In the primeval forest that blocks out the sun, even in the harsh summer, only sporadic sunlight can be cast. "Chichijiji..."
The long-term drought has made the ground of the primeval forest no longer wet, and the animals are not in the mood to hunt at noon. Only some insects are chirping tirelessly.
Under drought, many animals in the primeval forest will have a hard time, but for some animals, drought will make them more active, such as... certain insects.
"Shashasha!"
In the forest, a hunting team was exploring the direction of the swamp to clear obstacles for the following team. Suddenly, the soldier responsible for exploring the path in front ran back quickly, signaling the team to stop while running, with a somewhat panicked expression on his face.
"What happened?"
After the warrior came back, Nepeta jumped off the back of a black wind rhinoceros and asked the warrior.
"Whoosh whoosh...bugs...a lot of bugs..."
While breathing heavily, the warrior opened his hands to show the size of the insect to Nepeta.
Nepeta frowned and said with an unhappy expression: "The most common thing in the forest is bugs. What's all the fuss about?"
"Not...not an ordinary bug..."
The soldier felt that the explanation was not clear, so he said again: "Leader, why don't you come with me to the front and have a look."
"Okay, I want to see what kind of insect it is that makes you panic like this."
Nepeta turned over and sat on the back of the Black Wind Rhino, while the warrior rode a swift and swift bird, and together they ran towards the forest ahead.
Soon after, Jingjie, led by the soldier, ran to the foot of a low mountain ahead. "Swish, rustle..." Jingjie had just rode the Black Wind Rhino near the low mountain when she heard a series of strange sounds.< /p>
I have heard this sound from the Nepeta breeding team. It is the sound of a large number of insects eating plant stems and leaves at the same time.
When he rode the Black Wind Rhino up a short mountain for a while, he soon saw a very terrifying scene.
I saw countless insects lying on the trees, eating the leaves crazily.
These bugs are about the size of a fist, with a yellowish-brown body surface, a pair of wings on their back, a pair of tentacles on their heads, a pair of large compound eyes, and sharp mouthparts.
It has six legs in total on its abdomen. The two pairs of forelimbs are short and flexible, with barbs at the ends, which can firmly grasp the stems and leaves of plants. The hind limbs are three to four times thicker than the forelimbs, have jagged barbs, and have an amazing jumping ability.
"Is this...a grasshopper?"
Nepeta looked at the insects in confusion, unsure for a moment.
The plants and insects in this world are relatively large, so a fist-sized grasshopper is nothing, and even larger nepeta has been seen.
But there are too many of these bugs, and they look extremely ferocious. A large group of bugs fly to a big tree and eat all the leaves in the blink of an eye.
As the leader of the hunting team of the Vine Tribe over the years, Nepeta has seen a lot of things and has seen many kinds of insects.
The insects in front of him looked like grasshoppers, but were more ferocious than grasshoppers, which gave him a numbing feeling of fear after seeing them.
The first is the quantity. There are so many of these bugs that every tree is covered with bugs. The number is so large that it is impossible to count them.
The second is the speed with which they eat. These bugs eat leaves very quickly, and they don’t pick at all, no matter the old or young leaves, they eat them all.
All the trees that have been gnawed by them have bare branches with not a single leaf left, which is extremely scary.
Nepeta looked at the terrifying insects all over the mountains and plains, and listened to the sound of their gnawing. She swallowed hard, and her whole body fell into a brief state of sluggishness.
"Huh..." A gust of wind blew by, Jing Jie was shaken and woke up.
At this time, there was a group of bugs ahead. After eating all the leaves of a big tree, they immediately flew to the next big tree and continued eating.
Nepeta looked at it for a while and felt a little flustered, but she was unwilling to go back like this. "Go to the top of the mountain and have a look."
Nepeta urged the Black Wind Rhino to move forward, and the warrior followed closely beside him on a bird of prey.
The short mountain was not steep and the slope was relatively gentle. They easily climbed to the top of the mountain along the slope.
When Jie Jie stood on a big rock at the top of the mountain and looked into the distance, he was shocked again.
It is obviously summer when the vegetation is lush, but in the forests on the hills ahead, there is no green left, only bare branches and leaves.
"Don't... don't move on, go back to the tribe..."
Nepeta was obviously a little panicked, but she forced herself to remain calm and make a decision.
This kind of bug is far more terrifying than imagined. You must go back and report it to Jiang Xuan immediately, otherwise once these bugs fly to the Vine Tribe, they will cause a devastating blow to all the crop fields.
"Dong dong dong..."
Nepeta turned around and ran back on the Black Wind Rhino, and the warrior quickly followed up on the Bird of Prey.
After returning to the location of the members of the hunting team, Jie Jie briefly explained the situation to them, and then left a small group of people to monitor the movements of the insects, while he himself took the others back to the tribe.<
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Two days later, the hunting team returned to the Vine Tribe. Jie Jie found Jiang Xuan and reported to him the insect plague they encountered this time.
"A bug like a grasshopper? Eaten up entire tracts of forest?"
When Jiang Xuan listened to Nepeta's description, his heart suddenly "thumped" because he thought of a very troublesome and extremely destructive pest: locusts!
Locust is a very terrible pest. It has strong reproductive ability, fast growth rate, and has wings to fly.
Once it appears on a large scale, it will often cause a fatal blow to green plants in a large area.
Among them, the most serious losses are undoubtedly various crops.
It is already very difficult for large growers like the Vine Tribe to deal with a long-term drought. If a locust plague is added to the mix, Jiang Xuan simply cannot imagine the terrible consequences.
Jiang Xuan remembered that in the history of the previous world, droughts and locust plagues often occurred at the same time, bringing devastating blows to the local planting industry and leading to large-scale famine. In this environment, it was difficult for ordinary people to survive.
Jiang Xuan thought of this and immediately asked: "Where are these insects? Are they flying towards us?"
Nepeta replied: "These bugs are still eating leaves in the forest near the swamp. When I came back, they were still eating plants on a low mountain. I don't know if they will fly towards us."
Jiang Xuan thought for a while, he couldn't afford to gamble on this kind of thing. He had to see it with his own eyes before he could feel at ease. "Let's go over there on glutinous rice balls and have a look. Yes!"
Jiang Xuan immediately brought weapons and some necessary items for going out, then used the bone whistle to call Tangyuan back, and rode Tangyuan to the place where the hunting team found those bugs.
"Hey..."
The huge glutinous rice ball screamed excitedly, then spiraled into the sky, flying towards the great swamp with Jiang Xuan and Jing Jie.