Chapter 596 (1/2)

Ye Xi looked at the enthusiastic old soldiers and the ferocious long worm legs in his hands and pursed his lips.

He has not eaten insects since the wave of insects in Tushan tribe. Now, in order to live up to the wishes of the old people, I have to eat it again.

He slowly raised the worm's leg to his mouth.

At the same time, I comforted myself that this big worm leg looks very similar to the emperor's crab leg, so take it as the meat of emperor crab leg! As soon as you close your eyes, you plug them into your mouth.

”Come on, come on!”

Ye Xi chewed on the insect legs.

The taste of wormhole fills the mouth.

He was surprised to find that the beetle legs of this horse faced cricket not only look like emperor crab legs, but also taste delicious

After tasting the taste, ye Xi accelerated his eating speed.

The five old people were very happy to see that ye Xi liked to eat. Bone claws laughed and said, ”delicious, right? We still have a lot of these big crickets in hiding, even if they are open to eat! ”

The stone stood up and went straight back to the cave and brought out a pile of large wooden jars. Then he opened the jar. One of them only touched out the inside of the katydids and put them next to Ye Xi.

Ye Xi's eyes brightened: ”you are lucky!”

Barren stone: ”what luck?”

Ye Xi said with a smile: ”I found so many katydids in the jungle. No, the big crickets are not lucky?”

The stone burst out laughing: ”Wu has no idea, these big crickets are not really picked up by us! Generally, the corpses of big crickets and insects are not so complete. More or less they will be gnawed. Ah, we made them ourselves

Ye Xi doubts: ”did you get it yourself?”

He opened a new wooden jar and took out a horse faced cricket from it. He found that it was also complete, with no wound except a small sharp shoot on the back of the head.

Ye Xi felt some magic: ”how do you kill so many big crickets?”

Waste stone: of course, it's insect powder

He took out a small jar of wooden jar from the leaf bag on his waist. After pulling out the plug of the jar, he showed it to Ye Xi: ”this is the powder that we collected to kill the cricket insects. As long as we spread the powder on them, these big crickets will be finished!”

Ye Xi took the jar and looked inside. He found that there was orange powder inside, which had no flavor, but there were cobweb like yellow hyphae on the wall of the jar.

Is this Cordyceps species?

When he saw Ye Xi holding ”Ke Chong Fen” carefully, he couldn't help saying, ”Wu, don't your tribe have this thing?”

Ye Xi returned the small wooden jar to him and said truthfully, ”it's really not. This thing is very novel to me.”

The old soldiers were all taken aback.

”Not at all?”

Ye Xi nodded: ”can you tell me about this insect powder?”

”Of course! Of course

Five old people, you said everything to me without any concealment.

From what they said, ye Xi knew that the ”kechongfen” should be a kind of Cordyceps species. A kind of Cordyceps fungus can restrain an insect, and it is highly infectious. No matter how serious a giant poisonous insect is, if it is accidentally stained with the fungus, it will be over.

Of course, the state of different insects infected with Cordyceps is different.

For example, the powerful tetanus equinovata is the most severely attacked by Cordyceps militaris. After being powdered, its body becomes stiff and dead, and its head grows into shoot like fruiting bodies.

Take the green fire ant.

This kind of ant is very toxic, one can kill an elephant, but the millstone tribe is not afraid of the green fire ant, because they also cultivate Cordyceps species that specifically inhibit the green fire ant.

However, the effect of Cordyceps species of fire ant is relatively slow, and it takes two or three hours to get effective.

At first, it may become inconvenient to move. Gradually, its body will become rigid, and at the same time, it will grow a little bit of fruiting body on its head. The fruiting body of the green fire ant is different from that of the katydids. Some of the fruiting bodies of the green fire ant are long and thin like Flammulina velutipes.

The millstone tribe usually catches a green fire ant first, infects the green fire ant with Cordyceps spp., which specifically suppresses it, and then puts it back, and then the whole nest of ants that have come into contact with it will be infected.

Unless the first infected green fire ant knows that he is sick, leaves far away and dies alone, the nest will not escape.