Survival [End Times]

Yu Heng sat at the front of the car and ate a biscuit. He looked up and saw three bugs crawling out of the building on the left. They raised their heads and opened their mouths to attack, then crawled towards him.

After biting the biscuit, he stood up, raised his gun, and pulled the trigger.

On the way back, he pulled ten bugs behind his car. He shuttled among the bugs all the way and saw a bug nest.

The bug nest had a bulging belly and was swollen all over. It wandered unconsciously, then walked to the front of Yu Heng's car, dancing and waving, which looked very much like waving.

Back at the shelter, as usual, there was a physical examination and disinfection and cleaning of supplies. Yu Heng also reported the encounter with a bug nest in a certain place, and the soldier who received the information saluted.

"After verification. Someone will give you a reward. Please register your name and address!"

The news was reported layer by layer. While Yu Heng was still waiting for the inspection results, he saw that the convoy to capture the bug nest had already set off.

When he got home, Grandma Lin had already cooked and was making dishes.

"Just waiting for your dad to come back!"

Lin Rongbiao and the other three were assigned to different teams. Among them, Lin Rongbiao's team was always the last to come back because the duty location was far away.

"What kind of meat is this?"

After changing his clothes and coming out, he saw Grandma Lin cooking. The smell was a little familiar. He leaned over to take a look and was surprised to find that it was fresh meat, not the bacon and pickled meat in the family's supplies.

"It was just distributed today, and it didn't say what kind of meat it was." Grandma Lin smiled and said, "I looked carefully, it's really fresh, take a look..." She scooped out a piece for Yu Heng to see.

"It's a bit transparent, like tofu, and it's pretty good."

Yu Heng's smile stiffened a little, and he took the spatula from Grandma Lin's hand: "Grandma, let me do it."

Looking carefully at this pot of "meat" and smelling the smell... his face became worse and worse.

No matter how you look at it or smell it, it smells like insect meat! Although there are some differences from the contents inside the insect shell: the meat of the insect has a sour smell and is red in color. The larger the insect, the darker the color of its internal tissue. The "meat" in this pot is milky white, and it smells very similar, without any fishy smell.

But it is too similar.

"What's wrong? Staring at the pot in a daze? Your dad is back, you go out and I'll fry it."

"Mom, look at this meat, what do you think it looks like?"

Lin Shuangfeng looked down in confusion.

Outside, Lin Rongbiao was changing clothes and suddenly heard his wife's cry.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Lin Shuangfeng covered her mouth and rushed out of the separated kitchen, trying hard to suppress the feeling of vomiting.

For those of them who deal with insects every day, they can be said to be very familiar with the structure and organization of insects. It was also because Grandma Lin rarely came into contact with insects, so she didn't notice it.

When Lin Rongbiao and Zhou Junfang took a look, they also thought it was insect meat.

"Mom, when you went to get it, did you meet someone else who secretly replaced yours?"

Grandma Lin was also shocked: "I have been holding this meat in my hand, and no one has touched it."

"It looks a bit like larvae that have not eaten humans yet." Yu Heng said, "I'll go to the logistics department to ask."

His family had collected worms hatched from water from the water pipe before, and the shell was indeed thin and crispy, and the meat inside was white and tender.

Lin Rongbiao also felt very angry: "You have to ask, I'll go with you!"

Even if it is really edible, you have to explain it in detail and let them decide whether to eat it or not. How can you be so perfunctory to the old lady and let her fry it without knowing it.

The two went downstairs together and came to the logistics department. Yu Heng asked the person on duty: "Excuse me, is this a new ingredient? This is what my elders got from here today."

He directly put the contents of the pot into a bowl and brought it down to show the staff.

The staff looked at it and said, "This is not what our logistics department distributed. We did distribute meat today, but it was pork. The meat in the bowl is not pork, right?"

"This is what my elders received from you. Please check it!"

Yu Heng looked at the staff as if he was looking at two scammers who were blackmailing him. He said in a tough manner, "Please check it, or I will complain!"

"But we did distribute pork today...Okay, okay, what is your family number?"

Although it is lunchtime, some people still come to collect today's food quota. If you don't want to eat the meals prepared in the cafeteria, you can come here to collect the ingredients and cook them yourself.

"Look, this is today's pork." While waiting for inquiries, a staff member showed the pork to Yu Heng before giving it to the person who came to get the share. "It was just slaughtered this morning."

"Found it, it is indeed pork on the registration... There are five adults in your family and one minor, so the share is one pound and one ounce of pork."

"Who was in charge at the time? Can she come to confront?"

The staff member was really unhappy now: "I know that supplies are scarce now, and it is rare for everyone to eat meat, but it's not good for you to do this, right?"

Yu Heng picked up a piece of meat: "Can you tell what kind of meat this is? This is very likely to be worm meat! If you are not sure, you can send it for testing. I don't have to go hungry to cheat a pound and one ounce of pork. In addition to wanting to get justice, another purpose is to remind you that if other people besides my family also get this kind of thing, will they get sick after eating it!"

These words shocked a group of people, and even the woman who took the pork next to her trembled and subconsciously threw the pork away.

“So, please ask the staff member who sent the supplies to my elders to come out and talk.”

"The problem you mentioned is very serious. I will ask someone to call Comrade Lin Muzi over. Please give me the bowl as well." A man squeezed through the crowd, and other staff members called him "Director Huo".

Director Huo took the bowl, squatted down, picked up the pork on the ground and handed it to the woman: "I promise, this is really pork, take it home with confidence!"

After leaving the message, Yu Heng and Lin Rongbiao went home. As soon as the two sat down, they heard an emergency broadcast. The broadcast asked all the families who received meat today not to eat it for the time being, waiting for the superiors to investigate, and there would be relevant compensation later.

