Yang Junshan's first reaction was that monster insects appeared among the giant locusts!
Only demonized giant locusts can know how to let adults raise larvae. It is impossible for all the countless giant locusts in the valley to be demonized, so there must be a demonized insect king among these giant locusts.
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This insect king controls the giant locusts in the entire valley, restraining them from rushing out of the valley. At the same time, he orders the adults to collect branches and leaves from the surrounding mountains and forests for the larvae to eat.
Yang Junshan could imagine that once all the giant locusts in this valley grow into adults, then as long as the insect king gives the order, countless giant locusts will rush out of the valley and out of Quwu Mountain.
He walked around Yang Junshan along the forest on the edge of the valley, paying close attention to the movements of the giant locusts in the valley, trying to find the insect king hidden in it. However, the giant locusts in the valley were so densely packed that even the size of the insect king might be bigger.
It is larger than the other giant locusts, perhaps because the demonization has some characteristics that are obviously different from other giant locusts, but it is difficult to find it out.
Yang Junshan sneaked along the edge of the valley, and at the same time silently killed several giant locusts that flew into the woods to look for food, and then saved the giant locust corpses and put them in his waist bag.
However, when Yang Junshan walked towards the woods on the south slope of the valley, he found that the number of giant locusts flying to this forest was getting smaller and smaller, and the number of giant locusts flying to the south became smaller and smaller.
The pungent smell that permeated the woods was getting stronger and stronger.
At this time, Yang Junshan discovered that both the ground and the leaves and branches of this forest were covered with a layer of yellow-brown dust. It stands to reason that mountain winds often blow in the forest, and when the branches and leaves sway, little dust falls on them.
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He carefully put a piece of dusty leaf to his nose and took a sniff. A smell far more pungent than the one that permeated the woods rushed straight into his mind, causing Yang Junshan to sneeze uncontrollably.
Moreover, Yang Junshan also discovered that these yellow-brown dusts are extremely adhesive. After falling on the leaves, they did not fall off no matter how much he shook them. Even if he blew hard with his mouth, he could not blow away the yellow-brown dust.
This is definitely done intentionally by someone. These pungent-smelling dust prevents the giant locusts in the valley from foraging to the south. Once the locust plague breaks out in the future, they will instinctively avoid the south direction and sweep all towards the north. This
This is probably because the locust plague in the previous life quickly swept through half of Yu County after it broke out from Quwu Mountain, while the damage to Zhang County was extremely limited.
The disaster of giant locusts turns out to be both a natural disaster and a man-made disaster!
Yang Junshan was almost certain that the people who spread the medicinal powder must be the same group of people who purchased Linggu in Huangshan Town. However, a huge locust plague swept half of Yu County. The swarm of insects in the valley in front of him was obviously not enough.
That is to say, there are no one knows how many similar insect swarms there are in the entire Quwu Mountain.
And the Zhangjun force known to Yang Junshan, represented by a wolf head, probably does not have the power to monitor so many swarms. In other words, if you want to control the entire Quwu Mountain giant locust swarm, at least multiple forces in Zhangjun will need to join forces.
Action makes it possible.
Yang Junshan, who was sneaking, suddenly stopped and hid behind a giant tree. Just on the path he was walking forward, there was a clever early warning trap placed there. If Yang Junshan himself was not a sophisticated person,
The forest hunter cannot detect this trap at all, and as long as he touches it even slightly, he may be discovered by someone hiding in secret.
The early warning trap appears, which means that the station of this group of monks monitoring the insect swarm should be nearby, but I don't know if this group of people has been led north by him to pursue him, or there are still people left behind.
Yang Junshan carefully bypassed the early warning trap and continued to move forward. During the process, he discovered two early warning arrangements. A small open area appeared in front of him, and in the center of the open area was a house made of logs that was half buried underground.
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There was silence all around, and no one could be seen here, but Yang Junshan still did not dare to be careless. He took the two talismans seized from Junior Brother Cheng in his hand, and at the same time put the talisman dagger in his hand so that he could pull it out easily.
When we came out, we slowly approached the wooden house.
Judging from Yang Junshan's experience, there should be at least six or seven monks temporarily stationed in this camp, and these people just left not long ago. Judging from the things left in the camp, these people obviously left in a hurry, and died there
Senior Brother Ma learned from Senior Brother Ma that this camp should be headed by Senior Brother Zhao, and this person should undoubtedly be a martial artist monk.
After gently opening the door of the wooden house and finally confirming that there was no one in the camp and no traps were left, Yang Junshan finally relaxed and began to search the camp carefully.
Monks usually carry important items with them, and the monks in this camp are no exception. In addition to about 500 kilograms of spiritual grain, there are also some leftover preserved meats and barbecues in the wooden house. Among them, Yang Junshan even
The meat of two or three ferocious beasts can be distinguished, and they must have been hunted from Quwu Mountain, but I don't know if they harvested fairy spirits.
