"You make it sound so easy, but it must have taken a lot of effort. You've gotten so thin from exhaustion, go eat something to replenish your strength."
Xu Lin felt sorry for Zhou Pin, who was so thin from hunger, and took out six dishes and a soup from her space to help him recover.
"After you finish eating, go take a nap in your space. We can talk about it when you wake up."
Zhou Pin has been away these past few days, and Xu Lin has been sleeping in the space every night. There are still 578 hours left to enter the space.
To put Xu Lin at ease, Zhou Pin ate most of the food she had brought out, and then hugged Xu Lin as they went to sleep in the space.
I woke up at 1 p.m.
"Why didn't you wake me up? It's past mealtime, you must be starving!"
“I also had a good night’s sleep. I haven’t been able to sleep well these past few days since you were gone, even when I’m on social media. Let’s have noodle soup for lunch, I have some ready-made.”
Zhou Pin isn't picky about food; he'll eat whatever Xu Lin tells him to eat.
"There should be bug-shoveling vehicles outside by now. The bug catchers I gave you will be fixed to all the streets of the base." After eating and drinking their fill, Zhou Pin and Xu Lin came out of the space and sat on the sofa on the second floor to chat.
"So we got this through connections? It's so nice to have a boyfriend who works at the Ministry of Science and Technology." Xu Lin started flattering.
"It's good that you know," Zhou Pin said.
"Really! I saw the bug shovel!" Xu Lin leaned out the window to look outside.
A bug-shoveling truck was working in front of their house. It looked similar to a bulldozer, but more advanced. First, it scooped up the bugs on the ground, then tilted the truck and dumped them into the cargo bed at the back, and the cargo bed door closed quickly.
"What should we do with these insects?" Xu Lin asked.
"Make them into insect powder and insect cakes."
Insect powder is easy to understand; it's simply dried insects ground into powder.
In the previous life, insect cakes were made into cakes by mixing them with soil. Now that the base has better conditions, they are made with added whole grains, so they are actually quite nutritious.
After the insect removal truck passed, there were basically no more white insects on the road. Then a pesticide sprayer came and sprayed a layer of disinfectant on the ground, providing double protection.
The measures taken at the base may have been effective. Dr. Dai said that there are very few patients being hospitalized due to insect bites anymore. Sun Wei's team at the Ministry of Science and Technology has developed a portable insect repellent pouch, and the situation looks very promising.
Just when everyone thought the insect plague was under effective control and the insects would soon be eliminated, Dr. Dai sent a message in the group chat.
"The new mutant insects that have appeared at the base can fly and are poisonous. If you get bitten, your whole body will turn red and itch. If you scratch your skin raw, you will get a bacterial infection and eventually die. Everyone must be careful. I have already stopped letting Xiang Qing go to school. Delete this message after you see it. The base should be monitoring it."
Seeing how serious Dr. Dai was, everyone knew the insect infestation had worsened. Zhou Pin was about to go to work, and Xu Lin had already given him a protective suit to wear.
Xu Lin: Everyone, please be careful when you go out. Didn't you stock up on protective suits before? Wear them to work. You don't need to change them every day; just keep using them as long as they're not torn.
Xu Lin urged everyone in the group to wear protective clothing when going out.
The group chat started exchanging messages again that evening.
Zheng Ming: Today, I was laughed at by my colleagues for wearing protective clothing to work. Half an hour later, that colleague was bitten by an insect and kept scratching it, saying that he felt there were insects in his blood and bones. He was eventually sent to the hospital, and I don't know what happened to him.
Dr. Dai: I treated that patient. He has skin ulcers all over his body. Whether he can pull through depends on his luck. I'm not going to say anything more, another patient is coming in.
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