Chapter 155
After leaving the extremely hot world, a fiery red ball of light appeared in the system space again, hanging in the air like a small sun.
"Welcome player Wen Zheng to enter the infinite disaster survival game!
Player: Wen Zheng
Points: 2015000
New clearance world (5/10): Death Worm, Zombie Siege, World-Destroying Flood, Infinite Nightmare, Extremely High Temperature.
Please keep up the good work and survive!"
Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan each calculated the gains they made in this world. Wen Zheng did not consume many points, but later on, he gained a lot of points after researching various heat-resistant and drought-resistant crops in extreme time.
Later, Tuan Tuan, who was researching mechanical content, also earned a lot of points, but he spent too many points on buying a portable space, and he was unable to replenish them until the end.
So the next time, the two of them went to different disaster worlds separately.
When he woke up again, Wen Zheng found himself standing in the middle of a group of people. He paused for two seconds, bent down to pick up the stone on the ground in front of him and put it on the side of the road where it would not block the road, and then returned to the team without arousing anyone's suspicion.
When Wen Zheng was moving the stone, he took out his cell phone and saw his appearance clearly on the reflective screen.
He was a young man in his twenties, with glasses on his face and simple, dirt-resistant clothes on his body. There were several calluses on his hands, some of which were left by frequent writing, and some were caused by working.
He had a rough estimate of the original identity. Before Wen Zheng had time to look at the people around him, he stopped with everyone else and heard someone say with a little surprise: "Teacher, it's really here!"
Wen Zheng looked up with the crowd to the west, and saw dense locusts flying from afar. The scene of gathering in the sky could make any person with intensive phobia tingle.
The locusts that had just crossed the mountains were lacking food to replenish their consumption. After hovering in the air for a few minutes, they aimed at a large piece of land with lush plants and fell.
The old professor in the center of the crowd pinched the corner of his clothes and rubbed them gently a few times, visually observing the locust trees that were coming, and issued the first order to respond.
"Open the door and let our locust-killing team out for dinner." After the old professor finished speaking, several people around him showed a hint of pride.
Someone took out a walkie-talkie and repeated what the professor had just said. After receiving the command, the sound of vehicles starting up sounded, and several large trucks that had been waiting for a long time set off from the houses not far away.
The drone flew up with the vehicle and broadcast the scene to everyone's mobile phone simultaneously.
Wen Zheng saw that the truck opened the door of the rear compartment after approaching the land where the locusts were. Thousands of birds, chickens and ducks got off the car and immediately flapped their wings to fly towards the group of locusts, happily sharing the delicious food.
The heads, wings and tails of these birds are all black, and only the backs and abdomens are beautiful pink. This kind of bird called pink starling is the natural enemy of locusts. It is not only a ferocious "locust-killing bird", but also a popular "pink elf". The fighting chickens followed closely behind, with thin legs and big feet, quick movements, and no less fighting power. The last yellow ducks were more well-trained, and they lined up to hunt.
They were put into the food nest, without moving their feet, and leisurely stretched their heads to hunt the locusts around them, pecking at them with their small mouths, one at a time.
They were completely unaware of the impending danger.
The old professor and his students were happily watching the live broadcast on their mobile phones, when an emergency call came in.
"Professor Zhou, there are more locusts flying over."
The voice on the other end of the phone was particularly anxious. Professor Zhou put away his smile and frowned, and was about to ask for clarification. Wen Zheng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly reached out and snatched the intercom from the hand of the senior brother next to him. He said with a click of his finger: "Immediately evacuate with the locust-killing team. Repeat, immediately evacuate with the locust-killing team."
"Wen Zheng, what nonsense are you talking about!" The senior brother waited for Wen Zheng angrily, reaching out to snatch the intercom back from Wen Zheng's hand, and hurriedly withdraw the order issued by Wen Zheng. Even Professor Zhou was stunned by this sudden change.
But Wen Zheng would never let him get it, and even if the personnel who received the order over there were puzzled, they still followed the order to whistle the assembly, calling the locust-killing team back to the car.
Artificially bred birds can indeed act according to human commands, provided that they are not in a state of hunger to resist locusts, and are not surrounded by food. Only a small half of the locust-killing team followed the order and went back. The rest of the ground was eating happily in the field, completely ignoring the commander's call.
"Stop it, give me the walkie-talkie quickly, it will be too late if you don't give it to me." The senior brother, who was only a little angry, was about to explode after failing to get the walkie-talkie back many times.
"It's too late." Wen Zheng looked into the distance, threw the walkie-talkie that he had just held tightly into the arms of the senior brother, turned sideways to help Professor Zhou turn around, and shouted to the brothers and sisters next to him, "We need to get into the house quickly and hide."
