Chapter 71: Locust Plague
The sky was pitch black, like a huge curtain, accompanied by a noisy buzzing sound, like thunder.
Wen Xu had sharp eyes. He pointed at the dark clouds in the sky and shouted, "Sister Xiaoman, there are bugs flying over here. There are so many bugs!"
Xia Xiaoman and Su Ran stood up suddenly and ran to the balcony. Little black dots flew over one after another. Su Ran was so scared that his face turned pale. "What the hell is this?"
Xia Xiaoman's face didn't look good either. "It's locusts! Lingling, Wen Xu, go back and close all the doors and windows at home before coming over."
Lingling and Wen Xu responded and ran home to close the windows and doors. Xia Xiaoman also went home to close the doors and windows, and then ran to 1502 to help Lingling and the others close the windows.
After closing the doors and windows, the group returned to 1502.
At this time, the locusts had already flown in front of us, densely covering the entire window and balcony glass door. There was a buzzing sound in my ears, as if there was a plane circling overhead.
Xia Xiaoman felt uneasy. It was the first time in her life that she had encountered a locust plague and seen so many locusts.
Lingling tugged at Xia Xiaoman's arm and said, "Sister Xiaoman, will these bugs eat Dad?"
After hearing Wen Ling's words, Su remembered that there were still companions outside, "Sister Xiaoman, Uncle Wen and Brother Yang haven't come back yet, I hope nothing has happened to them!"
Xia Xiaoman comforted him, "Don't worry! Coach and Zhou Qiuyang have strong reaction abilities and will be able to come back alive."
"Pah!" There was a slight noise behind her. Su Ran turned around and saw seven or eight locusts running rampant in the living room. "Ahhh! Sister, locusts, locusts are flying in!"
Su Ran screamed and danced to catch locusts. Wen Xu and Lingling also ran over to help.
Xia Xiaoman pulled out a machete and knocked down the locust that flew in front of her and stomped it to death. "Su Ran, didn't you close the doors and windows tightly?"
"I closed all the windows! I closed all the windows in every room!" Su Ran was devastated. He really hated insects, especially flying ones.
Xia Xiaoman walked around while hitting the bugs with a machete, looking for the source of their entry. After a while, she discovered that the locusts were flying in from the reserved holes of the air conditioner and the air outlets of the kitchen and bathroom.
After discovering this loophole, Xia Xiaoman suddenly lost the mood to stay in 1501.
"The locusts got in through the reserved air conditioning holes and air outlets. My house may have been invaded by locusts as well. I'll go home and check. You stay here and watch over the twins!"
Hearing that Xia Xiaoman was leaving, Su Ran held out Er Kang's hand, "Sister, don't leave me! I'm afraid of bugs!"
Xia Xiaoman: “…”
"You are almost an adult, how dare you say that you are afraid of insects? Look at Lingling, she can catch a locust with her bare hands."
Su Ran wanted to cry but had no tears. "I don't want to either! But I'm just scared."
"Then take this opportunity to build up your courage." Xia Xiaoman said this and left without looking back.
When she got home and opened the door, she saw dozens of locusts jumping around in her living room.
Xia Xiaoman closed the door, took out two electric mosquito swatters, and with a few swatters, he shot down four or five locusts.
After cleaning up the locusts in the living room, I entered the bedroom and found that there were no locusts in the chicken bedroom. As soon as the locusts ran into the chicken room, the chicks surrounded them and pecked them to death.
There were not many locusts in the rabbit room. Xia Xiaoman entered the room and found that the cheeks of the four rabbits were bulging, and one of the rabbits had half a locust in its mouth.
Xia Xiaoman immediately came up with a new idea. He took out a net bag and caught all the locusts that flew into the room.
These will be food for the chicks and rabbits in the future, so they cannot be wasted.
There were too few locusts in the room, so Xia Xiaoman took out a few snakeskin bags, stretched them with wire and hung them outside the balcony. Then he waved an electric mosquito swatter above them, and all the electrocuted locusts fell into the snakeskin bags.
But this method lasted less than five minutes, and Xia Xiaoman was forced to give up.
There were so many locusts that she couldn't even open her eyes. After catching the locusts for a while, her face, neck, and arms were all covered with scratches or bumps from the locusts.
It doesn't hurt too much, but it itches and scratches, which is very uncomfortable.
Xia Xiaoman thought about it, took out some fresh wild vegetables and some green cloth from the space, and smeared the juice of the wild vegetables on the green cloth.
Then turn on all the electric mosquito swatters in the space and hang them upside down on the balcony, and then hang a green cloth coated with wild vegetable juice behind the electric mosquito swatters to attract more locusts to fly in.
Locusts find food by smell and touch, and the strong scent of green grass attracts a large number of locusts.
There were crackling sounds like cannons from the balcony, and occasionally there was a smell of burning. The dead locusts fell to the ground like rain, and soon a mountain of locusts accumulated.
The electric mosquito swatters that Xia Xiaoman took out were all powered by batteries. Once the swatters ran out of power, he would immediately replace the batteries and continue to electrocute locusts.
Being busy catching locusts, Xia Xiaoman didn't pay attention to how long the locusts stayed. When she reacted, she found that the locusts outside had stayed in the floating city for more than two hours.
Although she had never experienced locusts, she had heard that locusts usually did not stay for too long after flying over. They would eat a portion of crops and plants and then fly away to the next place with fertile vegetation.
The locusts stayed for more than two hours. I'm afraid they dug out and ate all the grass roots in the soil!
Xia Xiaoman was worried. After the locust plague, the food crisis might happen again.
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On the other side, Wen Jianfeng, Zhou Qiuyang and three other workers hid in a building.
Today they were assigned to repair the electrical circuit in this building. Just as they measured the required wire size, a swarm of locusts suddenly rushed in through the window and door.
There were too many locusts, and Wen Jianfeng tried to rush out of the building and return to the community, but he was forced back after taking only half a step forward.
In desperation, he and Zhou Qiuyang had to stay in a semi-enclosed tool room with three other colleagues.
"Ahhh!! Brother Feng, help, there is a locust here!" Colleague Li Yu'e screamed and hid in Wen Jianfeng's arms.
Zhou Qiuyang moved quickly and stood in front of Wen Jianfeng. "Sister Yu'e, why are you still afraid of locusts at your age? Didn't you catch them when you were farming before?"
Seeing that her goal had not been achieved, Li Yu'e said unhappily: "I am a city dweller. I have never farmed or caught locusts."
Zhou Qiuyang curled his lips and said, "That's great. Now I can catch two to play with. Locusts may look big, but they are not scary at all. Even a three or four-year-old child can catch a locust."
Li Yu'e rolled her eyes. Of course she was not afraid of locusts, she just wanted to take this opportunity to have more contact with Wen Jianfeng.
But there is always a young man like Zhou Qiuyang by Wen Jianfeng's side, who has no sense at all. Every time she tries to get close to Wen Jianfeng, Zhou Qiuyang will come to ruin her plans.
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