Chapter 507 Not a blade of grass grows (please vote for recommendations, guys)

Chapter 507: Not a blade of grass grows (please vote for recommendation~ Dear friends)

Large numbers of locusts flew in continuously, and a fluffy cloud of locusts rolled in the sky.

Countless locust wings flapped, making a terrifying loud noise.

They were biting wildly, and there was a sound like heavy rain in the crop fields.

Locusts are monstrous.

There are dense locusts everywhere, and we don’t know how wide the scope of this locust is.

So Li Yu took out his walkie-talkie and asked the staff on duty on the national highway: "Are there still locusts over there now?"

The staff on duty on the national highway immediately replied: "There are many more. We are all swamped by locusts. There are locusts everywhere. They are flying towards the south."

Li Yu estimated the time, and it was 5 kilometers from the place of duty to the base.

In the base, it has been more than an hour since the locusts arrived. These locusts not only stay here, there are also a large number of locusts flying south in the air.

The flight speed of locusts reaches 6 to 12 kilometers per hour. Based on this calculation, the range of this locust is at least ten kilometers, and this is just an estimate of his.

There are so many locusts that it is useless to protect crops.

Li Yu watched as there were more and more locusts, and looking at the situation, there were more and more formations.

These dozens of acres of rice have just been plucked!

What a sin!

Li Yu watched everyone desperately protecting the rice. The ducks in the rice fields were still eating locusts, but instead of decreasing, the number of locusts increased.

The leaves in the mountains and forests are also being chewed. The green spring everywhere is drowned by the yellow locusts that fill the house.

A piece of yellow.

At this time, the second uncle found Li Yu, frowned tightly, and said breathlessly: "Xiao Yu, I think this locust is just the beginning. Maybe the large army has not come yet. Once it comes, we will not be able to stop it at all." Those locusts!

Rather than letting these locusts eat up our rice, it is better to harvest all the rice and then pile it up for cattle and sheep to eat. "

Li Yu looked at the locusts on the ground, which had already covered the ground.

Yellow ground!

Li Yu did not hesitate and said decisively: "Okay, let's stop protecting. Now everyone has harvested the rice, using harvesters, and others using sickles. Now that we have done it, we should do it more thoroughly and remove what we planted before. Some pastures have also been harvested.”

The second uncle was very anxious. After getting Li Yu's approval, he immediately ran to the paddy field to explain to everyone.

Li Yu saw his father running over to get the sickle in a hurry. Li Yu said to his father: "Dad, ask Haoran and Haoxian to take care of the warehouse and don't let any locusts slip in."

After thinking for a while, he said to his father: "Also, let Xiaoyuan and the others check the doors and windows of the house again."

Father nodded, and hurried to the field with his sickle in his hand.

Li Yu saw the back of his father leaving, and then walked to the outer city.

After walking to the outer city, they saw that Lao Qin and the others were still catching locusts, but obviously, there were too many locusts, and they couldn't catch them at all.

Dozens of people were beating wildly in the fields.

Some people held large nets and kept covering the locusts, while others went directly into the paddy fields and reached out to catch the locusts.

In the fields, the ducks kept flapping their teeth in the paddy fields, their wide mouths filled with locusts.

Li Yu walked down from the wall and said to everyone: "Stop, this is not the way to go. Let's harvest all the rice. Instead of being destroyed by locusts in the end, it is better to use it to feed cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks."

Everyone looked at each other in disbelief.

Such a good crop, growing so well.

Seeing that it will be harvested in less than a few months.

So they all advised:

"Mr. Li, let's work harder. This crop has grown well, and now it is harvested directly. What a waste."

"Yes, yes, it's a pity. We can definitely get rid of these locusts."

"President Li, don't worry, even if we don't rest, we will get rid of these locusts."

Li Yu looked at them, slowly inserted his hand into the paddy field, grabbed a handful of locusts casually, and said to everyone: "How can we catch so many locusts? Act quickly, someone will harvest them later." The machine came to help.

After you have harvested these rice seedlings, first clean up the locusts on the seedlings, and then find two rooms in the building and put them in.

Gotta clean it up, you know? "

Seeing Li Yu's persistence, no one persisted.

There were not so many sickles, but there were many knives, so those who did not get the sickles took their knives to harvest the rice seedlings.

Seeing dozens of people harvesting continuously, Li Yu felt a little emotional and heartbroken.

This season, these rice should be able to produce 30 tons, enough to feed everyone in the base for eight months!

Now it's all wasted.

