Chapter 6 Section five

It's an unhappy night. It was late at night, and Okita couldn't sleep.He saw Hiromi's eyes, which had a cold light like liquid glass.Okita couldn't explain this mystery, and Hiromi's infertility was basically confirmed.She bears the cross of premature loss of femininity.She may develop masculine features due to her lack of luteinizing hormone. —she was angry! Okita dismissed the idea of ​​protesting to the doctor, even if protesting is of no use.It is absurd to ask the doctor to inject hormones for several months without any illness!For the doctor's prescription, you should be alert to the side effects of the drug.He thought he should be thankful for saving his life.Hiromi might be dissatisfied with this, she asked if her body didn't have love hormones, probably because she didn't want to rashly protest the hospital and drag her husband with limited possibilities into it.

... What's wrong with me, not satisfied? Okita opened his eyes in the dark, he regretted and hated at the same time.I heard that in countries with developed medical services, among patients like wives, there are some people who devote themselves to charity. As a woman, charity work is almost more important than life.Preventing mental disorder and restoring hope of life is the bounden duty of those who work in charity. ... What can I do for my wife? Okita calmed down.But he didn't notice the root of the disease buried deep in his wife's heart.He stretched out his hand to his wife, and then stopped again, the strange desire rushing straight up.Hiromi has a slender body, but her chest and buttocks are plump and sensual.In the darkness, her naked body stubbornly appeared in front of Okita's eyes, protruding in the darkness where he couldn't reach his fingers, which made people feel chills all over.On this midsummer night, Okita felt an indescribable loneliness.The uneasiness of his wife contains the uneasy factors of life, and his wife's words reveal Okita's character.Even if she was allowed to speak out in a face-to-face showdown, Okita still felt desolately his aloofness.He realized that his position was low, and that it was futile to appeal directly to the superior.

the next day. In the afternoon, Okita was called by the section chief. "Okita-kun..." Section Chief Suzue was full of anger.He was over forty.It is said that all public officials are like this, and Suzue is also an ultra-conservative, no, it should be said that he is a life-saving advocate. Assistant Section Chief Ikeuchi also came. "What orders do you have?" Okita understood, and the matter of direct appeal had been leaked from the chief. "How does Okita-kun understand our official organization?" Suzue asked in a trembling voice. "My understanding is: do your best to serve the people. This is the first priority."

"Shut up!" Suzue straightened up and said, "You bastard, you deliberately fooled your boss!" Suzue's face was the same as when he was anemic. "Please listen to me report to you in detail." Okita suppressed his anger.His wife's words rang in his ears last night: he should control himself.Thinking about it this way, he knew that he had to do as his wife said.So Okita said: "There are abnormal changes in birds and beasts. If we ignore them, it may cause a huge catastrophe. In response to this situation, I have reported the situation to the assistant director several times, but every time I was ridiculed. If we ignore it and cause a huge catastrophe, at that time, as far as the Ministry of Environment is concerned, who will take responsibility?"

"Even if there is a huge catastrophe, why do you talk about it?" "Can you say we are not responsible?" "Aren't they just rats?" Suzuki patted the table and said, "You're scaremongering, talking about billions of rats in front of the chief. But, where are there so many rats, huh? You found the statistics of the Forest and Field Office triumphantly." In the information, are the unknowns recorded as minor harm or moderate harm? You called embroidery needles a mallet. Your despicable grandstanding should stop. " "Despicable grandstanding?"

"Isn't it?" Suzue gasped and said, "The issue of rodent infestation is under the control of the Forestry Department. A few rats are multiplied due to the flowering of bamboo. What a major problem! If we can stop it with rodenticide, the Forestry Department will definitely They will laugh at us. How crazy is the Ministry of the Environment! Even if, as you said, there is an explosive proliferation of rats, and you throw out your anti-hunting argument. But how can a few birds and beasts subdue billions of people? What about the swarm of rats? Besides, aren’t those birds and beasts migrating eastward from the place where the rat infestation occurred, how could they subdue the rat swarm? Huh?”

