Chapter 103: The Locust Plague

The so-called "chaotic plain" is actually a dangerous and chaotic plain, with a complex and diverse environment, including grasslands, depressions, swamps, dry sandy land, and wild forests. In some areas in the depths of the chaotic plains, there is still a faint smell of savagery or two.

The area of the chaotic plain is very vast, nearly 10 million square kilometers. There are thousands of species of animals living and hiding here, among which there are hundreds of species of insects and beasts that pose a threat to cultivators.

There are three counties bordering the "Troubled Plains": in addition to Yushi County to the north, there are also Sanshan County, which is located in the southeast of the Troubled Plains, and Shuxian County, which is due south and west.

Although it is possible to reach Sanshan County and Shu County by detour from other places, it is necessary to leave the territory of Huangzhou. If you don't want to go through the chaos and choose to take a route from another state, it will take at least three times as long to do it, so no one wants to do that.

Anyone who has heard of it knows that the real danger that you will face after going deep into the Chaos Plains is not those mid- and high-level alien beasts with very strong individual strength, but low-level alien beasts with weak individual damage. The former almost always act alone, and the dream cultivators can defeat or kill them with the help of crowd tactics, while the latter often act in groups, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions, or even more than 100 million! If you are unlucky, the results can be imagined!

Autumn is not a good season for those who travel through the Turbulent Plains, because before the cold winter comes, insects and beasts are busy foraging for food, or searching for food and storing it for the winter.

The midday sun hangs in the sky, making people feel dizzy.

In mid-August, the weeds on the ground take on a pale yellow color, and the autumn grass has a special smell, and the primeval smell wafts through the air.

In the vast expanse of the field as far as the eye could see, a group of people who were running suddenly stopped, slowly dispersed, and sat cross-legged on the ground to rest.

It had been twelve days since they entered the chaotic plain, and they had traveled almost one-sixth of the way. During this period, they could encounter many ordinary beasts every day, and all of them were easily dismissed, either killed or driven away. However, as time went on, and the location deepened, the real crisis began to come.

After about a moment, the middle-aged man in blue got up and walked into the crowd and shouted, "Everyone, you're almost rested, let's continue on your journey!"

Under the autumn sunshine, the group stood up and continued to run, hurrying along.

The most taboo thing to do in the chaotic plains is to stay too long, because every extra moment you stay, the likelihood of encountering danger increases! If it is not too dangerous to walk in the dark, people who cross the chaotic plains will choose to rush day and night.

Half an hour later, the leader who was running at the front of the line suddenly stopped. I saw him raise his arm and wave it back, and the people behind him all stopped their figures, and their faces showed a little nervousness and doubt.

"There's a strange beast! ready to fight!" said the middle-aged man in blue as he stared ahead, his voice cold.

Bian Yao and the others looked ahead, only to see hundreds of strange beasts on the horizon in the distance. The shadows of those beasts lined up horizontally, moving in the direction where everyone was, and the speed was very fast! Among them, one or two strange beasts seemed to be rushing straight towards them.

Seeing this scene, everyone's faces changed suddenly! They rushed to take out knives, swords, and other weapons from their respective space bags, and in the face of a great enemy, they were ready to face a bitter battle of life and death!

Seeing those beast shadows getting closer and closer, their bodies and appearances gradually became clear, they were all large and ferocious beasts! White-veined giant lion, purple cloud leopard, winged flying wolf...... These strange beasts are all mid-level strange beasts, and there is danger when Dream Wanderer encounters them, and Dream Walker has only one way to die when he is alone!

"How could there be so many mid-level alien beasts at the same time, and they are still different species!" the middle-aged man in blue frowned and whispered to himself.

Relatively speaking, the mid-level alien beast is a relatively powerful alien beast, which generally acts alone to hunt and eat, and will keep a long distance from other alien beasts. Even if there is a situation where a mid-level alien beast forages for food together, it must be a similar alien beast, and it is impossible for different species of alien beasts to join forces to hunt for food!

Without having time to think much about the unreasonable phenomena, Bian Yao and the others quickly formed a battle formation, each group of five people formed a small circle facing the periphery, and the five groups of people formed a larger circular formation, and the remaining three people were scattered in the center of the ring formation, so as to provide support for the group in danger at any time.

"Roar~!" "Whoa~!" "Woo~"......

As the distance approached, they could clearly hear the strange beasts making all kinds of abnormal screams and roars as they ran, and the various sounds were mixed together, sounding very scary!

Listening to those unusual roars, Bian Yao felt a little strange in his heart! He wasn't sure if others had noticed that the sounds made by those strange beasts seemed to contain fear and panic!

"Could it be that they are running away! There are high-level alien beasts chasing them?" Bian Yao couldn't help but be stunned by his thoughts.

In the blink of an eye, an adult winged flying wolf swept in front of everyone, and when it spread its wings, its body was more than a zhang wide. However, because the beast is too large, it can only do short-distance low-altitude skimming at a height of three or four feet above the ground.

In an instant, more than a dozen people used the "Illusory Dream Shadow" at the same time, and thirteen flying swords suddenly appeared in mid-air, stabbing towards the winged flying wolf in unison!

The speed of the winged flying wolf was very fast, and those illusory flying swords had nine stings, but the remaining four swords were all scattered by its pair of powerful wings before they touched the body of the winged wolf.

In a sound of astonishment, the winged flying wolf swept over everyone's heads, without pausing or showing any intention of attacking them, but flew all the way north without looking back.

