Human Online Survival [Infrastructure]

Hearing that another meeting was held in the city lord's mansion in the afternoon, Grant, who was feeding the magpies in the cage, just laughed.

He threw all the remaining bird food into the food box and said, "They are in a hurry!"

"Since this is the case, we cannot let them down."

The deputy head had already returned, and when he heard Grant's words, he immediately bowed and said, "Your Highness, everything has been settled."

Then he also smiled: "Coincidentally, locust plagues broke out in the cities of Hosea and Eric."

"In addition to the sand locust swarms brought in from the Chapman Desert, Your Highness, I can assure you that within seven days, Casta City, Audley City, and Lean City will all be reduced to ruins."

The most important thing is that locusts are not magical beasts, they are easier to be summoned, so it only takes less than twenty general cores to summon so many locusts.

Less than [-] general cores can get rid of Shaster and his remnants, as well as the entire Xinmisu Church. What is a huge profit and what is half the result with twice the effort, that's it.

Grant: "Good."

Looking at the brightly lit street outside the window and the people coming and going in the distance, he suddenly felt a little pity.

Because this grand scene is about to end.

But this did not prevent him from giving the final order: "Go."

Deputy Head: "Yes."

The next morning, Chi Xian and the others were woken up by the screams of the villagers.

"what sound?"

"Why is it dark again?"

"what is that?"

"They seem to be flying towards us?"

Chi Xian stretched out his hand and opened the window to take a look. Looking around, the sky above the entire Tahe Village was covered by clusters of gray things, and there were ear-piercing rustling sounds in all directions.

"what?"

Chi Xian came back to his senses in an instant, and before he got up and got out of bed, those things had already fallen, as many as a dozen just jumped into the window and landed on his quilt.

Chi Xian took a closer look.

"Locusts, locusts—"

The voices of the middle-aged man and others have already sounded.

Xia Pengyue and others also arrived soon.

Seeing the vegetable field already inundated by locusts, Xia Pengyue felt his scalp go numb: "Where are there so many locusts?"

The middle-aged man was very anxious: "There has been no drought in Casta City and the surrounding cities for more than ten years, so these locusts probably flew from other places."

As we all know, because the dry environment is suitable for locusts to reproduce, locust plagues generally only break out after droughts.

After finishing speaking, he didn't care about chatting anymore, and wanted to join the team of killing locusts.

At this time, Chi Xian's mobile phone rang, and the call was from the consul: "Your Excellency Chi Xian, it's not good, there are locust plagues in Casta City, Audley City and Laian City, and Oddley City Sand locusts appeared in Derry City—”

"what?"

The eyes of the middle-aged man and the others turned red instantly.

"There are also locust plagues in Ryan City and Audley City?"

How could they take care of such a large-scale locust plague with only so little manpower.

Within seven days, these locusts can eat up all the food in the field.

"Casta City is over, Audley City is over, and Lean City is also over!"

Hearing this, the expressions of Xia Pengyue and the others also changed.

Although even if the locusts ate up all the food in the field, they would not be able to go hungry, but without food, what would the millions of people in the three cities do?What about Asahi?What about Wu Province?

They immediately shouted: "What are you still doing, killing locusts—"

At this time, Shi Heng's voice sounded: "Fried grasshoppers, dry fried grasshoppers, spicy grasshoppers, braised grasshoppers, roasted grasshoppers with pumpkin, salt and pepper grasshoppers, lotus tofu grasshoppers, lushang Drunken grasshopper, sky chicken and shrimp steak..."

At this moment, a burning smell came over - because a fire magician just released a fireball, which roasted a large group of grasshoppers on the stone mill not far away.

Gudong!

Shi Heng couldn't help swallowing.

Chi Xian: "..."

Xia Pengyue and others: "..."

They couldn't help but swallowed their saliva.

Of course, they felt that Shi Heng's taste was a bit heavy.

Then they realized: "Yes, this is a locust!"

They are not used to eating locusts, but some people like to eat them... No, this is the end of the world, and it is already very good to have a stutter, who cares whether you like it or not.

What's more, it's meat!

When they first arrived in Osland, they wished they could pull back all the grass roots on the ground, but now so much meat was directly delivered to their door——

Thinking of this, they immediately stopped other people from catching and killing locusts, especially those who didn't do anything, and burned the locusts to ashes: "Stop, everyone stop—"

While shouting, they turned their heads to look at Chi Xian, to be precise, it was the mobile phone in Chi Xian's hand: "By the way, what did you just say, Casta City, Audley City and Laian City are all Is there a plague of locusts?"

"Hahaha, this must be a gift from God!"

Middle-aged man and others: "..."

On the other end of the phone, he was about to tell Chi Xian that Grant was the consul in all likelihood: "..."

