In the next few days, the Angel King's army continued to hunt down swarms of locusts near the grassland.
After discovering that locust corpses could be used as bait to round up large numbers of prey at a fixed location, the killing speed of the Divine Envoy King's army was greatly increased. However, the results are still not satisfactory to the protagonist.
After a few days, the number and density of locust swarms within sight did not show any significant reduction. There were still densely packed locusts everywhere, which made people suffer from the fear of concentration.
As time goes by, the number and proportion of large locusts is increasing, which shows that the locust swarms are growing rapidly and may reach adulthood on a large scale. At that time, the locust swarms were the most terrifying.
Recently, the protagonist also discovered a bad signal. As the locust grows, its size and strength are increasing, and it seems that its self-confidence is also expanding. Many locusts that have eaten the flesh and blood of their companions have escaped the encirclement and suppression of the ant colony, and now these locusts have begun to show strong aggression.
These locusts are no longer satisfied with competing with their companions for limited plants, or taking risks to eat a few bites of corpses in ant ambush circles.
The protagonist has observed more than once that some large locusts actively attack smaller and weaker locusts.
Some, after a fight, subdue and kill the opponent before eating it, and some directly suppress the defeated opponent with its arthropods, and while the opponent is still alive, they eat off its fattest and fattest abdomen bit by bit.
Locust swarms are becoming increasingly bloodthirsty and aggressive. Nowadays, there are no more new locusts moving around. Those locusts that have just hatched from their eggs are not much bigger than ants and have no ability to protect themselves. In the eyes of their "brothers" of gourmet food. Even if they can escape, these newborn locusts will not be able to find enough food and will soon starve to death.
The locust swarm is undergoing rapid metamorphosis. Perhaps even without the intervention of ants, under the pressure of food scarcity, the locust swarm will embark on such a path. But now it's all happening in front of the protagonist's eyes, which is even more horrifying. This is indeed a dangerous sign.
Now, even the ant army is under threat, and the locusts obviously know that these ants are individually weak and are easier to subdue than their own kind. Many locusts will now wander around the ant army, trying to find some lone prey.
If it were an ordinary ant army, there might be lone individuals during combat, marching, and adjustments. However, the Army of the Divine Envoy King was well-organized and experienced, and there was no chance for the locusts to take advantage of it.
The ones who are most likely to fall prey are the protagonist and his party. He takes Nobita and a team of guards to climb to a high place every day to watch the battle. There are only about fifty ants in this group, which is very small compared to the army of hundreds or thousands.
It’s not that there are nearly adult locusts who have had an idea of the protagonist and his party. Once, a locust may have been starved and tried to rush into the ant colony. After breaking up the group, it took the opportunity to grab one or two ants’ preserved fruits.
The Imperial Guard team was caught off guard. By the time they could see the enemy, the giant locust was about to leap into the team.
At the critical moment, the protagonist enters the state of "God descends to earth", grabs one of the locust's tentacles, and throws it far away. The injured locusts soon became the corpses of other similar species around them, being bitten and eaten alive.
In fact, there is no need for the protagonist to take action. As long as the locust lands, the guard team can immediately launch a siege. These experienced warriors are definitely capable of subduing such a locust.
Afterwards, the protagonist quickly got out of the "God descended to earth" state. This time, he did not enter the painful sequelae stage afterwards. I don't know if it was because the state was activated for a short time.
Moreover, the protagonist feels that his strength has increased. After entering the "God descends to earth", the protagonist feels that he can already lift a stone larger than an apple, and he usually has strength comparable to that of a beetle.
The protagonist doesn't know the reason for such a change, so he just thinks it is a bonus of time travel. Compared with other time travelers, his "golden finger" is not worth mentioning at all.
Although the operation to exterminate the locusts had little effect, the protagonist still received good news.
Previously, the corpses of locusts killed every day would be transported back to the "Transfer Station". After the warehouse at the "Transfer Station" was full, "Dongyang City" dispatched a large number of worker ants to transport a large amount of locust meat back to "Dongyang City". The fresh insect meat is dried into dried meat, while the rotten meat is used as food for mealworms and fly maggots.
At this moment, the ants in "Dongyang City" discovered that some black, slender insects crawled out of the abdomens of some locust corpses. These insects soon began to look for moist places to lay eggs.
The protagonist rushed back to "Dongyang City" and determined that these bugs were the notorious wireworms that were even featured in movies.
Ironworms are also known as hair snakes, capillary worms, Gordius nematodes, copper wire snakes or tencels. Belonging to the phylum Nematoda, it is the general name for worms of the class Iron Nematodes. Insect species related to medicine belong to several genera of the order Ironworms, the family Ironworms, the genus Ironworms and the family Trichodermaidae, with a total of 250 to 300 species in the world.
Ironworms are slender and horsehair-shaped, with some varieties up to 1 meter long. They are similar to the roundworms of nematodes, but have no dorsal, ventral or lateral lines. Its front end is blunt and rounded, and the body surface has hard horny skin. The end of the male body is bifurcated, showing an inverted V shape, and the ventral surface of the bifurcated part is the cloaca.
Adult ironworms live freely in seawater or fresh water. The eggs laid by the female hatch out into larvae in the water. After being eaten by insects, they live a parasitic life.
When the larvae parasitize in the bodies of large arthropods such as mantises and locusts, they will continue to develop and gradually control the host's behavior. When the larvae grow into adults, they will control the host to find water sources, drown the host and then emerge from the host's body. Therefore, iron worms can also infect humans through water sources, causing iron worm disease.
Humans infected with ironworms will become inflamed with urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infection is caused by the perineum of the human body coming into contact with water containing ironworm larvae, which invade through the urethra and ascend to the bladder to parasitize. After the worm invades the human body, it can further develop into an adult worm and survive for several years. Patients with parasitic urinary tracts, mostly women, have obvious urinary tract irritation, such as severe pain in the lower abdomen, frequent urination, urgency, dysuria, hematuria, radioactive low back pain, perineal and vaginal inflammation, etc. After the parasites are expelled, Symptoms relieved. Symptoms caused by ironworms parasitizing the digestive tract are generally not obvious, but may include indigestion, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. There are also reports of worms being detected from orbital masses or ear canals.
There are no humans in this world. Ironworm adults can only survive in the bodies of large arthropods and eventually kill their hosts.
Thinking of this, the protagonist suddenly had an idea.
