Chapter 280: Terrible Insect

Plague In the primeval forest that blocks out the sun, even in the harsh summer, only a few rays of sunlight can be cast.

“Chichichi…”

The long-term drought has made the ground of the primeval forest no longer moist. The animals are in no mood to hunt at noon. Only some insects are chirping tirelessly.

Under the drought, many animals in the primeval forest will have a hard time, but for some animals, the drought will make them more active, such as... some insects.

“Rustle, rustle!”

In the forest, a hunting team was exploring in the direction of the Great Swamp to clear obstacles for the following teams. Suddenly, the warrior in charge of exploring the way ahead ran back quickly, signaling the team to stop while running, with a panicked expression on his face.

"What happened?"

After the soldier ran back, Uncaria jumped off the back of a black rhinoceros and asked the soldier.

"Huff huff...bugs...lots of bugs..."

The warrior gasped and opened his hands to show the size of the insect to Uncaria.

Uncaria frowned and said unhappily, "The forest is full of insects. What's the big deal?"

"No... not an ordinary bug..."

The soldier felt that he couldn't explain it clearly, so he said, "Leader, why don't you come with me to the front and take a look."

"Well, I want to see what kind of bug is causing you to panic like this."

Uncaria turned over and sat on the back of the black rhinoceros again, while the warrior rode a swift bird of prey, and they ran towards the forest ahead together.

Soon after, under the leadership of the warrior, Uncaria ran to the foot of a low hill ahead.

“Rustle…”

As Gou Teng rode the Black Wind Rhinoceros close to the low mountain, he heard a series of strange noises.

Uncaria rhynchophylla has heard this kind of sound in the breeding team. It is the sound of a large number of insects eating the stems and leaves of plants at the same time.

After he rode the Black Wind Rhinoceros up a short distance up the hill, he soon saw a very terrifying scene.

I saw countless insects lying on the tree, gnawing at the leaves frantically.

These insects are about the size of a fist, with a yellowish-brown body, a pair of wings on their backs, a pair of antennae on their heads, a pair of large compound eyes, and sharp mouthparts.

It has a total of six legs 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 or four times thicker than the forelimbs, with serrated barbs, and have amazing jumping ability.

"Is this... a grasshopper?"

Uncaria looked at the insects in doubt and was unsure for a moment.

The plants and insects in this world are all relatively large, so a fist-sized grasshopper is nothing, and even larger Uncaria rhynchophylla have been seen.

But there are so many of these insects, and they look extremely ferocious. A large group of them can fly to a big tree and eat all the leaves clean in the blink of an eye.

As the leader of the hunting team of the Teng tribe over the years, Gouteng has become quite knowledgeable and has seen many different kinds of insects.

These insects in front of him looked like grasshoppers but were more ferocious than grasshoppers. They made him feel a chilling sense of fear.

One is the number. There are so many of these insects that any tree is covered with them. The number is so large that it is impossible to count them.

The second is their eating speed. These insects eat leaves extremely quickly and are not picky at all. They eat up all the leaves, whether old or tender.

All the trees that have been gnawed by them have become bare branches, without a single leaf left, which is extremely scary.

Uncaria looked at the horrible insects all over the mountains, listened to the intensive sounds of their gnawing, swallowed hard, and fell into a brief daze.

"call……"

A gust of wind blew by, and Uncaria rhynchophylla was shaken all over and woke up.

At this time, there was a group of insects in front. After eating all the leaves of a big tree, they immediately flew to the next big tree and continued eating.

After looking at it for a while, Uncaria felt a little nervous, but he was unwilling to go back like this.

"Let's go to the top of the mountain and have a look."

Uncaria urged the Black Wind Rhinoceros to move forward, and the warrior riding on the bird of prey followed closely beside him.

The hill was not steep and the slope was relatively flat, so they easily climbed to the top of the mountain along the slope.

When Gou Teng stood on a large rock at the highest point of the mountain and looked into the distance, he was shocked again.

It was summer, a time of lush vegetation, but the forests on the hills ahead had no green at all, only bare branches and leaves.

"Don't... don't go any further, go back to the tribe..."

Uncaria was obviously a little flustered, but he forced himself to stay calm and made a decision.

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The horror of these insects is far beyond imagination. We must go back and report to Jiang Xuan immediately. Otherwise, once these insects fly to the Teng tribe, they will cause a devastating blow to all the farmland.

“Boom boom boom…”

Uncaria Rhino turned around and ran back, and the warrior riding on the bird of prey quickly followed.

After returning to the location of the hunting team, Gou Teng briefly explained the situation to them, then left a small group of people behind to monitor the movements of the insects, while he took the others back to the tribe.

Two days later, the hunting team returned to the Teng tribe. Gou Teng found Jiang Xuan and reported to him the insect plague they encountered this time.

"Like grasshoppers? Eating up whole tracts of forest?"

After Jiang Xuan heard Uncaria's description, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, because he remembered a very troublesome and destructive pest: locusts! Locusts are a very scary pest. They have strong reproductive capacity, grow fast, and have wings to fly.

Once it appears on a large scale, it often causes fatal damage to green plants in a large area.

Among them, the most serious losses were undoubtedly the various crops.

For large-scale farming families like the Teng Tribe, it is already difficult to deal with prolonged droughts. If a locust plague is added to the mix, Jiang Xuan simply cannot bear to think about the terrible consequences.

Jiang Xuan remembered that in the history of his 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 such an 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?"

Uncaria replied, "These insects are still eating leaves in the forest near the Great Swamp. When I came back, they were still eating plants on a small hill. It is not clear whether they will fly towards us."

Jiang Xuan thought about it and decided that he couldn’t afford to take the risk of such a thing. He had to see it with his own eyes to feel at ease.

"Let's ride Tangyuan over to take a look."

"yes!"

Jiang Xuan immediately took his weapons and some necessary items for going out, then used a bone whistle to call back Tangyuan, and rode Tangyuan to the place where the hunting team found the insects.

"Eer..."

The huge Tangyuan chirped excitedly, then circled into the air, carrying Jiang Xuan and Uncaria rhyncho towards the swamp.

(End of this chapter)