silent farm

Chapter 159 The Snake Who Never Sees the Head and the End (Add)
After listening to what Zhang Feng said.Li Sheng also felt a little more worried.

As Zhang Feng said, this year's dry season cannot be considered serious. If there is a severe drought, the farm will not have land transportation to the outside world. Once the wharf becomes unusable, the export of farm goods will be paralyzed.

Li Sheng thought about it, but felt that the taste here was not very good, so he said, "Let's leave here first."

They drive where they can't smell it.Li Shengcai said: "What you said is indeed a hidden danger. The farm is more than ten kilometers away from the Amazon River. If the situation you mentioned happens, transportation is really a problem."

Zhang Feng didn't speak, he was also frightened by himself.If it really happened that the wharf was unable to dock the ships, it would be a trivial matter if the farm’s goods could not be shipped out. If it was because of such a breach of contract, Li Sheng didn’t know if he would have enough money to compensate.

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "I will find a way to solve this matter."

Although the kind of drought Zhang Feng mentioned may only happen once in many years.But as long as it happens once, it can make people's scalp explode.And Zhang Feng also said just now that in the past few years, there have been two severe droughts in the Amazon Basin.He has to be vigilant and take precautions in advance.

When he returned to the office, he couldn’t think of any way to fight against nature. Feeling depressed, he posted a message in Moments: “The Amazon rainforest will also be dry, what should I do if there are no water boats at the pier?”

Chen Bo and the others pulled him into the circle of friends.They were all the people who came to the farm in the first place.

He didn't expect that there would be someone here. It was Luo Zheng: "The hovercraft can run with or without water, and it runs pretty fast. You deserve it!"

Li Sheng checked the time, it was only 04:30 in the afternoon.It should be 03:30 in the middle of the night in Huaxia.He sent a message: "Are you still asleep?"

"Aren't you awake?" Luo Zheng replied with contempt.

Li Sheng was too lazy to argue with him, and said, "Then you continue to play."

After a while, the beep sounded several times in succession.Li Sheng took a look, "Don't." "Brother Sheng, it's rare for someone to talk to me." "Brother Sheng, is your place dry? That's too exaggerated. Isn't the Amazon River the river with the largest volume of water?"

Seeing that he had posted several times, Li Sheng felt a little depressed, so he replied: "Amazon has a half-yearly dry season. If the dry season is prolonged, the drought will come. Some rivers may even stop flowing. Don't I have a pier here? If there is not enough water , the boat can’t get in.”

"Oh!" Luo Zheng replied gloatingly.But soon he replied with several comments. "Actually, you can open your mind a little bigger."

"Like the hovercraft I said, it is necessary. The goods are sent from your dock to the Amazon River."

"Get a barge by the river to load the goods."

"Although the efficiency is relatively low, it is better than nothing."

Li Sheng thought about it, and felt that his brain hole was actually very good.But, are there any hovercraft for sale?
"Aren't hovercraft generally military stuff?"

"Hey, what can be used for civilian use can't be used for military use? What can be used for military use can't be used for civilian use? As long as the artillery is removed from the hovercraft, it will be the civilian version."

When Li Sheng thought about it, the hovercraft might be the only way for the farm to solve the possible drought.He sent a message: "Do you have a way?"

"Yes. How much do you want? Let me ask."

"How many tons can a ship hold?"

"I have to ask about this. I'll get back to you tomorrow."

Li Sheng had no choice but to give up.He didn't expect that the problem that had troubled him for a long time would be solved by just posting a random mood.Things like food are delivered by hovercraft, and the cattle have to work hard to drive to the banks of the Amazon River.

This seems like a good solution.If there is such a time, it must be resolved no matter what.Cows can walk, but things like food don't have feet to walk by themselves.There is no road at all for motor vehicle handling.Of course, maybe the farm's helicopter fleet could be used.There are a total of thirteen helicopters, and they can be transported with slings at a time, and they can transport tens of tons in total, but how many times can they be transported?Otherwise, it is manual handling.

Thomas found his office.Seeing that he locked the office door, Li Sheng asked, "Thomas? What happened?"

Thomas flopped down in front of his desk and said, "Lee, we might be in trouble."

Trouble again?
What Li Sheng hates the most is trouble, but he always feels that trouble always likes to find him.He was a little depressed and said, "Who is this time again?" He thought it was those competitors who seemed to want to complete the farm before, such as Cargill and others.

However, he noticed that Thomas' brow frowned a little deeper.I just heard Thomas say: "It's not anyone, but a huge snake."

Li Sheng looked at him suddenly.Recalling his action of locking the door just now, he stood up and asked, "Someone was attacked?"

Seeing Thomas shake his head, he felt relieved, sat down again and asked, "Then what happened?"

Thomas frowned and said, "A calf has been missing for two days. In the morning, I found a meadow near the edge of the forest in the south that had been pressed by heavy objects for a long time."

