pappabearbooks Chapter 158 The consequences of acid rain
Chapter 158 The consequences of acid rain
The harm of acid rain is multi-faceted, not only direct and potential harm to human health, ecosystems and building facilities.
It is also very harmful to forests and other plants. In just a few minutes after the rain fell, all the plants around the Qiuhan base were corroded, their leaves turned yellow, their branches turned black, and the lake surface and the fish they dug were all damaged. On the surface of the pond, there are densely packed fish and shrimps that have been corroded and died by acid rain.
All the rocs on the farm were corroded, and only the empty metal frame was left standing there. The livestock and poultry inside were all dead in large areas. They were all mangled with blood and flesh, and lay silently and motionless inside.
Those who barely survived were covered in holes and holes corroded by the acid rain, leaving only more air coming out and less air coming out. The bloody scene stimulated everyone's visual nerves.
Everyone couldn't help but blush. Their hard work for so many years was mostly destroyed by a damn acid rain today. How long will this thief continue to commit evil! ?
Everyone cried uncomfortably, Qiu Qiu choked with sobs and comforted everyone, "Don't cry! At least no one is in danger. As long as people are still there, we can definitely save these lost things slowly!" "
"Yes! Since it has already happened, there is no point in being sad and upset!"
Xiao Han said sternly, "What we need to do now is to seize the time to check whether the buildings are damaged and see if the animals that are not dead can be rescued, especially Father Mo's side.
The most important thing is to find a way to solve the problem of acid rain contaminating the land. If this problem is not solved, we will not be able to grow high-yielding food in the future! "
"Yep!"
Chen Gang wiped his face and glanced at everyone, "Don't be miserable! The weather in this apocalyptic world is changing faster than that child's face! Everyone, hurry up! Don't be caught off guard again!"
"What Chen Gang said makes sense, everyone should take action!"
Qiu Qiu clapped his hands and shouted, "Wear water shoes and gloves as much as possible. Pay attention to safety, okay?"
"understand!"
Chen Yanbing stared at the puddle of water outside the shed, with bubbles and white smoke constantly rising. A few meters away, there was the body of a brother, but it had long been corroded by acid rain. The army-green clothes were reduced to debris, and the body could no longer be seen. Show the original appearance...
He took a deep breath and looked away. His eye circles turned red again, and tears fell in large drops, hitting the back of his bloody hand.
Half an hour ago, Zhang Kui was exposed to too much acid rain and suffered a serious brain injury. He suddenly fainted and fell into a coma. Li Peng couldn't bear the pain and wiped his neck while everyone was not paying attention.
Seven or eight of the brothers who had been rescued before died of their injuries. Liu Ning was so heartbroken that he could hardly breathe.
In this short period of time, he had already had the idea of committing suicide no less than three times, but as soon as he heard his brothers' cries of pain and saw their bloody bodies, he did not dare to do anything stupid.
He thought over and over again, gave himself half an hour of mental construction, and finally calmed down.
Brothers still need to be taken care of. He cannot and cannot fall. Isn't it just acid rain?It was so difficult in the past few years and everyone got through it. What's so scary now?
Liu Ning gathered enough energy and turned back with a smile, "We..."
"Brother Kui! Brother Kui, please answer me! Woo hoo..."
He watched Zhang Liang holding Zhang Kui's hand and screaming with all his strength. He suddenly felt sad and his scarlet eyes were filled with mist again, "Zhang Kui!!!"
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Research base.
Since the acid rain, the people in charge of various ministries have been extremely busy.
Base materials, housing facilities, and crops in the fields were all destroyed by acid rain.
The management issued an order for researchers to find ways to solve the problem of land and water pollution as soon as possible, expand the production of agricultural products, and develop building materials that can prevent acid rain corrosion.
No one knows whether there will be acid rain in the future. They can't just repair the base once the buildings are destroyed. Instead of wasting time on these things, it's better to use more land.
Therefore, Mr. Lin and Mr. Wen hope that the research institute can develop an anti-corrosion building material, not to mention that it can be solved once and for all, but that there will be no problems for at least ten or eight years.
However, before the researchers could make any results, a large number of black and purple vines sprouted from the land around the base. They were as thick as a baby's forearm, with strong and serrated leaves. The vines were so tough that they needed sharp tools to cut them. , the four people pulled it with their bare hands, but they couldn't even break any cracks.
The key is that this vine is the only plant that can thrive after acid rain. This fact alone makes everyone confused.
For this reason, Professor Zhang immediately asked his assistant to cut some back, and then he and other research members launched a close study.