Wen Zheng didn't need to explain any more. The sound of the live broadcast on the mobile phone attracted their attention. Before they could distinguish this particularly familiar sound, several clicks came out and the live broadcast room became black.
The drone crashed.
The sound in front was the sound of locusts flying.
They knew the meaning of Wen Zheng's actions and the meaning of the phone call just now.
The continuous black clouds came with the huge sound of flapping wings, and everyone who saw it couldn't help but gasp. They thought that most of the locusts had died on the way over the mountains, but they didn't expect that the ones who just arrived were just the vanguard, and the locusts that came later were more than several times the "vanguard".
Look at the boundless black, the number may be as many as ten or even dozens of times.
Swarms of locusts rushed to flowers, trees, land and even wooden fences. They greedily enjoyed delicious plants and gnawed all the food around them with their sharp teeth. The sound of flapping wings just subsided, and the sound of millions of mouths gnawing together. This sound that is difficult for humans to accurately describe makes people feel frightened even if they are separated by a distance.
The most terrifying thing is not only that, but how fast the consumption speed is when too many locusts gnaw at the same time. Often they choose a piece of grass and fly down, and after a few seconds, only bare ground is left when they fly up again.
When the black clouds began to rush down from the sky, the birds that were hunting felt the danger, and their wings exploded and quickly fled back to the car. The driver of the truck looked into the distance with fear in his eyes, and his heart frantically urged his body to drive away quickly, but his eyes were still looking at the locust-killing birds that had not returned to the car, and his feet were always reluctant to step on the accelerator.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
The distance was rapidly shortened in a breath. In the last few seconds when the black wind composed of locusts blew into the car, the driver took a last look at the locust-killing birds that were too far away and had no time to return. He ruthlessly closed the door of the rear car, and at the same time stepped on the accelerator and kept it on, and the car sped out.
The distance between the locust swarm and the truck was too short. The black hurricane swept in from a high altitude, completely surrounding several trucks from the back to the front, and the locusts rushed to the car body and glass, making a crackling sound. The glass in front of the driver was all covered with locusts, and he couldn't see the road clearly. He could only rely on his experience and familiarity with the environment to drive towards the location of their factory.
The vehicles fled desperately, and the crowd ran back to the house at the fastest speed.
Professor Zhou was supported by Wen Zheng and his senior brother, and the other boys helped the girls to run back. They didn't go too far, but because they walked out, they couldn't keep up with the flying speed even if they ran.
The sound of locusts flying was getting closer and closer. Everyone was running forward desperately, their eyes were fixed on the house in front, and they didn't have time to look at the road under their feet. Fortunately, Wen Zheng moved the stones on the ground when he came, and there were no obstacles on the road.
Several students from the teacher's school ran into the house first. Wen Zheng saw that their steps were about to stop again, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't stop, run and close all the windows in the house." Fortunately, the buildings here are basically only one floor. If it were a high floor, it would be even worse.
Wen Zheng and his senior brother carried Professor Zhou and rushed into the room. The moment they entered, the fellow students waiting in the room immediately closed and locked the door. Letting go of Professor Zhou, who was panting heavily, Wen Zheng quickly scanned the entire house, his eyes focused on the glass, and his footsteps kept pushing the cabinets filled with materials in the house to block behind the glass.
This time he didn't need to remind them again. The fellow students who were panting to relieve their lungs that were about to explode from running violently realized that the glass here might not be very strong, so they hurried to help Wen Zheng and use the cabinets to block the glass windows in the house.
They were many people, and the room they ran into was not big, and the potential of people was not small. In a few tens of seconds, all the metal cabinets were moved behind the glass. Then there was a bang, bang, bang sound, and the sound hit the few people who were sitting on the ground to rest. They immediately jumped up and used their bodies to block the metal cabinets to strengthen this direction.
The room was pitch black, but the body could clearly feel the force of the collision outside.
"Professor Zhou, where are you now? What's the situation now?" At this time, the phone rang. As soon as Professor Zhou answered the phone, he heard an anxious voice from the other side.
Professor Zhou moved his lips a few times, and saw his students with the weak light from the phone. He swallowed the words he wanted to say temporarily, and recovered with a hoarse voice: "My students and I hid in the house in time."
After learning about the situation, the person on the other end of the phone hurriedly told Professor Zhou to pay attention to safety, block the doors and windows and gaps everywhere, and send someone to pick them up after the locusts left.
After that, the person on the other end of the phone received another message and hurriedly informed Professor Zhou that the drivers responsible for transporting the locust-killing birds were still fine, thanks to the bulletproof glass installed on the car. It's just that the driver is now trapped in the car and can't see the loss of the birds.
