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Chapter 26 Insect Setter

The locust plague in the shantytown next door eventually spread.

The swarm of insects was so huge that it looked like black smoke covering the entire sky, almost obscuring it.

Locusts have a diverse diet and when they are extremely hungry they will eat anything, even large living things!

They are all more than one finger long, covered with red and black stripes, as if they were made of metal, and glowing with a sinister light.

This is a red-gold locust, with extremely powerful mouthparts that can even eat tough spiritual bamboo.

Wherever you go, not a blade of grass grows!

Most of the farmers in the Xu-zi shantytown harvested and dried the rice in the fields in advance.

Only a small number of spiritual farmers were reluctant to give up a few low-grade spiritual stones and did not harvest the rice.

Now we can only rush to harvest in the fields with all our might.

The sickle is almost smoking.

But the locust swarm spread too quickly.

Even though the vanguard of the locusts has already arrived in the fields.

But there are still a few spiritual farmers who are reluctant to give up the rice they have worked so hard to grow for a year and are still unwilling to leave and are still working hard to harvest.

Until endless locusts came rushing over like a tide.

They panicked and quickly put talismans on their feet, trying to escape.

But it's too late!

A black wind composed of red-gold locusts swept over and directly wrapped up a spiritual farmer at the third level of Qi Refining.

A dim shield burst out from Lingnong's body, covering himself.

Ordinary spiritual farmers cannot afford magical tools, but basically they all have one or two amulets with them.

"Crack...knock..."

Dense swarms of red-gold locusts covered the light shield, gnawing at it continuously.

Finally, there was a sound of glass breaking, and the light shield turned into light rain and disappeared.

"what……"

The spirit farmer let out a shrill scream, which gradually weakened until it disappeared.

There were also sporadic tragic deaths of spiritual farmers in other spiritual fields.

The shantytown with the number Xu.

Many spiritual farmers gathered together and looked at the swarm of locusts in the distance, and they couldn't help feeling a little frightened.

At the same time, there is also some relief.

Fortunately, the rice straw was harvested in advance, otherwise not only would a year's hard work be wasted, but we would also have to owe the sect a lot of rent.

"Brother Xia, thank goodness you know such a powerful Taoist friend, otherwise we would have suffered a great loss!"

Zhang Wang also felt a little scared.

From this point of view, the four and a half spirit stones were really worth it!
As for those spiritual farmers who were reluctant to pay the spiritual stones and managed to escape, they were filled with regret.

Now he has no spiritual rice left and owes the sect a large sum of rent. If he doesn't have spiritual stones to repay him, he might have to sign a contract to sell himself and be sent to the mines to mine.

Those with more land may have to sign a three- or even five-year contract to sell their property.

"Brother Zhang, you are too polite. I would like to thank all the fellow Taoists for helping me harvest the rice!" Xia Chen replied with a smile.

Zhou Hai stepped forward, patted Xia Chen on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Xia, I see that your cultivation has reached the fourth level of Qi Refining. Why don't you join the Night Patrol Team to gain some experience? Maybe you can break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining next year!"

Xia Chen quickly bowed and said, "Thank you Captain Zhou for your kindness, but my cultivation is shallow and I am not good at any offensive means. Even if I am lucky enough to join the night patrol team, I will only be a burden to everyone!"

Zhou Hai said with some regret: "Since Fellow Daoist Xia has no intention, I won't force it. If you change your mind in the future, you can come to me!"

Xia Chen smiled and agreed.

But he was on guard in his heart. Zhou Hai looked like a man of high moral integrity and chivalrous spirit, but he was actually a very cunning person.

He was trying to win me over at this time, probably to take the opportunity to spy on "Li Gui" so as to snatch the wireless remote-controlled sun.

The Immortal Sect has set up a large defense formation in the center of each shantytown to protect the safety of the spiritual farmers.

If you encounter an emergency, you can temporarily hide inside to resist danger.

This is also the reason why many people live in shanty towns.

After observing for a while, everyone found that the shantytown was not in the locusts' migration route, so they scattered and left.

After returning to the bamboo house, Xia Chen always felt that there was something wrong with this locust plague.

He has been studying the "Strange Insects Book" recently and has some understanding of the habits of spiritual insects.

Moreover, Zhuma once flew a mini plane and took photos of the movement route of a swarm of locusts from high altitude.

He found that the movement route of this swarm of locusts seemed to have been set by someone. They were just moving in the direction of the spiritual field, not moving aimlessly.

"I want to see whether this locust plague is a natural disaster or man-made!"

Xia Chen sneered and flew out of the shantytown in a Miuni fighter.

After a cup of tea, he finally saw the black swarm of locusts in the endless fields.

Everything in the field was eaten up, not even the rice stalks were left.

Xia Chen even saw a skeleton with some blood and flesh vaguely visible on it.

The red-gold locust is very large, almost the size of a mini airplane. It has a ferocious appearance and huge mouthparts, and looks extremely oppressive.

The mini plane is coated with a special essential oil with a strong smell that has an inhibitory effect on most insects, just like realgar for snakes.

This is a secret recipe recorded in the "Yi Chong Jing" and it is not difficult to make.

So there is no need to worry about being attacked by swarms of locusts.

Xia Chen came here this time not to hide in the insect swarm and wait for an opportunity to find out the mastermind behind all this.

The locust swarm before us has reached a size of tens of millions, which is terrifying to think about.

If there really is such a spiritual insect master controlling a huge swarm of locusts behind the scenes, then his cultivation must have entered the foundation-building stage!

The spiritual awareness of cultivators in the foundation-building stage is extremely powerful, and they may discover the mini plane hidden in the locust swarm.

Once discovered, even if flying a mini plane, it would be difficult to escape being caught by a monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Unless the mini plane's grade is upgraded from D to C.

However, the spiritual stones required for upgrading are 1,500 low-grade spiritual stones, which is simply suffocating.

In the spiritual field ahead, the golden rice ears bent the rice stalks.

It is obvious that the owner of the rice field takes good care of it.

But soon, a large group of red-gold locusts emerged like a wave.

It didn't take long before all the spiritual rice in the field was covered.

Xia Chen keenly noticed that among them there was a red-gold locust about three inches long, with bright stripes all over its body, and it was devouring the rice voraciously.

Soon, a whole ear of rice was eaten into its stomach.

This red-gold locust has the strength of a lower-grade first level, and is exactly Xia Chen's target this time.

Then he took out a square prop from his treasure bag, which was a bit like a gun.

[Item name: Insect Setter (Permanent)]

[Item level: E level (cannot be upgraded)]

[Prop function: This prop and the observation insect box are a set of props. As long as the set insects can be observed in the observation insect box]

(End of this chapter)