Author: Huozhongwu

Deng Tao: "I'm rushing there with the armed police right now. Those who have enough fighting power can still hold on for a while. You are closest to the cotton spinning factory. I implore you to go immediately to support. Help.

People in the county guard this substation! It's going to be night soon, and the power must not be cut off! Otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous! I suspect that the rats in the wild are planning a bigger offensive. Once the lights are turned off due to a power outage, the whole county will be plunged into darkness.

, the rats will immediately launch a general attack!"

"Okay! I understand!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhou You turned to look at Gao Jianguo and said, "I know the reason."

Seeing his extremely solemn expression, Gao Jianguo asked nervously: "What's wrong?"

Zhou You: "That team has been sacrificed. Now the main substation of the county is being besieged by a swarm of thousands of rats. The rats are probably planning a large-scale offensive against the county. Once they capture the substation, most of the county will be destroyed."

There will be a power outage in the city, and there are at least seven resettlement sites for 10,000 people there, as well as several small and medium-sized resettlement sites. The rats will take action tonight. The lives of at least 60,000 people will be threatened."

"The previous action team that was supposed to come here for rescue... has basically been sacrificed on the reconnaissance front line. Only one person escaped by using a single-person airship that took off in time and passed the information back in advance. The remaining personnel at the substation could

We turned on the anti-theft power grid in time and temporarily blocked the first wave of attacks by the rats, but the situation is still very dangerous now."

When brothers Gao Jianguo and Gao Zhanying heard this, they were stunned.

The original resentment in their eyes disappeared in an instant, and they only felt deeply how insignificant an individual's destiny was under the torrent of the times.

The Gao brothers choked up.

"Mr. Zhou... I'm sorry, I was too selfish." Gao Zhanying wiped the tears from his eyes, "Those brothers are not scum, I... I was wrong."

Zhou You sighed, "It's okay. You don't have to apologize in front of me. This is all their job, and they have done their duty. They have their jobs, and we have ours. It's not easy for everyone. Maybe it will be our turn sometime.

Until we die, you can go underground and apologize to them face to face."

The Gao brothers and others were silent for a while, and then nodded heavily.

Zhou You: "Remember, everyone, including me, must be mentally prepared to sacrifice. If we choose to become warriors, we must not be greedy for life and fear death, and we must never think that others can die but we cannot die.

Now you all know how complex and terrifying the evolution of rats is. If all warriors are afraid of death, then what awaits us will be the annihilation of our species."

When saying this, Zhou You also thought about a question in his mind.

In the past, he was indeed worried more than once that rats in rural areas would gather to launch an all-out attack on the townships.

This premonition was especially obvious after the battle in the clubhouse last night, so when cousin Yin Xiuwen asked for help this morning, Zhou Youcai immediately arranged for his uncle to lead a team back home to pick him up immediately.

But what Zhou You didn't expect was that the rats were not targeting just towns, but county towns.

Perhaps the mice felt that the human population in towns and villages was too scattered and the gains from a single operation were too small.

Or maybe the rats calculated their own numbers and the situation of humans, and decided that they could take over the county in one fell swoop and cause heavy damage to humans.

Anyway, that's how they came.

They have indeed struck the vital point of mankind with one punch.

There was no time to collect the complete corpses of the grandfather and grandson, so they could only pick up as many as they could. Zhou You and others immediately returned to the Langya No. 2 airship and took off.

When I first started traveling around, I remembered something.

He was not sure whether Lelai County Government reported the matter to his superiors, but he immediately relayed the news to Huayin through WeChat, hoping to continue reporting it through the national laboratory and warn the whole country.

At this time, Zhou You even sincerely hoped that the rats in Lelai County would be more different, preferably the fastest evolving rats in the country or even the world.

In this case, even if Lelai County is in a difficult situation, at least other areas will not collapse and will naturally have the opportunity to wait for reinforcements.

What if rats in countless counties across the country all agreed to launch a raid on county-level substations tonight?

The consequences are unimaginable.

The airship had just flown less than a mile when Zhou You and others took advantage of their height to see the direction of the substation.

There were literally thousands of rats there.

If there were thousands of people with past body types, the scene would look very shocking if the number reached several thousand.

But it was a mouse after all, and it was a bit far away at this time. With the light of the setting sun after six o'clock in the afternoon, all I could see was a dark "dust" flowing around the substation.

But his intuition told Zhou You that this was definitely not the entire number of rats.

He raised his phone and pointed it downwards, turned on the fifty-fold optical and digital zoom, and scanned other areas.

He was trying to find the rats that might be hiding in the dark, waiting to launch a city-wide raid as soon as the substation was captured.

Sure enough, when I was wandering around the third-floor workshop of an abandoned cotton mill next to the substation, I saw a row of rats squatting there, staring in the direction of the substation.

I just don't know whether these rats are sentinels or ambushes.

How many ambushes were there in that cotton mill?

