Chapter 525: Quiet and Peaceful
As Qin Xiaoxia surveyed his surroundings, he realized this was more than a simple sighting of Earth locusts. They had very likely reached plague proportions.
As the Dawn Sage, he had many things to keep track of. He understood some fields in great detail, while others he knew only in broad strokes.
So although Qin Xiaoxia knew that most living creatures on Earth were evolving and mutating, he had no idea how far the locusts had progressed. Compared with everything else, little locusts were nowhere near the top of his priorities. Scientists would probably have been more interested.
But however he looked at it, these locusts were certainly no longer the kind he remembered, whether judging by theory or by the shells in this caravan guard's hands.
The largest shells shed by these young locusts were over ten centimeters long. The adults would be at least that big.
And only two months in this world had passed since the Qinggelie Empire's so-called National Sacrifice, three months at most in Earth time. For their numbers to have grown enough to strip an entire stretch of woodland bare, their reproductive capacity was easy to imagine.
"Mr. Dokler, do you recognize what kind of insect these corpses belonged to?"
The captain of the caravan guards took a shell and found its translucent interior completely hollow, with a few strands of dried mucus inside and a conspicuous split along its back.
Most insects in this world did not change their body shape through metamorphosis. Even common wormlike creatures generally differed from those on Earth.
Although they also needed to shed their outer covering as they grew, the process was more like animals shedding flakes of skin, with intermittent growth and tiny fragments falling away, rather than growing to the