Please Spare Me a Tail

Lu Ye came out with a brazier in hand.

The ground of the barracks was sealed. He broke through the ice and soil layers, exposing a small piece of soil. The bugs that were struggling to get out were not restrained, and continued to work hard to get out.

Bai Xiaohu took a look and hid behind Lu Ye, still a little bit unacceptable to this scene.

After all kinds of bugs crawled out, wherever Lu Ye put the brazier, they would crawl there.

Lu Ye took out the mud ball wrapped in chicken, sealed the brazier with lightning, and the bug lost its target all of a sudden, crawled around, and began to crawl towards Lu Ye and Bai Xiaohu.

Although they lost the target that attracted them the most, Lu Ye and Bai Xiaohu also attracted them.

Then Lu Ye changed the direction and turned on the brazier again. The insects immediately changed direction and swarmed into the brazier excitedly. The insects crawled out of a small piece of land that came out, and no more insects crawled out for a while.

Seeing the end from the beginning, Bai Xiaohu said in amazement, "It's really aimed at the fire from this branch!"

Lu Ye picked up a half-burned tree branch. The flame was different from that of ordinary branches. There was a faint blue color in the red flame. Smell it carefully, and there was a very faint fragrance of trees.

Lu Ye said: "Is there any other branches like this? Give me some."

Bai Xiaohu immediately hugged a bundle for him.

Lu Ye knocked on another piece of land and found that unlit branches were not attractive to insects.

At this time, Baozi and a few members of Zhongyang's team ran over and told them that mutated bugs had also been dug up in the ground outside the barracks.

"Most of the ground is half a meter below the ground, and if you don't dig deep, you can't find it, and those bugs move very slowly, even if they are dug out, they are slow, as if they haven't woken up yet."

They went to look together, and it was true. In the soil that was dug out from deep, there were many long, short, thick, thin, shelled, soft, legless, and many-legged insects. When I took a flashlight, almost all of them were wriggling silently. Crawling, but all appearing very lifeless, in addition to many eggs, pupae, and larvae.

Du Jing was standing by the edge of the pit with a tense face, when Lu Ye passed by, he asked Lu Ye, "Captain Lu, what do you think this looks like?"

Lu Ye said calmly: "A huge underground group that is mutating and accumulating power. They are silently changing and multiplying underground, and when the time comes, they can't wait to break out of the ground, just like what happened in the military camp. Like that."

As Lu Ye's words spread in the wind, everyone's expressions became even uglier.

There are so many and terrible bugs crawling out of just such a temporary camp. If there are so many bugs crawling out of every inch of land, thinking about the scene makes one's scalp tingle.

"But why did the ones in the barracks crawl out, but the ones here still don't move?"

"Then it's an experiment."

Lu Ye asked everyone to retreat out of the safe range, lit a few firewood branches, and threw them into a pit.

At first, everyone thought that the flame would be extinguished soon due to such a strong wind, but no, the branches were thrown into the pit and still burned silently, and soon, everyone found that the half-dead insects were squirming crazily as if they were stimulated by something stand up.

Even the bugs outside the pit became restless, breaking through the ground one by one and crawling into the pit.

People were horrified.

Bai Xiaohu even grabbed Lu Ye's arm and hid behind him, turned his head and didn't want to look any more, it was too hot on his eyes.

A few burning branches were quickly submerged by insects. It is reasonable to say that with so many insects pressing down, the flame must be extinguished, but it didn't. It's like roasting thousands of insects in a pot, plus the earthy smell, the fishy smell of the insects themselves, all kinds of smells blend together, it's really disgusting.

Bai Xiaohu covered his nose with his collar, and lay on Lu Ye's shoulder, rolling his eyes in disgust.

No, no, no!

She grabbed a flower from the space, put it on her nose and sniffed it vigorously, only then did she feel alive.

The flowers are extremely fragrant, but the strong but not greasy smell is very refreshing and pleasant. Lu Ye turned his head, and Baozi and others who were standing closer, as well as Du Jing, also turned their heads to look at her.

Bai Xiaohu: "What, what are you doing?"

Baozi stretched out his hand: "Is there any more?"

Then a very strange thing happened. The people standing by the pit each held a small white flower in their hands, covering their mouths and noses, and all of them looked at the filled bug pit numbly.

The branches at the bottom of the pit were probably burnt out at last, and the insects gradually lost their target and began to crawl out of the pit. The target was the living people beside them, and then they were killed without mercy.

There were only two people who were not careful. One was bitten on the eye by flying insects, and the whole eyelid was swollen to burst. One finger was swollen like a carrot head and could not be bent at all.

Seeing the miserable appearance of the two of them, the others became more cautious.

Without further ado, Bai Xiaohu showed up with two more herbs, and asked them to crush them and apply them on the wound.

Du Jing couldn't help but glanced at her.

The effect of a few branches is limited, and the number of bugs "awakened" is also limited. Everyone quickly returned to the barracks and gathered together to sort out the information.

Known 1: The bugs have indeed mutated on a large scale, but it is not yet time to go out and wreak havoc.

Known 2: After the firewood branches are ignited, they are very attractive to the insects, which can make them wake up early, and make them climb into the fire to die by themselves like moths to the flame.

