While Zhao Hai and Green were releasing insects, the Purcell clan's magicians and soldiers arrived at the area under Nate's jurisdiction.
The Purcell clan had a record of the people who were in charge of each relay station. Therefore, when Nate reported, the Purcell clan immediately knew which area was in trouble.
This time, the five magicians and the one hundred cavalrymen didn't bring Nate with them. Nate's cultivation wasn't good, so bringing him along would only slow down their speed. Therefore, Nate was left behind at Ben Niu Fort.
The Purcell clan attached great importance to this insect infestation. Otherwise, they wouldn't have sent five Mages to investigate the situation. Although a Mage's individual combat ability wasn't weak, their group attack ability was even stronger. If an ordinary insect infestation occurred, a Mage could use a few magic spells to instantly extinguish the insect infestation.
However, when these people arrived at Nate's jurisdiction, they were shocked. This wasn't a wheat field, but a battlefield. A war between humans and insects was unfolding. Although the people participating in the war were slaves, the situation was so tragic that it was beyond their imagination.
On the wheat field, insects could be seen everywhere nibbling on the wheat seedlings. The slaves went all out to beat the insects to the ground and then trampled them to death. Not far away, there were a lot of slaves lying there. These slaves were lying there with their chests slightly moving up and down. However, their faces were pale and their eyes were closed. It was obvious that they were tired and had fainted.
The scene in the distance made the magicians and the one hundred soldiers suck in a breath of cold air. In addition to Nate's jurisdiction, the other areas were also affected by the insect plague. The disaster area was so large that it was beyond the magicians' imagination.
When the leader of the fire element magicians saw this situation, he immediately turned to the soldier beside him and said, "Immediately return to Ben Niu Fort and report to the elders. The situation here is beyond our imagination. Ask the clan to raise this crisis to a level one strategic crisis. It is best to ask the clan to immediately send reinforcements. Otherwise, the Ica Plains will face a crisis of no production."
The soldier was the captain of this team. He was a sixth level warrior. When he heard the magician, he didn't dare to neglect. He turned his horse and rushed back to Ben Niu Fort.
The leader of the magicians didn't immediately start to exterminate the insects. Instead, he turned to the soldiers and said, "Everyone, retreat fifty meters. Clear the wheat seedlings and build a ten meter long and wide insect-proof zone. Bring the slaves over. Wenger, treat the slaves and have them immediately help build the insect-proof zone. Send people to other areas to inform them that all areas affected by the insect plague should follow this plan."
Immediately, several soldiers responded and rode their horses to spread the news. The other soldiers immediately went to the fields and carried out the slaves who had fainted from exhaustion. Wenger, a water element magician, came to treat them. The leader of the fire element magicians held his magic staff and whispered a few words of incantation. A fire snake appeared in front of him. He pointed with his finger and the fire snake immediately flew into the wheat field. Not far in front of him, a horizontal insect-proof zone was created. The insect-proof zone was nearly a hundred meters long.
The other magicians also used their magic to build an insect-proof zone between the wheat fields that were eaten by the insects and the wheat fields that weren't.
This magician was obviously very experienced in dealing with insects. At this time, the best way to deal with these insects was to build an insect-proof zone.
The soldiers also took out their weapons and began to build an insect-proof zone according to the magician's instructions. The insect-proof zone was nearly ten meters wide. It can be said that just building this zone would waste a lot of wheat fields.
These magicians didn't think that this insect plague was man-made. Therefore, they just treated it as an ordinary insect plague. The method they used to deal with an ordinary insect plague was indeed very effective. But to deal with a man-made insect plague, their method was useless.
Zhao Hai and Green weren't tired today. After entering the Space, they were still paying attention to the situation outside. But because they were afraid of being discovered by the other party, they entered the Space after reaching the windbreak zone. Now, they could only see things within five hundred meters.
Now, they really couldn't see anything. They could only see the big insects gnawing the wheat seedlings in a very short time. This speed was really beyond their imagination.
After the two saw the insects gnawing the wheat seedlings, they once again moved into the wheat field. Only then did they let out a long breath. Green smiled and said, "Now I know why the Purcell clan is so lively. Just yesterday and today, the insects we released were enough to make them drink a pot of water."
