Chapter 45: All-People Insect Extermination

The hail had stopped long ago, and the sky was still gloomy, but the temperature seemed to have risen a little.

Those who were lucky enough to escape the giant hailstorm and were not injured now did not care about going to work or school, and all came out of the buildings where they had originally taken shelter.

Everyone called their families one after another. Some people breathed a sigh of relief after getting through to know that the other party was safe, while others hurriedly stepped on the ice and water on the ground to get a taxi on the roadside before hanging up the phone. After finding that there was no taxi, they could only run away.

After confirming that their family members were safe, those who were not injured or slightly injured began to spontaneously call the ambulance, and helped each other to move the people who were knocked unconscious on the road to the side to avoid blocking the ambulance passage. After

waiting for a long time, the ambulance finally arrived, and the injured were rescued one by one and taken away from the scene. Those people breathed a sigh of relief. Some of them gathered in twos and threes, discussing the previous tragic situation with a tone of fear and relief.

On the road, human blood and the melted water from the hail mixed together, which made people in peacetime feel uncomfortable.

There seemed to be a fishy smell in the air, probably the smell of blood.

Some people hurriedly turned on the TV to watch the news, wanting to know the latest situation. Some people who were used to using the Internet turned on their computers and browsed news websites and large forums.

Soon, someone found an anonymous video post on several large forums. There were no people or voices in the entire video, and even the limited sentences were written in black words on white paper. The

first piece of white paper read: Pay attention to the black eggs and insects in the hail! ! !

A half-melted hailstone on a stainless steel plate appeared on the screen. Someone wearing rubber gloves stretched out his hand from the direction of the filming, holding a magnifying glass in his left hand, and approached the water from the melted hailstone, so that the video could capture the black spots in the water and the black bugs gradually hatching their eggs.

When the number of black bugs hatching their eggs increased to a certain number, the person stacked the second white paper on the first white paper, which read: Black bugs are bloodthirsty! Do not touch the wound!

After that, the person took out a small glass bottle with a slightly thick red liquid in his right hand, and poured the liquid on the steel plate, separating the middle from the bugs. The

moment the blood dripped, the bugs immediately moved and headed towards the direction of the blood.

Finally, the man took out the third piece of white paper and continued to stack them. It said: Burn it immediately if found!!!

After that, a flamethrower appeared in the man's right hand - the small flamethrower with a long metal head that sushi chefs use to make grilled food.

The man pressed the flamethrower, and the blood was quickly burned and evaporated, and the black worms inside were also burned to ash.

The video ended here, there was no sound, no person appeared, and the man didn't even show his fingers.

But this video was stacked up hundreds of floors in a short period of time. At first, everyone below was shouting disgusting things, and then slowly there were different messages.

- Damn! This post is real. I just went outside to pick up some hailstones, and there were really eggs and bugs inside!

- Administrator, please don’t delete the post! This seems to be a warning post! Someone is not messing around!

- It’s real!! I live on the first floor, and the yard is a concrete floor. Originally, there was hailstones all over the ground, but now it’s full of bugs. At first glance, I thought it was a pile of hair stubble. I was scared to death!

- Are you that scared? It’s just a bug, and it’s so small, what can it do to people!

- The person upstairs, you are not from a coastal city, are you? You are talking without any back pain, what can it do? This bug has sensed the blood and is so crazy, what if it tries to drill into the wound!

- Oh my god! Upstairs, I almost fainted after imagining what you said!

——If you think about it carefully, it is possible! Damn it! I have a flamethrower that my mother uses for moxibustion at home. I will go and kill the insects right away!

——This is Liancheng. You coastal cities are in such a bad situation. I will donate money and supplies to you right away, buy two boxes of flamethrowers and send them to you.

Please support me! ——Thank you upstairs! What if I don’t have a flamethrower at home! Can I just use insecticide?

——I tried it upstairs, and it seems to work. The insects are no longer moving!

——What the hell is useful! I just sprayed insecticide, and then I pricked my finger to try it out, and the bugs came back to life!

—Boil it with boiling water! Ah! Fortunately, I am in Fangcheng. We are inland, far away from you! It’s too scary, I’m still having my period…

As soon as this sentence was posted, a series of replies appeared downstairs, saying “me too”. Some people said they should wear ten pairs of underwear, some said they should use tampons and sanitary napkins in layers, and some people who were a little more reliable said they could buy a protective suit.

