Girl's Doomsday Rebirth Revenge & Survive novel Chapter 284

284 Catch Mutant Cockroaches.

Chapter 284 Catch Mutant Cockroaches

Alger and Caroline chatted for about half an hour.

When Caroline left, Alger opened the door and saw her out.

At that moment, he was genuinely impressed with her.

She had just given him an idea.

First, they had to let everyone know there was no more grain.

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The remaining food would be rationed to a very small number of people. If anyone makes trouble, hold them down. They’d have to use force if necessary–but be decisive; there was no extra food to spare.

According to Alger, the army folks would stop eating regular food. They would switch entirely to buns made from cockroach. powder. Then, they would hand out tiny portions, only enough for three days to the rest.

Of course, if they handed out regular portions, it would be gone in a day.

The idea was to have everyone eat only one–third of their usual portion.

The soldiers would eat those cockroach buns for the next few days. The key was to not let anyone go hungry, so they’d have enough strength saved up.

At the same time, the authorities would announce a newly developed food, but it would not be distributed as before by fixed portions. Instead, people would have to work to get it.

The job was simple–catch mutant cockroaches.

Mutant cockroaches were everywhere now, but those in nearby buildings hadn’t formed large nests yet.

Alger said that below their building, there were quite a few nests in places buried by snow and uninhabited. The lower floors had been sealed off to keep those mutants from climbing up.

Those things will eat anything. They could even survive on dirt.

So the first few floors below must have a fair number of mutant cockroaches.

But that was only a small fraction.

Most of them were likely in Building B and a few nearby empty buildings where everyone had already moved out.

Those buildings were hard to get into, but not impossible.

People had to keep a live flame with them at all times to stay warm.

During the three days when they still had food, military personnel would first negotiate with the people of Building B about organizing cockroach hunting.

Then they would form small teams to explore nearby buildings, gauge the roach numbers, and draft a set of rules that would let civilians also help capture them.

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Chapter 284 Catch Mutant Cockroaches

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After three days, regular food would be completely cut off. The army could then organize people to catch cockroaches and begin using the cockroach powder to make food to get everyone through the following days.

This method would make it easier for the public to accept food made from cockroach powder, and it would give those with nothing to do some work to occupy them.

When people are busy, they stop causing trouble.

And it would save many lives.

In short, it was a plan that could achieve several goals at once.

After sharing her plan with Alger, Caroline went upstairs and had the rest of the mutant cockroaches ground into powder. She watched with satisfaction as several young soldiers cheerfully carried the sacks of powder downstairs.

Those six large sacks of mutant cockroach carcasses were not ordinary bags. They were the largest woven bags, and each contained a few hundred pounds of carcasses.

There might be some loss after grinding them into powder, but together they still added up to over 2,000 pounds.

The army had sent several people to help carry the bags up for Caroline.

She had already given Alger the composition of the cockroach powder, assuring him it was nutritious.

She also suggested some ingredients to make the food taste better later on.

As Alger wrote everything down, the gloom on his face faded a lot.

“Caroline, when Colonel Sutton returns, I’ll make sure to tell him about this properly!” Alger said.

Caroline patted his shoulder and brushed off the thanks.

From another perspective, as long as the people below were pacified, she could live on the 66th floor in peace.

Her main aim was to stop them from bringing every little problem up to her level. She didn’t want them to think of the 66th floor whenever something happened.

In the days that followed, things went just as Caroline had predicted.

There was a brief period of rioting below; some people were so hungry they came up to the 64th floor and cried.

Caroline simply turned off her walkie–talkie. If she couldn’t hear them, she didn’t have to be bothered.

Eventually, the crowds stopped seeing anyone from the 66th floor.

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