Chapter 137: The bug crisis (1)
Translator: 549690339
In fact, this situation was similar to what Zhao Hai had imagined the black soil wasteland to be like in the future. However, Zhao Hai would not send anyone to care about them. If he wanted to let the slaves build the village, he would first restore the slaves ‘status as civilians.
It seemed like the Versailles family understood that if they wanted the horses to run, they had to let the horses eat grass. They gave these slaves a better life than the others and allowed them to start a family here. In the end, it was all for themselves. Even a large family like the Versailles family could not buy hundreds of thousands of slaves every year to supplement their family. It would be a huge loss if they did that. Therefore, they kept the slaves here in captivity so that the slaves could start their own families. These children would be born as slaves, and such slaves were often more useful than newly bought slaves.
Zhao Hai and green looked at a few villages and stopped. They were all the same anyway, so it didn’t matter if they looked at them or not. They had to focus on their business.
Zhao Hai chose a place far away from the People’s living quarters and stopped. He had not used the beetle’s attack power yet, so he wanted to see how powerful the beetle was this time.
Gelin stood beside Zhao Hai and stared at him without moving. He really wanted to see how powerful the pests that Zhao Hai mentioned were. The two of them actually had the same thoughts.
Zhao Hai raised the evil spirit staff and said in a low voice, ” “Release the beetle!”
A projection immediately shot out from the staff and stopped in front of Zhao Hai. Then, a prompt sounded,”Host, please select the area of effect. One mu, ten mu, a hundred mu.” Three options appeared on the projection.
Zhao Hai immediately understood what he meant and chose the 100 mu. However, the projection did not disappear. Instead, it changed to a different image. The system notification sounded again, &Quot; please choose the density of the shots. One (each shoot), two (each standard), three (each shoot), four (each shoot), five (each shoot). &Quot; There were a total of five options.
Zhao Hai thought for a while and looked at the wheat-like crops. He made up his mind and chose the highest five per plant, which was the most choice.
Zhao Hai thought that was it, but the scene on the projection changed. The system announcement came again, &Quot; please select the time the beetle will live for. One day, seven days, ten days, one month. &Quot;
Zhao Hai immediately selected the option ” one month. &Quot; after that, the voice from the realm stopped, and the projection disappeared as well. A faint yellow light shot out from the staff, and the light disappeared in an instant. Then, Zhao Hai and green heard rustling sounds coming from the wheat field in front of them. They looked down and felt a chill run down their spines.
It turned out that in the wheat field in front of them, there were five fat meat worms crawling on each stalk of wheat. They were gnawing at the wheat with all their might, and in just a short while, they had gnawed a big hole in the leaves of the wheat.
Zhao Hai and Grimm felt their scalps tingle when they saw this. They had never thought that this would happen. Looking at these shadows, this stalk of wheat would probably be eaten up by these five fat bugs in a short while.
Zhao Hai stood up straight and let out a long breath. Green stood up as well and looked at Zhao Hai in shock,”Young master, is this the” pest control “function you were talking about?”
Zhao Hai nodded. &Quot; that’s right. This is the attack power of the pests. There are five of these pests on each of the 100 acres of wheat in front of us. &Quot;
Grimm took a look at the wheat in front of them and was even more shocked. With just a flash of yellow light, this kind of large meat worms suddenly appeared in this good wheat field, and there were five of them on each plant. This was really too terrifying. This was a simple creation of life, a god-like ability.
Zhao Hai had not told Grimm that these insects had a lifespan of a month. The key thing was that he did not understand what it meant to have a lifespan of a month. If the Versailles family discovered insects growing on the wheat, they would definitely kill them. By then, the insects would have been killed. Naturally, they would not be able to survive for a month, so Zhao Hai did not tell Grimm.
However, Grimm was someone who had seen many things and knew the wonders of space. He quickly calmed down and turned to Zhao Hai.”Young master, should we go somewhere else to release more bugs?”
Zhao Hai nodded, ” yes, we will. I want these bugs to eat all the wheat in ika plain. &Quot;
Gelin chuckled as he pulled Zhao Hai and leaped over the 100 mu wheat field where the bugs were released. They arrived at another wheat field where Zhao Hai continued to release the bugs before moving on to the next one.
