Chapter 161

Insects are hard to prevent from invading humans. Every abnormal insect has strong attack power and vitality, especially cockroaches, which are difficult to eliminate. Even if you try your best, you can still find cockroaches at home.

Countless people are on the verge of collapse and vent their emotions everywhere.

The root cause of insect abnormalities is being explored by people.

Going back to the beginning of the matter, we have to look back to the end of spring. From that time, the mutation had already begun, but it was not taken seriously by everyone.

People are thinking about what is different this year from previous years. Some people proposed a locust killer that was developed in just over three months. The voices doubting the scientific research capabilities of Yuguo have never disappeared. Now they immediately ran out when they saw the opportunity, and they talked about the various reasons why the locust killer caused the insect mutation.

There are only three reasons. First, all places where insect disasters broke out have been sprayed with locust killers. Second, insects began to mutate shortly after the locust killers were sprayed. Third, the locust killers produced by Yu State are so effective against locusts that foreign countries cannot solve. It is very likely that the ingredients in them can cause mutations in other insects.

When such remarks first appeared, the Internet police tried to control them. But as if they were organized, they started to immerse themselves, and then they broke out on the Internet overnight. After countless people refreshed their phones and saw it, they couldn't help but talk about it.

These remarks are all speculations without any evidence. Just when the masses were panicking and anxious to find out the reasons, they seemed to make sense at first glance. More and more people participated in the topic, and more people began to doubt it.

It is determined that with the current heat of the discussion, forcibly suppressing the topic will only have a counterproductive effect. The Internet police only left a part of the personnel to pay attention to the turn of the topic, and more people began to investigate the accounts that suddenly broke out these remarks.

Seeing that the voices of doubt from the people gradually increased, the official account of the country finally gave a clear answer.

The locust killer has been certified for safety in many aspects and does not contain ingredients that can cause insect mutations. The specific cause of insect mutations is under urgent investigation.

After the official announcement was issued, the citizens of Yu State were still more willing to believe in their own country. The comments were all hoping to find the cause and solution of insect mutations as soon as possible, but the people who always doubted Yu State would not disappear so easily.

This group of people soon appeared in the comments, pointing out that the announcement did not clearly state that locust killers and insect mutations were not related, and directly said that the government was avoiding the important issues.

People who were willing to believe in the country could not stand it. When they spoke and asked for evidence, the suspicious people were very confident. They were reasonable speculations and had no ability to verify them.

"You said it's okay, so why don't you show evidence that locust killers have nothing to do with insect mutations?"

"If it's not locust killers, what else could it be? Tell me something else that can be blamed."

"It's not just Yu that has suffered from insect plagues. Look at the news on the Internet. Grenada and the surrounding countries have all suffered from insect plagues. They use more locust killers to kill locusts, and the plagues are more serious. They were grateful before, but I guess when they react, they will all curse."

"Several countries that were not invaded by locusts before , all because of the locust killer, the insect plague broke out. Although Kalan State controlled it in time, it also suffered a lot of losses. Yu State should wait for compensation. "

"If you don't have the ability, don't force yourself to step forward, so as not to cause more trouble in the end."

"I really don't plan to stay in China. No one can stand so many insects. The plane tickets to Kalan State tomorrow have been bought. You just stay in Yu State and endure those damn insects."

The words of these accounts all believe that it is the fault of Yu State that caused the outbreak of insect plague, and they are particularly praising several countries, especially Kalan State.

In the following period of time, a large number of Yu people really went through long-term foreign travel or even immigration procedures. They believed that they would have a better life abroad.

The online quarrel lasted for several days. The Internet police almost didn't rest. They really followed the clues of the accounts that spoke and caught several spies from outside.

After confirming the identity of the spy, even if it was not specific which country he served, the Yu government still announced the news on the Internet as soon as possible. This move successfully calmed the increasingly fierce online war of words.

The heated minds of netizens gradually cooled down, and they realized the sinister intentions of these spies. Some people who were about to be accused of doubting their own country suddenly woke up, as if a bucket of cold water was poured on their heated heads to refresh their minds.