As for the other survivors and soldiers, except for those who needed medical treatment, they all followed Leng Tian to repair the base facilities.
As for Wen Wen, she took the slightly injured members of the base to expand the indoor planting area. This time, many people died and two buildings were vacated. They couldn't leave them empty.
In the past, the base's food crops came from outdoor fields, but now the ecological environment is seriously polluted and the land is affected by acid rain, making it impossible to grow anything at all.
The Ministry of Agriculture and members of the research institute don’t know when they will find a way to improve soil quality. It is very likely that they will have to rely on indoor planting technology to survive in the future.
Therefore, we can only seize the time and try to use every indoor space as much as possible to plant crops.
However, the base still mainly grows "Sweet Potato No. [-]". After all, it has high yield, is easy to survive, and has a short maturity period. Planting "Sweet Potato No. [-]" is the safest investment for the base.
Half a month after the acid rain fell, groups of foraging animals gradually appeared around the base, but most of these animals were ugly in appearance.
For example, before, the soldiers surrounded and killed a group of wild wolves. They were hairless, uneven, and covered with brown-red flesh lumps of different sizes. They were obviously the lucky ones who survived the acid rain.
There are also black snakes that emerge from the grass, but this species is very strange. Although their bodies are covered with pits and scars like other animals, their bodies are thicker than before, and they have grown short and sharp limbs. , the mobility and toxicity are several times stronger than those of the same type before.
The soldiers worked hard to catch a few and sent them to the research institute. After Professor Zhang did relevant research, he found that a drop of black snake venom can kill 100 people at the same time.
This discovery made everyone sweat. Before the end of the world, the black snake was one of the most common snakes in our country. But now it is so poisonous and likes to appear in the grass and woods. Eaves and other places.
As a result, human beings have been greatly restricted in their travels, and they are also worried about their own safety. As time goes by, more dangers are coming quietly.
After a busy day, everyone dragged their tired bodies back to the dormitory. The young man walking in front reached out and pinched his sore neck, "I'm really tired today!"
The big man with beard on the side smiled and said, "Then go to bed early! He Xin, will you ask me to come with you tomorrow?"
"Okay! Brother Feng, you should go to bed early!" The young man saw him entering the room, waved to him, and went back to his dormitory.
Brother Feng closed the door, took off his clothes and threw them at the door. He walked slowly to the bed wearing only big pants. Then he touched the dark and reached out to lift the quilt, and a fine rustling sound was heard.
His movement to get into bed suddenly stopped. He thought of something in his mind and felt his scalp numb. Then he looked carefully under the moonlight and saw a dense group of black snakes surging under the quilt.
Brother Feng was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder burst. His eyes widened in horror. He opened his mouth to shout, but was suddenly blocked by a group of black-tipped snakes that rose into the air and wrapped around his limbs.
The bones all over his body were being strangled by the thick snake body and the pain was unbearable. The poison also spread rapidly throughout his body. The moment Brother Feng died, he felt something running along his body. throat, bit his navel and penetrated into his body...
Ten minutes later, only a large pool of blood and a gloomy white skeleton were left in the room, and all the snakes had dispersed.
"My stomach hurts! I feel so uncomfortable after eating too many damn sweet potatoes!"
The wind picked up at night, and a young survivor had a stomachache. He hurriedly ran out of the building and entered the public toilet next to it.
The pit was densely packed with black-tipped snakes that kept squirming.
The young survivor heard bursts of rustling, but didn't pay attention. He just thought it was the sound of the nearby trees being blown by the wind.
He quickly ran to a toilet seat and squatted down, feeling relieved. However, at this moment, he noticed something crawling towards him in the pit.
The survivor felt terrified and was about to get up and leave when a black snake suddenly jumped up from the bottom of the pit and attacked his gang door.
He screamed in pain, and instinctively reached out to pull, but unexpectedly, the snake's head had already penetrated into his body. As he pulled hard, the snake's head drilled harder and harder. When someone heard the cry for help and rushed over, the arm Only the tip of the tail of the thick black snake was left outside, and the other parts had completely penetrated into the survivor's body.
And his abdomen and chest were beating up and down at this time. However, the man had already lost his life. Looking at the dead expression, everyone was frightened. The snakes were all-pervasive and they were defenseless. They didn't know what to do.
The institute has not yet found the best solution to the snake chaos.
However, before the matter was resolved, there was another rat infestation in the base. What made everyone collapse was that snakes and rats were natural enemies. Every day, countless bloody hunting games were staged anywhere in the base.
But their struggles often affect the fish in the pond, and it is always humans who suffer.
