When they saw the overwhelming locusts attacking, they could already imagine what kind of devastation the house would suffer if the door was opened, so they waited directly in the garage for the people outside to come back, so that when the car drove into the garage, as long as the living room Keep the gate closed so that the locusts will not fly into the house.

The videos in the group were always on, and Mu Nan watched them frantically killing locusts in the garage.

Because my elder brother has come back, although they are unable to come over at Jianchu's side now, but at least they are back, so Song Jia is greatly relieved, and her emotions have regained her composure, so she is in the mood to go and observe those people. Picking up on the car, there are also locusts swarming into the house when the garage door is opened.

Song Jia pointed her mobile phone at the locusts that were still jumping on the ground. The locusts were not too small, as big as the palm of a grown man. The whole locust was dry yellow, with six legs on its body. It was extremely sharp with spikes on it, no wonder Cai Wenwen was injured like that in just a minute or two at most.

Song Jia pawed at the locusts on the ground, and couldn't help asking: "Are these locusts normal? Do locusts look like this?"

Cai Wentao glanced at him sideways: "Hurry up and help exterminate the locusts, what are you playing!"

Song Jia: "Let me observe. Isn't it normal for such a big locust?"

Cai Wentao frowned when he saw the one he had trampled to death: "I don't know, our country doesn't seem to have been attacked by locusts many times, and those of us in the south don't pay attention to this thing. What kind of locust can form a huge "locust army", anyway, it is definitely not the same species as the grasshopper mantis we played with when we were young."

Jian Chu on the other side was also taking pictures in the garage with his mobile phone. When he came out, he closed the door between the garage and the living room tightly, so if he wanted to enter the house, he had to go into the garage now. All the bugs were wiped out.

Hearing the conversation over there, Jian Chu said: "This kind should be migratory locusts, but in the science and education films I have watched before, migratory locusts are not so big."

Mu Nan and Qin Huai, who hadn't had any locusts at home, returned to the bedroom on the third floor. The locusts outside were still flapping their wings and hitting each other. Even because of the huge number, the dense buzzing made people's scalp go numb. When the garage door entered a car, the garage was already full of locusts, and I felt lingering fear.

Song Jia couldn't go there for the time being, so Mu Nan could only ask Jian Chu: "Do you want to help?"

Jian Chu shook his head: "No need, the door inside the house can't be opened now, the only way to enter the house is to wipe out all the locusts in the garage, and you can't get through either."

Mu Nan asked, "Can these locusts be fed to chickens?"

Yu Feng, who was slapping the locusts, said: "Yes, but now these locusts are different from what we know in common sense, they are too big, so it is best to try first to see if the chicken can be eaten or not, and if there is any adverse reaction after eating it , In the current environment, I don’t know if the species has evolved to bring toxins.”

After getting to know each other's situation a little bit, Xiaoqun turned off the video. The locusts in this garage had to be cleaned up. There were too many locusts and they could still fly. Give you a thorn, and there will be a bloodstain on your body in an instant. Just looking at the amount of work in the entire garage, and those migratory locusts that fly to the corners and can even eat wood, everyone has a headache, but they can only hurry up and clean up.

Mu Nan put down his phone and sighed: "It's a good thing you're at home, otherwise our family might be busy cleaning up the locusts now."

Qin Huai held the notebook, and after typing twice, the picture on the notebook flickered twice and then became clear. Mu Nan leaned over to take a look, and immediately got goosebumps all over his body. The picture being played in the notebook was exactly their little girl Outside the yard, the camera was projected from the top floor. At this moment, not only their yard, but also all the houses. In the air, there were dense swarms of migratory locusts, and there were even many cameras installed on the roof passing by.

Looking at the house full of locusts, Mu Nan only felt dizzy for a while, and this person who didn't have trypophobia was forced to have trypophobia.

He even forgot to ask why there was a camera on the roof of their house. He was so disgusted that he couldn't help retching twice, and quickly avoided. This scene was more exciting than watching an extreme disaster movie, because he knew that this was the camera outside their house at the moment. The scene is more likely to make people feel physically uncomfortable.

There is no sound in the picture taken, but there is no need to listen to the sound from the video. The sound of locusts waving their wings densely outside the house is exciting enough.

Qin Huai put the computer on the bed, got up and poured Mu Nan a glass of warm water: "Take this scene as the disaster movies you watch, and you won't feel terrible."

Mu Nan shook his head again and again: "What's the matter, the situation outside is too terrible now, so if we open the windows now, we can see that all the houses and buildings in sight are covered with these things, right? ? Did they fly away quickly? Like they flew over and there's not much food to eat here, so just passing by?"

