Chapter 86: A Single Man and a Single Woman, Locusts

The two men took protective measures, put on gas masks and drove out in an assault boat.

Ji Yanmo drove the assault boat, "Where are we going?"

"It doesn't matter where we go. You know I'm just going through the motions!" Lu Xingtang said.

Ji Yanmo drove the assault boat to the plastic barrel factory where they had previously stored the water tower. He took out disinfectant and insecticide from the space, cleared out a room, waited for the smell of disinfectant and insecticide to dissipate, and sprayed it with floral water. Ji Yanmo said, "Let's just sleep here tonight!"

"Ah!" Lu Xingtang didn't want to do it. It was too awkward. It wasn't appropriate for a single man and a single woman to be together. So, he said, "I'm going to sleep in the space! I'll come out before dawn!" He entered the space instantly without giving Ji Yanmo any buffer time.

Ji Yanmo's dark eyes were dim. He had indeed scared the person. Fortunately, he had no plans to develop further with Lu Xingtang, otherwise they would not even be friends anymore.

He took out a single bed from the space, spread out the bedding, and lay down on it. His dark eyes were fixed on the night sky outside the window. His mind kept replaying his past. After a long time, he sighed, "This world is much safer than my previous world."

The next morning, Lu Xingtang was woken up by the alarm clock. After washing up, she came out of the space. As soon as she came out, she saw Ji Yanmo sitting on the bunk bed. He looked very lonely, as if he had been abandoned by the whole world. Seeing this, she felt extremely complicated: "Good morning!"

Ji Yanmo heard Lu Xingtang's voice and raised his head: "Good morning!"

Lu Xingtang took out breakfast from the space. It was the breakfast she had stockpiled before the end of the world. She and Ji Yanmo were both big eaters. She took out ten steamed buns with braised pork, four meat patties, and two bowls of porridge. "Let's have breakfast!" She also took out the dining table and chairs.

Ji Yanmo walked over without hesitation: "Thank you!" He took the bun and started eating.

After dinner, the two did not rush back to the community immediately, but walked around the area to look for water. However, there were too many insects, and even wearing gas masks could not avoid them. Even if they found water, it was not drinkable.

As long as there is water, that’s enough!

When he returned to the community, Lu Xingtang found that the water level had dropped a little more. The rate of drop at night was slower than during the day, and it had now dropped to the 9th floor.

As soon as Lu Xingtang returned, he was warmly welcomed by everyone. It was the first time in his life that Lu Xingtang saw everyone's hopeful eyes. Lu Xingtang said, "I have found medicine, a lot of it! If you want to exchange it, you can exchange it with supplies!"

According to the market price, Min Weihuan used the food collected from the apartment building to exchange for two boxes of Huoxiang Zhengqi water, anthelmintics, and antipyretics. There were not many supplies, and everyone also needed to eat, so these were the only supplies that could be spared.

However, Lu Xingtang also collected gold and jade. People who had gold and jade at home no longer thought about keeping them. They would use them after the end of the world and exchange them with Lu Xingtang for medicine. They also exchanged them with Lu Xingtang for Huoxiang Zhengqi water, anthelmintic, disinfectant and insecticide.

Lu Xingtang gave some of the supplies he had exchanged to Ji Yanmo and Su Cheng. The two didn't want them, but Lu Xingtang said, "Ji Yanmo went out with me to find supplies. He worked hard, so he must take it!" Regardless of whether it was true or not, he must take it first. "Su Cheng stayed on the 19th floor. Even though the community is safe now, he also worked hard, so he must take it!"

If they don't want it, Lu Xingtang will announce that they are officially disbanded, and will not form alliances in the future and will fight alone!

Ji Yanmo was helpless, Su Cheng sighed, and the two accepted the supplies.

After returning home and putting the supplies into the space, he made disinfectant and insecticide with Ji Yanmo and Su Cheng. At night, Min Weihuan and the others would take the disinfectant and insecticide to the community to sell them. Last night, they also went to other communities and sold a lot of supplies to Lu Xingtang.

Lu Xingtang has already given the reward to Min Weihuan based on the number of people, and asked Min Weihuan to distribute the supplies.

Just as Lu Xingtang and his team were concentrating on making disinfectant and insecticide, they suddenly heard a buzzing sound, coming from far away and getting closer. Lu Xingtang and his team immediately rushed to the window and saw a dark mass of insects pressing towards them. Lu Xingtang shouted in fear, "Quickly close the doors and windows! The insect plague is coming!" What insects? Locusts!

"Locusts are spreading everywhere, leaving no grass behind!" Su Cheng and Ji Yanmo also shouted loudly. The people in their apartment building, the people in the apartment building next door, and the whole community heard it and immediately closed the doors and windows, not allowing a single insect to fly into the house.

When the locusts came, the sky became dark.

"Locusts love to appear during droughts because that's how they can guarantee their eggs' hatching rate. They can't appear in humid places!" Lu Xingtang said gravely, "The imperial capital is in a drought right now. Even if the floods haven't completely subsided, it's not damp at all!"

Min Weihuan made sure that there were no gaps in the house that could allow locusts to enter, so he went out after taking proper precautions. He used a megaphone to remind everyone again and again, but the locusts were so loud that no one in the other units could hear what they were saying except the people in his own unit.

Seeing Lu Xingtang and the other two standing at the 19th-floor staircase window, watching the black mass of locusts outside, he walked over, his heart heavy. After finally surviving the extreme cold, the temperature suddenly soared, making the heat unbearable! If the high temperatures continued, many people would die from heat stroke, insect plagues, and viruses.

Min Weihuan sighed, "I don't know when the locusts will leave. If they stay in the imperial capital, we'll run out of ammunition and food, and we'll be dead."

"Isn't this just supplies?" Lu Xingtang raised his hand and pointed at the black mass of locusts. "Locusts are rich in protein and various vitamins, their meat is delicious, and they also contain a lot of trace elements. They also taste delicious. As long as you don't eat them raw, you'll be fine!"

Min Weihuan's eyes lit up. "Yeah, why didn't I think of that? I've always seen people eating locusts online. Although I haven't personally experienced it, I can confirm that locusts are edible! But how do you eat them?"

"Put the locusts in water and let them clear their feces. After cleaning, put them in a pot of boiling water to kill them. Remove them, remove all organs except the flesh, and simmer them in salt water over low heat for a while. Then remove them and drain them. Put them in a 40% hot oil pan and deep-fry them until golden brown."

Ji Yanmo, Su Cheng, and Min Weihuan looked at Lu Xingtang with strange eyes: "Have you eaten it?"

"No!" Lu Xingtang said, "I saw someone do it online before!"

Lu Xingtang reminded: "If you want to eat them, you have to be quick! Because after a while, the locusts will become uneatable. When the food supply is greatly reduced, they will become ferocious and violent, their colors will become brighter, and they will be poisonous."

When the people in the apartment building learned that locusts were edible and they no longer had to go hungry, and that locusts were very delicious, they immediately made tools to catch locusts. They made a "net bag" with bags and fixed it with sticks. After taking precautions, they walked out of the apartment building, used the net bag to catch locusts, caught a few times and checked. When they found a bag full of locusts, they immediately sealed the bag and took it back.

At first, everyone was afraid to eat it, but when they tasted the deliciousness of the locusts, they couldn't control themselves.

Everyone in the apartment building came out in droves to catch locusts. When people in other apartment buildings saw this, they followed suit and started catching locusts.

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(End of this chapter)