Chapter 227: The Mystery of the Sea of Worms
Among all the people present, Gao Gui was not only the most suspicious, but also the most understanding of Gu worms, if these Gu worms were not sitting on them, then at least they should be masters from other witch countries.
"We don't have a clue either. Gao Gui shook his head and sighed, "Although I have seen a lot of Gu worms, there are too many types of Gu worms in the world, and I have never seen this kind of Gu worm, and I also thought about whether there are other masters of the Witch Kingdom involved just now, but I really haven't heard of any masters of the Witch Kingdom coming to Yicheng recently." ”
Qin Wu asked: "If you think about it carefully, such a terrifying number of worms, in terms of power alone, is already enough to break the city, it is no exaggeration to say that if these Gu worms crawl out from under the post city, I am afraid that the entire post city will become a dead city, such a destructive Gu worm, unless he uses it for the first time, how can he leave a little rumor before." ”
Hearing Qin Wu say this, Gao Gui also racked his brains to think of everything he could think of, but whether it was when he was young, middle-aged, or now in his old age, he hadn't even heard of this kind of large-scale Gu worm disaster.
In the end, Gao Gui could only shake his head helplessly: "No, I don't have any impression at all, and Mr. Qin, you may not know, our people in the Wu Kingdom have always cultivated Gu worms, which have always been expensive and not expensive, and cultivating insect kings killed from all kinds of vicious and vicious insects, that is the general creed of the common sense of every Gu cultivator, like this kind of Gu worm that is almost harmless and completely wins by quantity, in the Wu Kingdom, it is completely a sideshow." ”
Qin Wu said lightly: "But when the number of this kind of insects reaches a certain level, your so-called insect king is completely vulnerable. ”
Gao Gui's face turned red at first, but then he remembered the fate of his few treasure insect kings after they were thrown into the sea of insects, and in the end he could only admit what Qin Wu said.
However, Gao Gui still defended himself: "But although this kind of Gu worms that rely on quantity are easy to cultivate, just like their terrifying number, even if the ingredients to raise them are low-level, this amount of them is not something that ordinary people can afford, only those few masters of the Concentration Rank who have prominent backgrounds in our Wu Kingdom can do it." ”
"Oh?" Hearing Gao Gui say this, Qin Wu continued: "In this way, we can be regarded as having made some progress, and there are other suspects, right?"
However, Gao Gui shook his head: "Although it may be those people, I haven't heard that they have this kind of Gu worm, or that they have come to the post city." ”
Qin Wu said: "Don't care about these first, I still have a few questions to understand, although you don't know anything about the origin of these Gu worms, but as a Gu master, you should still be able to briefly analyze the characteristics of this kind of worm, right?"
"What do you mean by Mr. Qin's characteristics?" Gao Gui asked, now that everyone knew about the aggressiveness and disadvantages of this Gu worm, he felt that Qin Wu should not ask such a simple question.
Qin Wu said: "Their growth rate, reproduction rate, and how much food they need from birth to adulthood. ”
"It's simple. Gao Gui immediately jumped and grabbed a few Gu worms with a cloth bag, "This kind of insect that is not taboo of food and can breed so many should not be raised, I can try it now." ”
With that, Gao Gui took out something that looked like a powder made from the stems and leaves of some kind of plant.
Gao Gui explained: "This is Ma Chun Cao, and all the insects that eat this thing, except for the kind of insect king who is particularly strong and cannot have a mate at all, will quickly start to multiply. ”
Sure enough, after those insects ate the hemp spring grass powder, they quickly began to mate and lay eggs, these insects seem to be really from the earthworm variant, each one is hermaphroditic, but the eggs laid are abnormal, such a small body, each actually gave birth to more than a dozen eggs, and after these Gu insects laid eggs, the body quickly withered, and then died, and the withered insect skin flowed out some unknown body fluids along with some damage.
Then Gao Gui took out two other strange things, one can speed up the hatching of insect eggs to a certain extent, and then the real incubation time can be deduced based on this incubation time, and the other is the food for ripening Gu worms, like these things, I am afraid that only in the hands of witches.
But then, an incredible scene happened, the body fluids of those dead insects flowed near those eggs, and after a few slight sounds of those eggs, the larvae inside actually broke out directly!
Qin Wu didn't see this scene, but he stunned Gao Gui, he had never seen this kind of insect eggs that could hatch directly after birth.
It's impossible!
Gao Gui thought so in his heart, but the facts were right in front of him, which even made Gao Gui feel that his experience in cultivating Gu worms was fake.
After the larvae burst out of the eggs, they quickly devoured those body fluids, and then began to eat the corpses of those adult worms, and in a short time, these larvae had grown to a certain extent, although they were not as large as adults, but they were already qualified to join the army of those insects below......
And these Gu worms are different from their usual Gu worms, they don't eat each other at all, but tacitly find other food to eat together, although they feel the living creatures, but they are in the sturdy cloth bag, not to mention whether their mouthparts can bite through the cloth bag, they will not attack the cloth bag at all, which is not a living thing.
After watching the whole process in just a short time, Gao Gui, who didn't even use the two strange things in the back, was already sweating like rain on his head, but under the cover of the real heavy rain, everyone couldn't find the abnormality at all.
Gao Gui only felt that his tongue was dry, and he said to Qin Wu, "Mr. Qin...... These insects reproduce very quickly, each can lay more than 10 eggs, and the growth rate is ......"
"They are already adults and aggressive at the moment, and this is when I can't even use the last two strange things, and they have finished their growth by eating the corpses of adult worms......"
Hearing this kind of reproduction speed that far exceeded common sense, Qin Wu was also taken aback, and then Qin Wu deduced: "It seems that our guess just now is wrong, in order to let these insects breed on a large scale, we don't need the property of those masters to support ...... at all."
Gao Gui retorted: "Mr. Qin, this is not right, although they can reproduce quickly, but after these larvae eat the corpses of adults, they are only half the size of adults. They can't grow out of thin air, otherwise they would have to eat the adult corpse for what they do? It is impossible for them to grow into an adult worm just by relying on the nutrients of the adult corpse, and in order for these larvae to continue to lay eggs, they must also eat other food. ”
Qin Wu, who was just listening silently, suddenly interrupted Gao Gui's words.
"Wait, you just said, other food?"