Chapter VI: Confinement
Early the next morning, Jia Yi followed the instructions of the village chief to the farmland.
The village chief was very happy when he first heard that Jia Yi was coming here to hunt the digging insects, but then he was a little worried, hoping that Jia Yi would not kill the digging insects, and only kill the crazy ones.
Originally, when there was no hope, he only asked to be able to meet the minimum, but now that there is hope, he asks for a reduction in losses.
Jia Yi didn't refuse, this is human nature, but if the other party accuses him because of this, then don't blame Jia Yi for being polite.
He didn't want to kill the digging insects all at once, leaving a little seed, maybe there would be a harvest in the future.
The inside of the field looks a little messy, there was wheat planted on it, but now it has been harvested, but it can be seen that the harvest is in a hurry, and there are still some ears of wheat scattered on the ground that have not yet been picked up. There are bulges protruding from the ground, and on top of the bulges is loose soil, these digging bugs are indeed some problems, and the field has been badly damaged, as if it has been ploughed again, which is not normal.
Most of the time, the burrower will not run so close to the ground, which has destroyed the soil layer where the plant roots grow.
Kaichi got off Xiaoqing's back, took out the sonar, and began to probe at the surface.
Sonar can penetrate deep into the ground and detect cavities underground, and the loose soil layers excavated by these burrowers are very obvious in the sonar, which is a long strip of different colors.
There was no shadow of a digging insect in the ground beneath his feet, and he couldn't catch the sonar any deeper.
After confirming that there was no digging worm, he stretched out his foot and stepped on the mound, and the mound immediately sank in, as if he had stepped on fluffy cotton, and the whole instep of his foot sank into the soil.
Kaichi walked around the neighborhood and saw many traces left by the digging insects, but did not see the digging insects come out.
The digging worm is very tall, but that's for the bug, no matter what, it is impossible for Jia Yi to get into the hole that the digging worm has come out, and there is nothing Jia Yi can do but wait for the digging worm to come out.
After thinking about it for a while, Kaichi decided that he couldn't sit still, although this idiom doesn't feel quite right here, but that's what it means.
He took out a bag of magic dust and began to set up a temporary magic circle on the ground, the digging worm lives underground, and is very sensitive to underground vibrations, and he is ready to use the vibration generated by the magic circle to drive the digging worm out.
The circle was quickly set up, and Jia Yi activated the circle, and then quickly left the place, hiding to the side.
The magic circle emitted bursts of fluctuations, thinking about the underground propagation, the vibration spread far underground, but the amplitude of the vibration was not large, Jia Yi could still feel the vibration under his feet at the beginning, but he was a little farther away, so he couldn't feel it.
However, the underground digging insects are much more sensitive to the sensation of vibration, and this level of vibration is enough for them. Kaichi can't let the shaking amplitude be too large, if the shaking is too strong, these digging insects will definitely flee into the distance if they think it's an earthquake.
However, he thought a little too much, and with his magic circle, it was still too far to simulate the earthquake.
Jiayi carefully adjusted the vibration amplitude and frequency of the magic circle remotely, and at the same time used sonar to monitor the movement nearby, and was alert to the appearance of digging insects at any time.
After waiting for a long time, the digging insects have not appeared, and Jia Yi is a little disappointed, whether it is because these digging insects have left, or maybe his thinking is wrong, and the vibration does not have any effect on the digging insects.
He increased the degree of the tremor, until the upper limit of the circle's endurance, and even Kaichi himself, who was standing in the distance, could feel the tremor under his feet, and the trees not far away began to rattle, as if they were swinging.
Suddenly, there was a feedback from the sonar, and an extra line appeared in the sonar, and it also branched out, and the diggers did not follow the original route, but dug a new passage.
Soon, the digging insects dug through the ground and came out of the ground, the digging insects looked like a huge centipede, but the proportion was not as long as the centipede, the proportion was like the centipede was shortened to a third of the degree, but each digging insect was nearly a meter wide, more than 3 meters long, and the back was a piece of hard carapace, Jia Yi coveted this thing, there were two huge mouthparts on their heads, like two large sickles, and even behind them was a huge mouth like a chrysanthemum with teeth.
When the burrower advances, the mouthparts will swallow the soil in front of it, and then it will be discharged from behind, all the way to the row, and the excreted poop will be digested by the burger, and it will become a very nutritious fertile soil.
The digging insects are terrifying, but most of the time they don't appear on the ground, they don't like sunlight very much, and the sunlight will dry their bodies and make them feel uncomfortable.
But the sunlight doesn't hurt them, and when the diggers run out of the ground, they feel the scorching sunlight and bury themselves in the soil, drilling back and forth in the shallow layers of dirt beneath the surface, causing small bags of dirt to rise on the surface, like irregular ridges.
Kaichi looked at the digging insects, although they were running, they didn't look like they were abnormal, they didn't look like there was something wrong that would attack people. But as soon as he thought so, he saw a larger digging insect suddenly rush out of the ground, this insect was obviously much larger than the rest of the insects, at least twice the size of the digging insect that came out of it, and this digging insect did not seem to be afraid of the sun, more precisely, it seemed to be more irritable, and the discomfort of the sun shining on the body was nothing compared to its own irritability.
After the digging insect turned out, it did not bury itself in the soil, but kept writhing and wandering around, looking very irritable. The head is still swinging, the mouthparts on the side of the mouth are like two big sickles, and the whole insect looks like a psychopath holding two knives on the street in the eyes of Jiayi.
Other digging insects are also very afraid of this digging worm, as long as this big digging worm runs to the side, these digging insects will not care about the vibration of the ground, and will suddenly sink into the soil, waiting for the other party to pass before coming out.
Kaichi waited a little longer, and was sure that the digging worm was probably the culprit.
Jia Yi hurriedly activated the magic circle, and the magic circle that would only vibrate downward immediately turned around and turned into a forbidden magic circle, and the ground that was originally soft for the digging insects immediately turned into an iron plate, and the digging insects that were still underground immediately all came out of the ground.
The burrowing insects that emerged from the ground wanted to drill back, but found that the original ground had become very hard, and they couldn't get in at all, and they were blocked out, and the blocked digging insects looked very irritable and frantically wanted to drill into the ground, but there was no reaction at all.
The digging insects that were blocked outside were walking around, and there was still a little bit of hiding from the biggest digging worm, and now they couldn't dodge, but the biggest digging insect was even more irritable, and when they saw other digging insects passing by, they didn't say a word, and directly clamped their mouthparts like a pair of scissors, and directly cut a passing digging insect into two sections with a pair of scissors.
The cut digging worm did not die immediately, and green blood spilled from the fracture and sprinkled it on the remaining wheat roots on the ground, eroding the holes one after another. The body that was cut into two pieces was also writhing like crazy, and its head hit the murderer's body, biting out scratches one after another, but the cut off insect did not have much strength, although it bit the murderer's body, but it did not leave any damage.
The rest of the bugs that were still wandering around like crazy next to them immediately quieted down, and it seemed that the sunlight overhead was not so unbearable, and they all immediately moved away from the largest digging worm, and every time that one digging worm ran over, the digging worm next to it would scatter far away.
Fortunately, the biggest bug is not too aggressive, as long as it is not bumped into by it, it will not take the initiative to attack other bugs.