Three or four security personnel were wearing protective suits, and each of them was carrying a small box in their hands. Some of them looked like team doctors who ran onto the field to treat players during a football match.
I saw them walking in an orderly manner to the whiteboard covered with glue bait, carefully opening the box, turning it over and shaking it.
The next second.
A large black mass fell out of the box and landed on the ground with a clatter.
Due to the distance, it was difficult for Wang Mu and others to see clearly what the security personnel were pouring.
But that's okay.
The camera that was only four or five meters away from the whiteboard came into play at this time and clearly recorded the appearance of these falling objects:
What the security personnel shook off was none other than cockroaches!
There are about a thousand of these little cuties, they are lively and healthy, and they adapted to the environment immediately after landing.
A very small number of them did not take care of the gel bait at all due to stress.
Baji turned over and ran away quickly.
Most of the rest stayed where they were, happily eating the plastic bait.
The security personnel didn't pay attention to the cockroaches that ran away. The leader first made a gesture in a certain direction to indicate that his task was completed.
Then the group shook the insects off their bodies and quickly left the disinfecting point.
At first, there was nothing unusual about the cockroaches that had eaten the gel bait.
One of them just hid in the shade and started to freeze after the delicious food. It looked harmless to humans and animals.
But in the nearby command room, Xu Yun quietly clenched his fists.
The stage for a good show has been set up, and now the protagonist is waiting to appear.
at the same time.
Seeing that HKUST had taken action, various media front-ends quickly arranged for hosts and commentators to chat while watching the video.
The host sent by Sichuan Provincial Observation this time is called Chen Shanshan. She is not tall, looks very pure, and looks soft and soft.
After receiving the cameraman's action, Chen Shanshan first waved to the camera:
"Hello everyone, this is the commenting camera of Sichuan Province Observation. I am the host Chen Shanshan. If you want to see the perspectives of other cameras, you only need to swipe the screen to the right to choose!
As you can see, the staff of HKUST have officially started the disinfection work, and the whole process should be considered officially started.
Today we are also honored to have researcher Ouyang, an insect expert from the Tianfu Institute of Biology, to assist in the review. Researcher Ouyang, what do you think of the cockroach disinfecting at HKUST?"
The full name of Researcher Ouyang mentioned by Chen Shanshan is Ouyang Li. He is about fifty years old, with a round face and sparse hair.
In addition to his title of researcher, he is also the vice chairman of the Southern Sichuan Biopesticide Association.
He pondered for a few seconds and said:
"First of all, the live broadcast of the University of Science and Technology was very unexpected. The industry didn't hear anything about it, and it made big news without making any noise, so I personally still have a wait-and-see attitude towards the results of the eradication.
However, from a process perspective, there is nothing wrong with the current thinking of these staff members.
First, some live cockroaches are dumped to the disinfection point to be exposed to the poison, and then they are used as a generation of infected bodies to attract other cockroaches to the site, thereby achieving the purpose of spreading the poison.
This is also a commonly used method for large-scale disinfecting at present, but..."
"but what?"
"But this method takes a long time. It will take at least an hour to have any effect. In theory, it should not be able to achieve the situation in the original HKUST video..."
"Then you mean HKUST lied?"
"No, no, no, I'm just analyzing it from the perspective of insecticides and poisons."
Ouyang Li waved his hand quickly. This was not a critical review program, so naturally he would not leave anything behind.
However, perhaps because of the relationship between colleagues, Ouyang Li's attitude in his tone was still very obvious:
"Because the mechanism of nerve poisons is there and their target is nAchR, this takes time.
Just like when you run an 800-meter physical test, it takes five or six minutes for a slow person, and about three minutes for a fast person. It is impossible for a person to finish the whole distance in one minute..."
"Um, Researcher Ouyang, but it seems that HKUST really ran 800 meters in one minute..."
"That's why you say I'm a bitch..."
Ouyang Li was still talking eloquently. Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said to Chen Shanshan:
"Reporter Chen, what are you talking about?"
