Chapter 85 Giant Rat
(with 5.5w nutrient solution plus extra content)
The thick, long, and evil bald tail hit the glass again with a loud bang. The door of the hall shook, and everyone's heart also felt shaken. The crowd, which was originally silent, immediately burst into screams.
The few people who had snatched the key before stared at the entrance and exit door, wishing that time could go back and they had not snatched the key. At least, they should have waited until the security guard locked the door before snatching it...
Fortunately, the entrance and exit door needs a password to open after it is closed. The rat just got bigger and should not be that smart...
The tail swung over for the third time, and when it passed the electronic door, the electronic door lock made a series of electronic sounds.
The mouse's head moved, as if it noticed the sound. Its slightly cloudy black eyes turned and it immediately noticed the door on the side of the floor-to-ceiling glass.
It moved over, its nose almost touching the door, and accidentally rubbed the electronic lock on the way, which again emitted a series of electronic sounds.
This scene almost made everyone retreat in unison. Everyone wanted to hide at the back, pushing and squeezing each other, creating a lot of noise again.
The mouse outside the door was attracted by the noise again, and its elephant-like body moved over and began to scratch the glass with its claws. Its sharp claws scratched the glass, making a harsh and unpleasant creaking sound.
"Stop pushing. Even if the rat is smart enough to open the electronic lock, it can't get in with its size. If you keep pushing, it will get more excited. If the glass is broken, it will come in directly."
A young female voice rang out from the crowd. It was slightly cold, but it succeeded in calming the crowded crowd.
The faces of those who came up from the underground garage were extremely pale. As long as they thought about the close contact they had just had with the rat, they were terrified. Some of them couldn't help but feel more resentful towards the security guard.
Someone reached out and pushed the security guards, and said in a vicious voice: "Aren't you very brave? You went to the property building to check. Now hurry out and get rid of this rat!"
The three security guards were caught off guard and stumbled forward a few steps. Although they were still in the safe room, everyone except them hid at the back, which made them stand out.
The rat obviously noticed the approach of the three people, and it became more and more excited to grab the glass, and even made a squeaking sound.
The three of them turned around and looked at the residents, not knowing who was so desperate to push them out: "Who pushed us? Who pushed us just
now?" "Is this the time to ask? It doesn't matter who pushed us, the key is that you should take responsibility!" Someone responded in a low voice.
"Please, think of a solution quickly..." Someone couldn't bear it anymore and whispered in a crying voice.
"That's right! You charge so much for property fees, now you should think of a solution!" There were also people who gave orders in a matter-of-fact tone.
Xiao Zhang got angry and threw his security hat to the ground: "Are you sick? I'm done! Stop pointing fingers here! Also, the person who just stole the key, give us the key back!"
"Why should I give you the key back if you're done?"
"Even if I'm done, I have to give it back! Give it to me!"
Someone complained: "Be quiet, what are you arguing about? If you want to argue, wait until I go upstairs..."
Some people saw that the situation was not good, and they were afraid that the rats would really break the glass and get in, so they picked up their things and planned to run away.
However, it was a mess just now, and everyone's things had already been mixed up, and some were even trampled. Someone took a few things at random, and was immediately stopped by others, so this group of people began to silently fight for their own belongings.
...
Seeing the situation getting more and more chaotic, someone couldn't stand it anymore and stood up: "Everyone, please say less in this situation. This rat is too big. The more you quarrel, the more irritating it will be. And you, can you take the things upstairs together and then divide them? We are all neighbors in the same building. Do you really have to make such a fuss over a few packets of instant noodles?
You don't really think the bulletproof glass won't break? The authorities have already said that there is a disaster emergency rescue phone number. As long as you explain the situation, the nearest rescue team will come! In this situation, everyone should stand on the same front. We are human beings. Can't we be better than animals?"
Someone stood up and pointed in a direction in the chaos. The nervous and panicked residents finally calmed themselves down. In fact, most people are just emotional because they are afraid. Under normal circumstances, they would not get so excited just because of a little food or a little gossip.
Seeing that everyone had calmed down again, the man took out his phone and prepared to call for help.
Because the scene was quiet again, Xu Yan unlocked his phone and heard a calm young female voice describing the address of the community, the general situation, and the type and size of the mutant animals to the person on the other end of the phone.
