24 Hours to Save the World

Chapter 72: How do humans survive to this day?

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"Alien insects" feed on humans.

—Just learning this fact, Zhu Shijiu’s mind went blank.

“Is this the truth…?”

During the whole process, Zhu Shijiu was unable to think properly. He was just busy listening to Xu Feng telling stories that seemed like they were set in science fiction works. Xu Feng was a down-to-earth person and explained things very clearly.

There seems to be an invisible alien warship parked in the sky above Jiangcheng, and for some unknown reason, the alien warship occasionally drops an ugly and powerful creature to the earth, which feeds on humans.

"How could this happen?"

Zhu Shijiu had never personally experienced the power of those "alien insects", but he could tell from Xu Feng's description that their bodies were harder than the strongest alloy of human beings, their speed was fast enough to surpass human firearms and bullets, and the poison gas they sprayed was so toxic that only one micromilliliter was enough to kill an adult blue whale... It is said that talking about toxicity without talking about dosage is foolish, but the facts he heard now are even more foolish than foolish.

He even suspected that Xu Feng was lying to him.

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If there were such a powerful creature, humans would have been extinct long ago. Why would they have to wait for that inexplicable energy explosion

"In the biosphere of the Earth, humans are no longer at the top of the food chain. At the top of our food chain are the alien insects! Do you know the frequency and quantity of those alien insects produced by the enemies of the world?"

Zhu Shijiu's heart trembled and he replied, "I don't know." His voice also trembled with the man's words.

"—three a day."

Zhu Shijiu was stunned: "Three per day?"

Are you serious

Xu Feng walked in the middle of the U-shaped table, paced in front of Zhu Shijiu, and pressed the table in front of Zhu Shijiu: "Do you think it's a small number? Three a day, which means 90 a month! Nearly 1,100 a year! Thirty-five years have passed, and the number of alien insects released to the earth by the enemies of the world alone is nearly 40,000! And do you know how many alien insects we humans kill on average every year?"

"...How much?" Zhu Shijiu asked with a trembling voice.

“Less than 200.”

It was less than one-fifth of the number of Zerg produced by the world's enemies each year... Zhu Shijiu realized this terrifying gap. What was even more terrifying to him was that the number of Zerg was still increasing every day!

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According to Xu Feng, the number of alien insects released into the Earth by the World's Enemy has never changed since thirty-five years ago, and it is fixed at 3 per day - it is obvious that this is not the limit of the World's Enemy.

What is even more terrifying is how many alien insects are there within the world's enemies

Is it normal for a 10-kilometer-long super-giant warship to only release three Zergs a day? What is the purpose of the Enemy of the World doing this? Are the means of eliminating Zergs mastered by the Black Soldier Organization really enough to support humans in resisting the Zerg invasion of the Earth

A series of questions appeared in Zhu Shijiu's mind, making him feel like his head was about to explode.

"Do you think this is the end?"

Xu Feng continued to say words that made Zhu Shijiu tremble even more.

Please stop talking...

Zhu Shijiu felt increasingly heavy-hearted.

However, Xu Feng did not care about Zhu Shijiu's increasingly depressed heart and said only five simple words.

"Alien insects can reproduce."

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Grass.

Zhu Shijiu felt like his whole body was about to break apart.

This was a matter of course, yet it was a cruel fact that was enough to destroy all of Zhu Shijiu's confidence.

"Do you know what you're saying?" He closed his eyes. "I really hope that what I heard is a lie... I'd be happier if you told me you were lying to me."

"You need to know that yourself, don't you?"

The determined expression on Xu Feng's face never changed. After a slight sarcastic remark, he continued to spout out information, so generously that he didn't seem like the man who had been guarding the information so tightly before.

"The Zerg are hermaphroditic and can mate with each other at will. There is no need to consider the gender issue. Just catch two of them and they will mate and give birth. They reproduce once a year and produce at least three eggs each time. The success rate of Zerg eggs hatching without external force is 100%."

Zhu Shijiu's heart sank. How did you get these data? He didn't dare to think about it further, for fear that he would deduce some bad news if he thought about it carefully.

However, his brain couldn't help but continue thinking, so he asked, "After the hermaphroditic insects mate... which one gets pregnant?"

Xu Feng didn't seem to expect Zhu Shijiu to be able to follow his thoughts so quickly and ask key questions.

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After a pause, he replied coldly: "Both sides."

Both parties are pregnant? After mating, both hermaphroditic insects will be pregnant with the next generation? !

Zhu Shijiu turned pale and asked in disbelief, "From the time the alien insects are pregnant to the time they lay eggs..."

"One month."

My heart was pounding.

"When does the egg hatch?"

"Half a year."

"The time it takes for Zerg to grow from birth to adulthood..."

"One year."

unbelievable.

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It's really against the will of heaven.

Zhu Shijiu closed his eyes and said nothing.

He was completely shut himself in.

Alien warships release nearly 1,100 alien insects every year. So far, there are nearly 40,000 alien insects released to Earth by alien warships, while humans can only eliminate less than 200 alien insects every year. The remaining alien insects mate once a year and produce at least 3 eggs. If humans fail to discover the eggs and eliminate them in time, the success rate of hatching the eggs is 100%.

In addition, the entire Zerg cycle of mating, pregnancy, egg-laying, hatching, and adulthood is much faster than human reproduction, which is simply crazy.

After hearing the news, Zhu Shijiu didn't dare to calculate the numbers, and he really would rather know nothing.

He had said before that he would not become pessimistic after learning the truth, but now it seems that he is far worse than Xu Feng. He is not only pessimistic, he is even desperate.

Now there is only one question lingering in his mind - why hasn't mankind perished yet

Xu Feng naturally saw Zhu Shijiu's reaction, his face showed neither sadness nor joy.

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When he learned the truth, he collapsed just like Zhu Shijiu.

No, it’s not so much a collapse as a fall into despair.

The future of mankind is dark. He understood this when he first learned about the alien insects.

What he didn't tell Zhu Shijiu was that in 2010, the United States discovered the world's enemy but deliberately concealed the existence of the alien insects.

At that time, the United States withdrew its troops from the seven-year Iraq War and instead deployed them to fight the Zerg invaders that were first deployed on Earth by the world's first enemy. This initial period was clearly the time when humans could best control the Zerg invasion, but the United States delayed for two years and the crisis spread across the world.

The United States was indeed the first to capture and study the alien zerg, but in 2012, they realized that the situation was out of control, so they used some means to move the enemy of the world over Jiangcheng - the United States has remained silent about this until now, but every country knows it.

The reason why humans have not yet perished is because the authorities have found a way to fight the alien insects.

However, that method only treats the symptoms and not the root cause. At most, it can be used to eliminate alien insects, but it cannot make them disappear completely.

If you want to make the Zerg disappear completely, you have to block the source - block the gap through which the world's enemies release the Zerg into the earth.

The action scheduled for ten o'clock tomorrow morning is not to defeat the enemies of the world, but just to plug the gap, which is such a humble wish.

"Humanity has been in the abyss for a long time" is not a lie or an exaggeration, but a real reality.

Make up for yesterday's chapter, it will not affect today's update plan.

I was planning to publish it right after I finished coding it, but was reminded that new chapters cannot be published between 00:30 and 7:00, so I can only publish it on a scheduled basis... crying.