Rebirth in the end times: The whole family keeps a low profile

For three consecutive days, the base was cleaning the mud on the road. No one from the Su family went out at all. They were not greatly affected by the mud, and the mud contained too many bacteria, making it really unsuitable to step on. Su's father did not allow the other two families to go. Instead, he asked them to block the doors and windows and gaps in their homes with cement. The cement was prepared by Su Zhangming in advance, and the amount was enough to build several villas directly.

The base officials also issued a lot of points to mobilize everyone to do cleaning. Many people signed up with their families. After a busy day, they could receive half a pound of rice, which was more than enough for a family to support themselves, and they could even save a lot.

Everything seemed to be in order, but a post on Liang Chaowei's social media circle attracted everyone's attention.

Liang Chaowei: Help, there are a lot of small snakes in my house. Are they coming to my house for a party?

The accompanying picture was a photo of seven or eight snakes coiled in a corner. Su Yun couldn't tell what species they were, but those snakes were colorful and looked very creepy.

A few minutes later, other people started posting on the circle.

Duan Min: Ahhh, there are so many cockroaches in my house, and they have all crawled onto my bed. Can you tell me if cockroaches are edible?

Illustration: The bed is crawling with cockroaches.

The underground comment section exploded with all kinds of comments. Some said it was disgusting, while others suggested that she keep it and maybe it could save her life in the future.

There was one comment that was the funniest.

Liang Xingxing: Cockroaches are edible. They are not only non-toxic but also good for our health because they are a high-protein nutritional supplement that can supplement the protein needed by the human body.

Su Yun muttered to himself, this guy knows a lot. In his previous life, many people survived by eating snakes and insects. This base was surrounded by mountains, and as the ice and snow melted, those snakes and insects that were not common before began to move down the mountain.

Fortunately, the doors, windows and all the gaps in the house have been blocked with cement in the past few days, and even the toilet has been temporarily sealed. Those bean-sized mosquitoes, colorful poisonous snakes, and flying cockroaches can't get in.

Sister Peng also posted a circle in the circle.

Peng Xingxing: It’s terrible. Not only are there snakes in my house, but there are also a lot of mosquitoes. A mosquito is as big as a thumb, which is scary to look at. We don’t dare to go home. My little grandson’s back of his hand has several lumps from mosquito bites, and now it’s swollen as big as peanuts. These mosquitoes are too poisonous.

Illustration: Three or four huge blisters on the back of a 6-year-old boy's hand, and yellow-green pus is even beginning to flow out of them.

A friend of Ms. Peng also commented below: This is too scary. The poisonous mosquitoes in the south are really as famous as they are said to be. Ms. Peng, remember to give your child medicine.

Peng Xingxing replied: I have asked my nephew to go to my house to catch the snake, but there is no medicine at home, so I can only help him clean the pus inside. Everyone please pay attention to safety and don't get bitten by poisonous mosquitoes.

Su Xiaoye's family and Lanlan's family on the 5th floor would check the social circle in their spare time and saw that all kinds of rats, ants, snakes and insects had entered other people's homes, and there were also a lot of black bugs crawling outside their windows. Only then did they realize how wise it was to seal every corner of their home with cement a few days ago.

This time, the pest came suddenly and people were bitten continuously. Not long after, a notice was pinned on the main page of the community: According to public feedback, a large number of snakes, insects, rats and ants have been found to have invaded the base. In order to control and reduce the incidence of insect-borne diseases, ensure the health of residents and improve the quality of living environment, we are now mobilizing residents to kill rats, mosquitoes, snakes, insects and cockroaches. Please ask the heads of each district to strengthen the management of garbage and waste. All collected garbage will be transported to the West District Incineration Plant for unified treatment. Garbage will be cleared daily, and environmental cleaning will be strengthened. Clean up dead corners of hygiene. It is strictly forbidden to throw garbage everywhere. Please ensure that there is no stagnant water in the base, and dredge ditches and sewers in time. Do a good job of personal internal hygiene, clean up debris, fill seams and plug gaps, and prevent cockroaches and bedbugs from breeding and reproducing.

The base arranges full-time health management personnel to monitor and report the density of rats, insects, mosquitoes and snakes. Residents are also invited to take action together to eliminate pests. The base hall will recycle the corpses of rats, insects, mosquitoes, snakes and other pests with points. Please go to the collective service hall for consultation for specific redemption content.

Li Yimin's hair turned white with worry. He had just received information from the laboratory that all the pests invading the base were poisonous. A bite from the least poisonous mosquitoes and cockroaches would cause the wound to fester and bleed, and the wound would be difficult to heal.

When bitten by highly poisonous snakes and rats, the wounds will fester immediately, and even the skin and bones will turn black and stink. In severe cases, amputation is required to save life.

Soon, a new notice was pinned to the top of the social network, which roughly meant that the insect pests were highly toxic and could not be eaten. If bitten, please clean the wound immediately. The circle exploded again. The elderly and children at home were basically locked in the room and not allowed to go out. The young and strong young people were fully armed to catch snakes.

There is no need to mobilize this time. Everyone should clear the pests in their homes to protect themselves.