Every day, there will always be a group of deformed black-tip snakes crawling out from everywhere, surrounding the densely packed red-eyed mice with ulcers all over their bodies in the corner. Some people are often unlucky enough to be stuck between them.
At this time, the rats will not be busy running for their lives, but will attack the human group. The snakes will slowly start to devour the rats until they are wiped out.
Humans, rats, and snakes form a cruel biological chain!
This situation lasted until two months later. Researchers found in the study of wisteria that after being treated in a special way, it can be turned into a tough fibrous tissue that can be used to make clothes.
And its juice can kill black snakes and rats. This was when the laboratory encountered an infestation of snakes and rats. The wisteria extract was accidentally knocked over and sprinkled on the fleeing rats, poisoning them on the spot. His orifices were bleeding and his whole body was convulsing.
Although those black-tip snakes were not stained with venom, when the juice spilled out, they receded like a tide in terror. In less than a minute, no snake was seen again within a hundred meters of the laboratory.
This discovery brought a turnaround to the precarious experimental base. The institute asked everyone to quickly collect wisteria and use it as a raw material for making poisons.
But more serious problems are still waiting for them.
The water in the water tower at the base has been exhausted, and the outdoor water sources have been polluted by acid rain. There is currently no good way to purify the water sources.
But without water, humans can't hold on for long. This problem has once again troubled everyone in the experimental base.
However, people often say that there is no perfect path, although most of the time, it is just chicken soup to comfort people's soul!But it is undeniable that these words once gave me the courage to live.
While people at the experimental base were looking for water sources, Han Jie and Xiao Gao drove here and brought 300 mutant bluegrass plants and some seeds prepared by Qiu Qiu and Xiao Han, as well as 2000 kilograms of grains and 50 bacteria packs. , everything was left in the hands of Leng Tian and Wen Wen.
"This, these..."
Han Jie smiled and looked at the two people who were full of surprise and trembling with excitement, "We found this by chance in a deep mountain forest and have been raising it ever since.
Unexpectedly, the acid rain came and helped a lot. The two of them thought that the situation here must not be good, so they asked us to deliver it non-stop. "
"I originally wanted to send you some other things, but we also suffered heavy losses this time, and all our savings over the years were destroyed..."
Xiao Gao couldn't help but blush when he thought of the previous scene, and Wen Wen and Leng Tian choked with sadness.
Leng Tian reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't say that! You have helped everyone a lot! We are really grateful to Qiuhan Base for their help! But now we are unable to repay such a great favor!"
"Yes!" Wen Wenwen smiled with tears in her eyes, "Let's all take care of ourselves. One day, these disasters will stop. By then, we will be able to live a peaceful life!"
The four of them looked at each other and smiled, "We will definitely wait until that day!"
After a few people talked about acid rain and what happened to various bases, Han Jie was surprised by the snake and rat infestation in the experimental base, because there was no rat infestation in the Qiuhan base, but there were many foraging animals, especially The python is the most.
However, they are close to the continuous deep mountains and old forests. Those places were not developed before the end of the world. It is normal to have pythons. However, every day in the mountains and forests, two or three pythons with a length of more than ten meters and thick thighs will crawl to the base and swim around. Everyone would take out machine guns and shoot wildly. It was because they had enough ammunition, otherwise this thing would be really difficult to deal with.
Han Jie's scalp went numb when he thought about that scene. After understanding each other's various situations, the two took the opportunity of Leng Tian to give them a gift and secretly gave Leng Tian a bottle of 2 liters of spiritual spring water.
This was what Qiu Qiu personally told them before they came to the experimental base. Everyone knows that when encountering acid rain, Leng Tian and the soldiers must be charging forward, and injuries are inevitable. Although the spiritual spring water was brought late, at least Helpful for living people.
Han Jie put the thing in his arms and lowered his voice and said, "Qiu Qiu said, this thing is only for you and the soldiers, and he can't do anything for others. I ask you to ignore the Holy Mother and keep it close to your own people. Besides, if you If you don't get better, you won't be able to help more people! Let's settle the score, you know?"
Leng Tian nodded heavily with tears in his eyes, "I, I know, thank you!"
Xiao Gao still felt uneasy and couldn't help but say, "Leng Tian, you, take a sip now!"
Leng Tian burst into laughter, looked at Han Jie, then shook his head, carefully opened the bottle cap, took a small sip, and then nervously tightened the cap tightly, for fear of spilling a drop.
In less than a moment, Leng Tian found that the fatigue all over his body suddenly disappeared, and he felt comfortable all over his body, and his wounds corroded by acid rain no longer hurt so much.