Ye Xi looked at the enthusiastic veterans, then at the hideous long worm legs in his hands, and pursed his lips.

It is said that since the insect tide of the Tushan tribe, he has not eaten insects. Now, in order to live up to the wishes of the old people, I have no choice but to eat again.

He slowly raised the worm's leg to his mouth.

At the same time, I comforted myself in my heart that this big worm leg looked very similar to a king crab leg, so I would eat it as a king crab leg meat! As soon as my eyes were closed, I stuffed it into my mouth.

"Click, click!"

Ye Xi chewed on the worm's leg.

The taste of the meat of the worm leg fills the mouth.

He was surprised to find that the insect legs of this horse-faced mantis not only looked like king crab legs, but also tasted a little similar, and the taste was quite delicious......

Tasting the taste, Ye Xi sped up his eating.

The five old men were very happy to see that Ye Xi liked to eat, and the bone claws smiled and said, "It's delicious, isn't it? We still have a lot of these big crickets hidden, even though they are open to eat!"

The barren stone stood up quickly, went directly back to the cave and came out with a stack of large wooden jars, and then opened the jars, and one by one he felt out the horse-faced mantis inside and placed them next to Ye Xi.

Ye Xi's eyes lit up: "You guys are lucky!"

Araishi: "What luck?"

Ye Xi smiled: "Picking up so many horse-faced mantis in the jungle, no, the big crickets are not lucky?"

The barren stone suddenly laughed: "Wu Wu doesn't know, these big crickets really didn't pick up by us! Generally, the corpses of big crickets and insects that we pick up will not be so complete, and they will be more or less gnawed, these are all made by ourselves!"

Ye Xi was puzzled: "I got it myself?"

He opened a new wooden jar and took out a horse-faced mantis from it, and he found that it was also intact, with no wounds except for a small pointed bamboo shoot on the back of the head.

Ye Xi felt a little magical: "What method did you use to kill so many big crickets?"

Arashi: "Of course, it's insect powder!"

He took out a small wooden jar from the leaf pouch around his waist, unplugged the jar, and showed it to Ye Xi: "This is the powder we collected from the big crickets, as long as we sprinkle these powders on them, these big crickets will be finished!"

Ye Xi took the wooden jar and looked inside, and found that it was orange powder, which had no taste, but there were cobweb-like yellow mycelium on the walls of the wooden jar.

Could this be...... Cordyceps fungus species?

Seeing Ye Xi taking the "Gram Insect Powder" boy and looking at it carefully, Huang Shi couldn't help but say, "Wu, don't your tribe have this thing?"

Ye Xi returned the small wooden jar to him and said truthfully: "It's really not, this thing is very novel to me." ”

The veterans were all taken aback.

"Not at all?"

Ye Xi nodded: "Can you tell me about this gram of insect powder?"

Arashi said repeatedly: "Of course!

The five old men talked about it word by word, without the slightest concealment.

From their description, Ye Xi knew that this "gram insect powder" should be the Cordyceps fungus, a kind of Cordyceps fungus restrains an insect, and it is extremely contagious, no matter how powerful the poisonous insect giant insect is, as long as it is accidentally stained with this Cordyceps fungus, then the fun is over.

Of course, different insects are infected with Cordyceps fungus in different states.

For example, the powerful horse-faced mantis was most ruthlessly restrained by the Cordyceps fungus, and after being sprinkled with powder, its body was stiff and dead within a few seconds, and its head grew a fruiting body like the tip of a bamboo shoot.

Let's take the green fire ant, for example.

This ant is extremely poisonous, and one can poison an elephant, but the millstone tribe is not afraid of this green fire ant at all, because they also cultivate a cordyceps fungus that specializes in restraining green fire ants.

However, the Cordyceps species of the green fire ant are relatively slow to take effect, and it takes two or three hours to take effect.

At first, it may become immobile, but gradually, its body will stiffen, and a fruiting body will grow on the top of its head. And this fruiting body is different from that of the horse-faced mantis, the fruiting body of the green fire ant is somewhat like enoki mushrooms, long and thin.