Xu Yan recognized the female voice. It was her who had warned everyone before.
**
Youxi hung up the phone and saw a tall figure standing in front of her. He was about 27 or 28 years old, with a neat crew cut and a handsome face. When she looked over, he smiled at her politely: "Hello, I'm a resident of 502, my name is Xu Yan."
Youxi pulled down her mask: "Hello, I'm Youxi."
"You're very good, very awesome."
The reason why Xu Yan came forward to introduce himself to her was very simple.
The situation outside is bad now. The authorities call for staying indoors as much as possible. Their building is in good condition and has high security. He hopes that in the difficult situation, everyone can help each other instead of blaming each other for their own interests because of a little thing, which will only become a mess.
He had stored food at home, so he didn't go out just now because he heard the noise and went downstairs. He noticed that Youxi was wearing a protective suit and a mask, and had obviously just been out.
Other people who had been out were arguing or fighting, but she was the only one standing quietly aside and making a phone call silently. Her tone was calm and clear. This psychological quality was very rare.
He must get to know such a person.
Xu Yan didn't have time to chat with her for the time being. After a simple greeting, he went to persuade the three security guards. After all, they couldn't go out now. Even if they wanted to resign, they had to wait until this happened.
At the same time, he also persuaded several residents, took back the security keys from them, and reminded the security guards to lock the elevator door.
The fire escape in the building only goes to the first floor. To go to the underground garage, you have to pass the battery garage and then go down the stairs. That door is locked early in the morning, so now as long as the elevator is locked, the inside of the building and the basement are completely separated, which can prevent other strange things from accidentally entering the elevator and coming up from there.
In emergency times, people have no objection to taking the stairs.
The rats were still clinging to the glass outside the building, and even began to try to whip the glass with their tails. No one wanted to stay in the hall, so they took their supplies upstairs.
The three security guards had nowhere to go, and retreated to the information desk with sullen faces, but they were just seeking comfort in their hearts. If the rats really broke in, they would be caught no matter where they hid.
Originally, they could hide in other residents' homes, but now that the two sides were in such a mess, it would definitely not work. The three of them discussed and packed up their things and went upstairs.
"Brother Zhang, how about we go to the sixth or seventh floor? Aren't there two empty houses there?"
"No." Security guard Xiao Zhang shook his head, "Do you want to be criticized? I will file a complaint against you and directly deduct your salary."
"Do we really have to quit our jobs in the future?"
This time, Xiao Zhang did not speak. His family did not have much savings, and he had previously stockpiled a lot of things because of the bugs. If he quit his job, he might not be able to hold on for a few months. But in this situation, he really didn't want to do it anymore. At least he could stay with his parents and wife when he returned home...
Maybe the days in the future would be a little harder, but it was better than being ordered around by others and asked to do some inexplicable things here.
If he encounters danger again next time, he may be pushed out again and his life may not be saved...
"I said that just now. It has nothing to do with you. You decide for yourselves." He was going to wait for the rescue team to come and ask about the situation outside before leaving.
Xu Yan hadn't left yet. Seeing this, he stepped forward and said, "It's not safe here. Go to my place to take shelter first. You probably didn't sleep well last night. In this situation, it doesn't matter whether you stay in the hall or not. Go to my place to rest for a while. I'll get you something to eat and drink."
After experiencing other unreasonable residents, Xu Yan's attitude at this moment obviously gave the three people great comfort.
They still remembered their duties. Although they were extremely scared, they still forced themselves to walk to the entrance and exit. Under the gaze of the rat, they locked the door, and then turned around and followed Xu Yan.
**
The rescue team came very quickly, probably because You Xi accurately reported the situation of the mutated rat. She later learned that it was rare in the whole S city for rats to mutate to such a large size, because rats are mammals.
The rescue team brought heavy firepower and divided into several groups to surround the giant rat. They originally wanted to capture it alive, but after several people were thrown away by the angry rat's tail, the captain ordered to kill it directly with a flamethrower.
The rat screamed miserably when it was burned to death. Even through several layers of glass, people inside the building could hear it. Residents of the entire community hid in the building, trembling as they watched the giant rat below resist and struggle, and was eventually burned to death.
Some people clenched their fists and cheered, while others felt uncomfortable because of the miserable screams and the scene of being burned to death.
