locust plague
Although he likes farming and it can bring him a sense of accomplishment, Jiang Tian also enjoys the process.
But day after day, she was still very happy to have a break.
She decided to finish the test paper tonight so that she could give it directly to Jiang Da tomorrow and get up later.
When he got home, Jiang Tian found some paper and pen, and without even rushing to eat, he prepared to give Jiang Da the test paper first.
Jiang Da: Thank you for being there.
She had just finished a Chinese test when Chen Li and Zhao Fu came back. They had agreed to eat at home today instead of in the cafeteria. The whole family would get together to eat hot pot with clear soup.
The spicy hotpot is too strong, and in this weather and environment, people are already feeling dry and cannot eat spicy food.
They took out the food they bought at the store. Since the three members of the family all went to work, the points for the safe house were still paid on a daily basis. Now their family’s points were already a considerable number, and the key was that there were not many places to spend them.
Jiang Tian described them as having time to earn points but being too busy to spend them. It wasn't just Jiang Tian, Chen Li and Zhao Fu were the same. They didn't want to go out during their rest time and just wanted to stay at home and rest.
Hot pot is especially convenient when you want it. Jiang Tian and her friends didn’t stir-fry the base. They just put the hot pot base into the water, boiled it, and then started adding the ingredients.
"It's so delicious." Jiang Tian exclaimed. In a blink of an eye, it had been a while since she came to the safe house. She, her grandparents, and Jiang Da had gone from feeling uncomfortable at the beginning to being accustomed to all kinds of inconveniences now.
They have now adapted well to life in the safe house and their daily work.
My grandparents have been retired for several years. At the beginning, they both refused to be rehired because they wanted to enjoy their last moments together. They didn't expect to face these things again now.
Compared with grandma, I don’t know who is luckier. Thinking of grandma, Jiang Tian’s mood became even more depressed.
Thinking about this, Jiang Tian slowed down the speed of picking up the dishes. Chen Li and Zhao Fu looked at each other and knew that the child must have been stuck in a dead end again, or the kind that you can't get the answer from asking, and he insisted that there was nothing wrong.
Knowing Jiang Tian's character, Zhao Fu did not try to comfort her. Instead, he took away all the meat in the pot while Jiang Tian was not paying attention. When Jiang Tian came to her senses, she saw the empty boiling pot.
"Oh, grandpa and grandma, and Jiang Da, why are you like this?" Jiang Tian saw that the bowls of the remaining two people and the goose were full, and only his bowl was empty. He didn't have time to feel sad.
I quickly put the other plate of meat into the pot, and without thinking about anything else, I just watched the pot and waited for the meat rolls to be cooked through so that I could take them out.
After eating and drinking, Jiang Tian continued to give Jiang Da a test paper. With things on hand, she was no longer sad.
So when Zhao Fu and Shen Li talked privately, they talked about this issue. They felt that in the current social situation, it would be a good thing to get everyone moving.
Once people are busy, they don’t have the mind to think about all those miscellaneous things, so there is a saying that goes, it’s better to be busy.
Jiang Tian was really busy at the research institute. Today was the first time she felt down in the dumps since she came to the safe house. Perhaps it was because she could rest tomorrow, and her tense nerves suddenly relaxed.
The next day, Jiang Tian spent the day according to his plan, relaxed a lot, went to bed early at night, recharged himself and waited for work the next day.
What happened that day made Jiang Tian feel that she would remember it for the rest of her life, and it was a real lesson for her: she must be rigorous and thorough in doing things, and take into account all possible events as much as possible.
Sometimes, danger happens in just a moment.
That morning, Jiang Tian went to work as usual. She inspected the experimental field and found nothing unusual except that some seedlings that had shown signs of withering had begun to die because they did not receive water in time.
She was about to go back to the control room to register the electronic records.
Just as she turned around and walked back, she saw a black mass flying towards her from a distance through the small window that had just been opened. Jiang Tian didn't react to what it was for a moment, but she reacted quickly.
All open windows were closed in time, and emergency operations were used to close all open windows in the entire experimental field.
Just when the experimental field had just formed an enclosed space and Jiang Tian was about to report the matter to Teacher Zhou, because it was Teacher Zhou who gave her the authority, she could not make any major changes, but she could control the closure of the entire experimental field.
However, if you use this permission, you must tell Teacher Zhou in time. As soon as Jiang Tian turned on his mobile phone, the black mass flew over directly as if it was in an empty place, for comparison above the experimental field.
Some of them were artificial lights, and some used normal sunlight. It just so happened that the part above Jiang Tian's head was transparent. After those things fell over the experimental field, she recognized them as locusts.
Moreover, these locusts have become very powerful, and no one knows where they came from.
Teacher Zhou's phone also came through at this time. Jiang Tian briefly reported the current situation and hung up the phone. He then took a lot of photos with his mobile phone and sent them to Teacher Zhou and his senior brothers and sisters.
