Chapter 164

Yu was the first to complete the task of covering all residential areas with insect-proof coatings, while the rest of the countries had just started, or even hadn't started yet.

Countries such as Kalan had been slow to cooperate with Yu. After Kalan announced the success of the research, Yu was more at ease to put the focus back to the country. These countries could only grit their teeth and wait for Kalan's research results to be put into production as soon as possible.

The time required made the people of Kalan and other countries continue to endure the invasion of insects into their houses. Looking at the life of the people of Yu, it became even more difficult to endure.

Especially those who fled abroad after the insect disaster broke out in their home country. They thought they could live a good life abroad, but the current situation is completely opposite to what they expected.

The situation in Yu is much better than that in other countries.

Many people regretted wanting to return to China because of this.

Citizens who left for study, work, and travel can submit applications, but after returning home, they need to temporarily live with their relatives and friends who stayed in the country, waiting for the application for insect-proof coatings to be approved.

As for those who have changed their nationality, it is difficult to get permission to enter Yu State.

In special times, Yu State has to treat them specially.

The disaster form of this world is different from that of other worlds. Even in the high temperature world experienced last time, the government has inevitably lost contact with the masses, but so far in this world, the government can still grasp the situation of the entire country.

Facing the insect plague, ordinary people can resist but it is difficult to resist. They need to rely on the country's scientific research to find ways to deal with insects, and the country also wants to do its best to protect its people.

Under this global disaster, Yu State not only has to face domestic insect plagues, but also has to consider the complex international situation. Kalan State does not know for what purpose, and has always targeted Yu State from various aspects. After the insect-proof coating was developed, the relationship between the two countries once again reached a freezing point.

After the insect mutation means that the ecological chain may be broken sooner or later, and biological invasion will cause this process to be accelerated exponentially. Everyone entering Yu State from abroad needs to be carefully checked.

When ordinary people are worried about their lives, those who control the next direction of the country are worried about the lives of tens of millions of people.

Ordinary people may not be aware of this. They are more concerned about insects that attack humans and invade houses. As for farmers, they are more concerned about the crops planted in the fields. However, the serious situation now is not only about these things that are usually paid attention to, but also more neglected areas.

Research experts have long speculated on the possible development of the situation. The country has always paid attention to the development of this disaster. They want to control it, but they find that human power is so weak in the face of such irresistible disasters.

Nowadays, the mutations between insects have begun to spread to herbivorous insects and saprophagous insects. Insects need plants to reproduce, and the offspring need a lot of food to grow.

Especially herbivorous insects, their targets are those indispensable plants.

Herbivorous insects hide in the grass and under the soil, making it difficult for people to detect their harm.

The leaves of the trees on both sides of the road are somewhat yellow and withered. People who are fully protected pass by in a hurry, wanting to get from the outdoor full of insects to the protected indoor as soon as possible, and wanting to avoid the strong summer temperature. Almost no one casts a glance at the damaged trees.

However, there are always people who pay attention to the trees that cannot speak or move. The leaves of the trees that are almost as thick as an adult's forearm have all fallen off, and the trunks are shaking a little.

The workers sent here picked up a shovel and dug the soft soil at the roots of the trees. After a few minutes, they dug out a shallow pit and saw the exposed tree roots.

The street trees that have been transplanted here for less than two years have no shortage of water sources on weekdays, so the roots have not been buried too deep. After a few shovels, the roots were dug out.

The workers found the gaps between the roots, took out the shovel and dug hard again.

The feeling transmitted to the arm this time was different, and then the eyes saw that the shovel not only cut off the roots below, but also dug out the insect nest hidden in the soil.

A large number of small insects ran out from the place where the shovel was inserted. Most of them crawled in the soil and disappeared in the complex root systems of the trees. A small part crawled out along the trees. Those that crawled to the ground were crushed to death by the workers, and those that climbed up the tree trunks were directly hit by the workers with the shovels in their hands.

The shovels taken from the ground were covered with fresh soil, and there were several tree roots that were cut by the shovels. When the shovels were hit by the workers on the trees, the force of the collision between the two caused the roots on the shovel to fall off, and even caused the tree that was still standing in the soil to collapse.