Later, the rescue team began to thoroughly check the underground garage, and finally dug out a nest of rats, densely packed with more than a dozen rats, all of which were within the normal range of size. However, because a giant rat had appeared here, the other rats were captured alive and Youxi estimated that the other party would definitely take them back for research.
After that, the rescue team checked the entire community. When they learned that the small garden had been sealed off due to an oxygen explosion, the rescue team leader once again instructed several people to carry flamethrowers and burn all the plants in the entire garden.
After all the plants were burned, they used fire extinguishers to put out the scattered flames, and then sent people to sprinkle a yellow powder, which is said to inhibit the re-growth of plants in this area.
Of course, this powder can only be used on ordinary plants. If it is a mutated plant, it is basically ineffective.
But from the situation of the entire community, the plants are still in a normal state. One or two mutated insects were found in several places where plants are densely populated, and they were all caught by the rescue team.
The rescue team leader said that there are fewer mutated insects in the community, which may be related to the giant rat. It is possible that many of them were caught and eaten.
The residents were terrified when they heard this. They didn’t know how long the rat had grown, especially since a resident had passed through the underground garage the day before. Thinking about it now really makes their hair stand on end.
Because of the appearance of the rescue team, many residents who were staying at home in the community went downstairs. Some asked about the situation outside and whether it was safe to go out now. Some were smarter and took the opportunity to rush to the supermarket in the community and bought a truckload of goods without hesitation.
The rescue team of seven or eight people has been working continuously for nearly thirty-six hours. They were the first team to be formed after the incident. They have been running outside and are very familiar with the situation outside.
Because giant insects appeared again in the city yesterday, experts once again measured oxygen throughout the city and found that the oxygen content in several new vegetation areas increased. Of course, after these two days, the oxygen content has dropped below 40%. Those giant insects will die automatically in two days even if they are not removed.
But this incident made them realize that giant insects may become the norm. If the interval between oxygen explosion areas is shortened, the number and types of giant insects will also increase.
So now they plan to solve the problem from the root. Once the oxygen content in the vegetation area is detected to be excessive, it will be burned immediately and inhibitors will be sprayed.
Other mutant plants that appear in residential areas will also be cleared after collecting samples. Currently, 50% of the mutant plants in the city have been cleared, and they have received an order to clear all mutant plants in the next two days.
"So can we go out now? When can we resume our normal commuting life?"
The residents were anxious and just wanted to know whether their lives could return to normal. Because of the giant insects, they had already taken many days off, but then there was a thunderstorm, and the authorities called on people not to go out for the time being.
This situation is okay for two or three days, but no one can do it for a long time.
They have to work to earn money to pay for their house and car loans. Now the situation outside is chaotic, causing resource shortages and rising prices everywhere
. They also have to support their families and children... "Going to work?" The rescue team leader was amused. They have been through life and death in the past few days, facing giant geckos, mutated bees, mutated plants, and saw many corpses of people who couldn't escape. Now someone suddenly asked this, and he really felt ridiculous, "Are you sure you still have work to do now?"
Except for special industries, such as medical care, rescue, water and electricity, and various food and material transportation, all social activities in the city have stopped.
People trapped in hotels, companies, schools, and various entertainment venues are waiting for them to rescue and want to go home, but people who are at home in this community are still thinking about going to work?
Yes, compared to other places, the situation in this community is already pretty good. Naturally, you won't experience the panic of having your entire home destroyed by plants, losing your family, losing your belongings, and having to move to a temporary living center.
Many of the joys and sorrows of human beings are incommensurable, because they can't see most of them.
"Go home and read more news. We don't have the final say. You decide whether you want to go out or not." The captain patted one of them on the shoulder and called his teammates to leave.
The residents chased for a few steps, but they dared to order the security guards in the community around, thinking it was natural, but they did not dare to question the rescuers.
After today, the security guards in other buildings knew what happened to Xiao Zhang and others, and everyone had their own considerations. After the
rescue team left that day, more than half of the security guards in the community left. They had protective clothing, 3M masks, pesticides, and some had some good skills, so they worked together to leave. Some smart security guards even bought a lot of durable supplies in the community supermarket before leaving. Before
noon the next day, the community supermarket hung a sign and locked the door, announcing that all the stocks were cleared. After that, no one knocked on the door to buy things, and it was never opened again.
