Chapter 82: Dredging Begins
Others don't have 1602 reinforced doors and windows to protect against cockroaches.
Someone temporarily blocked the sewer with a rag, but it was bitten through after a while. In other cases, the windows shattered during the typhoon, and a steady stream of mutant cockroaches crawled into the rooms along the exterior walls.
That night, one after another screams resounded in the night sky.
The next day, Lin Wanqiao heard that several people had been bitten.
As she had guessed, these cockroaches, like the mutated rats in their previous lives, carried a large number of deadly germs.
The person who was bitten was only red, swollen and itchy at first, then the small wound had swollen to the size of a steamed bun, and after a few hours, the wound began to fester. Even rinsing with soapy water or applying anti-inflammatory ointment will not stop the trend from worsening.
Soon, symptoms of infection such as high fever and cough will appear, and in the later stage, the whole body will have muscle and joint pain, and the constitution will almost make it difficult to breathe directly.
At this time, the outside temperature has reached 56°C during the day.
Some people want to use rubber boats to send patients to the hospital, but in such temperatures, not to mention that people can't stand it, the rubber boat can't stand it, and the surface actually begins to show signs of melting.
It's just that in this way, those who are bitten can only suffer at home, waiting for the temperature to drop at night before going to the hospital.
However, after a day and a night's delay, the extreme heat accelerated the deterioration of the condition, and several people just walked into the hospital gate that night, and the next moment they were gone.
Even those who make it to the hospital are not treated effectively. Because the county hospital had also fallen at this time, many inpatients and even medical staff were bitten.
Thinking that Huang Bailin dragged them to take care of the elderly when he left, Shen Shaoyu and Lin Wanqiao took the remaining barbed wire at home early in the morning and went downstairs to help.
The walls on the floor in the corridor are densely crawled with cockroaches, and when they see people coming, they not only do not hide, but fly towards people, and their hard wings can bring gusts of wind when they flapp.
I didn't expect that in such a hot weather outside, these cockroaches were completely unaffected.
Lin Wanqiao was so frightened that she hurriedly took out two stainless steels from the space, one for each person, and slapped the oncoming cockroaches away.
From 1602 to 1502, no less than a hundred of them crackled to death like firecrackers.
Huang's father and Huang's mother patted the cockroaches all night, and they were exhausted at this time, and when they met Lin Wanqiao and others to help, they were naturally grateful.
The two used barbed wire to seal all the broken windows and left some cockroach medicine.
Huang's father and Huang's mother afterwards made a strong fortress chocolate to Lin Wanqiao to express their gratitude.
The neighbor on the opposite side saw Lin Wanqiao with barbed wire to help the Huang family solve the cockroach problem from the cat's eye, and also ran out to 1502, begging for barbed wire with a shy face.
"It's run out, it's gone." Lin Wanqiao refused directly without hesitation.
"I obviously saw that you still have two big pieces in your backpack, and you just don't want to give them." The neighbor was outraged.
"yes, I don't want to give it." Lin Wanqiao admitted that she is not a virgin, and everyone will give alms.
The neighbor jumped to his feet and pointed at Lin Wanqiao's nose and was about to scold.
Shen Shaoyu glanced over with a sharp look.
Thinking that the blood stains in the corridor a few days ago had not been brushed up, the neighbors' swear words were civilized to the octave: "You guys are too stingy, what's wrong with giving us a little more." ”
Lin Wanqiao, hehe.
"It's really a bat with chicken feathers on it, what kind of bird are you? What is the world and still want to take advantage, you want it, take food in exchange. Lin Wanqiao said.
She didn't expect the other party to trade food for food. After all, if you are careful, these cockroaches are not life-threatening, but they can finish their calves without food.
Sure enough, although the neighbors were angry after hearing this, they didn't dare to anger them, so they could only puff back angrily, "Smack! He closed the door with a bang.
Cockroaches are infested and have been bitten and killed countless times, and the government cannot sit idly by.
Three days later, in the evening, special staff with spray guns came door to door to clean up the cockroaches in the corridor.
The tongue of fire of the spray gun rolled over, and a large area of blackened cockroach corpses fell from the air like rain, and it actually emitted bursts of burnt incense.
Someone sniffed and swallowed: "Can this cockroach eat it?" ”
"Damn, are you hungry and stupid? What nonsense. The other looked at him like a fool.
The man sneered: "Just kidding, just kidding, don't you think this cockroach is quite fragrant after it is roasted." ”
"It's a little, but that's Xiaoqiang, I don't know how many viruses there are, and I don't think I'll die fast enough to eat this thing."
After spraying the spray gun once, it was indeed relieved at the moment, but after half a day, the cockroaches did not know where to come out, which was really a symptom but not a cure.
It's August 15, 2023.
Early in the morning, the sky was just dawning.
The flood waters have all receded.
The thick layer of silt underneath is one story high. The brown mud was mixed with all kinds of debris, including tables, chairs, benches, animal carcasses, and household garbage that had been thrown into the water in the past few months, and even excrement, which emitted a foul smell under the fermentation of high temperatures.
On the mud, cockroaches, maggots, etc. are densely covered in pieces, and the insects keep wriggling, making people's scalps numb.
A few days ago, the government informed that after the water receded, the dredging work began, and the residents cleaned up the silt in each household and the inside of the corridor by themselves, and the government arranged staff to be responsible for the silt outside.
Early in the morning, I heard the sound of forklifts rumbling to work.
Lin Wanqiao and Shen Shaoyu also went downstairs to watch the excitement.
On the road at the entrance of the community, several large forklifts are moving forward little by little along the center of the main road.
As soon as the shovel went down, the silt was easily scooped up, and then the body turned around, and the shoveled up silt was piled up on both sides of the road, and the big forklift continued to move forward.
It was followed by two small forklifts and trucks.
It appears that the government's approach is to clear the main road to make it easier for vehicles to drive, and then small forklifts will shovel the mud on both sides of the road and transport it away to trucks. Then the silt on the slip road is removed, and so on, level by level.
There are a lot of people watching the excitement in the corridor, and you and I are discussing it word by word.
"You said it would take a long time to clean it up, I'm almost lying at home and my limbs are degrading."
"No, I can only face my tigress in the face all day long, and every day is like a nightmare."
"Hahaha, it's quite happy to think about it like this."
At this time, someone pointed at the bucket of the forklift and screamed.
"Look! What is that? ”
"Lao Luo, why are you startled, your fingers are almost poking me in the eye."
The man didn't have the heart to speak: "Look! In the body of the forklift at the front, it seems to be a person! ”