Infinite Disaster Survival

When the locust extermination plan was completed, Teacher Zhou closed the video conference interface and got out of the state of rapid brain operation.

"Most of the locusts have left. Everyone should be well protected. Let's go out and take a look." Professor Zhou sighed lightly. It was too late to regret and feel guilty now.

Some thick cloths used to block rain were found in the warehouse. They were put on by Teacher Zhou and the girls. The boys found some torn raincoats. These were a little dirty, but now was not the time to be particular.

There was no helmet in the house, but the head needed to be protected. Finally, the coat was taken off and the head was covered except for the eyes.

Before going out, the metal cabinet behind the window was moved away. The situation outside could be seen through the glass window. The locust swarm that could block the sunlight had flown away. It was not dark yet. There were still many locusts, but they would not pose too much threat to humans. After confirming again and again, they opened the door and surrounded Professor Zhou in the middle and walked out.

The first place they went to was the direction where the trucks were heading. They knocked on the door heavily to explain their identities. The driver got out of the car and opened the door after hearing it. After they looked at each other, they all looked at the back of the truck. The driver pressed the switch, and the fighting chickens, locust-killing ducks, and pink starlings all appeared in front of everyone.

For the researchers and breeders who are most familiar with the number of these locust-killing warriors, they could see at a glance that the number was more than halved this time. At this moment, they could barely control their emotions, but on the way to the location where the locust-killing birds were first released, they began to see the remains of birds and birds left on the land, which were not eaten by locusts.

Their emotions were about to burst, and the few people who were relatively emotional secretly wiped away the tears from the corners of their eyes.

No one wanted to see such a result, let alone the result caused by their own misjudgment.

Originally, we believed that it was difficult for locusts to fly over the mountains, but they turned out to be overwhelming locusts. For ordinary people, this incident caused a lot of surprise, but for those who specialized in studying locusts, it was a huge blow to their professional ability, and all the mixed emotions in their hearts were negative.

In this way, we were in a low mood until the locust plague was controlled in Jinliao Province. In the past few days, everyone slowly adjusted their moods and began to transform all the negative emotions such as self-blame, suspicion, and guilt into a desire to study the mutation situation. They decided to return to the laboratory to study the mutation of these locusts and find a targeted way to simply eliminate the mutated locusts.

Professor Zhou brought a group of students back to the laboratory from the field. Now everyone had time to recall Wen Zheng's performance on the day when the locusts arrived. Professor Zhou and others thanked Wen Zheng. It was because of Wen Zheng's quick reaction at that time that they were able to hide in the house intact and the birds of the team were not wiped out.

Wen Zheng accepted everyone's thanks and took advantage of all the free time after returning to the institute to look through the basic knowledge and related research related to locusts. At this time, we have to thank the convenience of the Internet. If we hold a paper book in our hands, it is not easy to buy and it is easy to arouse the suspicion of teachers and classmates. When reading information on mobile phones, most people know not to peek at other people's screens.

Wen Zheng doesn't know much about locusts, but Wen Zheng focused on studying plants in the last world, and also came into contact with knowledge related to animals and microorganisms when learning the basics of biology.

There are many common places in biology. With basic knowledge, plus the relevant memories of the original body, and then focusing on understanding the characteristics of locusts, we can quickly understand the research progress of locusts in this world based on the papers.

When we returned to the institute, Wen Zheng could already talk smoothly with the members of the school about the content of the research.

Arriving at the institute that afternoon, after only one night of rest, Professor Zhou took the students to the laboratory, trying to find out which part of the locust gene mutation has produced such a strong resistance to pesticides, and then use the results of this part to study new pesticides.

The goal is quite clear, but it is not easy to achieve this goal. After working overtime every day, they finally found a gene fragment in the locust that had never been found before. It was this fragment that made the locust produce a substance in its body that made it resistant to all existing chemical pesticides. Professor Zhou and his team also found that this gene could also affect the reproduction of locusts.

The results of the first phase of research were compiled and published to share with all research institutes that are studying locusts. This is an agreement reached by all locust researchers around the world. Locusts are not ordinary animals. The disasters caused by them are still spreading around the world. Sharing their research progress can create a solution to this global disaster faster.

Professor Zhou, with his senior brothers and sisters who were studying for a doctorate, began to conduct further research on the newly discovered gene fragments in the mutant locusts, trying to find a way to make this gene ineffective. The mechanism of the impact of this gene on the reproduction of locusts was first studied by Wen Zheng and his junior brothers and sisters who were in the graduate stage.

The latter research is equally important, but the former is more urgent.

Wen Zheng took on this task. In fact, he also had his own research ideas. When he was in the same research group with Professor Zhou, it was difficult for him to have his own time to verify. It was also good to divide into two groups. Wen Zheng was responsible for leading the rest of the group to conduct several additional experiments on the mutant locusts while others were resting.