After calming down, they realized how stupid it was to waste time arguing with people with ulterior motives. If they saw an account that made such remarks later, they would report it directly. Who knows, they might have encountered a spy, and they might even receive a reward for reporting.

Without the war of words, more time was spent on studying how to prevent insects from invading their homes.

No one wants to experience the itchiness of feeling itchy in their sleep, waking up in a daze and touching their body, and ended up catching the insects that ran onto their bodies.

After a day of work, I went home and saw dense insect larvae crawling up from the sewer pipes as soon as I entered the toilet, and soon disappeared into the cracks in the house.

Even walking on the road, I could be attacked by insects for no reason.

People who used to scream when they saw insects can now step on them and crush them to death without changing their expressions. Even their intensive phobia has been alleviated after repeated stimulation, and they know all kinds of insecticides.

The topic of discussion every day is how to transform the house to prevent insect invasion. All the cracks in the door are blocked, the windows used for ventilation are installed with the finest wire mesh, and wooden doors, windows and furniture are replaced with metal as much as possible. Insecticides need to be sprayed before opening the doors and windows.

The most terrifying thing is when going to the toilet. Just thinking about the insects crawling up makes people's scalps numb, and insecticides have become a must-have item for going to the toilet.

Many insecticide manufacturers have taken out all their stocks and are in short supply. They are working overtime every day to produce, and try to expand the factory and production line as much as possible, and recruit a large number of workers.

Most ordinary people in Yu country focus on fighting insects, but there is no Internet police supervision in Yu country on the external network. Even many countries have always had a bad impression of Yu country, and the suspicion of Yu country is high.

Many countries around the world have also been hit by insect plagues. In the worst-hit countries, people have gradually become accustomed to living with insects. They first suffered from locust plagues and then other insect plagues. They began to feed on insects due to food shortages. However, many insects carry a lot of pathogens and lack nutrients, which ultimately leads to a continuous increase in mortality.

Few people in these countries can log on to the Internet, and even living has become extremely difficult. Those who accuse on the Internet are mostly people from developed countries that have suffered little damage.

The words of ordinary people do not represent the country, but a large number of gatherings mean the country's inclination. Yu people living overseas, especially ordinary Yu people without money and power, have suffered more serious bullying.

Until in Kalan, a Yu person was attacked while walking on the road, was seriously injured and sent to the hospital for rescue, and has been in a coma.

This incident was posted on the Internet, and the Yu diplomatic group immediately expressed a serious voice, and the staff of the embassy in Kalan immediately contacted the victims to provide help. All major news broadcast related reports on the same day.

Yu people expressed strong indignation about this matter.

At the same time, we can also feel the severity of the international situation.

Nowadays, most people at home and abroad are focusing on this intentional injury case. The victim was attacked on the head. The surgery saved his name, but he could not wake up from his sleep, but became a vegetable.

The camera on the mobile phone that modern people carry with them is the most powerful evidence. The perpetrator failed to delete all the recordings, and finally could only use the locust killer of Yu State to induce the insect plague as one of the reasons for defense.

Originally, this reason could not be used as a criterion for commutation of sentence, but Kalan State had an unclear attitude in this regard. Even the people of Kalan State petitioned for a lighter sentence for the perpetrator.

At this moment when the whole world is paying attention, Yu State published the latest research results at this time, proving that locust killer has no effect on insects other than locusts.

At the same time, there is also a latest speculation supported by research that the mutation of these insects is related to the mutant locusts that cause locust plagues.

These two reports have been translated into several commonly used languages ​​internationally. After being published on multiple online platforms, the number of readings and downloads has soared rapidly. Whether you can understand it or not, you can't help but click to see it.

The research process in the middle may not be clear, but the final conclusion can be understood to some extent.

The former used various studies and data to prove that locust killers have nothing to do with locust mutations. Ordinary people just watched for fun, but all relevant scholars around the world read it carefully. Multiple meticulous experiments make it impossible to find any mistakes or omissions. The process is so detailed that anyone can reproduce it. This is a complete belief in locust killers.

Ordinary people, especially those affected by the disaster, are more concerned about the latter.

