"I hope these locusts won't attack living creatures and eat their flesh..."
Even on Earth in the past, although locusts were herbivorous insects, there were examples of them eating meat. When they were extremely hungry, they ate other insects and even ate meat from discarded human bones.
Although it took some effort to get here, due to the entanglement between the mental magic and Docler's mental fluctuations, it only took a moment to return to the vicinity of Docler's caravan.
Here, the atmosphere is very lively.
Dokler, the captain of the guard and Vita had dinner together at the home of the most respected person in the village.
There were no extra side dishes for dinner, just a large cylinder-shaped pot placed on a stone fence stove with holes at the bottom for air vents and for adding firewood.
The pot is filled with meat and bones, as well as a kind of fibrous food and the indispensable tender core vegetables. The full pot exudes a strong aroma.
The table is a small low table made up of two semicircular pieces with a big pot in the middle. A group of people sit on mats around the table. The hardwood bowls on the table are filled with hot soup and vegetables and meat. They hold steaming hot pancakes in their hands, eat the pancakes with vegetables, meat and soup, and chat while eating, creating a very lively atmosphere.
To be honest, even Qin Xiaoxia was quite interested in this pot of broth that looked more like a hodgepodge.
They chatted with each other about what they had seen in the world and this year's harvest.
"By the way, Mudlin, do you know that a lot of the forest land to your north has been eaten up?"
Docler filled his stomach first and then finally asked the question.
"Eat it all?"
The elder Mudlin didn't seem to understand yet.
"It's just that all the trees and grass have been eaten up, and there's nothing green left."
The captain of the guard added.
"Oh, I'm not sure about that. The markets are all in the southern towns, and we seldom go to the northern wilderness."
"That's right, but let me tell you, things are very strange over there right now. I don't know what has eaten up all the forest land. That's right!"
Docler thought of something and took out a small wooden box from his pocket.
"Look at this."
He flipped his hands and opened the small wooden box with a "click", revealing several locust shells of different sizes.
"I suspect the plants were eaten by these bugs, but then they were eaten clean by other things. We found many of these empty corpses along the way!"
"This kind of bug!"
Mudlin had obviously seen this before, and he took out the largest and most similar locust shell from Docler's box.
"I've seen this kind of bug before. Recently, someone has caught one here occasionally. It's very ferocious when it eats vegetables. You need a lot of force to hit it to death with a stick. It's scary! But is this dead?"
Docler nodded.
"Dead, and we saw a lot of these dead bugs. I guess the ones you saw were the ones that escaped, most of them were eaten by something else!"
What the hell are these “escaped bugs”? Qin Xiaoxia was watching them analyzing it very clearly, and it was ridiculous that they analyzed the locusts as victims.
It’s better to remind them. There are ready-made methods.
Docler, who was drinking something hot, suddenly felt hot and something was wrong.
"Hiss!!! It's so hot!!!"
He pulled open his clothes on his chest and pulled out something by a chain.
With a "ding-ling" sound, the crystal accessories fell on Docler's desk.
The faint light from the fire under the pot made the accessories refract brilliant light, and it was obvious at a glance that they were priceless items.
"What's wrong, boss?" "Are you okay, Master Docler?"
Docler rubbed his chest, still feeling the heat with his hands, and then he carefully pulled off his inner clothing.
"This thing suddenly became very hot just now. I think it almost burned my skin... eh!"
The skin inside the lining was very smooth, not red nor swollen, not to mention burns, there wasn't even a scratch.
"Strange... It was so hot just now... I felt like I was going to be cooked..."
Docler looked at the ornament in confusion, as did the two guards and the villagers. Of course, the villagers were astonished by this beautiful treasure and looked at it in wonder.
He reached out to touch it, then immediately pulled his hand back out of reflex.
“Hiss~~Oh!!! It’s so hot!!”
He shook his hands and looked at his fingers in the flame, but they were still unhurt and the burning sensation disappeared immediately.
"Let me see!"
The captain of the guards reached out his hand carefully. Based on Dokler's past, the people in the caravan trusted him very much.
"Be careful, it..."
Before Dokler could finish his reminder, he saw the captain of the guards retract his hand and also check whether his hand was burned.
“It’s really hot!”
"I told you so!"
"This gem has never changed. What's going on?"
Docler was still confused when he suddenly felt that something was wrong with the gem.
"Boss, this gem seems to be emitting a faint light, but it's hard to see clearly!"
Vita also reported the same discovery.
"Mudlin, put out the fire first!"
"Oh, good, good!"
Stunned old Mudlin quickly took out an iron lid from the side, and his son beside him used an iron hook to lift up the big pot. Old Mudlin quickly put the iron lid down on the center of the stone railing.
The fire in the room went out instantly, but the room did not immediately fall into darkness because the crystal accessories were emitting a faint light.
“It’s really glowing!”
Docler exclaimed in amazement, how much is this treasure worth!
"The unwilling curser... the greedy summoner... the tyrannical supplicant... the calamity that brings darkness... the yellow-grey devourer is forever hungry... smoke and fire are the weapons to resist them..."
A low and peculiar voice echoed sparsely in this room. Although I should not be able to understand it, I can understand its general meaning in my heart.
After it was transmitted three times, this sound that seemed to ring simultaneously in my ears and in my heart gradually disappeared.
However, the faces of the seven or eight heroes in the room were dazed and frightened. Qin Xiaoxia didn't know whether these guys understood it or not. They should be able to understand it as long as they saw the swarm of locusts.
Docler was the first to react, looking around to see the faces of the people around him.
"You heard the sound just now, right? It was made by this gem!"
He carefully reached out and touched it, and found that the temperature of the gem had subsided. He then kept touching and moving the crystal accessories with his hands and cutlery, as if to confirm whether this thing was alive.
"What did it just say? Why does it feel so bad?"
Vita mentioned it carefully, and Docler answered it casually.
"Because the content is actually very bad."
While everyone was being suspicious, Qin Xiaoxia had already sensed the movement of the locust swarm. Apparently, they had eaten all the food they had just eaten.
“Buzz buzz buzz…” “Buzz buzz buzz…”
Soon, people in the village began to hear an irritating buzzing sound even in their houses, and they opened their doors to see what was going on.
Docler also came out with everyone, carrying the crystal accessories that were no longer hot.
Naturally, they looked towards the northern sky in search of the sound.
It was the time when the Sun Star was about to rest, but the afterglow of the sunlight should still allow people to see clearly. The dimness in the house was only because the cold-proof wooden doors and windows were too tight and there was not enough light.
But now it feels like the night is coming early. The villagers and caravan members look up at the sky. Although they can't see clearly, they can see a general idea that makes their scalps tingle.
The dense yellow-gray sky blocked out the shining stars at dusk, and all that could be heard was the buzzing sound of flapping wings.
It looked like dust or flowing smoke, or more like a terrifying big open hand that was slowly pressing down, causing great psychological oppression for the entire village.
They had never seen such a scene before, and a feeling of suffocation and uneasiness rose up.
The crystal accessory in Docler's hand began to heat up again, but this time it was not scalding.
He trembled a little, not only because he thought of the strange reminder just now, but also because of another thing he suddenly remembered.
When he bought this crystal accessory, the ruffian who sold it to him mentioned a story about a magical creature from outer space who was burned to death by the church and cast a curse before dying...
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