Chapter 3 Beware of Locusts
The sun is shining brightly, there are no clouds in the sky, and it looks like a beautiful day at first glance. However, a layer of mysterious black fog rises from the east, filling the ground and air, coming with the wind, falling when it encounters grass, and "crawling" forward low.<
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Every time it falls for just a few seconds, a thicker black mist will rise. In just seven or eight times, the black mist is like taking a mysterious little pill, growing dozens of times and turning into a pitch-black "dark cloud".
It changes into various shapes in the air, sometimes like a line and sometimes like a net, which is indescribable.
The "dark cloud" moves westward, rising and falling. Under the premise of its own strength, it continues to expand, with the attitude of swallowing half of the sky.
Someone on the channel's public screen has already said that he encountered locusts.
"I have already come into contact with them. But it doesn't matter. The entrance to the cellar I dug overnight has been blocked with stones. It's just a pity for my citizens."
"Damn it, it started raining heavily here this morning. I thought the locusts wouldn't come, but they turned out to be flying around the rain outside, as if they were waiting for the rain to stop."
"Brothers, you may not believe it. I am lying in the water and living on a pipe."
"Master upstairs, I would like to ask if you have considered how to protect the workbench?"
"Fuck!!!"
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Lin Zhensheng hid in the hut and glanced at the channel a few times, thinking that they were all talented people, why didn't he come up with some bad ideas?
Looking outside through the small hole, facing the "dark clouds", he knew in his heart that they were locusts.
He watched them move towards the sky and the sun little by little, but he had no choice but to hope to survive this wave.
And he also saw clearly the movements of the locusts when they landed.
Eat.
Crazy eating.
Whenever they fall, it only takes two seconds for a piece of grass to grow from half a meter to having no roots, and all the plants on the ground will be eaten up, not even the residue is left.
As for the emergence of more locusts after eating them, Lin Zhensheng was not a clairvoyant. How could he see them? He could only blindly guess that they reproduce at an alarming rate.
Time passed bit by bit, and gradually I heard the "clucking" sound of wings, like a pulley, and a crisp sound like the collision of metal.
Lin Zhensheng was very nervous, his face pressed against the hole and his brows furrowed.
Suddenly a locust head appeared at the entrance of the cave, which really frightened him so much that he sat on the ground and swallowed saliva wildly.
"Is this a locust?"
Judging from the size of its head, its body must be as thick as two fingers.
It has a brown carapace, blood-red compound eyes, and sharp ring-shaped teeth in its mouth. It chews hollowly against Lin Zhensheng's eyes, making a scratching sound.
Very fierce.
Lin Zhensheng forced himself to calm down, but he couldn't be timid at this time. He took a few deep breaths, held the branch and poked randomly at the small hole.
After confirming that the locusts have been driven away, look outside again.
Suddenly, black clouds threatened to destroy the city, and the locust army that covered the sky and sun had already arrived at the city. Looking outside, they looked at densely packed small dots flying in the sky, so many that they collided with each other.
The outdoor light dropped by more than one degree, as if a sudden heavy rain had enveloped the entire sky. The violent energy was concentrated and accumulated, making people feel dark, depressed, and frightened.
The citizen's hay shed was nearby, and countless locusts came down like rain. In less than two seconds, the hay roof was covered with dense locusts.
If a patient with trypophobia cannot feel fear at all here because he has already passed by as soon as he passed by, please contact the crematorium directly.
Watching the hut disappear under the cover of these locusts, in less than five minutes, even the four wooden pillars were gnawed away, which shows how powerful their mouthparts are, and this is very unfriendly to Lin Zhensheng.<
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Wood cannot block their mouths. Look at those sharp ring-shaped mouthparts. Can human skin block them?
When I think of this, I feel frightened.
They must not be allowed to flood in, otherwise these dozen people will be bitten to death, and they will be told directly here.
"Quick, quick, quick, hold up the left and right positions, and immediately block the gap if you find it."
While he was talking, Lin Zhensheng had already blocked the small opening with branches, and kept bundling hay and throwing branches on the ground for citizens to use at any time.
He turned around and came to the workbench.
The "gurgling" sound outside the hut suddenly stopped, as if everything he had seen and heard before was an illusion.
It was extremely quiet, not wanting to be surrounded by locusts at all. There was not even the sound of wings flapping, but everyone could feel the wooden partitions trembling slightly.
What's happening outside? What are they doing?
"Shasha"
"Shasha"
The extremely dense 360-degree surround sound suddenly sounded, and the sound was terrifying. Lin Zhensheng suddenly realized: "They are chewing wood!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a little light suddenly came in, and the locusts squeezed in and tried their best to get in.
The wooden partition was chewed through!!!
Without waiting for Lin Zhensheng's prompting, the citizen stretched out his palm and slapped it to death, then blocked it with branches with his backhand. However, just after he blocked it here, it leaked there again.
Citizens are working together to make repairs.
To no avail.
Lin Zhensheng didn't want to think so, but the facts before him made him make such an evaluation.
There are hundreds of millions of locusts, or even billions of locusts. Blocking is not enough. Blocking will eventually break the wooden partitions, and there will be no blockage.
Open the workbench directly.
Finished wooden partitions cost 150 each.
Buy.
The finished straw rope is 10 yuan each.
Buy.
Lin Zhensheng and the others allowed the locusts to gnaw on them without blocking them. The number of light spots on the wooden partition increased rapidly, and the faster they moved their hands.
"Move faster, faster!"
"Locusts have already come in."
"Don't worry about the outer partitions, put them between the pillars first."
"Everyone, come closer to me and tighten up!"
There was no time to tie the straw rope, and everyone was holding it tightly in their hands.
"Shasha"
"Shasha"
The sound of gnawing at the wood made one's scalp numb. Before the locusts swarmed in in large numbers, the wooden partition was finally firmly fixed.
The interior is temporarily safe, but this is just a temporary measure and the situation is not optimistic.
Lin Zhensheng didn't know when the locust plague would end, so he started working on the next round of defense.
Tie all the straw ropes tightly, then buy wooden partitions and install another layer.
At this time, the entire space fell into darkness, with only the sound of "rustling" for company, ticking, ticking, ticking like a life-threatening countdown, hitting everyone's tense nerves with a heavy hammer.
Lin Zhensheng's heart was already in his throat, and his eyes were about to pop out.
He originally wanted to add another layer of wooden partitions inside, but the space inside the thatched shed was so large that there was no room to arrange it.
Do you really just leave it to fate?
Lin Zhensheng has never been a submissive person.
The little locust also wants to bully me?
Joke!
I finally got back to being the protagonist, how could I fall into it? It simply loses my demeanor as the greatest lord in the future.
I can’t get over this even if I write it down in a notebook.
Locusts?
Do it!
I don’t believe it has nothing to fear!
Time waits not for us.
"Hoo~"
Lin Zhensheng endured the noise and adjusted his breathing, focusing on the production list on the workbench, trying to find the answer.
The "rustling" sound in the ears continues to increase, indicating that the innermost layer can no longer withstand it, and there may even be only a thin layer of wooden partitions left.
Chapter completed!