Known 3: Once there is no flame to attract, the second target of the insects is the living, and the insects will bite people, and a big swelling can be swollen with one bite, which is painful, itchy and has a paralyzing effect. General medicines are basically ineffective, but white Xiaohu has a medicinal herb available in his hand.

Known 4: A large number of insects are really smelly when burned. If you don’t take anti-odor measures, people will be so smelly that their stomachs twitch and their mobility will be greatly reduced.

The above four points were quickly reported to the base after sorting out.

Lu Ye also contacted Zhongyang's team and Wen Liansheng.

After making these two calls, he looked at the dark and windy night outside, thought for a while, and broadcast another number.

…

In the Jiangcheng base.

After Wen Liansheng received Lu Ye's letter, he didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately asked people to dig in the ground, and as a result, piles of worms were dug out.

The faces of the members of the Baishou team were very ugly.

Their farm is huge, with thunder tree, chili flower, red fruit tree, artificial river, fish pond, and some vegetables and fruits. The site is big and well maintained, and now they are told that the farm is full of bugs, and they will all come out soon!

When the typhoon came, everyone was worried about the loss of the farm, but now a bug came.

As for the fluke that the bugs may not harm these crops? Hehe, they are not stupid, they caught a few ugly and representative insects and tried it, and they gnawed on the vegetable leaves and tree trunks, don't be too fragrant and too fast!

Insects dare not touch the thunder tree chili flower, or in other words, all the plants that come out of Baixiaohu, the insects dare not touch them.

Wen Liansheng patted the center of his eyebrows, and ordered: "The ordinary vegetables and fruits are collected first, and the others." He looked at the communicator, "Wait a minute."

At the same time, he also asked people to reinforce the buildings such as the pharmaceutical factory and the dormitory building, so that no insects could crawl in after the doors and windows were closed tightly.

And there are not a few people who are rushing to harvest crops overnight against the strong wind. All forces who grow some vegetables and food by themselves are rushing to harvest. Among them, the official action is the biggest, sending troops overnight to harvest the farmland outside the base regardless of whether it is mature or not. Yes, now it's time to keep a little bit.

At the same time, the base also dispatched carts carrying loads of cement and gravel to all parts of the base. Wherever the soil surface can be poured with cement, a layer of cement must be poured. , If the cement is not enough, put stones on it.

As for places where there is really nothing we can do, such as those vast planting areas, such as the bottom of a river, it is simply unrealistic to pour a layer of cement on it, so we can only leave it for now.

Compared with the rescue efforts in the base, the outside of the base is not optimistic.

Pan Gu ran back covered in sweat, and brought bad news: "Outside the base, there are large areas of mountainous wasteland, and bugs have been dug up. Guy, when the light came on just now, there were worms wriggling slowly everywhere, and those worms were made more active by the underground ones, that picture is really enough."

Pan Gu felt cold for a while, and his expression was puzzled: "It's strange to say that the construction was still going on yesterday, and everyone stopped working and returned to the base because of the typhoon today, but after such a day of rest, the originally good soil is already full of bugs, it seems It mutated within a day."

Wen Liansheng speculated: "It may have been just insect eggs before, and they couldn't be found. They all hatched within a day. And the soil on the construction site was dug up early, so the insects in those places were more active."

"Probably." Pan Gu shook his head, "You said that the base issued an anti-typhoon order in the evening, prohibiting everyone from going out, and everyone should really nest in the base for a day or two, and the bugs outside can surround the base. Fortunately, the boss reminded me in time, otherwise it would be really embarrassing."

When it was over, he was in a hurry: "When will the boss and Xiaohu come back? I said before that they would come back after the typhoon passed, but if all the bugs in Ningcheng came out by then, they would be outside, and there was only one garrison nearby. Overwhelmed by bugs."

"Don't worry." Wen Liansheng said, "They will be back tomorrow."

"Really, shall we pick it up?"

"No, the base will send someone to pick them up."

…

In the research center of the base, boxes of various bugs were brought in, and many people were hurriedly called from home to work the night shift. They classified the bugs, studied their shapes and characteristics, and looked for ways to kill them in large numbers.

The young man took off his glasses and pinched the space between his eyebrows: "Unhatched eggs can be killed with high-concentration pesticides, but for grown-up insects, there is no particularly good way. The best way is to catch and kill them physically. And I found that these bugs are still mutating, so I don't recommend using high concentrations of pesticides to kill eggs, because it is likely to stimulate accelerated mutation."

A middle-aged man walked back and forth worried after hearing this: "Catch bugs, how can you catch so many bugs? You can flood the base before you catch too many bugs."

"Very likely." The young man said flatly, "These mutated insects should eat anything, especially humans. They should be very good food in their eyes, and they can secrete weak toxins when they bite. A If a person is bitten twenty times, his whole body may be paralyzed and he will lose his mobility."

"Oh, also, these bugs should have just mutated today. Judging from their state, their bodies will send a strong signal to the brain that they need to replenish energy within two days at most, and then they will all be activated. It’s not the slow and wriggling look it is now.”

The middle-aged man shivered and murmured: "I can't wait for tomorrow, I have to bring him back today!" He turned around and left, but the young man grabbed him: "Who will be brought back?"

The middle-aged man waved his hand: "Don't ask, you will know when the time comes."

The young man sneered: "I know it even if you don't tell me, it's that Miss Bai, she has another way?" He murmured, "She always has so many ways."