In the service hall of the base, people constantly bring in dead pests to the redemption windows. Ten kilograms of pests are exchanged for one point, which has also increased the enthusiasm of the base residents for pest control.

Liang Chaowei: What's going on? I just cleaned up a nest of snakes. When I turned around, there was another nest in my quilt. Is the mosquito net useless? Can people still sleep?

Illustration: A nest of red and green snakes entangled together on the bed in a single dormitory, which looks creepy.

Peng Xingxing: Damn mosquitoes, my grandson’s hand has been oozing pus and won’t heal.

Illustration: A little boy is wrapped in a mosquito net. Judging from the background, he should have gone to the community hospital to see a doctor. There are crowds of people nearby who are bitten by insects.

Xu Xingxing: Ahhhh, I can’t stand it anymore. Our unit was the worst hit, it’s simply become a rat’s nest, it’s horrible.

Illustration: A single bed is covered with mice, and a nest of pink newborn mice are particularly eye-catching among the pile of mice.

The following comment caught Wang Jie's attention.

Zhang Yang: Have you eaten them all?

Wang Hai: Brother Xu, I've taken a day off tonight. My house has been invaded by cockroaches and bedbugs. Please take over my shift.

Wuhan Iron and Steel: You have crossed the red line of your job.

Wang Jie and Su Zhangming both felt the circle, and the noodles they had just sucked into their mouths instantly lost their fragrance. Su Zhangming ran to the side cabinet to find a garbage bag, threw one into Wang Jie's arms, ran to his room, closed the door, and soon Su's mother heard bursts of vomiting sounds.

Wang Jie was no longer in the mood to eat noodles, so he put down his bowl and chopsticks and explained to them that Xu Xingxing, who posted the circle, should be Old Xu who worked in the morgue. He helped them find two dead person cards when they went to buy cards last time. The picture he posted should be a morgue bed, and the body on it had been gnawed by rats, leaving no bones. People who didn't know the situation would think it was just a nest of rats, but people who knew his profession, such as Old Zhang from the canteen, knew very well that the meaning behind the picture was probably that the body had been eaten by rats, leaving no bones.

There are clear regulations for staff members who have a permanent position to post on social circles. They are not allowed to post anything related to work, otherwise the consequences will be serious. It was only after seeing Wu Gang's comments that Lao Xu realized that he had made a fatal mistake and quickly deleted the circle.

Being able to be employed at the base means at least a fixed income of points, and occasional subsidies for rice, flour, grain and oil. If you are fired because of a social circle, it would be a waste of time.

The rats that had eaten the corpses ran out of the morgue and ran rampant all over the base. They reproduced very quickly and people could not guard against them. Many people who were bitten could only treat their wounds on their own because the community health center was already overcrowded. Director Li could only shoot a dozen first aid videos and send them to Guan Xiong, all of which taught everyone how to treat their wounds on their own to avoid secondary infection and injury.

Guan Xiong saw that Director Li had sent over a dozen videos, and quickly uploaded them to the community homepage, and posted a pinned red task: Urgently need a large number of mugwort, snake extermination, pepper, Linglong grass, yellow bark tree, wolfsbane, arisaema, wolfsbane, artemisia annua, horse chestnut, grass cut grass, and coriander. The specific exchange information is announced as follows.

A large bunch of herbs exchanged for high-level points immediately caused quite a stir. The Gui K base was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of mountains. There were many small animals and herbs in the mountains. Now after the heavy rain, the ice and snow on the mountains had long melted. With the recent rise in temperature, the vegetation on the mountains will grow very well. Going up the mountain to pick herbs and exchange them for points is both dangerous and attractive.

It was extremely cold and everyone was bored, so they all wanted to go out and find new ways to make a living, even if it was just finding some wild fruits.

Su Zhangming saw that the points for exchanging herbs in the red mission were very high, and he was eager to try. It was a good idea to officially take advantage of the situation. The treasures in the Ten Thousand Mountains were not groundless. Before the natural disaster, people always said that you can eat from the mountains if you live by the mountains, and eat from the sea if you live by the sea. This plan showed that there were really a lot of good things in the mountains, but they only recognized mugwort and chili peppers from the long list mentioned above.

Su Yun went to Lanlan's house and took the book "Barefoot Doctor" back to study it and found out that those herbs are basically used to repel mosquitoes, insects, rats and cockroaches. Some of them can be burned directly to repel mosquitoes and insects. Some of them are mixed with food that rats like to eat to make rat poison. Some are mixed with soil and blocked in places where rats often appear. Rats will be poisoned and die after eating them.

It is very difficult for ordinary people to find herbs, and the most important thing is that they don't know how to recognize them. When some old Chinese medicine practitioners saw the pinned task, they hurriedly sorted out the unused herbs at home and exchanged them for points. These herbs cannot be eaten or drunk, and it would be a waste to keep them at home. They might as well take advantage of the high exchange rate of the base and exchange more points to save.

Su Yun was studying the barefoot doctor's medical book, and did not forget to encourage Lan Lando to make some new friends in the social circle. It happened that she had been very interested in Chinese medicine recently, and by posting some daily Chinese medicine information in the circle, she might be able to meet more like-minded friends.