Chen Shanshan weakly pointed to the live broadcast screen of another camera next to her:
"Look at the video, it seems that some cockroaches have already reacted."
Ouyang Li quickly looked at the screen.
really.
As Chen Shanshan said, it can be clearly seen through the high-definition camera that several American cockroaches that have just landed have obvious physiological abnormalities.
I saw them swaying as if they were drunk, with their wings spread out, and you climbed on me and I climbed on yours, forming a stack of arhats.
As I was crawling, my feet suddenly slipped and I fell to the ground again.
Ouyang Li's pupils suddenly shrank.
As an industry insider engaged in biopesticides, how could he not know what this was going on?
This means that the cockroach has entered a state of excitement and there is a problem with neural regulation!
At this moment, only more than ten minutes had passed since the cockroaches were knocked out of the box.
A few more minutes passed.
Some of the cockroaches that looked wrong suddenly turned into cockroaches with a twist of their buttocks.
This passionate scene was completely recorded by a high-definition camera, and due to the simultaneous live broadcast, the studio could not mosaic it.
Ever since.
Netizens who were paying attention to this incident all over the Internet watched a cockroach movie for the first time in their lives.
Really strange knowledge has been added.
As for whether someone will awaken the Cockroach Girl's XP as a result, this is beyond the scope of Xu Yun and HKUST's expectations.
At the same time, with the appearance of this scene, the emotions of the entire live broadcast room were also aroused.
After all, more than ten minutes may seem very fast, but for the viewers in the live broadcast room, this is actually a quite boring waiting process.
At the same time, affected by emotions, opinions on the Internet have gradually begun to become polarized. This is clearly reflected in Wang Muyi's live broadcast room:
"Is this medicine given in advance? So fast?"
"It's really funny. You can't even fake it. The target of imidacloprid is the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. The agonist is 5-I-A-85380. The fastest theoretical attack time is no less than forty minutes or ten minutes. It works, it’s a ghost over here!”
"School of Liars, get lost!"
"I'm confused. Can't it be the breakthrough of technological progress and the breakthrough of technical barriers? It has to act on fixed receptors? It takes more than ten seconds to open a webpage in 3G. Don't you see how many times the improvement has been in 4G? According to you Now our troops still have to be made from Hanyang?"
"Chinese universities are deceiving people like this. How can they compare with others abroad?"
While Wang Muyi blocked some radical remarks, he also stared at the close-up high-definition live broadcast camera, feeling a little uneasy.
After all, there are specialties in the field of medicine, and a large part of his confidence in HKUST comes from his identity as a witness to the incident on the 14th. It is obviously impossible for him to explain the relevant technology by talking about it.
that's all.
Amid various heated discussions, another ten minutes passed.
When the time came to 11:13 in the morning.
East District Sports Ground, camera position No. 73.
The camera's perspective is from north to south. In addition to the whiteboard coated with glue bait, it also covers the side of another building. To be precise, it is a plastic pipe opening from the sixth floor to the ground.
At this moment, a pair of tiny tentacles slowly protruded from the mouth of the plastic water pipe and danced a few times in the air.
Immediately afterwards, a cockroach about three centimeters slowly emerged from it. Attracted by some substance that could not be seen clearly with the naked eye, it ran straight towards the whiteboard.
As if being pulled by a thin thread, this little cutie ran towards an excited cockroach with precise aim and did something indescribable.
The sharp-eyed Ouyang Li happened to see this scene, and as a professional, he immediately judged from the eggs on the tail of the cockroach in the picture that it was a female cockroach.
But what puzzled him was...
This female cockroach is chasing a female cockroach, and the two sides are in a great situation at this time.
But theoretically speaking, the pheromones of the two will not attract each other.
If the rapid onset of action of the cockroach medicine can be explained by the fact that HKUST administered the medicine in advance, then the precise sex in front of us was clearly beyond the control of humans.
However, Ouyang Li's doubts did not last long before another cute little creature jumped out of the water pipe and rushed to the disinfection point just as quickly.
at the same time.
