Chapter 528: A Millennium

The Macaw Orc curled his lips and said, "It's just that a once-in-a-millennium event happened in our city, and it has something to do with you!"

Si Shuo and his group, who were pretending to drink water and rest nearby, were even more flustered. They had a vague premonition that this matter was very likely the same as what Madam Mu Qiong and High Priest Wu Zhou had said.

But what is a rare event? Xiao Cheng cupped his hands and smiled bitterly: "Brother, please stop keeping me in suspense and tell me quickly." He handed over a small animal skin bag of dried fruits.

The Macaw Orc nodded happily, took the animal skin bag into his arms, and continued to eat melon seeds and said, "Don't the Iron-eating Beastmen have endless bamboo forests and mountains? That was the place that the Iron-eating Beastmen specially chose when they built the city. Everyone knows that the Iron-eating Beastmen are powerful, but they are also really poor. They are poor because they use crystal stones to grow bamboo forests and mountains.

The bamboo forest has survived for thousands of years, and a few days ago, the bamboo forest blossomed!"

Si Shuo and the others were stunned for a moment, their brains still digesting the news of the bamboo forest blooming. The surrounding beastmen gathered around and said in unison:

"How can bamboo bloom? If it blooms, it means it's dead. I don't know when it will grow into a bamboo forest of this size again..."

"The Iron-eating Beast Tribe has a large appetite and spends half of their time chewing bamboo every day. Now that there is no bamboo forest, I'm afraid they won't be able to eat enough..."

"If you ask me, this is a warning from the Beast God. The Iron-eating Beast Tribe is the only one in power, occupying such a large bamboo forest mountain. Now that the bamboo is dead, isn't it just the right time to share it with everyone?

Now the Iron-eating Beasts can no longer find excuses to monopolize it..."

"You said, the rainy season is coming soon. Without bamboo, can the iron-eating beasts survive the rainy and cold seasons?"

"It's difficult. In the past, whenever it rained or snowed, they would go and gather bamboos to chew on every now and then... Alas, this is God's will to destroy the Iron-eating Beast Tribe..."

Wei Ce's face suddenly changed, and he whispered, "Sister Shuo, I'll go back to the tribe to check the situation first!"

Si Shuo nodded: "We'll follow right away."

The big guy didn't dare to delay and continued to transform into beast form and took Si Shuo and the cubs to the territory of the iron-eating beasts.

But the closer they got to their tribe, the more beastmen there were, and the noise could be heard from far away: "The Iron-eating Beastmen must have offended the Beast God, and the punishment from heaven has been brought down... We must drive them out..."

"They are so overbearing that even the Beast God can't stand it. They really deserve it..."

"I think there must be a disaster in their tribe, bringing disaster to the whole tribe..."

Wei Ce stomped on the ground hard, and everyone felt the sky and earth shaking. The pressure was like a hurricane, clearing a path through the crowded crowd.

He ran to Wei Jin, transformed into a human form, and asked solemnly, "Father, are the bamboos blooming?"

Wei Jin nodded dejectedly, "Yes, all the bamboos on the bamboo forest mountain bloomed overnight. These are the bamboos planted by our ancestors, and they have been carefully cared for and nurtured for so many years. How come the bamboos are blooming here?"

How are the more than 400 iron-eating beastmen in their tribe going to survive?

"What's going on, Father? Have you investigated it thoroughly?"

"Well, everything is normal, except that the bamboos suddenly bloomed," Wei Jin couldn't figure it out.

"Let's go to the mountain to investigate the situation," Zhile stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "This matter is too strange!"

"We'll go too," Xu Chi and Gong You nodded. "If the bamboo has really grown to its limit and bloomed, that's fine. But if there are other evil beasts getting in the way, we can't afford to suffer that loss."

The eyes of several elders were red and they blamed themselves, thinking that they must have failed to take good care of the bamboo forest.

But the younger generation agreed with Gongyou's statement, "Yes, someone must have done something bad! Otherwise, how could such a large area of ​​bamboo bloom at the same time?"

"Yes, each of us has a hilltop, and we all eat old bamboo first. We eat it before the bamboo blooms, so it is impossible for it to bloom in a certain year. And we take good care of the bamboo forest, providing enough nutrition, water and crystals..."

"Bamboo does not have the conditions to bloom, and it should not bloom..."

When Si Shuo was disconnected from the system, he exchanged a lot of books, including some about bamboo planting and management.

She pretended to take the book out from the animal skin bag and flipped through it. "It explains why bamboo blooms!"

Si Shuo saw this title in the catalog. She quickly flipped through it and saw that experts attributed the cause of bamboo flowering to two types: "cycle theory" and "nutrition theory", which was similar to what a young orc said just now.

Their meticulous care of the bamboo forest mountain eliminated the conditions for its flowering.

However, "because bamboo reproduces asexually through underground stems and only blooms when faced with drought and insect infestation, people associate bamboo with famine, disaster and hunger, so ancient people often regard it as a sign of escaping famine and chaos... It is said that bamboo can sense some changes in the soil... and resist the adverse environment..."

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

"Insect pest?" Ji Liang narrowed his eyes slightly. "Maybe we should dig out the bamboo and see what's going on."

They soon arrived at the Bamboo Forest Mountain. From a distance, they saw clusters of yellow-green flowers hanging on the bamboos. The whole mountain was covered with them. It was so beautiful that it seemed to cover the Bamboo Forest Mountain with a veil, but it also made people feel desperate! When bamboo flowers bloom, they consume too many nutrients from the roots, stems, leaves and other organs, making it impossible for the bamboo to continue to grow and it can only gradually wither and die.

Wei Ce ran to the mountain, found a bamboo tree with flowers in bloom, and pulled it up by the roots. To his surprise, it was covered with mollies! When the mollies, which were less than two centimeters long, encountered the light, they crawled around to avoid it. There were dozens of them on the rhizome of just one bamboo tree.

The male iron-eating beasts that came with them opened their eyes wide and pulled out a bamboo each in disbelief. Under each bamboo there was a creepy-crawly maggot.

"What's going on? It's true that there are maggots in the bamboo forest, but the bamboo forest that has been there for thousands of years has been eaten away by these little bugs. It was fine before, but now that we have chickens, why are there still so many maggots?"

No one could believe this was the reason. However, the number of mole larvae was somewhat shocking, and they specialized in eating roots and rhizomes!

"No, the scent on this stem is a bit too strong," Zhile lowered his head and sniffed it, frowning, "It's like it's been marked, allowing Luogu to attack?"

Si Shuo looked down at the hole left by the bamboo after it was pulled out, "If the rhizome is really marked, then can we detect abnormalities underground?"

Wei Ze clenched his fists, with a bad suspicion in his mind. Among the orcs who could go underground, the most suspicious one was the Rat Clan...

Xuezhu raised her hand, "Father and mother, I can let the little field mouse go in and find out the situation!"

(End of this chapter)