Chapter 19 third quarter

"It's so quiet!" After the cup was placed, Qu Yuan sighed. "Well." Okita Katsuyoshi replied vaguely. This is a bar in Kofu City.Perhaps because of the early time, there were only two guests in the bar, Chong Tian and Qu Yuan. What Qu Yuan said was quiet did not refer to the bar but to the rats.Twelve days have passed since the press conference held by the Baizhou Township Office.The rodent countermeasures frontline headquarter was moved to the county office in Kofu City, Okita stayed here as a resident staff, the forestry office and the environmental office each sent two lower-level staff, and five staff from the prefecture, a total of ten people, directed The power was transferred to the county governor to take over.

The First Division of the Ground Self-Defense Force also sent a squadron of 200 people from the General Division to temporarily live in the Yamanashi Gymnasium, equipped with 20 cars and two helicopters. Persuaded by the county governor, the villages in the mountains are improving their self-defense measures. After that, I just waited for the rats to appear. The swarm of rats never showed their faces and didn't even move at all. "Could they all be wiped out?" Qu Yuan asked worriedly. "How can it be?" Okita shook his head lightly and said. Qu Yuan: "But, isn't this state very strange? If you want to move out, why is there no movement for a while. It's not because of the medicine. By the way, that Nakagawa Kohei..."

Okita: "But two days after a large amount of medicine was administered, there was a heavy rain. How can it be eliminated?" Nakagawa Kohei is very active.He didn't know the news that the medicine was collected by the Forestry Department, so he refused the minister's persuasion.Nakagawa is an expert in rodent repellent. He foresees the period when the rodent infestation will occur, so he prepares the medicine in advance.It makes you have to acknowledge his astute businessman, not blame him. Nakagawa Kohei signed a contract with Yamanashi Prefecture, and after turning the corner, he signed a contract with the Forestry Agency.Ten helicopters and an American-made light aircraft were rented, and it was planned to release 2,000 tons of catalysts and zinc phosphide in the vast central mountainous area.Two days after the first 1,000 tons were released, it rained heavily.

As soon as the fish is touched, the catalyst is gone, and so is the zinc phosphide.It might kill a few million rats, but overall it's a drop in the bucket.In short, it can be said to be equal to zero. Even if it doesn't rain, one or two thousand tons of medicine will not be of much use in the vast area of ​​the entire central mountainous area.In order to completely eradicate the rat colony, hundreds of thousands of tons of rodenticide must be injected, which is simply impossible.If possible, due to the deposition of these agents, it will undoubtedly damage the ecosystem, and the harm to humans after a few decades will be immeasurable.

"If this state continues for ten days and a half months, the economy of Yamanashi County will collapse." Qu Yuan was restless waiting for the rats to appear. People throughout Yamanashi Prefecture are restless.Food prices are skyrocketing because people are hoarding like crazy.According to the newspaper, it will take two to three years for the rat colony of more than two billion to be eradicated naturally.During this period, the arable land was looted and not a single blade of grass was left.People, anticipating this grim spectacle, withdrew their savings and hoarded food. Not only that, no one went to the fields for fear of the unexpected appearance of rats.Even if he went out, he would at most go to the vegetable garden near the door of his house, and give up other affairs.Go far away, once attacked by rats, there is no escape.Therefore, it is not unreasonable to hide at home.

The vegetable market is out of control, and vegetable prices are doubling every day.Forestry came to a standstill, and lumber prices rose sharply.No one went to the mountains, the hot spring hotels were closed, and there were no tourists. The county's economic situation has deteriorated sharply. Although the swarm of rats remained silent, they would suddenly attack people violently at some point. "But, the enemy is a mouse, and we probably have no way to drive it out." Okita had already drank three cups. Qu Yuan: "I always feel that this is a matter of thunder and rain. Rapidly proliferating creatures are quickly extinct. This is a natural law. That's it, and the same is true for locusts. Even if locusts and the like appear together with ditch rats, in the final analysis , is a short life phenomenon. For example, from the 10th to the 11th year of the Showa era, when the bamboos in the Hakone area bloomed and set seeds. The explosively multiplied mice entered the water in Luhu Lake and all drowned themselves. In the eighth year of Tianbao in ancient times, in today’s Nagano There are tens of millions of rats that rotted in the Oguro River on the outskirts of Iida City in the prefecture. Rats multiplied rapidly or overproliferated, and in most cases they committed mass suicide by throwing them into rivers or lakes. The most famous in the world is the Rats, every few years, tens of millions of them jump into the Atlantic Ocean from the west of Norway to commit suicide collectively. This is probably where the word comes from. All in all, creatures that are rapidly over-proliferating must die out rapidly. This is God will."