With all kinds of emotions caused by the locust plague hidden in their hearts, everyone put all their energy into the research. Every day, they could be said to be sleepless and forget about food. The days buried in the laboratory passed quickly.

The initial stage of the research was very smooth, but after entering the second stage, they frequently hit the wall and could not find the key to solve the problem. This is the most common situation in research. Even the simplest graduation research in undergraduate period may fail continuously and get no results. It is not surprising that the research on mutant locusts took several years to get results, but no one can accept this time.

In this increasingly anxious research environment, they welcomed this year's Spring Festival. It is a happy festival, but in the eyes of everyone in the laboratory, the arrival of the Spring Festival means that spring is not far away, and in spring, the locust plague that has not spread here again after the temperature drops may break out again.

This will only make everyone more anxious.

No one plans to go home for the holidays. Everyone called their families to say they would not go back. Wen Zheng knew his family situation in his original memory. His parents divorced when he was very young and formed new families. They only paid him child support every month when he was a minor. Even if he entered the research institute later, he did not get their care.

After his parents divorced, he lived with his grandparents, but both of them passed away after he was admitted to university, and there was no bond.

Wen Zheng had no home to go back to even if he was on vacation, but he knew that he could not let everyone continue to study like this. In recent days, due to his increasingly anxious mood, several operational errors that should not have occurred during the experiment occurred, wasting time and materials. Instead of going on like this, it is better to take a good rest and change his mentality.

At lunch, Wen Zheng strongly asked his team members to go back for a nap. The team members couldn't help yawning when they were about to resist, and were finally pushed out of the laboratory by Wen Zheng.

Wen Zheng went to Professor Zhou's office, opened the door and saw that his senior brother Kang Yihang was talking to Professor Zhou. When he saw Wen Zheng coming, he quickly asked him to come in and sit down.

Professor Zhou smiled and said, "I just said I wanted to find you. Tell me what you want to find me for? I am a careful person. I guess your purpose of coming to find me is the same as what I and your senior brother just said."

"I came to the teacher to talk about the Spring Festival holiday. I asked my junior brothers and sisters. They all planned to stay in the laboratory to continue their research, but I think their status has been too tense recently and needs to be adjusted." Wen Zheng said slowly.

"I said, you will definitely think of it. I was just talking about this with your senior brother." Professor Zhou smiled even more happily at this moment. He liked Wen Zheng before, and now he appreciates him even more.

Even if everyone stays in the institute during the Spring Festival holiday, they can't miss it. Everyone can have a lively holiday together. Maybe once the mood changes, the research ideas will open up.

There were only two days left before the Chinese New Year. Professor Zhou took Kang Yihang and Wen Zheng to look at the research progress of the two groups. They were basically stuck in a bottleneck, and there would be no problem even if they were suspended.

So the day before the Chinese New Year, Professor Zhou announced that they would stop the research today and clean up their laboratory. The laboratory would be cleaned every day, but this plan would not be particularly comprehensive. If it was a big cleanup, no corner would be spared. After a long time in the laboratory without exercise and eating well, they all lost a lot of weight and became weak.

After working for a whole morning, everyone was sweating. They went back to take a shower and have lunch, and were urged to go back to take a nap and rest. When they came to the laboratory in the afternoon, they saw Teacher Zhou waiting in the room again. After everyone arrived, he waved his hand and took everyone to buy New Year's goods.

On the day of New Year's Eve, Professor Zhou ran to their dormitory building and directed them to post couplets and door paintings at the door. The dormitory provided by the institute for them was also very good. There was a kitchen for two people in a room, and they stewed the beef bought yesterday directly. No one mentioned the experiment in the afternoon, and everyone showed off their skills to make a lively New Year's Eve dinner.

Wen Zheng was responsible for pouring drinks for everyone at the New Year's Eve dinner. The drinks were also bought by him when he went out yesterday and were placed in his dormitory. This drink was added with the inspiration stimulant that Wen Zheng bought from the system store. He had bought it in the flood world before and it was extremely effective in research.

This time he bought it again, not only gave it to others, but also drank two more drinks himself, wanting to try out the effect of the inspiration stimulant.

First send Professor Zhou home, and then the young people stay up together until the twelfth day, and then they go back to their dormitories and fall asleep.

However, the sleep that day was not very sweet, at least Wen Zheng had a messy dream all night, and there were many scenes in the dream. Wen Zheng always felt that it was particularly important and wanted to remember, but when he woke up, he found that he had forgotten everything.

He even doubted whether it was really an ordinary dream or the effect of the inspiration stimulant.

