Chapter 55: Precursor to the Locust Plague
There is no time in the mountains, and the days of the Golden Cicada Temple in the mountains always pass quickly, and two more days have passed unconsciously.
Early in the morning, Yixiu got up, came to the Buddha hall with a broom, and buried his head in sweeping the leaves on the bluestone slabs.
For a long time, Wukong also took a broom and dustpan to join the sweeping cause of the Golden Cicada Temple.
This sweep sighed in his heart, it's almost time to recruit a few more apprentices, or doormen, now the temple industry is big, although it is an empty shell for the time being, but it also needs people to just work, responsible for reception, receiving pilgrims, otherwise everything is up to themselves, I'm afraid that I will die of exhaustion before I become a Buddha.
After thinking like this, after sweeping the ground, he arranged for his apprentice Wukong to wipe the statue of Amitabha Buddha and the statue of Guanyin, and he himself came to the vegetable garden.
Today, the dragon tooth rice planted for the second time has the nourishment of the spiritual water in the Buddha tank, and it is almost ripe, and it is about another day, and it is estimated that hundreds of catties of grain can be harvested in the temple, and the food will definitely be enough for a long time in the future.
But today's matter is not the most important, because when Ichishu was watering, he found a kind of insect on the vegetable leaves in a few dragon's teeth.
These insects have reddish bodies and hard mouthparts, and have two wings, with narrow and tough forewings covering the hindwings, which are very thin and have well-developed hind limbs, and are good at jumping.
As soon as they heard the wind and grass and sensed that Ikkyu was slowly approaching them, they immediately reacted, and jumped three or four meters.
Fortunately, although Yixiu did not have light skills, at least there were Foshan shadowless feet by his side, and his legs and feet were quite neat, and he rushed in the field several times, and then he quickly grabbed one.
Originally, because of the long distance, these little insects moved very fast, and no matter how good his eyesight was, he couldn't see clearly, but now that he was in his hand, Yixiu pinched the insect in his hand and looked at it slightly, and his face became extremely white.
Ikyu didn't dare to look at it confidently, and then he spit out two words from his mouth in shock, "Locust!!"
Locust, in his previous life, Ichixiu had heard his two names, one was grasshopper and the other was grasshopper.
It is now located in Atlantis, in the lower half of the continent, and the higher it goes, the lower the average temperature in the region becomes, creating a temperature zone similar to that of Earth.
The country of Hehuo is almost distributed in the tropics, and in his previous life, he read an article about locusts, and there were pictures of locusts in it, which were almost the same as the insects he saw today.
The article specifically pointed out that locusts are actually agricultural pests, they don't pick anything, they love to eat grasses, such as rice, wheat and other food crops, and even some small insects, bark, leaves, etc., anyway, they are not refused, they eat as much as they want.
And their activities are generally in groups, extremely numerous, tenacious, and able to inhabit various places.
For example, Hehuo City is located in the mountainous area, and there are many forests, low-lying areas, and semi-arid areas outside the city, which provides excellent prerequisites for the growth of locusts.
There was no fuss about the few locusts he saw here today, but that didn't mean that there wasn't a possibility, and most of the locusts were still in the gestation stage.
Judging by the fact that these bugs can only jump and not fly, they must have a short growth time, because the larvae can only jump, while the adults can fly and jump.
After a while, it will come back, and a large area of destructive crops will lead to a large reduction in local grain production, and the most bitter ones are those who are busy working to the end.
But then there is a narrative that locusts may break out in large numbers during a severe drought, and Hugh looked up at the scorching sun and muttered to himself.
"It's been rainless for more than two days, so it's not going to be a drought, right? No, no, I hope not. Ikyu asked himself, thought about it, and then came to the edge of the pond that had been built a long time ago.
This pool is made of a special adhesive material and some loess to form a small pond with a square circle of five zhang.
In order to facilitate the replacement of the pond water, Ikyu also specially designed a canal to lead directly to the bed of a previously dry stream outside the temple.
When he reached the edge of the pool, where not a drop of water had been poured in, Ikyu stopped and said to the system.
"System, I want to redeem the previous task reward, please give me the embodiment of that mountain spring. ”
"Ding, okay, host, in three seconds, the mountain spring will appear in the pool in front of you, please be patient, and please stand still!!"
Ikyu didn't understand, why the system specially reminded him to stand firm, just wanted to speak, suddenly there was a strange fluctuation at his feet, and then, Ikyu's body began to tilt sharply to the left at an angle, the soles of his feet slipped, and with a bang, the tail vertebrae slammed on the stiff ground by the pool.
"I'll go, the system won't be cloudy for a day, you're not happy!", Ichiyu looked at the scene of sand and dust in front of him, and he found that there was an earthquake, and it was just three seconds after the system finished speaking.
The trembling of the ground continued, Ikkyu slowly stood up with his support on the ground, and then, the original enough to cover all the dust in front of him slowly disappeared, and Ichiyu looked down to see that dozens of cracks in the ground that had been tamped suddenly appeared at the bottom of the pool that had been tamped.
Moreover, the height of the ground where the cracks appeared was still slowly arching upward, and after dozens of seconds, Ikyu could clearly feel that the earthquake had passed, and the tremor had disappeared without a trace.
"What about the mountain springs that are good, making such a big noise, and causing the earthquake to come out, just to make a few cracks!", Yixiu said indignantly accusatory.
The system ignored him, and the next moment, there was a loud bang in the center of the pool, accompanied by countless wet dirt that had been lifted high.
Yixiu couldn't dodge and was smashed by several lumps of black dirt, but he didn't pay attention to it at all, staring straight at the movement below.
After the explosion, a clear spring gushed out of the ground, at first the flow rate was very fast, and then gradually slowed down, the amount of water remained in a stable state, and the originally dry bottom of the pool was soon filled with spring water.
The surplus spring water flowed down the canal that had been built to the stream outside the temple.
Seeing this, Ikyu then understood what the system wanted to do, this way to send prizes, although it was the first time I saw it, but Ikyu can understand it now, after all, the mountain spring that can flow out of water is not a single item, just take it and put it away.
The only thing he is worried about now is that the earthquake is so big just now, and if he can even accidentally get him down, then it is very likely that the construction of the Golden Cicada Temple will be implicated.
Thinking like this, Ichiyu hurriedly turned around and looked behind him, only to find that none of the buildings in the room had collapsed, and he found the nearest house, and Ichiyu squatted on the pillar to take a few looks, but he didn't find any cracks.
This means that the earthquake just now is very small, limited to the pool or the edge of the pool, and she scolds the eighteenth generation ancestor of the system hundreds of times in her heart, but unfortunately the system whispered to her at the end.
"The system has no ancestors. ”
Ichikyu was speechless.
At this time, there were already many pilgrims who walked into the Golden Cicada Temple, and when they saw a rest squatting at the base of the wall, they hurriedly greeted him.
At that time, Ikyu had only one impulse in his heart, he wished that there was a hole next to him, even if it was the kind of hole that his sharpened head was going to get into.
But it was only an illusion, and the pilgrims, after greeting him, walked slowly towards him.
Ikyu could only stand up in embarrassment, and immediately turned his back to pat the dust on his body, still smiling and talking to these people, leading them to the Buddha Hall.
Fortunately, these pilgrims on the road did not mention what happened to Yixiu just now, and Yixiu gave this matter to the past in his own heart, and a group of people on the road also talked and laughed, but when they arrived at the Buddha Hall, Yixiu's face began to undergo some subtle changes.
All that was left in his ears was the sound of his forehead pounding on the floor.