Chapter 775: The Mad Scientist's Research Results

"Isn't this a piece of cake?"

He Lingchuan went to find Elder Dao to make a request, so for the next six or seven days, Other Rongshan disciples were always sending live specimens to Dong Rui.

Not to mention a dozen, they had sent dozens.

It was just that these monsters themselves had a very short lifespan; if they didn't lay eggs, they would be gone in one night.

Qiu Hu ran back and forth the most diligently; his team alone sent seventeen or eighteen. Knowing that He Lingchuan and the others were willing to help, the look in Qiu Hu's eyes when he looked at He Lingchuan softened.

"Are you alright?" The wounds on his body were stabbed by He Lingchuan himself; although they were all superficial skin wounds, an ordinary person would need at least ten days or half a month to get out of bed and move. Qiu Hu only lay in bed for one night before getting up and running around.

What about the excessive blood loss? It's not scientific.

He Lingchuan guessed that this guy's rapid recovery had something to do with the demon spirit on him.

Being able to fight and being tough, this person was good no matter how he looked at it; he really wanted to recruit him.

"I'm fine, I only lead the team and don't make a move." Qiu Hu looked down at the wound on his chest, "I once suffered heavy injuries, was chased by enemies in the marsh for three days and three nights, and hid in the mud for more than ten hours; this little wound is nothing."

There are many mosquitoes and toxic bacteria in the marsh; even normal people get sick easily, let alone a wounded patient. He Lingchuan asked him: "And then?"

Qiu Hu was expressionless: "I counter-killed them."

He didn't mention the difficulties and pains in the process.

The Soul-Consuming Mirror whistled: "His wounds have basically scabbed over, with only two places ruptured. You have a good eye; this guy is stronger than an ox and very durable!"

This broken mirror was becoming more and more indecent; He Lingchuan ignored it.

He Lingchuan had nothing to do, so he simply went out hunting with them.

He found that Qiu Hu was indeed not good at socializing, but he had his own ideas about doing things. For example, regarding the cicada elimination, although he was more anxious than anyone else, he never acted rashly. His team had the least combat losses, but captured the most live cicadas.

He also told He Lingchuan that this cicada plague spread from the northeast of Other Rongshan and kept expanding westward, but was firmly held back by the Other Rongshan Sect. So far, the northeast, east, and south were the hardest-hit areas, and the cicada plague hadn't yet expanded to the west.

Therefore, the current battle was actually a race against time. Other Rongshan hoped to finish the work in a few battles and completely eradicate the source of the cicada plague from their territory.

This was both a good opportunity for him to observe the Other Rongshan disciples and a process for Qiu Hu to observe him.

After all, if he defected to He Lingchuan's command, to put it nicely, it was to serve; to put it realistically, it was to risk his life.

He had to be cautious.

With He Lingchuan joining, the team's efficiency in hunting cicadas greatly improved.

He had a natural affinity, and his cultivation was outstanding; after a few days, the Other Rongshan disciples basically got to know him well.

Of course, He Lingchuan's focus was on Qiu Hu, and he issued an invitation to him in person.

This was respect for Qiu Hu.

But no matter how gentle he was, Qiu Hu remained unmoved, still giving him that same answer: "If I don't repay kindness and grievances, what face do I have to pursue my own future?"

He Lingchuan smiled: "Since you say so, you're following me for sure."

This Young Master He was quite confident, and Qiu Hu also said sternly: "If you can eradicate the cicada plague in Other Rongshan, I will follow you, and from now on, I will go through fire and water without hesitation; a gentleman's word!"

Two days later, Dong Rui called He Lingchuan and Elder Dao over: "Results!"

Other Rongshan specially opened a cave dwelling to serve as his experimental field. As soon as He Lingchuan walked in, he felt as if he had returned to the laboratory in the Demon Nest, with severed limbs and arms everywhere, and strange, distorted cicadas everywhere...

It was simply a large-scale slaughterhouse for cicadas.

The Other Rongshan disciples who followed in saw this scene for the first time, their faces changed, and they all felt uncomfortable; only Qiu Hu was unusually excited, looking left and right, touching and pulling.

"Look at this, look at this!" Dong Rui led them to the corner, where something was covered with a cloth.

Unboxing needs a sense of ritual.

"Elder Dao, please."

Elder Dao didn't decline and pulled off the gray cloth, only to see a live creature trapped in an oval crystal box underneath.

"... You asked me for the box that held medicinal herbs, just to trap this?"

The cicada trapped in the crystal box was shiny and oily, twice as large as the ones they had seen before, with a body length of about six feet, exceeding the height of an adult man.

But its appearance was also very strange; it had no wings, its forelimbs were atrophied, and its abdomen accounted for two-thirds of its total body length, and it was swollen and round, as if it would burst with a poke.

With this body shape, it was truly worthy of being called pot-bellied!

Everyone couldn't help but gasp, and Elder Dao frowned: "What, what is this thing?"

Dong Rui had long been accustomed to the strange looks cast by others, still full of pride: "This is the seventy-year cicada mother I newly cultivated!"

"Cicada... mother?" Was this weirdo complaining that there were too few varieties of seventy-year cicadas? He even had to add one by hand.

"Bee colonies have queen bees, ant colonies have queen ants; cicadas are not gregarious creatures by nature and have no queen cicadas. But after my unremitting efforts these past few days—" Dong Rui gestured to the crystal box, "I have one!"

Everyone was dumbfounded; He Lingchuan couldn't stand it anymore and coughed lightly: "Hurry up and explain clearly, how is this thing used?"

"Oh, it's early spring now, and the growth of cicadas is still slow; once late spring and midsummer arrive, the trouble will truly begin." Dong Rui said sternly, "You have been hunting seventy-year cicadas for over two months, but you can't eradicate them, because you are always chasing after them to catch them, so there are always fish that slip through the net."

Qiu Hu nodded: "Right!"

"Then we have to change the method and let them deliver themselves to the door."

Qiu Hu pointed to the cicada mother in the crystal box: "Rely on it?"

"These insects release a certain odor when they mate and copulate, which humans cannot smell." But Zhu Xiuer could.

For He Lingchuan, this was not difficult to understand; wasn't what Dong Rui said pheromones?

"I created this cicada mother and greatly strengthened its odor. Once exposed in the wilderness, it should be able to attract all the male cicadas within a radius of thirty miles." Dong Rui smiled, "Get ready, just wait for them to throw themselves into the net."

A Other Rongshan disciple asked: "Only attract male cicadas? What about the female cicadas?"

"Once the males come, and the number is large, the females will also come over." Why would cicada swarms gather in large numbers? It's because everyone crowds toward places where the pheromones are concentrated, mating collectively. "This cicada mother can live for about three days; once it dies, I will prepare a few more."

Qiu Hu couldn't hold back: "Do it now."

Everyone had no objections.

It just so happened that today was a sunny day, and the wind was very strong.

For the first large-scale experiment, Elder Dao personally led more than two hundred disciples to select an open forest area in the east.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 776 =====