Yang Junshan also found a spirit-sealing bucket over a foot high and a spirit-sealing box one foot wide and half a foot thick in a corner.
After opening the spirit-sealing barrel, a strong bloody smell emanated from the barrel. Inside was half a barrel of plasma that would not coagulate after being treated with spirit-sealing. This plasma is the blood of ferocious beasts and can be used by monks in the mortal realm to write.
Talismans can save a lot of spiritual energy.
The spirit-sealing box contained tanned ferocious beast leather, neatly divided into more than twenty pieces. These ferocious beast leathers were used as talisman-making paper and could be kept for a long time.
The spiritual power in the talisman will not dissipate and its power will not decrease.
The spirit-sealing bucket is too big and inconvenient to carry, but Yang Junshan is not polite about the more than twenty pieces of fierce beast leather and the spirit-sealing box.
In addition, there are a lot of medicinal materials dried in the open space around the camp. They should have been collected by the monks stationed here in Quwu Mountain in their spare time. Although most of them are ordinary medicinal herbs, they are good.
It has enough medicinal power in that year, and most of them are used as auxiliary medicinal materials when refining medicinal pills. It can be seen that the monks who collect these medicinal materials have done a lot of research on this.
Naturally, Yang Junshan would not be polite to this. If the monks in the camp were only proficient in herbal medicine, then Yang Junshan himself was an alchemist in his previous life. Although he was not as talented as an alchemist, he remembered it in his mind.
The more than ten elixir recipes are naturally more familiar with the selection of these medicinal materials, and the herbs selected from these dried medicinal materials are also of higher value.
After a complete search of the camp, Yang Junshan found a secret earthen kiln behind the wooden house. After opening the earthen kiln, a strong pungent smell hit his face, and Yang Junshan among the woods
Junshan asked exactly the same question, but it was more pungent.
After soaking the linen cloth used to cover his face with water and covering his mouth and nose, Yang Junshan walked into the earthen kiln. There was a stone platform inside, with many bottles and jars placed on it, and many more.
The ground powders of various colors were placed in different bowls. In addition, there were open porcelain jars about a foot tall, into which the powders from many bowls were poured. There was also a pottery rod placed inside that seemed to be stirring.
Under the stone platform, there were two bags, each weighing about twenty or thirty kilograms. Yang Junshan opened it and saw that the yellow-brown powder inside was exactly the same as the medicinal powder scattered in the woods.
Yang Junshan immediately understood that the medicinal powder used by this group of people to prevent the giant locusts from heading south to Zhang County was not only prepared on the spot, but the raw materials for preparing these medicinal powders should be herbs collected from Quwu Mountain. No wonder there are everywhere in this small camp.
They are all dried medicinal materials. It seems that the prescription for preparing the medicinal powder is those collected herbs, but Yang Junshan still does not know the specific preparation process.
Looking at the medicinal powders in dozens of bottles and jars in front of him, Yang Junshan was unable to deduce the specific prescription of the medicinal powders from these things. In desperation, he had no choice but to carry a bag of medicinal powders under the stone platform on his back and prepare to take it back to Wasteland Town.
Before leaving, Yang Junshan lit the cabin on fire, and then quickly walked around the west side of the valley to the north end. However, when he walked around to the northwest corner, there was a sudden swarm of insects in the valley.
It exploded from the valley, took off in the center of the valley and flew in all directions, like a gray-brown cloud spreading in the sky.
A biting evil wind blew slowly from the valley through the forest, and when it hit Yang Junshan, it was like a knife cutting him, as if a murderous beast was watching him eagerly.
Evil spirit, this is evil spirit. There is actually a source of evil spirit in this valley!
Yang Junshan suddenly rushed towards a big tree and looked into the valley. He saw a dense swarm of insects circling from left to right in the center of the valley, gradually forming a vertical pillar of insects that reached tens of feet into the sky.
The King of Insects must be there! The source of evil spirits must also be there!
The giant locust swarms surrounding this huge insect pillar are actually trying to compete for the evil spirit spewing out from the source. Yang Junshan was able to make a definite guess almost instantly!
However, when Yang Junshan circled to the north end of the valley and prepared to return, the insect pillars that were tens of feet high in the valley suddenly collapsed, and all the swarms of insects fell into the valley. The vast scene in the valley suddenly subsided.
Yang Junshan still couldn't find the insect king hiding among the swarms, but he could no longer feel the aura of choosing and devouring people when the evil spirit approached.
Is this source of evil energy actually intermittent?
I just don’t know if the monks in the six or seven camps who have been monitoring the valley have ever discovered this situation in the valley, and if they have recognized that the frightening aura leaking out is a rare evil spirit.
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But at this time, Yang Junshan needed to rush back to Wasteland Town as soon as possible. Thick smoke rose from the lit camp in the distance behind him, but Yang Junshan walked for several miles in the forest and then plunged into the miasma.