Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

PY: Lin Yao, who was introverted and died in his previous life, traveled through time, and then got the [Master, Compassionate and Apprentice Filial Piety System], as long as he cultivates a disciple, he can get rewards.

"The ascetic apprentice comes, I will receive the benefits, is there such a good thing?"

Start recruiting apprentices!

.......

A few years later, Lin Yao, who had been promoted to a real immortal, looked at the "intimate" sword immortal, saint, and immortal emperor he had cultivated by himself, and was very satisfied, but why did his back feel chills?

At this time, the gathered female apprentices were staring at his back coldly, discussing endlessly:

"I'm sorry, Master, you must die for everyone."

"Sorry, Master, we didn't lie."

"Go away, it's time for me to sleep tonight... I will kill Master."

This book is also titled: "No, you also want to kill Master?" ", "Did the filial piety of the master and apprentice make something wrong", "I finally realized after accepting apprentices and returning to a thousand times cultivation base"

Very interesting book, you can read it

Chapter No.16 Heavy Rain

One net... two nets.

Every time the guards waved the net bags in their hands, a large number of locusts that could not dodge were caught, and then they were put into the cloth bags prepared in advance and beaten to death by the crowd.

To be honest, the process was a bit tedious, even boring.

But as a child who had never lived in the countryside, Zhang Yan still watched with gusto.

……

"Good guy, looking at the posture, tens of thousands of locusts have been caught in such a short period of time, so the more than ten points in the entire city of Wan can add up to hundreds of thousands, right?"

"Before I heard that the worst locust plague in the world was about 4000 billion locusts, but the remote place of Lujiang is definitely not so serious. It is amazing that there are hundreds of millions at most."

"Looking at it this way, in three to five days, the density of locusts in the Lujiang area will drop significantly!"

……

Walking in the wilderness on the outskirts of Lujiang, Zhang Yan watched the people constantly changing white cloths and beating insect corpses, and at the same time stared at the clean field not far away that was eaten by the army of locusts.

At this moment, he was a little excited and a little anxious.

If he remembered correctly, the place where he and others are now should have been a farmland for growing wheat, but as the locusts entered, it only took a day and a night, and the original green on the land was replaced They gnaw cleanly, leaving nothing behind.

...Yes, although Zhang Yan once ordered the people under his command to harvest the grain in advance, since the work is done by humans, it must be difficult to uproot and clean every piece of land.

In his impression, this area should have clumps of stumps and leaves after the crops were harvested.But now, apart from the grayish yellow of the soil, there is only a faint bright yellow left.

That is the color of the body of an adult locust, and it is also the main color of the whole world during the plague of locusts.

"Fortunately, I collected some of the food in advance this time. Otherwise, if this ghost thing really comes in, I'm afraid that even the roots of the tree will be eaten by you, and the people in the entire Jiangdong will be hungry together."

"I just don't know what's going on with Yuanlong and the others..."

His eyes fixed on the distant sky, Zhang Yan looked at the bright stars, and for some reason, there was a tendency to gradually dim.

Even visible to the naked eye, several previously bright spots of light were actually shrouded in black clouds, and the black clouds continued to spread toward the north.

"The locust plague came from the south of the Lujiang River, and the area around Qianshan County was the first to bear the brunt. In addition, it is close to the Qianshan Mountain and the Wanshui River, where the water and grass are abundant... I am afraid that most of the locust plagues have stopped there. I am here What I saw was probably some fish that slipped through the net."

Sighing involuntarily, Zhang Yan withdrew his gaze, but he couldn't help feeling a little concerned about the cloud.

……

In fact, what Zhang Yan was worried about was right. While he was looking worriedly at the southern sky, Chen Deng was facing the biggest challenge in his life in Qianshan County... or in Qianxian County.

Although he was proficient in farming when he became an official in Xuzhou, and even served as an uncivilized official position like a lieutenant of Diannong, Chen Deng still couldn't find any suitable ones in the face of the locust army rushing towards his face like a tsunami. There is no way to deal with it, and it can even be said that it is almost helpless.

In Zhang Yan's mind, he had predicted the scale of this locust plague—that is, millions, at most tens of millions of adult locusts.

Maybe as time goes by, more new-generation locusts will be hatched, but at most it will increase in number, and it will not have much impact on the "magnitude".

It's a pity that there are obviously some problems with this kind of prediction.

This locust plague is far from being as simple as a few million locusts, but tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions.

The reason why Zhang Yan had that illusion was because a large number of locusts stayed near the buried hill, and it was only a small army that arrived in Wancheng.