"It's best if people are fine." Professor Zhou murmured, but the self-blame in his tone did not reduce much.
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In order to save the power of the mobile phone, no one turned on the mobile phone after the call was hung up, and just sat in the dark room.
Every second felt like a year.
Wen Zheng sat down with his back against the metal cabinet, taking advantage of the fact that no one could see each other to receive the original body's memory.
The original body is 23 years old this year, a graduate student, and specializes in locust prevention and control with Professor Zhou.
Their division has been conducting relevant research since Professor Zhou's teacher, and is one of the best in domestic locust disaster prevention and control, especially in biological control. It was Professor Zhou who started to try to introduce pink starlings from artificial nesting to artificial nesting. Breeding and breeding, these students who studied with Professor Zhou also came here to study and research.
Wen Zheng looked through the memories of the original person and found that this world had developed a little longer than his own world, and the level of science and technology was relatively high. The country where the original person lived was similar to the country he belonged to, but the names were different. This world is called Yu State. There are some small differences in the country's territory and even the environment in various places, but there are not much changes in the big places.
Jinliao Province is an area prone to locust plagues. It was initially treated by spraying insecticides, but this method caused great pollution to the environment. Later, biological control was adopted and the locust plague was slowly controlled. Nowadays, there may be a small locust plague every few years, but it does not cause a major problem, and sometimes it is even solved in the early stages.
The locust plague encountered this time was not local.
The first locust plague occurred in a hot land many countries away from each other, a country called California, where locust plagues are prone to outbreaks, but the level of locust plague prevention and control is insufficient. Every year, a certain amount of resources are spent on researching ways to deal with locust plagues.
California did not control the locust plague in advance before it occurred. When the locust plague began to rage, it was discovered that the locusts showed more destructive power than before and quickly spread from California to the remaining small countries around it.
Those locusts were overwhelmingly eroding farmland. The specially developed locust-killing pesticide provided by California only had a little effect at the beginning. Some locusts died, but they did not kill them all in time.
The surviving locusts became resistant to the insecticide, and sufficient food allowed them to multiply in large numbers. In just a few months, the locusts grew to hundreds of times the size when the insecticide took effect.
The people of those countries who were still cheering were dumbfounded.
They have watched helplessly as nearly 70% of this year's grain production has been reduced, a large amount of vegetation has been destroyed, and agricultural production has completely come to a standstill.
But the locusts were not satisfied yet, and were still expanding around, even reaching another road. After wreaking havoc, they spread towards the rest of the road. What started as a disaster in one country has now spread to almost half of the planet. And the further back, the larger the locusts become, the weaker the destructive power they cause, and the lower the effectiveness of various control methods.
Yu and Cali were far apart, and they did not panic until the locust plague spread to countries close to them.
First, because Yu State is approaching winter, and winter is the most difficult season for locusts to survive, and they are easy to die when encountering low temperatures. The second reason is that according to the current flight route of the locusts, if you want to enter the Yu Kingdom from neighboring countries, you need to cross a long and not low mountain range. Even if the locusts have wings and can fly over, they will have to face the low temperature in the high altitude when crossing the mountains. and lack of food.
Domestic experts, including Professor Zhou and his students, have simulated many times the locust outbreak in Paris last year as samples, and they all feel that the locust plague will not easily enter the country. After such a conclusion was released, the worried people in the country were relieved and even joked that locusts can also be eaten. If any locusts dared to fly over after all the trouble, they would roast them one by one and eat them.
The experts came to a conclusion, but they still felt a little uneasy. The country used satellites to observe the flight trajectory of this swarm of locusts at all times, and the large black mass was extremely conspicuous.
The flight speed of this swarm of locusts was unsatisfactory. Not only did they not rest after they wreaked havoc in neighboring countries, they didn't even fly slowly. They increased their horsepower and flew in the direction of Yu State, just to challenge the difficulty of flying over the mountains.
When the news came, Professor Zhou took his students to continue research in Jinliao Province. After a video conference, experts still believed that not many of these locusts could fly over the mountains. Professor Zhou's group of birds The army can handle it, but just in case, other pest control methods are also prepared.
No one expected that this group of locusts really didn't follow common sense. Not only could they fly over that mountain range, but they could also fly over in such large numbers. If it hadn't been for satellite surveillance and a phone call to remind them, they might not have had time to run back to the house.
As for the ferocious offensive of the locusts outside just now, even if they were not bitten to death by the locusts, they would be killed by the locusts. Those who studied locust plagues knew how dangerous it was to face the locust plague head-on.
