On the way back to Kuyu City, Bai Yuqi discovered a strange phenomenon.

That is, although the locust plague was ferocious, it did not cause an extinction blow to plants.

All kinds of plants are still growing tenaciously under the frenzied devouring of locusts like weeders!

And the closer you get to the Jungnam Mountain area, the more obvious this phenomenon becomes, and the closer you get to the Jungnan Mountain, the smaller and smaller the number of locust swarms.

When Bai Yuqi arrived near Kuyuxian City at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, he couldn't even see many locusts flying, but the plants grew extremely luxuriantly, obviously it was only early spring, but all kinds of plants grew as lush as in midsummer.

As he had speculated, the closer he got to the area of Jungnam Mountain, the source of the [Arcanon Particles], the higher the concentration of [Arcane Particles] per unit of space, even exceeding 1,000 units.

This peculiar phenomenon couldn't help but make Bai Yuqi think.

Obviously, [Arcane particles] can not only affect insects such as locusts, but also plants, and it seems to be more effective than insects!

Moreover, Bai Yuqi also discovered that the concentration of [Arcane particles] also seems to have an impact on living things.

Locusts, a low-level creature, can absorb arcane energy to strengthen themselves, but they can't withstand too high a concentration of [arcane particles].

That's why they instinctively avoid the Jungnan Mountain area and migrate to the surrounding areas where the concentration of [Arcane particles] is thin enough to be suitable for their survival.

This is good news for the current situation, at least the various plants cultivated by [Shennongmen] will not be harmed by the locust plague.

From an early age, Bai Yuqi instructed his disciples to research and cultivate various crops, grafting and hybridizing them to optimize yield and quality.

So now, in the territory under his name, a large number of breeding greenhouses and experimental fields have been built, and under the care of the disciples of [Shennongmen], the growth is not bad.

If there was no locust plague, spring plowing and transplanting should have been carried out at this time, but now the planting is also feeding the locusts, so it can only be delayed for a while, if not, it will be used as large-scale breeding to continue to improve the quality of crops.

On the way up the mountain to Kuyu City, Bai Yuqi noticed that the wild animals between the mountains and forests seemed to be much more luxuriant.

In particular, the chirping of all kinds of birds even sounded into a noisy shrill sound, and the flying clouds soared into clouds.

Bai Yuqi couldn't help but wonder if his previous judgment was a bit wrong, the reason why the locust plague did not come to Nanshan was not a problem of the concentration of [Arcane particles] at all, but a large number of their natural enemies were bred here, so he instinctively avoided here.

What surprised him even more was that the size of the various animals and birds in the mountains and forests seemed to have been greatly affected by the concentration of [Arcane Particles].

A flock of pheasants, numbering in the hundreds, had just flown in front of him, and one of them had almost hit him.

Normal pheasants, also known as pheasants, are much smaller than domestic chickens, don't look at the long tail and big wings, but the hair is not much bigger than the pigeon.

But the group that had just flown over scared Bai Yuqi in a blink of an eye, like a long turkey, and the colorful feathers were even more oily and slippery, looking like peacocks!

This is still a relatively large pheasant.

Some chickadees, which were supposed to be the size of sparrows, were round and round like pigeons.

And the quails scurrying in the grass are as fat and round as old hens.

This also shows that the lower the creature, the sooner it will be affected by the [Arcane Particle], and the smaller the creature, the greater the change will be after being affected!

This made Bai Yuqi couldn't help but worry, all he saw now was the change in the size of the organism, whether the growth rate and reproductive ability would also improve with this change, and further research had to be carried out to determine.

However, judging from the scale, number, and size of the locust plague, as well as the situation of various animals in the mountains and forests of Zhongnan Mountain, it is unlikely that his speculation is correct.

But if this is the case, I am afraid that this locust plague will not be as easy to solve as he imagined!

Because locusts only take about 30 days from egg birth to maturity to reproduce, but the lifespan is only two or three months, so they can reproduce for three to four generations a year.

And a female locust can lay up to 1,000 eggs in a lifetime, and the reproductive ability is very amazing.

Because around the second year of Zhenguan, the rare drought and warm winter environment in the Guanzhong area led to the early hatching of locusts.

It was only the middle of March, and the locust plague had already formed an astonishing scale, and even began to reproduce for the second generation, and the growth rate had more than doubled.

According to the calculation of half a month's generation, there are at least six or seven months left in the season when "grasshoppers can't jump for a few days after autumn", so won't this year breed more than ten generations?

Thinking of the scale of the locusts he had seen before, Bai Yuqi couldn't help but feel a tingling in his scalp.

According to the calculation that the average size of one generation has skyrocketed by 500 times, 1,000 locusts can reach an astonishing scale of 62.5 trillion locusts after four generations, and after more than ten generations...... I'm sorry Bai Yuqi's physical education teacher died early, he can't figure it out!

It is estimated that when the time comes, the locusts that breed will be able to pile up a carpet more than ten meters thick on the ground like the previous white plague in northern Xinjiang!

Of course, locusts need food to reproduce, and they cannot survive without food.

This is just the first wave of locust plagues, which have already gnawed away the vegetation in the Guanzhong area into wasteland.

By the time the second wave is bred out, there will be no food for them to grow, and theoretically the scale will be somewhat suppressed.

But the problem is, locusts can fly!

You can fly 4,000 meters in an hour, and you can fly for dozens of hours in one breath!

In the absence of food, they will inevitably migrate to the surrounding areas, spreading the locust plague that was originally only in the Gyeonggi area of Guanzhong to the whole of Datang!

In that case, even if Bai Yuqi, a living immortal, is alive, I am afraid that he will not be able to return to the sky!

And what Bai Yuqi is even more afraid of is that although locusts eat plants, but when there is no food, they are hungry and heard that they also eat meat!

Thinking of the picture of thousands of hungry and crazy locusts pounced on people and gnawed wildly, Bai Yuqi couldn't help but shudder!