The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Chapter 1121: The Mouse Bites the Cat

Shui Wuhen already knew that in the land he lived, perhaps all the wild beasts were much larger than those in mortal society.

But they are still wild beasts; none of them know how to cultivate.

Shui Wuhen longed to be a mountain rat capable of cultivation, but unfortunately, this mountain rat possessed no demonic beast inheritance.

After struggling for a long time, he finally gave up.

After all, the cultivation methods he knew were all human methods of cultivation.

He's stopped thinking about it too much and just wants to live out his life peacefully.

He believed that the spirit of the little tower wouldn't allow him to keep reincarnating as a beast.

After all, this kind of experience is about tempering one's mindset, and one lifetime is enough.

As it was getting dark, Shui Wuhen decided to go out to find something to eat.

During this time, he had stored up a lot of food, and when the heavy snow came in winter, he would stay in the cave and spend the winter comfortably.

In order to have enough food for the winter, he naturally had to work hard to find more food.

Upon reaching the cave entrance, I cautiously peered out and listened to the sounds around me.

There were no unusual sounds around, and Shui Wuhen slowly emerged from the cave.

About two miles from the cave, there is a hickory tree. These days, walnuts fall from it from time to time, making it a good source of dry food.

Ordinary mountain rats wouldn't travel this far to forage, but Shui Wuhen is no ordinary mountain rat.

Because of the long distance, Shui Wuhen also planned to use human ingenuity to make a container for the walnuts, so that he could carry more walnuts back at once.

As they approached the walnut tree, Shui Wuhen bit off a leaf from a large plant.

With great effort, I folded the plant leaf in half, rolled over it with my chubby body, and folded the leaf completely in half.

Next, Shui Wuhen bit off a very thin but fairly hard shrub branch.

The shrub branch was bitten off into two thin sticks a few inches long.

Then, with his clumsy mouse claws, he spent a great deal of effort to finally use two thin sticks to pierce and secure the edges of the folded plant leaves.

A plant leaf pocket was thus made. Although it was very rough and not sturdy at all, Shui Wuhen only hoped that it could last for this journey.

Carrying the homemade plant bag in its mouth, it quickly ran to the walnut tree.

Sure enough, today's strong winds caused some more walnuts to fall.

Shui Wuhen held the walnut with its two front paws and stuffed it into its homemade plant bag.

However, this plant bag is really small; it was almost full after only six or seven walnuts were stuffed in.

In any case, it's quite impressive that so many can be transported back in one go.

Shui Wuhen carefully bit the side of the plant bag with the leaf stalk and raised his head high. Although he tried his best to raise his head, the bottom of the plant bag was still rubbing against the ground.

There's nothing we can do about it, after all, that's just how tall he is.

Just as he was carefully dragging the food back, a pair of sharp claws appeared before him with lightning speed.

The speed was too fast, giving him no time to react.

Claws grabbed him, pinned him down, and then two rows of sharp teeth bit into his body—all in an instant.

Shui Wuhen sighed inwardly. He had tried his best to live, but he still couldn't escape the predators' hunting.

Xiao Han was very happy. As soon as she arrived, she saw a dog-like mountain rat acting suspiciously.

Such a fat mountain rat is enough for her to have a good meal.

Picking up a fat mountain rat weighing at least five or six pounds, Xiao Han was about to leave when her gaze swept over a bag made of folded plant leaves secured with wooden spikes.

At that moment, a walnut rolled out of the pocket of the plant leaf.

Oh dear, this mountain rat has already developed human-like intelligence and knows how to make tools!

Out of sheer surprise, Xiao Han opened her mouth, ready to take a good look at the plant pocket.

Anyway, on flat ground with no holes to crawl into, even a mouse couldn't outrun her.

Xiao Han used its paw to poke around in the pocket of the plant leaf with great interest. Indeed, it was something only intelligent beings could create.

Folding a leaf in half and securing it with a splinter is a skill even a wild monkey wouldn't have thought of.

Just then, the mountain rat, which had been pretending to be dead, suddenly darted towards the bushes not far away.

Shui Wuhen had long ago dug a shallow cave nearby to serve as a temporary refuge.

Seeing that her prey had escaped, Xiao Han didn't bother to examine the bag closely anymore and turned to run after it.

However, the mountain rat, Shui Wuhen, had already simulated the escape route and used the bushes for cover, which repeatedly thwarted Xiao Han's attempts to catch him.

Just as Xiao Han leaped over a clump of bushes and was about to catch him, Shui Wuhen finally slipped into the makeshift hole.

Shui Wuhen, who had just escaped death, was relieved to be hiding in the cave when he was horrified to discover that the lynx was still a half-grown kitten, not much bigger than him, and had already poked its head into the cave.

Even a mouse will bite a cat when cornered.

Shui Wuhen was about to be the mouse that bit the cat when he leaped up and bit the cat's mouth. Just then, a very surprised voice came through his mental connection.

"Are you some kind of sentient beast? You can even make tools!"

Although Xiao Han's soul was trapped inside the beast's body and many of his supernatural abilities were suppressed, he could still use the method of communicating with intelligent monsters.

Shui Wuhen's body stiffened.

The next moment, a meow came, and the cat shook its head vigorously.

Shui Wuhen quickly released his mouth and retreated rapidly.

Then, a thought arose in my mind.

Shui Wuhen was overjoyed and replied using telepathy, "Are you Xiao Han? Are you Xiao Han?"

Xiao Han, the lynx, was stunned.

Wow, no wonder this rat can make tools, it turns out the other side is also a human.

It's still someone I know well.

"Who are you? How do you know my soul is inside this lynx's body?"

Since he didn't know what kind of beast Xiao Han was inside, Shui Wuhen didn't bother searching for her. He only wanted to live out his rat life in peace and then go back to see her again.

I never imagined that I would almost become Xiao Han's prey.

With a sigh in his heart, Shui Wuhen replied through telepathy, "I am Shui Wuhen."

Xiao Han: Oh my god, Shui Wuhen has turned into a mouse, hahaha!

Indeed, happiness is always relative.

At this moment, Xiao Han felt that she was still very lucky.

The small hole, which served as a temporary refuge from disaster, was too small, so Xiao Han retreated outside.

He then said, "Let's talk outside; it's too uncomfortable inside."

After saying that, she subconsciously touched her mouth, which had been bitten by Shui Wuhen, with her cat paw.

"You rat are utterly rebellious! How dare you bite me, a cat! You've really defied the heavens!"

Shui Wuhen felt embarrassed, but inwardly he was complaining.

If you hadn't happened to speak telepathically, I would have bitten off a piece of your flesh.