Conquering Myriad Worlds from the Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 844: Humans Have Never Really Defeat Insects

On the second day after the insect swarm began to wreak havoc, the Ming envoys chose to leave in a hurry.

"Everyone, what do you mean? We still have room for discussion!" Jia Xu went to retain everyone.

"There have been occasional natural disasters in the country, and we need to go back to take charge of our work, so I'll take my leave first!"

Yan Shifan guessed that this matter was related to Xinghan, but the two sides were allies, and he could not express his guess without evidence.

Once we give others a chance to criticize us, we will be at a considerable disadvantage in diplomacy.

They only knew that this kind of thing had happened, and it was pure nonsense to want to continue to control Xinghan. Instead of staying and being clowns, they might as well go back to work and quell the disaster.

Anyway, even if we take a step back, Xinghan's elimination of the Qing court is certainly not the best outcome for the Ming Dynasty, but it is definitely a good outcome.

After all, they are still allies, and they still have to face a common enemy, the Mongols.

"Prime Minister Jia really doesn't know where the insect swarm comes from?" Yan Shifan stared at Jia Xu and asked.

"I really don't know!" Jia Xu shook his head. At this moment, he really didn't know what happened.

"Nothing, Prime Minister Jia should also pay more attention. If the insect swarm disaster occurs in Xinghan, it will be dangerous!"

Yan Shifan said to Jia Xu with a forced smile that he believed in his heart that it was Jia Xu who did it, otherwise how could it be such a coincidence.

We are all empires, and when it comes to luck, the Ming Dynasty is even better. There is no reason why the Ming Dynasty should suffer a disaster while Xinghan gets the benefits for nothing.

But now, firstly, there is no evidence, and secondly, we are on Xinghan's territory. Turning against each other is not a good option no matter what. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. I will make plans after I go there.

"Thank you for your advice!" Jia Xu bowed slightly and watched the Ming Dynasty envoys leave.

"Strange, Jia Wenhe seems to be really unaware of the situation!" Yang Shiqi frowned. He had been staring at Jia Xu and using his spiritual talent to detect what Jia Xu said.

It turned out that what Jia Xu said was all true.

"Humph, even if he and Ye Xinghan are not inseparable, how could such a coincidence happen in the world?"

"They want to find out our background. Once this matter is settled, let them know why our Ming Dynasty is so prosperous!"

Yan Shifan snorted coldly, turned his head and glanced in the direction of Jia Xu, with anger flashing in his eyes.

Both publicly and privately, Yan Shifan was very dissatisfied with this mission.

Before returning to Ming Dynasty, Yan Shifan actually always believed that they would be able to deal with Xinghan's little tricks soon, and Xinghan would have to swallow his anger.

It's just a mere insect plague, even if the number is a little larger, the Ming Dynasty can work overtime to develop some technology, which is enough to suppress the insect plague, and then overwhelm the Star Han with the momentum of a great victory.

Take all Nurhaci and the land out of Xinghan's mouth.

However, after Yan Shifan witnessed the so-called insect swarm with his own eyes, he couldn't help but have doubts, that is, does Xinghan really have this technology?

If it was really Xinghan, wouldn't they have just used bugs to deal with Qingting?

To deal with the insect plague, Yan Shifan and his colleagues instinctively adopted the experience of dealing with locust plagues. After all, locusts are also insects.

However, dealing with locust plagues is actually a bit troublesome. After all, locust plagues are difficult to solve once they break out.

Almost all mainstream plans to eliminate locust plagues rely on prevention before the plague occurs, such as turning the soil in winter to freeze the locust eggs to death, and using biological control in the spring to kill the locust nymphs.

Once a locust plague really breaks out, spraying pesticides from airplanes will be useless.

Yan Shifan and his men split into several groups and studied the secret techniques of insecticides and directional ultrasound. They originally planned to rely on these two technologies to deal with the Zerg disaster.

However, when the insect plague appeared on their faces, the Ming Dynasty realized the extent of the fatal blow they had suffered.

This is no longer an insect plague, it is a war, a true imperial-level war.

Ordinary insects already have the ability to damage wooden buildings. They have been enhanced with sharpness and explosiveness, and are able to directly transform into arrows and pierce wooden buildings.

Although the price is their own death, as long as they can pierce a hole, their mission is accomplished.

The remaining insects with enhanced digestive abilities will rush into the building through the holes, wreaking havoc, gnawing on all organic matter and not leaving any food behind.

As for those elite bugs that have survived the long battle, their combat effectiveness will be increased by several levels, and even the small brick and stone building will not be safe.

Mixed inside are a large number of insects at the level of Qi training into Gang and internal Qi leaving the body, and each of them possesses elite talents.

