In the blink of an eye, in July, the number of giant insects rebounded strongly across the country, and the losses caused by insect plagues skyrocketed. Despite the best efforts of the military, more than 100,000 people died from giant insects every day.
However, giant insects have always had the characteristics of being large in number and fighting alone. Although the country tries its best to gather swarms for easy protection, there are so many mouths waiting for food across the country that cannot be ignored. In order to obtain food, various places have to bear the threat of giant insects.
Attacking, planting food at the cost of human lives, and protecting farmers and food are also the most important responsibilities of the military at this stage.
Grain quotas in various places have been reduced again and again, and have been reduced to the point where they can only survive. Criminal incidents of stealing grains are emerging one after another. Although the situation is not yet at the point of exchanging food for food, digging grass roots and eating tree bark is no longer a thing.
According to the news, there are even cases of people escaping into the mountains and feeding on insect trees.
If the country had not classified grain as a strategic material and strictly controlled it, the situation would have been ten times more serious!
The great famine has begun to appear, but the whole world is worried about the insect plague.
Although July is the summer harvest season, more than half of April is during the asteroid impact period. The sown area of wheat and early rice nationwide is less than half of previous years, and the maximum harvested area is only half of the sown area.
Moreover, both fertilizer and water are affected by the environment, so the yield per mu will inevitably decline. The summer grain output is expected to be only about a quarter of previous years.
However, even if it is only a quarter of previous years, it still solves Beidu's urgent need.
Not only was the food problem causing trouble in Beidu, but the national finances were also stretched to the limit. Even the military's weapons and equipment were out of whack, forcing them to shrink their defense lines and switch from offense to defense.
In other words, the situation of mankind against giant insects has changed from a proactive strategic attack to a retreating strategic defense.
The foundation accumulated decades ago was consumed in nearly a year, and the production of the military industry sector could not meet the national consumption.
It’s not that the factory is unwilling to produce, it’s that the raw materials are really not in supply!
Although the country's comprehensive implementation of the rationing system has made money as cheap as dirt, even if you don't understand the truth behind the national crisis, you at least understand the situation. There are many people who are aware of it, but the severe situation has an impact on industrial and mining enterprises, especially resource-based enterprises.
great.
The lack of supplies eventually led to a change in the strategic situation, and Beidu had to start thinking about how to restore the production of key industries, even if it was only part of it.
Beidu is trying its best to maintain the domestic situation, hoping that the ant colony will grow as soon as possible and share the pressure of human beings to resist the biochemical giant insects.
The military deployed nearly a thousand queen ants across the country, but only four large ant colonies were finally formed, and there were more than a dozen small ant colonies struggling under the pressure of the giant insects.
The only good news is that the ant colonies in Beibang have moved northward under the guidance of the military. The combat effectiveness of a single giant ant is indeed not as good as that of a biochemical giant. However, giant ants are currently the only social giants and rely on the population to lead them.
With the advantage gained, the ant colony powerfully suppressed the biochemical giant insects in the north.
The military not only relied on giant ants to regain more than half of Linzhou, but also relied on the confusion of pheromones to successfully conduct large-scale sowing in ant-occupied areas and expand autumn grain production.
After the people in Jingjiang heard the news, they were all filled with emotion.
Last year, Jingjiang was abandoned because of giant ants, but now giant ants are being used to regain Linzhou and even the country. How can we not make people sigh?
The military also feels the same way. A year ago, the military fought tooth and nail against the giant ants, but now the giant ants have become human beings' talismans.
If the number of giant ants hadn't been limited, and the current ant-occupied area had reached the limit of expansion, the northern capital might have ordered the military to drive out the giant ants and reclaim the country.
What is happening in China is just a microcosm of the impact of the global pest disaster. The situation abroad is even worse. Reports of pest disasters are emerging one after another from all over the world, and teams are struggling to cope with them.
Many countries that tried their best to survive the first wave of insect infestations fell helplessly in the face of more turbulent insect infestations. The government was unable to effectively perform its duties, and the people were not protected by the military. They eventually followed the footsteps of Africa.
Most of the occupied countries are located in underdeveloped areas, or simply island countries in the Pacific. Their relatively closed environments are particularly vulnerable to attacks by giant insects.
Although some areas have not been attacked by giant biochemical insects on a large scale, famine has broken out for a long time, and governments are powerless due to global food shortages. The famine eventually evolved into a modern version of cannibalism.
Human tragedy.
In comparison, people who still have food to eat are very lucky.
In order to save food, countries around the world have expelled foreigners within their borders. Due to inconvenient transportation, most people are unable to leave their countries, and countless people have died of hunger.
The social situation that could barely be maintained not long ago has declined across the board and is on the verge of further collapse. Doomsday theories are on the rise. In July alone, more than ten terrorist attacks instigated by doomsday sects occurred around the world, with nearly a thousand casualties.
Of course, not all areas are plagued by insect plagues. The deserts of North Africa, the deserts of the Middle East and other areas lacking natural resources are naturally immune to the invasion of insect plagues.
It is not that there are no insects in the desert. Beetles and scorpions are indigenous to the desert. There have also been cases of gigantism. However, the barren desert cannot support the growth of giant insects. Before the giant insects grow up, they will starve to death.
As for the oasis... I'm sorry, that is human territory. It is a miracle to support a giant insect in an environment like the desert. It is impossible to form a large-scale insect swarm. Any giant insect that appears in the oasis will be ruthlessly treated by humans.
wipe out.
The desert is the only area on earth where there is no need to worry about insect swarms. Many people find ways to live in desert areas. However, the oasis ecology is very fragile and cannot withstand the large-scale entry of humans.
In order to protect their own interests, desert countries do not allow outsiders to enter at all, and local wars at the national level have even occurred because of this, making the human world already shrouded in the shadow of insect disasters even more chaotic.
This summer is destined to be a stressful season.
Under such circumstances, China's successful use of giant ants to expel biochemical giant insects is the only bright spot in the world. All countries with some methods have begun to think about how to use giant ants to contain giant insects, and have contacted China one after another, hoping to obtain
Queen ant.
Beijing didn't want to give away the giant ants in vain, but the global insect plague was of no benefit to China. However, the countries asking for help were so poor that they couldn't give anything in exchange for the queen ants.
But it doesn’t matter, there are still resources if you don’t have supplies!
