Cruising in the Four Seas 168
"Hide in the house, the insect plague is coming!! Hide in the house, the insect plague is coming!! β
"Run!!"
"These damn bugs, who come every year to plague the crops, really use this as a canteen!?"
"Don't talk about it soon, while you still have time, hide in the house and lock the house."
"Guest !!"
The crowd in the town panicked and closed the gates and locked the doors and windows.
Their houses are all made of stone, and those hungry mantis won't be interested.
Hungry praying mantises, just like their name, these super-large insects are hungry for food, and all organic matter that appears in their field of vision will be eaten by them.
And this kind of praying mantis is very fierce, two big scythes can easily cut through steel, and it is a natural sword hero.
Tens of thousands of big bugs at the level of sword heroes, no matter where they appear, are devastating disasters for a country.
These insects are also a little wise, they will not catch a sheep and grab wool, but take advantage of the advantage of flying to feed in the North Sea countries. Each country you visit, you choose to quickly eat up the vegetation in an area and then move on to the next.
This practice of cutting leeks has a desperate military force, so that countries are helpless against it, and at the same time, they also accept their fate.
Anyway, it won't be eaten up, just turn a blind eye to them, and whichever town is eaten, even if it's unlucky. It will not affect the rule of the nobles and the royal family, as long as the local taxes are exempted, this matter will be accounted for, and it will be treated as a natural disaster, and their lives will still be as luxurious.
But not everyone will resign themselves to fate.
For the royal family, what is eaten is only a part of the tax, a small amount of money.
For the local people, what is eaten is the food they rely on for survival, and it is their hope for a year.
Especially for the botanist Diber, those plants in the field are the work of his life.
After this man loses his so-called 'love', the only thing left is those 'children' in the field.
So when the crowd fled for their lives, Diber picked up the scythe of the house, gritted his teeth and rushed in the direction of the field.
"Dibel, what are you doing, you don't want to die?" The woman in the turban was quick and grabbed his arm.
The woman was Dibel's neighbor, and the two had known each other for many years, and when he was busy with plants, it was often the woman who brought him 'extra food', until she met the 'Daisy' a few days ago.
Diber was torn to the ground and struggled violently, yelling, "I can't let those bugs eat my 'kid', don't stop me Dandri." β
Diber dodged the fleeing crowd and ran all the way backwards.
When he came to the garden, he saw those praying mantises taller than him, huddled together, eating the plants.
When Diber saw the sharp mouthparts of the praying mantis, he gnawed a large tree clean when he opened and closed, and he suddenly felt a wave of fear, and the courage he had just had just now disappeared.
He suddenly remembered that normal praying mantis are insectivorous insects and eat meat.
Even these hungry praying mantis eat plants, but they probably prefer live meat.
Diber couldn't help but take a step back, and the guy in his hand fell to the ground with a 'bang'.
A corner mantis suddenly looked at him, and two large green scythes made his hairs stand on end.
Boom β
An earth-shattering loud bang suddenly exploded in the group of praying mantises.
The praying mantis in front of him was also instantly attracted to attention.
Dibel thanked him, and at this time he did not give up his god, and prepared to retreat.
Suddenly, a wave of air swept over the field.
Diber instantly fell into an ice cave, and the muscles all over his body were shaking uncontrollably.
His consciousness faded, and his eyes began to roll upward.
As his consciousness was hazy, he felt like he was being thrown to the ground, and the warm touch let him know that it was definitely not those terrifying insects.
Just as he was about to lose consciousness, he suddenly saw a crowd running in the distance.
Among them was a figure that worried him - Daisy.
Is she worried about me?
No, it's too dangerous here. Don't come over Daisy, run!
That was Diber's last thought before he passed out.
......
Like a king inspecting his subjects, Szin Garr stood in the thousands of praying mantises.
The group of praying mantises, who were still sharpening their knives just now, are now all stunned with trembling pupils, and cold sweat has broken out on their foreheads of these arthropod insects.
