mesbooks #108 - Chapter 108 The Rat Plague Begins
#108 - Chapter 108 The Rat Plague Begins
Just as the outside world was beginning to control the insect plague, Li Ming was claiming his weekly sign-in reward for the new base.
"Ding, detecting that the host has effectively controlled the insect plague using special insecticide, rewarding the host with a set of high-efficiency snake trap design blueprints."
"Ding, detecting that the host has successfully developed an ultrasonic rat trap, rewarding the host with an improved rat trap design blueprint."
Li Ming was quite surprised. "System, are you saying that even though many cockroaches have been killed, there will still be a rat plague?"
Li Ming's question meant that rats feed on cockroaches, but now with the use of special cockroach medicine, cockroaches should be almost extinct. Without cockroaches, how could there be a rat plague?
The system explained, "Ding, host, your understanding is flawed. Firstly, the emergence of a rat plague is not solely due to cockroaches. Rats are omnivorous creatures that can eat not only cockroaches but also garbage to survive."
"Moreover, the vitality and reproductive capacity of cockroaches are far beyond your imagination. Even with special cockroach medicine, it only controls a small portion of the cockroaches in human living areas. The vast majority of cockroaches are hidden, which will attract rats."
"And as a food chain, besides rats, there will also be snakes. These species will all become plagues, so please be prepared, host."
Li Ming was convinced by the system. He quickly began to improve the small number of rat traps already produced and started manufacturing specialized snake traps.
Don't think catching snakes is easy. In reality, it's quite risky to catch snakes with your bare hands, especially if you encounter a venomous snake.
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The insect plague, which had been causing anxiety, finally passed with the help of Li Ming's technological power. Although many people suffered from diseases due to mosquito bites, it was ultimately only a minority.
Li Ming was also sending the already produced improved rat traps to bases all over the country, preparing to establish specialized rat-catching teams and snake-catching teams.
One day, Old Zhang and his family finally didn't have to worry about insects entering their home. But they heard a sound like something was gnawing on something?
Old Zhang quickly began to check the situation. When he arrived at the place where the sound was coming from, he was stunned because he actually saw a rat the size of a large rabbit gnawing on his family's food!
Then he looked at the screen window of his house and found that the screen window had been bitten through by the rat.
He quickly picked up a stick and started hitting it. This huge rat was really big. The family of three searched everywhere, and the whole house was in chaos.
Soon, the family of three killed three rats. These big rats were huge, each looking terrifying, with blood-red eyes. If you didn't pay attention, you would almost think they were rabbits.
"Honey, is this a rat? How can it be so big?"
"This is indeed a rat, but the size is really amazing!" Old Zhang was also very surprised.
"Then what should we do?"
Old Zhang thought for a while and said, "Bring over the colored steel tile I got some time ago. Drill small holes in the colored steel tile and use this thing to replace the screen window. This way, we can prevent mosquitoes from coming in, prevent rats, and also ventilate!"
"Okay!"
Soon, Old Zhang began to work. After a while, he installed the modified colored steel tile, and it was much safer.
He quickly took out the walkie-talkie and shouted, "Captain Wu, Captain Wu!"
"Old Zhang, what's wrong?"
"Captain Wu, there are rats in my house. These rats seem to have mutated and are very huge. Do you have them in your house?" Old Zhang asked.
"I haven't found any in my house yet," Captain Wu said.
"Ah, Old Wu, come quickly!" He had just finished speaking when he heard his wife's scream.
Captain Wu quickly went to check and found that several rats had also come to his house.
So he hit them, and soon Captain Wu killed several rats, and then used the walkie-talkie to notify everyone to be prepared.
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At this time, a rat plague began to break out throughout the Heavenly Radiance Empire. Groups of rats appeared in human living areas, causing panic among humans.
But soon some survivors changed their minds. They began to actively form rat-catching teams to catch rats.
Those with flashlights used flashlights to check. Upon closer inspection, these rats were nearly half a meter long, and their weight looked like thirteen or fourteen pounds. What fat rats!
These survivors were not surprised but delighted. Although the rats grew up eating garbage or corpses outside, this rat was real meat, and it was so fat. This rat meat was almost comparable to a rabbit.
This notice made countless survivors crazy. After all, how long had everyone not eaten canned meat? When was the last time they ate meat?
So countless survivors took various weapons and desperately greeted these rats. Any rats that appeared in sight were subjected to various pursuits and blockades. Every community could hear this kind of tossing sound.
"Upstairs, do you want to die? Aren't you sleeping in the middle of the night?" Someone was awakened and scolded directly.
But soon these people also heard the sound of animals gnawing on things in the house. They lit torches or used flashlights to illuminate.
Well, this rat, no, these are mobile meat reserves!
But these rats were not afraid of people and bit the grain crops or furniture planted by some survivors beyond recognition.
These crops were the survivors' rations for the next period. Now that they were bitten by rats like this, it would definitely affect the harvest. Then you rats will pay for it with your lives!
So this group of people also joined the ranks of hunting down rats.
At first, after these survivors caught rats, some people removed the rat's head and internal organs, cut the rat meat into strips, and then put it in the sun to dry into jerky. But many survivors still kept an eye out and didn't dare to eat it casually. After all, many people had gotten sick from eating cockroaches before.
Everyone knew very well what these rats grew up eating. Everyone looked at the corpses of these rats with both anticipation and fear. This was all meat!
If there was a choice, who would want to eat this thing? But wasn't there no way out?
Everyone had food reserves, but who knew when the disaster would end? So it was necessary to prepare for a rainy day.
Some residents' hidden grain bags were bitten by rats and spilled all over the ground.
This made more survivors join the rat extermination team. The big rats were really rampant, daring to swagger in front of humans in broad daylight.
All humans had mixed feelings about the appearance of rats. The happy thing was that as long as they killed the rat, they would have meat to eat. As for what the rat grew up eating, everyone hadn't eaten meat for so long and was quite hungry. Who would care about these things?
The worrying thing was that these rats were very ferocious and rampant.
So many survivors not only killed the rats that entered their homes but also went to the corridors to find rats to kill.
Some even made their own rat traps. It was really like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing their own unique abilities!