Qin Huai doesn't know, and there is a bad situation. If there is no fire in Qinghe, then the next stop of the locusts must be Qinghe. Along the mountain, those in the mountain take root deep in the ground and can absorb groundwater. The source plants have not been sunburned, and those dense forests will become a feeding paradise for these locusts.

But now the mountain fire over there is still burning, which means that it has blocked the progress of these migratory locusts in one direction, and this side is a human settlement, the smell of food, the smell of plants in the indoor field, I don’t know if it will attract locusts I linger here and refuse to leave. If that is the case, the situation is really not optimistic.

Mu Nan leaned on the bed, turned his back to Qin Huai's computer, and took out his mobile phone to check the situation of other people's homes, when he just received another official mass message, informing that the locusts are too dense now, and people should try to stay indoors and not go out. People at home should close the doors and windows and the like.

At the moment, locusts are being discussed in various forums and community groups, and some people even took photos through the window. Looking at the window, you can see that it is not the window that is dark, but the locusts that are so densely packed on the window that they block the entire field of vision.

Someone posted this photo and asked in the group whether the locusts have phototaxis, and whether the locusts would fly away if the indoor lights were turned off.

Someone quickly responded that locusts are phototaxis, so either block the indoor light source tightly, or turn off all the lights. If you don’t see the street lights outside, they are already densely packed by locusts.

The person sent the photo of the outer city to the group, and he could clearly see a person lying on the ground with a broken stomach, a **** mass, and a bunch of locusts crawling on the person. Is it eating, but such a photo can indeed cause people to panic. If this omnivorous herbivorous insect becomes able to eat people, it will be really fatal.

Mu Nan handed the photos he saw in the group to Qin Huai: "Brother, look quickly, these locusts eat people!"

Qin Huai frowned slightly, and took Mu Nan's phone away: "Okay, go take a shower, maybe these locusts will fly away before the sun comes out tomorrow."

Mu Nan sighed: "Do you think they are afraid of high temperature?"

Qin Huai didn't think that the number of locusts was too large, and it was impossible for them to fly out in groups at night to look for food like human beings, and then cleverly find buildings to hide in the daytime. It is obvious that these locusts can withstand the high temperature of the sun now.

But it's useless to think about it now, we can only talk about it tomorrow depending on the situation.

In the residential area, the situation in places with good housing conditions is still under control. As long as you stay in the house, you can temporarily avoid locusts.

But in some residential areas in the back, the situation is not good for those who live in buildings like row-tower tube buildings more than ten districts away, because the windows are too weak to withstand the violent impacts of so many locusts. Some people even watched the windows of their homes form fine cracks with the impact of the fast-flying locusts again and again, until they were shattered, and instantly screamed in despair.

Some people ignored the pain of the locusts slicing their flesh, and covered the locusts outside with quilts to prevent the window glass from being smashed.

Some windows were broken before they could be protected, and the house was instantly occupied by locusts. Anything that locusts could eat was being destroyed, such as tables and chairs, sheets and bedding, even cotton wool, and people who were barely wearing clothes because of the heat. The crispy-skinned humans on top became food for the locusts.

In the outer city, the situation is even more tragic. Some live in shacks with doors and windows to block them, but more live in randomly built plastic sheds. As soon as the sun came out, there was no door. Once the locusts came, it was as if they had entered no man's land, rampaging and destroying without restraint.

It was a bit late when the above received the news, and with the shortage of manpower, most of the soldiers and vehicles in the base went to Qinghe for rescue. It is not an easy task for the people in the house to move to the vacant square in the eastern suburbs.

The environment in the outer city is that there are many old, weak, sick and disabled. Before the evacuation rescue comes, the elderly will fall to the ground after being hit by a bunch of locusts. When the evacuated people come, a group of people push me again. I push you and scramble to get into the car, and those who are pushed to the ground and have no time to get up are trampled to death by the people running behind.

Some had already climbed into the car, but were pulled down and fell to their heads on the ground and died.

What's more, it was because of being exposed to the outside world and being swooped by countless locusts. The terrified, painful, piercing screams resounded among the panicked crowd.

Everyone wanted to live, so they ran desperately to the car that could take them to a safe place, but the capacity of the car is so large, there will always be people who can't get on the car in time, those people were still enthusiastically expressing that if they can catch many Locusts, then they could be sold for money. As a result, in less than half a day, these people had become food for the sharp feet of the locusts.

