The Caveman Made Me Awesome

Ye Xi looked at the enthusiastic veterans, and at the long, ferocious insect legs in his hands, and pursed his lips.

It was said that he hadn't eaten bugs since the Tushan Tribe's bug swarm. In order to live up to the wishes of the old people, I have no choice but 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 king crab leg, so let’s eat it as king crab leg meat! As soon as the eyes were closed, they were stuffed into the mouth.

"Crack, click, click!"

Ye Xi chewed on the insect's legs.

The taste of worm leg meat filled the mouth.

He was surprised to find that the katydid's worm legs not only looked like king crab legs, but also tasted a bit like them, and the taste was quite delicious...

Having tasted the taste, Ye Xi accelerated his eating speed.

The five old people were very happy to see that Ye Xi liked to eat it, and the bone claw said with a smile: "It's delicious, isn't it? We still have a lot of these big crickets hidden, just open them up and eat them!"

Huang Shi stood up abruptly, went straight back to the cave and brought out a stack of large wooden jars, then opened the jars, took out the horse-faced katydids one by one and placed them next to Ye Xi.

Ye Xi's eyes lit up: "You guys are lucky!"

Arashi: "What luck?"

Ye Xi smiled and said, "I picked up so many katydids in the jungle, no, the big crickets are not lucky?"

Huang Shi laughed suddenly: "I don't know, we really didn't pick up these big crickets! Generally, the big cricket corpses picked up are not so complete, and they will be more or less chewed. These, ah, We made it all ourselves!"

Ye Xi was puzzled: "You got it yourself?"

He opened a new wooden jar and took out a katydid from it. He found that this katydid was also intact, with no other wounds except a small shoot on the back of the head.

Ye Xi felt a little strange: "How do you kill so many big crickets?"

Arashi: "Of course I use gram powder!"

He took out a small wooden jar from the leaf pocket at his waist, unplugged the jar, and showed it to Ye Xi: "This is the powder of the gram crickets we collected, as long as you put the powder on them a scatter,

It's over for these big crickets! "

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

Could this be... the Cordyceps fungus strain?

Seeing Ye Xi holding the "Insect Repelling Powder" and looking at it carefully, Huang Shi couldn't help asking, "Wu, don't you have this thing in your tribe?"

Ye Xi returned the small wooden jar to him, and said truthfully, "I really don't have one. This thing is very novel to me."

The veterans were all taken aback.

"No?"

Ye Xi nodded: "Can you tell me about this gram of insect powder?"

Huang Shi repeatedly said: "Of course! Of course!"

The five old people talked one by one, without hiding anything.

From their narration, Ye Xi knew that this "insect-killing powder" should be the strain of Cordyceps fungus, a kind of Cordyceps fungus that can restrain a kind of insect, and it is extremely contagious. With this Cordyceps fungus, it's over.

Of course, different insects have different states after being infected with Cordyceps fungus.

For example, the powerful horse-faced katydid is the most ruthless by the Cordyceps fungus. After being sprinkled with powder, its body becomes stiff and dead within a few seconds, and its head grows fruiting bodies like bamboo shoots.

Take the green fire ant.

This kind of ant is extremely poisonous, and one can poison an elephant to death, but the Moshi tribe is not afraid of the green fire ant at all, because they also cultivate the Cordyceps fungus that specifically restrains the green fire ant.

However, the Cordyceps fungus strain that suppresses the green fire ants is slow to take effect, and it takes two to three hours to take effect.

At the beginning, it may become inconvenient to move, and gradually, the body will become stiff, and at the same time, fruiting bodies will grow on the top of the head. The appearance of this fruiting body is different from that of the horse-faced katydid. The fruiting body of the green fire ant is somewhat like a enoki mushroom, long and thin.

The Moshi tribe usually catches a green fire ant first, infects that green fire ant with the Cordyceps fungus that specifically restrains it, and then releases it back, and then the whole nest of ants that come into contact with it will be infected.

Unless the green fire ant that was first infected knows that it is sick, leaves far away, and dies alone, none of the ants in the nest will be able to escape.