Not long after, a purple clouded leopard rushed in a straight line, but when it was less than five zhang away from them, the purple clouded leopard let out an anxious low whin, suddenly shook its body, bypassed them from the side, and then also rushed away to the north.

For a moment, no one spoke, and most of them looked at each other, as if waiting for someone else to explain the phenomenon. Others looked far and near, bewildered at the other beasts.

Soon, none of the hundreds of strange beasts that appeared in the eyeliner before stopped, completely ignoring them as if they were nothing, all of them rushed towards the north as if they were desperate, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Looking at their appearance, they should be fleeing for their lives! It is estimated that there are high-level alien beasts, or they are ......" The middle-aged man in blue suddenly spoke, his face showing a solemnity that he had never seen before.

"What's that?" asked several people in unison, their voices visibly anxious.

"Maybe it's a beast tide, or maybe it's a bug tide. The team leader hesitated a little before answering.

When everyone heard this, their originally vigilant and uneasy faces suddenly changed, and they began to talk about it, and their voices were full of panic. Whether it is a high-level alien beast, or a beast tide or an insect tide, it is far from something they can handle, and if they encounter it, there is no possibility of survival!

Bian Yao was also very nervous in his heart, but he didn't make a sound to participate in the discussion, he kept a calm face and stared at the distant sky in the south.

"Something seems to have appeared in the south!" Bian Yao suddenly shouted.

Everyone cast their eyes to the south, only to see that on the distant horizon, a long "black line" with no ends visible appeared at some point, as if it was close to the ground.

"What's that? Is it a beast tide?" someone couldn't help but ask.

After a few breaths, the "black line" has become several times thicker, and it is clearly moving rapidly in this direction.

"Escape! It's a 'tide of locusts and insects!'" The middle-aged man in blue suddenly shouted, and no longer cared about the others, turned around and shot away in the northwest direction.

Hearing the leader shout, the others quickly turned their heads and followed him towards the northwest at a rapid speed, without any formation at all. At this fateful moment, everyone's hidden potential was unleashed, and they ran desperately as if they were racing on the same ground, trying to escape from the "locusts" raiding area.

In the process of escaping, from time to time, some people will turn their heads to look back, and the "black lines" woven by countless locusts and ants will continue to thicken, and eventually turn into black dots.

Locust ant is a flying carnivorous insect, the appearance of seven points like a locust three parts like an ant, except for the head is black, the rest of the rest is yellow and green. The average locust ant is three inches long, and the larger one is six or seven inches, and this insect has two rows of serrated teeth, which are extremely sharp and sharp.

Autumn is the hunting season for locusts, they carry out migratory foraging flights from south to north, and there will hardly be any living creatures left in the places they pass! When encountering a tide of locusts, even the Dream King can only escape far away, otherwise there will be only one death. After reaching the northernmost part of the Plains, these locusts return to the southern grasslands of the Plains and lay their eggs before winter.

The locust flies very fast, about the same as the late dreamer. A quarter of an hour passed, and seeing the locusts flying closer and closer, they were still in the frontal impact area of the insect tide, and everyone became more and more panicked and impatient.

Bian Yao knew that if this continued, sooner or later he would be caught up by locusts and gnawed alive into a pile of white bones. At this critical juncture, his mind turned quickly.

During the run, Bian Yao gradually slowed down, and then suddenly fell to the ground. At such a time, everyone is just busy running for their lives, and no one cares about the lives of others.

After a moment's effort, the people who were originally running behind all ran to the front of Bian Yao, he got up and sat down, glanced at the figures of everyone in the distance, and then looked back at the rapidly approaching locusts, and hurriedly sat cross-legged.

Ten Miles...... Wuli ......

Bian Yao closed his eyes tightly, trying his best to expel distracting thoughts from his mind, forcibly suppressing all negative emotions, he wanted to fall asleep as soon as possible! Since he had irritability and headaches, it had become difficult to fall asleep, and it took much more time than before. In the past, it only took a dozen breaths for him to enter the dream realm smoothly, but now it usually takes dozens or even hundreds of breaths to do so.

Time is pressing! Two miles...... One mile ...... Half a mile......

Hundreds of millions of locust ants approached quickly, sweeping all over the sky, flying all over the sky, making a piercing and noisy "buzzing" sound.

Fifty zhang ...... Twenty zhang ...... Ten Zhang...... Five zhang

Bian Yao's breathing gradually calmed down, and when the locusts in the vanguard were only two feet away from him, the "buzzing" sound suddenly became louder! Hundreds of thousands of large locust ants with a body length of six or seven inches had already locked on Bian Yao, flapping their wings excitedly, and flew towards him one after another.

In the "buzzing" sound, dozens of large locust ants landed on Bian Yao's shoulders, arms, chest, face, top of head and other places all over his body at the same time. In this extremely urgent moment, a layer of black suddenly floated on the surface of Bian Yao's body, like inky smoke, and like a pitch-black mist, rapidly circulating and surging on the surface of his body.

In an instant, the locusts that landed on Bian Yao's body, as well as the locusts that flew one after another and touched the "black mist", all seemed to have evaporated in an instant and disappeared without a trace.

After just a few breaths, Bian Yao's body was completely wrapped in a layer of mysterious black substance, and suddenly disappeared into the vast field.

It didn't take long for a series of loud cries and howls to be heard in the northwest, but soon calm down again.

(ps: There have been a lot of things lately, and I've had a cold again, so the update is slow.) )