Among the several scattered insect armies, almost each one has millions of them.

Therefore, after the insect plague occurred, the Ming Dynasty adopted a defensive strategy, thinking that at most all green would be destroyed, the soil layer on the ground would be thinned, and the wooden doors of the residences would be eaten away, but there would be no cruel situation of leaving only a vast expanse of gray.

But when they observed that the entire residential area had turned into a gray and dead silence, the Ming Dynasty immediately sounded the war alarm.

The vanguard troops went to snipe the insect plague with all the legions and supplies that could cause large-scale damage.

After fighting for a whole day and night, all the arrows brought by the vanguard were used up, and the shockwave arrows and explosive arrows never stopped being fired.

The legion that was able to shoot cloud arrows did not stop for a moment, until their men and horses were exhausted, and the vanguard troops finally understood what quantitative change leading to qualitative change meant.

The cloud of gas where a large number of insects gathered made the legion's attack infinitely weakened. Even if the power of the attack was partially offset by the gas, it could still cause damage and a single strike could destroy a large area.

But these levels of attack are meaningless to the insect plague.

After fighting for three days and three nights, observers in the rear discovered that the number of insects had increased by one tenth.

This discovery immediately caused the morale of the vanguard troops to collapse, and they had no choice but to retreat.

There is absolutely no way we can defeat them. There are too many of them.

They have already activated various forbidden military formations.

Some of these forbidden military formations can absorb the essence of dead insects and transfer it to other troops, some can directly create a vacuum and high-pressure environment in an area, and some can even ignite an area out of thin air.

They are all types of extremely cruel weapons used on humans and are generally prohibited from use. However, the circumstances this time are special and they have to use them.

“Is this a bug?”

Yan Shifan was stunned when he saw the super bug in his hand which was bigger than his head. Not only was this thing fast, but it was also impenetrable to swords and guns, just like it was made of iron.

If it weren't for the fact that it could be easily killed by a will attack, they really wouldn't know how to deal with this thing.

After all, there are too many of them. A few thousand can be easily killed by them, but tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands will be a big problem.

"Report, Young Lord, the first area has been lost, and the local government has lost contact!"

"Report, insect plague has begun to spread across the African continent, and all local creatures have begun to become genocidal!"

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One bad news came after another, and what made the Ming Dynasty collapse the most was that these insect swarms were not brainless insects, but organized insects with a commander.

"Haven't you found their core yet?" Yan Shifan growled. They had already guessed the existence of the Zerg Queen.

After all, each Zerg God is equivalent to a command node, and these nodes are distributed in a ring shape, so the existence of the Zerg Queen can naturally be inferred.

However, no matter what method they used, they could not find the Zerg Queen.

The insects avoided any areas with resistance, which caused little loss to the Ming Dynasty. Most of the losses were in crops, and the casualties were not serious. However, this discovery not only did not reassure the officials under Jiajing, but made them even more desperate.

Because this means that the other side is adopting the strategy of "surrounding the city from the countryside". These insects are much more efficient than humans in clearing the walls and fields.

At the same time, they discovered that in the places where the insect plague had occurred, a large number of new insects were being born. These insects devoured each other, but after flying into the sky, they would stop devouring each other and instead begin to cooperate closely.

“How effective is the use of pesticides?”

Yan Shifan was filled with fear at this moment, because the atmosphere in the hall was so heavy that water could drip out of it. He could fully feel the anger of Jiajing above.

"It can kill ordinary bugs, but it has no effect on super bugs. Moreover, the bugs seem to be adapting to this pesticide, and the efficiency of pest control is decreasing!"

"clang!"

The sound of a bell made all the ministers stop in a hurry. This sound represented Jiajing's anger.

"Master, please calm down!"

However, at this moment Jiajing's anger could not be dissipated at all, and what filled his heart was more fear.

This was no longer an ordinary natural disaster, it was even a natural disaster that could shake his position. He didn't even dare to think about how his great-grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang would deal with him if he didn't handle this matter well.

"Allow all departments to use all means to eliminate all the bugs at all costs!"

Jiajing's voice echoed in the hall, and no one dared to object, because Jiajing was the Emperor Wanshou appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang to manage this great world.

The army, having received Jiajing's order, opened fire at full force.

A large amount of energy crystals infused with the essence of heaven and earth were wasted by the army, and cannons capable of blasting out blazing rays of light were pushed to the front line.

These cannons are not very effective against the army, but at this moment, because their power is too weak after being offset by the clouds, they can only make people feel anxious.

Even after this thing is offset by the clouds, its power is still enough to kill ordinary insects.

Streams of blazing, high-energy light passed through the swarm of insects, vaporizing countless of them.

