Chapter 66: Gifts in the End of the World, Give a Live Frog
Jingshu suddenly remembered that when it comes to natural enemies of carrion beetles, frogs are definitely the top choice. The next best choice is the maggots we all scoff at.
In the first year of the apocalypse, the maggots fed a lot of people, and so many maggots were fed by the carrion worms. So it is said that the world has its own cycle and no one can escape from it.
It is enough for Jingshu to have bees in the greenhouse on the second floor, which is also pleasing to the eye. It is also enough for the villa yard to have a fat chicken and a fighting chicken, which will definitely eat all the insects cleanly.
The main plan is to raise some more frogs for trading and as gifts. In the end times, there must be something legitimate to do.
People in the early days of the apocalypse were very pretentious. On the one hand, they were terrified when they encountered this rampant infestation of carrion beetles. On the other hand, it really brought a lot of trouble to people. Even the most careful families would always be invaded by carrion beetles, causing all kinds of problems such as food being wasted and swelling and pain all over the body from being bitten while sleeping. In Jingshu's previous life, she was always bitten by carrion beetles when she slept outside.
Even with toilet water, it is impossible to fill the entire house with frogs and keep them like Jingshu did. Some smart people got frogs as gifts and received positive reviews, so they just started raising frogs. These are basically pets that don't require food and rely entirely on eating insects.
So after all the floral water and medicated oil are used up, a trend will emerge: if you want to give a gift in the apocalypse, give a live frog.
Keeping a frog at home can basically solve all the problems with insects. After the apocalypse, frogs have become one of the luxury goods, just like the famous dogs before the apocalypse. Those who can keep frogs at home are very awesome.
"Frogs can adapt to temperatures around 3°C. Now that they are almost extinct, the insect population has exploded. If you want to eat stir-fried bullfrogs, fried frog legs, braised forest frogs, or dry-pot bullfrogs, I'm afraid these frogs are no longer available." Wu Youai said calmly as he picked up a piece of cola chicken wings.
"Eh... in other people's minds I'm a foodie?" Jingshu rolled her eyes and said, "Any frog will do."
"Our professor has a few South American horned frogs. They're ferocious and gluttonous, but very easy to keep. They have huge mouths that take up half their bodies, and they eat their own kind. Do you want some?"
Jingshu clapped her hands: "Okay, this is it."
After dinner, Jingshu took the fat chicken to her grandparents' house and cleaned it thoroughly. Sure enough, she found some carrion beetles, but not many. After all, the food from her grandparents' house was kept in Jingshu's refrigerator. Jingshu decided to take the fat chicken in for a walk every day to prevent the breeding of carrion beetles.
The issue of carrion beetles must be taken seriously, otherwise it will be too late to discover it after all the food has been ruined. It's like the luxury car dealership in the community. It was not until the evening that it was discovered that his food had been invaded by carrion beetles, and more than a dozen bags of rice were gone. Of course, if it has developed to this extent, it means that his family has nothing to eat, so the beetles have spread to his bed.
Jing Shu couldn't even imagine how many carrion beetles had bred in this man's home. Was this the man who blamed her for not warning him? Oh, that was his retribution. Let's see how he survives in this apocalypse.
The carrion worms wasted a lot of food at the beginning of the apocalypse. Careless people like the luxury car dealership had no food, which might lead to more and more people moving from robbery to home invasion and injury, and then to murder people when their true nature was exposed. Anyway, the food of many people in the group had been wasted. What could they do when there was no water or food?
Jingshu knew that the six months of inhumanity were finally coming! And since people started killing, robbing, and forming their own gangs, it was officially declared the end of the world.
The evening news broadcast indeed reported on this insect, named it: carrion beetle, and introduced its habits, etc.
There are also reports of unscrupulous poultry farms secretly raising live poultry to sell at high prices, but this still leads to widespread poultry deaths, resulting in an outbreak of carrion beetles. Hundreds of millions of female beetles have fled and multiplied, invading every household in just three days! The government is currently spraying insecticides and burning poultry carcasses on a large scale.
The polluted lake is also filled with these insects floating in dense groups. It can be predicted that it will not be long before a large number of female insects will fly around looking for places to reproduce. If there are no natural enemies to restrain them, the carrion beetles will become a natural disaster.
Scientists on the Science Channel even listed carrion beetles at the top of the food chain, claiming that it would not be long before carrion beetles would eat up all the food. However, they were slapped in the face not long after. We will talk about this later.
News reports say that Fengyoujing can have a repelling effect. Before the country finds a way to solve the problem, spray Fengyoujing at home as a precaution and make sure that the food is intact.
Jingshu also systematically checked the traps around her villa, including the traps in front of the door and the traps behind the door. She still felt unsafe, so she exchanged three kilograms of rice for a complete set of infrared night vision monitoring and induction alarm system from the then Suning manager Liu.
Money has become worthless and is not even as useful as food. If we go through another six months of darkness, the money system will be completely scrapped.
With the installation of a complete set of surveillance and sensor alarms around the gate, coupled with 24-hour air conditioning, ice makers and other electrical appliances running continuously, Jingshu's family's electricity consumption was completely insufficient, and the U power generation was already overwhelmed. Jingshu had to take out the gasoline generator, which generated 1 liter of electricity every day. At least she still had 15 tons of gasoline, which was enough to generate electricity for decades at this consumption, but she had to save some for migration.
Now, whenever someone approaches the villa, Jingshu's mobile phone can take a picture; when the door is forced open, the phone will alarm. It is very advanced, and Jingshu feels safe.
The next day, Wu Youai brought 5 bell-horned frogs. They have a big round mouth and a bulging belly, which looks very funny and different from ordinary frogs.
Jingshu and Jingye built a two-square-meter wooden enclosure for the frogs to live in by the pond. Jingye wondered, "Why would a few frogs need such a large nest?"
"I plan to breed some frogs and make a lot of money. Grandpa, you see, every household is infested with insects now. If we raise more frogs, we won't have to worry about the carrion beetles, right?" Jingshu said.
Jing Ye didn't think much of it, thinking to himself how much could a small frog sell for, so he just kept it as a pet.
Jingshu put the male and female frogs into a space separated from the quails, and fed them with No. 3, hoping that they could reproduce a new batch soon.
Jing's father finally returned, looking very energetic and bringing back two boxes of mineral water. He said to Jing's mother, "Your sister-in-law's eldest brother and his family are really nice. They just helped me out, but they forced so much mineral water on me. By the way, did you know that your eldest brother said some relatives were coming?"
Jing's mother nodded and said, "They've been talking for over a month now, saying they'd come from their hometown, but there's been no news. What's going on? Has he arrived? Who's coming? My parents' generation is almost all gone."
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