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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, six years have passed since Dong Bo decided to lead his troops north.

On this quiet night, the moonlight shines like silver on the earth, but under this quiet moonlight, endless mysteries and dangers are hidden.

It was late at night and everything was silent. In a cave deep in Qianjue Mountain, it was pitch dark. However, at this moment, a pair of blood-red eyes suddenly lit up in the darkness like burning flames, like two shining rubies. These eyes were full of evil and cunning, which made people shudder.

As the blood-red eyes lit up, a huge figure slowly walked out of the cave. When it was fully revealed under the moonlight, it turned out to be an extremely huge locust! This locust was huge, dozens of meters long, and its wings spread out to cover the sky. It looked ferocious and terrifying, and its whole body was covered with a hard shell that flashed with a cold light.

In comparison, other ordinary locusts seem insignificant in front of it, and are simply the little brothers among little brothers.

In the world of Xuanqing Continent, such creatures are called "demons". Demons have their own unique races and abilities, and they live in their own territory - the Fairy Continent.

In this mysterious continent, all kinds of strange monsters live and multiply. They possess powerful strength and special skills, and this giant locust is obviously one of them.

Huazhen, Taoyuan Township late at night.

It was very quiet around late at night, and many people were sleeping soundly, but suddenly a man appeared at the main entrance of Dongying's house in the middle of the night with a torch in his hand, and suddenly the man pushed the door open.

It turned out to be Xiaoyanzi's father, Wang Shi. He panted and shouted, "Oh no! Oh no! Brother Wushuang, get up and take a look! All the wheat in your family has been eaten by locusts."

"What? Take me to see it."

Hearing this, the originally quiet house suddenly lit up, but at this moment Dongying was still sleeping in a daze on the bed, not knowing what had happened.

Dad Wang Wushuang went outside, picked up a torch and a wooden fork, and rushed outside. When mom heard that locusts were destroying the wheat, she quickly joined the army to protect the wheat fields.

Before leaving, A-ma glanced at Dongying and found that he was still turning over in his sleep. She thought about it in her heart, and after just looking at him silently, she left again.

On the originally quiet night, suddenly in the wheat fields from Huazhen to Taoyuan Township, a long row of torches were raised and rushed into the wheat fields.

Wang Wushuang held a torch in her hand and ran non-stop until she finally arrived at the wheat field. Before she could catch her breath, she saw locusts flying all over the sky.

Above the night sky, under the moonlight, among the dense army of locusts, people discovered that there was a huge locust monster above them. It turned out that the locust monster was controlling the locusts to eat wheat.

Some of them, seeing that their wheat was being eaten too badly, ignored the monsters in the sky and rushed straight to the wheat fields and began to drive away the locusts with torches.

At this time, people saw someone taking the lead and immediately rushed into their own wheat fields to protect their wheat.

All of a sudden, the whole flower town became particularly "lively". Under the cover of night, the originally dark night was filled with flames.

"Get away...you harmful creatures, stay away from my wheat..."

"Fire! Fire! Help!"

In the process of driving away the locusts, some people even accidentally set fire to all the crops they had worked hard to grow all year. They sat in the wheat fields, shouting, crying, and begging helplessly.

"God! Save us."

Wang Wushuang saw more and more people around him rushing into the fields to protect the wheat. He thought that if the wheat was gone, the year would be over. He could not care less. He held a steel fork in his hand, threw the torch aside, and rushed directly into the wheat field for fear of setting the wheat field on fire.

In the dark wheat field, Wang Wushuang kept swinging the wooden fork towards the places where the locusts were densely packed. He knocked down more than a dozen locusts back and forth, but compared with the army of millions of locusts, it was just a drop in the bucket.

At this time, Wang Wushuang saw his mother rushing over from a distance and immediately shouted urgently: "Come here quickly! Let's cut down the remaining wheat and put it in sacks."

"Okay...ok!"

"Here! Take the sickle."

Grandma took out two sickles and gave one to Wang Wushuang. The two of them could only reluctantly cut the wheat that was almost ripe and put it into sacks.

At this time, the locust monster in the sky suddenly felt that its locust army was still decreasing. Looking towards the wheat field, it saw a few ignorant humans who were killing its subordinates. It stared at them angrily and said.

"You are looking for death! Ah!"

After the locust monster returned to the locust swarm, it summoned several locusts that had also cultivated into monsters but were not as powerful as it. They came to the place where the crowd gathered, and the locust monster roared angrily: "Charge into the wheat field and capture those most ferocious guys who hunted down our millions of locusts, or just get rid of them!"

At this time, the people who were busy catching and killing locusts suddenly found that there were several locusts that were larger than ordinary locusts flying around. They were shocked and realized that a monster had appeared. Suddenly, the crowd fell into panic.

"No, don't come over..."

"what…"

"Help, help me!"

At this time, looking at the wheat fields, the red flames shooting up into the sky illuminated the night, and the air was filled with choking black smoke.

Some people began to flee the wheat fields in panic, no longer caring about the wheat that was about to mature; others fought desperately with the locusts, trying to protect their own lives. In the chaos, people trampled wildly in the wheat fields, causing a large amount of food to be damaged.

At this moment, Wang Wushuang, who was standing on a high place observing the situation, suddenly noticed that a place in the distance where a large number of people gathered was attacked by locust monsters. The people there shouted in fear and the situation was very critical.

