Chapter 92: Locust Mutation
Guo Feng's words made everyone turn their eyes to Lin Yue, who had been silent in the corner. Whether it was Lin Zhuang at that time or Lingquan Villa later, she didn't take the lead in anything, but she was indeed the uncrowned king in everyone's hearts.
She is the only one who is the Dinghai Divine Needle of Lin Zhuang, the foundation of Lingquan Villa, and many times a sentence can determine the direction of the future.
"Hmmm! I'll go meet them! I've always felt that things should be more than just food shortages. Cao An, do you think a grain base will be so miserable that it will run out of food? Although they are numerous, their average cultivated area is higher than ours, so how can they reach the point of running out of food? ”
"Huh?"
"Isn't it! So aren't we worried in vain? It's a shame that we're nervously giving them advice here, which doesn't fool people! ”
Lin Yipai's small cannon exploded at a moment's notice, and when he stood up angrily, he was about to rush out of the door, ready to find them to theorize!
Girl, are you so confident in your sister? There is no unfounded conjecture, and you believe it as if it were a holy decree?
"Let's go together! What kind of charter it is, you have to understand it well! ”
Cao An gave them a temporary residence in a charcoal-burning cave. Although it is a cave, the weather does not feel damp and gloomy, just a little stuffy.
When Lin Zhuang and his party arrived, the soldiers were cooking sweet potato soup around the fire. The red flames licked and kissed the bottom of the pitch-black pot, the wood burned and crackled, and from time to time a faint green smoke came out, making the cave foggy.
It has been boiling for a while, and at this time I can smell the sweet taste of sweet potatoes, and I can hook a group of rough men like kindergarten children, obediently sitting in line to divide the fruits.
After Cao An briefly introduced the two sides, he went to the main topic to explain the meaning. Captain Wang hurriedly stood up and said with a flushed face:
"Comrade Cao An, I'm sorry! Head Xu has explained, and there are some things that must be explained by Ms. Lin in person! ”
Good for you, Captain Xu! I respect you as the boss, you guard against me like a villain, what does this mean, be careful that I break off my friendship with you!
Cao An complained wildly in his heart, his face was white and red for a while, and the color palette was generally not exciting. Let everyone cover their mouths and snicker, seeking to solve the shadow area in his heart. Even Lin Yue couldn't help but laugh at her husband: "I'm sorry! Comrade Cao An! Hahaha......"
"Alright! How old are the people, and they are still rough and indisputable! Captain Wang, now that my daughter is here, you can just say anything you want! If there's a secret that we need to avoid, we can all cooperate. ”
"No, no, Uncle Lin! That's the case, Yancheng has always been self-sufficient in food, and there has not been a big shortage in these years. However, at the end of spring this year, just as we were organizing the digging of sweet potatoes, we found a small wave of locusts coming......"
"Oops! You are still soldiers, what is there to be afraid of locusts, if you catch them, you will eat them! The fried barbecue and dry roasting are delicious, the bite is crunchy, the meat is tender and fragrant, nutritious and delicious. This is a good thing, a big meal picked up for nothing, what's the matter, you still dislike it? ”
"Xiaoyi, shut up! Captain Wang, you go on! ”
For the mouth of this little daughter in his family, Dad Lin was powerless to complain. She doesn't know who her temper is, and the older she gets, the hotter she becomes. Patience often falls below the cordon, and it doesn't matter if she chatters at ordinary times, but it's the same when she talks about business, which makes Dad Lin can't help but scold her in a low voice.
"It's okay, that's what we thought at the time! Locusts are a good thing, how can there be a reason not to catch them. Have you ever seen a locust the size of a finger? It's the size of my thumb, it's round and chubby, and it makes people have an appetite when they look at it. At that time, everyone was very happy, and the adults and children took out eighteen kinds of weapons, and soon caught the small wave of locust swarms cleanly, and not a single fish that slipped through the net did not fall. But who would have thought that something would happen that night......"
Wang Yihang recalled the tragedy at that time, and couldn't help but redden. He still remembers that his stomach was burning and aching, and his skin was covered with dense blisters, itching and painful, making people want to die, and even the seven-foot man couldn't help but wail and moan!
For days on end, the sound of cries echoed over the base, and the air was filled with a sense of sadness......
"What the hell is going on? You're ......."
"Captain, let's talk about it!"
A soldier took the initiative to take over the topic, he was the lucky one at the time, who happened to be on duty at the time, neither catching locusts nor eating locusts, and even more fortunately, no relatives left in that accident.
"Locusts are poisonous! Until now, I haven't found out what exactly caused the non-poisonous locusts to mutate! Anyway, the people who caught locusts at that time festered all the exposed skin. Those who have eaten locusts are even more miserable, vomiting and diarrhea, dying of pain, and many people are tossed ...... Didn't make it! ”
"Oh my God! How can locusts be poisonous, you can't be mistaken, right? There's a kind of ......"
"What about the casualties?"
Lin Yue interrupted Sangu's words, she didn't think that more than 100,000 people in the entire base mistook the strange insects for locusts. There must be something strange in this. Look at the black fish monster in the water, and then think of the half-spirit beast in the space that was eaten up and only had skin and bones left, at this time, the locust mutated, and it was not strange, both unexpected and expected! The main thing is to figure out how lethal the mutated locusts are.
"There were 130,000 injured people, there was a lack of medicine, and most of them recovered on their own after half a month. However, 7,564 compatriots have closed their eyes forever. Among them, the elderly over 60 years old accounted for the majority, and 3,605 walked. Of the 2,037 children under the age of 12, the rest are all women who have given birth. The single woman and the young man all stood up, and not even a single scar was left behind! ”
Captain Wang took this statistic to heart, because his mother was one of them. He had already tasted the pain of losing a loved one, and it was too painful to hear his mother lying in bed, moaning in pain day and night. He didn't want to let others repeat the same mistakes.
"Ahh It's horrible! The ice plague didn't break so many people, this locust ...... Locusts can fly when they have wings, so they won't come to our forest! ”
"The locust thing, even if it becomes poisonous, its general habits should not change, after eating one piece, it will pounce on another piece, it will come this year, and it will definitely come next year!"
"That's it! Now there are barren mountains and mountains outside, and there is not even a patch of green vegetation. We don't need to ask, the locusts will definitely come! Let's go back and say hello, and get ready! ”
"You can't touch it, you can't eat it, like a hedgehog that pierces people, how can we prepare?"
"Are you not going to sit here and wait to die? When they have eaten all the leaves on the mountain, if they are hungry and eat meat instead, where are we going to hide? ”
Lin Zhuang is a family, and a large group of people are from mud legs, and they have not discussed any good way to come out. Cao An first looked at his wife as if asking for help, and then at his brother-in-law, who was usually very reliable. Seeing that his face sank like water, he was silent, and couldn't help but cast the last trace of expectation on the person who came:
"Captain Wang, have you found a way to deal with the locusts?"