Ye Xi looked at the enthusiastic old soldiers and the ferocious long worm legs in his hands and pursed his lips.
He has not eaten insects since the wave of insects in Tushan tribe. Now, in order to live up to the wishes of the old people, I have to eat it again.
He slowly raised the worm''s leg to his mouth.
At the same time, I comforted myself that this big worm leg looks very similar to the emperor''s crab leg, so take it as the meat of emperor crab leg! As soon as you close your eyes, you plug them into your mouth.
"Come on, come on!"
Ye Xi chewed on the insect legs.
The taste of wormhole fills the mouth.
He was surprised to find that the beetle legs of this horse faced cricket not only look like emperor crab legs, but also taste delicious
After tasting the taste, ye Xi accelerated his eating speed.
The five old people were very happy to see that ye Xi liked to eat. Bone claws laughed and said, "delicious, right? We still have a lot of these big crickets in hiding, even if they are open to eat! "
The stone stood up and went straight back to the cave and brought out a pile of large wooden jars. Then he opened the jar. One of them only touched out the inside of the katydids and put them next to Ye Xi.
Ye Xi''s eyes brightened: "you are lucky!"
Barren stone: "what luck?"
Ye Xi said with a smile: "I found so many katydids in the jungle. No, the big crickets are not lucky?"
The stone burst out laughing: "Wu has no idea, these big crickets are not really picked up by us! Generally, the corpses of big crickets and insects are not so complete. More or less they will be gnawed. Ah, we made them ourselves
Ye Xi doubts: "did you get it yourself?"
He opened a new wooden jar and took out a horse faced cricket from it. He found that it was also complete, with no wound except a small sharp shoot on the back of the head.
Ye Xi felt some magic: "how do you kill so many big crickets?"
Waste stone: of course, it''s insect powder
He took out a small jar of wooden jar from the leaf bag on his waist. After pulling out the plug of the jar, he showed it to Ye Xi: "this is the powder that we collected to kill the cricket insects. As long as we spread the powder on them, these big crickets will be finished!"
Ye Xi took the jar and looked inside. He found that there was orange powder inside, which had no flavor, but there were cobweb like yellow hyphae on the wall of the jar.
Is this Cordyceps species?
When he saw Ye Xi holding "Ke Chong Fen" carefully, he couldn''t help saying, "Wu, don''t your tribe have this thing?"
Ye Xi returned the small wooden jar to him and said truthfully, "it''s really not. This thing is very novel to me."
The old soldiers were all taken aback.
"Not at all?"
Ye Xi nodded: "can you tell me about this insect powder?"
"Of course! Of course
Five old people, you said everything to me without any concealment.
From what they said, ye Xi knew that the "kechongfen" should be a kind of Cordyceps species. A kind of Cordyceps fungus can restrain an insect, and it is highly infectious. No matter how serious a giant poisonous insect is, if it is accidentally stained with the fungus, it will be over.
Of course, the state of different insects infected with Cordyceps is different.
For example, the powerful tetanus equinovata is the most severely attacked by Cordyceps militaris. After being powdered, its body becomes stiff and dead, and its head grows into shoot like fruiting bodies.
Take the green fire ant.
This kind of ant is very toxic, one can kill an elephant, but the millstone tribe is not afraid of the green fire ant, because they also cultivate Cordyceps species that specifically inhibit the green fire ant.
However, the effect of Cordyceps species of fire ant is relatively slow, and it takes two or three hours to get effective.
At first, it may become inconvenient to move. Gradually, its body will become rigid, and at the same time, it will grow a little bit of fruiting body on its head. The fruiting body of the green fire ant is different from that of the katydids. Some of the fruiting bodies of the green fire ant are long and thin like Flammulina velutipes.
The millstone tribe usually catches a green fire ant first, infects the green fire ant with Cordyceps spp., which specifically suppresses it, and then puts it back, and then the whole nest of ants that have come into contact with it will be infected.
Unless the first infected green fire ant knows that he is sick, leaves far away and dies alone, the nest will not escape.
The effect is as bad as Zombie virus.
Of course, Cordyceps species are completely harmless to humans.
"There are too many insects here, so nature has specially evolved this kind of insect killer to balance them."
He suddenly remembered the insect tide that he met in Tushan tribe.
At that time, there were so many giant insects that they almost covered the whole black ridge mountain range, which made people have no idea of resistance.
Later, he set up Xicheng, and they were attacked by a mutant red spider. At that time, he sat on the back of a big bat and looked at the red sea of insects in despair and powerless. Finally, he was forced to use the zuwugu staffYe Xi clenched his fist and suddenly stood up.
What if he had Cordyceps species that restrained them? What''s the result?!
Just now the old people are very sure that no matter how powerful the insect, as long as it meets the special strain of Cordyceps, it will be finished!
Five old soldiers, nervous by the appearance of Ye Xi, also stood up.
Ye Xi asked solemnly, "how many kinds of insect powder do you have?"
Bone Claw nervously said: "no, no count, quite a lot of it!"
Ye Xi: can you take me to have a look
Bone Claw: "of course! Please follow us
The old soldiers took Ye Xi to the deepest part of the cave.
The cave is very dark, walking in the front of the bone claw holding the torch, so that the faint fire light around.
They took Ye Xi around the frightening pile of dead bones and went straight ahead.
There began to appear a lot of insect corpses on the ground. They were so many that they filled all the corners of the cave, making it difficult for people to get down.
These insects apparently died of Cordyceps and had a variety of fruiting bodies on their heads. He saw the big papyrus corpse as big as a millstone, the ferocious giant eye spider corpse, the bone eating butterfly corpse scattered on the ground like leaves, and the golden cicada body shining with fire light
When passing by, he casually opened a half rotten banana leaf and found that there was a fist sized insect nest attached to the bottom of the banana leaf with silk. All around was a rotten moth with villous and moldy appearance. At first glance, it was very disgusting.
Needless to say, these dense villi are the fruiting bodies of Cordyceps.
Huang Shi said enthusiastically: "this yellow moth is very sweet and juicy. You may as well try it."
Ye Xi was silent and refused his good intentions.
It''s too heavy for him to eat.
At last they came to the deepest part of the cave.
There are no insect corpses here. There are numerous wooden and stone jars on the ground. Most of them are made very rough. There are large and small ones. They are slightly disordered. There are various marks on the jar that ye Xi can''t understand.
Bone Claw: "these are where we put the powder."
Ye Xi glanced and his eyes darkened.
Even if there is one kind of Cordyceps fungus in a jar without any repetition, there will be only a thousand kinds of Cordyceps fungi, that is to say, it can only restrain more than 1000 kinds of insects.
It sounds like a lot, but you should know that there were more than 10 million species of insects in his last life. In this vast prehistoric land, the number should be at least a few hundred times higher.
So these 1000 species of Cordyceps species, it is too insignificant.
Want to use these Cordyceps species to control the insect tide attacking Xicheng?
What is the success rate? The most optimistic estimate is One in 100000.
Seeing that ye Xi''s face was not very good, he thought he had been smoked. He suggested, "Wu, shall we count it? It''s too pungent here
In order to expel the living insects and prevent them from gnawing the insect eating corpses, a kind of very pungent mineral powder is scattered here. Ordinary people may have sour noses and shed tears after staying here for a long time, which is not very friendly to people.
Ye Xi sighed: "no, let''s go out."
He shouldn''t have had too much hope. He was just out of his head.
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