The Millstone tribe usually catches a green fire ant first, infects that green fire ant with the Cordyceps fungus that specifically restrains it, and then releases it back, and then the whole litter of ants that have been in contact with it will be infected.

Unless the first infected green fire ant knew that it was sick and left far away, dying alone, none of the ants in the nest could escape.

The effect is comparable to that of a zombie virus.

Of course, Cordyceps bacteria are completely harmless to humans.

Ye Xi sighed with emotion after hearing this: "There are too many insects here, so nature has specially evolved this insect nemesis to balance them." ”

He suddenly remembered the insect tide he encountered in the Tushan tribe.

At that time, there were so many giant insects that they almost covered the entire Black Ridge Mountains, so many that people had no idea of resisting at all.

Later, when Xicheng was founded, they were attacked by mutant red spiders, and when he sat on the back of the big buzzard, he looked at the red sea-like swarm of insects in despair and powerlessness, and finally had to use the ancestral witch bone staff......

Ye Xi clenched his fists and stood up suddenly.

What if he had restrained them at the time?

Just now, the old people said with great certainty that no matter how powerful the insect is, as long as it encounters the Cordyceps fungus that specifically restrains it, it will be doomed!

The five old soldiers were a little nervous by Ye Xi's appearance, and they also stood up.

Ye Xi asked with a solemn expression, "How many kinds of insect powder do you have?"

Bone Claw said nervously, "No, I haven't counted, it's quite a lot!"

Ye Xi: "Can you take me to see it?"

Bone Claw: "Of course!"

The old warriors led Ye Xi to the deepest part of the cave.

It was dark in the cave, and the bonepaw at the front held a torch, allowing the glow of the fire to illuminate the surroundings.

They took Ye Xi around the terrifying pile of dry bones and kept moving forward.

A very, very large number of insect corpses began to appear on the ground, and they were so numerous that they filled all the corners and corners of the cave, making it difficult for people to get off their feet.

These insects also apparently died from the Cordyceps fungus, and their heads have a variety of fruiting bodies. He saw the corpse of a large insect with a large grinding plate, the corpse of a monster-eyed spider, the corpse of a bone-eating butterfly scattered all over the ground like a fallen leaf, and the corpse of a golden cicada that was glittering by the firelight......

When he passed by, he casually lifted a half-rotten banana leaf, and found that a fist-sized insect nest was glued to the bottom of the plantain leaf, and it was surrounded by rotten moths with fluff and mold, which looked very disgusting at first glance.

Needless to say, these dense villi are the fruiting body of the Cordyceps fungus.

Huangshi said enthusiastically: "This yellow powder moth is very sweet, and there is a lot of juice, Wu might as well try it." ”

Ye Xi was silent and rejected his kindness.

It's too heavy for him to eat.

Eventually, they came to the deepest part of the cave.

There are no insect corpses here, and there are countless wooden jars and stone jars densely placed on the ground, most of them are very rough, some are large and some are small, and the placement is slightly messy, and the cans are made with various marks that Ye Xi can't understand.

Bone Claw: "These are the places where we funk bug meal." ”

Ye Xi glanced at it, and his eyes dimmed.

Even if there is one kind of Cordyceps fungus in a jar without any repetition, there are only more than 1,000 kinds of Cordyceps mushrooms, that is to say, only about 1,000 kinds of insects can be restrained.

This may sound like a lot, but you must know that there were more than 10 million species of insects in the previous life in which he lived, and in this incomparably vast prehistoric continent, this number would at least increase by hundreds of times.

So these 1,000 species of Cordyceps are too insignificant.

Want to use these Cordyceps strains to restrain the insect tide that attacks Xicheng?

What is the success rate? The most optimistic estimate is ...... 1 in 100,000.

Seeing that Ye Xi's face was not very good, Huangshi thought that he was smoked, and proposed: "Wu, why don't we count it?" ”

In order to expel live insects and prevent live insects from eating insect corpses, a very pungent mineral powder is sprinkled here, and ordinary people may have sour noses and tears after staying here for a long time, which is not very friendly to people.

Ye Xi sighed: "No need, let's go out." ”

He shouldn't have had much hope in the first place, and he was dizzy just now.