king.

Facing the scattered insect swarm, everyone can only act separately.

After a night of rest, the battlefield has shifted from outside the province to inside the province.In order to catch up with the swarm, Hudson had to "drive the bear" again.

According to the information provided by the Griffin Cavalry, they ran all the way for eighty miles before intercepting a swarm of insects.

The pitfall was that the insect king was not found inside, so Bear Stearns' eyes glowed red with anger, and he drove the gravity field, constantly interspersed among the insect swarms.

No matter how much Hudson tried to persuade him, it was useless until the swarm fled in all directions, and then he gave up.

Looking at the dead locusts, Hudson showed no mercy at all.It's because they are short-lived, they are tossing and tossing without sleep.

Wouldn't it be good to stay in Arbor County for a decisive battle?

Even if it was a sleepless attack, Hudson recognized it.

Anyway, if Xiong insisted on living, he would not be cowardly.

The big deal is to sleep directly on the bear's back, with the magic blessing of the guardian of the earth, the safety is still guaranteed.

The scattered insect swarms are now flooding the southeast province, and each team is far apart.

The distance is several miles away, and the distance is hundreds of miles, which greatly increases the difficulty of hunting.

The most embarrassing thing was that after running a hundred and eighty miles, he caught up with the insect swarm, but couldn't find the shadow of the insect king.

It's a waste of time to work, and then I can only look for the next worm swarm.

For this situation, Hudson was well prepared.Yesterday, more than a dozen worm kings were captured and killed, and there were very few worm kings left.

Whether these intelligent creatures dare to enter the southeastern province is still unknown.

Even if there is a potion to lure locusts, the attraction is no longer so deadly for a life like the insect king who has been promoted to a monster.

Otherwise, the Governor's Mansion doesn't need to bother, just throw locust-attracting potions all over the place to lure them to their own homes and die.

Merely attracting ordinary locusts does not help the overall situation and is not economically desirable.

After all, the scope of influence of the potion is limited, but the reproduction speed of locusts is infinite.

Under normal circumstances, a female locust lays dozens of eggs at a time, which can hatch in just twenty days.

But once the bug king appears, this speed can be further catalyzed.Not only has the spawning speed doubled, but even the hatching time has been shortened to two days.

If you don't kill the insect king, you can pull out an army of hundreds of billions of locusts in a short time.

It is estimated that the speed of setting traps to hunt and kill locusts may not necessarily be able to catch up with their reproduction speed.

After two full days of busy work, only one insect king was harvested.Such a speed is unacceptable not only for Bear Stearns, but also for Hudson.

Fortunately, it's not just them who can't stand it, the situation of other strong people from all walks of life is not much better.

Highly exhausted fighting, but not in exchange for the desired gains, everyone's enthusiasm has been hit hard.

Seeing the plague of locusts spread and spread to their own territory, everyone couldn't stand it anymore!
After the first representative took his leave, the rest followed suit.

The insect king is going to be caught, but the most urgent thing is to take care of yourself first.

If you find the trace of the Insect King, you can ask for help from the nearest one. For the sake of generous rewards, no one will be stingy.

Hudson was no exception, and resigned decisively to Governor Pierce.

As for the rewards, in addition to offering rewards to the King of Bugs for cashing in gold coins, everyone else needs to be slowly blended in private.

There is no rush for this kind of thing.After the locust plague is extinguished, it will be too late to discuss slowly.

All in all, this action exceeded expectations.For capturing eight insect kings alive, the reward on the bright side is [-] gold coins.

There will only be more resources that can be exchanged secretly.

In particular, it was Caesar III's order to "catch the living". With this style of behavior, it is unlikely that everyone will do it for nothing.

The specific rewards are unknown, but there must be rewards anyway.Otherwise, Caesar III's reputation in the middle and lower aristocratic circles would not be as good as it is now.

As soon as he stepped into Wright County, Hudson realized something was wrong.Even though it was in the southernmost part of the province, the locust plague was actually worse than other areas.

The main force of the locust army was severely injured by the masters organized by the Governor's Mansion, and the scattered swarms were hunted and killed by the noble lords along the way. It stands to reason that there will be fewer people entering the rear.

Ignoring the cause, one person and one bear accelerated their progress.As for the locusts along the way, they were naturally disposed of by Bear Stearns.

As an aspiring bear, Bear Stearns aspires to be a rancher.

According to the plan, it is going to raise [-] sheep, [-] cows, and [-] hives of bees, and then there will be endless animal milk and honey and endless barbecue every day, and it will reach the peak of Xiongsheng from then on.

Creatures like locusts are undoubtedly the enemy of rancher bears.If I saw it, I must have killed it wrong, and I didn't let it go.

Under the cover of the gravity field, not only the locusts along the way suffered, but other small insects were also cooled off.

It would be even more perfect if it didn't accidentally hurt some flowers and plants.Natural deworming bear, no longer have to worry about the threat of pests.

Looking at the thick smoke rising continuously along the way, Hudson breathed a sigh of relief.Obviously, the noble lords have not yet laid down, which means that the situation has not completely collapsed.

