Chapter 10 Demon ()

The sound approached. The earth seemed to be trembling. Song Qinghe and Liu Xiao rolled up and helped Lin Yusen up and ran. There was an old pine tree on the steep slope 20 meters away from the bamboo forest. They ran to the bottom of the pine tree, first pushed Lin Yusen up the branch, and then Song Qinghe climbed up. When it was Liu Xiao's turn, Liu Xiao wanted to look back.

"Hold my hand!" Song Qinghe shouted, his voice as shrill as a ghost.

Liu Xiao's heart trembled, and he quickly grabbed Song Qinghe's hand and climbed up the pine tree.

"Look at there..." Lin Yusen let out a sharp scream.

Before Lin Yusen could reach out his hand, the muscles on Song Qinghe and Liu Xiao's faces were already tense and twisted. Just a few dozen meters away from them, the mountain white bamboo forest, nearly 2 meters high, was churning up and down, like something very huge squirming in the depths of the bamboo forest. The sharp metal sound like gritting teeth covered the sky, and the sound twisted and whistled, stirring together with the twisting of the bamboo forest, exuding an evil atmosphere.

"This is the scene of hell..." Lin Yusen murmured.

Suddenly, the giant figure shook the bamboo forest and showed its true form. It looked like the vast bamboo forest finally vomited after suffering pain.

"This...it turns out to be this..."

Lin Yusen let out a low scream, but he could no longer speak.

Rats! An astonishing group of rats surged out of the bamboo forest like a tide. They were densely packed, rolling up layers, like a flood roaring. The forward had already passed the old pine trees and rushed into the wood forest, and was vomiting out of the bamboo forest continuously. In an instant, the yellow-brown land was covered with a surging black velvet carpet.

"Dragon Rat!" Song Qinghe shouted.

"Yes, it's a ditch rat!" Lin Yusen's voice was very heavy: "I didn't expect it would be a ditch rat!"

Liu Xiao was already busy taking out his digital camera and pressing the shutter at the group of rats. He also asked in his busy schedule: "What is a ditch rat?"

"The rats that live in the sewer are ditch rats." Song Qinghe whispered: "The mice we have been talking about before think they are voles."

"So what if it's a ditch rat?" Liu Xiao was a little puzzled.

"A terrible disaster will happen..."

Before Song Qinghe finished speaking, he heard Liu Xiao screaming: "The mouse is climbing up!"

Several mice were climbing up the old pine tree, with agile movements, light bodies, and as fast as fluid. The mouse's small eyes were shining with black light, burning with greedy flames, staring at Liu Xiao and rushed up directly!

Liu Xiao felt panicked and almost couldn't even hold the digital camera in his hand.

Song Qinghe was still relatively calm, so he reached out and broke down a branch to drive the mouse crawling onto the tree.

"Be careful! If you bite, you will get rat bite disease!" Lin Yusen reminded on the side.

"Will they eat us?" Liu Xiao heard his teeth fighting slightly.

"It's important to say! Look at the eyes of these mice!" Song Qinghe answered while using branches to sweep the rats that were climbing up one after another.

"What if...a mouse gnaws on a tree?"

"Then we're done!"

Looking at the black and velvety biocarpet on the ground, Liu Xiao felt a chill on his back. If he fell from the tree, dozens or hundreds of mice would cover his whole body in the blink of an eye, and within a few minutes the person would be gnawed into a white bone! There was almost no possibility of breaking free and escaping.

Fortunately, the ditch rats did not chew on the tree, and the huge ditch rat groups kept surging forward. The only few who climbed up the old pine trees were squeezed out.

"At least I'll get out of here." Song Qinghe breathed a sigh of relief.

"There are twenty or thirty pine trees that have driven down." Liu Xiao asked with lingering fear. Lin Yusen silently looked at the bamboo forest in the distance. The bamboo forest that kept vomiting out of the rat group finally returned to silence. The black and fluffy rat group also ran over under the old pine trees.

"Fuck!" Liu Xiao suddenly stood up, raised his legs and kicked the last mouse that climbed up the pine tree.

The rats that fell on the ground swayed and ran towards the direction where the group of rats disappeared. The lonely rat looked ugly and timid, like an animal that was helpless and bullied.

"What a terrible group of rats." Liu Xiao looked at the direction where the group of rats disappeared, and his face slowly returned to blood.

"There may be 100,000." Song Qinghe looked at his teacher inquiringly.

"Not that many, at most 50,000 or 60,000," Lin Yusen said slowly: "The width of the rat group is about 80 meters and the length is 300-400 meters. That is, the area of ​​the rat group is about 2,500 square meters. Each square meter is calculated based on 20 rats, which is the size of 50,000."

Liu Xiao looked at Lin Yusen with admiration. In the tense atmosphere just now, Lin Yusen could still observe the number of rats calmly, which is not something that ordinary people can do. This must be hidden in this thin old man.

The three people slowly climbed down from the tree, avoiding the direction of the disappearance of the rat group, and walking towards the Eagle Valley.

It was already past 6 pm, and the afterglow of the setting sun spread on the endless bamboo forest to present a beautiful picture. For some reason, Liu Xiao looked at the beautiful scenery in front of him and felt a creepy feeling.

"By the way," Liu Xiao suddenly remembered something and asked Song Qinghe: "You said just now that it was a ditch rat. It turns out that you judged that it was a field mouse. What's going on?"