"Oh, it really can't be eaten?!" Grandma Lin was so scared. Fortunately, her son and grandson had sharp eyes, otherwise what could she do!

The follow-up of this incident was very sensational. It turned out that it was Lin Muzi from the logistics department who used public power for personal gain, took the worm meat secretly, and took the real meat to his own home.

A chain was pulled out from Lin Muzi, all of whom were embezzling the meat distributed by the logistics department. These days, it is rare to eat some meat. If you are short of weight, won't you be scolded to death? So they didn't dare to cheat on the weight, and later they came up with a "brilliant" idea: to exchange other meat for real meat.

And this other meat is insect meat.

"... Lin Muzi and three others took advantage of their positions to take meat from insects they raised themselves and pretended it was the meat quota distributed by the logistics department, causing damage to the organs of 21 people. The crime caused a bad impact. According to the wartime regulations, the relevant personnel will be sentenced. The specific verdict will be in three days. Please pay attention to the broadcast instant news."

In the past, Yu Heng also thought that if there was not enough food in the future, he could still find food from insects. Later, when he came to Chenyun Township, the shelter warned everyone that insects were not edible. Even if the insects hatched from outside the human body had white meat and tasted good, they were still highly toxic.

After eating, the human body will not fall down immediately, but the stomach and intestines will be damaged, and then blood diseases will occur, and various organs will gradually fail.

It can be said that even the laziest people who are unwilling to work would rather beg than dare to eat this kind of thing!

"They are so heartless! They are so heartless! They deliberately gave things to the widowed and lonely elderly people, bullying them because they are old and can't tell the difference!" This kind of thing makes everyone angry.

In the shelter, meat is rarely eaten, only once a week, or even half a month. Adults can only get two taels, which can only taste good when they chop it up and cook it into meat porridge.

Lin Muzi and his team targeted those widowed and lonely people, and exchanged meat for them. After so many days, they were not discovered.

If they hadn't mistaken Grandma Lin, who was with a child, as a soft persimmon and accidentally sent it to the wrong person, it would be unknown when it would be exposed.

Afterwards, the Lin family also received compensation - two kilograms of pork.

Yu Heng asked about the progress of the matter. Director Huo came to apologize on behalf of the logistics department. Hearing this, he said: "All of them will be shot and the execution will be carried out tomorrow. Their families have been sentenced to six months of labor for keeping contraband." This will be made public in the afternoon. He received the news in advance because of his position. It doesn't matter if he tells it now to let the victims calm down.

Grandma Lin asked: "Then, what about those elderly people?"

Director Huo's smile was suppressed, revealing a bit of grief: "Their bodies are already broken. The current medical conditions... can only be kept like this. Don't worry, we will take good care of them."

"Okay, okay!"

Yu Heng did not expose Director Huo's evasive words. He nodded and helped Grandma Lin back to the house.

In order to eliminate the subsequent bad influence, the shelter will definitely let them live well and restore the image of management omissions. However, insect meat is highly toxic. After taking it, the first thing to be damaged is the intestines and stomach. Even if they are alive, they can't eat or digest anything, and they can't die by relying on drugs. This is definitely more terrible than death for those victims.

Back in the house, Grandma Lin said, "I'll go see them, they're all poor people." She looked around to see what she could bring as a condolence gift.

Yu Heng said, "Just take the milk powder, milk powder for the elderly."

"Oh, yes! I have a lot of milk powder." Grandma Lin went to look through the inventory.

In the afternoon, Lin Shuangfeng took her mother-in-law to visit the victims, and Yu Heng went to the square to watch the verdict.

As Director Huo said, all the main culprits were sentenced to death and shot.

The family members cried and begged for help, but could not get any sympathy from the bystanders. Among them was an old lady, who was still kneeling there at an old age, begging herself to die in place of her son.

The crowd was talking a lot, and Lin Muzi, who was pressed away by the armed police on the stage, stared at the old lady kneeling below, tears kept falling until he was pressed into the car.

"My son!" The old lady cried and wanted to hit the pillar, but was stopped.

Others said disdainfully: "This old lady is also a traitor. She is the one who raises the insects at home. Who would believe that she knows nothing?"

"I was wondering why she looked so gloomy day by day. It turns out that she was hiding at home doing such immoral things!"

That evening, those people were executed.

The impact of this incident is not limited to this. Since someone in the logistics department secretly hatched insect eggs and raised them with water for personal gain, the entire logistics department cannot be let off.

In order to give an explanation to the people, we have to show an attitude: a thorough investigation! Not only the logistics department, but also the canteen and the breeding area were inspected.

As a result, new things were really found.

Insects were also found in the meat dishes in the cafeteria. Fortunately, because the cafeteria's big pot dishes had little meat, after the insects were shared, everyone only ate a little bit.

Uproar!

Looking at the protesting crowd outside from the window, Yu Heng closed the window.

"Are you still making trouble?" Grandma Lin asked.

"Yeah."

Grandma Lin is an old lady who likes a stable life. She is very anxious about the chaos in recent times: "This person really...can't he live a good life? He just likes to do bad things, which has a bad impact."

She has lived for so many years, and has lived through hard times and the rich life brought by her son. Now she is old and has left her hometown, so she can live like this. So it is very incomprehensible to those who harm others for a little meat.

"Heng'an, we can't be such bad people. If we want to take something, we should work hard to get it. Your father did a good job in this. You should learn more from your father, okay?"

"I know, grandma."

The chaos ended with the fall of several senior officials and the purge of power.

In order to stabilize the people's hearts, the new power structure launched the second generation of insect repellent and put it into use immediately.

Chenyun Township was once again covered with strange smells. After cleaning up the insects that had invaded long ago, the safety factor of the shelter was improved again.

A better era seemed to have arrived.