Two firefighters opened a manhole cover, threw in several pieces of raw meat mixed with cheese, and then closed the cover.
The edges are supported horizontally by support frames, and heavy bags are used as pressure blocks to seal the manhole cover.
"Okay, let's go to the next place."
Just as I was about to get up and go to the next place, I heard a rustling sound.
"Wait, did you hear that?"
One of them crouched down with his ear close to the street.
After a few seconds, cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He signaled his companions to step back, and he carefully stood up, with movements as gentle as if he was holding a child for a nap.
On Orange Street, a young man in a specially made training uniform trotted over to Liu Yue.
"Instructor, we have some bad news. Their numbers may be greater than we thought. We have found nine locations where rats are suspected to be gathering!"
The young man handed the tablet in his hand to Liu Yue, who looked about the same age as him. The map on it had shining red circles marked at nine locations.
Liu Yue's heart skipped a beat, and he carefully observed the red dots, and found that if based on the 5-kilometer diameter blockade theory, the range of the 9 virtual red circles would be several times the current estimated range.
He looked up at him, then looked at the reinforced manhole cover not far away.
Liu Yue sighed.
"In the words of Team Leader Tao, if there is still no strong evidence to refute our 'Tenth Man Theory', this kind of thing will have to happen sooner or later."
But having said that, Liu Yue is still in a dilemma.
Shencheng is not the rural village that was originally built to improve its urban appearance. The population of Shencheng is too dense and the attention it receives is too high. Both evacuation and isolation are of great importance.
This time was different from the Balrog incident in the United States. The new type of lung fever had been on the news several times before that, and most people in the city had known about it for a long time. The establishment of the quarantine zone was also a slow process.
It can be said that the isolation and evacuation was a process in which the entire population of St. Louis gradually adapted.
It is obviously not the best idea to evacuate citizens and establish a blockade immediately. We can only hope that Huang Jiutian’s arrival can bring the situation under control.
If it doesn't work, I guess the toxic chemical leak will happen again.
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Huang Jiutian arrived in Shanghai around 7pm, and it was not yet completely dark.
But soon after he stepped into the designated activity area of the mutant rats, he felt something was wrong.
It's not that these mice are not fixed in the 5-kilometer range as shown in the habit research, but that he can't really sense them.
Initially, his perception came from Qin Xiaoxia's magic power. Although now due to frequent use, there are signs of the development of his thinking, but in fact, the state of higher sensitivity is only for the existence of special energy.
For example, the magic vines and tree herders of the tree herders, the fire demons, and new humans like Ben.
But a mouse, even if it is bigger in size, is equivalent to a dog, and Qin Xiaoxia's magic seems to have little interest in it.
Even if Huang Jiutian actively consumed his physical strength to use this magic power, it only had a vague sensing effect, and he could only feel the soul fluctuations of the living creatures under the sewer.
Then he sadly discovered that the soul fluctuations were basically the same as those of a small house mouse. Perhaps the souls of those big rats remained the same even though their bodies had changed.
This kind of fluctuation is almost everywhere in the underground of Shencheng, and it is impossible to tell which ones are big rats.
When Jiutian told Liu Yue and Tao Xingzhi about this situation, they were both dumbfounded.
The yellow radar that has always been effective actually has signal problems. This is trouble!
The sewers in Shanghai are not as walkable as those in Europe and the United States. Adults can only crawl in them at best. Under such circumstances, if humans take the initiative to go down, it would be tantamount to tying themselves up and throwing themselves into a pile of rats.
It’s very dangerous and creepy just thinking about it.
After nightfall, worse news came.
Stay in one place.
The sewers are like rat highways, crisscrossing each other.
There are now only two options open to the special security team and other armed or medical forces cooperating in the operation.
In the command vehicle at the scene, Tao Xingzhi held a video conference with Liu Yue, Huang Jiutian, and representatives from the public security, fire and armed police departments.
Of course, there are also some animal experts and rodent experts participating in the video.
"Comrades, the situation is already very serious. I think everyone has read the explanation given by the animal experts."
"The rate at which rats reproduce is too terrifying. If we don't kill them quickly, I'm afraid that Shanghai will soon become their world."
"So if there is any way, don't hide it."
What follows is basically the wisdom of the crowd.
The representative of the Public Security Bureau is a criminal investigation expert. After discussing with people in the municipal system, he proposed two currently optimal solutions.
One is to find a way to block a larger sewer network, and send people directly outside the estimated maximum range to block all external lines of these sewers.
At the same time, all the manhole covers above were blocked, and then poison was fed to the rats, and then water was poured into the blocked underground passage to drown all the rats, or poison gas was directly used to fill it.
Second, prepare to evacuate the people in this area, and then use the same blocking process as Plan 1, except that instead of using poison or water injection, which are time-consuming and either not strong enough or full of hidden dangers, use infrasonic shock waves to drive them to a powerful position and then eliminate them in a concentrated manner. Just send flamethrowers and gunners to guard some manholes that have been deliberately left open.
Huang Jiutian just listened quietly without saying a word.
"Jiutian, do you have any ideas?"
Tao Xingzhi noticed Huang Jiutian's silence, but it didn't seem like he was disappointed because he couldn't help.
“I wonder, are they coming?”
When this was said, except for the Special Security Group, everyone else in the system was confused. Could it be that the country had another special department with a higher level of confidentiality?
Everyone in the special security team was shocked.
When it comes to minimizing panic among citizens and maintaining confidentiality, that mysterious organization is definitely second to none.
Regardless of whether they are human or how many humans there are, they undoubtedly possess considerable magical powers.
Just like the legendary Eastern magic or Western magic.
"They are so terrifying, don't they know..."
Liu Yue said uncertainly.
"I'm afraid not!"
Huang Jiutian's added sentence made Tao Xingzhi's heart beat wildly.
"Jiutian, do you know something?"
Huang Jiutian raised his head and looked at everyone in the command vehicle, then looked at the video of Tao Xingzhi.
"Intuition, it's just this intuition. No, to be exact, it should be a premonition. The key now is how to make them eliminate their vigilance against us. Otherwise, they may not show up, right?"
If other people talked about self-awareness with Tao Xingzhi and the members of the special security group, it would be considered a joke at ordinary times, but now it would be considered nonsense, but Huang Jiutian was different.
Because he is currently the only new type of perceptive human in the world, and because his perception has never been wrong as long as it is certain.
I have to say that Jiutian still has a strong sense of justice. She doesn't call her Mother Huang for nothing.
When he knew that the underground of Shencheng might become a mutant rat's nest, he notified Qin Xiaoxia immediately.
To put it simply, it concerns his image in Jiutian's mind. To put it more exaggeratedly, tens of millions of lives in Shencheng are at stake.
Qin Xiaoxia couldn't just ignore it for both moral and logical reasons.
Moreover, sooner or later I will have to contact the national level, so this time may be a test.
Hence, Huang Jiutian has the doubts in the meeting now. His real purpose is to press some nerves and just do it without meeting each other.
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