aircannonsinc #106 - Chapter 106: Terrifying Insect Plague
#106 - Chapter 106: Terrifying Insect Plague
Old Zhang immediately helped his wife and children exterminate the cockroaches in their home. After killing those few large cockroaches, the whole family began to search everywhere, turning over boxes and cabinets.
At the same time, they immediately closed all the doors and windows to prevent cockroaches from entering their home.
Then followed a period of frantic activity, and they discovered more than 20 cockroaches in the living room and bedroom...
After killing these large cockroaches, only one place remained unsearched: the bathroom.
As soon as he opened the bathroom door, he immediately felt unwell because the bathroom was densely packed with large cockroaches, triggering his trypophobia.
The large cockroaches were startled by him, and a fluttering sound rang out continuously. Disturbed, these large cockroaches took flight.
He, his wife, and his child grabbed various tools and desperately began swatting at these large cockroaches. One of the large cockroaches flew directly at him and landed on his face.
The large cockroach bit his face.
"Ah!" Old Zhang screamed after being bitten by the cockroach. Everything happened too quickly.
The family of three used various tools to desperately strike at the cockroaches. For a moment, the entire house was a mess, with large cockroaches flying and crashing everywhere.
Old Zhang used something to block the drain in the bathroom, and then the whole family worked together to finally kill all the large cockroaches. Countless cockroaches were splattered, fully demonstrating the high protein content within their bodies...
When cleaning up the cockroaches in the house, they discovered that many cockroaches had defecated in their rice bowls. The excrement of these cockroaches had a strong odor, so Old Zhang washed these dishes and took them to the roof to be exposed to the sun.
His idea was simple: to use the high temperature of the sunlight to disinfect the dishes. But as soon as he stepped out the door, he heard a 'crack' sound as he took a step. He was too familiar with this sound.
Old Zhang felt something pressing against his foot. He lifted his foot and saw a large cockroach had been unfortunately stepped on and splattered, its legs still twitching frantically.
The cockroach's splattered insides were all over the bottom of his slippers. It was truly disgusting!
Then, Old Zhang quickly closed the door and looked around in the corridor. This look made his goosebumps rise.
He saw that in the entire corridor, passageway, and stairs, there were at least 20 large cockroaches visible to the naked eye.
Keep in mind that he was on the 17th floor, the top floor of the complex. If there were so many large cockroaches here, how many cockroaches were there on the floors below?
It was simply hair-raising...
He didn't dare to go out again and quickly returned home. The entire house was covered in splattered cockroach remains, and there was a very unpleasant odor in the house.
Old Zhang didn't know where these cockroaches came from. Did they crawl up through the sewer, or had so many cockroaches been lying dormant in the house during the extreme cold?
He couldn't figure it out.
Never doubt the combat power of slippers. This thing is a cockroach-killing weapon in the South, and this skill has become an instinct for Southerners. It emphasizes speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness, with power comparable to the Buddha's Palm.
Soon, the family of three began to collect the cockroach corpses. The cockroaches filled more than half of a large garbage bag. It was terrifying!
After clearing the cockroaches, Old Zhang quickly took out disinfectant, diluted it with water, and sprayed it all over the house.
After the disinfectant had evaporated, he also used a UV lamp to disinfect for a while before he was done...
Old Zhang's wife was checking the condition of Old Zhang's face and discovered that a small piece of flesh had been bitten off by the large cockroach. His face had already swollen. At this time, Old Zhang felt like he was about to collapse.
His wife squeezed out a lot of blood from his face and then used alcohol to disinfect Old Zhang's wound. The alcohol stung Old Zhang, who kept yelling in pain.
After disinfection, she used gauze purchased from Li Ming along with a special medicinal powder to wrap the wound, and only then was the treatment complete.
While Old Zhang's family was fighting cockroaches, not only Old Zhang's home in the entire Main City Garden complex was in chaos, but the other residents were also killing cockroaches.
Just as Old Zhang was about to rest for a while, he heard wailing from the neighborhood across the road.
He opened a small crack in the window and saw a man desperately paddling an inflatable boat through the crack. In the inflatable boat sat a sallow and emaciated woman, holding a large-headed child who was malnourished.
At this time, the child was vomiting white foam from his mouth, his face was pale, and he was already unconscious.
The woman cried and argued with the man paddling the boat.
He roughly understood that the child was a little hungry, and the parents hadn't paid attention. The child saw a cockroach and instinctively grabbed it and put it in his mouth, treating the large cockroach as food.
Old Zhang sighed inwardly. He didn't know how many cockroaches the child had eaten, but by the time the child's parents discovered it, the child was already vomiting white foam and unconscious. The couple could only desperately take the child to the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce Hospital, hoping to get treatment.
Honestly, the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce's medical technology might be able to save the child, but the medical expenses were a problem. This hospital was not a charitable organization. It wasn't that the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce was cold-blooded, but some precedents couldn't be set.
If no medicine was used, the cost wouldn't be too high, but if medicine was used, the cost would skyrocket. Medicine was very valuable in the post-apocalyptic world.
The couple also knew this, so they were holding onto the last glimmer of hope, taking out all the points tickets they had saved, and preparing to gamble at the hospital. As long as there was a glimmer of hope, no parents would be willing to give up treatment.
Seeing the tragedy downstairs, Old Zhang directly dispelled the idea of drying the cockroaches to use as reserve food.
Cockroaches themselves have many bacteria and viruses, spreading many diseases and so on. These abnormally sized cockroaches are clearly mutated...
Looking at the garbage bags floating in the flood through the window, and then looking at these super fat cockroaches, it was clear that the viruses and bacteria on these cockroaches were probably even more numerous than before.
Moreover, Old Zhang was very certain that this wasn't the only child eating these large cockroaches; there were definitely many adults eating them as well. After all, although cold-resistant potatoes had been promoted for a long time, not every survivor was willing to take the trouble to plant them, and the price of the seeds wasn't cheap either.
Initially, it was 10 points tickets, and later it was reduced to 8 points tickets. This price was really not low.
Therefore, some survivors who didn't plant cold-resistant potatoes and relied on scavenging as a means of survival were bound to fall into a state of food shortage at this time when it was inconvenient to go out. At this time, facing the threat of death, what did eating a cockroach matter...