"Get down." Szin Garr swept over the group of praying mantis and whispered blandly.
The group of praying mantis was motionless, but the hungry mantis hiding in the rear had some faint attempts to escape.
"I said, get down!!"
It is another domineering spirit, which spreads out overwhelmingly.
The movement of the praying mantis group froze, and the guys in the back also quieted down.
Then, as the first praying mantis retracted its pincers and slowly bent its knees on the ground, the mantis swarm fell to its knees like harvested wheat.
Galmore rubbed his chin and nodded in satisfaction.
"Young Master, phewβ" Stella and the others rushed over, except for the Darkspawn trio.
"Young master." *n
"Boss."
There were all kinds of names, but Joan of Arc was silent.
Gal pointed to the group of praying mantis lying on the ground and asked, "These guys are good, they are simply natural weapons of war." β
Tens of thousands of insects at the level of swordsmen, as long as they don't meet the overlord color, it's a nightmare.
And even if it is an overlord color, it must be a strong overlord color, at least like Wang Luffy, who can radiate tens of thousands of people in an instant to deter them.
And against that kind of enemy, these bugs are basically useless.
"ββ!!!Uhh These things look so ugly. Perona swooped and hid behind Stella.
She curiously leaned up to take a look, and the compound eyes and mouthparts on the triangular head startled her.
Padong sat on Hani Baij's shoulder and asked curiously, "Are spirits scared too?" β
"Spirits are spirits, but I'm a girl, a girl! Child! Child!! Perona jumped to her feet in anger.
Pa Dong is cute and cute, but he has a mouth. If only I couldn't speak. Perona thought to herself.
"Oh." Pa Dong pouted. Girls or something, it just knows that this is the gender distinction of human beings, and as for the rest, it is not very clear.
It's just a quill.
"Young master, let's ...... Is it up to raise? Stella frowned, looking at the huge group of praying mantis with some embarrassment.
Loka squatted down, poked the tentacles of the praying mantis with the branches picked up on the ground, and popularized science: "Hungry mantis, a natural disaster insect in the North Sea, it is said that many years ago, this insect ate everything unscrupulously, people, animals, plants, and all the organic matter they saw would be eaten, and in the end there was nothing to eat, and they were almost starved to extinction." β
Then he stood up uninterested, and said, "I know the name of this insect, but no one has kept it, because they are so edible and have a strong reproductive ability. β
He still hasn't said anything: raising Ah Diao, Bai Jie, and the boss himself on the boat, the three foodies, is already very difficult, and it is simply unrealistic to want to raise these things again.
Loka shrugged, looked back at him and said, "So boss, are you sure you want to raise them?" β
Gal scratched his face, he used to see that these guys were quite fierce, and he jumped off the lone whale as soon as his brain was hot, and he didn't think about it so much at all, just thinking about who would be unpleasant in the future, and throw these guys directly to that country, even if he couldn't kill them all, he could starve them to death.
Now there are so many problems, it's hard to deal with!
"It's just, don't you know how much you can eat? Half of the warehouse is used for food! Perona quickly chimed in, she didn't want to live with these ugly things.
Ah Diao touched his little belly, and then hid the half-eaten chocolate in his hand behind his back.
She wiped her mouth and said confidently, "I can eat less." After thinking for a moment, he added, "Gal loves these bugs. β
Gal rubbed her long white hair: "Call the young master." β
"......" Diao turned his face and stopped talking.
Gal went to see the tens of thousands of praying mantis again, and just gave up, still feeling a little painful.
In the end, I made up my mind to give up, I can't grieve my stomach for the sake of such a few bugs.
He was just about to disperse the praying mantises, when he suddenly spotted a very small praying mantis, which came out of the group of praying mantises, looked at him cautiously, and then struggled for a while, and finally crawled over with a trembling head, and pressed his triangular head against his shoe.
Several other people also spotted this different little guy.
Loka pinched the back vertebrae of the little mantis, lifted it up to observe, and said, "Is this little guy stunted?" β
Other praying mantis are more than a person tall, but this little guy is good, only the size of a palm.