"..." "You don't answer?" Suzue continued with harsh words, "Don't destroy the ecosystem—this is a common and pleasant sentence, and the newspapers and the public will probably like it. But what does this have to do with the ban on hunting? ?Hunting is an instinctive behavior of human beings. Have you forgotten that we are the ones who decide the protected areas for birds and animals, and they are greatly expanded every year. We are the ones who take strict administrative measures, and not a single tree can be felled. During the lifting of the ban, Right and wrong people know the amount of killing. Also, don’t civil society groups release some birds every year to adjust wild birds and beasts? It is a principle to kill only for proliferation. You are the person involved, but you are fully aware of all the circumstances Next. Take this opportunity to clamor for a complete ban on hunting and the destruction of the ecosystem, so as to achieve your goal of catering to the public. This is not despicable, so what is despicable?" Suzue's gaze does not have the power to kill people, and his expression is also Does not make people feel impatient.

"Please don't get excited." Okita controlled his excitement.He said: "For the explosive proliferation of rodents caused by simultaneous flowering of bamboo, the question is what countermeasures to take. It can be seen that birds and beasts are indeed fleeing, but the reason is unknown. However, the natural enemies of rodents have suppressed rodent infestation. Moreover, the existence of natural enemies of rodents will have a psychological inhibitory effect on the large-scale reproduction of rodents. Assuming that the vegetation around the forest is cut to form a circle of bare ground around the forest, then the rats Because they are afraid of natural enemies, they dare not enter the forest, because the exposed areas are impassable. It has been one hundred and twenty years since the bamboos bloomed at the same time, which is exactly a cycle. It is reasonable that the rodents will reproduce on a large scale, but the numerous Rat natural enemies control the rodent damage to a minimum. What is the actual situation now? It is said that the part of culling birds to proliferate, in the end, the natural enemies of rodent damage have almost disappeared? From this point, it can be inferred that Because the bamboos bloom at the same time, there will be hundreds of millions to billions of rats. This is what I mean by not destroying the ecosystem. Even if the birds and beasts have no effect on this rat disaster, if the number of natural enemies increases, then It can suppress the next rat plague. This can be said to be the will of nature. A mouse can eat about 40 grams of food a day, which is a quarter of its body weight..."

"Stop talking!" Suzuki's sharp voice hit his head, "The premise of your argument has no scientific basis at all. The Forestry Department did not include bamboo flowering in the report. The report on the rodent damage is only slightly to moderately harmful. According to the report analysis, from last year to this year, a large number of seeds of larch and beech, the data room shows that the place where the damage occurs is the good area for these seeds. Trees such as horse chestnut and oak can also produce seeds Rat infestation is a common phenomenon. Birds and beasts have abnormal breeding and eastward migration. You can connect these phenomena to your point of view at once. You selfish fellow, don't you think this is stupid , irresponsible behavior?"

"I do not think so." "Once I make a mistake, I will take responsibility!" Suzue's passionate words disappeared, but after they disappeared, there was a gloomy look. "Understood." "Okay. Since the chief has no special instructions, we don't think it's necessary to urge the Central Bird and Beast Council to be held. Hunting administration will continue as usual. If the number of rats really increases, the forestry department will take care of it. It's a pity that unless you The predicted billions of rats, or you'll slap yourself in the mouth. Billions of rats? That's never going to happen! If it happens, it's the realm of myth. You sucker, now got it?"

"I'm sorry, please forgive me." Okita turned and backed away. Okita returned to his chair and smoked, with mixed emotions of anger and fear, which was a complicated mood.Will rat swarms really appear?He was suspicious.I thought to myself, Suzue's statement was also reasonable, because he got instructions from the chief and got in touch with the Forestry Office.I heard that the distribution area of ​​rodent damage coincides with the larch seed setting area, because that is the figure shown in the statistics, so it cannot be denied based on this alone. ——However, what is the reason for the abnormal reproduction and eastward migration of birds and animals? As rodents multiply, so do their natural enemies.The seeding of larch and other trees must be said to be one of the causes of abnormal reproduction.but.This alone does not provide a reason for the eastward migration. "Only to go to the scene to investigate!" Okita muttered.He was increasingly disturbed, maybe I was self-righteous, he thought, the sudden and dramatic multiplication of endangered birds and beasts, the root cause of which could not be understood.Perhaps, I swallowed Dr. You Chuan's theory of bamboo blossoming.Thinking of this, Okita's fear deepened.Deep in his fearful heart, the words his wife said still sounded.The wife talked about the essence of her character. Isn't this character incapable of self-control?