Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 278 Attack by Poisonous Insects ([-])

Mother Qiao came out of the kitchen with a bowl of stew, and when she looked up, she saw Qin Zhiyuan standing there blankly, "Zhiyuan, have you eaten yet?"

Qin Zhiyuan saw Qiao's mother from the side, shook his head and said, "Mom, I'm eating here today."

Qiao's mother smiled and said, "Let's eat here. I happened to have stewed fish today, and there was freshly grated tofu in it. Wei Wei just sent word back that she wanted pancakes, so I baked shredded potato pancakes with new potatoes. Good food, Zhiyuan, what else do you want to eat, tell mom, I will make it for you before Xiaowei and the others come back."

Qin Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "No more, what did the big kitchen do?"

Mother Qiao said with a smile, "Tofu stewed with wild mushrooms, I tasted it and it tastes delicious. If you want to eat it, Mom will get a bowl."

Qin Zhiyuan nodded, "If you want to eat, I'll go."

Mother Qiao put the vegetable bowl in her hand on the small table in the yard, and stopped Qin Zhiyuan, "You can take a break, just go." Mother Qiao went into the house, took a big bowl, and went to the big kitchen. The food in the kitchen is no worse than that of their family. Most of the time they eat with the rest of the people, and only occasionally they start a meal alone when they are greedy. After a while, Mother Qiao came back with a bowl full of stewed tofu with wild mushrooms, " Zhiyuan, you eat first, mom will tell them to go, don't be hungry."

Qin Zhiyuan sat at the table and lowered his head to smell the aroma of the vegetables. Then his mood recovered a bit. He stopped Qiao's mother, "Mom, please sit down. I'll call. Where are they?"

Mother Qiao pointed to the group of people at the foot of the mountain, "Hey, they're all there."

Qin Zhiyuan got up and went over there, and when he walked halfway, he could distinguish the figure of Qiao's father, but he couldn't find Qiao Miwei after scanning around twice, he walked up to Qiao's father and said, "Dad, it's dinner, mom called you Go back to eat."

Father Qiao turned his head to see Qin Zhiyuan, and smiled, "Hey, wait a little longer, Wei Wei."

Qin Zhiyuan looked down at the bottom of the big pit. It turned out that she was at the bottom of the pit. At this time, Qiao Miwei also saw him. He bent down and grabbed a carrot and threw it at him, "Try it, this year's Carrots are so sweet, I just ate two."

Qin Zhiyuan looked down at the muddy carrot at his feet, picked it up and asked, "Is this how you want to eat it?"

Qiao Mi squinted her smiling eyes, nodded and said, "Of course, rub it with your hands and eat it directly, it's delicious."

Father Qiao laughed and said, "Don't mess around, quickly arrange those radishes, your mother told us to eat."

Qiao Miwei quickly bent down and continued to work, "Understood, it will be fine soon."

Qin Zhiyuan watched for a long time, and wanted to take off his shoes and go down to help, but Qiao's father grabbed him, "You can't do this job, don't trample on the carrots we finally harvested, let the women do it, they are light-handed .”

Dig a hole and bury the radishes and carrots harvested in autumn, and you can eat them until the next year, and you can always eat fresh ones. When the women in the pit arrange the radishes neatly, the men will It started to dig and fill the hole. Qiao Miwei was lifted up from the bottom of the hole by Qin Zhiyuan's two arms. Her clothes were already dirty and she rubbed a lot of dirt. She didn't mind, so she just sat on the ground to rest. , Qin Zhiyuan filled a basin of water from the big bucket next to her to wash her hands and feet, and after cleaning up neatly, the three of them walked back together.

Father Qiao saw that Qin Zhiyuan's performance was not as active as before, so he asked, "Zhiyuan, are you in a bad mood?"

Qin Zhiyuan thought for a while and said, "Dad, I'm very conflicted. Someone was stung by a poisonous insect again today, and now he's unconscious. I found out through recent deduction that this poisonous insect should have appeared along with the land department. Before, everyone I have never encountered this kind of insects because they have been living in the roots of the ground and rarely move on the ground. If we don't provoke them, they should not actively attack humans. It's just that we are already underground in order to accumulate food. The Cultivation Department, today the family is employed by the Farm Guard Team to take care of the rooms in the Cultivation Department.”

After hearing this, Father Qiao said, "According to your inference, there are probably a lot of poisonous insects in those rooms now, and the family who was stung was obviously attacked while digging the land. Bai cultivated."

Qiao Miwei also nodded and said, "It can't be kept, it's still too dangerous. The main reason is that the poisonous insects are too poisonous. Once stung, it is a dead end. We can't dig the ground to eat. What's the use of keeping them? -Those poisonous insects have come out of the room!"

Qin Zhiyuan said, "I also know that we can't keep it, but this year's harvest is really too small. If we give up these land records, I'm afraid we will go through the winter hungry again in recent winters, not to mention how dangerous it will be."

Qiao Miwei stopped talking. Food has always been a flaw in their base. Bases like theirs are in danger of food shortages at any time. I don't know what the situation is in other places.