The invasion of locusts caused chaos in the entire residential area. Even in the second district with the best conditions, Mu Nan could hear tragic screams from a distance from time to time. Qin Huai wanted him to wear headphones and watch a movie to distract him. , but Mu Nan didn't agree, because he was afraid that because he couldn't hear the sound outside, if he was hit by locusts somewhere, he would have no choice but to rescue him immediately, so the tragic screams outside were terrible, but he still insisted on paying attention to the outside. movement.

The number of locusts far exceeded their previous expectations. Mu Nan said to Qin Huai worriedly: "The squad leader lives in the outer city, can he do it in this situation?"

Qin Huai thought for a while and said, "I'll send him a message. If he can't handle it outside, ask him to tell me the address. I'll go out and pick him up."

Mu Nan hurriedly said: "I'll go with you!" It was so dangerous, he didn't feel at ease to let Qin Huai go out.

It is a fact that Wang Xiaoli helped them no matter whether it was smooth or not, so the favor still has to be repaid.

In this life, he got in touch with Wang Xiaoli, so Qin Huai came back. In the last life, he blindly searched for someone, and in the end he didn't see Qin Huai until his death. So even if Wang Xiaoli was just a casual helper at the beginning, this kindness is real. He is here, so if he wants to go out to save people, then he will go with Qin Huai.

Qin Huai said: "Leave someone at home to open the garage door and clean up the locusts that have entered the garage. I don't know if Wang Xiaoli needs our help. I'll contact him first."

Mu Nan turned out the ugly green protective suit in the space: "Can this thickness resist locusts?"

Qin Huai gave him a funny look, and asked him to put the biochemical-grade protective clothing in: "No need, it's the same for me to wear a windbreaker. Even if I go out, I'm still in the car, so there won't be any big problems."

Mu Nan frowned: "Then what if the locust punctures the car tire? And what if the car window glass is smashed?"

Before Qin Huai could say anything else, Wang Xiaoli replied, because his wife's mind was a bit abnormal, and Wang Xiaoli was not a lazy person with no skills, and he still lived in the outer city because the application for residence in the inner city was still waiting in line. But even if they live in the outer city, the security conditions are slightly better, in shacks near the inner city.

So after receiving the notice from the government, Wang Xiaoli returned home immediately, brought a lot of food, and covered the fragile doors and windows of the shed. Now he and his wife are hiding in the house, except for the locusts hitting the shed. The voice is a bit loud and scary, but they can still hide in the room at present.

Seeing the news of Wang Xiaoli's return, Mu Nan also breathed a sigh of relief. While he was relieved that Wang Xiaoli and the others were safe, he was also relieved that Qin Huai did not need to take the risk of going out to save others.

Wang Xiaoli also had a lot of feelings. Although he had gotten along with Qin Huai for two years in high school, and because of his personality, he got along well with most people in the class, but it was just good, just like many people. , Friends from junior high school, friends from high school and college, those friends after graduation are just the past.

Not everyone is lucky enough to have that so-called brotherhood.

It's just that he didn't expect that Qin Huai, who didn't have much contact with each other back then, would still be thinking of him at this time. No matter what, it is a very beautiful thing to be cared about at this time.

After tossing around in the middle of the night, the movement outside still didn't decrease at all. Qin Huai asked Mu Nan to take out the food, and he went to cook. These locusts probably won't be able to leave for a while, and it's not like they imagined. In that way, a group of hula-la flew over, quickly destroyed it, and then flew away with a huff. These locusts don't know how many days they will be hopping outside.

When Mu Nan and the others started eating, the two neighbors had just cleaned up the locusts in the garage. Wu Zheng also ran back to his house covered in locusts. Yu Feng, who drove them back, had no choice but to drive away, so he could only temporarily stay down.

Downstairs was a same-sex couple. He, a big man, lived in a poor house, so he could only live in Xu Ming's house on the third floor.

Xu Ming didn't care either, he took the risk of driving them back, and now he was trapped, so he couldn't let someone drive them back at this time, and Yu Feng lived in a row of buildings, just a row of five-story small houses. I don't know if the flimsy glass window in the low building can hold it, so it's better to stay and take refuge.

As a result, when Mu Nan was still gnawing on the shrimps, the neighbor next door was knocking and knocking, knowing that Yu Feng would stay here for the time being, and go back when the locusts receded, but it would not be possible to borrow for two days Let's set up a Chuhe-Han world upstairs.

Mu Nan asked curiously, "What are they doing, nail hammers."

