At the thought of returning to the bland days of grilling dragon meat on an iron plate for quite some time, Xingyan felt a little heavy-hearted.
The locusts filling the sky seemed to have come from farther north. That meant the north had been hit too; he just didn't know how far the disaster had spread.
On Earth, a typical large desert locust swarm could cover 2,400 square kilometers, the equivalent of 340,000 soccer fields. Each day, it could eat enough food to feed 3.5 million people for a day. Once they swarmed, the locusts also abandoned their usual plant-only diet, eating even meat and soft plastic.
Considering the size of the New World, 2,400 square kilometers was naturally a small area. But the locusts here weren't like the ones on Earth. They were bigger, flew faster, and had greater vitality and reproductive capacity. Their bodies were also strengthened by Life Energy.
That meant they ate more and could cover a larger area, though Xingyan had no idea exactly how large. All he knew was that the locusts were moving across the Great Sand Sea like a gigantic blot, destroying the ecosystem at the lowest level wherever they went.
He followed the familiar route toward the nearby Flower Field Marshland Area. Just as he'd expected, the once-beautiful fields of pale purple flowers and aquatic plants were a thing of the past. The clear water had been swallowed up by countless locusts.
The drowned locusts had piled up beneath the water. Unable to float to the surface in time, they'd been trampled and suffocated by their own kind. There were so many that even the current couldn't wash them away, making the Flower Field Marshland Area seem like a solid stretch of land.
It was a scene straight out of a