The protagonist leads his entourage to the grassland near the "transit station" under the guidance of Nobita.

In fact, Nobita has never been to that grassland, but he has hunted with a hunting team nearby, and he is already the guide who is most familiar with the nearby terrain.

At the beginning, the team walked through a broad-leaved woodland, where the trees prevailed, keeping the sun firmly in the upper layers, and the bottom of the woods was dark and the herbaceous vegetation was sparse, with only litter on the ground except for ferns. There is no locust infestation in the vicinity.

But as the playground got closer, locusts began to appear frequently.

Scattered locusts begin to appear on nearby tree trunks, branches, shrubs, and ferns, and most of these locusts are individuals that spontaneously spread out due to loss or starvation in highly competitive pastures. This is not a good sign, and locust swarms have shown an urgent need for migration before they reach adulthood.

The protagonist directs the Scythe Scout Team to capture several locusts of various sizes within their field of vision. This is a familiar way for the hunting sickle ant, which is not yet fully developed and is small, and it is difficult to avoid the round-up of the swarm hunting sickle ant team just by jumping.

The protagonist examines the corpses of several locusts that have been captured and killed, ranging from small to large, ranging from small to large, to the size of an adult locust in the protagonist's impression.

As the protagonist can guess, the larger the locust, the closer it is to adulthood. In fact, locusts are generally 5 instars in the nymph stage, some species are 4 or 6 instars, and some grasshoppers can reach 7 instars. Some species of females are 1 year older than males.

In the process of development, in addition to the continuous growth of the body at different ages, some morphological characteristics of locusts are also quite different.

First, the number of antennal nodes increases with age.

Second, the wing buds gradually increase from small age to adulteration. Moreover, usually the tips of the wing buds of the young locusts in the young stage are downward, and the front and hind wing buds of the last two advanced locusts are folded upward, and the hind wings cover the forewings on the outside, which need to be changed when they emerge into adults, so that the young, old and adult stages can be distinguished.

Third, the size and shape of the dorsal plate of the anterior thorax are different.

The protagonist only intuitively knows that the age of locusts can be judged by the two most striking features, body size and wings, and that most locusts are still in the medium size stage as far as the eye can see, and there are not many locusts that are particularly large or very small.

This suggests that it will take some time for the locust swarm to develop before it becomes an infestation of locusts. The number of locusts that mature too early is too small to necessarily change their habits and start migrating, even if they are not very harmful.

Locusts born too late are faced with pastures that have been eaten by other locusts, and it is difficult to have enough food to mature, and the locusts themselves lack the ability to migrate, so they can only be trapped and die on the land.

Several locust carcasses were discarded, and the team moved on.

When he turns back by chance, the protagonist discovers a terrifying scene.

I saw that on the discarded corpses of several locusts, several locusts that had smelled and rushed over had appeared, and began to lie on the corpses and feast.

From the soft belly of the corpse of their kind, these locusts bite off the flesh and internal tissues little by little, as if they are not eating the flesh of the same kind, but the fat and juicy blades of grass.

The protagonist didn't know about the carnivorous properties of locusts before, so he was inevitably a little surprised, and felt creepy when he thought about it.

The locusts on the outer edge of these pastures are struggling to survive in the core area of fierce competition and run out of hunger. There is a lack of food for locusts on the outer edges, the delicate leaves of herbaceous plants are too few, and the leaves of trees and shrubs are too hard and difficult to digest, and locusts rarely eat them, and occasionally only eat some new leaf buds.

Therefore, these hungry locusts will not spare the corpses of their own kind, which are relatively nutritious and easier to digest.

The protagonist is worried about whether this will happen on the other side of the grassland.

If so, the locust swarms that will eventually reach adulthood, although their numbers will decline due to fierce competition and mutual cannibalism, but the locusts that eventually begin to migrate must be the strongest and bloodthirsty locusts, and they will sweep away everything, whether it is plants or animals!

The meadows are getting closer, and the grass blades are getting denser. Now there is no need to look for locusts, as far as the eye can see, there are locusts.

Even though locusts have a protective turquoise color, they are difficult to spot as long as they are still in the grass. But there are so many swarms of locusts that are constantly moving, jumping, eating, fighting, and chasing that they cannot hide their bodies.

Although the locust swarm cannot fly and cannot cover the sky, the word "mountain" is enough to describe its number.

The protagonist and his party climb on the branches of an arbor, and the protagonist suppresses the shock in his heart and retracts his gaze to the grassland. He looked back at the ants around him, these hunting sickle ants, including male ants like Nobita, had far worse eyesight than the protagonist, and they could not overlook a large area like the protagonist in this position, nor could they understand the danger contained in the scene.

Sometimes, the protagonist will also envy these ordinary ants, who just need to simply live their daily lives without worrying about the future. Even if the enemy hits the doorstep, you just need to fight hard. For them, there isn't much to worry about and plan ahead. But for the protagonist, it is difficult to survive in this world and live better.

The protagonist estimates the number of locusts counted in a small patch of grass, multiplied by the area of the playground, and estimates that there are tens of thousands of locusts here. Taking into account the error, the worst estimate of the protagonist is that there are more than 100,000 locusts.

This number is very terrifying, and it has exceeded the number of soldiers of the Divine Envoy King Legion by more than ten times.

Fortunately, at this time, the locusts were not too aggressive, and even when they were hungry and wanted to eat the corpses of their companions, they would never dare to come forward until the ants left.

But it won't be long, not a few days or more than a few weeks, and after these locusts become adults, after their temperament changes drastically, the protagonist cannot guarantee that they will not become aggressive and bloodthirsty.

Now, it's the perfect time to hunt locusts, and the protagonist makes his judgment.

The protagonist immediately returns with his team, and he has to go back to supervise the construction of the "Transit Station", and he will start attacking tomorrow.

The protagonist has a faint worry in his heart, he doesn't want to waste a day, he must destroy these locusts as soon as possible!