After that, the crooked building continued to be on the right track.

——Who is that upstairs? Even insecticides can’t kill them. Can boiling water kill them? And these insects fell with the hail. Don’t you think this is very wrong?

——Are you all stupid? I just stepped on these tiny insects and crushed them to death!

…

When this floor was hit, there was a large area of ​​“…” below.

That’s right. Everyone was shocked by the first person who used a flamethrower to burn the insects directly. They preconceived that these insects were scary, but in the end, these tiny insects can be killed by anyone who is not afraid of them! Then a few minutes later

, the person who shouted to crush them to death came back to post again.

——Ahhh! I miscalculated! This bug is as thin as a hair, and there is no reaction when I step on it! It's like stepping on hair, no matter how hard I try, it's still hair! ! Wait for me, I'll try it with a knife this time!

There was another string of "..." replies below, and some people shouted "Awesome, waiting for you", and some stubborn people said they would try it with a knife and scissors.

After a while, other people who had tried it came back to reply.

——The "I" above, I tried it with a knife and scissors, why can this thing still move after it breaks? Is this really a bug? Even a fucking earthworm can't be that magical!

——I'm back! The host was right, I ran to the small supermarket downstairs and bought a flamethrower, and now the bug has been instantly destroyed by me! Everyone, stop wasting time, and use fire to

burn the bugs before they get all mad! -- I've tried using a lighter to light white paper or a small wooden stick and then throwing it on the bugs to burn them, but it's not as fast as a flamethrower because the bugs will scatter, and they're too small to ignite once they scatter, so using a flamethrower to directly spray them with fire is the fastest way!

After this floor, there are a lot of consistent replies: Go buy it now!

Even people in other cities that were not hit by the hailstorm said they would immediately prepare a flamethrower, as they might need it someday.

Some said they would call their parents immediately, some would notify their friends, and some had already saved the video and posted it on other websites and forums as a publicity warning.

Although it was not the era of fast mobile phone AP information flow, many people stayed indoors because of the hailstorm, and young people were used to killing time on the computer.

Therefore, it didn't take long for people in several coastal cities to know the content of the video post. With the spread of the video on the Internet, phone calls between relatives and friends, and word of mouth, many people took action to kill insects.

**

At the same time, in a building with strict security in Hai Ru City, a tall man in his thirties wearing combat uniform reported the video and post to the middle-aged man standing behind the desk.

The middle-aged man had a serious and stern expression, and had a face that was familiar to all the people of Hai Ru City, and this face occasionally appeared in the news.

"Only mentioned the bloodiness and the method of elimination, no other part?"

The man who reported this nodded: "No, I have checked all the websites where this video post appeared, only this part. Regardless of whether this person knows the other part or how much he knows about the whole thing, he seems to just want to warn everyone and try to reduce the occurrence of parasites.

In addition, the IP address that originally posted this post has been checked. It is in an Internet cafe, but the nearby cameras did not capture any suspicious people."

In fact, the man wanted to say something else.

A few days ago, someone under them was ordered to go to the community to bring back the person involved in the previous "undersea tunnel incident". That community is diagonally opposite this Internet cafe.

At that time, unexpectedly, they failed. They had met the other party, but they let the other party escape right under their noses without seeing any trace.

So, could the video posting have something to do with that person?

But the man in combat uniform didn't say this in the end.

After those people were brought back, no one could leave. In the laboratory at the bottom of the basement of their building, those scientific researchers who thought they had discovered a new species were all obsessed and no longer regarded the people on the operating table as human beings.

Even someone like him who was used to seeing blood could not stand it when he went down there occasionally. Although

the person who made this decision was the middle-aged man in front of him, he also said that if he was held accountable afterwards, he would take full responsibility. But in the final analysis, all of them have been involved, and no one's hands are clean.

There was no way before, because in order to speed up the research, some things cannot be avoided by weighing the pros and cons.

But now, not only the coastal areas of their country, but also several other coastal countries have successively experienced extreme hail weather. This disaster is likely to be global.

And judging from the large and small conflicts and riots that have occurred in other cities, the infected patients had already spread to cities across the country long before this hail.

