Chapter 14: Extreme Heat, Rat Infestation
“Ah ...!!!”
Suddenly, there was a high-pitched scream from downstairs, and a dense swarm of rats climbed up the wall of their house as if it were flat ground. Jiang Si and Jiang Chengwu looked at each other, quickly locked all the doors and windows on the second floor, and rushed downstairs.
As soon as I went downstairs, I saw countless rats the size of fists running around in the house. Dahei kept biting the rats. Jiang Linhai held the toilet door tightly. Through the transparent tempered glass, I could clearly see the wriggling rats about to fill the entire toilet ceiling. Grandma was holding the puppy and she and mom were screaming and tap dancing on the coffee table.
There was a two-centimeter gap under the toilet door. These rats seemed to have the ability to shrink their bones. They kept coming out from the gap, biting Jiang Linhai's ankles fiercely, and tried to get in through his trouser legs.
The moment Jiang Linhai shook the rat off, the toilet started to make banging sounds as if it was about to explode.
Once rats swarm into a house, the house will be completely destroyed due to their powerful destructive power and the germs they carry.
Jiang Si reacted quickly, stuffing a bottle of rodenticide into Jiang Chengwu's hand. He then ran to the front of the toilet with the rodenticide in hand and shouted to everyone, "Go to the side room first, hurry up! I'll hold it up with something, hurry up!"
The powerful rodenticide was indeed effective. The mice that wanted to bite Jiang Si just came over, but as soon as they smelled the scent, they quickly ran away.
Under Jiang Si's cover, the others successfully entered the room. Jiang Chengwu kept spraying rat poison from his hands, forming a protective circle for everyone.
“Bang, bang, bang—”
At the moment when the toilet door was about to reach its limit, Jiang Si conjured up a huge double-door refrigerator to hold it tightly.
Afraid that the mouse would come out again, Jiang Si didn't have time to think and conjured up a safe, a sofa, a cabinet, cement, bricks...
Although the toilet door was protected, many rats had already entered the house.
Jiang Si threw several bottles of rodenticide to everyone. Under everyone's cover, he took out sticky mouse boards, mousetraps, rat cages, and rat poison from the space and covered the ground around them with them without a single gap.
The huge rat trap is the fastest and most effective. Put rat poison in it, and the rats will keep jumping in. Soon the entire rat trap will be filled up.
The mouse that was stuck and caught in the mousetrap squeaked and bit wildly with its sharp claws and teeth in an attempt to escape.
Jiang Si spread rat poison around them, but they were stupid and accepted it all. They ate until they couldn't move.
After an unknown amount of time, all the mice in the house were captured by Jiang Si.
At first glance, the furniture that had been gnawed into pieces was surrounded by densely packed dead rats with foaming mouths. In the toilet outside the door, the creaking and intrusion sounds made people tremble all over.
Fortunately, the extra doors and windows in their house were sealed, and the other doors and windows were made of steel, so the rats could only smell the odor from outside and worry anxiously.
Jiang Si looked down and saw that everyone was bitten by rats except her because she was wearing long boots and was not bitten.
Jiang Linhai was particularly seriously injured. There was almost no good flesh left on his calves and ankles. The blood was dripping all over his body, which showed how ferocious these rats were.
Rats themselves can spread several diseases, the least well-known of which are plague, hemorrhagic fever, and rat-bite fever.
Plague can cause symptoms such as high fever, sweating, splitting headache, paralysis of limbs, bloodshot eyes, etc. In severe cases, the patient may suffer from unconsciousness, cavity bleeding, and multiple organ failure, which is a direct threat to life.
Three major plague outbreaks in history directly led to the deaths of 135 million people.
The symptoms of hemorrhagic fever and rat-bite fever are slightly milder. Hemorrhagic fever is mainly manifested by conjunctival hemorrhage, ecchymosis on the skin, congestion on the face, neck and chest, giving a "drunk look". Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea are common symptoms. With medication, it can take up to one to two months to recover.
Rat bite fever causes redness, swelling and ulceration at the bitten site, and obvious rashes appear on the trunk, which merge into patches and form hard plaques. If the inflammation cannot be treated in time, the dead flesh will need to be removed in mild cases, and direct amputation may be required in severe cases.
If anyone in your family is infected with any of these diseases, you will suffer greatly.
Jiang Si kicked the dead rats away, took out several large water bottles from the space, and handed soap and water to everyone. "Wash the wounds repeatedly with soap and water for fifteen minutes, and then squeeze out as much blood as possible!"
"I'll help Dad first!"
Jiang Linhai endured the severe pain and shook his head, "Dad is fine, I can handle it myself, you take care of your own injuries first."
Jiang Si put on gloves and a mask and said without letting anyone know what to do. "I'm not injured, but your wound is all swollen and festering! If you delay any longer, both legs will be amputated!"
Jiang Linhai was obedient. After Jiang Si cleaned him up, he saw the bloody wound and felt a lump in his throat. He took out the alcohol bottle and said, "Dad, bear with it for a while. I'm going to pass out."
The wound area is too large, and applying it with a cotton swab is of no use.
"Dad is fine, you fall down!"
Jiang Linhai closed his eyes and gritted his teeth. Just as he poured the alcohol, a scream of "Ah--" echoed throughout the house. He almost spilled the alcohol in Jiang Si's hand.
Jiang Si held his legs tightly, "Don't move!"
A whole bottle of alcohol was poured on him, and Jiang Linhai was in so much pain that his veins were popping out, his face was distorted, and his teeth were bared, just like the iron-crusted octopus in the movie.
The wounds were too many and too large, so Jiang Si poured three bottles of alcohol and sewed them up with needle and thread before letting go of Jiang Linhai, who was soaked in cold sweat.
They should have been injected with hemorrhagic fever vaccine and tetanus vaccine, but Jiang Si had never encountered a rat outbreak in his previous life, so he could only inject tetanus vaccine and rabies vaccine to Jiang Linhai and others for the time being.
To prevent them from developing various complications, Jiang Si gave them another bottle of penicillin.
After doing all this, Jiang Si finally had time to take care of Dahei. A piece of flesh had been bitten off the corner of its ear, and it also had wounds all over its body.
His injuries were no less severe than Jiang Linhai's, but he was sensible enough to remain silent.
Jiang Si was afraid that applying the medicine would hurt it and cause it to bite her reflexively, so she gave it an injection of anesthetic.
Dahei fell asleep in an instant. Jiang Linhai, who had been stitched up with more than twenty stitches, looked doubtful about his life. "Sisi, do you have anesthesia?"
Jiang Si was stunned, wanting to laugh but also feeling guilty, "I was so anxious just now that I forgot about it."
Jiang Linhai: “…”
Dahei's wound was treated, and the family members wearing protective clothing had already collected all the rat corpses in protective bags. However, the house was still a mess, with rat feces, urine, and gnawed debris everywhere. Fortunately, food and valuable items were all in Jiang Si's space to avoid being contaminated by bacteria.
Everyone looked at Jiang Si and said worriedly, "The germs remaining in the house may be transmitted through the respiratory tract and aerosols. Oh, when will all these rats outside stop? We can't get enough fresh air in the house."
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