Can this not hurt?

Li Yu felt better when he thought that fortunately there were still 10 acres of indoor crops in the inner city of Dazhangshu Base.

More than two hundred people turned on their maximum horsepower and kept harvesting.

In one hour, with the efforts of everyone, all the rice was harvested.

But because they hadn't decided to harvest yet, by the time they harvested in the last ten minutes, the locusts were already overwhelming.

Therefore, a quarter of the rice seedlings were lost.

After everyone finished harvesting the rice seedlings, without any pause, they turned to cut off all the weeds on the flat ground and in the mountains.

A swarm of locusts covering 1 square kilometer can eat the food of 3.5 people in one day.

The chewing speed is extremely fast.

Li Yu's grandfather gave his old waist a hammer and said to Li Yu who was also mowing the grass: "In all my decades of living, I have only seen a locust plague once, and this is the second time.

However, this locust plague is hundreds of times greater than the last time. The last time it was like a gust of wind, it was so sparse that it flew away in an hour or two. Today’s locust plague, oh! There are more and more things to say, it’s like hail.

It was so hot and cold before, and now there is a plague of locusts. This world is really difficult. "

Li Yu straightened up, sighed, and said to his grandfather: "Grandpa, don't worry, there is always a way. There is a world for everyone."

Grandpa looked at Yutong who was cutting grass on the other side, and said to Li Yu: "You are right, there is a world if there are people. I want to be a grandpa."

Li Yu saw his grandfather's gaze and heard what he meant.

I think it's almost the same.

Everyone was busy for four hours, removing all the green weeds, pastures, and even green leaves all over the mountains and plains.

As long as it was beef, sheep, fish, pigs, chickens and ducks that could be eaten, they were all eaten up.

According to what Li Yu said, instead of taking advantage of these stupid locusts, it is better to cut them all off by yourself.

Covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

For the younger members of the base, this was their first encounter with locusts.

Cannon looked at the sky covered by a black curtain and saw that the pine trees in the mountain forest were covered with locusts. He couldn't help but cursed: "Damn, this thing is really not picky about food. He will eat everything, including pine needles." eat!"

Next to him, Li Tie twisted his soaked sweatshirt and squeezed out some sweat.

Then he said to Cannon: "My elder brother said that this is what I will eat tonight! Deep-fried and spicy."

Cannon looked at Li Tie and said: "Let's take a rest and catch the locusts later. There are so many locusts, there must be billions of them."

The two of them chatted and looked at the locusts all over the mountains and fields. From time to time, they swatted away some of the locusts that struck them.

In the inner and outer cities, after harvesting rice and pasture, everyone began to catch locusts.

In addition to those who catch the locusts, there are more than 20 people working on the rice and pasture, and the locusts inside will jump out one by one.

The construction of the second outer city has also been temporarily stopped. There are so many locusts, more than twenty meters tall, that it is impossible to see things in the distance.

Moreover, the locust cloud was so dense that although it was not dark, it still completely covered the sun.

Outside the base, some zombies were also discovered. It is still too dangerous to go out and build the outer city now.

Therefore, the construction of the second outer city was suspended.

As time passes, there is no end in sight for these locusts.

There are dark clouds of locusts in the sky, flying southward.

This is already the sixth hour since the locusts arrived. If we simply estimate, the range of this locust should be tens or hundreds of kilometers.

All the green plants in the base have been eaten up.

Li Yu stretched out one hand on the ground, which was almost five fingers thick. Now there was no need to cover it with a net. He only needed to stretch out his hands and pull it a few times to fill a basket.

Now a pit has been specially dug to place the locusts, and it is covered with a thick layer of plastic film to prevent the locusts from flying out.

Lao Lu, who was pulling the plastic film over there, said: "So many locusts are a good thing for many survivors. They can eat anything if they are hungry."

Li Yu said to Lao Lu next to him while rowing the locusts into the basket:

"Locusts are like a gust of wind. The caught locusts are enough to eat for a while, and after they are eaten, they are gone. When the locust plague passes, not even a blade of grass will grow. In the future, you will not be able to eat even some wild vegetables."

When Lao Lu heard this, he felt it made sense and stopped talking.

Under such a locust plague, for many survivor bases, especially those trying to grow their own crops, this is a thunderbolt.

When planting early rice, we faced extremely dry and hot weather. Without water, the crops would wither.

There is a Shantang Reservoir in the Dazhangshu Base, and the water source problem has been solved, so it has survived.

