Homo sapiens

Chapter 325
the other side of the earth.

distant South America.

The vast Brazilian plateau and the La Plata plain.

AMD, Bunge, and Cargill in ABCD teamed up and invested 30 billion US dollars in research funds, and finally selected more than a dozen varieties with better disease resistance from some wild soybean varieties, and transgenic these varieties remodel.

With the arrival of spring in the southern hemisphere, it is time for soybean planting.

These genetically modified varieties, which were previously tested on a small scale in North America, were very effective against bean mold.

Therefore, ABCD can't wait to promote planting in the Brazilian Plateau and the La Plata Great Plain. The Brazilian Plateau was planted in early September, while the La Plata Great Plain was planted at the end of September.

After more than a month of growth, the soybean seedlings in the Brazilian plateau have grown very well.

Bergman, the manager of AMD in charge of the South American business, took a dozen of his subordinates to the soybean field to check in person.

Bergman pushed aside a few bean sprouts, looked at the condition of the leaves, and found that there were no spots, so he was relieved.

Anthony, an expert in genetically modified agriculture, said with a smile: "Mr. Manager, you have to trust our technology, there will definitely be no problem this time."

Bergman was noncommittal, as if he didn't want to plant the flag, but continued to immerse himself in checking the growth of the bean sprouts.

Suddenly, a brown bug jumped onto his shoulder.

Huh?Bergman subconsciously caught the bug.

It was a brown locust. His expression changed, and he quickly asked, "Hook! How big are the locusts here?"

Hook, who is in charge of managing the surrounding 50 mu of soybean fields, was taken aback for a moment, and then replied, "I haven't received reports from workers that there are locusts."

Bergman roared very angrily: "Fack squid! Hurry up and send it to investigate."

"OK! OK!" Hook hurriedly picked up his mobile phone, called his subordinates, and sent someone to check the situation of the locusts.

……

the other side.

The three-leaf oak is in a secret stronghold in the Brazilian plateau.

Fendi Fernando, head of the South America region of the Department of Field Service, is playing with a locust.

Provided with pheromone induction, he easily controlled the locusts.

"It is reported that 37 pheromone control stations have released locust reproductive pheromones."

Hearing this, Fendi Fernando narrowed his eyes, and instantly crushed the locust to death: "Hehe, ABCD, I'm going to crush you to death this time."

He casually threw the locust into the auxiliary digestive pouch on his back.

The South American branch of the Department of Field Service is arguably on the most dangerous front line, fighting against the black ships and America's henchmen almost every day.

Therefore, the members of the Field Service Department here are equipped with various auxiliary equipment, such as auxiliary digestive sacs, which allow the agents of the Field Service Department to maintain their lives by eating grass and insects in the tropical rainforest.

After suffering so much, Fendi Fernando has long wanted to make a big deal.

Since it has already made an article on bean mold before, the Field Service Department will naturally not use the same method to do it again.

If she continued to use bean mold to do things, no matter how slow America was, she would still notice the problem.

Therefore, Fendi Fernando and a group of senior executives of the South American branch, after research and discussion, formulated another inconspicuous but very efficient method-locusts.

Since last year, Fendi and the others have been secretly planning to induce locusts to lay a large number of eggs in the forests and wastelands around the agricultural area through pheromone induction. These eggs are hidden underground.

Now it's finally time for the eggs to hatch.

37 pheromone induction stations are activated synchronously, releasing special pheromones in all directions.

In South America in October, the temperature and air humidity are suitable for the growth of locusts. Once induced by pheromones, they immediately hide in the soil, and hundreds of millions of eggs begin to hatch.

Almost at the same time, the eggs hatched.

The overwhelming locusts quickly killed the fresh and juicy corn fields and soybean fields.

……

Bergman, who was still investigating in the field, saw more and more locusts around him, and his face turned black.

And Hook at the side was even more anxious and kept making phone calls.

Dr. Brownie, an expert in biological control, also frowned:
"Mr. Manager, according to this scale, there are at least hundreds of millions of locusts in the surrounding area. The insecticide must be arranged as soon as possible, otherwise the soybean seedlings here will be eaten clean, and the breeding speed of these locusts is very fast."

However, before Bergman could speak, the phone rang, and he glanced at the number: "Hello, Jamie, what's the matter?"

A hurried voice immediately came from the other side of the phone: "Mr. Manager, locust plague! A large-scale locust plague in Bahia."

"What? Are there locust plagues over there too?"

"Also? Manager, do locust plagues appear in other places?"

"I'm in the state of Sao Paulo right now, and a large-scale locust plague has broken out here. You should quickly use pesticide planes to spray pesticides."

"I have already arranged, but the locusts are very large, I'm afraid..."

The two communicated for a few minutes, and after hanging up the phone, another call came.

Within half an hour, Bergman answered seven calls, all from the heads of farms in the highlands of Brazil.

The contents of the reports are highly consistent, and they are all about locust plagues.

……

A pesticide plane flew past slowly at low altitude, spraying large areas of pesticides along the way.

However, the agents of the Field Service Department hidden in the surrounding forests are regulating the pheromones, so that the locusts can quickly avoid the pesticide planes and reduce the number of insecticides.

At the same time, another agent controls some locusts, hiding in the mountains, forests and wilderness, instead of attacking agricultural areas, but desperately eating and laying eggs.

After all, ABCD is not a fool, they will definitely spray pesticides on a large scale to suppress the spread of locusts.

At this time, the part of the locusts hidden in the mountains and wilderness needs to be used as the Zerg barracks to continuously produce new locusts.

Sure enough, with the passage of time, ABCD's local branch quickly sprayed pesticides on a large scale, which greatly suppressed the spread and destruction of locusts.

However, behind this battle between humans and insects, Homo sapiens provided tactical guidance to the locusts behind the scenes.

Many locusts do not gather in agricultural areas at all, but cover all areas, including cities, residential areas, forests, wilderness, wetlands and the like.

This has brought serious troubles to ABCD's insecticide operations. After all, farmland can be sprayed with pesticides at will, but residential areas and forests cannot be sprayed with pesticides at will.

So a very fatal situation arises.

When ABCD sprayed insecticides, the number of locusts in the agricultural area dropped rapidly in the first day or two, but soon the locusts in the surrounding areas replenished.

The more frightening thing is that some locusts have begun to develop drug resistance, and the effect of low-toxicity insecticides is getting worse and worse.

In the branch office building in Brasilia, Bergman watched the locusts killing the whole Brazilian plateau every day, and he almost collapsed.

Those loss reports made everyone in the South American branch cast a shadow that was hard to get rid of.

Just as Bergman and the headquarters were discussing how to solve the problem of the locust plague in South America.

His secretary hastily opened the office door.

"Hoo hoo...Mr. Manager, there is an urgent report from La Plata."

Bergman's eyes widened: "Have the locusts spread over there?"

The secretary's expression was a little lingering: "Yes, and the scale is very large. The La Plata branch has tried its best to organize the killing of pesticide planes, but the effect is very poor."

"Damn it!" Bergman slumped down, staring blankly at the map of South America on the wall.

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