fictionpage #109 - Chapter 109: Rat Extermination
#109 - Chapter 109: Rat Extermination
Of course, there were also unlucky ones who got bitten by rats in the middle of the night and had to scramble to find someone to borrow a rubber dinghy to rush to the hospital.
Soon, Li Ming began broadcasting the message: "Attention all survivors, this is Zhongxing Commerce, and we are now issuing an important notice.
According to tests conducted by our Zhongxing Commerce's equipment, the meat of mutant rats is not poisonous in itself, but the rats carry a large number of viruses and bacteria, which can easily cause infectious diseases. Therefore, we do not recommend that you eat rats privately.
Starting today, the Zhongxing Commerce market will send people by boat to various residential areas every day to collect rats. Each rat can be exchanged for two one-jin cans of rat meat.
You can also use these dead rats to exchange for integral tickets or other supplies!"
This news drove countless survivors crazy, after all, how long has it been since everyone had eaten canned meat? When was the last time they ate meat?
Now that there is a safe way to eat meat, many people naturally won't eat rats anymore, but instead form rat-catching teams to start clearing out these rats and then exchange the rats for canned goods.
Of course, some people think that since rats can be eaten, they must seize the opportunity to catch more and store them, lest they be snatched by others.
For the survivors, most of them would not consider trading rats with Zhongxing Commerce, after all, this rat looks like it weighs a full fourteen or five jins. Even if you remove the head and various internal organs, at least half of the meat will be left, which is seven or eight jins.
Everyone knows very well which is more, seven or eight jins of meat or two boxes of one-jin cans.
It's not even enough for themselves to eat!
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At this time, Li Ming was also discussing rat-catching team measures at the headquarters base. Li Ming took the lead and said, "Everyone, now rats are rampant, and everyone knows that rats can spread many diseases."
"Especially now that these rats have grown up eating corpses or garbage, the number of bacteria on these rats will only be more than before. If the scale of rats is not controlled, there is a high probability that a terrible infectious disease like plague will break out."
"The hospital has already admitted several cases of plague infection due to rat bites, so we must make some preparations in advance. On the one hand, we must increase publicity, and on the other hand, we must establish our own rat-catching team and use our high-performance rat traps to capture a large number of rats."
"We must know that the Western Holy Continent in history almost had its entire population die from the plague, so the nightmares of the Western Holy Continent that year are very likely to be repeated. The Black Death is very terrifying!"
Li Ming's words made everyone present take it seriously. Obviously, everyone knew that this thing was also a Class A infectious disease recognized by several major countries on the entire planet, alongside cholera. Once it cannot be controlled, it will be a huge disaster.
At this time, Minister Zheng of the Intelligence Department said, "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, according to the latest report from our intelligence department, organized rat-catching teams have begun to appear all over the country. This group of people helps residents deploy rat extermination for free, but the condition is that all the rats they catch are taken away!"
Li Ming frowned upon hearing this news. Damn it, these people are so confident that they can wipe out the rats and control the rat plague that they are stealing business from him?
"Commander-in-Chief, according to our tests, our improved rat trap has high work efficiency and can attract all the rats within a radius of 250 meters and then make them faint. It is ready to be put into use!" The representative of the scientific research department said.
Li Ming stood up, "Immediately dispatch troops to form a rat-catching team and carry out rat extermination work across the country. Controlling the outbreak of infectious diseases is the top priority!"
"Yes!"
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Soon, the rat-catching team established by Li Ming quickly dispatched and drove speedboats to carry out rat extermination work near every residential area in the city.
Their approach is also very simple, that is, to directly turn on the equipment, and then the equipment will emit something like ultrasonic waves, automatically attracting rats. It is similar to the principle of cats being attracted to catnip.
When the rat exterminator really starts to work, it will emit sound waves to stimulate the rat's brain, causing the rat's sympathetic nerves to be excited, thereby entering a hallucination, and finally making the rat's body movements become more sluggish, completely falling into a coma!
Li Ming's rat-catching team quickly negotiated with the residents of various residential areas. Their rat-catching team can help exterminate rats, but 60% of the captured rats must be taken away. Many residents also agreed to these practices.
The first place Li Ming's rat-catching team dispatched to was their own market. These markets have a lot of supplies, which will naturally attract rats. At this time, because there are people in the market, the rats do not dare to enter on a large scale, but they have already lurked well.
The rat-catching team quickly found the location, connected the storage battery, and then started the rat exterminator. After the rat exterminator was turned on, it emitted a slight buzzing sound.
Animals' ability to perceive sound is far beyond that of humans. Within a radius of 250 meters with the rat exterminator as the center, five minutes after the rat exterminator started working, large rats rushed straight to the rat exterminator.
These rats kept spinning around the rat exterminator, making squeaking sounds.
Soon, the movements of some rats were like being drunk, their eyes full of intoxication, and finally they fell headfirst.
At this time, rats were still swimming in the flood, and like their companions, they finally swayed and fell down.
With the rat exterminator turned on, in less than half an hour, about 600 fat rats in and around the first market became the spoils of the rat-catching team and were directly wiped out.
Then, these thousands of jins of rats were sent to Li Ming's specially established initial processing workshop. These initial processing workers were temporary workers recruited by Li Ming, with a salary of 5 integral tickets per person per day, including lunch, and the salary was settled daily.
Soon these rats began to undergo a round of ultraviolet irradiation, then were skinned, and then had their heads and internal organs removed. Then they began to enter the next workshop and undergo another ultraviolet irradiation, everything was like an assembly line.
Finally, these initially processed rats began to be packed into foam boxes with preservation capabilities and then transferred to Li Ming's base for further processing.
After these rats were sent to Li Ming's food processing plant, they would be treated with multiple high-temperature sterilization technologies, and then the rat meat would be processed in various ways. Some were directly made into one-jin cans of rat meat.
Some were........