"so what?"

Thomas explained: "The grass there has not fully grown straight, which means that the heavy objects that overwhelmed the pastures have not been gone for a long time. And I found some traces around that place, which seemed to be a road that was pressed by heavy objects. It's shallow. But I think it's a heavy snake to squeeze that mark on the ground in the grass."

Li Sheng finally understood what he meant, and asked, "You mean, the grass was overwhelmed by the giant snake that ate the calf."

"Yes, I think the snake was there for quite a while, at least a day."

"Have the security guards searched for it?"

"We are searching, but we haven't found any more yet. However, we found that the snake was moving in the southern river fork. Perhaps it intends to return to the opposite island to digest."

Li Sheng also frowned, and asked, "How big is that cow?"

"At least 180 pounds. Also, the cattle didn't come close to that forest. I suspect that the pony that was lost earlier was a good thing that this snake did."

Li Sheng took a deep breath and said, "Then, we must find it."

"That's right. We can't take any chances. Once the herd senses danger, it is likely to move north. But the cattlemen have to rest in pastures closer to the forest. In that case, those laborers are in danger."

Li Sheng was also worried about the safety of the herd workers.He didn't feel bad about losing a cow or two.But if a worker has an accident while working for him, that's definitely not what he wants to see.

If it is in the forest, the weather is cooler at night, and snakes may not be able to move freely, but in the pasture, even at night, the temperature is as high as about [-] degrees.The blood in the snake's body will not become cold because of this, and its mobility is the same as usual.

Thomas even said: "Normally speaking, pythons in the Amazon usually hide during the dry season, because the temperature is too high, and they can't stand it. But the python that attacked the calf obviously violated this principle, perhaps because this There are forests beside the rivers of this kind, and there are also a lot of water sources. After hunting at night, it returns to the forest to avoid the high temperature, and only returns to its old nest to digest after the body has used the prey."

Amazon is inherently a dangerous place.Li Sheng knows that it is normal to lose a little by farming in the forest.He heard that in some villages in Peru, chickens were even eaten by a palm-sized tarantula.

Although that was normal, he could tolerate the existence of those dangerous animals, provided that they would not pose a threat to the lives of the farm workers.Such as the black face god.

But now the python that Thomas suspected had already threatened the safety of the herder.He had to think about finding it out and killing it.

Snakes, like crocodiles, are reptiles, but Li Sheng has done experiments before. It is much more difficult to make the anaconda obedient than the black-faced god.At the beginning, he wanted to control an anaconda and let go of a monkey he controlled. As a result, although the anaconda finally let go of the monkey, it took many orders to make it obey, and he never felt the same as the black face. A godlike connection.

He felt that there was no way to make the snake as obedient as the black-faced god.

The opposite island is a large swamp, which is completely submerged almost every rainy season, and it does not belong to the land of Silent Farm. Even if Li Sheng sensed the existence of the snake, he did not kill it.But Li Sheng still felt that he should find it out first.

He thought for a moment and asked Thomas, "Who else knows about this?"

"The security team should know, but I'm worried that it will cause panic among other workers, so let them keep it secret first."

Li Sheng hesitated for a while, feeling that keeping secrets might not be a good thing.Panic does cause some unnecessary troubles, but it is still helpful to workers' self-protection awareness.

Thomas and the others had warned the workers before, but they did not confirm that it was a python, nor did they mention that the python would go deep into the farm.The houses in the pastoral stronghold are all wooden houses, and there is a half-meter snake-proof gap below, and that gap can just provide a shady environment for the python.If there were boa constrictors hiding under those houses, the workers might be attacked if they were not careful.

So he thought about it, and said: "Inform all the workers about this and let them pay attention to precautions." He paused, and said: "Let the security team fly a helicopter and use thermal imaging cameras to patrol the south at night."

Although that effect may not be great, but at least it can give people some peace of mind.

But Thomas said: "If it's just a snake, last time it hunted a pony, it took more than ten days to digest it. This time the calf is bigger, I think it may take longer to digest. I think the patrol , it is not too late to start after more than ten days.”

Li Sheng felt that what he said made sense. It is easy for people to slack off if they have been doing one thing without gaining anything.If the security team didn't find it after flying for several nights, they might be lazy.

He thought for a while and said, "Forget it. They can't fly in the sky 24 hours a day."

After saying this, he stood up, paced back and forth in the office, and finally said: "It is said that sulfur can drive away snakes. Shall we bring some sulfur back?"

Thomas shook his head and said, "Sulphur doesn't drive snakes away. It's just that the smell of sulfur can deactivate the snake's snake signal and make the snake avoid it unconsciously. And we can't sprinkle sulfur all over the pasture."

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "Just put some sulfur under the wooden house. At least it will prevent snakes from staying under the wooden house."

Thomas nodded and said, "That's a good idea." It's just that it can't completely prevent the python of unknown size from attacking the workers.

(End of this chapter)