Chapter 285 Locust Tribe
The locusts were still devouring the forest madly, and swarms of them kept flying in from the northwest, as if they were endless.
The warriors of the Teng Tribe, the Shangui Tribe, and the two affiliated tribes watched as they killed more and more locusts. Their initial enthusiasm had long since disappeared, and a feeling of despair gradually grew in their hearts.
Even poultry and giant frogs have a clear resistance to eating locusts, and they avoid those locusts that have mutated and become highly poisonous.
"No wonder locust plagues are always associated with famine. They are truly horrible."
Jiang Xuan stood on the top of a low mountain, looking at the forest in front of him that had been eaten bare, and the mutated locusts that had taken on various bright colors and were extremely aggressive.
It was not until this time that he realized that the locust plague was far more severe than he had imagined, and it was impossible to eradicate it by conventional means.
Just when he was hesitating whether to ask the totem god for help, the leader of the thorn vines, Fengcao, hurriedly found him and passed on important information to him.
"Chief, our people have discovered a tribe behind these locusts."
"This tribe is called the Locust Tribe, and their patron saint is a female locust."
"Our people also discovered that the endless stream of locusts flew out from where this tribe passed by!"
Jiang Xuan was stunned and said, "In other words, this locust plague is not only a natural disaster, but also a man-made disaster?"
Feng Cao nodded and said, "If there were no locust tribe, the locusts would not mutate so quickly, and we would not be completely unable to stop them."
"How strong is the Locust Tribe?"
"It's hard to say. The Locust Tribe is taking advantage of this locust plague to frantically annex other tribes. Their population is growing almost every day, and their current strength is much stronger than that of an average medium-sized tribe."
“So powerful…”
Jiang Xuan frowned. It seemed that this locust tribe was not easy to deal with.
In fact, when he heard that the locust tribe had a female locust as a patron saint, he felt a little excited.
Because large-scale locust swarms are too difficult to deal with, if you can catch the mother locust, you can use it to control the locust swarm and resolve the locust plague.
But if the locust tribe is very powerful, it will be difficult to catch the mother locust, and we may even have to guard against the locust tribe's plans to attack the vine tribe.
Jiang Xuan thought for a moment and said, "Continue to gather intelligence on the Locust Tribe. It would be best to find out the situation more clearly and in more detail. Report any developments to me in a timely manner."
"yes!"
Fengcao bowed to Jiang Xuan, then turned around and left in a hurry, soon disappearing.
Jiang Xuan stood in place as a red locust flew over his head. He stretched out his hand and accurately caught the flying locust. He held it in his hand and observed it repeatedly, as if he wanted to see something from it.
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Southern Wilderness, northwest.
Countless locusts were circling in the sky. Some of them had mutated into super locusts, which were many times larger than ordinary locusts, with a wingspan of more than one meter.
A black and red super locust was lying on a corpse, eating meat with its chewing mouthparts, until its mouth was full of blood.
An old man stood next to the super locust, his face covered with locust-like totem patterns, looking very strange and hideous.
"Eat, eat, you are the first meat-eating locust in our locust tribe, eat more..."
The old man's eyes were full of fanaticism, because according to the legends left by witches of past generations, when meat-eating locusts appeared, the locust tribe would prosper.
"Wu, except for women, children and those who are willing to surrender, everyone else was killed."
A warrior covered in blood walked up to the old man and reported to him respectfully.
He is the leader of the Locust Tribe, a four-color warrior, and the old man is the witch of the Locust Tribe.
At this time, they had just wiped out a small tribe. There were ruins everywhere around them, and corpses were scattered on the ground. The deaths were very miserable.
The witch of the Locust Tribe nodded and said, "Very good, our Locust Tribe has grown a little stronger."
"Before, our Locust Tribe could only survive in the desolate land of the Western Wilderness and had never set foot in the fertile land of the Southern Wilderness. Now, our chance has come!"
He looked up at the sky. The sun was so bright that he couldn't look directly at it. The sunlight was like a raging fire, burning all living things on the earth.
His face was fanatical as he said, "Let this drought last a little longer. One day, our locusts will eat up all the tribes here!"
When the chief heard these words, his blood began to boil and his expression became equally fanatical.
"Wu, which tribe are we going to destroy next?"
The witch pointed at the locusts flying in the sky and said, "Locusts know where the food is. We just need to follow the direction the locusts are heading."
"good!"
The chief excitedly clenched the blood-stained stone spear and strode towards the dilapidated residential area, urging the warriors of the Locust Tribe to quickly pack up the spoils, and then continued on his way with the women, children, and surrendered warriors.
Wu Ze stood where he was, watching the locusts in the sky fly towards the southeast after they had eaten their fill.
That direction is exactly where the tribes of the Great Swamp and the Vine Tribe are located!
The next day, after finishing their packing and eating their fill, the Locust Tribe continued to move forward with the locust swarm that was like a dark cloud. At this time, the population of the Locust Tribe had reached more than 6,000 people, and the team was very large.
Such a large tribe cannot sustain itself by hunting alone.
They must keep up with the pace of the locust swarms, eat all the prey along the way, destroy all the tribes along the way, and plunder all the resources.
The locust tribe is like a snowball on a steep hillside. Once it starts rolling down, it cannot stop. It will either absorb the snow along the way and become bigger and bigger, or it will hit an extremely hard rock or tree and be smashed to pieces.
There is no other choice.
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Southern Wilderness, Mountain Turtle Tribe.
"Wu, do we really have to continue sending people to kill the locusts? But the locusts are getting more and more, and we can't kill them all. It also delays our hunting time."
In the wooden house, the pangolin sat by the fire with a helpless expression on his face.
The witch of the Mountain Turtle Tribe has become older, and his skin is wrinkled like orange peel, but he is still in good spirits, his eyes are still bright, and his mind is still clear.
"Shanjia, since the Teng tribe is staying there to fight the locusts, we can't withdraw. Once we withdraw, the Teng tribe will no longer trust us if we encounter any problems in the future."
"In your eyes, we are fighting locusts, but in my eyes, this is a war. Whether we win or lose, we should stand on the side of the Vine Tribe."
"What's more, those locusts are closer to the territory of our Mountain Turtle Tribe than the Vine Tribe. If we give up, everything we have now, including the Mushroom Forest, may be severely damaged."
After listening to the witch's words, Shanjia felt that there was some truth in them, but facing the overwhelming locusts, he felt a little desperate.
"Wu, there's been a severe drought this year, and we don't have much food stored. If we continue to use it up like this, what will we eat in the winter?"
The witch of the Mountain Turtle tribe slowly took out a piece of burnt turtle shell and said, "Shanjia, as the leader of the tribe, you must learn to be patient. I have already divined, and things will soon turn around."
Shan Jia looked at the tortoise shell with traces of burning, and he saw a very strange crack, which made a big bend somewhere and then stopped abruptly...
(End of this chapter)
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