Chapter 140 Shoulder Pole Hook

"Don't worry, I'm here, your safety is guaranteed! Besides, only if I'm alive, you have hope of fighting against Lu Yao."

He Lingchuan immediately pricked up his ears: "Oh, what did you say?"

"I was taken away by the crocodile god, which led to the defeat of my troops, and Lu Yao took the opportunity to recruit people." His life and death depended on the young man in front of him, Wu Shaoyi lobbied with all his strength, "Only if I'm alive, they won't be used by Lu Yao."

"And Pei Xinyong, I can convince him to fight Lu Yao together."

After hearing this, He Lingchuan no longer hesitated: "Okay, what should I do?"

Next, he took out a turtle bead and washed it according to Wu Shaoyi's instructions.

Don't look at the amazing size of the giant turtle, in fact, the turtle bead is only the size of an egg, and it's a small egg. After the blood stains on the surface were washed off, it glowed with a silver-white light with a hint of light blue, crystal clear and soft.

Isn't this better than some night-shining pearl?

And the turtle bead has other magical uses, such as when he tried to put one in his mouth just now, he could breathe freely underwater.

He Lingchuan sighed as he looked at it, secretly saying it was a pity, then found a wooden hammer and crushed it into powder with a few bangs.

There are some rules for smashing the beads to get the powder, and iron tools cannot be used.

Then he went to find rootless water.

Rootless water is rainwater that has not fallen to the ground. This is easy to do. It has just rained recently, and the rainwater tanks under any eaves are half full.

He took a yellow paper talisman handed by Wu Shaoyi, burned it into ash, and soaked it in a small half cup of rootless water.

Then, pour the turtle bead powder in and stir until it is completely dissolved.

Strangely, the talisman water is red at this time. He Lingchuan is not sure if it is the effect of cinnabar.

To do this, he has to go to the wild to catch a grasshopper.

Wu Shaoyi specifically instructed that it must be a female one, and the belly cannot be too big.

This is not difficult for He Lingchuan. When he was a child, he lived in the countryside and had caused at least 800 grasshoppers. Besides, Xianling Village had just harvested wheat, and now the most popular insects in the fields were these small pests.

Time was running out, so the sable also went out to help.

It was agile, had sharper eyes, and a lower chassis, so it could catch grasshoppers much faster than He Lingchuan.

Not long after, they caught a fat and strong pole hook, and when they turned it over, they saw that it was bloated.

It was autumn, and the eggs in the female insect's belly were mature, so they had to find a place to lay eggs.

The belly was too big and did not meet the requirements, so they threw it away and looked for it again.

After looking for 17 or 18 insects in a row, He Lingchuan finally got a qualified one.

It was healthy and energetic, and its belly was only slightly bulging.

He Lingchuan threw the green insect into the water cup and covered it. The two people and the sable had six eyes, staring at it without blinking.

The pole hook fell into the talisman water and struggled instinctively for a few times, but after taking a sip of the talisman water, it was stunned and actually stood still.

At the same time, the water level in the cup began to drop.

Obviously, it was drinking water in big gulps.

Strangely, the volume of water in the cup was at least two or three times that of the pole hook, but it was drunk up by it in the end.

Wu Shaoyi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this: "Fortunately, fortunately, it's probably done."

He Lingchuan glanced at him: "Otherwise?"

"There is only one piece of talisman paper, which I got from the Saint Master." Hong Xiangqian was dead, and he couldn't replicate this secret skill.

He Lingchuan listened, but he was more interested in Hong Xiangqian. The rebels called him the Saint Master, and everyone was convinced by him, even the murderous Lu Yao was no exception, and even the crocodile god from the northern demon country was willing to be used by him.

This person was also proficient in magic and talismans, which made He Lingchuan think of Sun Fuping, the Grand Master.

It's really not simple.

The pole hook was not choked to death. After drinking the water, it entered a static state, only occasionally raising its front legs to wash its face and beard. But its color changed, gradually changing from grass green to blood red, and irregular black spots grew all over its body.

At the same time, its abdomen was getting more and more swollen, looking like a balloon that was blown up, and its skin was getting thinner and thinner. The abdomen was also becoming more and more transparent, and the two could even see the tiny eggs inside growing bigger and fuller at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In fact, it was they who expanded the belly of the mother insect.

Just when it was so round that He Lingchuan suspected it would burst in the next second, the abdomen of the pole hook finally stopped growing.

In theory, grasshoppers would lay their egg sheaths in the soil, and after a while, the egg sheaths would hatch into larvae.

But this mother insect had no intention of giving birth, and those strange eggs actually hatched into larvae directly in its abdomen!

The young of grasshoppers are called jumping hoppers. Except for the lack of wings and small size, they look not much different from the mother.

As soon as they crawled out of the egg shells, they couldn't wait to pounce on their brothers and sisters, tearing and biting them with their mouthparts that were perfect at birth. They were more greedy than wolves that had been hungry for three days.

He Lingchuan felt a chill on his back.

Grasshoppers have always been strict vegetarians, feeding on plant leaves and tender stems. However, after the mother insect drank the magic water, the larvae in her stomach suddenly changed their nature, not only eating meat, but also cannibalism.

Soon, the number of larvae in the mother grasshopper's stomach decreased rapidly.

After the weak ones were eaten, it was the turn of the strong ones to devour each other.

He Lingchuan murmured, "Isn't this raising Gu?"

Through cruel competition, the nutrients obtained by all young individuals will eventually belong to only one person.

In human society, this behavior has a more lofty term, called zero-sum game.

The death fight between the larvae was very fast, and they killed each other while he was in a trance, and finally the two hoppers also decided the winner.

After eating the loser, the largest hopper became the final winner.

Its body size has grown again, and its skin is also red and black, almost the same as the mother insect.

During this period, the mother insect remained motionless, and did not roll on the ground due to the intense pain in her abdomen. He Lingchuan even saw a hint of kindness in her hideous and strange face.

After the young nymph digested its own kind, it stopped moving.

"The essence of the mother body has been transferred to it. If we don't care about it, it will grow wings and break out of its abdomen in two hours." After waiting for so long, Wu Shaoyi's condition became worse. There was a black gas in his forehead, and his eyes were a little distracted.

"Now, dig it out!" Wu Shaoyi turned his head and said to Zidiao, "Okay, go and find everyone back, the more the better."

Zidiao jumped off the kang, and his slender figure disappeared outside the door.

He Lingchuan took out the pole hook, took off the belly, and crushed the mother insect according to Wu Shaoyi's instructions, and stuffed it into the captive's mouth.

The bandit had woken up and saw this and shouted: "I'm innocent, don't hurt me!"

"You are innocent?" He Lingchuan smiled, "Then where did the blood stain on your trouser legs come from? Are you a woman dressed as a man?"

The bandit was stunned: "This, this, I just helped to move the body..."

He Lingchuan was too lazy to listen to his argument, and hit him on the diaphragm with an elbow, knocking the man forward, with his mouth open for a long time without saying a word.