The rice is sick

Li Qi stood there, watching Chen Guanghai's operation with a dark look in his eyes.

Chen Guanghai turned a blind eye. Li Qi was like a sharp knife. He could not compare to Li Qi in terms of killing a hundred people, but Li Qi was far inferior to him in management.

A knife that only knows how to kill people will rust sooner or later, but the brain is everlasting. Chen Guanghai has absolute confidence in his brain.

Li Qi stood in the dark and watched him arrange mutant troops in every place that was vulnerable to attack according to the defense map of the southern base, and implement a shift system.

In the entire southern base, only Qu Mo and Li Qi were idle. Everyone else, under the command of Chen Guanghai, went to their new posts in an orderly manner.

Jiang Lin felt very refreshed after coming out of the southern base. She and Wen Yan were the only ones speeding on the road. It was a rare feeling of freedom.

The wind whistled past her ears, and the streets were empty except for obstacles.

Wen Yan followed Jiang Lin, and the wind conveyed her happy mood to him.

The huge figure of the First Base in front was stretched out by the sunset sun, like a sleeping lion.

"Xiao Linlin, you are finally back. The time for us to eat rice will be delayed again." Xu Anan couldn't help complaining when she saw Jiang Lin coming in.

"How could that be?" The last time she went to see it, the rice was clearly growing well and had already been put into large-scale planting.

"The rice in the base's planting area has been almost completely eaten by insects," Xu Anan said with a frown. "We're still trying to figure out a solution."

Jiang Lin: "No pesticides?"

Xu Anan looked at her and said, "That's the problem. The people at the research institute have tried many kinds of chemicals but they can't completely eliminate these insects."

"The initial suspicion is that these pests may have evolved, and the pesticides used to fight them are no longer effective."

The insect plague has been ignored for too long in the end times. Because no plants can grow on the land, humans have a hard time living, and those insects are slowly becoming extinct.

Unexpectedly, it revived in the rice fields. Cui Yawen had no experience with sudden diseases and pests, and could only watch as the condition of the rice got worse day by day.

"Take me over to have a look." Jiang Lin had wanted to eat rice for a long time. It was almost ripe, but why did it suddenly have an insect plague?

Xu Anan nodded. The base had slowly returned to its previous order, and the car provided to the institute had also arrived. They finally didn't have to walk anymore.

The planting area is located in the base's best sunlight-receiving location. Apart from the staff who take care of the plants, few people go there. This is also Jiang Lin's first time here.

After arriving, she felt that the experimental planting field of their institute was really nothing. The crops here seemed endless, and each section had a small house that was responsible for the day and night maintenance of the field.

"Xiao Lin is here." Cui Yawen saw Xu Anan and Jiang Lin approaching, "You are also worried about this batch of rice."

"We've tried every possible method, but there's no way to eradicate these bugs. It seems the apocalypse has made them stronger." Cui Yawen's smile was a little bitter.

Seeing that the rice was about to mature, but was suddenly picked by a swarm of insects, she felt very upset.

But this is also their fault for not being fully prepared.

Jiang Lin looked at the rice that had been eaten by insects and hung listlessly in the field. It was completely different from the rice in the experimental field.

Some rice plants were literally sucked dry by insects and lay flat in the fields, looking like they were about to die.

The situation was more serious than she had imagined. She did not go near the rice fields, where many maintenance workers in protective clothing were spraying pesticides, and some were simply catching insects manually.

Jiang Lin: "Professor Cui, how is your aquatic products factory?" Jiang Lin suddenly asked an irrelevant question.

"It's okay, the fish are doing well, but the feed can't support so many fish, and they look a little thin." Cui Yawen heard her talking about the aquatic product factory. There has been an insect plague in the rice fields these days, and she hasn't been to the aquatic product factory to check on the situation for a long time.

Jiang Lin nodded and looked at the staff who were catching insects: "Are there any fish that can eat these pests? Why not raise some fish and rice together and try it?"

Jiang Lin's words made Cui Yawen suddenly enlightened: "This is a really good idea. This way we don't have to spray too much medicine, and the fish will have something to eat."

Cui Yawen immediately stopped the staff who were spraying pesticides. Previously, they caught insects and sent them to the chicken farm to be eaten by chickens, but now they dared not feed the insects to the chickens after spraying the pesticides, for fear that the chickens would be poisoned to death.

The water in the rice fields was quickly replaced, and a steady stream of trucks drove towards the planting area.

They came to deliver fish. Just now, Cui Yawen asked the employees of the aquatic product factory to deliver the fish that can eat insects separately.

Baskets of plastic boxes filled with fish were brought down and the staff put them all into the rice fields.

The fish have been hungry for a long time. After all, the main food is provided to people and chickens, and the fish can't eat anything good.

It suddenly enters the rice field and automatically starts catching the insects inside.

"They ate them, they ate them." The staff member shouted loudly. She was very excited when she saw the fish swallow the worms.

