Seeing this, Lin Shuisheng immediately ordered the militiamen to stuff the diesel blocks they had brought in.
In the winter in Northeast China, the temperature is at least minus ten degrees Celsius.
These diesels are not resistant to freezing and have all frozen into hard lumps, so they have to be cut into small pieces when used.
The militiamen took a dozen palm-sized pieces of diesel, stuffed them into the rat holes and immediately ignited them.
Sizzle!
There was an immediate panic inside, and a pleasant smell of meat wafted out.
"Quick! Over there, and over there... there's smoke rising. It should be the other two exits, block them both!"
Zhao Daniu was extremely excited, his eyes seemed to be glowing.
He was very sharp and found two other entrances to this huge rat's nest.
The two militiamen did not dare to delay and immediately followed the same method and quickly used snow shovels to clear all the snow above the cave entrance.
But even at this speed, more than a dozen big black rats had already escaped.
Then they immediately stuffed solid diesel into the holes and ignited them. The rats inside had no way to escape and made all kinds of sharp squeaking noises.
Lin Huowang, who was watching from the side, was also surprised, especially at the ability that Zhao Daniu had just demonstrated to find rat holes, which was indeed extraordinary.
"Awang, you're here?"
Lin Shuisheng turned around and saw Lin Huowang, and exclaimed, "You really don't know until you see it, it's really shocking!
We have just destroyed two rat holes. When we opened them, we found that there were hundreds of rats of all sizes hiding in each hole. It was really scary.
Fortunately, we had diesel, which we used to seal the entrance of the cave, and everyone was burned to death inside.
I'll open this rat hole and show it to you later. It will definitely shock you."
After it had been burning for a while, Lin Shuisheng ordered several militiamen to take hoes and dig up all the melted frozen soil on the ground.
While waiting, Lin Shuisheng pointed at Zhao Daniu and praised Lin Huowang for a while:
"It's incredible! Awang, this guy is really amazing!
We saw traces of rats, but we couldn't find where the rat hole was.
But Zhao Daniu happened to find the location of the rat hole at a glance.
We found one right after each digging, and we have saved a lot of effort.”
Zhao Daniu was touching his head and said with an embarrassed look:
“Hehe! I don’t know why, but my eyes seem to be able to see the path that mice walk.
I can tell at a glance where it's going.
Even if it was a mouse that had run past earlier, I could roughly tell the route it took back to its hole.”
"Not bad! Daniel, this might be a special ability of yours.
I'll try it again when I take you up the mountain next time."
Lin Huowang nodded, an ability similar to Zhao Daniu's.
In fact, when he was in the special forces, he had seen several of his comrades own it.
The main reason is that their brains have a special ability to capture details in the real environment, and then automatically piece together some key information and images in their minds.
For example, someone like Zhao Daniu can piece together the escape route of a mouse through some tiny footprints and traces on the snow.
"Dig it up!"
As a militiaman shouted, Lin Huowang also turned his head to look over.
really……
So shocked!
The ground below was filled with burnt rat carcasses.
There were both big and small ones, and there were even litters of newly born baby mice that were only the size of a thumb.
Rats have a very strong reproductive capacity. Even in this winter when food is scarce, they continue to give birth to litters one after another.
"See! Awang.
You are right, the rat plague is probably imminent.
This is just one rat nest. What should we do if there are dozens or hundreds of such rat nests near our village?
Once all these rats gather in groups, it will be true that many ants can kill elephants."
Lin Shuisheng said worriedly.
"Uncle Shuisheng, that's why we have to take precautions early.
If we eliminate one more rat nest now, we will have less pressure when a rat infestation breaks out."
Lin Huowang pointed in the direction of the production team's grain depot and said, "After we have finished searching here, call everyone to the depot. We need to dig a rat-proof ditch around the depot first."
“Is the granary also in danger?
No way! Awang.
The several large granaries in the granary are all brick and stone warehouses, and are equipped with rat-proof boards.
As long as the cover is pressed down properly, there is almost never any problem with rats. "
Having served as deputy captain for many years, Lin Shuisheng knew too well the safety of the team's granary.
Often, the so-called losses caused by rats in the reimbursement reports were falsely reported by the big rat Lin Jianguo.
Lin Huowang shook his head and said pessimistically:
“The brick and stone warehouse of the granary is good for keeping out isolated rats.
Once these rats gather in groups, they become extremely powerful.
No warehouse is of any use. The hungry mice, when they smell the fragrance of food, don’t care about anything else. They just keep gnawing and rushing..."
Immediately afterwards, Lin Huowang followed them and dug seven or eight large rat holes.
The total number of rats burned to death was probably several thousand, if not tens of thousands.
However, compared with the black swarm of rats that broke out, this is probably less than one-tenth of it.
"It's getting dark! Uncle Shuisheng, let's just do this to find the rat's nest today! Let's go over and dig a rat-proof ditch while there are people at the granary."
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Lin Huowang shoveled the snow aside, took a breath and said.
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