Chapter 73 Chapter 73
While farming, residents discovered several locusts that were twice as big as before, with sharp teeth that could easily cut human skin.
He handed over the captured locusts to the patrol team, who then reported the matter to Chen Guoan.
Chen Guoan's face changed drastically when he saw the locusts. He quickly turned on the base's broadcast, "The passage to the underground city is closed! The passage to the underground city is closed! Everyone, hurry back to the house and don't stay outside."
Locust plagues are prone to occur during the dry season. Wherever the locusts go, not a blade of grass is left. No matter what, the crops in the dungeon must be preserved!
As soon as the words fell, a dark cloud appeared in the sky.
Some people were curious and stopped to watch. When the dark clouds came closer, they saw that it was a group of locusts!
It was too late to escape now. Dense swarms of locusts surrounded him, their sharp teeth biting through his skin and eating his flesh. Even if he rolled on the ground, he could not drive away the hungry locusts.
After a while, the wailing gradually weakened, and a living person was gnawed into a skeleton.
Anyone who saw this scene was so frightened that they ran towards the nearest building.
But how could two legs be faster than flying ones? They were soon caught up and eaten clean.
The base was filled with screams and cries. These locusts ate whatever they came across, including wood and cloth. They smashed the thinner glass and the people hiding inside became their food.
Ye Xun had just stepped out of the house, but when he saw the dark clouds in the sky, he immediately retracted his foot.
He ran to the first floor and turned on the power grid. Soon, the sound of living creatures being electrocuted came from outside.
When he walked into the yard and looked up, he saw the dense insects on the glass above his head. Ye Xun rubbed the goose bumps on his arms and couldn't help but feel lucky that his parents didn't go out today, otherwise he couldn't imagine it. These locusts didn't look like vegetarians.
I just don't know what's going on in the base.
The base was in chaos, everyone was running around and fighting over who would enter first.
Chen Guoan reacted quickly and closed all the windows after the broadcast. The glass in the office building is all tempered glass, which is strong and resistant to collision, and it is very safe to stay inside.
Zhao Wenjie was patrolling outside. Fortunately, he was close to the office building and had quick reactions, so apart from an injury to his arm, he was not seriously injured.
While Chen Guoan was disinfecting and applying medicine to his wound, he still had the energy to joke, "Fortunately, you had the foresight to leave some of the medicine Ye Xun gave me, otherwise I don't know what to do today."
"You can still laugh, how about the others? Have you found a place to hide?"
The smile disappeared instantly, and Chen Guoan knew that the situation was not good when he saw the change in his expression.
"Half of the people are dead. These locusts are too deadly. They can eat an adult in just a few minutes. In order to give everyone a chance to escape, they didn't have time to escape." Zhao Wenjie said in a heavy tone, his hands clenched so tightly that his joints turned white.
After applying medicine to his wound, Chen Guoan walked to the bedside and looked outside. There was no sign of a living person. They had either hidden in the house or turned into bones on the ground.
The plants in the farmland were eaten down to the point where not even the roots were left.
This is the locust invasion.
The locust plague lasted for five days until there was nothing left to eat, and then they left and moved on to the next place.
During these five days, the residents of the base lived on the food stored in their homes. They did not dare to open the windows, let alone go out.
As soon as the locusts left, they went out of their homes.
There were bones everywhere on the streets, and it was impossible to tell who was who. The only clothes with labels were eaten by locusts.
There was no other option, so the base had to send out patrol teams to gather the skeletons in one place for processing.
Many members of the patrol team lost their lives in this disaster. The base compensated their families with 500 kilograms of food each. The warehouse, which was originally well-stocked, was immediately empty. The sweet potatoes and yams in the fields survived because they grew in the soil, but all other vegetables were eaten up.
The reduction in food caused panic among the lower classes. Ye Xun's electric grid electrocuted a lot of locusts to death, and they were all picked up and eaten.
Fried or grilled, and then sprinkled with seasonings, this is a rare delicacy for those who have not eaten meat for a long time.
After Ye Xun found out, he felt a little nauseous. It wasn't that he was afraid of insects. He and his classmates had eaten roasted silkworm pupae in college.
But these locusts had strange appearances and had eaten human flesh, which he could not accept no matter what.
There are many people in the base who have the same idea as him. Who knows whether the locust in his mouth has ever eaten his own family?
Chen Guoan did not intend to order a ban. When food is scarce, locusts are a good substitute.
The crops in the underground city will take another month or so to mature. In order to prevent hungry residents from rioting, the entrance needs to be better guarded, but the patrol team suffered heavy casualties and needs to recruit new people.
Both Sun Xiao and Xu Feng went for the interview. Chen Guoan recognized them and had a good understanding of their personalities. He believed that they could be of great use.
So they were asked to work under Zhao Wenjie, and except Zhao Wenjie, everyone else in the patrol team had to obey their orders.
Qin Wei had nothing to do at home, so he also went for the interview, but it was not a job for the patrol team. Instead, he would be an instructor for the patrol team, training new recruits.
The salary was not high, only two kilograms of sweet potatoes a day, but Qin Wei thought it was not bad. It made him regain some of the feeling of training people when he was a mercenary.
On the first day after the disaster, the patrol team harvested the sweet potatoes and potatoes planted on the ground. Without leaves, they would only rot if left in the ground, so it was better to dig them up and save the seeds to be planted in the underground city.
There were fewer people in the base, it was a lot quieter, and there were no people walking around the streets.
The number of people outside the base increases every day, and some people from other provinces have learned to build walls like the H base.
The early bird catches the worm. All the rocks in the nearby mountains have been mined by Base H. If you want rocks, you have to go farther away, which greatly increases the consumption of manpower and time.
The earth's magnetic field has stabilized recently and satellite phones can be used again. Chen Guoan has received many calls from bases in the past few days. They are all migrating to Province Y. Less than one-fifth of the icebergs in the sea have melted, but they have already flooded Province Z and Province J.
Experts have made a data model based on the speed of glacier melting. In the slowest four months, all areas with altitudes lower than Province Y will no longer exist.
"Have other countries been contacted? What's the situation over there?" Chen Guoan asked the person on the other end of the line.
"Not very good. Before the communication was cut off, there was no one alive in the tropics, and the temperature there could reach as high as 85 degrees. No signs of human activity have been detected in the area north of Country E. It is estimated that everyone died in that cold wave." The other party explained the situation of other countries one by one. In comparison, Country Xia was considered to be doing well.
"Our country is in the subtropics. No matter how hot or cold it is, we can withstand it. Those countries are miserable. They are directly destroyed." Speaking of this, the man couldn't help but sigh. No one knows when this disaster will end. Where is the hope for mankind?
Chen Guoan felt like a huge rock was pressing down on his heart and he couldn't breathe. The situation of mankind is so serious, can it really survive until the end of the world?
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