Chapter 159

In a medium-sized residential area in Fengnan City, Zhang Liying had just sent her daughter off to work. Even with the noisy sound of the TV, she was still lost in her own thoughts.

She had a hard life. Her husband died when she was young, and she raised her daughter alone and personally sent her daughter to marry. As a result, her daughter, who was so distressed when she got a little injury at home, did not find a good home. She felt sorry for her own child, and she did not care about other people's criticisms. She supported her daughter's divorce and took the child home.

Putting aside the inevitable gossip, their family has lived well in the past few years.

But when she saw the locust plague in Jinliao Province on the news this year, Zhang Liying's nerves moved and she felt worse.

She had been following the situation in Jinliao Province on the news. After it was under control there, she relaxed a little. After the mutant locusts were found in her own community, her spirit became tense again. After someone in their community was taken away by the police for buying a lot of live mutant locusts from the Internet, she also ran to the supermarket to buy a lot of rice and flour to store at home.

My daughter always said that she thought too much, but she always wanted to help her children avoid all possible dangers.

Looking at the cabinet where the locust killer was placed again, Zhang Liying felt much more at ease.

Carrying the leftover breakfast to pour into the kitchen trash can, Zhang Liying shoveled the porridge left in the pot with a spoon and saw something moving in the trash can. This scene is seen every year. Just by looking at the size and shape, you know that there are cockroaches in the house.

Zhang Liying skillfully solved the cockroaches in the trash can, poured the remaining food into the trash can, and then tightened the trash bag.

Even though they had a big cleaning at home last weekend, the floor at home was cleaned every day and the garbage was cleared every day, but the old house here was not tightly sealed, and cockroaches often ran in. And often when you see a cockroach at home, there may be more cockroaches hiding in other places.

The weather outside the window became more and more gloomy, and many tiny water droplets appeared on the tiles on the floor and wall. As she was not going out today, Zhang Liying cleaned up the kitchen counter, changed into a pair of non-slip shoes, picked up the broom at home and started from the kitchen.

The kitchen cabinets were installed a few years ago. There was a gap between the cabinet door and the ground. Zhang Liying leaned down slightly with her left hand on her waist and put the broom in her left hand into the gap. As soon as she reached in, she felt something was wrong. Before her brain could react, her body cleaned out the garbage in the gap according to the original command.

Pairs of cockroaches ran out from under the cabinet. The feeling that the broom gave to her arm just now was the movement caused by touching a bunch of live cockroaches. When she saw the cockroaches hidden inside, Zhang Liying suddenly used some strength in her arm to open the closed cabinet door, and more cockroaches came out from inside.

Zhang Liying had seen cockroaches many times, but she had never seen such a scene.

The cockroaches that came out were not big, about the thickness of a finger, and they ran out densely. A rough estimate was that there were at least dozens or hundreds of them. Cockroaches in the north may be smaller, but cockroaches in the south are usually larger, and the largest ones may be half the size of a palm, such as the cockroach I saw in the trash can just now.

So the pile of cockroaches in front of me are still in their infancy. With so many of them, just thinking about the scene of them growing up is suffocating.

I thought a lot at this moment. Before Zhang Liying thought about whether there were more cockroaches in the house, she saw this group of cockroaches crawling out of the gap and rushing towards her feet. She quickly stepped back two steps, waving her arms vigorously with the broom to slap the cockroaches, and then the cockroaches scattered.

Zhang Liying immediately left the kitchen carefully.

Fortunately, I closed the kitchen door before cleaning to prevent cockroaches from running out, otherwise I don’t know how many would have run back just now.

Recalling the scene in the kitchen just now, Zhang Liying put on a pair of long rain boots, opened the room, and went to clean the bedroom at home, focusing on the closet and under the bed.

There were also cockroaches in the bedroom.

Under the sofa in the living room, under the sink in the bathroom, and in the corner of the study. Even if the number of cockroaches disturbed was not as many as in the kitchen, it meant many serious problems.

Zhang Liying originally wanted to find the cockroach cage in the house, but now she had no strength to search. Finally, she found a bottle of cockroach medicine and scattered it in various rooms.

After finishing, she sat on the chair weakly, and looked around with lifeless eyes. Obviously, she didn't see a cockroach when she cleaned up last weekend, but it was only a few days, and her house became a cockroach nest in just five days.

She would rather believe that this was a nightmare she had.

