Immortality: Raise an ant queen and add some immortality

Chapter 117: Locust plague appears, Medicine King makes great progress

After washing and having breakfast, he hurried out the door with the basket on his back.

I raised eight bees yesterday and I have to go check them out today.

He made a special trip to his own corn field, and found at least two plump corn seedlings hanging on the waist of each corn seedling.

Looks very strong.

His eyes swept over the corn seedlings to the east, and he keenly noticed that some leaves had been gnawed by insects and had gaps.

Each pest feeds differently.

Some pests secretly lurk on the undersides of leaves to suck the sap from stems and leaves.They like to bite a small hole in the veins of the leaves and suck the juice like blood.

These are mostly larvae.

It is very hidden and difficult to be discovered by farmers.

There are also insects that like to bite out irregular insect holes from the thickest parts of the leaves.

What was discovered at this moment was that the edges of the leaves had been gnawed out with gaps of varying sizes.

This shows that the pests that appeared this time have powerful mouthparts. They can gnaw evenly from the edge of the leaf to the depth like a cutting machine.

After careful identification, Qin Niu found that these were traces left by locusts.

Later, he found brown and black insect droppings of different sizes on the ground.It is granular and has a rough surface.

He was even more certain that this was done by locusts.

Butler Yan Qi warned last time that there were signs of insect infestation in many places.

There was another flood not long ago, which only worsened the insect infestation.

Qin Niu's corn field was dewormed last time, and it was quite clean.

Unexpectedly, pests appeared again this time.

And judging from the gnawing marks on the leaves and the insect droppings scattered on the ground, it is definitely not larvae.Instead, there are many adult insects.

It takes about half a month for locust eggs to hatch under suitable temperatures.

If the temperature is low, it may even take more than 20 days.

After hatching into nymphs, they molt every seven days.It takes approximately five molts to become an adult.

It has only been less than a month since Qin Niu last dewormed.

It stands to reason that even if locusts appear, they will only be second or third instar nymphs, and it is unlikely that a large number of adults will appear.

Where did these adults come from?
Came from the nearby fields?

It's possible, but the land adjacent to his poor farmland is basically dewormed every half month to a month or so.

Although the crops in their fields are not growing as well as Qin Niu's, they have not seen any obvious insect damage.

This shows that there are no conditions for locusts to reproduce in large numbers in a short period of time.

Then there is only one possibility, these locusts flew from somewhere else.

Locusts have certain flying abilities. After they have eaten almost all the food in a place, they will migrate in groups.

Qin Niu has been busy with various affairs recently, and has not paid much attention to this mu of corn.

After discovering traces of insect infestation, he quickly put down his backpack and went into the field to inspect it carefully.

The leaves of many bract seedlings showed signs of being chewed.

Maybe it happened in the past few days.

Those gnaw marks look quite fresh.

The leaves of plants have the ability to repair themselves. After a little time, the wound will repair itself.

His planting experience is not extensive, but his skills in identifying insect traces are already at a certain level.

You can tell whether the bug is still nearby by looking at the newness of the scars on the leaves.

When inspecting the fields, frightened locusts would jump up from time to time and then escape to other plants.

Some locusts are still lying on their backs and mating.

If you don't clean them up, they will soon lay a large number of eggs in the ground.

A female locust can lay more than 200 eggs at a time.

This is a super terrifying reproduction rate.

When the temperature, humidity, and food are good, two hundred female locusts can breed [-] nymphs in just about a month.

Just imagine, if those [-] nymphs reproduce again, they will become millions of locusts.

In other words, it only takes two months at most to form a super locust plague.

Qin Niu caught a locust casually.

It is quite large, almost as thick as an adult's little finger.The whole body is green, which makes it easier for them to hide.

The hind legs are strong and powerful, and the ends are covered with serrated spines.

When it kicked Qin Niu's palm hard, it caused Qin Niu a burst of pain.Brown liquid spewed out of its mouth. I don't know if it was because it had eaten too much, but it spat it out as soon as it exerted force.

"No, these are not ordinary locusts! Not only are their mouthparts more powerful, but there are two golden lines hidden under their ribs. This should be a new species that has evolved."

Qin Niu took out the cage and locked up the female locust.

Then he caught a few more locusts, all of the same species.

Their common characteristics are that their hind legs are powerful, their mouthparts are extremely developed, and they are larger than ordinary locusts.

In addition, their short-distance flying capabilities are also very powerful.

Generally speaking, the stronger the bug, the faster it digests.

For example, the termites that Qin Niu is raising now have a much larger appetite for special ant species.

His corn should be harvested in another ten days or so.

We cannot let the locusts ruin us at this juncture.And if the adults lay a large number of eggs in the ground, they will definitely pose a serious threat to the next batch of crops.

"Looks like we need to get rid of the pests again!"

The last time he got rid of pests, he only had one second-level lightning worker ant available.

Now there are a large number of special ant species, and there are even two third-level termites.

The efficiency of this pest control should be very high.

After checking the insect infestation situation in my own land, I also looked at the neighboring fields and found that the situation was equally serious.