I had a dream all night, but it had no effect on Wen Zheng. He and his brothers and sisters were also energetic on the first day of the New Year. After wishing each other a happy New Year, they continued to work. Everyone noticed that the state of doing experiments was obviously different from the previous few days. At that time, they didn't feel anything. Now they realized how bad the state was some time ago.

After thanking the teacher, everyone re-entered the experiment and found places that had been neglected before. Several inspirations emerged that they wanted to try. In addition to being excited, they returned to the state of hurried steps and forgetting to eat and sleep.

From the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, after the staff who went home for the holiday in other laboratories in the institute returned, they suddenly realized that two weeks had passed. In these two weeks, which were long and short, the experimental content of the two groups had new progress, which only needed further verification.

The process of this research was so pleasant.

Wen Zheng now clearly experienced the difference between using inspiration-stimulating drugs. Ordinary people may not feel it, but he noticed that every time inspiration was stimulated, he was in a relatively excited state. Using inspiration-inspiring agents is indeed an unfair shortcut, but in the face of disaster, saving a little research time may avoid huge losses.

After more than a month, everyone's hard work was not in vain. The team led by Professor Zhou initially found a way to solve the mutant locusts. After preliminary experiments, it was determined that it was effective, but a lot of experiments are needed to verify it before it can be officially put into use.

Before, Professor Zhou had been targeting the new gene and the antibodies produced by the mutant locusts, trying to develop chemical insecticides that antibodies could not resist, but he had never succeeded.

Finally, he shifted his thinking to the biological field he was familiar with, and the idea came up when he heard Zheng and others talk about locusts occasionally devouring their own kind. Since there is no way to use insecticides to kill locusts, let the locusts kill each other. Professor Zhou remembered a strange substance found in the locusts when he was studying locusts years ago. Finally, he artificially synthesized a drug similar to this substance and successfully induced the mutant locusts to kill each other.

In particular, the team led by Wen Zheng also came up with the results of the research. The original locusts' reproductive capacity was very amazing. Now the reproductive capacity of this mutant locust is five to ten times that of the original. No wonder all the countries that suffered from the locust plague this time, as long as they failed to control the locust plague after the initial outbreak, they were unable to control it later.

After Professor Zhou submitted the research report to the higher authorities, he approved a new research fund and agreed to continue in this direction, trying to pass the inspection before the locusts broke out in spring.

At this time, the countries where the locust plague spread later controlled the locust plague within a smaller range according to the experience and help provided by Yu State. The countries where the locust plague first spread were almost completely destroyed by locusts, and there was nothing to take care of. Later, weapons were used to kill locusts, but the effect was not very great.

The few surviving countries in the world that were not visited by the locust plague were all across the sea from the most serious countries. The locusts had not yet mutated to the ability to fly for a long time at sea, but the series of turmoil they caused had more or less had some impact on those countries.

Jinliao Province has slowly recovered after several months of recuperation.

After the locust plague was brought under control, the scattered locusts left on the land would continue to devour the newly grown seedlings, and they dared not even throw seeds into the ground. Therefore, the locusts could only be removed as much as possible through birds and manual capture.

The number of remaining locusts gradually decreased, and the grass seeds in the land also withstood the cold winter and sprouted young buds. How fresh and tender the young buds were, and how scarce green was in Jinliao Province now, but these seedlings could not be left.

In order to avoid the problem of hatching eggs laid by locusts, when the grass on the land grows to the height of the palm, divide the fire trench at a fixed length, and wait until all are dug, find a dry and windless weather, light a fire, and burn the grass and insect eggs buried in the land.

The grass is not wasted after burning, and it is used as fertilizer for the field. Sowing grass seeds on the land will make the grass grow fast and in a short time. In spring, Jinliao Province will return to its former green color.

With good expectations in their hearts, the local residents of Jinliao Province transported the dried locusts in the yard to the processing plant, which processed these locusts into feed or fertilizer and sold them all over the country. The people of other provinces in Yu State knew about the disaster in Jinliao Province and were willing to choose to buy these processed locusts to help Jinliao Province through this difficult period.

Some people only saw the videos and photos of the locust plague entering Jinliao Province on the Internet. They were interested in the difference between the locusts that caused the locust plague and ordinary grasshoppers, especially since this locust was a mutant variety. When curiosity came up, they even bought mutant locusts from people in Jinliao Province on the Internet and sent them by express delivery.

The people in Jinliao Province knew the harm of this locust, and those who wanted to make money did not dare to sell them alive, so they took some locust corpses, washed them, dried them, and secretly sent them out.

Some people who get locusts collect them for research purposes and preserve them as specimens, while others do it out of pure curiosity and just throw them aside after seeing them in person. They don't care even if they are later eaten by something and half of them are missing.