The moment the bug appeared, Li Qingyun also saw it. It was actually eight or nine centimeters long, with a shiny black shell, like a beetle, but with joints and limbs, and like a centipede, with many legs.
There are two large jaws on its head, which are sharp tools for it to chew food. It moves very quickly. The worker slapped it with a shovel several times, but failed to kill it. It could always hide in the best position to avoid attacks.
This bug looks weird and familiar. It looks like a common bug in the ground. But that bug is only two or three centimeters long and not as ferocious. The big teeth on its head can break small branches. If the ground were full of bugs like this,
, it is estimated that even the greenhouse will be destroyed by them.
Finally, a quick worker, holding a large pliers, clamped the struggling insect. After being clamped, the insect still grinded its teeth, struggled under pressure, and bit the metal of the pliers, making an unpleasant sound.
of abnormal noise.
"What is this thing? Why is it so vicious? Oh dear, if you bite your hand, you will definitely bleed, but I don't know if it is poisonous or not." The worker shouted in horror.
Li Tiezhu also frowned and said: "Boss, I have never seen this thing before. I have been farming for decades and have never caught such a bug. If there are such bugs underground, this year's greenhouse vegetables will definitely be ruined."
Li Qingyun took the large pliers and looked at the insect carefully. He vaguely felt that it had some aura on it, and it was not an insect that grew in ordinary places.
So he clamped hard and felt that he could flatten a piece of pig iron before clamping it to death. His legs and feet were still twitching. This characteristic can also be seen in the centipede insect, which is dead but not stiff.
"Send a photo to the experts at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and ask them if they know this kind of insect." Li Qingyun threw the pliers and the insect's body to the ground and said to Li Tiezhu beside him.
The worker agreed, took a few photos with his mobile phone, and sent them to the relevant experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
At this time, the gold coins and copper coins were drooling over the insect corpses, looking like they wanted to eat but didn't dare to come forward.
"Huh? Do you want to eat?" Li Qingyun smiled, then pointed to the insect corpses on the ground and said, "Eat it if you want. If you are poisoned, I will give you the antidote."
When the gold and copper coins heard this, they immediately became rude and pounced forward. Half of the eight- to nine-centimeter-long bug was snatched away by one of them. They chewed it loudly in their mouths and drooled all over the floor.
"Oh, it looks delicious. Dad, what kind of bug is this? I want to eat it too." Chong Chong is naturally curious and fearless. The bug looks like a black centipede, but he is actually interested in eating it.
.
But Keke looked disgusted and said: "If you dare to eat bugs, I will tell the aunt and let her spank you. What disgusting bugs, they are too ugly, even if they are given to me, I will not eat them."
Chongchong looked at the sky with his little face, as if he was too lazy to pay attention to you: "Humph, the trapped monkey is ugly, who is trying to eat it?"
"What is the interception monkey? I didn't rush to eat it." Keke looked disdainful.
Li Qingyun had no time to pay attention to the childish arguments between the two children, but he was curious about how hounds actually eat this kind of insect. The hard shell can actually be chewed into pieces. After swallowing it, he still looked like he was still unsatisfied.
Animals like to eat this kind of bugs? Does it taste good or is it because they are energetic?
But even if the hounds like to eat, they cannot be allowed to crawl all over the ground looking for black bugs. In that case, all the vegetables in the greenhouse will be really destroyed.
Moreover, this kind of bug is very difficult to catch. Four or five workers worked here for a long time, and that was the first bug they caught alive.
Next, Li Qingyun went to other greenhouses to check. The situation was quite serious, and the bugs were extremely difficult to catch. They seemed to have no fixed nests. No matter where they were dug, it was difficult to find them. Occasionally, workers saw them and wore
When the gloves are used to catch them, they often escape quickly and disappear without a trace.
By the time Li Qingyun made his rounds, experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences had already replied, saying that they had never seen this kind of insect before and had asked several insect experts for advice. They would reply as soon as there was news.
Li Qingyun couldn't wait any longer. After sending Chongchong and Keke home, he went to Farm No. 3 and Farm No. 2 to check. The conditions were not very good. They were similar and showed signs of being harmed by unknown insects.
This situation was very strange. Li Qingyun ran to the next village and found ordinary crop fields, but found no obvious abnormalities.
In other words, these bugs came specifically for his spiritual plant farm?
At this time, another slight vibration came from the direction of Snake Valley. It was difficult for ordinary people to detect it, but cultivators could clearly feel the vibration in the ground.