Listening to them, they seem to be preparing to collect locusts as food?

Do people on earth even eat bugs?

Then they knew, didn't it seem that Xia Pengyue and the others planned it that way.

So an hour later, after Professor Liu and the others conducted an expedited test on the locusts scurrying in the three cities and confirmed that the locusts were all edible, a message spread throughout most of the three cities, that is, the Sancheng lord The government bought locusts at a high price, including two copper coins per catty of fresh locusts and twelve copper coins per catty of dry locusts.

The people of the three cities became a sensation in an instant. In an instant, countless civilians rushed out of the town with bamboo baskets and sacks on their backs, and rushed towards the mountains and forests.

Because ordinary locusts are relatively small, seventy or eighty or even hundreds of them are enough to weigh a catty, but sand locusts are different. A sand locust can be bigger than a human face when it is just an adult, and there are seven or eight at will. If they can catch a few sand locusts, they will have their wages for several days, so this is definitely a bloody business.

Xia Pengyue and the others only found out about this later, so one can imagine how shocked they were when they saw the sand locusts.

"The locust is so big that it can't be stewed in a pot?"

The most important thing is that sand locusts are different from ordinary locusts. Except for the lack of two pincers and a few more pairs of wings, the other structures are actually similar to lobsters on earth.

It is conceivable how much meat can be peeled from their tails.

Looking at the big bowl of snow-white meat, Xia Pengyue and others couldn't help swallowing: "What is Bolong, he is a younger brother in front of Sand Locust!"

So the next day, fresh locusts and dried locust powder were put on the shelves of major supermarkets in E province.

"Grasshopper, can this be eaten?"

"Why can't you eat it? It used to be a big specialty of our Huaxia Prefecture."

"Besides, in the few years when the end of the world just came, we even ate dried earthworms and leather shoes, so we were afraid of eating grasshoppers?"

"Besides, a catty of meat costs more than 4000 casually, and a catty of ordinary fresh grasshoppers is only three hundred...I'll go, why did you grab it? Forget it, I won't tell you, I'm going too Grab the grasshopper."

……

So that night, a strong aroma of fried grasshoppers and the laughter of countless citizens wafted over the entire province of E.

"Fresh grasshoppers, with their wings pinched off, fried in a pan, sprinkled with salt and pepper, those Westerners next door who used to dislike us for eating bugs and attacking us for not fully evolved are all crying!"

"By the way, even if they want to eat it now, we won't sell it to them hahahaha!"

And the expressions of the consul and the others also changed from the original fear to the immovable mountain in the back, and then to the final laughing.

It's just because they heard Xia Pengyue and others settled a bill.

"Just yesterday, we received [-] tons of ordinary fresh grasshoppers and [-] tons of ordinary dried grasshoppers."

"According to Professor Liu's calculations, this morning, the density of grasshoppers in the wild has only been reduced by a quarter, which means that we should still receive 30 tons of ordinary fresh grasshoppers and [-] tons." tons of common dried grasshoppers."

"The purchase price of a catty of ordinary fresh grasshoppers is two copper coins. Converted into gold coins, it is 180 grams, and then converted into federal currency, it is 270 yuan. The wholesale price we give is [-] yuan per catty...so the average price is two We can earn one gold coin for a ton of ordinary fresh grasshoppers."

"But apart from that, we also received [-] tons of sand locusts yesterday."

"Although the purchase price of sand locusts is the same as that of ordinary locusts, which is two copper coins per catty, how can ordinary locusts be compared with sand locusts, so the wholesale price of a sand locust is as high as 800 Yuan, if only a quarter of the sand locusts are caught, then we should be able to earn..."

Xia Pengyue put down the mobile phone in his hand, and only said: "...nearly 100 million gold coins."

In other words, each of their families can get nearly 33 gold coins—after all, the acquisition of locusts was mainly done by the City Lord's Mansion and the Xinmisu Church.

You must know that they are worried that they don't have enough money to buy enough beast cores.

But this is not the main thing.

The most important thing is that because of this locust plague, Huaxia Prefecture suddenly produced 95 tons of grain.

Although these grains are not enough for the entire Huaxia state to eat for ten days and half a month.

But this is a costless... No, it can't be said to be a costless business. After all, before this, these locusts have already harmed a lot of food.

But compared with their gains, those losses seem to be nothing.

After all, at this speed, within three days, these locusts would be caught in all directions.

In such two or three days, these locusts couldn't eat food heavier than their own weight.

And those farmers, guarding their farmland, can easily catch hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties of locusts a day, and they can earn at least half of this, while those ordinary residents who run around the edge of the forest without sleep to catch locusts are pure It's a worthless transaction.

So after all, they still earn blood.

