Infinite Disaster Survival

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.

The 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 in the house 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 to go 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 put it 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 for fear that cockroaches would run out, otherwise I don’t know how many would 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 that were 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 Zhang Liying 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 had a wry smile on her face: "After I just called you, I checked the whole house. There may be no fewer cockroaches in my house than in yours."

"What? What can we 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. First, he heard her mother say that there were cockroaches in the house. Wang Le thought the situation was the same as in previous years, so he said I was going to buy some cockroach poison to take back later, but I heard her tone become extremely serious.

"Don't you have the community group on your mobile phone? I don't know how to do it, but someone in the community posted the picture on it. Don't look at it in the car. Find a place to listen carefully before looking at it. By the way, Don't let An An see you, you'll be easily frightened."

After hearing these serious words, Wang Le thought in her heart that her mother was definitely exaggerating, but she still followed the instructions and drove the car to the side of the road and opened the community's owner group. Seeing 999+ unread messages, Wang Lezhen felt something was wrong. He clicked into the group and scrolled up. Before he could see clearly what everyone was talking about, he saw a picture posted by someone in the group.

I was so shocked that I almost dropped my phone because I couldn't hold it steady.

Don't tell her that there are so many cockroaches in her house. Wang Le tried his best to put away his almost collapsed mood and hurried back home. As soon as I entered the community, I saw the owners surrounding the property and quickly looking for the cause.

There is such a serious cockroach infestation in the whole community, it is not a problem of one or two families.

When Wang Le returned home, he was absolutely sure that his house was uninhabitable. Her family is all female, and there are older ones and younger ones. It’s raining today and it’s going to be dark soon. The most important thing is to find a place to live tonight.

I simply packed up my clothes and locked the valuables at home in the metal cabinet. Wang Le took his mother and child out. Several nearby hotels were fully booked. I didn't know if they were booked by residents in the community, so I had to drive to a hotel that was a little farther away but had better reviews.

After booking the room and entering, I checked it from inside to outside. No trace of cockroaches or other bugs was found, and I felt a little relieved. Let An An, his fifth-grade daughter, go take a bath by herself first. Wang An sat on a chair and opened her phone to browse the news in the community group.

Almost all the residents who had someone at home today found a large number of locusts in their homes. The group was almost noisy, and they didn't think it was their fault.

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

Wang Le quickly finished browsing and was about to exit WeChat and check the website again when someone in the group sent her the latest news with screenshots, which made her fingers stop on the screen.

[I took a picture of the expressions of cockroaches in my house and posted it online. After seeing it, someone tried to clean his house. As a result, he also found a large number of juvenile cockroaches in his house, which is similar to the situation in our community. I have talked with this person. He is from Yanggang City. He has now notified people in their community to check. ]

It didn't take much time to check his own house. Wang Le waited for a few minutes and saw the owner's latest message in the group.

[Confirmed, their community encountered the same situation as our community. Looking at the calm sea, I scanned the nook and corner, and a large group of cockroaches ran out. ]

Yanggang City and Fengnan City belong to the same province, but they are at opposite ends of the province. They are so far apart that it is difficult to determine the reason why there are cockroaches on both sides.

Now we can only wait for the test results from the government departments.

Wang Le and his community were the first to post photos and videos of the swarming cockroaches on the Internet, and the strong impact received many reposts.

Most of the netizens commented below with the mentality of watching the fun, until the man from Yanggang City tried it and found that the same situation happened to him, and everyone was shocked and said "hold the grass". Before, I was able to laugh and joke because it didn't concern me, but now I find that the same thing may happen to me, and it's not so fun.

In the next two days, related topics were very popular. After the professionals sent by the government came to inspect, they could not find out the cause. They just caught some cockroaches and took them back for study. The entire community and several nearby communities We sprayed insecticides inside and placed cockroach cages. We did not put cockroach pesticides outside because we were afraid that children, cats, dogs and other animals would accidentally eat them.

The discovery happened on Friday. Most residents have a day off on Saturdays and Sundays. Those who don't have a day off also take time off to go home and clean out cockroaches. You can't stay in a hotel every day and give up your room to cockroaches.

Wang Le's family couldn't do it alone, so they had to ask someone to help clean up. I cleaned the entire house, including the furniture, from the inside out, and found most of the cockroaches in the trash can. I don't know if the inside of the house has been cleaned yet.

Usually you can only close the doors and windows as much as possible, place a large number of cockroach cages and cockroach pesticides in various rooms in the house, and come back for two days to check the cockroach situation in the house.

King Leguang is busy cleaning these days and doesn't care about the news from the outside world. After I finished my work, I turned on my phone and swiped through it, and saw several related messages on the popular search rankings.

Most people have seen news about cockroach outbreaks in Fengnan City and other areas on the Internet, and they can’t help but want to check the situation in their own homes. Most areas don't have it, but there are quite a few residential buildings with the same situation.

There is also news about insect disasters on the hot search list. A large number of mole crickets and cutworms were found in farmlands in some areas. These two insects that move in the soil 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 farmers.

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

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 finger 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 in is a long video, recorded by several high school students.

They went home for vacation this week and returned to school on Sunday afternoon. The mobile phone was brought in secretly.

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

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 a few clicks. With a bang, the whole bed collapsed on the spot.

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

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

She was more frightened than that.

People from several dormitories nearby 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 the 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, someone outside remained calm and squeezed in to pull the person out first. Someone else took off his coat and hit the termites on his shoes.

This happened on Sunday afternoon. The girls who faced the scene only recovered from their fright after 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 even though they were outside the dormitory building. Some brave ones took brooms or sticks to poke their beds. As a result, one in ten collapsed on the spot after being subjected to strong force, and another one in ten collapsed.

Those ants were 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 there. 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 was frantically discussing the crazy news that had emerged in recent days.

From cockroaches to mole crickets, from cutworms to termites, and perhaps there were places they had not noticed, the common feature of these disasters was that they were all pests, and the culprits were all insects.

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