Chapter 160 Insect Infestation
Although we know that the snake venom cannot be cured, everyone still feels disappointed.
Jiang Si and the others had no choice but to wait for death after being bitten. This made everyone even more afraid of the snakes on the beach, and they were also afraid that when the temperature rose, the snakes would spread all around.
Zhang Aihua thanked Jiang Si and then reminded her, "Miss Jiang, the snakes seem to have become more active due to the temperature. Please be careful!"
Jiang Si hummed and interrupted the communication.
Aunt Zhang's son also died at the same time.
A look of pain and determination flashed across Aunt Zhang's face. Everyone sighed deeply, knowing that no one could stop her anymore.
Zhang Aihua and his colleagues were worried that the high temperature would cause the sea snakes to expand their range of activity. Jiang Si and his colleagues had already discovered that after the smell of realgar dissipated, the sea snakes began to try to climb onto the deck of the icebreaker. Everyone had to find a way to design a spray belt to spray realgar at a fixed time and location.
In order to prevent accidents, there will be someone who leads the monkey group and Xiaohei and Dahei to patrol, to prevent sea snakes from getting used to realgar and climbing up again.
But such a tense life was not a solution. No one could sleep well. The moose living in the cabin felt threatened by the snakes and became restless every day, frequently trying to rush out.
Just when Jiang Si was really considering whether to move up directly and abandon the boat here.
But when I think of the convenient facilities on the icebreaker, I can't bear to do it.
Although the temperature has risen, it is likely to rise again.
If you abandon the ship, it will soon become a snake den and become useless.
The yacht in her space had no way of breaking through the ice.
Besides, there are still a lot of supplies on the ship.
Rather than scrapping it, it would be better to pull it ashore directly.
Just when everyone was trying to find a way to drive away the sea snake, long eagle cries suddenly came from the sky.
Jiang Si and everyone picked up the telescope and looked. They had never expected the vulture to appear so quickly.
The shadows circling in the sky made the snakes aware of the danger, but they had to lay eggs, so even if there was danger, they had to crawl ashore.
They were picked off one by one by vultures, but there were still many snakes on the beach.
Niuniu asked worriedly, "Sister, will these vultures also be poisoned to death?"
Those vultures were obviously starving. They finally found food and their venom glands were punctured, so they were poisoned to death.
This time they caught a live venomous snake. Their instinct made them avoid the sea snake's fangs and attack its head, making the sea snake unable to resist. Then they only ate the snake meat and would definitely not be poisoned again.
Jiang Si shook his head, "Probably not."
Instead, she was worried that the vultures would target them after they had eaten their fill of snakes.
Faced with these mutated creatures, humans are completely unable to control the food chain.
Qin Shen noticed Jiang Si's worry and comforted her, "Don't worry, I will let them know what to eat and what not to eat."
Jiang Si smiled and said, "Yeah."
Even if Qin Shen didn't take action, they still had so many weapons, and shooting the vulture wouldn't be a big problem.
She is just a little greedy and wants the surrounding ecology to reach a stable level.
Vultures swarmed the beaches, clearing out the snakes and eating most of the eggs.
Everyone was worried that vultures would target them, but surprisingly, the ice around the beach melted, and after the sea snakes were eaten, the fish became active.
The vultures had poisonous snakes that had to float to the shore to breathe, and sea fish as their food source, so they had no interest in Jiang Si and the others.
After all, animals have the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm.
Prey of similar size to them is definitely more dangerous than prey that is smaller than them.
Just when Jiang Si thought the ecology had reached a balance point, problems arose again.
A soft-bodied insect similar to a termite appeared that gnawed on everything.
They first appeared on carrots and were found to eat the carrots quickly.
Everyone hurriedly put away the radishes to prevent more radishes from being eaten.
But the insects reproduce too quickly.
The radishes were placed in a makeshift wooden house. When they opened the door the next day, they found that almost half of them had been eaten.
What’s even more terrifying is that everyone discovered that these insects had eaten the wood underneath the wooden house.
In other words, if they don’t control it, the house they built with so much effort will not last for more than a few days.
Jiang Si caught some insects and studied whether the pesticide would be effective against them.
As a result, the pesticides only kill them briefly, and within less than one night, hundreds of thousands of small insects will reproduce from their bodies.
Their growth rate is also terrifyingly amazing.
The most outrageous thing is that it can even corrode and eat iron.
If this kind of bug were to appear on an icebreaker, the entire icebreaker would be in trouble.
This made everyone extremely nervous, and before going back, they had to carefully check their bodies from head to toe for any bugs.
I originally thought that the giant radishes were so big that they would never be able to eat them all no matter how much they planted.
They can't finish eating it, so here's something for them to eat.
Zhang Aihua and his colleagues also discovered this kind of insect. When they went to bed at night, they were worried that their beds would be gone when they woke up the next morning and they would have to move back to the cave.
Everyone was able to get by the first week, but by the second week, their house had been gnawed away to the point where only scraps were left.
The radishes in the field and the food Jiang Si gave them were not spared.
All the meat buried in the snow was eaten by them.
This forces them to go fishing at sea every day.
If there is no goods, we will go hungry.
Zhang Aihua also thought about seeking help from Jiang Si and others, but thinking that Jiang Si and others might not be able to take care of themselves with these insects, she could only try her best to preserve the remaining soybeans, leeks, rice and wheat in glass bottles and plant them again after she got through the difficulties.
Jiang Si tried her best to spray insect repellent in the house, but it still couldn't prevent her and Qin Shen's little nest from disappearing within a month.
This kind of insect can be eaten, but it is too small and you can't finish it.
The monkeys now eat this every day, but it is far from enough to keep up with their reproduction rate.
There still has to be a nemesis.
The nemesis of insects is birds.
They were almost frozen to death in the extremely cold world.
The vulture disdains to eat these insects that are not even as big as its fingernail.
Jiang Si and the others were very worried.
Maybe in the future they will really have to live in caves like Zhang Aihua and the others.
Everyone gathered around the fire to roast fish and think of a solution. Jiang Si picked up a freshly caught sea fish. There was frozen seawater on the fish, which quickly melted when it came into contact with the hot air.
Jiang Si suddenly discovered that wherever the sea water dripped, the ubiquitous insects would actually move away in an orderly manner.
This great discovery made her eyes widen suddenly.
He quickly experimented with the fish in his hand, melting more sea water for the insects to feel.
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