As for who lost, it is naturally self-evident.

It is conceivable that if Grant knew that the locusts he had tried so hard to attract not only did not harm them, but gave them a full meal, I wonder if he would die of anger directly.

"correct."

Xia Pengyue said: "We are going to build a sand locust farm in the secret realm. After all, as long as the temperature and humidity are well controlled, locusts can be fed with a handful of leaves, and this is thanks to His Royal Highness the Holy Son. If he hadn’t let us see such good ingredients as sand locusts, we wouldn’t have thought of breeding sand locusts, so should we prepare a gift for him to express our gratitude to him?”

Before he finished speaking, he said again: "Let's forget it. If he really gets mad at that time, I can't afford it."

Hearing this, the consul and the others burst out laughing immediately.

Fortunately, they thought Grant was difficult to deal with before, but he held back for so long, which caused them to be worried for so long, and they held back such a low-level trick that cannot be lowered.

——Although they also know that if the people on earth do not even eat locusts, then they will never be able to survive this crisis so smoothly.

After all, if the Huaxia State Government hadn't paid a sum of gold in advance, even if they sold them, they would not be able to get 200 million gold coins to buy locusts-after all, they just bought a large amount of supplies through the trade market, and now it is When they were short of money, of course, in order to repay the Huaxia State Government, they also gave them a lot of exercise cheats.

And if they hadn't offered the purchase price of two copper coins for a catty of locusts, the residents of the three cities would not have poured out to catch the locusts day and night, and the locust plague would not have been wiped out so easily by them.

"One more thing."

The consul suddenly said seriously: "We found a teleportation array at Tata Town, and the locusts were teleported through that teleportation array."

"If we guessed correctly, the prototype of the teleportation array should be the Holy See's Divine Light Magic Array. Through this magic array, you can forcibly summon monsters of the king level and below within a radius of twenty miles. The Holy See used this magic in the past. Come to train the Knights."

The eyes of Xia Pengyue and the others lit up instantly.

Because without even thinking about it, they directly thought of a hundred uses for this magic circle.

The consul said again: "It's a pity that those responsible for guarding the magic circle are very smart. When they see something is wrong, they directly destroy the magic circle, so we only got a broken magic circle."

As he said that, he finally turned his eyes to Chi Xian: "I brought the magic circle here, and I want His Excellency Chi Xian to see if it can be repaired."

As he spoke, he took out a pile of obsidian engraved with mysterious patterns from the storage ring.

His idea is very simple, if Chi Xian can repair this set of magic circles, it would be great to research the real God's Light magic circle by the way, if it can't be repaired, it's okay, as long as he can hold him back for a while Just don't have time to pester Shaster for a while.

Chi Xian frowned slightly, stretched out his hand to pick the obsidian, and nodded nonchalantly: "Okay."

While they were celebrating, on the other side, Grant finally came out of the meditation room.

He is in a good mood, because he knows without guessing that Casta City must be in chaos now.

What he didn't expect was that just as he poured a glass of wine, opened the window happily, and was about to appreciate his masterpiece, he found that not only was there no crying in the city, but the laughter of children was everywhere in the city.

"A catty of locusts costs two copper coins, and the whole family goes to battle together."

"Today locusts are floating, and next year we will be full!"

……

The expression on Grant's face froze immediately: "What's going on?"

At this time, the deputy head rushed in: "Your Highness, you have finally come out of the meditation room."

"Your Highness, something has happened..."

Then he told Grant the whole thing.

"What did you say?"

Grant's eyes darkened: "The City Lord's Mansion offered two copper coins per catty to buy locusts, so everyone in the city went out to catch locusts?"

"Where did Shaster and the others get so much money?"

Deputy head: "I don't know either."

"However, they claim that they have just discovered a method of using locusts to make recovery potions. Now that there are so many locusts suddenly appearing in the three cities, the kindness of the city lord and the church must have touched the gods, so the gods are blessing them."

In other words, it was already impossible for them to blame the locust plague on Shaster and the others.

Not only that, but Shaster also took advantage of this incident to win over a wave of people's hearts.

Grant's eyes turned red instantly.

So he made such a toss, but in the end it made Shaster happy?

Grant lost his composure instantly: "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

Otherwise, he might be able to do something to save the situation.

Deputy head: "Your Highness, you forgot that before you entered the meditation room, you specially placed a restriction at the door."

So even if he wanted to report this matter to him, he couldn't get in.

Grant choked.

Because the reason why he chose to enter the meditation room at this time was because he felt that the people of Casta City would definitely come to him for help after discovering the locust plague, so he deliberately hid in advance.

One can imagine how Shaster and the others are mocking him now.

Thinking of this, his eyes were completely red, and he punched the window sill.

"Damn!"