Qin Huai mobilized the camera outside, and could only see someone doing nothing on the balcony next door, but because the camera was facing outward, it couldn't take pictures of the inside of the house, so he couldn't see clearly.

So Mu Nan simply sent a message to Xu Ming, asking him what he was doing there.

Xu Ming, who was busy in the living room with the locusts that flew in because the balcony door was opened, sent a voice message: "Yu Feng nailed nails on the wall of the balcony door to hang two quilts, ordinary curtains can only shade , Hang some quilts to avoid collisions, and tie a snakeskin bag to the railing outside by the way, intending to catch insects in the urn."

Mu Nan was shocked. She didn't expect such an operation, so she couldn't help turning her head to look at Qin Huai: "Why didn't we think of putting a snakeskin bag on the balcony to hold locusts? Dried locusts can also be fed to chickens." right?"

Qin Huai: "If you want, you can tie her up now."

Mu Nan shook his head again and again: "Forget it, forget it, I don't want insects in the house, I will spend money to buy it in the future, I feel that there are so many locusts now, whether it is the official or the people with a little qualification, like the one next door, catch insects There must be a lot, and the price of dried locusts will be very cheap in the future, so buy more and save them to feed the chickens."

Song Jia’s family didn’t have any medicine, so Cai Wenwen’s wounds could only be washed with clean water and healed on her own. Aunt Yin also had some cuts on her body, but not many, and the situation was not serious. Infected by Cai Wenwen's crying, even Uncle Cai's eyes were red, not because of these injuries on his daughter, but because of so many locusts, they came from the north, and now the fire of Qinghe is still burning, in the days to come, Just thinking about it makes people panic.

Song Jia was also helping Wu Zheng clean the wounds on his body. He rushed over from Jian Chu's house, and it took him only thirty seconds to run. Not to mention many, there were a dozen bloodstains on his body. In some places, there are no conditions for disinfection, and washing is a must.

Wu Zheng asked Song Jia, "How much food is there at home?"

Song Jiadao: "There are still ten catties of flour, four bags of rice, one bag of about fifty catties, and some soybeans and mung beans. Last time, I exchanged some cornmeal with Jian Chu that he sold chicken cakes. I couldn’t help but dig the soil for a look at the potatoes I planted next time. The growth rate is good, but I’m afraid it will take some time before they can be eaten, but the alfalfa can be harvested. Mu Nan said that he can exchange food with his family at that time , You can choose rice noodles or sauce. There seems to be a lot of kimchi left in his house, but it has been stored for a long time. He said that he is going to consume it quickly. His Chinese cabbage is about to grow, and it will be fresh again. of."

After calculating the family fortune, Song Jia said: "We can eat these things for several months in the house. We don't have to worry about food for the time being. There are wells for water. The situation is not too bad."

Wu Zheng said: "Today Yu Feng said in the car that half of the rice in the indoor field is empty shells."

Song Jia didn't know much about planting, but she also knew what an empty shell meant, so she said nervously, "Why? Is it because there is not enough fertilizer, the land is not nutritious, or there is not enough sunlight? Half of it is an empty shell. Isn't the output very small?"

Wu Zheng doesn't know why nearly half of them are empty shells. Hearing what Yu Feng said, the higher-ups also asked many experts to check the situation and discuss countermeasures. Some people said that it was because there were too many grubs before, which hurt the soil and the ground The roots of the plants planted, so there are so many empty shells, but no matter what, the situation is not optimistic.

Now that he is being looted by locusts again, how will he live the rest of his life.

Thinking about this, Mu Nan and the others might not know about it, so Song Jia hurriedly talked about it in the small group. Now that there is a shortage of food, and now that the harvest of the farm has become like this, what kind of shortage will there be in the future? Dare to imagine.

Mu Nan looked at the news and sighed. He had a lot of food in his space, but it was not inexhaustible. There were only so many supplies he bought before, so it was not easy to ensure that he and Qin Huai would not lack for food and clothing for a lifetime. After all, the purchased If you move too much, you will definitely be discovered. In the era of big data, if you really want to be transferred because of suspicious behavior, you can even find out how much rice you ate for lunch.

Sighing again, it would be great if he could grow vegetables in his space.

Seeing his unfounded worry, Qin Huai smiled and said, "Not to mention, at least the harvest of potatoes can relieve a lot of pressure, and the focus of the farm in the future may be directly on drought-resistant and high-yielding plants like potatoes and corn. As long as you have something to eat, it's not too serious."

Compared with their side, the situation in the north is probably more severe. There is a lack of water and drought, and there has been locusts once. If there is no food harvest there, then it is really difficult to live.