Zhao Hai nodded and leaned on the sofa. He took a deep breath and said, "Let's rest for two days and see what the situation in the Ica plains is like. If those guys really destroyed the insects, then we will go out and release more insects. If their losses are big, then we don't need to release more insects. After a period of time, grandpa Green will go to the Purcell clan to break off the engagement."
Green nodded and said, "Master, we might as well go back to Stony Mountain Villa first. After two days, we will see the results. These two days, there won't be anything to do."
Zhao Hai shook his head and said, "Don't go back to Stony Mountain. We will go to Iron Mountain Fort first and take out the oil. Then we will send it to Casa City and let Laura try to buy it. While we are at it, we will also buy some cloth bags that can be used to hold grain. Now that the corn has been harvested, we will need to bring back a few people from Stony Mountain and let them continue to extract the oil. This time, we will not count on the corn to make money. We will use the corn as an apology to the common people of the Purcell Duchy."
Green also nodded. Although his heart was harder than Zhao Hai's, he didn't want too many innocent people to die because of their actions.
The people of the Ark Continent believed in God. They believed in the existence of the Gods. Except for those who believed in the Dark God, most people still had restrictions on their actions. They were afraid that if they did too many bad things, one day the Gods would punish them.
After discussing, the two of them returned to Iron Mountain Fort. Now, Iron Mountain Fort had been turned into a huge processing plant that was currently processing corn.
There were two ways to process corn. One was to peel off the skin, remove the navel, and process it into edible corn. The Northerners called it cornstalk. The other way was to process it into cornflour. The processing of cornflour was more troublesome than cornstalk, but with grinding, it wasn't very troublesome.
In order to process the corn, Zhao Hai had to call back a large number of undead from Stony Mountain to help process the corn. After all, they now had a lot of corn. If they wanted to process all of it, they would have to work non-stop. Otherwise, there would be no way to use corn to save the day during a disaster.
A person's energy was limited. Although the slaves could also push the rollers, but after all, their physical strength was limited. Things like processing didn't require much skill, so they let the undead do it.
For this reason, Zhao Hai had to raise a hundred scaled wildebeests in the space. He left ten of them to pull the carriages, and the rest were turned into zombies to pull the mills. This way, the processing speed would be faster.
Now, Zhao Hai had ten millstones and twenty rollers in his hands. The quantity of these things wasn't a lot, and the processing capacity was limited. In the end, Zhao Hai could only let all the male slaves help make the rollers and millstones. The rest of the processing work was handed over to the undead to complete.
Because of these things, Zhao Hai didn't have time to go to the Ica plains to see the results. Right now, he didn't have a lot of people in his hands. Iron Mountain Fort and Stony Mountain needed to be protected. In the end, Zhao Hai had to call back half of the hundred undead warriors. Zhao Jia and the others were also guarding Stony Mountain. The undead mercenaries were also transferred back to Iron Mountain Fort to work.
For this reason, Zhao Hai specifically contacted Drunk in the Carrion Swamp. He wanted to see how Drunk was doing there.
Drunk's report was very good. It turned out that the Carrion Swamp wasn't just a swamp. There were also some places that looked like islands. There were trees growing in those places, and there were also some magic beasts living there. It looked like a small island in the sea.
Drunk had already occupied one of the islands and used it as a base. They were going around catching some low level magic beasts and looking for some plant seeds.
However, Drunk had already gone a few hundred miles deep into the swamp. The road was difficult to traverse, so they were preparing to collect some things and send them back.
Zhao Hai didn't urge Drunk. Compared to the Purcell clan, the Carrion Swamp was a bigger threat. After all, it was impossible for the Purcell clan to stay in the Black Wasteland for a long time. Even if they really came to kill Zhao Hai, Zhao Hai only needed to hide in the space for a while and they would withdraw. But the Carrion Swamp was different.
The Carrion Swamp was too close to the Black Wasteland. If they wanted to use the Black Wasteland as a base, then the Carrion Swamp must be solved.
It was because of this idea that Zhao Hai didn't let Drunk come back even though he was short on manpower. No matter what, the Carrion Swamp was his top priority.