The locusts that have evolved to this day may not be noticeable on Earth, but they are actually very scary in all aspects.

That’s right, bugs are still bugs, and the locusts that drifted into this world are not the most powerful mutations on Earth, but their terrifying power cannot be underestimated.

About a week later, a caravan was leaving the border of the Qinggele Empire through a small trail and heading towards a neighboring country along a familiar route.

Every year in early spring, they would go to the villages on the border of the Kingdom of Lensogt to buy the local specialty, tender greens, from the villagers.

The Kader region in the north of the Kingdom of Lensogt is affected by the sunken landforms and the changes of the Sun Star, forming a special climate that creates a natural rhythm of temperature and humidity at the junction of spring and winter every year.

It is also one of the necessary conditions for the growth of tender core vegetables.

This dish, which looks a bit like the stems of globe amaranth, is very delicious whether eaten raw or stewed. Cooking it with meat can bring out the rich aroma of the meat itself, making it a very popular product.

Generally, the yield of this kind of vegetable is not high. On a piece of land of the same size, the yield of planting ordinary grains will be more than ten times higher than that of planting tender core vegetables.

Ordinary civilians are "not qualified" to consider too much enjoyment. The most important thing is to have enough to eat, so the farmers there used to grow a little bit of tender core vegetables each family to occasionally satisfy their appetite, and the fields were mainly planted with grain crops.

This situation continued until the merchant Dokler and his caravan passed through those villages and happened to stay overnight in a village where they tasted tender greens for the first time.

The outer stem is hard, and it feels refreshing when chewed after peeling the skin. The core is juicy and has a special sweet aftertaste. It tastes better than some high-quality fruits and is very suitable for cooking. More importantly, these farmers are well versed in how to preserve this vegetable. As long as it is handled properly, it can be preserved for two or three months.

With a keen business sense, he smelled the business opportunity before him.

At that time, Dokler bought a considerable amount of tender cabbage from the village at a price that the farmers could not believe, although it only filled two wooden boxes.

Then Docler encouraged the nearby villagers to plant more of this crop. He would harvest as much as they planted every year, and no crops would be left over.

This kind of seductive force is irresistible to the border villages of the Kingdom of Lensogt in remote and desolate places.

At the beginning, some villagers planted a little more out of suspicion. After a year of agonizing wait, the businessman finally showed up as expected and took everything away at once.

The profits brought to the farmers by just growing a few more tender vegetables were even greater than the grain they grew, while grain occupied more than 80% of the farmers' fields.

Once the news spread, in the second and third years, the scale of growing tender greens in nearby villages gradually increased.

Of course, due to the limitations of suitable fields and the production capacity of the tender core vegetables themselves, the output is still limited, but it is precisely because of this that things are rare and valuable that Docler has gradually opened up sales channels in various high-end occasions.

The villagers sold it at a price of about 40 standard copper coins of all sizes per kilogram, which was nearly ten times the price of grain. But they didn't know that Dokler's price was two large silver coins per kilogram, which was equivalent to four small silver coins, and was also equivalent to 400 standard copper coins.

With this trip every year, an average of 10 carts are filled, and opening them can bring the entire caravan huge profits ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of large gold coins.

On this day, Dokler hummed a song and led his caravan, driving a dozen empty cargo camel carts towards the Kader area.

Looking at the good guys in his team, these are the good employees who helped him get rich, and they trust each other very much.

Dokler never treated the members of his caravan badly, and helped everyone live a good life to the best of his ability.

"Vita, take some of the goods back to stew meat. Tender cabbage is very nutritious and is very beneficial for nourishing during the recovery period. Little Vita should be able to run and jump again now!"

“Hahahahahaha…”

"Boss, look at him. His face is blooming with smiles!"

"Hehe, the boss is still the best. Vita is taking advantage of having a son!"

"that is!"

The guards around were joking with each other. They were not only guards, but also helpers who moved goods and did business.

"Why don't you find a wife and have a baby?"

Docler said with a smile.

"And you guys are not young anymore. It's not good to give all the spare money in your pocket to the girls in the archway. You should learn how to save!"

“Hahahaha…” “They can’t empty our pockets!!! Hehehe”

The guard named Vita just smiled. His wisest choice was to follow such a boss. Perhaps there would be no other boss like him in the world.

"Hey... Boss... Something is wrong with this place!"

Passing a stone ridge, the caravan gradually left the scenery of the southern border of the Qinggele Empire and entered the northern wilderness of the Kingdom of Lensoget.

Hearing the voice of the captain of the guards leading the way, Dokler and the guards around him also looked in that direction.

"These trees... this shouldn't be like this..."

"What's going on?"

"God of Light is above..."

The caravan's carriage wheels made noises as they rubbed against the ground. The people on the carriages and the surrounding camels and horses looked ahead in amazement. As they got closer, more and more scenes came into view.

At this season, everything should be reviving. They have walked this road many times, and it should be lush and green.

But now...

The captain of the guard rode his horse closer to a small tree.

“Swish~” “Pah~”

He drew his sword and swung it, chopping off a section of the tree trunk, then returned to the main team with the trunk.

"Was this eaten by something? Bugs?"

Docler carefully stroked the two-finger-thick tree trunk. There was not a trace of green on it, not even leaves. Even the green bark on the trunk itself was only a few strands left. The wood in most places had been eaten away and became rough. In some places, even the wood itself had been eaten away with several large holes.

"No, no way... here, are these all..."

A young man in the team asked in a low voice.

"I hope not... this is too terrible..."

Docler and the guards around him looked forward and around. There was no sign of tender grass or anything like that. The smaller saplings were also gone. There might only be a thin stump of a sapling left on the soil surface.

What they could feel most intuitively were the remaining trees. Only branches were left of them, and they were rough and bare. One of the most exaggerated things was this section of the trunk, which was full of traces of insect jaws gnawing everywhere.

This scene made Dokler and the caravan guards have a bad premonition, and they felt cold all over.

"Boss, look at this!"

A guard who had just dismounted to check came trotting over, holding several white, translucent objects in his hands.

"There are a lot of these things around here!"

The guards held in their hands the shed shells of arthropod insects, both large and small.

While Docler and his guards were observing their discoveries, the newly formed thought body on the roof of one of the carriages naturally attracted their attention.

Qin Xiaoxia originally just wanted to see what this caravan with crystal accessories was doing, then he saw the shell in the guard's hand.

Then he looked around reflexively. The bare woodland gave his real body on Earth goose bumps, which was rare.

"This is... Earth Locust!!!"