To be honest, they don’t dare to eat rice sprayed with the newly developed pesticide. Now that they have fish, they can upgrade the pesticide safety system.

Jiang Lin happened to be at the scene. She checked her system and made some modifications to the rice fields where the insect infestation was not so serious, so that they could better adapt to the coexistence of fish and rice.

A group of people stayed in the planting area until evening.

When Xu Anan drove Jiang Lin home, she noticed a small wound on her neck.

"Where were you going? How did you get injured?" Jiang Lin didn't come to the institute all day today, although the institute didn't need her.

Jiang Lin touched her neck and felt a sharp pain instantly. She hadn't noticed the wound before, and only after Xu Anan mentioned it did she realize that there was a wound on her neck.

"It's okay. We'll go to the southern base to take revenge on the mutants during the day." The mutants have been causing trouble in the first base time and time again. Everyone went from being panicked at the beginning to having a certain understanding of the mutants now.

"You mean you ran to their territory alone and beat them up?" Xu Anan's eyes widened.

"There were two of us, including Wen Yan. We burned down the southern base." Jiang Lin said casually.

After Xu Anan was shocked, she convinced herself that whatever Jiang Lin did was normal: "Do you want to go to the hospital?"

Normally, Jiang Lin wouldn't care about such minor wounds, but since this was an injury she suffered at the southern base, she was worried that spores might be parasitic in the wound.

"Go." Jiang Lin put her hand on her neck. For some reason, she thought of the man whose esophagus was full of mushrooms and whose throat was burst.

Feeling uneasy, Xu Anan stopped talking and drove quickly towards the hospital at the base.

"Infected." Tang Xiaoyan returned to the hospital to cooperate with the patient's treatment since the water pollution. At this moment, she looked at the test results of Jiang Lin's wound with a serious expression.

Xu Anan was instantly frightened and burst into tears.

Jiang Lin's situation was a little different. She was not infected by drinking contaminated water, nor by inhaling contaminated spores, but by an unnoticed wound that came into contact with the spores.

Tang Xiaoyan had never encountered such a situation before: "He's in good spirits. Let's draw a tube of blood for testing first."

"Okay." Jiang Lin's face was a little pale. She didn't even notice the wound on her neck. She was careless this time.

She poked Xu Anan next to her and said, "Don't cry, I'm not dead yet. Send a message to Wen Yan and ask him if he has any injuries."

Xu Anan cried and slept for a while, and sent a message to Wen Yan.

Ten minutes later, Wen Yan ran to the ward with sweat all over his forehead and red eyes. Jiang Lin had already fallen asleep. She was placed in the most annoying medical cabin, and Tang Xiaoyan had to monitor her physical condition at all times.

"What's wrong? Are you infected too?" Wen Yan looked even worse than Jiang Lin.

Wen Yan shook his head and asked in a hoarse voice, "Is she okay?"

"It's hard to say, but her body is stronger than that of ordinary people. I think the cure rate is still very high." Jiang Lin in the medical cabin has no obvious parasitic reaction, and all physical indicators are relatively stable.

But Tang Xiaoyan did not dare to be careless. The parasitism of spores only takes a moment, and Jiang Lin's condition might deteriorate sharply in the next second.

"I'll stay and observe with you." Wen Yan felt a little exhausted. He was afraid that Jiang Lin would leave him. After being afraid, he regretted why he followed her to the southern base. If he had gone alone, would Jiang Lin not be lying here?

Xu Anan was resting on a chair outside wrapped in a shawl, and she didn't dare to leave.

Tang Xiaoyan had a headache. Jiang Lin was in good condition after staying in the medical warehouse for so long. The blood test results that had just been sent out had not come out yet, and Tang Xiaoyan felt uneasy.

She looked at the box next to her. It was a freezer box containing her latest injection, which could save people contaminated by spores.

However, this injection has not yet been tested on humans.

She looked at Jiang Lin, who was breathing steadily in the medical cabin, hoping that she was okay.

The fact that Jiang Lin was admitted to the hospital for observation could not be concealed. Although Xu Anan was a little emotionally broken, she still informed her superiors of the news as soon as possible.

Wen Yan sat on a chair in the ward, not daring to take his eyes off the numbers on the monitor screen.

"The test results are out." Tang Xiaoyan received the notification. Her heart beat faster and she opened the virtual screen nervously.

Xu Anan and Wen Yan both came over.

Unfortunately, a few big bright red words on the blood test report showed that Jiang Lin's blood had been infected and the spore concentration in it exceeded that of an ordinary person.

This was just the value from an hour ago. Tang Xiaoyan didn't know what changes would happen in Jiang Lin's body after waiting for an hour.

Wen Yan felt dizzy and couldn't stand steadily for a moment.

"Beep, beep, beep!" The medical cabin sounded an alarm.

Jiang Lin's various values ​​are declining rapidly.