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After the large-scale outbreak of insect plagues, researchers in Yu State spent all their energy on it. All the insects that caused the insect plague were sampled and sent to the laboratory. They found that these insects had an extra gene fragment that was not found in this species.

They immediately thought of mutant locusts and compared genes. As expected, the new gene fragments had a great overlap, and it was basically confirmed that this gene fragment caused the insect mutation.

But the reason for the mutation of locusts is still unclear. How did these insects mutate?

Environment, human factors, or other reasons?

The final breakthrough was discovered by a graduate student in Professor Zhou's institute. He noticed that these mutated insects were omnivorous and carnivorous insects, and he had an association at the time, and then fed the mutated locusts used in the experiment to ordinary non-mutated insects as food.

He divided them into multiple groups for comparison. Finally, the results of the experiment came out. Insects that swallowed mutated locusts, regardless of their species, eventually mutated. Among them, those who could only eat mutated locusts every day mutated faster than those who ate less, but even if they only ate one mutated locust, the insect would slowly mutate later.

As soon as the experimental results came out, Professor Zhou, who was following Wen Zheng's experiment, immediately shared the results with other research groups in China, and contacted locust research experts in California, where the locust plague first broke out, to seek locusts that had survived all the locust plagues that broke out in the past two years.

At this time, the domestic verbal battle had already begun, but the research experts were all immersed in the experiment, and more experimental results were needed to confirm their ideas.

Based on Wen Zheng's experiment, while repeating the experiment to confirm that it was correct, further research was carried out, not only using mutant locusts for feeding, but also using other insects that mutated later.

These laboratories have become large insect breeding farms.

When the final experimental results came out, the case in Kalan had already appeared. The researchers who had turned a deaf ear to the outside world realized the severity of the situation. They wrote the research results of the past few months into a research report as quickly as possible, stayed up all night to revise and verify, and after countless people reviewed it and found no problems, they announced it to the world.

As of the current research results, the source of insect mutations comes from the locusts that were first discovered in California. Locusts ravaged many countries, devouring all kinds of plants and even animals while being devoured by other animals. However, they were eaten in large quantities after the Yu Kingdom developed locust killers.

At that time, no one knew that the mutated locusts were just the beginning and would be the source of the disaster.

In the Yu Kingdom, locusts processed into feed and fertilizers went through multiple processing procedures and were not so harmful. The most terrifying thing was the living and unprocessed locust corpses, which were transported to all parts of the country by curious buyers and greedy sellers, and finally devoured by nearby insects.

The first few places where the insect plague broke out were all found to have bought mutated locusts.

Ordinary insects mutated after devouring locusts, and the insect plague was solved by humans. The unprocessed mutated insect corpses were eaten by other insects. In this way, the types and numbers of mutated insects expanded step by step in places where humans did not pay attention.

Until the number was so large that it broke out.

The reason why locust killers were sprayed in places where insect plagues broke out was because mutated locusts had appeared there.

In this way, part of the truth was unearthed. As for the cause of locust mutation and why this mutation can spread in insects through the food chain, it will take a longer time to explore.

Yuguo is a complete victim of insect mutation and has made great contributions to related research.

The intentional injury case involving the two countries began to be judged, but public opinion has changed dramatically. After Yuguo’s tough speech, Kalanguo sentenced the prisoner to the punishment he deserved according to the law.

The victim is still in a vegetative state. His family is unwilling to let the child stay abroad. They asked the embassy for help to take the child back to Yuguo and received the heartfelt blessings of countless compatriots.

After the case was over, all researchers around the world repeated the experiment based on the report produced by Yuguo.

At this time, they found that Yuguo’s state was special. They were not like countries such as California that were plagued by locusts and were about to be occupied by mutant insects, but there were many places where insect disasters broke out and had enough samples.

They attributed the reason for Yuguo’s successful research results to this, and confirmed the correctness of Yuguo’s research through repeated experiments.

The pressure shifted from Yu to Jiali, but for the people of Jiali, they encounter locust plagues almost every year. Who knows how locusts mutate? The government of Jiali also has nothing to say.

Finding the source of mutation is important but not so important. Now people suffering from insect plagues are worried about how to control the insect plague and stop it from spreading.

