"Quickly, let's plug this hole!"
Xu Lai walked into the air-conditioned room, ignoring the stench of the ants being electrocuted by the electric baton, and directly helped her father cover the air conditioner drain pipe hole with the insulation cotton, and then used strong tape to firmly fix the insulation cotton in place.
"Dad, use something flat to hold up this insulation for a while and observe it. I'll go help the others!"
Before Xu Haiguo could reply, Xu Lai stepped into the next room.
Unexpectedly, the second uncle who was guarding this room was exceptionally wise. He actually stood on a chair and used a flat-bottomed stainless steel basin to firmly block the air conditioner drain pipe hole.
"Second Uncle, it has to be you!"
Xu Lai praised his second uncle with great admiration, and then simply used strong tape to fix the stainless steel basin in place.
Next was Song Qiu'e and Xu Chao's room. Since there was nothing handy to plug the hole, when Xu Lai went in, he saw more than a dozen mutated ants on the walls of the room.
Xu Lai could only manage to go to one of the rooms at the moment. Fortunately, Grandpa Xu and Xu Haiguo, who were in the other two rooms, found that the air conditioner drain pipe hole in their room was tightly blocked and had not been pushed open by ants.
So the two joined Song Qiu'e and Xu Chao's room, using electric batons to shock the mutated, poisonous red ants crawling on the wall.
Smelling the acrid smell of their companions being shocked with electric batons, the ants, which were crawling in other directions, immediately turned around and rushed towards Xu Lai and his group.
These mutant ants are incredibly aggressive!
Seeing the mutated ants that were conscious and could constantly change positions to attack each other based on the enemy's location, Xu Lai broke out in a cold sweat in this extreme high-temperature environment.
These mutated, poisonous red ants are like intelligent people.
No, they are not only intelligent, but also a species that contains strange poisons and is cold and cruel!
The family of five worked together to finally block all the air conditioner drain pipe holes in the rooms and also eliminated the mutated ants that had crawled into the rooms.
"This thing is too dangerous, we can't be careless!"
As always, the meticulous Old Master Xu spoke up.
If even one person manages to escape the net and ends up in the house, it would be a hidden bomb for the entire family.
If a bomb explodes, it can kill people!
So the five of them started from the living room and checked every place in the room several more times before they stopped!
"These mutated red ants are absolutely terrifying!"
With hearts pounding with anxiety, the group frantically managed to temporarily keep these terrifying creatures out of their home, then collapsed to the ground as if they had escaped death.
"Ah, help! Help!"
After they quieted down, they heard screams coming from upstairs again.
Even Xu Lai, who had been reborn, was terrified by these horrific mutated animals, turning her face deathly pale.
"No, we have to pull ourselves together!"
Xu Lai turned her head and looked at her family members whose faces were filled with fear. She immediately forced herself to sit up and used her consciousness to take out five bottles of energy drinks and some snacks such as chocolate from her spatial storage.
"Everyone, have a little something to eat to replenish your energy!" Xu Lai distributed the food and drinks to everyone.
Grandpa Xu and the other two elders were surprised to hear that Xu Lai, a younger generation member, had come to comfort them even when she was in danger.
They actually looked a little embarrassed.
“Lai Lai is right. No matter how powerful these mutated ants are, we’ve kept them out. As long as they can’t get in, we’re not afraid!”
Having come to terms with it a bit, Song Qiu'e suppressed her fear and tried to speak in a relaxed tone.
"Yeah, I don't believe this thing can stay outside our house forever. We have food and drink, let's see who can outlast whom."
Grandpa Xu also perked up, took a sip of his drink, and said.
As a young boy who was not yet an adult, Xu Chao's understanding of death was far less thorough than that of his grandfather and others.
Anyway, there's no immediate danger, and my sister has a magical space where they can hide from disaster during the day.
The easygoing man even refused the chocolate Xu Lai offered him: "Sis, could you bring out two bags of spicy strips to satisfy my craving?"
Chocolate and such sweet snacks are not for men to eat.
Hearing her brother's words, Xu Lai couldn't help but roll her eyes at him: "Your sister will grant you that wish today!"
After saying that, two large bags of spicy strips in two different flavors appeared out of thin air in his hand.
"Thank you, my dear sister!"
Xu Chao's eyes were instantly drawn to the spicy strips in Xu Lai's hand. He reached out and took a bag from her, immediately opened the bag, took out a spicy strip, and began to eat it with relish.
This is the taste!
The spicy snacks in my sister's online space were three boxes she stocked up on before the torrential rains and floods.
During the more than seven months of natural disasters that year, he and his older sister scrimped and saved on food to survive until now.
If he remembered correctly, his older sister had no more than ten bags of spicy strips in her storage space.
This is something you can only eat once in a while!
"Does your second great-uncle (Dad and Mom) want some spicy snacks?"
After eating a spicy snack and satisfying his craving, Xu Chao hurriedly took the snacks and asked each of his three elders in the family for their opinions, and then fed one to Xu Lai.
Grandpa Xu and the others, who had always been indifferent to this stuff, couldn't help but shake their heads.
This stuff has a really strong flavor; I don't know why young people like spicy snacks so much!
Xu Chao wasn't annoyed that his three elders had refused his offer. Instead, he sat down next to his older sister with his spicy snacks, and the two of them ate them with great relish!
Even the mutant ants on the windowpane were attracted by the unique smell of spicy strips.
They hovered outside the glass of the balcony for a long time, but seeing that they couldn't get in, they eventually continued climbing upstairs.
"By the way, I can call Long Gan from the fire department in this situation!"
After eating the spicy snack, Xu Lai realized what had happened and slapped her forehead. She quickly took out her phone, found Long Gan's number, and called him.
"What? A swarm of mutated, poisonous red ants?"
Long Gan, who was returning to the fire station from a mission, received a phone call. He was quite surprised to see who was calling him.
"Hello, Comrade Xu Lai, what can I do for you?"
Upon hearing the familiar voice, Xu Lai immediately told him everything about the attack on their Jinxiu Haoting residential community by mutated red poisonous ants.
"What? Your neighborhood has been attacked by a swarm of mutated, poisonous red ants?"
"Yes, Captain Long, for some reason these mutated poisonous ants are all half the size of my thumb. Their saliva is not only highly poisonous but also highly corrosive, and those poisonous red ants even eat people!"
To help Captain Long and his team better eliminate the mutated red poison ants, she even described how they encountered humans and, in just a few minutes, devoured living people, leaving only a pile of bones—a truly horrific sight.
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