Chapter 324: Gaga Killing
The other side of the earth.
Far away in South America.
The vast Brazilian plateau and the La Plata Plain.
AMD, Bunge and Cargill from ABCD joined forces and invested $3 billion in research funds. They finally selected a dozen varieties with better disease resistance from some wild soybean varieties and genetically modified them.
With the arrival of spring in the southern hemisphere, it is time to plant soybeans.
These genetically modified varieties had previously been tested on a small scale in North America and showed very good resistance to bean mold.
Therefore, ABCD could not wait to promote planting in the Brazilian Plateau and the Great Plains of La Plata. Planting started in the Brazilian Plateau in early September, while planting started in the Great Plains of La Plata in late September.
After more than a month of growth, the soybean seedlings on the Brazilian plateau are growing very well.
Bergman, the AMD manager in charge of South American business, took a dozen of his subordinates to the soybean fields to check on the situation.
Bergman pushed aside a few bean sprouts and looked at the condition of the leaves. He felt relieved when he found no spots.
Anthony, a genetically modified agriculture expert, said with a smile: "Mr. Manager, you have to trust our technology. There will definitely be no problem this time."
Bergman did not comment, as if he did not want to raise the flag, and continued to check the growth of the bean sprouts.
Suddenly, a brown bug jumped onto his shoulder.
Huh? Bergman grabbed the bug subconsciously.
This is a brown locust. His face changed and he quickly asked: "Hook! How big is the locust here?"
Hook, who is in charge of managing 500,000 mu of soybean fields in the surrounding area, was stunned for a moment, then replied: "I have not received any reports from workers about locusts."
Bergman roared angrily, "Fuck it! Send them to investigate immediately."
"OK! OK!" Hook hurriedly picked up his phone, called his subordinates, and sent people to the surrounding area to check the situation of the locusts.
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The other side.
The three-leaved oak is in a secret stronghold on the Brazilian plateau.
Fundy Fernando, the field director for South America, plays with a locust.
Providing pheromone induction, he easily controlled the locusts.
"Report: 37 pheromone control stations have released locust breeding pheromones."
Hearing this, Fendi Fernando narrowed his eyes and instantly crushed the locust to death: "Haha, ABCD, I'm going to crush you to death this time."
He casually threw the locusts into the auxiliary digestive sac behind him.
The South American branch of the Field Affairs Department can be said to be on the most dangerous front line, fighting with the black ships and America's lackeys almost every day.
Therefore, the members of the field department here are equipped with various auxiliary equipment, such as auxiliary digestive sacs, which allow the agents of the field department to survive in the tropical rainforest by eating grass and insects.
After going through so much hardship, Fenty Fernando had long wanted to make something big.
Since they had already dealt with bean mold disease, the Field Support Department would naturally not use the same tactics again .
If we continue to use bean mold to cause trouble, even if America is slow, it will notice the problem.
Therefore, after research and discussion, Fundy Fernando and a group of senior executives of the South American branch developed another inconspicuous but very effective method - locusts.
Since last year, Fendi and his team have been secretly planning to use pheromones to induce locusts to lay large numbers of eggs in the mountains and wastelands around agricultural areas. These eggs are hidden underground.
Now it's finally time for these eggs to hatch.
37 pheromone induction stations were activated simultaneously, 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 locusts covered the sky and quickly moved towards the juicy corn and soybean fields.
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Bergman, who was still investigating in the field, looked at the increasing number of locusts around him and his face turned black.
Hook, who was standing by, was extremely anxious and kept making phone calls.
Dr. Brownie, a biological control expert, also frowned:
"Mr. Manager, based on this scale, there are at least hundreds of millions of locusts in the surrounding areas. We must arrange for pest control as soon as possible, otherwise all the soybean seedlings here will be eaten up. Moreover, these locusts reproduce very quickly."
However, before Bergman could say anything, his cell phone rang. He looked at the number and said, "Hello, Jamie, what's up?"
An urgent voice came from the other end of the line: "Mr. Manager, locust plague! A large-scale locust plague in Bahia."
"What? There's a locust plague over there, too?"
"Also? Manager, are there locust plagues in other places as well?"
"I am now in Sao Paulo State. A large-scale locust plague has broken out here. Please use pesticide aircraft to spray insecticides as soon as possible."
"I have made arrangements, but the locusts are so large, I am afraid..."
The two communicated for a few minutes, and after hanging up the phone, another call came in.
Bergman received seven calls in half an hour, all from farm managers in the Brazilian highlands.
The contents of the reports were highly consistent, all about locust plagues.
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A pesticide plane flew slowly at a low altitude, spraying large areas of pesticide along the way.
However, agents of the Field Force hidden in the surrounding mountains and forests are regulating pheromones to allow locusts to quickly avoid pesticide aircraft and reduce the number killed by pesticides.
At the same time, another agent controls a part of the locusts, hiding them in the mountains and wilderness. They do not attack agricultural areas, but instead eat food desperately and lay eggs.
After all, ABCD are not fools. They will definitely spray pesticides on a large scale to suppress the spread of locusts.
At this time, the locusts hiding in the mountains and wilderness are needed to serve as Zerg barracks and continuously produce new locusts.
Sure enough, as time went on, ABCD's local branch quickly sprayed pesticides on a large scale, greatly suppressing the spread and damage of locusts.
However, behind this war between humans and insects, the Homo Sapiens company provided tactical guidance to the locusts.
Many locusts do not gather in agricultural areas at all, but cover all areas, including cities, residential areas , mountains, forests, wilderness, wetlands, etc.
This has brought serious trouble to ABCD's pest control operations. After all, pesticides can be sprayed at will on farmland, but not in residential areas and forests.
This resulted in a very fatal situation.
After ABCD sprayed pesticides, the number of locusts in the agricultural areas dropped rapidly in the first one or two days, but was soon replenished by locusts from surrounding areas.
What is even more terrifying is that some locusts have begun to develop drug resistance, and the effectiveness of low-toxic insecticides has become increasingly poor.
Bergman was in the branch building in Brasilia, watching the locusts killing indiscriminately across the Brazilian plateau every day, and he was almost on the verge of collapse.
Those loss reports cast a heavy shadow over the hearts of everyone in the South American branch.
Just as Bergman was discussing with headquarters how to solve the locust plague in South America.
His secretary hastily opened the office door.
"Hoohoo...Mr. Manager, urgent report from La Plata."
Bergman's eyes widened: "The locusts have spread over there?"
The secretary looked a little frightened. “Yes, and the scale is very large. The La Plata branch has organized pesticide aircraft to kill them, but the effect is very poor.”
"Damn it!" Bergman collapsed and stared blankly at the map of South America on the wall.