Seat 7,
Seat 13,
Stand No. 26,
Stand No. 34...
In the pictures captured by many high-definition cameras, cockroaches appear vaguely one after another and scurry towards the disinfecting point.
These cockroaches came from all directions and soon gathered into a small black pile at the whiteboard.
Even if Wang Muyi and the others looked from the dormitory with their naked eyes, they could see this black spot without too much effort.
Although compared with the original video in Building 14, the impact of this scene is still much smaller.
But as more and more cockroaches appear, in addition to some trolls who want to be criticized, the mentality of some netizens who originally had doubts about HKUST gradually began to change.
At least the swear words are visibly reduced a lot.
After all, although the effects are only beginning to show now, the trend it has revealed has already exceeded many people's expectations.
This is also what HKUST wants to see. Rather than criticizing and gagging, using facts to guide public opinion and emotions is the way to go.
If you are upright and upright, why should you fear others' comments?
Then another fifteen minutes passed.
Gradually.
At some remote pipe mouths in the East District, some cockroaches appeared in groups, instead of being cautious individuals.
These cockroaches range from three to five to more than ten.
They formed a chopstick-like team and ran toward the disinfecting point.
at the same time.
From the Technical Department of Station B, Ye Xumeng clapped his hands:
"Mr. Gong, the traffic has increased again! The M value of the live broadcast room has reached 1.2, and the traffic is increasing again!!"
The so-called M value, the full name is minute input/output ratio.
It refers to the actual number of viewers who enter/leave the live broadcast room within one minute, which is one of the key indices of the live broadcast platform.
The specific IP algorithm is more complex and needs to deduct some of the number of connected people. In short, as long as this coefficient is greater than 1, it means that the popularity of the live broadcast is increasing.
Previously, due to the boring waiting process, some viewers chose to close the live broadcast and watch other videos, or simply cut out and use other software.
The M value in the background once dropped to 0.47, and it didn't start to rise until fifteen minutes ago.
Beside him, Gong Zenghui pondered for a moment and said:
"In this way, Lao Ye, now open the T6 level promotion channel!"
Ye Xu was stunned for a moment:
"T6 level?"
Gong Zenghui nodded heavily:
"That's right, level T6."
As a top live broadcast platform, Station B naturally has certain levels for the promotion of live broadcasts, in ascending order from T1 to T6.
However, under normal circumstances, what users can see is T5 level promotion, which is the poster banner on the live broadcast page and login page.
As for T6 promotion, it is basically a once-in-a-million event.
This level of exposure is much higher than conventional promotion, but it requires a certain amount of user loss. The main mode is...
Send private messages and text messages!
Among them, the most recent T6 level promotion was for a certain Harry Potter mobile game. At that time, every user with level 2 and above received a notification, which instantly boosted the popularity of the mobile game to an extremely high level.
Of course.
Just spray too much.
As the CTO of the technology department, Gong Zenghui has certain authority to use T6-level promotion, but he also needs to be responsible for the consequences of launching the promotion.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If the long-tail income of the promotion is lower than the user's loss, he may even have his option bonus deducted, which is not a small number.
It can be said that Gong Zenghui put on a very important weight for this live broadcast!
A few minutes later.
Xu Yun, who was in the command room, suddenly felt a vibration from his mobile phone in his pocket. When he opened it, he found a notification text message:
"[Bilibili] Dear users of Station B, the live broadcast of cockroach disinfecting at the University of Science and Technology is currently being broadcast live. Copy the SMS password and open the client to enter the live broadcast room!"
Looking at the text message in his hand, Xu Yun blinked and was about to say something to Tian Liangwei.
As soon as he turned around, he saw that his teacher was also holding a mobile phone, but it was a private message from Station B...
Seeing Xu Yun looking at him, Tian Liangwei calmly turned off the screen:
"My granddaughter likes to watch videos of kittens on my mobile phone, so she downloaded an app. Don't be too surprised."
"But I clearly saw Jiaran Da Sima and square dance. The smart promotion on the homepage is based on what you often see..."
