Catastrophe

Ning Zhe had seen locusts. The locusts outside had grown to the size of palms. The fortress people attached great importance to the prevention and control of locusts, but the refugees did not agree.

The locust plague that can destroy the growth of crops is a disaster for the fortress, but for the refugees, it is a gift from God, because they have nothing to lose in the bare desert. Every locust plague means that. The refugees were able to eat for a few days.

Ning Zhe is not afraid of locusts, but the locusts in Jin Qinhuan's place have greatly exceeded his expectations in terms of attack power, number and size.

He carried Dr. Chen all the way. He wanted to use the dense vegetation of the jungle to avoid the impact of the locusts. Unexpectedly, after they ran into the rain forest, the locusts outside suddenly stopped chasing, and the strong momentum collapsed in an instant. Dispersed instantly.

Zhang Fang stood in the woods and gasped, watching the locusts outside the jungle gradually disappearing into the grass, and frowned: "Do you think the situation is not right, these locusts seem to be full of fear for the woods we are in."

Dr. Chen interjected: "This is normal. Our previous inference is correct. The foggy forest is the boundary between the tropics and the temperate zone. The tropical rain forest is formed here, and it must have a complete ecosystem. Those locusts dare not enter the forest. It should be Because there are their natural enemies here, the long-term ecological environment has engraved fear into the survival instinct of these low-level creatures."

Ning Zhe opened the medical bag with him to help Dr. Chen bandage the wound, and said solemnly: "This is not a good thing, we have seen the attack power of those locusts outside, which can make them full of fearful natural enemies, for us , is also a huge threat.”

"But judging from the traces outside, the previous search and rescue team and Zhou Gong's team were all walking on the grass normally, and there was no sign of fighting. Why did those bugs suddenly appear when they came to us? Lin Leopard looked at the large grassland outside, and his eyes flashed with confusion: "It stands to reason that there are such large-scale locusts here, and the grass here should have been eaten clean by them long ago. It shouldn't be like this. what?"

Dr. Chen waited for Ning Zhe to help him bandage the wound on his leg, and brought his backpack over: "I'm afraid this is the worst! These locusts are desperate to attack us, there are only two possibilities, the first one. It is because they have a strong sense of territorial protection and are disturbed by us! Otherwise, they are preying!"

After listening to Dr. Chen's words, Zhang Fang's eyes flashed with doubts: "Doctor, as far as I know, locusts are herbivorous insects! Shouldn't their food source be plants?"

"This is what puzzled me, so I just picked up the body of an insect." While talking, Dr. Chen pulled a frozen locust out of Ren Jiao's backpack and cut it open with a knife its body: "Hope my guess is accurate."

Dr. Chen skillfully dissected the locust's body along the junction of the locust's body. After the locust's front stomach was cut open, the undigested plant residues were exposed.

Seeing this scene, Lin Bao heaved a sigh of relief: "I'll just say, bugs are bugs after all, even if they get bigger, they can't become carnivores!"

"This is not a good thing! These locusts have not evolved into carnivorous insects, which is exactly what I am most worried about!" Dr. Chen's expression did not relax because of this discovery, but became more solemn: "This is too strange. According to common sense, this is completely impossible, even if I have seen all this with my own eyes, I still have a hard time understanding this phenomenon."

Seeing Dr. Chen talking to himself nervously, Ning Zhe couldn't help but ask, "Dr. Chen, what's wrong? You didn't say that there are two possibilities? Since these locusts are not for prey, it's not because of ...

No, I see what you mean! If these locusts attacked us not because of predation, but because of their territorial awareness, Zhou Gong and the others who came in before would have been attacked by these locusts long ago, and we were at a high point when we came in, so we could have an overview of the overall situation. The grass here has not been damaged, which means that they can pass smoothly, but we were attacked. "

"This is what I can't figure out. If these locusts are not carnivorous insects, there is no need to attack us. Although their size has grown, they are still insects. The reaction after being disturbed should be Running away, rather than attacking us, makes no sense in common sense."

Dr. Chen frowned: "Unless our existence makes these insects have a strong anxiety, they will attack us out of an instinctive reaction! But we didn't do anything, and the ones that Zhou Gong and the rescue team had traveled before were walking. Route, no matter from that point of view, as the fourth group entering Jin Qinhuan today, we should not be the first group to be attacked."

Ning Zhe also felt deep doubts. With his understanding of locusts, this insect does not even have basic intelligence. It will only follow the animal instinct engraved in its genes to mechanically avoid danger, survive and reproduce.

The reason why these insects can attack them~www.readwn.com~ must be because they feel threatened, but Ning Zhe and the others have been on their way vigilantly from beginning to end, and have not done anything that can make the locusts feel fear. It is indeed unreasonable for those insects to attack them in groups.

Zhang Fang saw that the two people did not come to a conclusion after discussing for a long time, and said: "No matter what the reason for these locusts attacking us, at least our retreat has been blocked. We now have two choices, either to move on, or else Just take advantage of our chance to retreat and leave this place as soon as possible, Jin Qinhuan is too dangerous, the longer we stay here, the higher the risk factor will be!"

Ren Jiao looked at the rainforest with overgrown vegetation and no roads, and added not optimistically: "I'm afraid the danger we will face is still to come! Although those locusts outside are amazingly lethal, they can pose a threat to a small army like us. , but the guards sent a large force in, this threat is not enough to make so many people disappear! So the depths of the forest should be even more dangerous!"

Ning Zhe thought for a moment, and quickly made a choice: "The purpose of our entry here is to carry out rescue and search and rescue for Zhou Gong. We have just entered the jungle, and we must not leave just like that. Since those locusts dare not enter the forest, everyone is here. Let’s take a short rest here, and continue to go deeper in ten minutes to find the trace of Zhou Gong!”