After Wen Zheng reviewed his original memory, especially the memory of the past year, he looked at the mission posted on the system panel.
Advanced Mission: Insect Frenzy
World background: A huge black wave caused by mutated locusts gradually sweeps across the world. The wings of butterflies flap gently. If insects, which account for nearly half of all biological species, all mutate, multiply faster, and have enhanced survivability, how can humans avoid going astray? Entering the final desperate situation...
Mission goal: Survive in this world for three years.
Completion reward: 15,000 basic reward points.
Note: Players are asked to explore the hidden tasks on their own. After reaching the survival time, players can choose to leave the instance at any time.
Insect plague frenzy...
As soon as he came to this world, Wen Zheng experienced firsthand what the insect plague frenzy was.
Just looking at the background of the world, it seems that this disaster is particularly difficult, but when human beings face the desperate situation caused by the disaster, what they must do is to turn the tide.
Wen Zheng read the world background several times. These few simple introductions often contain rich information. The black waves caused by locusts have been seen, but the flapping of butterflies' wings refers only to butterflies as insects, or to the butterfly effect.
The system should know this theory, right?
The last half of the sentence is particularly scary. Wen Zheng can't imagine what the world will look like when the survival and reproduction capabilities of all insects are improved. I'm afraid that humans will not be able to survive at that time.
Three years, three years, it's probably the time for all insects to complete the mutation.
Wen Zheng was still thinking with his head down. Finally, someone spoke in the dark house with only breathing sounds: "Do you feel that there is no movement outside?"
When someone spoke, the originally suppressed breathing sound in the house returned to normal. After carefully feeling that there was indeed no force coming from the outside, the sound outside was almost inaudible, and then someone moved his numb body.
Professor Zhou coughed lightly, and everyone immediately looked in the direction of the sound. A junior sister gently moved away from the cabinet door where she was, and another senior sister continued to carry it. She took out her mobile phone to light up and walked to the switch to press it.
The light in the room was not on.
It was probably because the wires were broken by the locusts.
But everyone's mobile phones still had a lot of power, which was enough for lighting at this time. The power was off, the wireless network was also off, but the mobile phones still had signals and could still log on to the Internet using data.
Everyone looked at each other, both afraid of what they were about to see and not wanting to know nothing about the current situation.
The first person to turn on the phone was Professor Zhou, but he was so good at using it that he handed the phone directly to senior brother Kang Yihang. Senior brother skillfully transferred to the official account that would not spread various false news, and then directly read out the announcement on it.
From the satellite photos, you can see how many locusts there are. Wherever they go, there is really no grass left. Not only the grass is not left, but also wooden products, cloth, and even animals and even people. They can't survive after being surrounded by the black hurricane.
Even though locusts are herbivorous insects, they are so hungry that they will eat even their own kind, not to mention animals and humans.
Now this group of locusts has not eaten enough and is heading towards the warm south along the road. If they are allowed to pass like this, the locust plague will be completely out of control.
The country has decided that it must keep this group of locusts in Jinliao Province. It is urgently preparing various locust control measures and notifying residents in areas where locusts are expected to pass through major news media to hide in sturdy houses as soon as possible, close doors and windows, keep mobile phones turned on, and wait until they hear the news before going out.
The official account also reminded everyone that locusts, commonly known as grasshoppers, can be eaten, but when they form a locust plague, toxic substances will be produced in the body due to the stimulation of living in groups, and humans cannot eat them.
After reading this official news to the end, it is inevitable that a few comments from netizens will be brought out by sliding your fingers.
"Didn't that group of 'experts' say that the locust plague would never come? It came. If they had avoided it in advance, there would not be so many casualties now."
"Who would have thought that this group of locusts would actually fly over that mountain range alive? Theoretically, it is impossible."
"This group of locusts must have mutated!"
The first three comments appeared on the screen. Kang Yihang quickly swiped away after scanning the first one. He didn't dare to look at the teacher, and didn't know what to say.
The room suddenly fell silent. Wen Zheng was thinking about what topic to talk about when Professor Zhou called again. This time the content of the call was to ask him for help.
"Professor Zhou, the mutation of the locusts this time is really beyond the expectations of all of us. Whether it is biological control or chemical locust control, you are an expert in this field, so we would like to invite you to participate in this discussion and discuss the most appropriate locust control method as soon as possible." The other party said quickly and sent Professor Zhou a link to a video conference.
Senior brother Kang Yihang quickly helped click the link to enter the meeting. The signal was better now. When Professor Zhou saw the faces of the participants, he was dazed for a moment, and then he devoted all his attention to the meeting, determined to save the disaster caused by his negligence as much as possible.
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