Along with transporting the flowers, the space-type esper also brought many herbs, which immediately played an important role.
After all, in the sea of insects, no matter how fully armed you are, you could still get hurt easily. After crushing the herbs and applying them to the red and swollen bites, the pain, itching, and numbness will be eliminated instantly.
Firewood, white flowers, and herbs, these three things made the insect extermination operation involving more than half of the base’s manpower almost non-dangerous and increasingly smooth.
Thus the number of insects began to decrease slowly. After all, no matter how many insects there are, there is a limit.
However, while the crisis of Jiangcheng Base was gradually resolved, many places around the world were still deeply involved in the battle between humans and insects. Even if they were warned two days in advance, not all bases took measures as early as Yingtian Base. So when the time came, the base and the safe zone faced the terrible situation of being surrounded by the insect tide.
Under this situation, General Xu asked Bai Xiaohu if they could meet and talk face to face.
Bai Xiaohu was very surprised, but of course, she agreed to meet with this top leader.
Then General Xu said he would come to see her in person.
Bai Xiaohu hung up the phone, confused, and asked Wen Liansheng what the other party meant. Could it be he is making a special trip to commend her? Wen Liansheng thought for a while: “I think he wants you to bring out more firewood and herbs.”
Bai Xiaohu tilted her head. Firewood is very durable. For now, the trees she provided are enough. As for herbs, the number of people injured by insects is small after all, so the herbs should also be enough.
Wen Liansheng reminded: “It should be for other bases. Not long ago, a small base of roughly a dozen thousand people was flooded by insects. Only a few dozen people were able to escape by plane. It is said that when the people on the plane looked down, many were gnawed into skeletons.”
Bai Xiaohu opened her mouth and couldn’t help shuddering: “This terrifying?”
Wen Liansheng nodded: “When the number of anything reaches a certain level, the lethality grows exponentially.”
“What about the big bases?”
“The situation at a big base is naturally better, but it is still hard to support itself. I heard they tried all kinds of methods such as concentrated acid, fire, freezing, and digging pits and trenches around the base, but there were still casualties. So Jiangcheng is really lucky to have you.”
Bai Xiaohu was a little worried after hearing this. Wen Liansheng asked: “Will it be difficult? Then just refuse. General Xu probably knows it’s somewhat difficult, so he appears so official.”
Bai Xiaohu said: “It’s not difficult.” It’s just that she would have to chop more trees. Yet, Lu Ye the tree cutter is not here.
Bai Xiaohu said, “I’m heading back to my room for a bit. Call me when General Xu comes.”
She ran back to her room on the third floor, closed the door, went into her space, and then began to chop trees resignedly.
How she chopped trees was unlike Lu Ye, she didn’t use an axe. She untied her furry headband, swung it, and dozens of trees fell, the ground shook, and then another swung, and dozens more trees fell.
Although the efficiency was high, the spiritual power consumed was also very high.
After chopping thousands of trees in more than ten minutes, Wen Liansheng came to inform her that General Xu had arrived.
Bai Xiaohu went downstairs and saw the legendary head of the base. She heard that he personally came to the gate of the base to greet her yesterday, but she was in an awful state at the time and didn’t even look at his face, so naturally, she didn’t notice him. Then, this should be considered the first time they met.
He was… an ordinary-looking old man. If you didn’t know his identity, you really couldn’t tell that he was a general or a leader who ruled a huge base. The officer following behind him, however, showed his iron-blooded temperament forged by his long military career and seemed more imposing than General Xu.
However, for some reason, when you first look at them, your eyes would fall on this old man first.
In short, he seemed very ordinary, but in reality not ordinary at all.
Wen Liansheng introduced them to Bai Xiaohu and then said to General Xu: “General Xu, if you need anything, just call us over. You must be very busy at this time, no need to come here specially.”
General Xu waved his hand and said to Bai Xiaohu very warmly: “Xiao-Bai has motion sickness, right? I truly made things difficult for you yesterday. Don’t feel restrained. We have talked over the phone previously.”
Bai Xiaohu was stunned. She didn’t expect that he would come here in person to be considerate of her car sickness, knowing it would be difficult for her to ride a car to visit him. She nodded: “Then, what is it that you want to talk to me about?”
Everyone around General Xu couldn’t help but look at her more. General Xu’s status and prestige in the base are getting stronger and stronger. People always use respectful titles when they see General Xu, especially juniors like Bai Xiaohu. Even Lu Ye would use respectful titles most of the time, but this little girl just said “you” when she opened her mouth, and there was not much awe in her tone.
This is just a small detail, and neither of the two parties took it to heart, but others couldn’t help but think about it a little more.
General Xu sighed, and his nasolabial folds seemed to deepen a little: “It’s a bit embarrassing to say, but it concerns the lives of our compatriots, so I would ask shamelessly. Can you provide more firewood and herbs?”
Sure enough, it was the same as Wen Liansheng suspected.
Bai Xiaohu nodded very straightforwardly: “Yes.”
