Commander Wang: "Doesn't Boss Bai have an army of beasts?"
Lu Yu: "There are only a few dozen of them, how can they deal with a huge swarm of rats?"
In the short term, it's manageable to control the situation, but if it goes on for too long, once the rats realize what's happening, it's not impossible for something as small as an ant trying to shake an elephant to come to its senses.
After failing to reach a conclusion, Bai Shuang suggested that they play it safe for now, since the ellipsoid would protect them and they wouldn't be in any danger.
Bai Shuang: "Over time, the number of rats will decrease."
Commander Liu: "As the experts just said, they have a strong reproductive capacity, and their numbers will only increase, so how could they decrease?"
After Commander Liu finished speaking, everyone looked at Bai Shuang, wanting to know the answer.
Bai Shuang: "Their ability to multiply is strong, but have you ever thought about what they eat?"
You might say that it eats insects and insect eggs in the soil.
But with such a dense population of rats, how long can those hibernating insects last? Giant rats have quite the appetite.
After eating the insects, they either leave to find food elsewhere, or they can only eat their own kind.
In either case, the losses will decrease, which is beneficial to us.
Commander Wang: "What if we don't reduce it?"
Bai Shuang: "Just hold on for now, and the acid rain will come when the polar night ends."
Acid rain is harmful to humans and animals alike; this is a case of fighting fire with fire.
Old Master Lu: "What the girl said makes sense. Now, all we can do is wait."
Next, Bai Shuang took out some metal from her space. She couldn't control the construction of houses at the base, but she didn't want to stop building the cruise ship. The Earth storm was approaching, and time was running out.
Since everyone is playing it safe, Bai Shuang and the others will do the same.
Besides training and handling matters at the hospital, pharmaceutical factory, and planting platform, I spend the rest of my time either cooking delicious food or training wild beasts and birds of prey.
However, they can no longer leave the base.
In addition, have the pharmaceutical factory produce more rodent repellent and rodenticide, and when the giant rats are less numerous, that will be the time for her to take action.
Then, people from other official bases also flew over one after another to exchange for rat repellent and rat-killing drugs.
The only difference is that the goods they use for exchange are no longer dried insects, but scrap metal, which must have been instructed by Elder Lu.
They still keep dried insects to eat, but they have no shortage of scrap metal.
There are ruins everywhere in the city, so before the rat infestation, we collected quite a few.
Moreover, they didn't build houses made entirely of metal, so the amount used was small, and thus it was preserved.
The person who came from the Dragon City base was still Uncle Zuo.
This time he brought his second aunt with him. The Dragon City base was infested with rats, so he planned to have her stay here for a while.
The head of the Zuo family is the base commander, and he still can't leave.
Uncle Zuo is a good friend of Uncle Li. Uncle Li and his wife invited them to dinner, and Bai Shuang also went.
She brought them eggs and chicken as an extra treat.
During the day, Bai Di and Bai Di received care from the Zuo family at the Longcheng base because of Bai Shuang. They also brought vegetables from the planting area and ate with them.
I saw Uncle Zuo once before, when we were exchanging dried insects for eggs during the polar day, but I haven't seen Aunt Zuo since Uncle Li came to the Kyoto base.
Compared to before, she has a few more crow's feet around her eyes, but she seems to be in good spirits.
Upon seeing Bai Shuang, he smiled and said, "Thank you, Miss Bai, for taking such good care of those two boys."
It seems that she has truly moved on from the shadow of Zoe Kelly's death.
"Aunt Zuo is too kind. They didn't take any special care of me. It's just that they helped me with the work, and I paid them wages. It's that simple."
"The positions here are so sought after. If you hadn't been so considerate, how could those two troublemakers have gotten their turn?"
Uncle Li: "Don't always belittle them, they did perform quite well."
Hearing this, Aunt Zuo smiled broadly.
Although they keep calling their child a little devil, what parent wouldn't want to hear others say good things about their child?
Bai Shuang inquired about the situation at their Dragon City base and learned that the rat infestation there was no less severe than that here.
When the rat swarm arrived, the base immediately sounded the alarm upon discovery.
Upon hearing this, everyone rushed to the base's safe house.
Bai Shuang knew that other official bases, although they did not have such a safe oval shell as the Kyoto base, had all built safe houses.
Otherwise, facing wave after wave of disasters nakedly, people would have been gone long ago.
Most of the people at the Longcheng base survived.
However, those who were a step too slow, those who couldn't bear to leave their family's supplies behind and wanted to bring more, were just a little late, and those behind them were eaten to death by the giant rats.
That day was horrific; blood was everywhere on almost half of the base's roads, a truly gruesome sight.
Fortunately, both they and the Zuo family were unharmed.
Both families were well-off and had life pods at home.
When the alarm sounded, they didn't know exactly what the danger was and were worried that they wouldn't have enough time to run over, so the two families hid in their respective life pods and waited for the rat swarm to pass.
But after waiting for 24 hours, the rat swarm outside did not recede but increased instead.
Forty-eight hours later, the rat swarm outside still showed no signs of abating.
At this rate, the food and water prepared inside will eventually run out, and more importantly, the reserve oxygen inside can only last for a maximum of three days.
Once the ventilation vent is opened, you can hear the giant rat gnawing on the plastic seal, so you quickly close it again.
Turn it on again after a while, let the air in for a few seconds, and then turn it off again.
The life capsules they bought were originally designed to be shockproof, and the plastic seals were also specially made to withstand high temperatures.
But to my utter surprise, I was bitten by a giant rat.
The escape pod can travel on land, but in the end, we still had to contact the safe room to get it driven to the door of the safe room.
They hired a group of people at a high price of 500 cents each, and the moment the security door opened, they swarmed out and collectively beat the rats with sticks.
They only gained a minute to get them out of the escape pod and back to the safe room.
In just one minute, quite a few people were bitten, but fortunately, there were many people, and they all quickly retreated and closed the door.
The two families survived, but all their belongings, including clothes, stored food, and anything organic, were destroyed by the giant rats.
It wasn't just them; it was the whole base. At that time, people could only worry about escaping for their lives. Everything in their homes that was edible and usable, anything that rats could gnaw on, was completely destroyed.
Now everyone in the base is surviving on the food stored in the safe houses.
Fortunately, lessons learned from previous disasters led the base to seal and store a batch of food, primarily for waterproofing purposes.
Now, any grain stored in a hard metal shell has been preserved, but grain stored in sealed plastic bags still cannot escape the scourge of rats.
The more Bai Shuang and the others listened, the more alarmed they became.
Compared to other bases, those who stay at the Kyoto base are truly fortunate.
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