Chapter 54: Day 2 of the Borer Season (2) Insecticide
After harvesting a dozen more crops in the wheat field, Yu Luowei prepared to leave. Thanks to the Resource Protection Card, no other insects were seen in the crystal mine, the brocade flower fields, or the wheat fields. Yu Luowei wiped the sweat off his face and walked out of the wheat field.
This time, Yu Luowei paid special attention to the ants in the surrounding area and cleaned the ground, removing the plants on it and piling the fallen leaves and branches aside.
When the gray-brown soil leaked out, they found something wrong. There were nearly ten loose small mounds on a piece of land the size of a floor tile, and there were ants busy moving things in them.
This was simply a nightmare for people with trypophobia. Yu Luowei immediately stood up and turned his back to this side to think about how to deal with it.
Fire wasn't an option; there wasn't much to burn and it could easily catch fire. As for water, she couldn't bear to use drinking water, and she was worried the black air from Black Abyss Lake would cause the ants to mutate prematurely. Ice magic could be a try, but the ground in areas with ant nests was usually dry, so she wasn't optimistic about its effectiveness.
Changing the temperature is a good idea. In addition, Yu Luowei also wants to try the power of the acid rain collected last season.
Taking a deep breath, Yu Luowei turned around and raised the temperature on the right half. Although he couldn't see the scene under the ant nest, the ants on the ground were all killed by the heat, and the situation below should not be much better.
Very satisfied with the effect of this method of controlling temperature, Yu Luowei took out a spray bottle filled with acid rain and sprayed the above-ground part of the ant nest a few times.
The effect of the acid rain was even more than expected. The ants' bodies were melted directly, leaving no trace. Seeing this, Yu Luowei turned on the sprinkler and poured the acid rain into the ant nest.
Unfortunately, I only brought two spray bottles of acid rain with me when I came out. After dealing with the ant nests here, there was not much left. Yu Luowei put away the spray bottle and used ice magic on the ant nests that had been hit by acid rain, eliminating the roots.
Yu Luowei had no intention of protecting animals like these, which were known to mutate later. She even felt that the number she could kill was too small—she couldn't just pull out all the grass on the forest floor and then attack the ant nests one by one.
This place is quite far from the base, and Yu Luowei is just experimenting with the current degree of mutation of the ants. She plans to try these two methods around the base later.
Now that he could use his supernatural powers at night, there was no need to rush back during the day. Yu Luowei did not use teleportation. While looking for the treasure chest, he slowly walked back to the base.
After passing the Black Abyss Entrance Lake, Yu Luowei encountered three sheep grazing on the roadside. Because they were yellow and their horns were much larger than those of ordinary sheep, she initially thought she had encountered monsters again.
Ma Tuan sniffed the scent and told Yu Luowei that this was just an ordinary animal in the game world. Yu Luowei immediately had an idea and wanted to put the sheep back in. She had three empty cells in her animal fence, which could increase the species diversity in the base.
Before Luo Wei and Ma Tuan could come to a conclusion, the lambs, who were still engrossed in grazing, suddenly spotted them. Startled, they began running around in all directions. Without further discussion, Yu Luo Wei and Ma Tuan split up and, in perfect harmony, blocked the three lambs back.
The main thing was to keep the enemy alive. Yu Luowei didn't dare use any of his model or skill cards, relying only on his own physique and speed. Fortunately, Ma Tuan could control the wind element, otherwise he might not have succeeded.
Let Ma Tuan take the three lambs back to the pet space, and Yu Luowei continued on his journey alone.
After finding three supply chests (blue), Yu Luowei spotted the shadow of the base's fence. The upgraded base was enormous; even just circumnavigating it would take almost an hour. So, Yu Luowei first put the sheep into the enclosure, fed them, and then emerged to survey the surrounding land.
There were indeed quite a few ant nests on the exposed ground, and many ants were busy transporting things. Fortunately, the closer to the fence, the fewer ant nests there were. Yu Luowei first poured some acid rain into the ant nests here.
In other places where there were plants, Yu Luowei pulled out some of the plants slightly to raise the temperature underground and eliminated a batch of ant nests.
It was already dark at this time. Yu Luowei asked Ma Tuan to stay in the shelter, and she took out some food that was difficult to store and put it into the space. Her space was not only large, but also had excellent preservation function.
After placing it, Yu Luowei raised the torch and decided to take a look around and then go back to take a closer look at the trap.
In fact, after knowing that the disaster of this season was an insect plague, she was not so confident in the effectiveness of the traps. As long as they could stop some small monsters, it would be fine. However, this sight still gave her a surprise, or rather a shock:
The traps were littered with the corpses of countless insects. Besides spiders and centipedes, there were also numerous unknown insects. These insects were generally four or five times larger, creating a strong visual impact. Besides the insects, she also found the corpse of a snake and several fat, frog-like creatures, suspected to be toads, in one of the pits. It was truly a complete collection of the five poisonous creatures.
Yu Luowei burned the bodies in the trap directly with fire, feeling that leaving them there for even a second longer would pollute his eyes. As for the trap, he could just fix it after entering.
