Trouble comes from the mouth. This was Grandma Gu's evaluation of Director Yan, and Zhang Zian agreed.
He walked out of the office of the street administration office and looked at the insects crawling all over the walls. Some insects had natural camouflage, and the colorful outlines were like eyes staring at him.
He suddenly remembered Vladimir's chat with him before. If the caterpillars had some kind of collective intelligence, would they be willing to be eliminated like this?
If they were not willing, would they have some kind of resentment?
And … who would the resentment be directed at?
This was not a problem of hundreds or thousands of insects. There were tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of caterpillars in the entire Binhai City.
So, the plan he had just proposed to eliminate the caterpillars, would it be the same … trouble comes from the mouth?
Zhang Zian was speechless.
"It shouldn't be …"
He whispered to himself to comfort himself.
No matter what, the insect disaster had reached such a level. Even if the caterpillars had a huge resentment, the spearhead should be directed at the city leaders who were in charge of the insect extermination work, not him. At most, he could be regarded as … a suggestion. He could not be regarded as the main culprit. In line with the principle of letting others die, he was willing to give this credit to the city leaders.
"What are you afraid of? An ant can boast about a big country. It's not easy to shake a tree! "
He thought about it again and straightened his back.
Even if the caterpillars had resentment, so what? Anyone who stood in his way of making money had to be eliminated!
No matter what resentment they had!
There was nothing wrong with it!
However, the invasion of the caterpillars this time was indeed a bit strange.
Just now, he had deliberately ignored a question from Grandma Gu. Where did so many caterpillars come from?
Because he did not know the answer.
Whether it was at home or abroad, the invasion of caterpillars was not a new thing. It was just that because it did not cause too bad an impact, it had always been out of the mainstream news.
But generally speaking, there was generally only one kind of caterpillar that invaded a place, and Binhai City seemed to have been ravaged by the Eight-Nation Coalition Army … No, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army said that it was not enough. Eighty countries were more like it. Basically, every kind of caterpillar that could be thought of had been found in different areas of Binhai City. This was too unusual.
So in the face of Grandma Gu's question, he could not answer it because it was not common sense.
For problems that he couldn't understand, his approach was to not think about them. Why waste his brain? He would leave them to smart people to think about, and he only needed to think about how to make money.
In the next few days, as the caterpillar eggs hatched one after another, the insect disaster in Binhai City reached a new height. People's daily lives were seriously affected, especially in the Dongcheng District, where the Amazing Fate Pet Shop was located. It was the hardest hit area of this insect disaster. All kinds of strange and difficult to kill caterpillars were concentrated in this area.
For example, the oak procession moth larvae that Zhang Zian had pointed out. This kind of caterpillar was extremely powerful. Each caterpillar had 63000 poisonous hairs on its body that were blown away by the wind. Anyone who passed by would not be spared.
Although the poisonous hairs could not penetrate the skin and would not be poisoned if one did not touch the caterpillar directly, the poisonous hairs themselves contained an allergenic protein called thaumetopoein. It did not need to pierce the skin, but as long as it fell on the skin, it could cause an allergic reaction and rash.
The flying poisonous hairs fell into the eyes and were inhaled into the lungs, causing unbearable pain. It could lead to asthma and blindness. Severe allergies could even lead to death.
People who did not lack money thought that if they did not go to work and stayed at home, they would not be affected, right? But they were wrong, because they had to buy groceries and cook, right? After buying groceries, they had to go out.
Even if they ate takeout, under the attack of the flying poisonous hairs, the delivery boys were seriously reduced. The takeout they ordered at noon might not even be delivered in the evening. Making money was important, but it could not be exchanged with their lives.
The same was true for the delivery boys.
Major hospitals and community health centers were all full. It was much more serious than any influenza outbreak. They were all patients who had been stung by caterpillars or had allergies. There were also people who had car accidents because of the caterpillars. There were also people who had heart attacks and miscarriages because of the fear of the caterpillars … Doctors and nurses had all canceled their vacations and worked 24 hours a day. Even so, they could not meet the continuous influx of patients to the hospital.
There were also many people who brought their families and temporarily went to other places to avoid the limelight. This might be the best solution, but not everyone had this condition.
Except for the important departments that maintained the national economy and people's livelihood, the entire Binhai City was almost completely paralyzed.
However, in the artificial forest near the landfill, because the effect of the pesticide had not completely subsided, the stray dogs maintained a normal rhythm of scavenging. And because the old men and women in the city who picked up empty bottles could not work normally in the past few days, the number of empty bottles and cans in the landfill had exploded. The stray dogs were almost unable to pick them all up. The number of bottles collected every day was several times that of usual … They were the only group that benefited from the insect disaster.
It was precisely because the movement was too big that it finally attracted enough attention from the higher-ups.
The city leaders issued a televised speech. All over Binhai City, led by various enterprises, institutions, and agencies, all private enterprises and private enterprises responded to the call. The university organized volunteers to help the most severely affected areas. The neighborhood committee knocked on the door and asked every resident to contribute … The entire Binhai City carried out a vigorous action to control the insect disaster.
It was no exaggeration to say that the characteristics of socialist countries focused on doing big things were reflected incisively and vividly in this matter.
The Chemistry Department of Binhai University came up with a new insecticide that was in the laboratory stage. The Department of Biology where Wei Kang was located proposed a biological control method that used the pathogenic microbes carried by the smoke to kill the caterpillars. Other scientific research institutes also contributed ideas and came up with a variety of ways to deal with the caterpillars.
The garrison and armed police soldiers of Binhai City were all dispatched. They concentrated on spraying pesticides and insecticides in the dense forests of Binhai City. At this time, no one cared about the effects of pesticides on the human body. Anyone who spoke against spraying pesticides would be condemned by everyone.
Sister cities sent experts to support them, and the municipal government also hired foreign experts who had experience in controlling insect disasters to assist in the work in Binhai City.
Reporters from all walks of life also came to Binhai City with the purpose of curiosity.
The keyword "insect disaster in Binhai City" even became a hot search on Weibo.
Because of the strong recommendation of the street office, Zhang Zian participated in several expert meetings organized by the municipal government and put forward his own opinions at the meetings. He also met his old acquaintance, Professor Wei Kang, at the meetings. Because Wei Kang's trip to Egypt was fruitful, he was finally able to remove the word "deputy" from his title.
Everyone had the same idea — they must stop the further deterioration of the insect disaster.
The caterpillars had become overwhelming. If they were allowed to reproduce, the consequences would be unimaginable.
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