In the end, Zhao Hai had lost count of how many pieces of wheat he had destroyed. However, there was a pattern to the number of bugs he had placed in the wheat field. He started from the edge of the forest to give the Versailles family the impression that the bugs were naturally produced.
That night, Zhao Hai and Gelin were really tired. They ran around non-stop. Zhao Hai didn’t let the alien out. It was strange because when he made the zombies, all the undead creatures in the space turned into zombies. Only the alien didn’t change and remained the same. This was a good thing for Zhao Hai. If the alien also became like that, he wouldn’t be able to enter the alien’s space at all because there was blood and flesh outside. It was impossible for him to directly see the situation outside.
This time, Zhao Hai did not release the Xenomorphs. They were too big and would easily be exposed. They would also leave traces behind. If the Versailles family saw the traces, they might discover that the insect disaster was man-made. That would be bad.
There were about three hours left before daybreak. Zhao Hai and Grimm returned to the medium to rest. Grimm knew that the slaves would not wait until the sky was completely bright before they got up to work. The supervisors would not let the slaves rest for so long. If they waited until the sky was bright before resting, they would probably be discovered.
The two of them were really exhausted that night. They went to sleep as soon as they entered the interspace. The situation outside the interspace was worse than they had imagined.
&Nbsp; Zhao Hai had underestimated the damage the bugs could do to the crops. The five flesh bugs had been nibbling at the seedlings without rest. The damage they had done to the wheat was unimaginable. That night, many of the wheat had been gnawed into bare stalks.
What was even scarier was that the flesh worms that had finished one stalk of wheat didn’t disappear. Instead, they crawled down from one stalk and onto another.
Zhao Hai did not know that they had actually gone to more than a hundred places that night. If Grimm had not reached the peak of level eight, he would not have been able to achieve such success.
This meant that Zhao Hai and the others had placed insects on more than 10000 acres of wheat fields, five insects on each wheat. By the time they placed the insects on the last spot, the first 100 acres of land had been eaten up by the insects. The mighty insect Army had begun to expand.
Zhao Hai and Ge Lin went to sleep after entering the space, so they naturally didn’t know what was going on outside. When the sun was about to rise, the slaves also woke up. Their main job now was to weed the wheat fields. If they found bugs, they had to kill them.
It was not the busy season, so the slaves were relatively relaxed. They got up and went to patrol the fields.
As for the slaves from the land where Zhao Hai and the others had let the insects go, they were dumbfounded when they reached the field. Their scalps went numb as they looked at the scene in front of them.
Many fat bugs were lying on the wheat seedlings, gnawing at them crazily. Looking into the distance, the wheat seedlings were no longer intact, leaving only green wheat stalks standing there.
Not to mention the slaves, even the supervisors were dumbfounded. They looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief. This was too terrifying.
Suddenly, one of the slaves reacted. He shouted and rushed into the wheat field. He kept hitting the insects on the wheat field to the ground and then stepped on them to kill them.
The slave’s reaction made the others react. They immediately pounced on the bug and beat it to the ground, stomping it to death.
The supervisor also came to his senses. He looked at the situation in the field with a pale face and then looked around. He did not go with the slaves to exterminate the insects. Instead, he turned around and ran to the small village where they lived.
In their small village, they would raise some scaled wildebeest. These scaled wildebeest could be used to plow the land. If something happened, they could be ridden to report. This manager wanted to ride the scaled wildebeest to send a message to the family.
The supervisor had already seen that there was more than a small area of those insects. As far as he could see, a large area of wheat fields had been gnawed clean. He didn’t know how large the area of the insect disaster was, but he was sure that if the insect disaster couldn’t be put out as soon as possible, the food production here in ika plain would be greatly reduced.
What the supervisor didn’t know was that there were many people with the same status as him doing the same thing. All of them were riding their scaly-horned horses towards the Versailles family’s relay station.
The reason why the slaves spent so much effort killing the bugs was that if they couldn’t Harvest Food in their fields, the food they got would also be reduced. They already had a hard time, and if the food was reduced, it would be even worse.
The Versailles family’s business in ika plain was quite good. Besides the small villages where the slaves lived, there was a small post-like place not far away. It was usually used to pass messages and distribute materials to the slaves. During the autumn harvest, it would become a grain station, dedicated to collecting grain.
The Versailles family used these relay stations to control the entire ika Plains. No matter where it was, they would be able to get the news in the shortest time if there was any movement.