Chapter 132: Stomach Growling With Appetite
Jianghuai’s southern region is mountainous, northern region is plains, and it has always been a good place for agriculture.
But here, because the Yangtze River sometimes spawns demonic creatures, once it floods greatly, it’s prone to disaster, so a piece of land was cleared specifically for flood diversion, that is, the ‘River Flood Zone’.
In ancient times, the floods were even more severe; after modern governance, the scale has been reduced, but whether small or not has nothing to do with whether the Demon Realm generates.
Five years ago, the area of the River Flood Zone expanded threefold out of thin air, forming a Demon Realm. Demonic creatures spawned out of thin air from the land left after the flood, polluting all directions. The Military Region responded quickly, removing the polluted area, but it took two years to control the pollution.
This is also the normal time for stabilizing control of a Demon Realm.
This Demon Realm, from the moment it spawned, grew a large amount of crops, but these crops had the opposite effect, first sucking dry the earth’s vitality, creating barren soil. Only after the pollution stabilized in the Demon Realm did the situation improve.
It is different from the previous Demon Realm that Li Ye encountered; here, the demonic creatures are directly parasitic on the crops.
There are three in total: Wheat Borer Iron Yoke, Rice Weeping Old Woman, Millet Ghoul Child, that is, wheat, rice, millet. One Demon Realm, one field, growing three different crops.
You have to kill them to harvest normal high-quality crops; otherwise, they can’t be eaten at all.
Unlike Jinze City’s demonic creatures, these three demonic creatures have records, and Li Ye happened to have seen them, all from Jianghuai Province’s documents.
“Yingzhou Prefecture Annals · Disasters and Omens Volume” states: After the river flood recedes, wheat grows iron teeth, ears like shackles, striking them flows rouge blood.
“Huai Si Disaster Aversion Illustrations” records: Rice hangs red and exposed, at night hears old woman weeping, it’s drowned woman’s hair entwining the ears.
“Quanhe Town Jiao Monument” also says: Millet fields show shadows of starving children, stems bind grass effigies, infertile grains turn to needles, pricking feet swells like floating corpse.
These demonic creatures, according to the information, feature large quantities, with some in every crop, but solving them is also simple. The first restraining item is the sickle, as long as qi and blood can withstand the pollution.
In addition, burning with fire, beating with salt, both have the effect of exorcising demonic creatures.
So the realm requirement to enter is high, but its own danger level can only be considered a small Demon Realm.
Fan Tie said: “Your matter of going to the Demon Realm for experience has been approved, but finding a suitable one for you is not easy. The military has many, but your provincial department called, you know, not letting you leave Jianghuai Province, so we can only choose this.”
Li Ye finished reading the information and, hearing Fan Tie’s words, looked up with a smile: “This is making me go down to the fields to harvest winter crops. And for free.”
Fan Tie also laughed, “This is usually the job for those agricultural companies that bid and contract it. Even if you want to do it, you should do it after reaching top martial realm for tasks with points.”
“Or you communicate with the company? Anyway, you’re going in to eliminate demons, might as well earn some pocket money.”
“Forget it, I’m here to gain experience, test martial arts, and by the way eliminate some pollution. Whether the demonic creatures are left whole or not, I don’t know. I won’t use a sickle to harvest.” Li Ye laughed.
The information shows that only using a sickle, and it must be a sickle, can harvest the crops after solving the demonic creatures. Fire, salt, and such restraints will cause the crops to wither after killing the demonic creatures.
Li Ye is here to eat demons and swallow demonic creatures, not really to work the fields for people.
Hearing this, Fan Tie said helplessly: “You’re more enthusiastic than us.”
He doesn’t quite understand; the Disinfection Bureau dealing with demonic creatures is their duty, but it is indeed thankless work. Can’t always hope for magic treasures to drop. That probability is negligible.
Dealing with demonic creatures is time-consuming and laborious with no benefits; the military has a mission in this regard, but the Disinfection Bureau has none in the Demon Realm, so can only attribute it to the young man having aspirations.