They blocked the news and secretly brought people back for research, but it was ultimately in vain.

In this case, it no longer matters what the identity of the escaped woman is and whether she is related to the posting.

On the contrary, being able to escape is actually a good thing.

The middle-aged man's voice interrupted his thoughts: "Leave the post alone, no need to close it. Contact other cities and start data sharing. Inform all hospitals to classify the people injured in this hailstorm as high-risk patients, isolate them all, and don't let them leave the hospital for the time being."

"But - many people are only slightly injured, and there are many elderly people, women and children..."

The middle-aged man frowned and looked at the man in front of him: "Three days later, regardless of gender or age, they will become potential dangerous elements that may erupt at any time. Remember, they have been parasitized, and they must be distinguished from ordinary people. If even we don't have this awareness, the entire Hairu City will suffer."

The man in combat uniform knew that what the other party said was right. It was just temporary isolation, not complete elimination. Maybe when the scientific researchers can make a breakthrough, they can still be saved...

"But there are still many people with minor injuries who have not gone to the hospital..."

"We can't do anything about that for now. Let's wait three days before dealing with it. By then, the family members will be more cooperative."

The middle-aged man paused and said, "In addition, arrange for people to take action, take protective measures, bring flamethrowers, and start killing insects! Start from crowded places and kill as many as you can!

Also, the city's tap water supply will be temporarily cut off. It can only be restored after it is cleaned up and found to be no problem. The same goes for all bottled water purification plants. As for food and crops, destroy all those that have been attacked by hail. Fishing is prohibited in the near future. When the boats go out to sea to fish...

When asking for supplies from other cities, list purified water, protective clothing, flamethrowers, and canned food as urgently needed items...

Send people to keep an eye on prices, and do not allow private bidding. Special items will be limited in quantity, and drinking water... should also be limited in quantity.

Finally, block all passages out of Hai Ru City, and control all land, sea, and air routes. Only entry is allowed, not exit!"

As he spoke, his originally straight back gradually hunched down. He leaned on his desk and could almost foresee what Hai Ru City would become after this series of actions began.

However, this matter has just begun.

You know, all rivers, lakes and seas in this world are connected. Sooner or later, this kind of bug will spread to every country and every city...

At that time, it will become a crisis for all mankind.

**

Three hours after the hailstorm ravaged Hairu City, the people found that the troops were dispatched. They started to kill the bugs with professional tools.

After several hours of repeated dissemination of the video, many people knew that there were bugs in the hail.

Although it is still unknown what harm this bug has, humans are a species that seeks good fortune and avoids misfortune. When everyone is serious and tries to eliminate the same thing, other people who don't know the reason will also join in.

Especially when they saw the troops wearing full body protection and holding flamethrowers that they had only seen on TV to kill insects, everyone had already formed a sense of crisis about these black insects.

At least, everyone would be alert when facing these insects, and would not approach them out of curiosity, causing more tragedies.

Youxi stood at the window of a suite on the 15th floor of a hotel, watching a team killing insects on the road below, then looked down at the tablet screen in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.

This tablet is her native world. After arriving at the hotel, she thought of giving it a try because there was no computer available. As a result, she successfully connected to the wireless network and opened the web page.

She checked several video posts she posted as a tourist. The optimism and enthusiasm of netizens were better than she imagined. The comment "ten pairs of underwear" made her laugh for a long time.

She made the right bet. The post that only announced the bloody nature and killing method and concealed the parasitic point was not blocked.

After all, it was only a matter of time before the public discovered the strangeness in the hail, and the authorities could not hide it even if they wanted to.

From their point of view, if the public can voluntarily develop an awareness of killing insects, it will reduce their burden, and keeping the parasite secret can ensure that social order does not collapse for the time being.

Although someone will definitely notice something strange in a few days, it is also good to have a few days of buffer time.

One more day means one more day to do various preparations and response work.

Although her remaining apocalyptic mission only requires her to stay in this world for another 28 days, although with her current military strength and five senses, she can be watertight in her protection against this kind of insect, and although she still cannot judge 100% whether these apocalyptic worlds are virtual worlds or real worlds...but, she still wants to do what she can. After

two apocalyptic missions and more than three years of apocalyptic time, she may have already seen life and death, but she does not want to be a person who is accustomed to these tragic situations of life and death and can watch them with indifference without any emotional fluctuations.

