Under the guidance of Jessica, a botanical expert, Rudolph came to the Sir's farm.
It is now May, the month of Taurus, and the wheat in the wheat field has grown to knee height.
But what is painful is that the wheat leaves are drooping under the weight.
Rudolph turned over a leaf and found a group of strange black aphids behind the leaf.
The stalks and leaves of these wheat are all covered with black spots, which are necrotic spots left after the aphids suck.
Rudolph looked at the wheat field, which was sure to have no harvest, and felt a little desperate. The wheat field was vast and endless, but the leaves were drooping on one side, with dots of black spots.
The knight's butler said on the side:
"Mr. Patrolman, I have written to Mayor Faqinan and Sheriff Claude. We did not deliberately raise the price of grain.
Of course, it is not ruled out that other farms do this, but none of our knight's five farms have and will never do so.
You can see that this year's grain will definitely be affected, and even no grain can be harvested.
In order to cope with this situation, the speed of grain delivery from the granary has slowed down, so the price has increased, and there is nothing we can do about it.
Sir Jennifer and Ms. Jessica both mean to solve the pests first, and even prepare for the harvest of grain next year."
"Is the situation so serious..." Rudolph sighed:
"The outlying farms have been unable to maintain normal operations under the threat of werewolf riots. Unexpectedly, the farms around the town have encountered pests again.
If this continues, people will starve to death..."
The butler said puzzledly: "It shouldn't be a case of starvation. There should be at least 6 months of grain in the granaries throughout the town."
"I've heard of a saying..." Rudolph said:
"When the grain is short of one-tenth, the price should not be increased by one-tenth, but should be increased until one-tenth of the people can no longer afford it. One-tenth of the people will starve or even die."
The housekeeper also felt that this matter was very serious, but they still had a lot of grain in the Jazz Castle, so it was not the most urgent thing, as they still had more than a year's worth of inventory.
In the farmland, there were still farmers cleaning the insects from the wheat seedlings one by one, but this efficiency was too low. The
wheat seedlings that were cleaned today would be covered with black aphids again tomorrow, and the reproduction capacity of aphids was much faster than the cleaning speed of people.
Seeing that Rudolph's eyes were on those farmers, the housekeeper explained:
"Those farmers signed a subcontract with the Jazz Castle. They grow food for us. They can get about 40% of the food, and the rest is handed over to the Jazz Castle."
Rudolph shook his head. What a poor farmer.
He turned to Jessica: "Ms. Jessica, is there any good solution now?"
Jessica pushed her glasses and said:
"I am preparing insecticide, and I hope to see results next week.
This black aphid is rare. The general aphids are green or yellow. This black aphid has stronger vitality. I can't guarantee that the insecticide will be absolutely effective."
Rudolph asked the housekeeper to help bring a bottle. He took some samples from the back of a leaf.
Seeing Rudolph's behavior, Jessica asked in confusion: "Does Patrolman Rudolph also study insects?"
"Insects? No research, no research." Rudolph said: "It just so happens that there is a person in the police station now. With him, it is easy to find where these insects come from."
Rudolph didn't want to contact Kevin, but the impact of this incident was too great, so he had to ask Kevin for help.
The housekeeper looked at Rudolph and Yvonne with a sad face as they left, wondering if the police station could provide any substantial help.
Ms. Jessica looked at Rudolph's back with interest.
After Rudolph returned to the police station, he asked Yvonne to leave first, and then went to wait for the spirit Kevin alone.
Ichabod and Kevin were tracking down the werewolf, and Rudolph waited for Kevin for two days.
"Mr. Kevin, do you mind working overtime?"
"Yes."
"Since you don't mind, thank you for your hard work."
"I said I mind!"
"You said you don't mind at all? That's really troublesome."
Rudolph handed the bottle of black aphids to Kevin:
"Don't worry! I have asked the sheriff to write the approval form. There is a workload, which is calculated as performance. I won't let you work for nothing."
Ichabod took a look at the glass bottle, which contained black aphids, and said nothing more.
It is very common for the witch hunters of the Cooperation Bureau to cooperate with the police department to do some things, especially when there is a signature from the sheriff, he also has to work overtime.
"Mr. Kevin, this kind of black aphids have appeared in the farms around Leman Town. If they are not controlled, there will be no harvest this fall.
So, I hope Mr. Kevin can use your ability to find out where these black aphids come from."
Kevin shook the bottle and found that the aphids in the bottle were suffocated. He said:
"Then it's better to find some live insects for divination. The effect of dead insects is not as good as that of living ones."
"Then let's go to the farm at night."
Late at night, Rudolph and Kevin came to Sir Jennifer's farm together. Sir's farm is the closest and largest farm.
After asking the butler to ensure that there was no one within a few hundred meters, Rudolf found a plate of live insects for Kevin.
Rudolf hid far away and let Kevin do the divination alone.
He looked around and was alert to his surroundings.
He wanted to take out the pet crystal, which would be more efficient.
But using a magic weapon in front of the Word Spirit is obviously a very risky behavior.
Rudolf was able to sense the changes in star power through the star map, and he knew that the Word Spirit's divination used star power. I don't know if the Word Spirit can also sense the changes in the surrounding star power.
In the sparse wheat field, Kevin took out the crystal ball, and a blue-white light appeared around him.
Soon, the light there brightened and dimmed.
After the divination, Rudolf walked towards Kevin.
At this time, Kevin frowned, and it seemed that the result was not good.
Rudolph couldn't help but ask, "What's going on?"
"The insect nest... another priest from the evil god's insect nest..."
"Another insect nest? Direction? Where can we find the priest of the insect nest?"
"That's the problem." Kevin replied, "Insect nest priests are everywhere, everywhere..."
Kevin thought for a while and said,
"Rudolph, Ichabod's and my official mission is to investigate the source of those werewolves.
The matter of the black aphids needs to be handled by your local police station.
But you must be careful, there are an abnormal number of these black aphids, and the number of insect nest priests is also very large, so many that it feels like a temple of the evil god's insect nest is in action, and all the low-level priests have been sent nearby."
Rudolph sighed, it was really a troublesome thing.
He could only comfort her:
"Kevin, Sheriff Claude said that the insect plague is not only in Leman Town, but also in other towns in Fabro City.
Leman Town is at least not the most special one, so it shouldn't be that scary."
Just as the two of them were walking out of the farm, they saw a lady walking towards the farm with a kerosene lamp.