Zhou You then used the 50x zoom on his phone to scan other surrounding areas.

He discovered something again.

Indeed, there are many rats that are constantly groping towards the abandoned cotton mill along the shadows along the roadside, in ditches, factory boiler steam pipes, corners and other places.

These new rats completely ignored the fighting at the substation, and instead all gathered in the abandoned area of ​​the cotton spinning mill.

Obviously, the commander of the Rat Army has determined that the substation can be finally captured.

And it also used its brain, which may not be particularly bright at this moment, but is cunning enough from an animal perspective, to formulate a plan.

That is to send only a small number of troops to capture key areas to lower human vigilance, and then concentrate the real large forces in the dark to wait for the opportunity to fight.

The real gathering place of the rat army is the cotton mill.

The reason why the rats must gather before taking action must be that the rat kings in the wild must get together to discuss, reach a consensus, select the real highest commander, and make it easier to issue orders to the entire rat group.

But it is obvious that the mice that have just gained wisdom have underestimated the war wisdom of humans who have been fighting internal wars for at least 10,000 years.

No strategists or generals were needed. Even a junior brother like Zhou You came up with the idea immediately after using high-altitude observation and the zoom function of his mobile phone to gain intelligence advantages.

He immediately called Deng Tao,

Zhou You asked Deng Tao to immediately contact the gas station or other units, and they must get one or several tank trucks filled with gasoline as soon as possible.

If you want to light up the night, you have to use fire.

The mouse thought that dividing the troops into two places could slightly deceive the humans, but he failed to think of the current information and reconnaissance advantages of the humans, and did not consider that the so-called division of the troops would only create opportunities for humans to concentrate on annihilating their true main force.

In addition to the oil tankers, Zhou You also asked Deng Tao to mobilize all the air power currently available in the county, and to have each of the one-man airships carry at least one empty mineral water bottle.

In addition, Zhou You also told Deng Tao that all high-speed maneuvering forces using drones must be equipped with fire arrows that are not easy to extinguish.

In fact, there was no need for Zhou You to explain it in such detail. When Deng Tao knew that other rats were gathering in large numbers in the abandoned cotton spinning factory, he had already figured out most of the idea.

After hanging up the phone with Deng Tao, Zhou You asked Gao Zhanying to continue pointing the airship's direction toward the power distribution station.

Now, he had to pretend that he hadn't discovered the ambush inside the cotton mill yet.

The remaining soldiers responsible for providing human assistance were pedaling the pedals with all their strength, like hot wheels.

At this time, the airship is flying very fast, almost one and a half meters per second, which is approximately 18 kilometers per hour. It only takes another hundred seconds to arrive.

Standing in front of the airship cockpit, Zhou You stared at the substation, but he was habitually making calculations in his mind.

In the past, scientists once estimated the total number of rodents on the earth and came to a relatively rough conclusion.

The total number of rats in the world may be 15 billion, or it may be 10 billion.

Regarding the question of how many rats there are in the world, Zhou You, who always likes to think the worst about things, chose to believe in the larger number and consider it even worse.

However, the distribution of rats is not uniform. For example, in high latitudes with colder climates, the number of rats is much smaller.

In some humid areas, with abundant vegetation, more rain, and angiosperms such as rice and corn growing better, the distribution of rats is much denser.

It is said that the total number of rats in India alone has reached 5 billion, accounting for one-third of the total number of rats in the world.

As for the domestic population, the total number of rodents is approximately 3 billion, accounting for one-fifth of the world's total rodent population.

The number of rats does not seem scary. After all, the earth is so large and the rats are so small.

You know, as a large mammal, the total population of humans is approaching or even reaching 7.6 billion.

But, this was just before.

In the past, rats were under the absolute suppression of humans and natural enemies in various biological worlds. They relied on their super fecundity, super adaptability, super vitality and super omnivorous characteristics to eat anything.

The lower bottom position in the food chain maintains the number of more than 10 billion monomers.

It’s not that mice can’t give birth to more mice, but that the ecological balance naturally evolved by the earth’s ecological environment controls the number of mouse populations.

Just like a certain part of hormones or a certain type of cells in a healthy human body can always only be within a relatively fixed number range, the same principle applies.

In the past tense, if rats reproduced in large numbers in a short period of time, or if a large number of rats were suddenly thrown into a new environment with a low density of rats, the situation would evolve as follows:

In the short term, the rats will live a prosperous life.

However, as the number of rats increases, natural enemy animals such as hawks, cats, snakes, weasels, and even wild dogs and wolves, which use rats as their food source, will also gain better physical fitness due to more plentiful food.

The high cub survival rate and faster breeding frequency have driven the population number to increase again.

When the number of natural enemies rises to a new level, it will inevitably suppress the crazy reproduction of rats.

At the same time, too many rats will inevitably lead to the reduction of other plants, small animals, insects and other resources that they regard as food.
To be continued...