No matter how many apocalyptic worlds she will go to in the future, and how many unknown and terrible disasters she will face, she hopes that she can always retain her original heart as a person.

On the premise of leaving room for herself, she will help others if she can, without being merciless or cold-hearted, and with a clear conscience.

Youxi drew the curtains. This is a five-star hotel with very good construction quality. All the glass was installed with double layers during construction. When the hail hit, most of the glass survived.

This place is not close to the sea or the mountains, nor is it in the downtown area, and there are fewer people, so it is her first choice to spend the last 28 days.

With her knowledge of the apocalyptic world, which offers a reward of 100 star coins for surviving for a month, this month must not be easy.

So while the current situation is still good, she wants to live as comfortably as possible.

That kind of insect just falls with the hail and cannot fly itself, so when she chooses a place to live, in addition to considering the previous points, height is also an important option.

After she posted the message in the Internet cafe, she took advantage of the chaos outside and didn't even buy a [fake lipstick]. She put on a hat and mask to hide her face and hair, then changed into high waterproof boots, came out of the private room, and went to the public restroom on the other side of the Internet cafe lobby.

The restroom window here looks out to the back of this building, and opposite is another five-story building. There is only a narrow aisle between the two buildings.

When she came, she had observed the terrain. There were no surveillance cameras here. With this distance and the height difference, she could jump directly from the window.

The process was very smooth. She climbed onto the windowsill, observed the left and right, and jumped directly. She landed steadily in one second, then walked to the spiral staircase on the outer wall of the building, walked downstairs and left slowly.

Afterwards, she followed the navigation on her mobile phone and went directly to a professional protective equipment store and bought three sets of professional protective clothing, including protective glasses, safety helmets, protective gloves and other accessories.

This is not for current use, she just has the habit of making preparations early.

After that, she went to a pawn shop and pawned two 300-gram gold bars.

This pawnshop is not very formal. It does not require any ID, but it keeps the gold price very low. It is only willing to give 100,000 cash for a 300-gram gold bar.

Although people in this world have bank cards and cash, the money on the cards is limited, and the cash is not much. She wanted to have more cash in hand for convenience, so she quickly traded with the pawnshop.

After Youxi left the pawnshop with 200,000 cash, she found that there was indeed a tail behind her. She raised her eyebrows. This pawnshop is a bit shady. She will have to change to another one next time.

Youxi shook off the tail and went straight to the hotel.

This hotel is famous for its very inconvenient transportation and extremely unpalatable food. The occupancy rate has always been very low. The suites are on sale, so she directly booked it for five days.

After entering the room, she took off her shoes and threw them into the bathtub in the bathroom next to the door. Then she used the APP to check if there were any cameras. Then she took off her clothes and used [Instant Cleansing Oil]. Except for some dust from running around outside, there were no bugs that she was worried about.

Youxi changed into dry clothes and flat shoes, and looked at the clothes and shoes she had taken off in the bathtub, feeling a little worried.

Items cannot be dewormed with [Instant Cleansing Oil], and she couldn't guarantee that there was no dirt on them at all - especially the soles of her shoes. But would it be too wasteful for her to just burn them?

She squatted there and thought about it, and finally she came up with an idea.

"System, time has stopped in the Star House Warehouse, and no living things can enter. If a living creature attaches to the items I want to put in the warehouse, will it be taken in with it?"

[……]

She felt that the Star House Warehouse was silent for a long time, and a voice sounded in her mind after a long time.

[Host, the Star House Warehouse can only store the items you want to put in. ]

You Xi suddenly understood.

She stretched out her hand and touched each piece of clothing, pants and shoes with her fingertips. The items disappeared one by one in an orderly manner under her fingertips. Finally, there were only three "black lines" left in the porcelain white bathtub.

There was no doubt that this was the "item" she did not want to put in the Star House Warehouse.

You Xi smiled, and [High Temperature Perfume] appeared in her hand instantly. She aimed and sprayed it directly.

The bugs turned into ashes in seconds and were then washed away by the water.

The damp fishy smell in the bathroom disappeared.

Youxi found that her adaptability was getting better and better. She felt a little hungry even though she had just killed the insects.

She hadn't eaten properly for several days. How about eating better at night?

[……]