strong stick techniques. With the strength of 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms, this stick was simply A big killing weapon, it will die if you rub it, and it will break if you hit it.
Blood mist splashed everywhere on Li Xiang's armor.
"This is a bit disgusting." Li Xiang changed his stick technique and began to reduce the intensity.
He thought that the stick technique cannot be just strong, because all martial arts must pay attention to the balance of hardness and softness, the change of yin and yang, and blindly strong is not the top martial arts.
Just like Guo Jing's Eighteen Palms for Subduing the Dragon, they are originally strong and strong, but in the end, when practiced to a high level, they can also develop softness.
The more he fought, the better he became, and his understanding of the stick technique became more and more. Finally, he used a black iron stick weighing eight to nine hundred kilograms. Not only was the killing efficiency higher, but his spiritual power and strength were also improved. More economical.
The most important thing is that no more bats were beaten into blood mist and exploded. Every dead bat appeared to be unscathed on the surface, and the skin was not broken, but the flesh, blood, organs, and brain inside were all shattered. Into a small pile of mud.
Moreover, the soft and thick texture created by the huge stick eventually formed a vortex in the cave, sucking all the bats in. It looked as if the bats were actively ramming towards the stick, seeking their own death.
In fact, the bats couldn't get rid of the suction force caused by Li Xiang stirring the iron rod.
"It turns out that this is how the word 'stir' in the stick method is used." Li Xiang understood deeply, and sure enough, the power is greater when hardness and softness are combined.
That night, Li Xiang killed more than a thousand potential mutated blood flame monster bats, gained nearly 100,000 achievement points, and more than 3,000 first-level to eighth-level elixirs. In addition, he also obtained a small extraordinary object, an exquisite but beautiful Some dark-type Blood Flame Rings.
The grade is not high, it's silver, it's only seventh grade, and it's not very useful. It can release a ball of blood flame the size of a millstone. It's a kind of demonic flame. Its temperature is estimated to be four to five thousand degrees, which is higher than ordinary ordinary fire.
Even tungsten steel can be easily smelted. The fire volume is not very large, and there is a cooling down period after use.
This blood flame ring should have been dropped by a tenth-level bat king inside.
Because he had honed his martial arts skills this time, Li Xiang spent a little longer. It took three or four hours to finish the work. No one in the Bat Cave was spared.
Finally, Li Xiang took away the huge stone blocking the door and disappeared into the darkness.
He did not return to the deep mountains and old forests, but went to the seaside, where he washed away the dirt on the Black Mountain Black Armor in the sea, and finally used spiritual power to shake it clean.
The boulder was just an ordinary stone, of no great use, so it was thrown directly into the sea.
He used extreme speed and walked on the waves on the sea. This was not a wave-riding technique, but simply "drifting on the water" caused by speed. The energy of running brought up water waves, just like a clipper breaking the waves.
After playing for about half an hour, I saw an uninhabited island, so I lit a bonfire on the island and cooked a barbecue for myself.
There are delicacies from the mountains and game, as well as a few unknown fish caught from the sea, which taste pretty good. One of them looks like a bass, with a pointed mouth. It looks like it is not poisonous and is edible.
This is barramundi, also called golden perch. It is a kind of nearshore shallow sea fish in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. It is also cultivated artificially.
There are actually thousands of species of fish parasites in the sea, the most common of which are anisakiasis and sparganism, which can also infect humans. However, Li Xiang was not afraid and also tried sashimi.
Even if there are parasites, his spiritual body is small and invulnerable to all diseases. Parasites or some bacteria in the sea cannot harm him.
After dawn, the staff at that attraction went to work and were dumbfounded.
Many tourists come here to see "bats coming out of the cave", but unfortunately, there are no more bats here.
The management staff of the scenic spot reported the incident, and the relevant departments came to investigate, but no clues were found.
"Hiss~" A police officer went through all the clues and suddenly thought of the recent strange events in northern Myanmar and Mandalay. He couldn't help but took a breath and said, "Could it be that mysterious man who came to us?" Paan?”
"No way? I heard that the mysterious man and the mysterious force are only interested in precious emeralds and gold, or they kill some drug lords. I haven't heard that they also like to kill bats?"
Someone bowed to a Buddha statue in the distance, and then said seriously to everyone: "I think this scenic spot offended the Buddha and caused him to bring disaster."
Someone said: "I have told you not to use bats to make money, otherwise it will cause trouble!"
(End of chapter)