The unharvested grain is basically cool.But as long as the locusts are eliminated in time, the autumn plowing can be kept.

Even if this season doesn't yield much, it's better than nothing.Until next year's spring grain harvest, they can be resurrected with full blood.

Of course, this is just an ideal state.Anyone who has experienced locust plagues knows that this thing is "one plague for ten years".

Even if the locusts are completely wiped out, the eggs all over the earth can still be reborn from the ashes in the coming year.It is almost impossible to kill them cleanly.

Even if the response is timely, the locust plague will not be formed.These grasshoppers distributed in various places are also a threat to agricultural production.

If there are no accidents, starting from next year, everyone will learn to eat grasshoppers.

In the case of a large-scale reduction in grain production, it is imperative to take extraordinary measures to deal with emergencies.

After taking Bear Stearns around the territory, Hudson returned to the lord's mansion after eliminating all the large-scale locusts.

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"What's going on, why is the disaster in the territory so severe?"

Frankly speaking, Hudson is still satisfied with the disaster prevention work in the territory.Although there were many problems, his deployment was generally completed.

In the context of locust plagues everywhere, it is a success not to feed all the crops to locusts.

"My lord, I don't know why the locusts swarmed into the two counties of Wright and Wyton. The mountain territory is remote, and the situation is still good.

Territories in plain areas are really seriously affected by disasters.There are several unlucky lords, whose crops have been eaten up by locusts.

Including the Baron Cayo, although he organized a massive locust extermination operation, Fallen Leaf Town was reduced to a white land in the end.

Not only were the crops devoured, but even the vegetation suffered heavy losses.Even some wooden houses have been attacked by locusts.

The strange thing is that the severely affected areas are all the territories of local nobles, but the damage to the territories of the northern nobles is slightly less serious.

There are rumors in the outside world that the locust plague was caused by those northern nobles.There were even gossip reports that someone had dropped locust-attracting agents in the two counties.

A few days ago, our patrol found people sneaking around and found two vials containing potions.It's a pity that someone ran away, otherwise..."

After hearing Tom's explanation, Hudson wondered if he was the child of luck.Someone ran over to give medicine, but was not only encountered by the patrol, but even the medicine bottle was not broken in time.

Looking at the two medicine bottles in front of him, Hudson did not open them in a hurry, but patted the cub on the head, motioning for Bear to check it out.

There is no way, there are too many shady means in this world, and Hudson doesn't want to die young.

On the contrary, there are very few methods for Nengyin Earth Bear, especially Bear Stearns, a different kind of bear, who can be said to be invulnerable to the five poisons.

No matter what kind of messy food, he dares to put it in his mouth.Even during the locust extermination war, many of the scorched locusts entered the stomach of this guy.

poisonous?

If the Earth Bear was afraid of poison, Bear Stearns would not be alive today.I have been with Hudson for so long, and I have never seen him eat a bad stomach.

The minor ailment of headache and brain fever never happened once.This anti-virus ability is definitely one of the best in the Aslante continent.

According to Bear Stearns, adult Earth Bears are immune to all toxins and negative energy, and juvenile bears are also immune to most of them.

I saw Bear uncap the bottle and sniff it with his nose. Before it could give an answer, Hudson heard the buzzing of locusts.

Without the slightest hesitation, Hudson immediately went up and closed the lid.Immediately afterwards, he secretly thought about how to deal with these two bottles of reagents.

To the governor's office?
It seems that there are not many things that can be exchanged. Now everyone knows that someone has dropped locust-attracting potions in the southeast province, and the identity of the other party cannot be determined. Just two bottles of potions are meaningless.

Perhaps with this thing, it is easier to track down the mastermind behind the scenes, but the ones who can be found must be the little people who pushed to the foreground.

It is impossible for the big forces behind the scenes to leave such obvious traces in such a foolish way.Even the person in charge of poisoning may be an unlucky guy hired temporarily.

stay?
It is also meaningless to Hudson. Although this thing can lure locusts to come and kill them, but with Bear Stearns in charge, Hudson feels that there is no need to do such fancy things.

With great difficulty, he helped his own bears set up a bear life plan for a large rancher. At this moment, Bear Steng's spirit was at its highest, and if a large swarm of locusts dared to come over, they would never leave alive.

According to the agreement reached by the two parties, Hudson will then transfer [-] sheep, [-] head of cattle, and more than half of the beehives in the territory to Bear Stearns.

In addition, it also needs to provide breeding technology, as well as supporting industry services such as herdsmen, forestry, pasture leasing, etc.

As for the money, of course I owe it first.The bounty of [-] gold coins is not enough to pay off the previous bad debt?
However, this is not a problem. With the performance in this locust disaster, the follow-up rewards are still enough for Bear Stearns to pay off the debt.

Bears with money in their pockets have the confidence to buy property.If he was poor and white like before, how could he have the face to speak up?
The bear who has an industry is now very protective of his calf.Never allow anyone or any insect to affect its ration.

As for protecting Hudson's territory, that's just incidental.After all, locusts can fly, and if they are not prevented in advance, they will easily spread.