The roots were taken out of the soil by the collapsed trees, and countless insects hidden in the trees did not react. They fled in a hurry at this time, but faced the workers' hunting and killing.

Even though these workers knew that there were definitely more than one nest of insects buried in the soil, even if they eliminated the insects in front of them, they could not save these trees, but they still took action, and their disgust for insects would refresh the previous peak every day.

In the past, they transplanted these trees to the roadside, and today they transported this one and every one of the next ones away. After they dealt with the bugs, they bent down and could see that the roots were filled with small holes drilled by the bugs, and they were moving upwards, devouring the inside of the tree trunk bit by bit.

"This tree has only survived until today. If we don't dig it up, it may hurt pedestrians when it collapses."

"It's all because of these damn insects. These trees have survived. They could have lived on the roadside for decades or even hundreds of years."

"What's the point of saying this? You can't dig up every tree and apply insect repellent paint on the roots. Even if it's useful, you have to apply it every six months. How much effort does it take?"

"No more talking. I think the two trees over there can't survive. Dig them out today."

One by one, the street trees disappeared on both sides of the road. More trees gradually withered in the summer when they should have been green. This phenomenon began to be noticed by ordinary people, and then they found that the mutated insects had begun to harm the plants.

The consequences of mass death of plants should be something that you will learn in high school education.

When the number of plants decreases rapidly, humans will not only face a lack of food, but will also find that the fertility of the soil will gradually decrease, environmental pollution will be difficult to eliminate, soil erosion will become more serious, and sandstorms will sweep in. Later on, the lack of plants means the intensification of the greenhouse effect, the temperature continues to rise, and even the oxygen content in the atmosphere will decrease, making it difficult for humans to breathe.

In the end, the planet will be doomed.

Even if the country does not inform, when people notice the mass death of plants, they will remember the relevant knowledge and face a future with almost no light.

It's just that humans will not choose to give up easily until the last moment.

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When more and more descriptions of mass death of plants appeared on the Internet, local governments were ready to guide the environment. They need people to face the fact that the end of the world is coming as calmly as possible and try to maintain the normal order of society.

Related plans have been made one after another, just waiting for the day when the situation gets out of control and taking the measures that have been prepared as soon as possible.

However, these measures did not come in handy. The search volume for words related to plant death and the end of the world has reached the warning line, but there is almost no chaos. The only special thing is that people line up in front of supermarkets early in the morning to buy a large amount of hoarded food.

Even so, order is maintained. If you don’t look at the empty shelves, you would think that people are just panic buying.

All doubts can be answered in the comments posted by people on the Internet.

The Internet allows people to freely discover the dark emotions in their hearts through the screen, but it also provides a channel for them to express themselves freely. On it, you can see the darkest side of people’s hearts, and you can also see the best side.

Two years of fighting against insect plagues have made people’s spirits exhausted.

In these short and extremely long two years, since the locust plague came, people have always faced fear, panic and pain. Only twice did they see the hope of defeating the insect plague and let them get out of the torment and get positive emotions, both because of their motherland.

When locusts were rampant on their land, the country developed locust killers. When they could not resist the invasion of mutant insects, it was the insect-proof paint developed by the country that allowed them to have a place to breathe.

Facing international pressure twice, the Yu government set the best example for them. These two times of maintaining the people and the country successfully inspired the strong positive emotions of the people of Yu for their motherland.

After all the complex elements were intertwined, when everyone learned that humans might face a desperate situation in just a few years, they had a numb spirit to fight against insects and did not feel too much despair. Perhaps they had collapsed too many times and were about to get used to it.

There was no carnival before despair, and no indulgence before death.

After seeing the dark future, some positive emotions condensed in their minds, which was trust in the country.

Their motherland has created two miracles, and there is hope to create a third miracle and lead them out of this seemingly desperate situation with no exit.

The courage to face disasters brought by this trust allowed them to suppress the emotions surging in their hearts.

Almost all the comments that can be seen on the Internet are encouragements to each other. A few negative comments will be friendly admonished by people. They are so positive that they dare not even dream of believing it.