Song Qinghe sighed and said, "According to foreign records, mice that reproduce explosively because of the blooming of bamboo are generally voles. Voles belong to small mice, with a body length of about 10 cm and a weight of 30-40 grams. Voles are not aggressive and generally only cause harm to crops. The Gully rat belongs to large mice, and the weight of the Gully rat is more than 200 grams, or even 600 grams, which is simply a sperm! The food required by the Gully rat must reach its own body weight every day.

Only one third of the damage to crops is far more harmful to the same number of voles. Moreover, voles are very aggressive. You saw it just now - a few voles dare to rush up the trees to launch crazy attacks on three adults! If bamboo blooms in the mountainous areas at the same time, 1 billion voles will soon eat up everything in the mountains, and then a huge group of rats pounced on the city like an avalanche..." Song Qinghe shook his head, his face gloomy and terrible.

More than 1 billion ditch rats rushed towards the city! Even in summer, Liu Xiao's back actually had a layer of white hair sweat.

"Professor Lin, do you agree with Lao Song's opinion?" Liu Xiao looked at Lin Yusen with a gaze and said, "The mountainous areas are very cold in winter. Even if the bamboo blossom mice have enough food, how can they survive the winter? Moreover, don't the ditch mice live in the streets? Why did they run to the mountainous areas?"

"Divine rats have strong vitality and adaptability." Lin Yusen sighed: "From the streets to the beach, from snow-capped mountains to grasslands, people can find ditch rats, and even in places where the climate is very harsh and no one lives, as long as there is enough food, ditch rats can survive. For example, the environment in the border plateau in our country is very harsh, but rats have been damaged for hundreds of years. In places like the Qinba Mountains, it is easy for ditch rats to survive the winter."

"But - why did no similar incidents happen before? The history of human beings has been recorded for thousands of years. There have always been records of large-scale rat groups attacking cities. Even rats are just famine." Liu Xiao argued.

"In the past, there were natural enemies of mice!" Lin Yusen's low voice hidden a depression that had been accumulated for a long time: "Nature has maintained a stable ecological balance for thousands of years. No animal can over-reproduction under ecological balance. Because the excessive reproduction of any animal will inevitably lead to large-scale reproduction of its natural enemies. At that time, even if bamboo blooms, mice cannot become a disaster. Because of the existence of natural enemies, the excessive reproduction of mice has been suppressed from the heart. Now, human land development has long destroyed the ecological balance of nature. In the Qinba Mountains, even Wuling and Baiyun Mountains, can we still see foxes, weasels and even owls? Even if there are, the number is pitifully small. Without natural enemies, coupled with the early blooming of the bamboo forest, mice can reproduce unscrupulously and explosively!"

This picture appeared in Liu Xiao's heart: next year, the bamboo forests in the mountainous areas will bloom together, and the ditch rats will soon breed to the scale of more than 102 billion. In the blink of an eye, the huge ditch rat group will sweep away all the bamboo seeds all over the mountains and fields, and then start to loot villages and towns. The ditch rats will rush onto the streets like an avalanche. Wherever they pass, from crops to weeds, from pigs and dogs to cattle and horses, all the traces of biological traces are swept away, and then... it is the city... the city? Liu Xiao's heart suddenly twitched.

"Zhongjiang City?" Liu Xiao and Song Qinghe looked at each other, and their eyes were filled with fear.

"Yes! It's Zhongjiang City!" Lin Yusen replied sternly.

"From the terrain, Yizhou Province is high in the west and low in the east. Qinba Mountains, Wuling Mountains, and Baiyun Mountains surround the Yizhou Basin from the north, west and south. The Bian Tibet Plateau to the west and north, and the Langui Plateau to the south. Not only are it sparsely populated, but the height of the sea is higher than these three mountain ranges. Therefore, after eating all the things in the mountainous areas, the mice will only go down the mountain and rush towards the Yizhou Basin, which is densely populated and rich in resources. The first thing they are to bear is Zhongjiang City!"

"There will be a huge panic..." Song Qinghe murmured.

"Detect the army!" Liu Xiao shouted loudly: "The army has modern weapons. It uses flamethrowers, incendiary bombs, napalm bombs, as well as armored vehicles, rocket launchers, straight aircraft and even jets. Can modern armed troops eliminate the most primitive rat groups?"

Lin Yusen shook his head silently and sighed a long time ago. Sending the army, it is likely to reach this point as the situation develops. But can the army really deal with the rat group? The rat group is a freak that breeds from humans' plunder of nature. The rat group reproduces for survival and is crazy because of over-reproduction. Isn't the freak of the rat group the human beings' shadow? Humans fight against their own shadows. How can they have hope of victory even if they have high-tech weapons?

"What should we do now?" Song Qinghe asked.

"We have one year left. We must let the government take action now and prevent the rats from becoming disaster at all costs!" Lin Yusen said flatly.

Liu Xiao nodded and said, "The mountainous area is under the jurisdiction of the Forestry Bureau. I know the director of the Municipal Forestry Bureau. We will go to find him tomorrow."

Lin Yusen pondered for a moment, but said, "Rat group belongs to the category of ecological disasters. I think we should first go to the Environmental Protection Bureau to report the situation and then report to the municipal government through the Environmental Protection Bureau. This may be better."

"I am also familiar with Director Zhou of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau," Liu Xiao said carelessly: "I will take you to see him tomorrow."

"Let's do this," Lin Yusen thought for a while and said, "You can help us contact Director Zhou to meet. I don't want to go to Xiao Liu for my personal opinion. I'm worried that Director Zhou may not be able to express his opinion when there is a reporter here. Oh, Xiao Liu, don't mind."

"It's okay, it's okay." Liu Xiao grinned: "Professor Lin, what should you do if you arrange for me? But you should notify me any news at any time."
Chapter completed!