"Fallen Leaf Town, the disaster is so serious, didn't Baron Kayo ask the family for help?"

Hudson asked suspiciously.

A large-scale plague of locusts, for any lord, the loss is an astronomical figure.

This year's autumn grain has suffered heavy losses, and there is no hope for next year's autumn grain, and even the year after will have to continue to suffer.

Many locusts have gathered to enter the territory. If the eggs are not eradicated together, then wait to be patronized by "grasshoppers" every year!

Once the scale is formed, there will be a new locust plague immediately.It can be said that the wild fire is endless, and the "summer" wind blows and regenerates.

"It is said that they are asking for help, but the Dalton family is too busy to take care of themselves now, and has no time to pay attention to a town.

The news comes from hearsay, which may not be accurate.When it comes to the Dalton family, we dare not put intelligence personnel there. "

Andrea, who was in charge of intelligence, replied.

Throwing the intelligence organization to an outsider who had just defected not long ago, Hudson couldn't do it.

It is not an easy task to build an intelligence organization in a poor and white situation.

Don't talk about inquiring about secret information, just collecting some bright information is very difficult.

Who keeps the population flow small?

The status of most of the territories is: ten days and a half months, no stranger will appear.

Any stranger approaching will attract the attention of local residents.If the ability is not good, someone will follow the clues and come to the door in minutes.

Hudson just wanted to inquire about the news, but he was not going to make enemies with his neighbors.This kind of hatred thing is absolutely unacceptable.

Simply leave it to "outsiders" to do it. If it is really exposed, Master Hudson can still say that he doesn't know.

He insisted that: someone sent spies over here, trying to provoke everyone's relationship.

If you don't believe me, you can look it up, there are definitely problems with the origins of these guys.

Regardless of which faction is found, he can be cleared of the suspicion of Master Hudson.Since everyone is a victim, it is natural to aim their hatred at the guy who planted the spy.

They are all experiences gained through bloody life lessons.When it comes to the ability to shake the pot, Hudson is now proficient.

As for the hidden dangers of the intelligence organization after it grows, it is purely overthinking.Under the existing conditions, Hudson's intelligence organization simply does not have the possibility of development.

The servants used by the nobles have served the family for generations, and the children and grandchildren are bound together, and outsiders can't get in at all.

If you want to play the trick of selling yourself as a slave, then go ahead and be a few generations of slaves!Without the hard work of several generations, it is simply impossible to gain the trust of the master.

It is difficult to guarantee the loyalty that has been latent for decades, let alone several generations of people.Such a test of human nature is simply ridiculous.

Even if there is no problem with loyalty, the protracted infiltration mode, before the spies get close to the core of power, Hudson suspects that he will grow grass first.

Even spies can't get in, and it's even more difficult to buy them.It is estimated that as soon as the terms were negotiated on the front foot, they were reported on the back foot.

Decades, or even hundreds of years, of enslaving education cannot be shaken by a few words.The interests of slaves were tied to nobles early on.

Once the power declines, the servants who follow will also be unable to please.Even if you want to betray, you have to have your master willing to accept it.

The ultra-low population flow determines that organizations like Jinyiwei have no place to survive in the continent of Aslant.

Compared to buying other people's trusted servants, it is easier to buy the nobles under his command.Because of the convergence of interests, these people can also betray because of interests.

As long as the betrayal chips given are large enough, there is no need to worry about everyone not betraying.

It's a pity that if he could afford that price, Hudson himself would have become a great nobleman.Playing the game directly is, why do you need to engage in these tricks that are not on the table?

"Just stare at it from a distance, you don't have to get too close. Pay attention to the situation in the two counties and find that I always feel that someone is deliberately provoking conflicts."

Hudson said meaningfully.

It's not that he is supercilious, it's that the rumors of "poisoning the nobles of the Northland" are too magical.This is a plague of locusts, nothing else.

Although the territories of the nobles of the North were slightly damaged, that was only "slightly", and the actual loss was not small.

There was no food harvest for a year, and the local nobles could not die of starvation, but for all the northern lands, it was a life-and-death test.

If it is not dealt with properly, people will starve to death.At that time, not only the property will be lost, but also the hearts of the people in the territory.

For the nobles of the Northlands, causing a plague of locusts is a typical example of "killing eight hundred enemies and destroying three thousand."

In contrast, the local nobles had a greater motivation to play like this.As local snakes, everyone can completely drag down this group of outsiders by virtue of their material advantages.

With this strength, there are only five or six local nobles who implement this plan.

Because of the relationship between the lord's personal ability and the family's investment, there are even fewer ambitions and motivations to do so.

As one of the main suspects, Hudson can exclude himself, so the man behind the scenes is likely to be another beneficiary.

If a large-scale food shortage breaks out, there are not many families in the entire southeastern province that can provide food to help everyone tide over the crisis.

It just so happens that the Dalton family behind the Baron Cayo has this strength.

So many coincidences happened to collide, it was hard not to let Hudson think too much.

It's just that suspicion is suspicion, and the Dalton family is involved. Without sufficient evidence, Hudson will not easily express his position.

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