Chapter 260: Pest Control 2 (I)
But whether it is enough or not, this is their only chance, more bugs will pour out of the earth, they will spread in the wasteland in order to survive, even if the cold may kill most of them, but as long as there are still those who survive, it will be a great disaster, Tchaikov's ancestors spent two generations to destroy these bugs. And the earlier ancestors, the Loulan royal family who came here, were almost wiped out by these insects!
Pandey couldn't take care of it anymore, and he rushed into the thicker pile of worms, heading towards the hole, enraged by the life-threatening insects, who rubbed their vestigial wings with a threatening "click" sound, and the tail lit up with various colors of light to scare off the behemoths that rushed towards him.
But how could Pandey be so easily intimidated? The bugs jumped up and climbed onto the hood and windshield, all swept down by Pandey with a windshield wiper.
"Listen to me...... Open the oil drum! Pandey shouted that the members on the roof of the car had had enough of it, and they wanted to end it sooner, so they unscrewed the oil drum, and the tiger circled around the edge of the hole, pouring oil on the ground, and the pungent oil made the bugs very uncomfortable, and they all moved away from the hole, and the bugs that did not gush out of the hole quickly retreated.
"Throw the oil drum in!" Pandey stopped at the edge of the hole, and the two team members untied the oil drum and pushed the oil drum that was still leaking into the hole.
"Cigar ...... My favorite! Pandey didn't know when, he took out a crumpled cigar from his pocket, took out another box of matches, opened the window, looked at the bugs with contempt, struck the match, took a deep puff of the cigar, stretched the burning match out of the window, and as soon as he let go, the ground "boomed" and a raging fire ignited.
"Pandey!" The people in the car shouted in horror. Is this the rhythm to be roasted with bugs?
"Ahh Don't be nervous......" Pandey slammed the throttle as he sipped his cigar in his mouth, and the Tiger burst into flames.
Alexey was secretly worried when he saw that Pandy had lit the fire without withdrawing.
However, the quality of the Tiger Style is worthy of its reputation, Pandey's Tiger Style successfully broke out of the fire, and the rest of the people saw that he was out of danger, and they didn't care so much, so they hurriedly drove to a safe place to observe first.
Alexei could see the hole and the surrounding fire through the binoculars, and it was clear that the bugs would not be able to crawl out of the hole for a short time.
"Pandey, you really scared me to death!" Anyway, this is a stage victory, Alexei put down the binoculars and said to Pandey.
"Huh? Don't you think I'm handsome at burning these bugs? Pandey said smugly.
"I remember you don't smoke!" Alexei suddenly thought.
"I only smoke it when I'm saving the world, and I've been sitting on this cigar for a long time." Pandey took a hard puff of his cigar, but Pandey, who didn't smoke often, choked on the cigar and coughed, finally stopped coughing, handed the cigar to Alex, and said, "Come, you can also try to save the world!" ”
"What's next?" Alexei took the cigar, took a puff, and asked.
"What's next? I don't know! Pandey was stunned for a moment, he never thought about what happened next.
Alexai smiled bitterly, then he had to wait for Tchaikov to arrive.
The fire ignited by the oil drums was extinguished after two hours, but the entrance to the cave was burned in such a way that many of the insects crowded in the cave were charred, and no more insects poured out for the time being, and those that reached the ground also scattered in groups in order to survive and disappeared into the cold wasteland.
In the second half of the night, when Tchaikov arrived at the Vetche River on the Mi-171, there were only a few drill rigs and a mess left on the Vulchiga River, and there was no one left on the wasteland except for Pandey and others who were waiting......
"What about people? Where have all the people gone? Tchaikov jumped out of the plane and asked.
Pandey shrugged, there was chaos just now, who knows where the thousands of people had fled.
"We burned the hole with oil drums and sealed it temporarily, but we don't know where the bugs that came out of it." Alexey said.
"These people! They never listened to my words carefully for the sake of diamonds! Tchaikov cursed, but he had to settle the matter.
The vitality of these bugs is not too tenacious in the bitter cold, and Tchaikov is sure that most of these bugs will freeze to death before the start of spring as long as there is a lack of food, but many will survive the bitter cold. They are terrifying like marching ants in the jungle, moving in swarms, leaving no living creatures wherever they go, and if some of them survive until the beginning of spring, these insects can devour anything......