Later, during the late rice planting season, extremely cold weather came again, and many crops were frozen to death.

The Da Zhangshu Base also survived because it had established an indoor planting base in advance and relied on solar photovoltaic heating.

Now in this vibrant spring, there is another wave of locust plague.

It's no wonder that no large-scale groups emerged. With such frequent natural disasters, the threat of zombies, and food shortages, how could they persist.

As Li Yu expected, this wave of locusts was a devastating disaster for many survivor groups.

North.

Poyang Lake. Xunyangjiangtou.

A station of thousands of people looked at the bare land.

All that was left of the rice was platycodon. This platycodon was not eaten by the locusts because it was too hard.

But, fortunately, they have been cultivating crops for so long, so...

A burly middle-aged man looked numbly at the mess on the ground. Around him, there were several men standing, apparently led by this burly man.

Around them, there were occasional sounds of women's sobs.

All of them had expressions of pain and disgrace on their faces, and they had exhausted all their strength.

But in the end, it was still useless!

"Brother Dongfeng, everything is gone. What should we do next?" said another man next to the burly man.

A burly man with a somewhat weathered face, but he looks very majestic and bold, with thick and powerful eyebrows.

He frowned, and his body, which had been stiff and motionless, moved.

He walked to the bare paddy field, pushed a tractor and began to turn over the soil.

The rope pulled.

Rumble~

The tractor started. The burly man held the handle of the tractor and pushed it forward.

The others next to him looked at him in confusion, wondering what Brother Dongfeng was going to do now. Only one of the men, who looked like a scholar, seemed to understand, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

However, most people didn't know what Dongfeng was going to do, so they asked one after another:

"Dongfeng, the rice has been eaten by locusts. What are you doing?"

"Brother Dongfeng, what are you doing?"

Many people shouted to Dongfeng with doubtful expressions.

Dongfeng didn't look back. When he came back after completing a circle, he stopped and turned the button to turn off the tractor.

He said to the people in front of him: "It's May now, and we can still plant early rice in a hurry. Let's hurry up and raise seedlings and plow the fields."

When everyone heard this, a beam of light seemed to shine into the dark hearts that were originally full of despair.

This beam of light was like a trickle, moistening their dry hearts.

yes! The locusts have come, and the plague of locusts has broken out, but they still have hope.

Last year, because they were backed by Poyang Lake, they were still able to grow crops in that dry and hot weather.

It's just that occasionally some zombies will emerge from the water, which catches them off guard.

Taking a lot of risks, many people died, and finally built a slightly more complete and solid protection system.

Although they still had some food in stock, it was enough for them to eat. There were several groups of survivors nearby, but none of them survived in the end.

They originally took in some survivors, but later, because of food shortages, they stopped taking in them.

Although they had some food in storage, it was only enough to feed them for a few months. If the early rice was not successfully planted and harvested, they, several hundred people in number, would be hungry.

Hearing the firm words of the burly man, everyone regained their confidence.

Get busy.

But there are also some pessimists who ask:

"What if the locusts come back again? Haven't we wasted our efforts!?"

Dongfeng Gudong took a sip of water, and the sweat dripped onto his broad chest muscles. He said flatly:

"Then plant it again. If we don't plant it, are we just waiting to die here?"

Immediately afterwards, another person asked: "Brother Dongfeng, Ma Jun and his gang will most likely come to trouble us again. After all, they will definitely be greatly affected by this locust plague."

Dongfeng thought for a while and said to the man: "Then fight them, don't be afraid of them, the more afraid of them, the more arrogant they will be.

Our life is much better than before. Before, we were bullied by the prison near the provincial capital city in the south, and were forced by Mantis to confess.

Since the last heavy rain, I took Xiaolong there and found that all the people in the prison were dead! "

People around him began to talk about it.

They were originally curious as to why they hadn't seen the bad guys in the prison for so long. Their feelings were all killed.

"Who killed him? Isn't that too violent?!"

"Good kill. These intruders, relying on their own two guns, forced us and robbed us of our food. Excessive! Good kill!"

"Hahahaha, these people finally got their comeuppance. Have a good death!"

Dongfeng was a little frightened as he recalled the scenes he saw around the prison when he took people there to check the situation.

Mountains of zombie corpses, all dead.

Tens of thousands died.

And inside the prison, the prisoners were all dead.

The whole prison was like a ghost town, with blood and corpses everywhere.

Thinking of the picture he saw at that time, Dongfeng couldn't help being a little puzzled:

Which haters killed them? Too violent, too cruel!