Wang Wushuang opened his eyes wide in horror, opened his mouth in a rage, and let out a deafening cry: "Madam! Stop it immediately! The monster is coming down!" Then, he grabbed his mother's hand without hesitation and rushed towards the wheat field.

In an instant, countless locusts poured down from the sky like black clouds, and they pounced on the once lush wheat fields with their fangs and claws.

Each locust was gnawing at the wheat leaves and ears frantically, as if it wanted to swallow the whole world into its stomach. In a blink of an eye, the wheat fields became bare, with only the withered and yellow wheat stalks that looked like ruins.

Wang Wushuang and the woman tightly held the half bag of wheat that they had rescued with great difficulty in their hands, their eyes full of fear and helplessness. They knew that if they had not hidden in the wheat fields in time, the wheat would have been eaten up by locusts. At this moment, they did not dare to be negligent in the slightest, let alone stop.

They knew very well that this land was no longer safe and that the locusts were like a group of greedy demons that could come again at any time.

So they decided to flee this place quickly and find a relatively safe shelter. Although the half bag of wheat in their hands seemed so insignificant, it was their hope of survival.

Looking at the ruins around them, Wang Wushuang and the woman were filled with emotion. They understood that they were already lucky.

In contrast, other residents in Hua Town might not even be able to save half a bag of wheat. In the face of this terrible locust plague, even if some families successfully protected some wheat, the portion that could actually be eaten might be less than half a bag of wheat.

"Ugh!"

Wang Wushuang and the woman planned to run towards home and hide there first.

The roosters crowed at the dawn of the next morning, and everyone in Hua Town returned to their wheat fields. Looking at the wheat that had been eaten up and the ruined wheat fields, they realized that they had worked hard for a year, but now they were afraid that they would not be able to harvest even a grain of wheat.

Some people fainted in the wheat fields, while others cried bitterly.

"I can't live anymore! I can't live anymore!"

At the same time, the three major families in Hua Town, one of which is the Li family, stepped out to stabilize the situation. The elder of the Li family comforted them, "Don't panic! Don't panic, I will report this matter to Chang'an City. At that time, Chang'an City will definitely distribute food to everyone, and then send big figures to eliminate these monsters. Don't panic..."

Most of the people below heard what the Li family said, and many of them quieted down and waited for the Li family's arrangements.

However, a small number of people did not believe this. They did not believe that these cannibalistic families would protect their interests, and continued to cry there.

Xiaoyanzi, her father, Uncle Wang, and her mother suddenly walked into the room and woke up Dongying who was sleeping soundly. Dongying rubbed his eyes and asked in a daze, "What happened?"

The five of them came to the wheat field together. Dongying, who was standing on the hillside, was dumbfounded. His eyes were wide open, his mouth was wide open, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth. He stared blankly at the wheat below that was still emitting black smoke. The scene before him made him at a loss, as if he was under a spell.

It turned out that the wheat they had worked so hard to grow had disappeared. Xiaoyanzi stretched out her right hand, gently helped Dongying close his jaw, and told him: "Last night, locusts appeared in the wheat field and ate up all the wheat." There was a hint of helplessness and sadness in her voice.

Afterwards, they moved to several wheat fields, first from Dongying's wheat field to Xiaoyanzi's wheat field, and finally turned back to dozens of acres of land, but only six bags of wheat were left.

Wang Shi stared at the dilapidated surroundings with fierce eyes. He held the two bags of wheat in front of him tightly. Because he used too much force with his fingers, he poked deep holes in the bags of wheat, and the wheat spilled out of them.

Wang Wushuang placed his left hand on Wang Shi's right shoulder and comforted him, "It's okay! It's okay! Everything will be fine."

Amma, who didn't cry much at first, suddenly put down the two bags of wheat, hugged Dongying and Xiaoyanzi and started crying. Although she didn't cry out loud, Dongying and Xiaoyanzi could feel the heartache and despair in her tears. For the first time, Dongying felt that natural disasters were so terrible that they could destroy people's beliefs.

Chang'an City, Chang'an Immortal Sect.

In a room inside the sect, the sect manager and the Li family from Hua Town were sitting at a table, discussing something seriously.

"Okay, no problem." The sect manager nodded in agreement.

They decided to send a team of Taoist priests to Hua Town to eliminate the locust monsters that threatened the lives of the people and distribute some food to help the refugees affected by the locust plague.

However, at this moment, the original plan was suddenly interrupted. There was a loud noise outside the door and the door was kicked open. The sudden noise alarmed the people in the house. The fourth elder walked into the room angrily, his eyes full of anger and dissatisfaction.

The fourth elder walked straight up to the two men, stared at them fiercely, and said angrily, "Impossible! We don't have anyone here to send to support you!"

The elder of the Li family seemed a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "Sir, if they don't get support, these refugees will most likely starve to death in this cold winter!" The sect manager on the side was confused and didn't know why the fourth elder would say such a thing.

The fourth elder stood on the high steps, raised his head, looked down proudly at the two people below, and said in a cold tone: "You ignorant people, don't you know it? The Lord has personally led the army to the north, and the purpose is to eliminate the invading bandits in the north.

Among the Northern Expedition army, almost all members of the Chang'an Immortal Sect were mobilized, and 90% of them have rushed to the battlefield.

At this moment, where can I find someone to help you deal with the affairs of Huazhen? Moreover, the war requires a large supply of food and grass. Now 80% of our food and grass have been transported to the north for the Northern Expedition.

The people who stay in the sect can hardly even guarantee food and clothing, so how can they have the energy to care about others?"