The only thing that comforted Tchaikov was that they didn't find a precise passage, and old Tchaicher and old Tchaikov blocked many of these passages underground in order to get the diamonds, so that these devours could be kept underground, but these greedy natives actually made hundreds of years of hard work come to naught overnight!
"Sasha, I need a lot of cement, concrete, building materials, explosives...... The hole must be plugged up, not a single crevice can be left for the devourers, and if they come to the surface in the spring, it's all over! Tchaikov answered the phone of Sasha, who was in charge of dispatch in the rear, and said.
"Cement? Concrete? Tchaikov, it's winter at minus 40°, and the concrete will freeze immediately! Sasha reminded.
"Whatever it is, asphalt, plaster, anything that can plug up gaps and holes, there's always something like that in the world, right?" Tchaikov was very irritable, and for the first time he became angry with Saza, "I want it immediately, right away!" ”
"Well, Tchaikov, you don't have to worry, I'll figure it out right away." Sasha said.
"We can't rest yet, I need to seal this hole forever so that those devourers can't come to the surface!" Tchaikov irritably dropped the phone and yelled at everyone.
Pandey's vodka had already run out during the insect eradication, but he took a bottle from Tchaikov's pocket at this time, poured it and shouted: "Then keep burning these bugs, haha!" ”
"Check every crevice, and leave no gaps," Tchaikov ordered, "and pour oil into the hole, and leave no aftermath!" ”
In order to escape the cold, the insects disappeared into the wasteland to find a place to hide, some of the less resistant, they were frozen in the wasteland without running too far, some insects got into the stone crevices, caves, huddled together to resist the cold, no one knew how much would be left after the beginning of spring, Tchaikov ordered that as long as there was a bug, whether it was dead or alive, it should be destroyed.
Without the interference of insects, the work efficiency was much higher, Alexei and the others poured more than a dozen barrels of oil into the extinguished hole in one breath, and set it on fire again, and the rest of the team also made a few flamethrowers improvised, and as long as they found traces of insects in the wasteland, they burned them with flamethrowers mercilessly.
But the aborigines have dug the ground so badly that who knows if there will be any passages for bugs to pass through, and who can guarantee what will happen when the permafrost melts in the middle of spring? Tchaikov had to re-repair the battered ground to ensure that there were not a single hole or crevice.
According to Tchaikov the Elder, although the eaters are extremely vicious, their digging ability is very average, and the frozen soil is like a natural barrier that prevents the eaters from gushing out of the ground, but as long as they find a passage, the eaters will destroy all living things they encounter for food.
However, Tchaikov is not without any chance now, although the cold is not suitable for construction, but it has also caused a lot of trouble to the insects, there is no food supplement, most of the insects can not survive the spring, but after the beginning of spring, if the insects get enough food, they will multiply in large numbers, the old Tchaikov after returning the 'Red Dragon's Heart', he accidentally destroyed an exit, so that the insects came to the ground, he has been getting rid of insects all his life, but the insects disappeared from the ground is 10 years after his son took over the inheritance!
There must be no more devours on the ground, Tchaikov has a headache, he has foreseen that he will become an exterminator for the rest of his life!
Sasha worked hard to gather all the materials that could be used for construction in the bitter cold in the rear, and in order to transport the materials to the Volchiga River as quickly as possible, he spared no expense to hire transport planes and helicopters, and one of the first to transport construction materials was to fly here at midnight the next day, when the oil was still burning in order to seal the largest hole.
"It's as simple as saving the world...... Pandey saw the first tank of asphalt poured into the hole, and at this rate, it wouldn't take three days for them to seal the hole tightly with asphalt and concrete, and with the severe cold, by the beginning of spring next year, even those devours with nuclear weapons would not be able to open the place.
"Pandey, things have just begun," Tchaikov said with a worried voice, "inspect every excavated place, every place, as long as there are holes and crevices, must be sealed, and we must be foolproof before the end of winter, and then there will be an endless struggle." ”
"Well, what the hell is a bug eater? How did he get involved with Loulan? Pandey asked, now is the opportunity to ask Tchaikov personally.