The black mass is indeed scary, and the number of locusts is still increasing. It has become a locust plague.
When Teacher Zhou was reporting to his superiors, County Magistrate Zhao also received the news. She promptly arranged for people to close the entrances and exits of the safe house, arranged for people to man the pipes connecting to the upper level, and distributed protective clothing.
Locusts of this appearance already have toxins in their bodies, and it is not clear whether these locusts have changed due to substance "Y", so it is better to be cautious.
Better safe than sorry!
County Magistrate Zhao first stabilized people's hearts and arranged various affairs before picking up the phone to report the locust plague to her superiors. She also saw the photos, some taken by Jiang Tian and some taken by others.
The locusts inside are different from ordinary ones. They still need to get a certain amount for experiments and comparison to see what the specific differences are between these locusts and previous ones.
What methods can be used to deal with these locusts?
Yes, people in other places just hope that the locusts will fly away. Many places, like Jin County, have also experienced so many hardships, but everyone in Jin County is still full of hope, while some places have already given up on themselves.
Anyway, the soil on the ground has become inactive and there is nothing to eat. Let the locusts come. They just need to guard the safe house and wait for rescue or for the locusts to leave first.
There are several such places, and most unfortunately, these places are on the way of this batch of locusts to Jin County. It is no exaggeration to say that the cities that the locusts have visited before have contributed greatly to the current terrible locust plague.
County Magistrate Zhao was furious when he learned about these things. Never allow locusts to form a swarm. Once these things gather together, the consequences will be uncontrollable.
But thinking from another perspective, County Magistrate Zhao could understand them. In such a dangerous moment, the safety of people's lives must be guaranteed first. Jin County has the confidence to say such things because it has a research institute and support from many aspects.
Someone has caught the locusts and sent them to the research institute. County Magistrate Zhao breathed a sigh of relief when he learned about it. The next step is to pay attention to the locust plague outside and arrange tasks at any time, while also waiting for the expedited results from the research institute.
The most important thing is whether the locust is poisonous.
The answer was quickly obtained: it was poisonous, but the toxicity was weak and it would not be life-threatening as long as it was not ingested in large quantities.
This is not so good news, but fortunately, the locusts did not mutate because of substance "Y". It is possible that they did, but it would be difficult to study it in the short term.
What is most certain now is that locusts are slightly poisonous. The original emergency killing measures can still be used, but they are not as effective as before. If the locusts were killed urgently when they first appeared, even if there were locusts now, they would not become a disaster and would not cause such consequences.
He sighed. The locust plague has reached this point. He heard people complaining during the meeting. County Magistrate Zhao was also helpless. Things have come to this point. The most important thing now is not to hold people accountable, but to solve the problem.
Now the satellite remote sensing monitoring system has also encountered problems. The earth's magnetic field is disordered and many things cannot be monitored at all. However, according to the information summary, the path of the locust plague has been revealed.
Even County Magistrate Zhao wanted to curse when he saw how the locust plague was formed. How could these irresponsible people let all the locusts fall on this road when the distance was so long?
After hearing that all the leaders on this road had been replaced, County Magistrate Zhao thought about what her secretary had said to her. Even if she didn't pay attention to the news about these people, she knew that they had no chance of getting any favors under such circumstances.
Under the joint command of County Magistrate Zhao and the research institute, because the outside is now wasteland, a place favored by locusts, and it is a drought period now, there is no way to use ecological control methods such as water conservancy construction.
The best thing is to use pesticides to kill as many locusts as possible and prevent them from wreaking havoc on the next city.
Under the leadership of County Magistrate Zhao, the entire government department began emergency work in a busy and orderly manner.
Jiang Tian was still at the experimental field. After communicating with Teacher Zhou, Teacher Zhou asked her to go back to the control room, but she did not go back. She wanted to check the experimental field again. There were so many locusts overhead. If one of them came in, these seedlings would be doomed.
Not long after, my seniors also came up, as well as people from other laboratories. Many people who were related to this direction and the experimental field came up.
Everyone had the same idea as Jiang Tian, which was to check carefully to see where the leak was, otherwise all the hard work during this period would be in vain.
After the inspection, no problems were found. One person was left in each laboratory, and the rest went back to work.
Walking in groups of three or four, Jiang Tian heard someone talking about the locusts. The other person seemed to be researching biological control and said that the natural enemies of locusts could be used, but they were completely impossible to find in this environment.
Or it could be microorganisms, using pathogenic microorganisms of locusts to make them sick and die. This is better than using pesticides directly, as pesticides are too polluting.
Someone nearby retorted, "But pesticides work quickly, while biological control is too slow. Furthermore, at current temperatures, microorganisms may not be able to survive in the soil. Furthermore, we don't know the full extent of microorganisms' effects on this type of locust. Further research is needed."
Jiang Tian was also thinking about it. After thinking it over, he found that the best way was still pesticides. Other methods were either not suitable under the current conditions, or too slow as that person said, and might not be effective.
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