He couldn't help but feel worried.You can get rid of the pests in your own land, but if you can't get rid of the pests in other people's fields, it will definitely affect your neighbor.

He hurried into the mountain with the basket on his back.

Arriving at the ant nest, the ant colony is still unshakable, adding less than ten new members every day.

"Wow, another poisonous ant appears! Nine ordinary soldier ants!"

Qin Niu was overjoyed.

At present, his ant colony has a total of three poisonous ants, but it is a pity that the powerful termites are too difficult to get out.

Mainly because of the small base.

If [-] termites can be added in a day, a few, or even dozens of powerful termites will appear.

All ten soldier ants were fed banyan tree blood.

Now, whenever new members appear in the entire ant colony, he will immediately feed them with banyan tree blood to help them evolve.

Because the breeding experience has become richer, and with high-level insect identification skills, the physical strength of an insect can be determined.So the mortality rate is now very low.

Of the ten soldier ants, only one exploded and died.

The other nine survived the most dangerous level.

This success rate is very gratifying.

Qin Niu took the fourth child and the queen to the old pine tree where the hive was located, not to mention it.

After arriving at the hive and settling down the queen ant, he checked on the eight worker bees that had eaten the blood of the banyan tree yesterday.Still evolving.

Ten new worker bees emerged from their pupae.

It's just that the hardening of the body has not been completed yet, and it needs to wait.

Naturally, Qin Niu would not wait and chose to practice under the ancient banyan tree first.

After entering, he could feel an extremely terrifying energy.

"Is this... is it because I have practiced the Medicine King Sutra that I can feel the energy in the ancient banyan tree?"

Qin Niu is still just getting started with the Medicine King Classic.

He couldn't sense the amount of energy contained in ordinary medicinal herbs.

This ancient banyan tree is equivalent to the level of a thousand-year-old demon, and the energy it contains is terrifying, so it can be sensed by him.

Moreover, he found that this ancient banyan tree was particularly treacherous.

You can't feel the slightest breath from the outside. Only by entering its maze can you feel the terrifying energy contained in the tree.

If the small ball of Medicine King Meridian skill that Qin Niu now cultivates in his body is regarded as a drop of water, then the energy contained in the ancient banyan tree is a vast ocean.

"What will happen if I practice the Medicine King Sutra under its tree?"

Qin Niu thought of a question that struck his heart.

However, he was not in a hurry to practice, but was determined to squeeze out every ounce of its value.

First make a few openings to bleed it.

Now the sword has been nourished to a great extent, and when it is cut with the sword, the energy of the sword becomes more solid and powerful.

In addition, his cultivation reached the fifth level of a mortal, and his power doubled.

With one strike, the wound was much deeper than before.

It is still impossible to cut down this ancient banyan tree.

The deeper you cut, the faster it will repair.

Qin Niu suspected that it could not sit still and wait for death.As long as it reaches the point of breaking its muscles and bones, it is likely to make some self-protective counterattacks.

Now, this ancient banyan tree is a super treasure of his, so he will not be stupid and think of cutting it down.

Not only will he not cut it down, but when he becomes stronger, he will find ways to protect it.

This ancient banyan tree has become his personal property.

After taking the blood from the tree, he sat cross-legged under the tree and began to practice the Medicine King Sutra.

As he closed his eyes and concentrated, he slowly felt a vast and terrifying medicinal aura like a sea of ​​smoke.They are like boiling water, emerging from the tree and reaching the sky.But it was firmly locked two meters above the tree crown.

It was able to survive for at least a thousand years without being discovered by powerful monks. It probably relied on this method of sealing off its own world, lurking in the mountains.

Even if outsiders passed by nearby, they would just treat it as an ordinary ancient tree.

Everything in the world has spirituality.

Although this ancient banyan tree cannot think like a human being, it still has its own survival wisdom.

Qin Niu was not polite to it.

Compared with the medicinal gas that comes from the dogtail grass at home, it is really like the light of a grain of rice, and it is the bright moon in the sky.

As he closed his eyes and practiced, the terrifyingly huge medicinal energy was attracted to him and sank into his body.

This cultivation speed is at least a hundred times faster than sitting in the backyard and absorbing those ordinary herbs.

This is because he was unfamiliar with practicing Medicine King, and [-]% of the medicinal energy he absorbed escaped into the air.All wasted.

Only about [-]% was inhaled into his body and transformed into the power of the Medicine King Sutra.

This hundred-fold cultivation speed is really fascinating.

Qin Niu felt that his Medicine King Sutra skill was growing at an alarming rate.

After practicing for almost three hours, he felt a pain in his head.

It takes a lot of effort to channel the torrential medicinal energy.This is because the mental energy is excessively depleted and is close to overdraft.

He quickly stopped practicing.

I opened my eyes.

At this moment, he was extremely excited.

In his eyes, this ancient banyan tree is full of treasures.

Even the medicinal gas that comes out of it has become a peerless treasure.

Qin Niu watched Xiaoqing's grandfather die with his own eyes.The old man took a lot of pills, and even before his death he was unable to break through to the fifth level of mortals.

The reason is that there is no way to absorb enough medicinal energy.

(End of this chapter)