North Africa Desert.
The situation in the farmland was gradually spiraling out of control.
After the insect experts arrived, they quickly captured insects and conducted pesticide experiments. Before long, they had cobbled together a barely effective pesticide regimen: Chlorantraniliprole, Crystalline Trichlorfon, and Broflanilide, supplemented with a small amount of Prochloraz-manganese complex EC.
The combination was beyond everyone's expectations. It was commonly used in paddy fields, while the Desert-to-Soil Conversion experimental fields were dryland fields, completely unrelated to paddy fields. Yet they had ultimately produced such a diametrically opposite formula, which seemed extremely bizarre.
But for the time being, no one had time to dwell on the strangeness. They were all busy exterminating the insects.
After the mixed pesticide was sprayed, the results finally improved somewhat. When the dosage was high enough, the Pearl Millet Sand Fleas no longer struggled for a long time, died, and then came back to life. Most of them died completely after struggling for only a moment.
But the prerequisite of "a high enough dosage" was extremely troublesome. Quite a few crops were practically drowned to death in the massive quantities of pesticide.
This method of extermination could not last. Even if the crops survived, it was hard to say how much pesticide residue would remain by harvest time, or whether the produce could safely be eaten by people and livestock.
Professor Tao and the entomologists worked through the night, trying to find suitable insect antifeedants, insect pheromones, and insect repellents. Any one of them would be enough to relieve the experimental fields' urgent crisis.
The urgent crisis was no exaggeration. It was a literal description of the situation.
Xia Wansan made a decisive choice and gave the order... burn the fields!
Burning the fields was a last resort. The insect trenches and insect walls that