The more he thought this way, the more pity he felt; such talent would be great in the troops.
Actually snatched by the Disinfection Bureau!
The helicopter paused here, starting to descend. Li Ye looked down through the transparent glass of the cabin door and saw from high altitude a huge mature farmland, area about half a city.
It seems regardless of season; even in winter, it looks already mature.
Around the farmland, there was also a circle of fenced barriers, separating a path and blocking it off.
Outside the fences, at every location, there was a military camp, forming nodes in twos and threes, deployed outside the fences.
The helicopter landed in one of the large camps.
There were already officers waiting there.
“Old Fan.”
The cabin door opened, the officer smiled and punched Fan Tie’s chest, “Coming empty-handed? Not bringing a gift to see me? You have the nerve?”
“What do you mean no gift, I brought a big one.”
Fan Tie also gave the officer a punch, then moved his hand toward Li Ye descending the cabin door, “Allow me to solemnly introduce, our Jianghuai Province Ningjiang City Disinfection Bureau Chief, formerly nicknamed ‘Dragon Tiger Vajra’, now nicknamed.”
“Chuang Wang!”
Before Fan Tie finished, the officer said in a deep voice: “I know, took down the Local Tiger and Local Tyrant of two cities in a row, Ningjiang City half dead, Jinze City all gone. How long has it been since the Disinfection Bureau had such a thing? Your Ningjiang City Disinfection Bureau is rampant to the heavens in this Jianghuai area.”
Saying this, he saluted Li Ye, then extended his hand:
“Yingcang City [River Flood Harvest Shade Zone] Monitoring Camp Station 5 Company Captain, Lieutenant Shi Tao.”
Li Ye shook his hand, “No need to be polite, I’m Li Ye.”
“These two days are just when our Jianghuai Dragon Martial University students come for internship tasks. Our battalion commander went on patrol, can’t get here now, so I’m in charge of reception.”
Shi Tao said: “Do you want to wait a bit, or.”
“Just go straight, I’m here to eliminate demons, no formalities.”
“Alright, I’ll take you to see.”
Shi Tao was straightforward, immediately walking forward. Five hundred meters ahead of this military camp was the enclosed fence; from inside the fence, one could see endless, thriving farmland crops.
Rice, wheat, millet three crops, amazingly mixed together.
If there were no demonic creatures, this would be a high-quality farmland zone.
“No monitoring here, pollution level too high. If realm is insufficient, even staring with eyes can’t endure; any lens footage taken will also be polluted, thereby growing crops.”
Shi Tao said while walking forward: “Our monitoring can only be from above down, surveilling this area outside the fence.”
He walked to a fence gate, pointing to the interval inside with the farmland at least a hundred meters away:
“This is the salt net. The other end inside has holes, periodically spraying salt mist, sprinkling on the ground to form a restriction, specifically to prevent these demonic creatures’ pollution from expanding.”
“And we periodically burn a wave to prevent accidents, though haven’t burned for a long time. An agricultural company won the bid the year before last, contracting the daily demonic creature removal work here.”
Shi Tao said: “Bureau Chief Li, do you want to try the sickle, or use the flamethrower?”
“I’ll use my hands!”
Li Ye grinned at him, stepped forward, opened the fence gate, and walked straight in.
This isn’t some forbidden zone or private territory; as long as realm is sufficient, the higher-ups wish for martial artists to come.
No matter what is obtained from inside, demonic creatures must always be cleared; clearing demonic creatures will dissipate the pollution. Over time, with pollution gone, this becomes a prime resource treasure land.
Li Ye now is accelerating this process.
As soon as he stepped in, his nose inhaled, the pollution from the farmland a hundred meters away was sucked into his nose by this inhale, making his eyes light up.
This time it wasn’t some ore smell; this taste was very rich wheat fragrance and rice fragrance, whetting his appetite.
Such a big place
Today, no matter what, he must break one limit!
Sorry, yesterday’s chapter might have had flawed thinking; next time for such domestic scenes, I’ll try not to write or touch less.
