Chapter 201: Locust Hunt (5)

In the next few days, the army of the Divine Envoy King still vigorously surrounded and suppressed the locust swarm near the pasture.

After discovering that locust carcasses could be used as bait to round up prey in a fixed location, the killing speed of the Divine King's legion was greatly increased. However, the results still do not satisfy the protagonist.

For several days, the number and density of locust swarms within sight of the eye did not show a significant decrease, and there were still dense locusts everywhere, which made people dense and frightened.

And with the passage of time, the number and proportion of large locusts are increasing, which indicates that the locust swarm is growing rapidly, and perhaps it is time for large-scale adulthood. At that time, it was the most terrifying time when the locust swarm was flooded.

And recently, the protagonist also found a bad signal. As the locust grows, its size and strength increase, and it seems that its self-confidence is also expanding. Many locusts that have eaten the flesh and blood of their companions have escaped the encirclement of the ant colony, and now these locusts have begun to show strong aggression.

These locusts are no longer content to compete with their companions for a limited number of plants, or risk going to an ant's ambush enclosure to eat a few bites of a carcass.

The protagonist has observed more than once that some large locusts actively attack smaller and weaker locusts.

Some of them subdue and kill their opponents after a struggle and then eat them, while others directly use their arthropods to suppress their defeated opponents, and while the opponent is still alive, they eat its plumpest and plump abdomen little by little.

The locust swarms are becoming more and more bloodthirsty and aggressive, and now there are no new locusts, and those locusts that have just hatched from their eggs are not much larger than ants, and have no ability to protect themselves, which is a delicacy in the eyes of their "brothers". Even if they do, the newborn locusts will not find enough food and will soon starve to death.

The locust swarm is rapidly metamorphosing, and perhaps even without the interference of ants, under the pressure of food scarcity, the locust swarm will follow such a path. But, now that all this is happening in front of the protagonist's eyes, it's even more creepy. This is indeed a red flag.

Now, even the ant army is threatened, and the locusts obviously know that these ants are weak and are easier food to subdue than their counterparts. Many locusts now wander around the ant army, trying to find some lone prey.

If it were an ordinary ant army, there might be a lone one person in the battle, march, and adjustment, but the Divine Envoy King's legion was well-organized and experienced, and it did not give the locusts a chance to take advantage of it.

The most likely to fall prey is the protagonist and his party, who climb to a high place every day with Nobita and the Praetorian Guard team to watch the battle, this group of ants is only about fifty or so, which is small compared to the army of hundreds or thousands.

It's not that it's not without the idea that a near-adult locust has beaten the protagonist's party, and at one point, a locust, probably faint from hunger, tried to rush into the colony, and after knocking the team apart, took the opportunity to grab one or two ant fruits.

The Praetorian Guard team was caught off guard, and by the time they could see the enemy, the giant locust was about to leap into the ranks.

At the critical moment, the protagonist entered the state of "the gods descended to earth", grabbed a tentacle of the locust, and threw it far away. The injured locusts were soon reduced to the corpses of other people of their kind, to be bitten and eaten alive.

In fact, there is no need for the protagonist to do anything, as long as this locust lands, the Praetorian Guard team can immediately start a siege, and these experienced warriors are definitely capable of subduing such a locust.

Subsequently, the protagonist quickly got out of the state of "God descended to earth", and this time, he did not enter the stage of painful sequelae afterwards, I don't know if it was because of the short time of opening the state.

And the protagonist feels that his strength has increased again, and after entering the "Heavenly God Descends to Earth", the protagonist feels that he has been able to lift a stone larger than an apple, and usually has the strength of a beetle.

The protagonist doesn't know the reason for such a mutation, so let's take it as a bonus to the crossing, compared to other time-travelers, his "golden finger" is not worth mentioning at all.

Although the campaign to eradicate locusts had little success, the protagonist received good news.

Previously, the locust carcasses killed every day would be transported back to the "transit station", but after the "transfer station" warehouse was full, "Dongyang City" dispatched a large number of worker ants to transport a large amount of locust meat back to "Dongyang City", and the fresh insect meat was dried into dried meat, and the rotten ones were used as food for mealworms and fly maggots.

At this moment, the ants of "Dongyang City" found some black and slender bugs crawling out of the abdomen of some locust carcasses, and these bugs soon began to look for moist places to lay eggs.

The protagonist deliberately rushed back to "Dongyang City", and then determined that these bugs were the notorious wireworms that had even appeared in the movie.

Iron nematode, also known as hair snake, capillary nematode, Gordius nematode, copper wire snake or Tencel. It belongs to the phylum Nematozoa and is the general name for worms of the class Elematode. Species related to medicine are divided into several genera of the order Nematode, Nematodae, Nematode and Chorodidae, with a total of 250~300 species in the world.

The body of the nematode is slender, horsemane-like, and some species can be up to 1 meter long, similar to the round worm of the nematode, but there is no dorsal, ventral and lateral line. Its anterior end is obtuse and rounded, the body surface is, the end of the male body is bifurcated, in an inverted V-shape, and the anterior ventral surface of the bifurcated part is a cloacal foramen.

Adult nematodes live freely in seawater or freshwater, and the eggs laid by females hatch larvae in the water, which are eaten by insects and live as parasitists.

When the larvae parasitize the body of large arthropods such as praying mantis and locusts, they will continue to develop and gradually control the behavior of the host. Therefore, nematodes can also infect humans through water sources and cause nematoasis.

Inflammation of the urinary tract caused by human perineal contact with water bodies containing nematode larvae, which invades through the urethra and ascends to the bladder. After the insect body invades the human body, it can further develop into an adult worm and can live for several years. Patients with parasitic urinary tract, mostly women, have obvious urinary tract irritation, such as severe abdominal pain, frequent urination, urgency, dysuria, hematuria, radiation low back pain, perineum and **inflammation, etc., after the worm body is discharged, the symptoms are relieved. The symptoms caused by the parasite of iron worm in the digestive tract are generally not obvious, and there may be indigestion, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other manifestations. Detection of worms from orbital masses or ear canals has also been reported.

There are no humans in this world, and the adult nematodes can only live in the body of large arthropods and eventually kill the host.

Thinking of this, the protagonist suddenly has an idea.