Chapter Twenty-Four: The Locust Mother

The tennis bag is filled with a funeral umbrella, the thermos cup is filled with eyeballs, and an iron cigar box is put in the fox pill to hide, and Ji Shang's equipment is finished.

He felt that he was a little new now, and he was no longer the self he was a day ago when he didn't know anything.

Now, not only the way has been found, but also the point.

Grow fast enough.

But it's a pity that all of his current abilities come from external objects, and if he runs out, he runs out, and if he can't "bury" new ghosts and gods, then he is likely to fall into a vacuum of power.

When the time comes, the prepared ghosts and gods will not let him escape as easily as before.

In this way, cooperating with Qixia Temple seems to be his best choice.......

Although there are risks hidden in such a choice, it is also a price that you have to bear.

After checking the equipment one last time to make sure everything could be taken out quickly and accurately, Ji Shang finally opened the door and walked out of the room.

---- he had forgotten that the rope was still hanging from the ceiling.

.......

There was nothing to do all the way, Ji Shang successfully arrived at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and found his cousin Ji Ming, who was busy in the field.

Thinking of the information prompted in the Great Disaster Chronicle, and then thinking of what happened before, he was reluctant to take a step closer to those rice fields, and his cousin thought he was dirty, so he complained to him a few words.

"You are also from the countryside, why are you now starting to dislike the work of the peasants? Why don't you forget when you used to roll in the fields when you were a child? ”

Ji Shang was also helpless, did he want to tell Ji Ming that he almost died in the field yesterday?

"It's not that I don't want to go in, I've had allergies in the past two days, and I have rashes on my body at every turn, don't toss me."

"Oh, it's autumn, and it's dry. Go back and ask your sister-in-law to get you some moisturizer. ”

"You should also find a girlfriend, you don't know how to deal with this thing!"

As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father, although Ji Shang does not have a brother, but he grew up in the same ancestral hall with this cousin since he was a child.

It's just that the matter of finding a girlfriend is afraid that it will be postponed.

How to find it?

Now the only person of the opposite sex who frequently appears around him is to hate marrying a girl.

How to drop, as long as you are bold, the female ghost will take maternity leave?

There is one thing to say, if this thing can be done, it will be done for it if you can't guarantee it, but unfortunately, in the catastrophe, it is said that the hatred of marrying a girl has long been left with only a skeleton, and I am afraid that it will not have that function.

The two chatted all the way, Ji Shang said that he had recently taken a private job and made a small amount of money, Ji Ming didn't ask too much, but he couldn't help but be happy for him, and when he ate at noon, he naturally drank two more sips with him.

He had always had a good amount of alcohol, and it was business as usual except for a slight redness on his face.

“....... You say you want to catch locusts, is it related to your private work? ”

"Yes, I'm looking for the three tails."

Ji Shang had already thought of his rhetoric, and there was naturally no sluggishness in dealing with it at this time.

"Three-tails? What is it? ”

"It's a kind of grasshopper, the kind that can be used when fighting crickets."

Fighting crickets, or fighting to promote weaving, has always been a traditional means of entertainment, thousands of years of development, but also formed many unique culture and rules.

Among them, it is said in the weaving scriptures that the stings are raised first and the females are raised, and the ferocity of the crickets is cultivated through the three-tailed grasshoppers.

This technique has developed more maturely in modern times, in order to cultivate a "general", not to mention the three tails, even artificial hormones are used, known as "raising white worms".

Ji Shang said the reason why he thought of it temporarily, and his cousin didn't doubt him, but just persuaded:

"You can't do this for long, make a sum of money, don't be too obsessed."

"In this way, you will go to Yanshan Grassland with me in the afternoon, this batch of locust plagues basically originated from there, there are many locusts ---- grasshoppers, it depends on you how many you can catch."

Ji Shang was overjoyed, and he determined the place of origin, and it was much easier to find the locust mother!

A few more were caught, one is enough!

"Okay, okay! I'll catch it with you in the afternoon! When the time comes, catch the useless night and let my sister-in-law fry a dish to eat! ”

"It's good! I haven't eaten this thing in years, so you think about it. ”

As Ji Ming said, both of them were born in the countryside, and when they were children, the fields were full of grasshoppers, so they grabbed a big handful, made a fire after removing the head, and threw them into the ashes to cook, the taste was not very delicious, but it also had a different flavor.

After putting down the dishes and chopsticks to help clean up, the two big men went to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to borrow an insect trap net, and went to Yanshan Grassland with great momentum.

How else can it be said that a man is a teenager until he dies?

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was blazing and bursting, and Ji Shang and Ji Ming each had a bottle of 1.5 liters of water, and they were very happy to catch grasshoppers.

However, what they caught were ordinary grasshoppers, and there was nothing special about them except for their fatter size.

This inevitably gave Ji Shang a little headache.

At that time, Tan Qian said that he could come and catch it, as long as he saw it, he would definitely know that it was, which meant that there must be something abnormal about the locust mother, and there was no need to even describe the extent of additional description.

But now, where is the mother locust?

The Great Calamity also did not hint.

There is no other way but to go as far as possible to the place where there are many grasshoppers, and maybe you can bump into it.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the two of them had already caught a large bag of grasshoppers, although the grasshoppers could not call, but the noise made by it rubbing its wings did not stop for a moment, and it reached the human brain, which made the two of them a little irritable.

"Did you find Mio?"

Ji Ming raised his head and asked.

Seeing that Ji Shang didn't answer, he stepped forward and patted the other party's shoulder.

Ji Shang turned the headphones he was wearing to listen to the song to the transparent transmission mode, and now Ji Ming's voice was finally clear.

He replied:

"I think there are two, but it's not enough, I'll catch it for a while, you can go back with this bag first."

Ji Ming hesitated for a moment and nodded.

It also takes time to clean up the grasshoppers, and you can't let your wife get it.

"Then you should go over early, and the meal will start at half past five!"

"Good!"

Ji Shang straightened up and watched Ji Ming gradually move away with his bag, the sound of old songs came from the earphones, and he returned to his childhood in a trance for a moment.

Although his life has not been smooth sailing, most of the memories he looks back on are good.

The world is worth it, how can you let the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods be ruined?

For a while, the fighting spirit was full again.

He rubbed his sore waist and legs, and was about to continue to bend down to look for traces of grasshoppers, but his ears suddenly exploded!

"Buzz -----"

The pain was so intense that nails hit his brain that his legs immediately went limp, and he collapsed on the grass.

The smell of grass and dirt poured into his mouth and nose, and his muscles trembled and twitched with the buzzing in his head.

It hurts so much!

This pain is not exogenous, but as if someone has directly touched the nerve that controls the sense of pain.

Not to mention action, you can't even shout for help.

The muscles of the whole body gradually turned from twitching to stiffness, and if this continued, it would not be long before I could even breathe.

He desperately raised his head and moved his body inch by inch, but at this moment, a strange insect that he had never seen before suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

Huge mouthparts, irregularly lined with rows of sharp teeth, the body is not covered with angular exoskeletons like common locusts, but bare and soft bodies,

Two protruding compound eyes drooped on top of the head, and the hypertrophic tentacles were covered with tumors of all sizes.

The two wings dragged behind him, and they were rubbing together to emit sound waves beyond the limits of human hearing.

Mother Locust!

Ji Shang finally knew why Tan Qian said that he would definitely know him.

You can tell it's not easy at first glance!

However, what can I do now?

Can't move!

And the locust mother in front of her has already jumped towards her step by step......