Zhang Lili guided Lanlan in posting her first circle of friends, and carefully took pictures and descriptions of the herbs and posted them on the social circle.

Lanlan’s first circle: The one in the picture is Linglong grass.

Caption: Linglong grass, crush it whole and mix it with food, then place it in places where mice often see it. The mice will be poisoned and die after eating it, so please do not eat it.

Two hours later, Lanlan's account posted a second circle: The picture shows the wolfsbane, whose leaves contain highly toxic substances. Whether they are processed into poison bait or made into fumigants to kill mice, they will have miraculous effects.

In just half a day, Lanlan's account gained thousands of followers, and everyone was waiting for her to update her circle.

Even Director Li from the community couldn't help but click to follow, thinking that this kid was really great. Seeing his circles every time he shared science knowledge gave people a particularly warm feeling.

You cannot add friends directly in the social circle because the environment is too chaotic, so the software settings focus on the do not disturb function. Strangers can view but cannot leave comments or add friends. If you want to add friends, you can only do it by scanning the code face to face, so it greatly maintains network security.

Lan Lan did not have to worry about exposing herself. She was surprised to see so many people paying attention to her. She quietly set an alarm at night and took photos of the herbs in the top task and posted them every two hours.

Seeing his daughter regain her confidence, Lan's father was very happy and would cook different kinds of food for her every day. Although the food was not as delicious as the Su family's, at least there were pickles for every meal. He believed that her life would get better and better as she stayed with the Su family.

After Su Yun studied the herbal worm repellents recorded in the medical books, he discovered that he had stored a large amount of mugwort and chili peppers in his space. On their way back from Shenzhen City, they stocked up two carts of dried mugwort and one cart of fresh mugwort at a market in a small town.

I originally wanted to use the dried mugwort for daily fumigation of the house, and use the fresh mugwort for eating, and to make some snacks like mugwort balls and glutinous rice cakes to change the taste.

There are thousands of kilograms of Indian devil chili powder, which is mainly used for self-protection.

The points exchanged at the base are really too high. Su Zhangming calculated that one pound of ordinary peppers can be exchanged for 100 points, and one pound of their devil peppers can be exchanged for at least 300 points. After all, their peppers are not only lethal enough, but also have a particularly long-lasting "fragrance". Even giant beasts will retreat when they smell it, not to mention those insects that are particularly sensitive to smells.

The family discussed it and decided that Sun Wukong should come forward to make the exchange. Fortunately, Wang Jie had added Guan Xiong as a friend last time, so he found the other party's account and saw that he was online. He took a picture of half a bag of Devil Peppers and sent it over, and also specifically explained that the lethality was off the charts.

Sun Wukong was taking a break in the afternoon and happened to be browsing Lanlan's circle. When he saw Sun Wukong's message, he immediately replied: "Brother, I want as many as you can get. The price is negotiable."

After quickly asking Li Yimin, they negotiated a price of 250 points per kilogram. For 50 kilograms of Devil Peppers, plus the total points, Su Yun generously gave them a previously used pepper spray as a gift.

The transaction location and time were agreed upon, still in the middle of the night, in a parking lot not far away. More than half of the parking spaces in the parking lot were occupied. Wang Jie and Su Yun, fully armed, rode their beloved small motorcycles through the sea of ​​cars. Each parking space was marked with a number. Both parties agreed to park in space 55. Wang Jie drove for an extra 5 minutes before reaching the designated location.

Guan Xiong and Xiao Bin were already waiting for them with flashlights, and the transaction was carried out smoothly. When Wang Jie returned home, he couldn't help but send Guan Xiong a warm reminder: Please take personal protection before opening the bag, as it is not only irritating to the eyes, but also extremely irritating to the hands.

Guan Xiong happily took a screenshot and sent it to Li Yimin to take credit: Chief, the food in our air-raid shelter has been saved this time. These devil peppers have been sprayed on the food area. I think the rats, ants, snakes and insects will be killed on the spot when they smell them.

Li Yimin was almost annoyed by the sudden appearance of rats, ants, snakes and insects these days. Residents in the base were bitten, and the community hospital was overcrowded. According to the morgue, hundreds of people died without effective treatment. The community hospital did not have good conditions to treat the bitten people. Everyone was enduring, dragging, crying, and shouting. Even many soldiers in the army were bitten. To be honest, their internal hygiene is really good, but those rats, ants, snakes and insects do not follow the basic law and crawl and fly everywhere.

The most serious problem was the granary in their base. Although they had made all the necessary preparations, those nasty rats and cockroaches still broke in and ate 200 bags of rice. After the extreme cold, the pests' reproductive capacity became stronger, and they would give birth as soon as they were full. This cycle continued over and over again. It was terrible.

He originally planned to collect some Chinese herbal medicines to repel mosquitoes and deal with rats and cockroaches, but time waits for no one. Just when he was worried and anxious, he didn't expect Guan Xiong to get so many devil peppers, which was really a timely help.

I took a picture of the meatballs and sent it to Guan Xiong, asking him to take a vacation to improve the food. Guan Xiong happily carried half a bag of devil peppers to the heavily guarded food area.