It was both sharp and loud.
Feng Ran was disturbed by the noise while lying in bed in her room.
When I went outside, I was almost scared to death!
Have you ever seen a mouse as big as a cat...?
It darted past right under Feng Ran's nose...
"Everyone, come quick and catch the mouse!" Feng Ran shouted desperately, then hid in her room.
I'm terrified of mice!
It's so big. It's more terrifying than murder!
Feng Nangui had already run outside. All the men in the base grabbed weapons and started catching rats, while the women all shrank back.
They went to their rooms to huddle together for warmth.
Not all women are afraid of mice, but unfortunately, all the women in the base are.
"Hey, it's a super big rat." Wang Xiaosi and the others had already chased the two rats to the corner and were preparing to catch them, but when they saw the size of the rats, everyone's hearts skipped a beat.
This hardly qualifies as a rat.
Its eyes were bloodshot, and it looked like a rat, except it had no fur...
It was completely smooth. It was incredibly disgusting and repulsive.
No wonder someone screamed like that just now.
"Xiao Si, you go. Catch him and put him in a sack," Wang San San said, swallowing hard.
"Brother, come here."
"...Do you think I'd help you with something so small? Hurry up and dig it in with the hoe. Don't use your hands."
"elder brother!"
“Then you open the bag, and I’ll dig it in with a hoe.”
"..."
These are still brothers!
Finally, having no other choice, Wang San killed two rats with a few strokes of his hoe. Then he threw the sack, intending to throw it further away.
Seeing that there was no sound outside, Feng Ran picked up the sack and prepared to go out.
"Xiao Si, find a faraway place and burn the dead rat."
Oh, and make sure to disinfect the areas the rats just passed through. Here are masks and disinfectant; everyone wear masks while working.
Fengran laid out two boxes of disinfectant and told everyone to put them on.
How could such a large rat not have bacteria and viruses?
Everyone was disinfecting when suddenly another one wandered in from who-knows-where.
"Oh no! Qi Xie, San San, hurry and catch the mice! Everyone else, quickly remove the fence around the perimeter! There must be a loophole!"
After Feng Ran finished speaking, he led everyone to begin eliminating possibilities.
A dozen minutes later, sure enough, a hole was seen in the soil below the fence, a hole dug out from the outside. The fence was not yet rotten.
Now the mice will start digging holes...
This damn life.
They found some stones to block the ice, and then covered it with soil.
But I'm still worried! What if the mice start digging holes in other directions...?
Feng Ran asked everyone to think of a solution before going to bed each night. They would then address the issue daily.
The next day, everyone gathered in the courtyard, and Fengran asked them to share their opinions.
"If only we had cement. We could pave the ground inside the wall all around with cement. They definitely wouldn't be able to dig it up then," Wang Lili said first.
"But it's not there..."
"Then tell me your thoughts," Wang Lili said, looking at Wang Xiaosi.
"without."
"..."
"Does anyone else have a solution?"
How about laying down a ring of pebbles?
"Use stones?"
"Raise a cat?"
"Use a cage..."
After listening to everyone, Feng Ran felt it was all unrealistic.
But there was nothing she could do.
"Use a mousetrap... but make a big one..."
Feng Nangui added after everyone had finished speaking.
"We can scatter poisonous food all around the perimeter of the wall," Qi Xie continued.
"These two are fine. But we don't have any rat poison..."
Do you have pesticides?
"I'll check if they have any later."
“I know how to make mousetraps. It just requires remelting the iron,” Wang Sansan said.
"Okay. Find a few boys to help you."
"During the day, have two people patrol and execute any rats they see on the spot."
"good"……
Feng Ran rummaged through her spatial storage for a while and did find a batch of insecticides. They were all pesticides. She couldn't quite explain what they were for. There were a few boxes of cockroach bait, though. Feng Ran gave them all to Qi Xie.
I don't know how they mixed the poison. Anyway, the area inside the wall was filled with food laced with poison. Gu Ping'an is the only child in the base, and she can talk now. The adults pulled her aside and repeatedly warned her not to eat the poisoned food.
After that, everyone thought that surely no more rats would get into the base...
The next day, seven large rats died under the base's wall, and everyone quickly disposed of the bodies and disinfected them.
Then replenish with new poison.
After finishing training in the morning, we went out into the mountains to find food. The woodcutter returned with some very bad news.
They saw countless rats scurrying around on the mountain, and they were all quite large.
However, the base suffered the next day. Some of the rats no longer ate the poisoned food. Their chattering in the middle of the night startled the night watchman, waking everyone up.
Several escaped, and about a dozen died. Feng Ran felt that if things continued like this, she would have to figure out what caused these rats to appear.
Then they found an open space outside the yard and had Wang San San and the others gut the rats.
The moment the rat's stomach was opened, its contents flowed out—filthy and disgusting. But upon closer inspection, everyone realized what was inside looked familiar, very familiar—it was the limbs of seafood!
There were also undigested octopus tentacles and some hard, but already chewed-up, crab shells.
Anyway, the contents of their stomachs were probably all seafood. Feng Ran and the others suddenly realized that the rats were so large because they had eaten the monster corpses. No wonder all the monsters had suddenly disappeared. It seemed to be due to the previous torrential rain followed by extremely low temperatures.
The extreme cold likely froze all the monsters to death or trapped them beneath the ice. Now that the weather is warming up and the ice is melting, the monster corpses have been exposed, leading to a rat infestation. These rats ate the monsters' poisonous carcasses, which is why they have become so hairless, enormous, and with bloodshot eyes.
These were clearly limbs teeming with viruses and bacteria. No wonder they were so disgusting and horrifying. After everyone realized what had happened, they burned all the dead rats' bodies.
Given the current situation, with so many rats scurrying around on the mountain, there are likely even more rats down below, or perhaps other unexpected pests may appear.
Fengran advised everyone to be careful lately. Those going out to chop wood or forage for food should travel in groups of at least three or four, and not alone. Then, along with the other girls, they disinfected all the areas in the base that rats had frequented.
Especially water resources!
Feng Ran suddenly realized! The river inside the cave!
Get everyone to check it out right away!
The cave entrance was originally enclosed by a wall. But with the mountain so high, it was possible that rats might sneak down.
As soon as Feng Ran and his companions entered the cave, they were almost startled!
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