The three of them walked back in silence. When they were about to get home, Qiao's father said, "Zhiyuan, people are the foundation of our base. Don't lose the big because of small things. Those land bureaus can't stay. If you feel that there is a shortage of food, I'm planning to discuss it with you." , let’s build a greenhouse in Taoyuan, it’s much safer here than outside.”

Qin Zhiyuan nodded, "I'll listen to my dad, let someone fill up those rooms at night."

After dinner, Qin Zhiyuan led Zhang Shui to get busy. Because there were so many people, it didn't take much effort to fill the soil. Maybe it was because everyone didn't touch the relationship with the land bureau. This time, no one was attacked by poisonous insects. It was late at night when all those rooms were filled.

Originally, Qin Zhiyuan thought it would be enough to seal the room, but he didn't expect that in the next few days, people would be attacked by poisonous insects one after another, and they were all in the cellar not far from that room. The poisonous insect attacked and died, but Qin Zhiyuan has never seen such a small insect. In order to prevent the poisonous insect from expanding into the base, he ordered Zhang Shuilai to set up a row of charcoal braziers on that corridor, and put the The road is blocked, and almost all animals are afraid of fire. If the temperature here is too high, those poisonous insects will not move here.

Sure enough, a few days later, someone picked up a dead poisonous insect beside the brazier, and he quickly handed it over. After a while, Qin Zhiyuan finally saw the true face of this insect, and it was exactly as described by those who had seen the insect. It looks very much like a scorpion, even the upturned tail is the same, except that there is a pincer on the tail, and the poisonous needle grows on the head. This is the first time he has seen this kind of insect, and he sent the insect to the infirmary Let these doctors try their best to study this worm. It would be great if they can find antidote or something that can restrain the worm, but Qin Zhiyuan also knows that with the current medical water skin in their base, his wish is doomed to fail.

Then Qin Zhiyuan asked Zhang Shui to continue to increase the brazier in that corridor, and later he simply piled up a lot of firewood there, lighting it up intermittently every day, so that the temperature of the air and the ground here remained high all the time. There are also more and more corpses of poisonous insects nearby, and people optimistically estimate that they may slowly wipe out those poisonous insects.

That night, when people just fell asleep, they were woken up by a shrill scream, and then heard many noisy and panicked shouts, as well as many people's inquiries, and then the whole base seemed like As if being woken up, the shouting became more and more louder. Qin Zhiyuan and Qiao Miwei slept outside this night, and they were woken up not long after they fell asleep. They hurriedly put on their clothes and got up , Qin Zhiyuan quickly left the room with his clothes on, grabbed a person who was fleeing in panic and asked, "What's going on?"

The man shouted with his pale face and mouth open, "Bugs, a lot of bugs, rushed in!"

Qin Zhiyuan's face turned cold when he heard that, he let go of the man, turned his head and said to Qiao Miwei, "Go in quickly, I'll go out and have a look."

Just as Qiao Miwei got dressed, after hearing Qin Zhiyuan's words, she quickly jumped off the bed and grabbed him, "Don't go, what if you get stung."

Qin Zhiyuan thought for a while, turned around and kicked over the brazier, then shoveled a shovel of charcoal fire with a shovel, lit another torch, "Poisonous insects are afraid of fire, if I meet insects like this, I will burn them to death with a torch and they will be fine. You are obedient and go in quickly."

The two of them talked so well, the outside was already in a state of chaos, people were running for their lives, and because of the panic, they didn't know where the bugs were, but many people were pushed to the ground because of panic, wounded. After killing many people, Qin Zhiyuan comforted Qiao Miwei, drew out his gun, and rushed out. As soon as he rushed out, he was rushed by the oncoming crowd and threw away the things in his hands. The hot charcoal fire made the people around him scream , It slowed people down, he took the opportunity to fire a few empty guns, and shouted at the crowd, "Find me a room and let the cats go in, the guy with how big a bug scared you to the bum, don't be ashamed, everyone Find a room to go in, stay on top of it, put the charcoal basins at the door, poisonous insects are afraid of fire, and run away when they encounter fire, as long as they are in the corridor, we can eliminate them, understand!"

At this time, people calmed down, and the people nearby began to find rooms to hide in, and the corridor was emptied in an instant, but the people a little farther away were still flustered because they couldn't hear Qin Zhiyuan's words clearly, Qin Zhiyuan took the opportunity He picked up the torch that had fallen on the ground and rushed over. As expected, he saw some poisonous insects on the way. He held the torch and pressed them down accurately. The insects struggled a few times on the ground and died. Qin Zhiyuan just let go In one breath, he felt something crawling on his back. He quickly held his collar away from his body vigilantly, then shook desperately, and then heard a soft snap behind him, and a large poisonous insect fell to the ground. He raised his foot and stomped on the poisonous insects and died without even struggling. Qin Zhiyuan was only able to raise his head at this time, but when he looked up, his back shivered in fright. Those poisonous insects had already crawled all over the wall. Quite a few insects bared their teeth and claws as if they were provoking him, and those who couldn't grasp them would snap and fall off. Qin Zhiyuan quickly ran back to stay away from these poisonous insects.

(End of this chapter)