……

"Do it, go do it!"

……

"What are you still doing here?!"

……

Unlike the situation in Wancheng, if it is said that fire, temperature and white cloth are still needed to lure locusts near Wancheng, the situation in Qianxian County is so serious that these tools are not needed for assistance.

In any place in the city, outside the city, or even in the countryside, as long as you wave your hands at will, you can quickly catch a large number of locusts, and even put the net bag aside, and some locusts will actively drill into it.

In those relatively soft places in the wild, there are countless locusts layered on the ground, ready to mate and lay eggs at any time, bringing new life to their population.

cool?

In fact, it was quite cool for Chen Deng.

Wearing heavy leather boots, if Chen Deng stepped on them casually, several or even a dozen locusts would be trampled to death, and even a large-scale explosion would occur.

Tired?

Chen Deng didn't know if the others were tired or not, but he himself felt that he couldn't even move his hands.

……

Ever since night fell, Chen Deng saw that the size of the locusts in Qianshan was not right before Haishi, so he rushed out of the city with a group of people and began to hunt and kill the locusts on a large scale.

Until several hours have passed, Chen Deng no longer remembers how many locusts they killed.

Just the sackcloth bags filled with insect corpses behind them are already piled up as high as a hill, but the number of locusts has not changed at all within the range visible to the naked eye.

Not only the more than 2000 people from the Public Security Department, but also the local aristocratic families, local farmers, and even those craftsmen and businessmen have all been mobilized by Chen Deng.

They all wore special clothes, and held nets made temporarily by Wancheng, and frantically hunted and killed the swarms of insects all over the sky.

……

"call……"

……

"call……"

……

Time is still flowing forward, and as the time gets closer to the middle of the night, the activities of the locust swarm become slower and slower.

Except for those individuals that happened to land on people, quite a few female locusts have found suitable positions and started laying eggs one after another.

According to the data given by Zhang Yan, a female locust can lay up to more than 300 eggs at one time, which will almost bring about a super-doubled increase in the number of locusts.

More importantly, when most locusts land on the ground, their black and yellow bodies will be difficult to identify with the naked eye!

When the locusts were flying all over the sky before, they could catch dozens of sacks of locusts in an hour, and even after they were dispersed, their respective efficiency would be even higher.

But when the locusts landed and the swarms in the sky became sparse, everyone's efficiency dropped by more than double.

……

"No, no, if this goes on, let alone three or five days, even if it takes a month, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to kill these bugs!"

"Do you want to mobilize all the people to catch locusts together..."

"Leaving aside where so many protective clothing and tools come from, tens of thousands or even tens of 10 people are piled up in a black pile. If nothing goes wrong, it will be good. Then there is still such an efficiency?"

"Damn it, you have to think of a way."

……

After wiping off the insect corpses on his body, Chen Deng leaned on a slightly bent bamboo pole in his hand, only feeling that his shoulders were so sore that he couldn't even lift them up.

It can be seen that one end of the bamboo pole is a large net made of white gauze.Inside the net, there are a large number of locusts jumping around that are visible to the naked eye, and they don't take the net seriously at all.

Just now, he took the lead, carrying a net alone, and killed an unknown number of locusts, and he himself couldn't remember clearly.

It's a pity that after a long period of high-intensity use, the net has become tattered at this time, and it is not like it was able to play a certain blocking role at the beginning.

After taking a deep breath, Chen Deng didn't care about the dirt on the ground, and sat down directly like this.

……

"That's not right. I haven't heard of any serious drought in Jiaozhou this year. Where did the locusts come from?"

"Could it be that it jumped out of the cracks in the rock?"

While cursing and looking at the provocative bugs on the ground, Chen Deng raised his head to look at the sky speechlessly, sat on the spot and started thinking.

Judging from the effect just now, Chen Deng knew that if he relied on a pair of industrious hands to deal with today's matter, he might not be able to handle it all his life.

You have to use your brain.

But something like a locust plague...

How else could he think of a way?

If locusts do not swarm, there are countless ways to suppress them.

And once there are swarms, especially tens of millions of locusts crowded together like today, all methods will no longer work.

Unless it has the power of water, fire and thunder, it is almost impossible for locusts of this size to be stopped by manpower.

"pat..."

"pat..."

A slight sound sounded behind Chen Deng, as if something had fallen on him.

And Chen Deng didn't care -

What else could this noise be?It was nothing more than those locusts that were still jumping and falling on him.

It's just strange that the sound didn't stop soon.