Natural Disaster: My Portable Farm in the End of the World

I have to say that the person who came up with this idea also had good intentions and captured the minds of the current people.

What is most important to the people now? That is of course food. Dancheng citizens used to be very concerned about the situation of surrounding farmland.

However, since the martial law, life has become increasingly difficult for ordinary people. In order to appease people's hearts, the government has distributed relief grains every half month.

Although it is collected on a per capita basis, each person only has five kilograms. But now many ordinary people are counting on this relief food to survive.

Now that relief grains are available and they know that the people above will not watch the people starve to death, many people are more relaxed and don't care about the amount of farmland produced.

Although there is relief food, it can only guarantee that people will not die of hunger. It is impossible to eat well and eat well.

Now when I heard that locusts could be exchanged for food, the atmosphere in Dan City became lively. Many people are gearing up for a big fight.

Elderly people such as Xu's father and Xu's mother were also a little moved. In fact, even if we don't count the food stored in Xiang Chi's space, just the food that Xiang Chi puts on the surface of the basement of the bungalow is enough to feed the whole family for a year.

What's more, several elderly people now work in official vegetable greenhouses. The wages in such an important department are still very considerable. A canteen is built around the greenhouse, three meals are included when working, and each person can also receive 20 kilograms of grain per month.

The four old people alone not only do not consume the family's grain reserves, but also receive 80 kilograms of grain every month. What's more, all the output of Xuge's vegetable greenhouse is now received by the government. You can also freely choose to exchange for various staple foods.

But the four old people still wanted to save more food. After all, they had food in their hands and they didn't panic.

The most important thing is that the old people are also worried that they are getting older and can no longer go to the greenhouse to eat public meals, which will cause too much burden on Xu Ge and Xiang Chi in the future, so they want to stock up on more food while they can still move.

Xiang Chi and Xu Ge also understood the good intentions of the old people, so when their father Xu said he wanted to catch locusts in his spare time, Xu Ge and Xiang Chi just thought about it for a while and agreed.

With the early warning from Sanjiang City and the official locust-for-food pie hanging in front of them, the people of Dancheng City can be said to be full of expectations for the coming locust army.

The whole city came alive. Some wealthy people originally didn't want to participate, but they couldn't bear it. No matter where they went, they could hear the topic of catching locusts.

People will be affected by the general environment, and the result is that more and more people get involved.

Because now the land is also infested with locusts. Some people in more difficult situations have been immersed in the farmland since the announcement.

Ever since the first person bought cornmeal from the exchange station, people in the shelter have been out in force.

As the warning day gets closer, there are more and more locusts. Xiang Chi has been so annoyed by these locusts recently that he is almost immune to them.

In the past, if a locust suddenly jumped on Xiang Chi, Xiang Chi could not wait to do a 360-degree Thomas rotation and laser dance on the spot. Now she can shake her clothes without changing her expression and swat away these hateful grasshoppers. .

Relevant experts predict that this locust tide will be the largest insect plague in the past century.

Because the geographical location of Dan City is exactly on the route of this locust migration, this means that the entire Dan City will face this insect tide.

The reason why the locust plague has been called the first of the three disasters since ancient times is that the locust swarm will eat all the plants on its path. Crops, vegetation, and even wooden boards are all on the locust diet.

Moreover, these large-scale locusts have active and violent habits and can even bite livestock. As the saying goes, when locusts pass by, no grass will grow.

On a day when several elderly people were resting, Xu Ge installed several insect traps in the car, and the family headed to the farmland south of the city.

Before we got to the place, we saw cars passing by on the road, and a constant flow of people on both sides of the road. Everyone was holding various insect nets and bags in their hands.

Some clever people even set up stalls on the roadside. Some sell bags, some sell insect nets, some sell various buckets, and some sell hats.

Various shouts and people's voices were intertwined. Except in the trading market, Xiang Chi had not seen such a lively scene for a long time.

Xiang Chi felt as if he was in another world. The car slowly passed by. Xu Ge found a place to park the car and found that Xiang Chi was in a trance and hadn't gotten out of the car yet.

"Tuk...tuk..."

Xu Ge knocked on the car window.

"Xiao Chi, what's wrong?"

Only then did Xiang Chi react and quickly got out of the car. Xu Ge put on an insect-proof hood for Xiang Chi and patted her on the back.

"Why are you absent-minded? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Xiang Chichen calmed down and smiled at Xu Ge.

"It's okay, it's just that I haven't seen such a lively scene in a long time. I'm a bit emotional."

Xu Ge understood. In fact, he was a little dazed when he saw this lively scene that he hadn't seen in a long time.

The high temperature has lasted for six months. Even though New Year's Day is only three days away, ordinary people have no extra energy to celebrate the festival. Instead, they are thinking about how to eat enough and struggle to survive in this apocalyptic world.

The lively scene full of hope like today only appeared after six months.

After helping Xu’s father and Xu’s mother and Xiang’s father and Xiang’s mother pack their equipment, the family walked towards the farmland talking and laughing.

Before he even got closer, he was stunned by the overwhelming locusts.

Because there are too many!

The sky was overwhelming, and densely packed locusts were flying and jumping around in front of my eyes, which made me almost suffer from trypophobia.

Dad Xiang: "Oh, this is too much. I can net a sack even if I stand still..."

Dad Xiang looked at the locusts in front of him and exclaimed. Looking at the corn in the field again, I shook my head sadly.

"The crops have been severely damaged. Can we save 50% of the harvest? I heard that the biggest wave of insects has not yet arrived?"

Father Xu fiddled with the corn stalks in front of him and sighed.

"Yesterday, I heard President Liao and others say that they would arrive in the next two days. Oh, what a sin!"

The few elderly people were all simple and honest, and they were heartbroken when they saw the crops being eaten into a shapeless shape, but their heartache could not stop the overwhelming locusts from eating the crops.

In addition to the noisy voices around, the "click...click" sounds of locusts gnawing could also be heard.

After cheering up, several people quickly took out insect nets and started netting locusts. After a while, several pockets were collected.

The number of people around gradually increased, but the locusts seemed to have not decreased, and the density was still very high. I've been busy like this for two or three hours, and it's almost early morning.