Immediately afterwards, the Zerg replaced a group of Zerg as the main supporting force.

These special bugs have increased resistance to heat, and their attacks that pass through the cloud and land on the bug swarm are much less lethal.

Even the navy couldn't hold on. They drove the self-circulating naval fleet and launched one solar secret technique after another, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, cloud explosions... but it was still useless.

Daming used almost all the secret techniques it could use before it was able to eliminate the first batch of insect plagues that were running around everywhere.

But the problem is that in the places where the insect plague passed, the second batch of insects was growing rapidly.

Preliminary estimates suggest the number may be several times higher than before, and coupled with the fact that the swarm has several bases, the number of insect plagues seems to be beginning to double.

This discovery made Daming a little overwhelmed. Even if other worlds really provided support continuously, the number of insects was simply too large.

These insects gathered together, bringing with them an extra-large cloud of gas, which was so large that it could even perfectly cover the territories of small and medium-sized countries. This cloud of gas helped the insect swarm offset the effects of too many secret techniques.

If it weren't for these clouds, the insect plague would have been killed by the Ming Dynasty's strategic secrets long ago.

But with the cloud gas as a support, the Ming Dynasty's means could not keep up with the speed of consumption.

The most annoying thing is that the bugs have a commander. Once they sense the birth of a large-scale secret technique, they will immediately start to spread with the Bug God as the command node.

From highly dense to moderately dense, the coverage area expanded dozens of times, and this change in strategy made it more difficult for the Ming Dynasty to deal with the bugs.

Moreover, after a period of stalemate, the Zerg began to fight back.

The intensive suicidal attacks were like a rain of arrows, and even the fleets with group defense could not withstand it.

The most solid city wall troops in the past would become sitting ducks under this kind of attack.

Moreover, as large groups of insects capable of spitting venom and corrosive solutions appeared, the Ming army also began to suffer casualties.

After all, the effect of hundreds of thousands of insects spitting at the same time is no less than that of a waterfall.

Daming quickly developed small secret techniques, including shocking secret techniques similar to those used against insects.

Each legion can perform these small secret techniques with the help of cloud energy. One shot can kill hundreds or even thousands of insects, and the dead insects fall like rain.

Each legion can use hundreds or even thousands of rounds at the same time, and with the military formation that draws on the essence of heaven and earth, they can almost achieve non-stop firing.

It was also under the destructive power of this small secret technique that the insect plague finally stopped spreading.

But when Jia Xu learned the news, there was only a sneer on his face.

After the Ming Dynasty envoys left, he went back and immediately understood everything, and restored the deleted memories by himself.

The technical ideas of the Ming Dynasty at this moment are almost the same as theirs, which shows that they are not far behind the Ming Dynasty in this regard.

Although there is still some gap in efficiency, they are generally on the same level. If I have to describe it, one is on the top of the mountain and the other is on the mountainside.

However, when it comes to dealing with the Zerg, the Ming Dynasty has not spent as much time researching as Xinghan, so Jia Xu is very clear that small secret techniques are useless against Zerg.

Because the Zerg Queen can adjust her talents, and these Zerg will continue to evolve, the current stalemate will soon be broken.

"This level of insect infestation is truly terrifying!"

Jia Xu glanced at the information in front of him.

"Research report on the evolution of insect swarms into amphibious creatures on land, water and air!"

The report's conclusion can be summed up in two words: inevitable.

Looking at the results in the report, Jia Xu sneered. The Zerg disaster that feeds on the world is not so easy to solve.

The officers who command a large army can borrow the power of the army.

This is even more true for the Zerg, as they themselves have a collective consciousness.

The Zerg Queen even deceived him. The level of her intelligence evolution was so high that Jia Xu doubted whether Chen Gong could defeat her in intelligence after he unlocked his spiritual talent.

The Zerg will certainly be able to master the power of commanding a large army.

If the military formation was added, the picture would be so beautiful that Jia Xu didn't dare to think about it any further.

It can be said that the Zerg are now selecting their best soldiers and generals to deal with the upcoming decapitation operation.

They have observed insects that have reached the advanced level of breaking through the boundaries within a few months of their life cycle.

For insects that have reached the realm of breaking through, the gap in combat power between them and humans is infinitely shrinking, especially as the size of these insects will expand to half the size of a human.

If we really could gather a few hundred realm-breaking creatures, coupled with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of insects with internal energy leaving their bodies, it would be enough to give the Ming Dynasty's generals a hard time.

Hahahaha, I was so tired from writing that I fell asleep, and then I finished it in my dream.

When I opened my eyes, I found that I hadn’t finished writing. Haha, I wrote again.

The author has gone crazy!
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