While it was burning, Yu Luowei also heard a few screams. It might be that these monsters had fallen into the trap and persisted until now, trying to disguise themselves and attack the trap owner. Unexpectedly, Yu Luowei did not play by the rules.
However, the screams and flames attracted other monsters in the dark. When Luo Wei was collecting the treasure chests and other materials left by the monsters, several pairs of greedy eyes slowly appeared in the night.
Without even a glance, Yu Luowei used Space Tear to kill them. But after killing this batch, more monsters slowly approached. Yu Luowei continued to use Space Tear while quickly collecting all the spoils and then returned to the base.
Speaking of which, the monster corpses that were torn apart in the morning were not seen after the day. Maybe they were refreshed. Yu Luowei didn't need to find a way to deal with the corpses anymore, which was very convenient.
Without rushing into the shelter, Yu Luowei first collected the mature plants, especially the fruit of life.
Fortunately, the first harvest was the Advanced Life Fruit. Yu Luowei ate one directly and harvested the others. He planted new crops in the vacant land and fertilized the ones that did not need to be planted again. Finally, he entered the shelter before nine o'clock.
After coming back, he made another bowl of fruit salad. It was time to eat the Lingyun pomelo, so Yu Luowei threw one in and would eat it directly while opening the box.
Today, in addition to the three blue treasure chests he had found while exploring outside during the day, he had also obtained three green treasure chests while dealing with the monsters in the traps. After opening them all at once, Yu Luowei saw six identical bottles of intermediate insecticide, in addition to the three power cards.
A bottle of intermediate insecticide has a capacity of one liter. According to the instructions, it can kill all insects, including ants, mosquitoes, flies, centipedes, etc.
It seems this is the most correct solution for this season. Yu Luowei's previous actions were indeed a bit extreme. But it's troublesome, as long as it works.
Although there are not many insects in the shelter now, Yu Luowei decided to spray it in advance just in case. This insecticide is effective for three days indoors and 12 hours outdoors, and it is non-toxic to humans. If you spray it now, you don't have to worry for at least three days.
She first sprayed a little in the air up front to test it out. It was colorless and odorless. She asked Ma Tuan to come over and smell it. It said it didn't feel any discomfort. Only then did Yu Luowei feel at ease spraying from the basement to the top floor, using up a bottle and a half. Of course, she didn't spray the food storage room. Although the sign said it was non-toxic, she was still a little worried.
Taking a look inside, the room was surrounded by a giant block of ice, emitting a chill that sent even Yu Luowei, the master of ice magic, shuddering upon entering. The food was also safely stored on the shelves, and the expiration date countdown was negligible, having only slowed down by five minutes compared to yesterday.
In this environment, it seems that no other insects can survive except water bears. Yu Luowei took a box of Coke and stepped out with confidence, and continued to spray pesticides.
After she finished, Yu Luowei finally started to prepare her own dinner. Su Tang had provided her with fried and braised chicken wings. She had traded two compressed biscuits at the market for twenty chicken wings, which were about to expire in a day. She was busy processing them tonight.
Yu Luowei asked which company they had hired, then quickly opened the market and snapped up the last five chicken wings. He had originally planned to continue processing the meat today, but plans couldn't keep up with changes. Now that he had the space, he didn't have to rush. Buying chicken wings would also expand his meat selection.
Yu Luowei and Fu Xiangming informed the others about the insect plague last night, but even if they hadn't told them, they would have known about it today - many people didn't know why, but there were a lot more flies and unknown small flying insects in the shelter today. They were almost driven crazy and were frantically looking for pesticides.
Some people found a treasure chest at noon, opened it and got insecticide, then hurried back to spray the entire shelter. It was very effective at the time and all the flying insects died, but when they came back at night, they saw a bunch of flying insects again, and the defense was broken in an instant.
Yu Luowei herself hadn't encountered anything like this, and she chatted with everyone in the group for a while, but she hadn't encountered anything either. However, she did get some other news: everyone's treasure chests had insecticides today, but they were of varying levels. Lin Zhixia's was high-level, two liters per bottle, effective for five days indoors and 24 hours outdoors. Jiang Nian'an and Fang Min's were low-level, only 500ml, effective for only one day indoors and only an hour outdoors. Furthermore, the warning only mentioned that it was effective against low-level insects.
After discussing it for a while, they concluded that the only difference between Lin Zhixia and the others was that she had encountered a junk rod for three consecutive days last season. Following this line of thought, Fang Min hadn't encountered a junk rod, while Jiang Nian'an and Yu Luowei had only encountered one, and the others had encountered two. It seemed the pesticide level had something to do with this.
As for why Yu Luowei and Jiang Nian'an are different, it is probably because the judgment standard for a day is the accuracy of garbage classification. Yu Luowei was only wrong twice, while Jiang Nian'an was wrong most of the time.
Unfortunately, they were the only ones with the samples, so it was unclear whether this hypothesis was correct. However, Lin Zhixia had a large quantity of high-grade insecticide. She gave two bottles to Jiang Nian'an, and Fang Min bought two more. This was almost enough for the shelter.
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