On the way back to Kuyu City, Bai Yuqi discovered a strange phenomenon.

That is, although the locust plague is ferocious, it has not caused an extermination blow to plants.

Various plants are still growing tenaciously despite being gnawed crazily by locust swarms that look like lawnmowers!

And the closer to the Zhongnan Mountains, the more obvious this phenomenon is. At the same time, the closer to the Zhongnan Mountains, the smaller the scale and the fewer the number of locust swarms.

When Bai Yuqi arrived near Kuyuxian City at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, there were not even many locusts flying around. Instead, the plants were growing extremely lush. It was obviously only early spring, but various plants were growing as lush as midsummer.

Just as he speculated, the closer you get to Zhongnan Mountain, the [Arcana Particles] diffusion source area, the higher the [Arcana Particles] concentration per unit space is, and it has even exceeded 1,000 units.

This strange phenomenon couldn't help but make Bai Yuqi think deeply.

Obviously [Arcana Particles] can not only have an impact on insects such as locusts, but can also have an effect on plants, and it seems that the effect is even greater than that of insects!

Moreover, Bai Yuqi also discovered that the concentration of [Arcana Particles] seems to have an impact on living things.

Although low-level creatures like locusts can absorb arcane energy to strengthen themselves, they cannot withstand too high a concentration of [arcane energy particles].

That's why they instinctively avoid the Zhongnan Mountain area and move to surrounding areas where the concentration of [arcanic particles] is thin enough for them to survive.

This is good news for the current situation. At least the various plants cultivated by [Shen Nongmen] will not be harmed by the locust plague.

From very early on, Bai Yuqi ordered [Shen Nong Sect] disciples to research and cultivate various crops, graft and hybridize them to optimize them to increase yield and quality.

So now, large breeding greenhouses and experimental fields have been built in the territory under his name. Under the care of [Shen Nong Sect] disciples, the growth status is pretty good.

If there had not been this locust plague, spring plowing and transplanting should have started at this time. However, if you plant now, you will feed the locusts. You can only postpone it for a while. If not, it will be used as a large-scale breeding to continue to improve the quality of crops.

Used.

On the way back to Kuyu City, Bai Yuqi noticed that the wild animals in the mountains and forests seemed to be much more luxuriant.

Especially the chirping of various birds, which even turned into a noisy and harsh whistle, and even formed clouds as they flew.

Bai Yuqi couldn't help but wonder if his previous judgment was a bit wrong. The reason why the locust plague did not come to Zhongnan Mountain was not at all a matter of the concentration of [Arcane Particles], but a large number of their natural enemies.

, so I instinctively avoided this place.

What surprised him even more was that the sizes of various animals and birds in the mountains and forests seemed to have increased in size due to the concentration of [Arcanic Particles].

Just now, a group of pheasants, probably numbering in the hundreds, flew blatantly in front of him, and one reckless one almost hit him.

Normal pheasants, also commonly known as pheasants, are much smaller than domestic chickens. Although they have long tails and large wings, they are not much bigger than pigeons when their hair is gone.

But the group that had just flown by shocked Bai Yuqi in the blink of an eye. They were as long as turkeys, and their colorful feathers were even more shiny, looking like peacocks!

This is a relatively large pheasant.

Some chickadees, which were supposed to be the size of sparrows, became as round and round as doves.

And the quails that were just scurrying around in the grass were as plump and round as an old hen.

This also shows that the lower the level of the creature, the sooner it will be affected by [Arcane Particles], and the smaller the creature, the greater the change will be after being affected!

This made Bai Yuqi worried. What he saw now was only changes in the body size, growth rate, and reproductive capacity of the organisms. Whether they would also increase with these changes would require further research to determine.

However, judging from the scale, quantity, and size of the locust plague, as well as the situation of various animals in the forests of Zhongnan Mountain, his guess is probably correct.

But if that's the case, I'm afraid this locust plague will not be as easy to solve as he imagined!

Because locusts only take about 30 days from egg birth to maturity and reproduction, and their lifespan is only two to three months, they can reproduce three to four generations a year.

A female locust can lay up to about 1,000 eggs in her lifetime, and her reproductive capacity is amazing. The most terrifying thing is that if a man is available, she will look for a man, but if there is no man, she can reproduce parthenogenously without asking for help!

Because around the second year of Zhenguan, the rare drought and warm winter environment in the Guanzhong area led to early hatching of locusts.

It was only mid-March, and the locust plague had already reached an astonishing scale. They had even begun to breed a second generation, and their growth rate had obviously more than doubled.

Calculating one generation per half a month, the season when "grasshoppers cannot jump for a few days after autumn" is at least six or seven months away, so wouldn't it be necessary to breed more than a dozen generations this year?

When Bai Yuqi thought about the scale of the locusts he had seen before, Bai Yuqi couldn't help but feel his scalp numb.

Calculated based on the average increase of 500 times in the size of one generation, after 1,000 locusts reproduce for four generations, they can reach an astonishing scale of 62.5 trillion. As for after more than ten generations... I'm sorry that Bai Yuqi's physical education teacher died early. He calculated

Not coming out!

It is estimated that by then, the bred locusts will be able to pile up a carpet more than ten meters thick on the ground like the previous white disaster in Northern Xinjiang!

Of course, locusts need food to reproduce, and they cannot survive without food.

This is just the first wave of locust plague, which has already gnawed the vegetation in the Guanzhong area into wasteland.

When the second wave is reproduced, there will be no food for them to grow, and theoretically the scale will be suppressed to a certain extent.

But the problem is, locusts can fly!

It can fly four thousand meters in one hour, and it can fly for dozens of hours in one breath!

In the absence of food, they will inevitably migrate to surrounding areas, spreading the locust plague that was originally limited to Guanzhong and Gyeonggi to the entire Tang Dynasty!

In that case, even if Bai Yuqi, a living god, is still alive, he may not be able to save his life!

And what Bai Yuqi is even more afraid of is that although locusts eat plants, when there is no food, they are hungry and they heard that they also eat meat!
Chapter completed!