After the immortal disappeared

"I have a rough idea." Dong Rui is indeed a high-level talent. At this time, Gongfu has already made preliminary countermeasures. "You can get me a dozen strange cicadas first. I have to continue the experiment."

"Isn't this a trivial matter?"

He Lingchuan went to Elder Dao to make a request, so for the next six or seven days, Rongshan disciples always sent living bodies to Dong Rui.

Not to mention a dozen, they sent dozens of them.

It's just that the survival time of these monsters is very short. If they don't lay eggs, they will be gone in one night.

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

"Are you okay?" The injuries on his body were inflicted by He Lingchuan himself. Although they were all flesh injuries, it would take an ordinary person at least ten and a half days before he could move around. Qiu Hu only lay in bed for one night, then got up and ran around.

What about excessive blood loss? Not scientific.

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

He was good at fighting and tough, no matter how good this guy looked, he really wanted to give it up.

"It's okay. I only led the team but didn't take any action." Qiu Hu lowered his head and looked at the wound on his chest. "I was seriously injured and was chased by the enemy in the swamp for three days and three nights. I hid in the mud for more than ten hours. This A little injury is nothing."

There are many mosquitoes and germs in the swamp, and normal people are easily infected and sick if they go in there, let alone serious injuries. He Lingchuan asked him: "What happened next?"

Qiu Hu said expressionlessly: "Kill him instead."

The hardships and dangers in the process are not mentioned at all.

The Soul-Taking Mirror whistled: "His wounds are basically scabbed, with only two ruptures. You have a good eye. This guy is stronger than an ox and can withstand grass very well!"

The broken mirror became more and more immodest, and 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 sociability, but he had his own ideas in doing things. For example, when it came to getting rid of cicadas, although he was more impatient than others, he never took any risks. His team suffered the least losses in the battle, but captured the most live cicadas.

He also told He Lingchuan that the cicada disaster came from the northeast of Rongshan Mountain and expanded westward, but was resisted by the Rongshan Sect. So far, the northeast, east and south are the hardest-hit areas, and the cicada disaster has not yet spread to the west.

Therefore, the current battle is actually a race against time. Rongshan hoped that he could complete his efforts in a few battles and completely eradicate the source of the cicada disaster from his territory.

This was not only a good opportunity for him to observe the disciples of Rongshan, but also the process of Qiu Hu observing him.

After all, if he defected to He Lingchuan's command, to put it mildly, it would be to be effective, but to be honest, it would be to sacrifice his life.

Must be cautious.

With the addition of He Lingchuan, the team's efficiency in hunting cicadas has been greatly improved.

He has a friendly nature and a very good cultivation. After a few days, the disciples of Rongshan have basically become familiar with him.

Of course, He Lingchuan's focus was on Qiu Hu and he invited him in person.

This is respect for Qiu Hu.

But no matter how pleasant he looked, Qiu Hu remained unmoved and still responded to him with the same words:

"If you don't repay your grudges, how can you have the dignity to pursue your own future?"

He Lingchuan smiled and said, "If you say that, you are determined to follow me."

Mr. He is very confident, and Qiu Hu also said seriously: "If you can eradicate the cicada problem in Rongshan, I will follow you. From now on, I will go through fire and water without hesitation, as a gentleman!"

…

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

A special cave was built in Rongshan as a testing ground for him. As soon as He Lingchuan walked in, he felt as if he had returned to the laboratory in the Demon's Nest. There were broken limbs and broken arms everywhere, and strange and deformed cicadas everywhere...

It is simply a large slaughterhouse for cicadas.

The Rongshan disciples who followed saw this scene for the first time. Their faces changed color and they all felt uncomfortable. Only Qiu Hu was extremely excited, looking left and right, touching and tugging.

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

There should be a sense of ritual when unpacking.

"Elder Dao, please."

Elder Dao did not refuse, and opened the gray cloth, only to see an oval crystal box underneath, with a living creature inside.

"...You want to take away the box containing the medicinal materials from me, just to close it?"

There was only one seventy-year-old cicada in the crystal box. Its whole body was shiny with oil. It was twice as big as the ones they had seen before. It was about six feet long and was taller than an adult man.

But it also looks very weird. It has no wings, its forelimbs are atrophied, and its belly accounts for two-thirds of its total length. It is also swollen and round, as if it could burst if poked.

With this body type, he can really be called a potbelly!

Everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and Elder Dao frowned: "What, what is this?"

Dong Rui has long been accustomed to the strange looks from others, and still looks proud: "This is my newly cultivated 70-year-old cicada mother!"

"Cicada... mother?" Does this weirdo think there are too few varieties of cicadas in the 1970s? I have to add one by myself.

"A bee colony has a queen, and an ant colony has a queen. Cicadas are not originally social creatures, and there is no queen. But after my unremitting efforts these days -" Dong Rui waved his hand to the crystal box, "Yes!"

Everyone was dumbfounded. He Lingchuan couldn't stand it anymore and coughed lightly: "Please tell me quickly, how do you use this thing?"

"Oh, it's early spring now, and the growth of cicadas is still slow; once it reaches late spring and midsummer, the trouble will really come." Dong Rui said sternly, "You have been hunting cicadas for more than two months for seventy years, but you can't get rid of them all because you chase them. If you catch them from behind, there will always be fish that slip through the net.”

Qiu Hu nodded: "Yes!"

"Then we have to find another way and let them come to the door by themselves."

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

"When these insects court and mate, they emit a certain smell that humans can't smell." But Aunt Zhu can.

This is not difficult for He Lingchuan to understand. Isn’t what Dong Rui is talking about pheromones?

"I made this cicada and greatly enhanced its scent. Once exposed to the wilderness, it should be able to attract all the males within a radius of thirty miles." Dong Rui smiled, "Be prepared and wait for them to fall into the trap. that is."

A disciple from Rongshan asked: "Only male insects are attracted? What about the female insects?"

"The males are coming. Once there are more of them, the females will follow." Why cicada groups gather in large numbers is because everyone gathers in places with strong pheromones to mate collectively. "This cicada can live for about three days. When it dies, I will make a few more."

Qiu Hu couldn't hold himself back: "Let's do it now."

No one has any objection.

It just so happens that today is a sunny day and the wind is very strong.

For the first large-scale test, Elder Dao personally led more than 200 disciples and selected an open woodland in the east.