Ordinary people also have the desire to survive. When they still have reason, they know that the last thing they should do at this time is to cause trouble to the country. What they should do is to move forward according to the arrangements of the country.

This is a scene that the government has never imagined.

When they saw the comments on the Internet, the government workers who had not had a good rest in the past two years felt their eyes red, and their tired bodies gave birth to new strength to support them to complete the next work.

To solve this disaster, we need to solve the problem of insect mutation. After that, the damage caused by these mutant insects will be repaired little by little over a long period of time.

But before finding a fundamental solution, we need to adopt some symptomatic methods to give more time to those who are trying to find a solution to the disaster.

Nowadays, houses can effectively prevent the invasion of insects, so governments in various places have begun to encourage people to start planting in their houses.

However, many aspects should be paid attention to. The soil for planting should be special soil designated by the government. These soils have been processed and do not contain mutant insects and their eggs.

No one can be careless when watering plants. Before the insect-proof coating was put into use, people found that insects could also be seen in the water pipes. The household water purifier could not be used, and when it was checked, eggs laid by insects were found in the pipes.

When these phenomena were first discovered, most people felt nauseous and wanted to vomit. They even dared not drink mineral water. After all, these procedures for the production of mineral water cannot completely guarantee that there are no insects.

People must drink water if they want to survive. Since all water sources are difficult to escape the contamination of insects, it is necessary to ensure that the drinking water is healthy and safe. What a safe method it is to boil all the drinking water before drinking it. Watering plants should also use cooled boiled water.

Bees, butterflies and other pollinated animals are also insects and cannot be added. Therefore, when the plants grow up and reach the pollination stage, people still need to learn about artificial pollination.

After such publicity, at least most people have found work to do in their spare time to relieve mental stress. The effect of these vegetables and fruits grown may be a drop in the bucket compared to the impact caused by dead plants, but after growing them, at least people can have an extra plate of vegetables on their tables.

The government continues to implement symptomatic treatments to buy time, but the atmosphere at the National Institute of Biology, which is responsible for finding a fundamental solution, has been somewhat depressing during this period.

These biological research experts understand better than ordinary people how serious the disaster they are facing now. Most people would think that humans still have a few years, but the biosphere is strong and fragile. It has a strong self-repair ability, but in this extremely unbalanced state, it may suddenly collapse one day.

Wen Zheng is the most clear among all people. His system task has revealed the time when the disaster destroys the world. It is only three years. If a solution cannot be found within these three years, by the fourth year, even if people are still struggling to survive, they will be powerless to save the world.

In the last extremely high temperature world, Wen Zheng only felt that three years was a bit long, but in fact he did not encounter too many risks, so it was only a mid-level task. It was also three years, but in the insect plague frenzy time when high-level tasks were issued, he felt that this time was a bit too short.

Summer has gone and autumn has come. The impact caused by the large-scale death of plants may have begun to show now. The temperature in this summer and autumn is much higher than in previous years. Therefore, although it is already autumn, everyone has no obvious feeling before looking at the calendar.

When Wen Zheng first came to this world, it was the harvest season in late autumn. Only he knew that there was only a little more than a year left in this world.

Wen Zheng could not tell these news, but it was not important. Those biologists treated every day as the last day for research.

Time is tight, but research is frequently frustrated.

Their research progress on the strange gene in the mutant insects has never made a breakthrough. At present, it has only been found that after the mutant insects die, this unknown gene will be encoded into a virus-like structure, which will not survive in other organisms, but will only be reverse transcribed into the insect genome in the insect body.

This special gene is transmitted in the insect body in this way, and at the same time, after being integrated into the insect genome, it affects the insect's ability to survive and reproduce.

They compared all the gene fragments recorded by humans on this planet, and the most similar fragments were only a few percent similar, without any useful results.

It makes people wonder if it is alien.

With the idea of ​​​​rather making mistakes than wasting any possibilities, after the research team mentioned it to the higher authorities once, the government really began to investigate whether there have been any special situations in recent years in California, where the mutant locusts originated, especially those related to locusts.

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