The panicked residents wanted to go to a large supermarket outside the community to buy supplies, but soon learned from other people that because the incident happened in the early morning, many supermarkets had not yet opened, and most of them are now closed.
The authorities said that they are deploying manpower to speed up the pace of clearing the mutant plants and animals, and hope that the public can patiently wait at home for another two days. As long as all the mutant plants and animals are cleared, they can resume normal life.
At the same time, experts also called on the public who have oxygen detectors to test the green areas around them every day. If the oxygen content is between 30% and 40%, it is necessary to monitor and measure several times. Once the oxygen content is higher than 50%, call the rescue phone immediately.
**
This is the fourth day after the outbreak of plant and animal mutations in the city. In the past few days, the Youxi family of three has completely followed the official notice and stayed at home, not going anywhere.
When the giant rat appeared before, Fan Qi was still worried that her daughter would rush to the front and help the rescue team solve the problem, because she was the one who made the call.
But after the rescue team came, she stayed at home the whole time, just stood in front of the window and watched for a while. After finding that the people below could handle it completely, she turned around and went to the kitchen to help wash green onions and cook noodles.
It happened to be the day when all the noodles were cooked. The family of three all liked scallion oil noodles. They knew that Youxi warehouse had a lot of take-out boxes, round, flat, big, and small, so they decided to make 50 servings of fresh chicken soup noodles and make the rest into scallion oil noodles.
Fan Qi felt relieved that her daughter had no intention of rushing to the front to show off. She began to think that her daughter was like a hermit who would not show up when others could solve the problem, and would only intervene when others could not solve the problem.
Afterwards, the family closed the door, continued to wash and cut vegetables, and made various cooked foods, and then watched Youxi bring out different foods to eat in different ways.
If she wants, she can even divide a day into three countries:
in the morning, it is the Western countries, with coffee, sandwiches, hot dogs and fruit salad;
at noon, it is her own country, where she can even directly take out the steaming hot pot, as well as boxes of beef and mutton rolls, tripe and duck blood, and various vegetables that have been cleaned;
in the evening, it is the neighboring island country, where the food is mainly light and more suitable for dinner, with delicious salmon slices, freshly made sushi, crab salad, salmon and seafood bibimbap, whole king crab...
Fan Qi and You Feng were simply eye-opening, and occasionally even wanted to applaud their daughter.
At the same time, the TV at home was always on, and they needed to get news from the outside world from various news. There were dedicated reporters who risked their lives to work with the rescue team and pass on first-hand on-site picture data.
Compared to the various terrifying animals and plants posted by other people on the Internet, the official news always seems to pick the better situations to report, and a certain split has gradually formed.
Water, electricity and network signals have always been well maintained. People hiding at home have nothing to do but go online.
However, the various messages on the Internet are too mixed, and sometimes you even feel that you are not in the same world as you.
Human beings are too small. Trapped at home, they can only see what they can see, and have no way to fully understand the situation outside.
But everyone's requirements are not high. As long as they know that society is still running, the news is still being broadcast, and the rescue team is still carrying out missions to save people, everyone will feel at ease - except for the daily consumption of food, watching the refrigerator getting emptier and the food reserves getting less and less, which makes people a little panic.
On the evening of the fourth day, a family of three was rolling dice to decide what to eat in the evening when someone rang their doorbell.
The person who came was Xu Yan, who had greeted You Xi before. There was only one security guard left in the building, so if anything happened now, he would act as the temporary person in charge.
"There was a situation that actually happened a few days ago, but because it was too chaotic that day and the person in question lived alone, no one noticed it afterwards. Today, the person who lives next door to him found me, and I learned about it."
"What happened to that person? Was he injured?" You Xi frowned and asked carefully, "Or has it already... something happened in the building?"
"I still don't know now, because that person is missing! His neighbor wanted to borrow some seasoning today, and he knocked on the door for a long time but no one came out. He found the security guard, and the security guard went to the property to get the master key and went to the person's house, only to find that the other party was not at home at all.
Afterwards, they came to me, and I spent the whole afternoon investigating this matter. That person had gone to the supermarket with other people in the afternoon, but then because of the giant rat incident, everyone ran around and no one noticed him. Now someone recalls that he seemed to have disappeared when everyone came back that afternoon..." "
Disappeared? Could he have left the community?" She remembered that many security guards left that day, and several people who were not residents of the community also left with them.
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