"Xiao Xu, I think your graduation thesis should be replaced by a few more external reviewers next year. I think Professor Lin Shan from the University of Science and Technology of China is good."
"...It's normal for children to play with mobile phones, but you have to control the time. If it hurts your eyesight, it will be troublesome."
"Well, let's watch the live broadcast."
"..."
While Xu Yun was talking to Tian Liangwei, the number of cockroaches at the disinfecting point once again experienced a sudden increase.
But this time the cockroaches appeared no longer at the water pipes, but at several sewer openings that had been opened by HKUST in advance!
The number of these little cuties has increased from more than ten to thirty or forty, and many of them are even connected into a thin and long black line.
Even if the angle of view of the high-altitude drone is not zoomed in, you can clearly see moving black lines in the picture, and the longest one even reaches more than 20 meters!
By this time, there were not many negative comments on the Internet.
At the same time, due to being too immersed, a very strange thing happened on many live broadcast platforms:
The number of barrages is decreasing, but the number of real viewers displayed in the background is increasing.
At this moment.
In the university dormitory...
Living in housing...
On the subway and in open squares...
Some coffee shops and restaurants with wif...
Even the multimedia indoor rooms of some biochemical companies...
A large number of people of different ages, occupations, and genders, either alone or gathered together, are paying attention to this unprecedented battle to eliminate cockroaches.
Twelve o'clock sharp at noon.
At this time, two hours had passed since the first generation of cockroaches ate the gel bait, and the number of imidacloprid transmission generations was almost close to three generations.
At several disinfection sites, cockroaches have already gathered in the center to form a pile of cockroaches with a length and width of more than five meters and a height of nearly fifteen centimeters, exuding a sticky stench.
Cockroaches crawl out of plastic pipes and sewer openings throughout the East District all the time.
This scene is still somewhat different from the original Building 14. After all, the entire East District is much larger and more complex than a dormitory building.
However, no matter how big the place is, there is a limit. When the time is long enough, no matter how far or deep the place is, it can be affected.
Around half past twelve.
The spread of pheromones finally reached a certain range, and some deeper beings were alarmed.
The largest sewage pipe on the entire campus is buried in the southeastern part of the East District of HKUST.
This pipe is much larger than the one near Building 14, both in terms of age and specification.
Nearly one-third of the domestic sewage in the entire Eastern District is discharged from here, and because the University of Science and Technology is located in the center of Luzhou, it can also be regarded as a core node of sewage discharge in Luzhou City.
The pipe is embedded deep into the ground and has been fused with the surrounding soil over decades.
Seven or eight meters below the pipe.
This is an area soaked by sewage, dark and damp, with no light.
Bacteria breed and become filthy.
This area has been hollowed out with thin paths, and huge brown cockroaches are close to each other.
Either resting, mating, or digesting food.
In the gaps between the cockroaches, there are transparent cockroach eggs, which breed the next generation of nymphs.
If you look at it from a cross-sectional view, the thickness of this area may be only seven or eight centimeters, which is far different from the hollow depth of an ant nest that is often several meters or even tens of meters.
But if a flat device sweeps across it horizontally, you will find that this area is virtual and solid but uninterrupted, and the area covered will not be less than...
Five football fields!
This is a world hidden in the shadows, the home base of HKUST cockroaches, and their paradise.
There is no such thing as a king insect for cockroaches, but if there are enough cockroaches, they will also have a mutated leader-level 'false queen'.
Nanako is such a mutated false queen, with a body length of 8.5 centimeters, twice the size of ordinary cockroaches.
It hibernates in the nest every day and rarely goes out.
The same is true for Nanako today. The two tentacles are shaking irregularly, and her mutated and enlarged abdomen is pregnant with her next generation of babies.
But gradually, a faint and strange smell came from its tactile organs.
Stimulated by this smell, Nanako suddenly felt an emptiness deep in her bones, as if something was attracting her from far away.
So involuntarily, it began to move its body outward.
And as it climbed out, there were other similar creatures underground——