Okita: "I don't believe in any gods..." Qu Yuan: "Yeah, because the Shen family died out a long time ago. Well, even if that's the case. But I read a few books by Dr. Youchuan, and it doesn't say that the pregnant mole (little Does the house mouse give birth as soon as it smells the smell of other mice? When a mouse proliferates explosively in a geometric form, it also psychologically hates the proliferation of its kind, because if it reproduces too much, there will be no food. Therefore, it is very anxious , due to anxiety, the adrenaline will be exhausted, the adrenal glands will be exhausted, and death is inevitable. The same is true for humans, due to excessive population growth, they will always be psychologically anxious. Recently, if the heart beats prematurely, adrenaline is used... All of these, One goes up and down the other. In short, I think that those rats are also extremely anxious, so they jumped into a deep mountain lake somewhere, and quietly committed suicide collectively."

"Poetic imagination!" Okita said with a smile: "It is said that a long time ago, no one knew who had read the penguin's epitaph: On the shore of a lake somewhere in Antarctica, there stood an old penguin, staring intently at the penguin. Soon, it lowered its head and walked crookedly into the lake. The lake water is transparent. At the bottom of the lake, it seems to see itself overlapped with the eternal penguin." Qu Yuan: "Penguins are different from mice. Because of proliferation, they attack human society everywhere? Think about it, what a poor and weak creature this is, and the conflict with human society is an accidental event. Originally, the balance between organisms and species is maintained, and their own lives can be cut off through collective suicide. This is the fate of explosive multiplication of animals. If this is not the case, bamboos have bloomed in the past, and rats have also experienced explosive growth. Proliferation, the story of the cruel battle between humans and mice should be left behind. It seems that such a battle has not happened now. Therefore, those mice also quietly lived in unknown mountain lakes during the outbreak Group suicide... Anyway, this is like forcing Dr. Youchuan, who resigned in anger after a crushing defeat, into a corner. Although this is very bad, I think Dr. Youchuan's statement may be wrong. The so-called The arrogance of the world rat authority..."

"No, probably not as you said." Okita interrupted Qu Yuan gently, and he said: "In the past, there was a phenomenon of tissue flowering, and there was also an explosive proliferation of rats, which is just as recorded in materials and ancient books. However, there was no cruel slaughter with human society, because all the voles appeared at that time were docile and weak. The voles had little power at that time, they lived around people's houses, and they competed for houses Therefore, it is called the house mouse. Now the house mouse has been expelled from most areas in Japan, from the city to the suburbs, and then to the mountains, so that their range of activities has expanded. Their alias is called oil-scratching rats The so-called scraping oil refers to tax collectors. It is said that they got their name because they are harsh and merciless in plundering food. The ditch rat that appeared this time is the former house mouse. If it wasn't for the ditch rat, it probably wouldn't have attacked Humans and domestic animals. Maybe they will commit suicide quietly as you said. All the mice you mentioned just now were buried in Xiaoheichuan, and the mice that jumped into the Luhu Lake are all voles. I It’s not to protect Dr. You Chuan, but I don’t think the matter is over here. The ditch mouse is not the kind of mouse worthy of praise.”

"It's really not a mouse worthy of praise..." Qu Yuan recalled the scene when he was attacked at the beginning, even though there was only one ditch mouse left, it dared to climb up the tree to eat people openly.Also, there are indeed fourteen men and women who have turned into bones... "In this way, two guests..." Hearing their conversation, the young waiter interjected: "It is said that in Niozaki City, about four days ago, a big ditch mouse chased the house cat, and the house cat issued a sound. Terrible screams and desperate fleeing. The local newspapers have published it."

"Really! What did you say?" Qu Yuan asked in surprise. "Really, sir, are you from the Countermeasures Headquarters?" "Yes, but..." "It's really dark under the lampstand!" The waiter said with a smile. "Recently, the number of rats in the city has increased sharply, so constipation has also increased." "Huh? Rats and constipation..." "It has a lot to do with it! A housewife just got on the urinal, and her place was bitten by a mouse. I heard that the ditch mouse hides in the U-shaped pipe, and when the time comes, it will come out of the urinal pipe. Word came from the hospital that the number of women suffering from constipation has increased dramatically. It's really disturbing!" "Oh, the U-tube..." Waiter: "Maybe it crawled over from the feet and back? Because the lid of the toilet pool in this place seems to be very heavy." "Then I don't know." Qu Yuan fell silent.I patronize and pay attention to the movements of the rats, but ignore the news around me. Waiter: "Then, don't you two know about the influx of pigs into the city?" "hunter?" "My hometown is on the outskirts of Nirazaki City. It seems that dozens of hunters have been entering the city every day." "What are they going to fight?" It was Okita who asked. "Watch rats! Because we are a group of people hunting, as long as they are living things, I am afraid they will kill anything. It is said that they use ten-gauge shotguns, and there are thousands of bullets in one shot. They boasted that , Defeating 100,000 to 200,000 rats is no problem for us. Several of them are organized together and are searching for rats." "Dangerous! Do that." Okita looked at Qu Yuan with uneasy eyes.

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