Just as Lu Tian passed through the checkpoint and rushed to U County, an emergency meeting was also being held in this county seat.

The door of the conference room was tightly closed, and the inside was full of smoke, and the floor was full of half-smoked cigarette butts, and even if the air conditioner kept ventilating, it could not stop so many people from smoking wildly.

There were papers scattered on the table, and seven people could be seen sitting in chairs, and through the smoke, everyone frowning, as if something was difficult.

"Head Liu, is there really no better way?"

A slightly chubby middle-aged man, with a small belly, neatly combed short hair stained with a lot of soot at the moment, frowning brows seemed to be able to put down a blade, opened his mouth to break the silence for a while, and asked helplessly.

He is Yi Jie, the county magistrate of U County, and he has been worried about this rat plague since half a month ago, and he feels that his hair has turned a lot gray, and it has not been solved until now, let alone that the situation will become more and more serious.

He didn't know how many times he had asked this question in the past three days, and he always had a little hope, but he never got a satisfactory answer every time.

Half a month ago, there was a large number of rats biting crops in the county, and a week ago it began to deteriorate, and the phenomenon of biting began to appear, and three days ago it was really impossible to resist, so it sought help from the army, but the situation has not been brought under control until now.

"County Magistrate Yi, the rats are reproducing too fast, and the best way now is to transfer the masses first to avoid greater casualties."

Regiment Commander Liu, formerly known as Liu Zhengshan, is a middle-aged strong man in military uniform, he is the head of a certain regiment of the Southern Military Region, this time he received an urgent order from his superiors and was sent over to deal with the rat plague, but the number of rats is increasing, even if they can't blow it up with explosives, and now they are facing a new round of breeding period, in order to avoid the rat outbreak causing casualties again, he can only let some local people retreat farther.

"Head Liu, it's not that I don't want to evacuate, but there are too many people, there are a large number of rat colonies in 28 of the 37 towns in the entire county, and there are 800,000 people who need to retreat immediately, it is difficult to settle down in a short time, and there will be obstacles in this, after all, there are some people who are definitely unwilling to leave, and it is difficult for us to carry out our work."

Yi Jie poured out his bitter water, and his brows furrowed even deeper.

Liu Zhengshan on the other side is not good at what to say, after all, each has its own difficulties.

Sitting next to him was the county party committee, the secretary Xiao was tall and thin, with long hair, throwing the cigarette butt that was about to finish smoking on the ground and stepping on it vigorously, as if it was a damn rat outside.

He had a black eye and didn't sleep well like the rest of the room, and took a sip of tea to moisten his somewhat shriveled throat.

"Why don't we increase the amount of poisoning to control the rat population, so that I have more time to evacuate."

"Secretary Xiao, this effect is getting smaller and smaller, those rats are very shrewd."

Another deputy county magistrate spoke, he was presiding over the operation, and more than 100 kinds of poisons were used in half a month, but they generally poisoned a batch, and the rest of the rats would not be fooled, as if the rats passed on the message before they died, and the later rats would not eat a little bit even if they encountered food mixed with poisons.

But fortunately, there are many kinds of pesticides and other chemical drugs, and at the same time, every poison is spread throughout the county, which will always poison a considerable number of rats, which can be regarded as playing a big role.

The information of the rat plague was revealed three days ago that it could not be concealed, and their battle with rats has lasted for more than half a month, not only poison has been used in the past half a month, but also explosives have been used to kill rats, and some old methods have been used: fire and flooding, and even artificial killing, but these rats are too tenacious in their lives, and the reproduction rate is fast, and a new generation is born every day, so in this environment, the number is still growing geometrically.

"Can you use missiles, kill these damn rats all at once, it's more troublesome."

Another deputy secretary expressed his opinion, he had the most cigarette butts under his feet, showing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and he was a veteran smoker.

Hearing the words of the yellow-toothed old smoker, Liu Zhengshan shook his head, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it, explaining.

"You don't understand the situation, the use of missiles is not just a matter of use, this needs to take into account the impact of many aspects, and it will definitely not be realized immediately."

Commander Liu threw the documents in his hand on the table and continued: "The consequences of using missiles are too serious, almost destroying the entire landscape and vegetation of U County, and even some infrastructure will be destroyed, will those people agree that their houses will be blown up?"

"And according to my estimates, even if it can be used in the end, it may not necessarily solve the problem, because when the missile bombards the ground, the rat can hide underground, as long as the speed is fast enough, there will definitely be a part of it that will survive, and it will not solve the problem at all, and there will still be such a situation after a while, and then there will be no missiles again, and missiles are also bought with money, and every ammunition is a bundle of money, this kind of burning money will not solve the problem, I don't agree with it."

As soon as Liu Zhengshan said this, the county magistrate Yi Jie's emaciated face became even more sad, he was a local, he didn't want his hometown to be destroyed by rats, and he didn't want his fellow villagers to leave their hometown.

Now if you want to solve this problem properly, you have to do it first, and you have to look at this document.

Liu Zhengshan handed the information he had just obtained to the county magistrate, and the other six people also looked at each other slowly, and they all fell into deep thought.

"This is the information I just got, through a few days of observation and speculation, the people on our side have come to this conclusion, that is, there is a leader among the rats in the entire county, that is, the rat king, and its intelligence is quite high, and it can command the actions of the entire clan."

Head Liu just finished speaking,

With a snap, the somewhat rough hand of the county magistrate on the opposite side slapped on the table, and suddenly realized.

"No wonder in the past half a month, I have never seen these rats planted on the same trap twice, and it looks very organized, I have always been a little strange, it turns out that there is a rat king."

"Yes, this rat king should have a special way to transmit information to the rat colony in the entire county, which is why these rats are so aggressive and organized, and it is difficult to hunt them in a large area."

Liu Zhengshan said the speculation in the information.

"If you kill this rat king, won't it be better to get rid of these rats?"

Xiao Changfa touched his short beard and asked the question that the rest of the people wanted to ask.

"That's right, destroy this rat king, this group of rats will become a mass of loose sand without the command of the leader. At that time, even if these rats were stronger than before, if they couldn't gather together and give full play to their numerical advantage, it would not be a great threat to us, and we could basically solve the problem this time. ”

Liu Zhengshan re-lit a cigarette and swallowed it gently, without expression.

"But the problem now is how to find this rat king among tens of millions of rats, and still kill it under the protection of many rats, this is the real difficulty."

"Yes, there are so many rats, and they look very similar, how can we find this rat king among the many rats, if it hides deep underground, then we can't find it at all."

Xiao Changfa twisted the cigarette ash and responded to Captain Liu's words.

Everyone leaning on the chair smiled bitterly in their hearts, and went around in a circle, but in the end there was no way to solve it.

Is it really necessary for the whole people to move?

"Squeak~"

The door to the confined conference room was opened from the outside, attracting everyone's ideas.