After a while, Zhang Liying went back into the kitchen to confirm that this was a terrible fact. She took out her cell phone and dialed her daughter's number. After a long time, she didn't call it out. She found the phone number of her old neighbor in the building again. After dialing it, she said that there were cockroaches in her house and asked her old neighbor to pay more attention.

Not long after, there was a knock on her door. When she opened the door, she saw the neighbor opposite standing in front of her house in a panic. There was still some lingering fear on her face, and she was breathing heavily. She pulled Zhang Liying's hand for help.

"Sister, you don't know how many cockroaches there are in my house! I dare not stay in the house any longer. I will hide in your house for a while and call my son."

Zhang Liying also showed a bitter smile on her face: "After I called you just now, I checked the whole house. There may be no fewer cockroaches in my house than in yours."

"What? What should I do..."

On the other side, after Wang Le picked up his daughter An An from the kindergarten, he received a call from his mother Zhang Liying on the way home. He first heard her mother say that there were cockroaches at home. Wang Le thought it was the same as in previous years, so he said that he would buy some cockroach medicine and bring it back later. As a result, he heard her tone become particularly serious.

"Don't you have the community group on your phone? I don't know how to use it, but someone in the community posted the picture on it. Don't look at it in the car, find a place to stop the car first, and then look at it. By the way, don't let An An see it, it's easy to be scared."

After hearing these serious words, Wang Le thought that her mother was definitely exaggerating, but he still stopped the car to the roadside as instructed and opened the community owner group. Seeing 999+ unread messages, Wang Le really felt something was wrong. He clicked into the group and scrolled up. Before he could see what everyone was talking about, he saw a picture someone in the group had posted.

He was shocked and almost dropped his phone because he didn't hold it firmly.

Don't tell her that there are so many cockroaches in her house. Wang Le tried to pick up his mood that was about to collapse and hurried back home. When he entered the community, he saw that the owners were surrounding the property management to find the cause.

The whole community is in such a serious cockroach problem, it's not just a problem for one or two families.

After Wang Le went home, he was completely sure that his house was uninhabitable. There are only women in her family, and there are old and young people. It's raining today and it's getting dark. It's most important to find a place to live tonight.

He simply packed his clothes and locked the valuables in the house in a metal cabinet. Wang Le took his mother and children out. Several nearby hotels were fully booked. I don't know if they were booked by residents in the community. I can only drive to a hotel that is a little farther away but has better reviews.

After booking the room and moving in, I checked it from inside to outside. I didn't find any traces of cockroaches or other insects, so I felt relieved. I let my fifth-grade daughter An An take a bath first. Wang An sat on a chair and opened her mobile phone to browse the news in the community group.

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Almost all residents who have people at home today have found a large number of locusts at home. They are almost arguing in the group, and no one thinks it is their own fault.

The property management tried to appease in the group but to no avail. Someone called the phone number of the government department that might be related, and sent photos. They said that they would send someone to take a look, but they didn't know how long it would take.

Wang Le quickly browsed it and was about to exit WeChat and check the website again. Someone in the group sent the latest message with screenshots, which made her finger stop on the screen.

[I took a photo of the cockroaches in my house and posted it online. Someone saw it and tried to clean his house. As a result, he also found a large number of young cockroaches in his house, which was similar to the situation in our community. I talked to this person. He is from Yanggang City. He has now notified the people in his community to check. ]

It doesn’t take too much time to check your own house. Wang Le waited for a few minutes and saw the owner send the latest message in the group.

[It’s confirmed that the situation in their community is the same as ours. It looks calm, but when you sweep the corners, a large group of cockroaches will run out. ]

Yanggang City and Fengnan City belong to the same province, but they are at the two ends of the province, far apart, making it impossible to determine the reason why cockroaches are bothering both sides.

Now we can only wait for the test results of the government department.

Wang Le’s community was the first to post photos and videos of the surging cockroaches on the Internet, and the strong impact was forwarded a lot.

Most netizens commented below with a mentality of watching the fun, until the man in Yanggang City found that his home was also in this situation after trying it, and everyone was shocked and said "Fuck". Before, it was because it was none of their business, so they could laugh and laugh, but now they find that the same thing may happen to themselves, which is not so fun.

In the next two days, the topic of related topics was very popular. The professionals sent by the government did not find the cause after coming to check. They just caught some cockroaches and took them back for people to study. They sprayed pesticides in the entire community and several nearby communities and placed cockroach cages. Because they were afraid that children and animals such as cats and dogs would eat them by mistake, they did not put cockroach medicine outside.