Then she went to the place where they had specially prepared and released trees with a diameter of more than one meter and a length of 20 to 30 meters. General Xu’s people immediately started using a large cutting machine to cut the trees into firewood of uniform size and quickly loaded them onto the plane.
It was a huge strategic supply transport plane. The plane was mostly packed with firewood and a small amount of medicinal herbs, and it took off in the rainy storm. Bai Xiaohu was very worried that it would be blown down by the storm, but it took off smoothly and flew away.
Wen Liansheng secretly told her that these transport planes risk crashing when taking off in such severe weather, which showed General Xu’s determination to help other bases.
Bai Xiaohu frowned: “But even so, other bases can’t get a lot of firewood, how much use can it have?”
Wen Liansheng said: “Don’t worry about it, less supply has ways that require less.”
Several transport planes arrived at the central base a few hours later. This is a very large base, and the number of people is more than ten times that of the Jiangcheng Base.
Its advantage over Jiangcheng is that this base has no shortage of food, no shortage of armaments, and no shortage of outstanding talents. After the start of the apocalypse, the government departments here are still running as usual.
Upon receiving early warnings and confirming that mutant insects are indeed a common phenomenon, a large number of talents here calculated the entire process of the insect tide outbreak, the harmful consequences it will cause in the shortest time, and how humans should respond most scientifically and effectively.
In just two days, the base mobilized everyone to carry out insect extraction inside the base. Unlike the Jiangcheng Base, there was no wind or rain here, which made it easier to operate. They did not use cement to cover the ground because the commander-in-chief of the insect extraction operation felt that this was only a temporary measure. If the insects were not killed, with them hiding underground, it would always be a hidden danger. Therefore, he strongly ordered all people to step out of their homes, turn over all the land they could, and pick out as many insects and eggs as possible like sifting.
As for outside the base, millions of troops were mobilized to make full preparations.
After two days, humans and insects fought, but the human side still underestimated the attraction of hundreds of millions of people gathering in one place to these insects. Facing the rolling insect tide, they soon became tired, and casualties followed.
“Damn it!” Insight was the fire line and the sea of fire failing to stop the insect tide; the deep and wide trenches and traps they dug out, although they had some effect at the beginning, were soon filled up by the insects themselves; various espers showed their superpower, but they also had little effect; the spray planes sprayed the so-called insecticide produced by the research institute over and over again, only a few insects died, and the insects followed after even develop drug resistance that was visibly improving; there were also strange inventions such as unmanned insect-killing vehicles, insect-sucking machines, and cars that tried to crush insects to death, hehehe, they had long been overwhelmed by insects……
The commander cursed as he watched they were about to lose the pure land of several kilometers outside the base where the insects had been cleaned out prior, and the insect tide was eating away this safe area bit by bit. He seriously wanted to send bomb planes to kill these insects, but the insect tide was not concentrated, and the bombing could not kill many. If it continues like this, they would be forced to surrender to a large-scale arson.
The commander frowned. It was at this moment, he got the news that the transport plane of Jiangcheng Base was about to arrive.
Will that work?
He didn’t have much hope, but he could only give it a try. Half an hour later, the transport planes from Jiangcheng Base arrived. They didn’t enter the base. Instead, several went to the abandoned city south of the base. The central base also sent helicopters. A moment later, a large fire started on the top floors of several tall buildings in the center of the abandoned city.
The flames were very strong and blazing, with a faint blue in the red, and a faint fragrance drifted out and transmitted to the distance.
The commander stood on the high observation tower of the base. He couldn’t see the situation with a telescope, but the display screen next to him faithfully broadcast the fire on the scene.
“Does this thing really work?”
The commander thought about it for a while, and then he received a report that the insects closest to the abandoned city began to swarm over there. Commander: “……”
Then the insects farther away began crawling over too.
Finally, the most fierce insect tide that rushed towards the base also changed its target.
Commander: “……”
Damn, these insects have a unique taste.
Looking at the sea of insects that receded like a tide in front of them, people fighting were deeply confused.
An hour later, the abandoned city was submerged by the insect tide. Two hours later, the south of the base was empty, and most insects seemed to have disappeared. The buildings with burning fires on the roofs of the abandoned city, including the surrounding buildings, became wriggling insect pillars. The live broadcast pictures sent back were so horrifying and disgusting that even the most determined people would feel a chill.
The commander licked his lips: “Bomb it!”
The bomber flew over the abandoned city and dropped several bombs.
Amid the booming explosions, the sea of insects was wiped out. Soon after, a mountain behind the base was also made into a sea of insects using the same method and too was wiped out by several bombs.
Similar events happened around many bases that day, which resulted in many planes flying into the Jiancheng Base from all directions, all to transport firewood the next day.
Of course, these planes did not come empty, some were carrying a lot of food, some were carrying a lot of weapons, some were carrying precise living supplies, and some were carrying a group of high-end talents. Oh, there were also leaders who came to inspect.
Bai Xiaohu had only one thought about this: chopping trees is tiring, okay?