And the color is also different from the withered yellow of other praying mantises, it is light green, and it looks like a larva.
However, judging from this guy's scythe, the sharp double knives have been formed, indicating that it is indeed an adult.
"Kawaiiβ" Perona couldn't help but pop up again.
The face of this praying mantis is also very strange, the three sides of the triangular face are actually bulging outward, with a certain arc, and they are almost circular from a distance.
Well, ugly, cute, ugly.
The little mantis tilted its head, and its small mouthparts moved, as if laughing.
"Shut Your Mouth!!" Perona scolded excitedly, thinking that this guy's mouth was still terrible.
"It says thank you." Padong translated.
Loka scoffed, "It's pretty polite. β
The little mantis struggled to jump down, and just as its mouthparts wanted to move, it thought of Perona's words before and closed it.
It turned to express its thoughts directly with movements, kneeling directly in front of Gal and kowtowing again and again.
Gal looked strange: "Why do you feel like you want to worship me as a father." β
Loka casually sat on the back of a praying mantis, knocked on the skull of the mantis below, and said, "Almost, this praying mantis has learned to be smart since that extinction crisis, and not only knows how to cut leeks, but also knows how to control the number of the population." So a small dot like it will definitely be eaten by the ethnic group. Now that I have the opportunity, I naturally want to hurry up to the pier. β
Garr opened his mouth, and there was something MMP wanted to say.
However, thinking that the animals in the pirate world are generally human, he swallowed the words on his lips.
The little mantis rubbed its mouth again to make a sound, this time deliberately with its back to Perona.
Pa Dong shook his feet and translated: "It says it doesn't eat much. β
"Whew!" Loka thinks it's ridiculous, brutes are brutes after all, and it doesn't matter what we do with how much you eat, uselessness is the key. The boss doesn't raise waste.
He kicked the little mantis: "You go and call out the strongest guy in your clan, and then defeat it, maybe the boss will agree." "Driving away evil is the norm for beasts, and he wants to see what this little guy will do.
A bug who came to worship the dock in order to save his life, he really didn't like it. You must know that in the current team, even Hani Baijie, who he is the most dismissive, is fighting and dying.
Gal watched all this indifferently, acquiescing in Loka's approach.
When the little mantis saw that he didn't react, he knew that if he didn't do it, he would definitely not be taken away.
The little praying mantis hesitated for a long time, and finally fluttered up neatly and flew in front of a mantis that was obviously one size larger.
The two praying mantis muttered ink for a while, and finally the large praying mantis also stood up, looked cautiously this way, and finally relieved when he found that Gal had no reaction.
After that, there was a fight between two praying mantises, one large and one small.
(I said I want to speed up, so I will skip it briefly.) οΌ
The body of the little mantis is the same size as the head of the big mantis, and the sickle on the body is even smaller, it is estimated that even if it is cut on the big mantis, for the big mantis, it is no different from being cut by a knife, and it is harmless at all.
In the end, it was the little mantis that won, it was very hard to win, not to mention the injuries all over his body, and the wings behind him were also cut off, and it is estimated that he will not be able to fly in the future.
Loka went over and picked up the little mantis and sneered again: "This little guy is not an idiot, he knows how to protect himself. β
The little praying mantis also estimated that this group of people does not raise waste, it not only needs to prove its worth, but also to ensure its future role.
Having lost his wings, he just couldn't fly; Without the twin blades, it's over.
Obviously, his body was about to be cut into two pieces, but he never used his scythe to resist the blade of the great mantis. Maybe it also knows that with its knife, it will be easily cut by the big mantis, and the difference between the two is too much.
"Boss?" Loka looked over, and although he didn't speak, the meaning was obvious.
Whether it's because of his word or something else, he's really interceding for this guy now.
Naturally, Gal would not refuse this little thing: "It's up to you." β
"Uh..."Loka's expression froze, and he regretted it a little: "Or ......"
Gal ignored him and led the group back to the ship.