Especially after verifying that mutations spread through the food chain in insects, a terrible guess was put forward.

Now only carnivorous and omnivorous insects that can swallow mutated insects are slowly mutating, but when the mutation reaches a certain number, will those herbivorous and saprophytic insects mutate?

If the fertility and vitality of all insects are improved, what kind of disaster will humans face?

After the difficult autumn, the activity frequency of insects began to gradually decrease after the temperature dropped sharply, and they began to hide to avoid the severe cold. Humans no longer see them frequently, but the anxiety in their hearts cannot be calmed.

Insects will not be frozen to death when it is cold, and they will all run out in spring, and they will reproduce in large numbers at that time.

The most difficult time is when you know that a disaster is coming but cannot stop it. Spring has become a terrible word in the eyes of most Yu people. In order to better deal with spring, they start preparing in winter.

Clean up the house again and transform all corners that may let insects in. At the same time, all plants that insects like near the house must be removed, and even the land must be turned over, and insect eggs must be removed without mercy.

Residents working in the city can do this, but farmers in the countryside cannot. Many farmers' fields have suffered from insect disasters this year. They spend every day in the fields, but the grain production has still decreased a lot. They don't make much money after a year of hard work. So some people began to give up farming.

The country predicted this, and in the latest temporary measures for special periods of insect disasters, it has increased support for agriculture.

After the increase in the number of insects, it is not humans but plants that are harmed the most. Grain production reduction is a foreseeable future. Even if the country has grain reserves, before the disaster comes, the most important thing to do is to ensure the normal development of agriculture.

The measures to support agriculture include financial support on the one hand and technical support on the other. It is estimated that farmers will combine planting and breeding. It is recommended that the types of animals to be raised are those that can eat insects.

Farmers can breed animals that eat insects, and so can other people. The area that can be raised in the city is small, but it does not mean that there are no other types of animals that can be raised.

In the latest research results released by the Yuguo Academy of Sciences, it is determined that this mutation will only spread in insects, and other animals and humans are not affected. At this time, those animals that eat insects but are not insects are warmly welcomed.

Centipedes, spiders, lizards, geckos and other animals are not very popular. Most people prefer to choose various birds.

No one hates the noisy calls of birds anymore, which are easy to dirty the house and difficult to clean. These are simply not a problem compared to those dense insects. Being woken up by birds in the morning is better than being scared awake by insects crawling on your body.

And birds can be trained.

In such a craze for raising birds and preventing insects, I spent the winter of the new year.

Wen Zheng discovered that insects mutate through the food chain and found that the source of the insect plague is locusts. He published a paper based on this research and became a graduate student of Professor Zhou. He was also taken to the National Institute of Biological Sciences as one of Professor Zhou's favorite students.

This year, he did not go home for the New Year. He celebrated the festival with the people who stayed in the research institute. When eating the New Year's Eve dinner, they talked about the birds they raised at home. When they were excited, they asked Wen Zheng.

"I stay in the research institute every day, so why do I need to raise birds?" Wen Zheng shook his head and smiled.

The others thought that Wen Zheng was not an orphan but was very much an orphan, and they regretted saying that they should let Wen Zheng go to their homes to play when they had the chance in the future.

Wen Zheng ate quietly beside him, listening to others talking happily, and couldn't help but think of Grandpa Wen and Tuantuan. The New Year is a festival of reunion. After this mission is over, it will be the New Year in the real world. At that time, the whole family will have a good New Year together.

Tuan Tuan didn't know what kind of disaster he had encountered. If he had brought Tuan Tuan with him to this world, the difficulty would probably be much lower. With Tuan Tuan in command, the flock of birds would definitely hit wherever they were pointed, and eat whatever insects they were told to.

But now Tuan Tuan is not here. As a father, he had promised Tuan Tuan that he could not secretly raise birds while his son was away.

The staff in charge of cleaning insects in the institute are also working hard. Since they can't raise birds, the effect of insecticides is getting smaller and smaller. Wen Zheng is thinking about finding an effective way to prevent mutant insects as soon as possible.

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