The effect is comparable to that of a zombie virus.

Of course, Cordyceps strains are completely harmless to humans.

After hearing this, Ye Xi was deeply moved: "There are too many bugs here, so nature specially evolved this kind of bug nemesis to balance them."

He suddenly remembered the insect swarm he encountered in the Tushan tribe.

At that time, the giant worms were overwhelming, so many that they almost covered the entire Black Ridge Mountain Range, so many that people had no idea of ​​resistance at all.

After Xicheng was established, they were attacked by mutated red spiders again. At that time, he was sitting on the back of a big hawk, looking at the swarm of insects like a red sea, feeling hopeless and powerless. In the end, he was forced to use the ancestral witch's bone staff...

Ye Xi clenched his fists and stood up abruptly.

What if he had the Cordyceps strains to restrain them? What will happen? !

Just now the old people said with certainty that no matter how powerful an insect is, as long as it encounters the Cordyceps strain specially restrained it, it will be finished!

The five veteran soldiers were a little nervous by Ye Xi's appearance, and they also stood up.

Ye Xi asked solemnly: "How many kinds of insect powder do you have?"

Bone Claw said nervously: "No, I haven't counted, there are quite a lot!"

Ye Xi: "Can you take me to have a look?"

Bonepaw: "Of course! Come with us!"

The veterans led Ye Xi to the deepest part of the cave in a hesitant manner.

The cave was very dark, and the bone claw walking in the front held a torch, letting the faint fire light illuminate the surroundings.

They led Ye Xi around the horrifying pile of dead bones, and kept going straight forward.

A lot of insect corpses began to appear on the ground. There were so many of them that they piled up all the corners of the cave, making it difficult for people to get out.

These insects were apparently also killed by the Cordyceps fungus, with various fruiting bodies growing on their heads. He saw the corpse of a big worm as big as a millstone, the corpse of a ferocious giant-eyed spider, the corpse of a bone-eating butterfly scattered on the ground like fallen leaves, the corpse of a golden cicada gleaming under the fire...

When passing by, he casually opened a half-rotten banana leaf, and found a fist-sized insect nest stuck to the bottom of the banana leaf with silk, surrounded by rotten moths with downy hairs that looked like mold at first glance. Very disgusting.

Needless to say, these dense hairs are the fruiting bodies of Cordyceps fungus.

Huangshi enthusiastically said: "This yellow powder moth is quite sweet and has a lot of juice. You might as well try it."

Ye Xi fell silent for a while, and rejected his offer.

It was too heavy for him to eat.

At last they came to the deepest part of the cave.

There are no insect corpses here, and there are countless wooden and stone jars densely packed on the ground. Most of them are rough, big and small, and placed in a mess. There are various marks on the jars that Ye Xi can't understand.

Bonepaw: "These are where we put the bug meal."

Ye Xi glanced at it, his eyes dimmed.

Counting everything, there are only about a thousand jars here. Even if there is one kind of Cordyceps fungus in a jar without any repetition, there are only more than a thousand kinds of Cordyceps fungi, which means that it can only restrain about a thousand kinds of insects.

This may sound like a lot, but you must know that there were more than 10 million species of insects in the last life he lived in. In this extremely vast prehistoric continent, this number must be at least several hundred times higher.

Therefore, the thousand or so species of Cordyceps fungi are really insignificant.

Want to use these Cordyceps strains to restrain the insect swarm that attacked Xicheng?

What is the percentage of success? The most optimistic estimate is... 1/100,000.

Seeing that Ye Xi's expression was not very good, Huang Shi thought that he had been smoked, and suggested, "Wu, why don't we count them? The smell is too pungent."

In order to expel live insects and prevent live insects from eating insect corpses, a very pungent mineral powder is sprinkled here. Ordinary people may have sore noses and tears after staying here for a long time, and they are not very friendly to people.

Ye Xi sighed: "No need, let's go out."

He shouldn't have had too much hope in the first place, and he lost his head just now.