"You must have escaped from the Snake Valley, right?" Li Qingyun frowned. When encountering this new type of insect, the farm workers were helpless and could only use the methods of cultivators to slowly catch and kill them.
Li Qingyun avoided tourists and went deep into the mountains. He found some similar black bugs near the Snake Valley. After searching for them with his spiritual mind, he could sort them out, but it took too much spiritual power. After searching for several kilometers, Li Qingyun only caught them.
More than a dozen black beetles gathered together and made strange chirping sounds.
Li Qingyun feels that these insects are close relatives of centipedes, but they are thicker, uglier and more powerful than centipedes.
He found a deserted hillside, and his spirit body took these black bugs into the small space. Then he caught a small fish and put it with the bugs.
The insect's big mouth bites the fish fiercely. After only a few bites, the fish becomes paralyzed, struggles weaker and weaker, and is eventually eaten by these insects until only a skeleton is left.
Li Qingyun's frown deepened. This is a master of both meat and vegetables. They eat vegetables and roots, and even live animals. If they gather in large numbers, they will even attack humans. Children who accidentally encounter them will also be bitten.
hurt.
However, through this fish, Li Qingyun was able to detect its toxicity, which was not much different from an ordinary centipede.
So his spirit body picked up a black insect with his hand, and used clever spiritual power to peel off its hard shell bit by bit, revealing the white jade-like tender meat inside, which was snow-white and soft, under the light of the sun stone.
, exudes a charming luster, and looks very appetizing.
"Haha, I can't believe that a bug with such an ugly appearance can have such delicate meat." Li Qingyun's spirit body returned to his physical body, cut some snow-white bug meat with a knife, and put it in his mouth to taste.
The taste is extremely delicious, with a touch of aura, and even a faint scent of grass. This should be the special fragrance brought by them eating grass roots.
This is a taste that I have never tasted before and cannot be described in detail, but the delicious taste is definitely several levels higher than lobster. Even the lobsters he raised on Moon Island in Hainan mixed with Lingquan water are not as good as this kind of insect.
eat.
"This is life. If you eat my vegetables and harm our crops, if we catch you, we will eat you. Well, it tastes really good." Li Qingyun was very skilled with the knife and cut it in three to five strokes.
worms and easily peel off the digestive strands at their tails.
After eating the bug, Li Qingyun closed his eyes and carefully observed the changes on his body to see if there was any poisoning reaction. As a result, there was no poisoning, and after entering the stomach, it immediately turned into a warm spiritual energy, nourishing the limbs and bones.
"If it hadn't destroyed all my vegetables, I would have kept you and planned to breed them in large quantities... Huh? Breeding in large quantities?" Li Qingyun was suddenly amused by his own thoughts. Yes, now he owns the whole
The land in Lijiazhai is getting bigger and bigger. Isn't it a piece of cake to find a place to cultivate insects?
Thinking of this, Li Qingyun was already moved by his own thoughts. Such delicious bugs had never been seen before, and they also had the effect of increasing the spiritual energy in the body. Even if they were not sold, it would be great for people to enjoy them.
So he stood up and ran home, deciding to gather all the spiritual practitioners to catch bugs in the greenhouse. He used his spiritual thoughts to search for traces of bugs, and then used his spiritual energy to build a net to catch them. Although it was extremely troublesome, it was the only way at the moment.
Gong Xinghe, Chu Yingtai, Zheng Xinyan and others had just finished supervising the newcomers to complete today's training tasks. After taking a short rest, they had to go to the tourist area to participate in voluntary labor, which was rewarded with elixirs.
Now Li Qingyun came back and said that he wanted all the spiritual cultivators to participate in the task of "catching bugs". Even the spiritual cultivators of the Three Realms had to participate, which immediately confused everyone.
But when Li Qingyun placed the caught black beetle in front of them, they could feel the terrifying destructive power of this insect through the glass jar, and he didn't say anything.
When Li Qingyun peeled off the shell of a black beetle and cut the snow-white live insect into small pieces for them to taste, their eyes lit up and they suddenly showed a hint of excitement.
After eating spiritual food for several years, the taste has long been developed, and ordinary food has long been out of their eyes. Even the daily consumption of spiritual plants is no longer as fresh as it was at the beginning. Now they taste this obvious difference.
The insect meat that was eaten as normal food almost made my mouth water.
