The other side of the globe.

Far away in South America.

The vast Brazilian plateau, the plain of La Plata.

AMD, Bunge, and Cargill in ABCD have joined forces to invest $3 billion in research funds, and finally selected more than a dozen varieties with better disease resistance from some wild soybean varieties, and transgenic these varieties.

With the arrival of spring in the southern hemisphere, it is time to sow soybeans.

These genetically modified varieties, previously tested on a small scale in North America, are very effective against bean mold.

Therefore, ABCD can't wait to promote planting in the Brazilian Altiplano and the Great Plain of La Plata, of which the Brazilian Plateau is planted at the beginning of September, and the Great Plain of La Plata is planted at the end of September.

After more than a month of growth, the soybean seedlings in the Brazilian highlands are growing very well.

Bergman, the manager of AMD in charge of South American operations, took more than a dozen subordinates to the soybean field to inspect it in person.

Bergman opened a few bean seedlings, looked at the leaves, and found that there were no spots, so he was relieved.

Anthony, an expert in genetically modified agriculture, said with a smile: "Mr. Manager, you have to believe in our technology, there will definitely be no problem this time." ”

Bergman was noncommittal, seemingly not wanting to plant the flag, but continued to bury his head in checking the growth of the bean seedlings.

Suddenly, a brown bug jumped on his shoulder.

Hey? Bergman subconsciously caught the bug.

It was a brown locust, his face changed, and he quickly asked, "Hook!" What is the scale of the locusts here? ”

Hook, who is in charge of the surrounding 500,000 acres of soybean fields, was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "I have not received any reports from workers that there are locusts. ”

Bergman roared angrily, "Falk squid! Hurry up and send it to investigate. ”

“OK！ OK！ Hook hurriedly picked up his mobile phone, called his subordinates, and sent people around to check on the locusts.

……

The other side.

The clover oak is located in a secret stronghold in the Brazilian highlands.

Fendi Fernando, the head of the South America region of the Field Support Department, is playing with a locust.

Providing pheromone inducements, he easily controls locusts.

"It has been reported that 37 pheromone control stations have released locust reproduction pheromones."

Hearing this, Fendi Fernando's eyes narrowed, and he instantly pinched the locust: "Hehe, ABCD this time Lao Tzu is going to pinch you to death." ”

Throw the locust into the auxiliary digestive sac behind it.

The South American branch of the Department of Field Support is arguably on the most dangerous frontline, fighting the black ships and the doglegs of America almost every day.

Therefore, the members of the Field Support Department here are equipped with various auxiliary equipment, such as auxiliary digestive sacs, which allows the agents of the Field Support Department to live by eating grass and insects in the tropical rainforest.

After suffering so much, Fendi Fernando has long wanted to do a big job.

Since it has already been written about bean mold before, the Field Support Department will naturally not use the same method and do it again.

If you continue to use bean mold to do things, no matter how sluggish America is, she will also notice the problem.

Therefore, Fendi Fernando and a group of executives of the South American branch, after research and discussion, developed another inconspicuous and very efficient method - locusts.

Since last year, Fendi has secretly laid out pheromone induction to allow locusts to lay a large number of eggs in the mountains and wastelands around the agricultural area, which are hidden underground.

Now it's finally time for these eggs to hatch.

37 pheromone induction stations are activated synchronously, releasing special pheromones in all directions.

In South America in October, the temperature and humidity of the air are suitable for the growth of locusts, and as soon as they are induced by pheromones, they suddenly hide in the soil, and hundreds of millions of eggs begin to hatch.

Almost at the same time, the eggs hatched.

The overwhelming locusts quickly slaughtered the juicy corn and soybean fields.

……

Bergman, who was still in the field, looked at the more and more locusts around him, and his face turned black.

And Hook on the side was even more anxious and kept calling.

Dr. Brownie, a biological control expert, is also frowning:

"Mr. Manager, according to this scale, there are at least hundreds of millions of locusts in the surrounding area, and they must be killed as soon as possible, otherwise the soybean seedlings here will be eaten cleanly, and the reproduction rate of these locusts is very fast."

However, before Bergman could speak, his phone rang, and he glanced at the number: "Hey, Jamie, what's the matter?" ”

A hurried voice immediately came from the other side of the phone: "Mr. Manager, locust plague!" Widespread locust plague in Bahia. ”

"What? Is there a plague of locusts over there? ”

"Also? Manager: Is there a locust plague elsewhere? ”

"I'm in the state of São Paulo, where there's a massive locust outbreak, and we're using pesticide planes to spray insecticides."

"I've arranged it, but the locusts are very large, I'm afraid ......."

The two communicated for a few minutes, and after hanging up the phone, another call came.

Within half an hour, Bergman received seven phone calls, all from farm managers in the Brazilian Altiplano.

And the content of the report is highly consistent, and it is all about the locust plague.

……

A pesticide plane sped slowly past at low altitude, spraying large swaths of insecticide along the way.

However, the field support agents hidden in the surrounding mountains and forests are regulating pheromones to allow the locusts to quickly avoid pesticide planes and reduce the number of insecticides killed.

At the same time, another agent controls a part of the locusts, hiding in the wilderness of the mountains and forests, and instead of attacking agricultural areas, they desperately eat and lay eggs.

After all, the ABCD is not stupid, they will definitely spray insecticides on a large scale to suppress the spread of locusts.

At this time, the part of locusts hidden in the mountains, forests and wilderness is needed as a Zerg barracks to continuously produce new locusts.

Sure enough, over time, ABCD's local branch quickly sprayed insecticides on a large scale, which greatly suppressed the spread and destruction of locusts.

However, behind this human-insect war, Homo sapiens provided tactical guidance to the locusts behind the scenes.

Many locusts do not congregate in agricultural areas at all, but cover all areas, including cities, residential areas, mountain forests, wilderness, wetlands, etc.

This has caused serious problems for ABCD's insecticide campaign, after all, insecticides can be sprayed at will on farmland, but insecticides cannot be sprayed at will in residential areas and forests.

So there is a very fatal situation.

When the ABCD sprayed with insecticide, the number of locusts in the agricultural areas dropped rapidly in the first day or two, but soon the locusts in the surrounding areas were replenished.

What's even more frightening is that some locusts are beginning to develop resistance, and the effectiveness of low-toxicity insecticides is getting worse and worse.

Bergman's branch building in Brasilia watched the locusts quacking across the Brazilian highlands every day, and he was on the verge of collapse.

The loss reports have cast a shadow on the hearts of all the people in the South American branch.

Just as Bergman was discussing with the headquarters how to solve the problem of the locust plague in South America.

His secretary hurriedly pushed open the office door.

"Huhu...... Mr. Manager, urgent report from La Plata. ”

Bergman's eyes widened: "Where have the locusts spilled over?" ”

The secretary's face was a little palpitating: "Yes, and the scale is very large, the La Plata branch has made every effort to organize the pesticide aircraft to be killed, but the effect is very poor." ”

"Damn it!" Bergman sat down, staring blankly at the map of South America on the wall.

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