It happened that the time of discovery was Friday. Most residents rested on Saturdays and Sundays. Those who did not rest also asked for leave to go home to remove cockroaches. They could not live in a hotel every day and give the room to cockroaches.

Wang Le's family could not do it alone, so they had to ask someone to help clean it up. The whole house, including the furniture, was cleaned from inside to outside, and half of the trash can was found with cockroaches. It is not known whether the house is cleaned up.

Usually, I can only close the doors and windows as much as possible, put a lot of cockroach cages and cockroach medicine in each room of the house, and come back to stay for two days to see the situation of cockroaches in the house.

Tianwang Leguang was busy cleaning these days and didn't pay attention to the news from the outside world. After I was done, I opened my phone and checked it, and saw several related news on the hot search rankings.

Most people who saw the news of cockroach outbreaks in Fengnan City and other areas on the Internet would inevitably want to check their own homes. Most areas did not have them, but there were quite a few residential buildings with the same situation.

There was also news about insect disasters on the hot search list. A large number of mole crickets and cutworms were found in farmland in some areas. These two insects that move in the land will eat the roots of plants. Although they are not as desolate as locusts, they are still very harmful to plants.

It is an important season for crop growth. Once these two pests break out, they will kill the farmers.

Farmers are still concerned about the amount of pesticides used and dare not spray too much. They learn to release their chickens and ducks like dealing with locusts, and use tweezers to manually remove pests from the ground.

After looking at the photos of the farmland, Wang Le always felt that there was an idea in his mind that wanted to come out, but he just couldn't condense it. Her fingers refreshed automatically, and a topic that had just been formed jumped to the top of the list.

The keyword of this topic is termites.

Clicking on it, you will see a long video, recorded by several high school students.

They went home for the holiday this week and returned to school on Sunday afternoon. They brought their cell phones in secretly.

They probably saw the hot topics on the Internet during the two days of the holiday, so they wanted to see if there were cockroaches in the dormitory after returning to school.

The underage children laughed and filmed the bed. One of the brave girls took the dormitory broom and reached under the bed to wave it tentatively.

The cockroaches did not run out. The group of children were happy that there were no cockroaches in the dormitory, but regretted that they could not use this as an excuse to go home. The girl holding the broom was talking to her roommate while retracting the broom. She did not notice that the angle was wrong, and the broom was pulled out suddenly and hit one of the legs of the bed.

This high school dormitory arranged wooden beds for students. When the broom hit the bed leg, there was a bang, and there were several clicks. With a bang, the whole bed collapsed on the spot.

The girls who filmed the video were so frightened that they stood there in a daze, but they still held their phones tightly in their hands.

The girl who was waving the broom was the most frightened. The collapsed bed brushed past her and almost fell on her.

She was not only frightened at all.

People in several dormitories around heard the noise and ran over to see. They had not experienced the moment when the bed collapsed, so they were still rational even though they were surprised. Some sharp-eyed people noticed that the scattered wood that made up the collapsed bed had basically become hollow, and there were small groups of animals moving inside.

"This bed is full of ants! They have already crawled onto my shoes."

The frightened girl heard the sound and looked down. When she saw the ants crawling onto her shoes, she immediately made the sharpest cry she could. Just when she was about to sweep away the ants with the broom in her hand, she found that the broom was also covered with ants when she raised it. She screamed and threw it out, jumping on the spot to shake the ants off her shoes.

Fortunately, some people outside remained calm and squeezed in to pull the person out first. Some people took off their coats and knocked the termites off their shoes.

This happened on Sunday afternoon. The girls who faced the scene were not shocked until their parents came over. Someone posted the recorded video online and briefly supplemented the follow-up.

Later, the teacher got the news and rushed over. Many students dared not go in with the dormitory building outside. Some brave ones took brooms or sticks to poke their beds. As a result, one in ten collapsed on the spot after withstanding the strong force, and another one in ten collapsed.

Those ants are extremely destructive termites. After seeing the scene, the teacher immediately notified the relevant government departments to send people to deal with it, but the dormitory building dared not let students live. The school suspended classes and contacted parents to come and pick up their children. Before the parents came, they gathered in the empty playground. The classrooms also used wooden tables and chairs.

The Internet is frantically discussing the crazy news that has emerged in recent days.

From cockroaches to mole crickets, from cutworms to termites, and perhaps there are places they haven't noticed, the common feature of these disasters is that they are all pests, and the culprits are all insects.

Thinking of the locust plague that was just solved not long ago, many people began to wonder if they were experiencing an unprecedented insect plague.

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