The delicious meat actually has a grassy aroma, and there is still obvious spiritual energy spreading in the abdomen after the lower abdomen. This shows that the spiritual energy content in the meat has reached the level of some kind of elixir.
Zheng Xinyan is a real foodie and a top chef. His eyes sparkled with excitement and he shouted: "What kind of bug is this? Did it really escape from the Snake Valley? How many are there in our farm? I'll catch them all..."
Come on, catch them all. They are a hundred times more delicious than fried scorpions and centipedes. With these bugs, I am not even interested in taking another look at the lobsters sent from Moon Island."
"It tastes so good. It gave me the feeling of eating spiritual food for the first time. But your appetite is always inexhaustible. In the past two years, you can even eat wild boars, saury fish, giant salamanders and the like."
It's boring. I suddenly encountered a fresh and delicious food. I said I couldn't miss it. Let's go and catch it now. No matter how difficult it is, I won't rest until I catch a hundred fish today." Chu Yingtai said this.
The richest man in Southeast Asia, like an old country farmer who has never seen the world, rolled up his sleeves and walked into the greenhouse.
Gong Xinghe nodded reservedly and wanted to say something, but when he saw a few people who had never tasted insect meat, they were drooling and looking longingly at the ugly insects in the glass jar, and he suddenly lost interest in talking.
"I won't waste any more time. All spiritual cultivators will stay behind, and all new martial cultivators will go to Nanshan Tourist Area to perform tasks according to the previously arranged tasks."
As he said this, Gong Xinghe had already run home, quickly changed into a pair of shoes, took a large glass jar used to make wine, and ran to the nearest greenhouse.
"Today we have a competition to see who catches more. If you catch more, you will eat more. If you catch less, you will eat less. This is the fairest rule. The boy from the Li family just said that he wants to breed these bugs. We can't eat them all.
Yes, at least 90% of what was caught should be kept."
Before he finished speaking, Gong Xinghe had already gotten into the lettuce greenhouse and began to use his spiritual thoughts to search for traces of insects underground.
Everyone was dumbfounded and secretly sighed that Jiang was still hotter. Gong Xinghe's speed really put Wu Xiu to shame.
Not willing to be left behind, everyone returned to their homes as quickly as possible, found suitable containers, rushed into the lettuce greenhouse, and snatched this ugly delicacy.
Li Qingyun was stunned by everyone's enthusiasm. He really is a group of foodies. Such an ugly insect can be eaten raw without any psychological barriers?
But when I think about it, I think it's normal. After all, after peeling off the hard shell, these bugs are not much different from shrimps. There is no disgusting liquid like soft bugs.
So after arranging for several martial arts cultivators to go on duty in the Nanshan tourist area, he also walked into the lettuce greenhouse. After entering, he was shocked. The fastest Gong Xinghe had already caught seven. The largest one had a full
Twelve centimeters, the smallest one is also eight centimeters long.
The advantage of this kind of insect compared to centipede is that it is relatively thick and has white and tender flesh inside. It is more suitable for making food than the dry insect like centipede.
However, Li Qingyun also likes the taste of centipedes very much. Wrap them in a layer of batter and fry them in a pan. The aroma is still delicious to this day.
Scorpion has a similar approach. As for the more complicated approach, Li Qingyun has not tried it himself.
But this black beetle obviously can be cooked in other ways. It can be eaten raw. Deep-frying will destroy the original flavor, but it seems that you can try it cold, grilled, stir-fried...all of them can be tried.
Li Qingyun thought of this and stopped wasting time. He was just about to release his spiritual thoughts to catch bugs, but he suddenly discovered that he was a "Three Realms Martial Arts Cultivator". The bugs he just brought back could be said to be caught by others, and now he is in front of them.
In front of everyone, he released powerful spiritual consciousness. Anyone who is not a fool can probably guess that he is a freak of spiritual and martial arts.
He already has too many secrets, and he doesn't want to shock everyone anymore.
So Li Qingyun had to patrol around and watch everyone catch bugs. In just half an hour, everyone actually caught more than a hundred bugs in this lettuce greenhouse, and then they sorted out the greenhouse.
It's scary to think about it. If we wait until tomorrow, these lettuces might be eaten by insects.
The workers followed these "mysterious Jianghu people" to the next vegetable greenhouse. In the empty greenhouse, Li Qingyun sprinkled space spring water on the lettuce with yellow leaves, trying to revive them as much as possible. Otherwise, how much money would be lost?
Not to mention, it would be too shameful to delay the use of partners. (~^~)