"What? It's trending?"

Upon hearing the report from the head of the publicity department, Tian Liangwei, who was in charge of commanding the scene, couldn't help but frown:

"It hasn't been that long, and it already has the traffic to trend in the middle of the night?"

Although Tian Liangwei was already in his sixties, as a leader of the college, he still had some understanding of the internet.

If there were videos or pictures being circulated, he wouldn't be too surprised. After all, with so many people at the scene, it was normal to take photos and videos.

But for a picture or video to transform from a message into news, it required a large dissemination base.

If it happened during the day, there might be some possibility, but to accumulate relevant popularity through scattered fragments in the late night, the probability was indeed low.

Facing Tian Liangwei's questioning, the head of the publicity department smiled helplessly:

"Dean Tian, we have confirmed it. There is a student in Building 14 who is a web novelist and has a relatively large fan base on the platform.

Under the reposts of those fans, the news directly bypassed the initial stage of fragment accumulation and spread through multiple channels from the beginning.

And at the end of the video, in order to prove that he didn't steal the online materials, he deliberately filmed his writer's backstage, which also included the textbooks and student ID card of our university.

Netizens traced it back to the Tieba forum, where some students who were just spectating also posted. However, their spread was not as wide. When these two groups collided, the matter was completely debunked."

Then the head paused and tentatively said:

"Dean Tian, should we lock down the public opinion first?

It's simple for the Tieba forum. The moderator is a teacher, so we can raise the posting level. As for trending, it might be a bit troublesome, but I estimate it will only take about an hour..."

Before he could finish, Tian Liangwei waved his hand and interrupted him:

"Forget about controlling the comments. There's nothing shameful about this matter. If you try to control the comments, it will only make people feel guilty. Some things just get worse that way.

Here's what we'll do. You personally take charge of the public opinion front.

Don't bother with normal discussions and don't hold the student who first leaked the news accountable.

But if you see any comments taking advantage of this to smear our university or manipulate public opinion, deal with them first. There might be some familiar faces from across the sea behind them."

Although our university's ranking is not as high as Tsinghua, Peking, Jiaotong, or Fudan, due to its positioning and background, our university, National University of Science and Technology, and Harbin Institute of Technology often face attacks from some ill-intentioned individuals in public opinion. Sometimes, the frequency is even higher than Tsinghua, Peking, Jiaotong, and Fudan.

Now that our university is facing such a situation, most of the discussions may not have malicious intent, but there will definitely be some people trying to take advantage of the situation.

After receiving Tian Liangwei's instructions, the head of the publicity department immediately took charge:

"Understood, I'll do it right away."

After the head left, Tian Liangwei turned to look at the dormitory building.

He was about to say something profound like 'autumn of many affairs', but suddenly his eyes caught sight of the densely packed cockroaches on the water pipe, and he couldn't help but shudder:

"Oh my god, I'm fucking scared of cockroaches!"

........

Considering that Tian Liangwei was already in his sixties and the temperature difference between day and night was relatively large this season, it was easy to catch a cold outside.

Therefore, under the dissuasion of several accompanying leaders, Tian Liangwei returned to his residence first, while Xu Yun stayed at the scene with several security personnel to work the night shift.

As for the students in the entire dormitory building, they were brought out by a team of fully equipped security personnel an hour and a half ago. After putting on protective clothing, they were taken out of the dormitory and relocated after disinfection.

After all, although the cockroaches couldn't enter the dormitory, the viruses carried by so many cockroaches were a potential hazard, and the smell produced by their gathering was quite unpleasant.

Staying in such an environment for a few minutes or even a couple of hours might not be a problem, but if it was for the whole night, who knows what might happen.

And so, an hour passed.

The number of cockroaches outside the dormitory building visibly decreased, and some cockroach corpses gradually appeared on the ground outside the building. The farthest one even fell two hundred meters away.

At the same time.

A faint unpleasant smell emanated from Building 14, mixed with the smell of cockroach corpses and excrement.

During this time, Xu Yun had been paying attention to Weibo and Tieba. At this moment, the Weibo hot topic had already climbed to the tenth place, second only to the previous incident involving Lao Niu.

If nothing unexpected happened.

When it gets light out, this topic will probably climb to the top six, as it is quite sensational.

As for whether it can go higher, it depends on whether there will be any big news in the entertainment circle tomorrow.

Then another hour passed.

At this moment, most of the cockroaches outside had fallen to the ground due to exhaustion.

About thirty percent of them had completely lost their signs of life, while the remaining seventy percent were still struggling to survive.

But these cockroaches couldn't recite poetry, so their fate was destined to be death.

Half an hour later, at 5:30 a.m.

Except for a very few resilient individuals, 99% of the cockroaches on the ground had completely lost any signs of life.Meanwhile, Tian Liangwei, who had taken a brief rest for a few hours, returned to the scene.

The trending topic had broken into the top ten, ranking eighth.

"Xu Yun."

Upon arriving at the scene, Tian Liangwei glanced at the dormitory building and said to Xu Yun:

"It's about time, isn't it?"

Xu Yun nodded:

"It's almost time."

Tian Liangwei slightly nodded, turning to a man beside him:

"Director Guan, I'll need your help."

The Director Guan mentioned by Tian Liangwei was the head of the security department of the university, also a retired special forces soldier, and the acting commander of the university's reserve force.

The university's security system had undergone multiple drills for special situations like septic tank explosions, making the security department the most suitable choice for the current situation.

Ten minutes later.

A twenty-man decontamination team was assembled, and Xu Yun joined them as a consultant to 'atone for his sins'.

Under the leadership of Director Guan, the group steadily advanced towards Building 14.

The sky was just beginning to lighten, so some scenes only became clear when they approached the dormitory building.

The most noticeable were the four originally white sewer pipes:

The parts above the fourth floor were still somewhat white, but the areas below the fourth floor were stained with a large amount of cockroach excrement, making them look like a mix of white and black.

At the bottom of the pipes, the bodies of cockroaches had piled up into a sharp cone about 40 centimeters high.

Within a five-meter radius of the pipe, the ground was densely covered with cockroach bodies or remnants, with no space in sight.

There is a rumor on the internet about cockroaches:

When you see one cockroach, there are actually hundreds of thousands of them in your house.

This view is obviously wrong, because cockroaches are insects that need to be near a water source to survive, and the places with the most water in residential areas are bathrooms and kitchens.

If there were hundreds of thousands of cockroaches in the sewer, it would have been blocked long ago.

However, tonight, the number of cockroaches that died in Building 14 might indeed be in the hundreds of thousands, as this is one of the outlet nodes for the water used by tens of thousands of people in the school, and the filth beneath the ground is unimaginable.

As for the total number of cockroaches in the entire university, a conservative estimate would be at least three million - don't think this number is large. In 2017, Jinling University made a decomposer model, which includes earthworms, mites, beetles, and cockroaches, etc.

In densely populated areas with tens of thousands of people, the total number of cockroaches is over a million, let alone a school where a large amount of kitchen waste is generated every day.

This is actually the same as the iceberg theory, the invisible submerged part is far more than the visible part.

Thud, thud, thud -

The boots of the protective suits walked on the ground, and Xu Yun and his team quickly entered the dormitory building.

It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from "pawread dot com".

At this moment, the bodies of rows of cockroaches were shockingly covering the first and second floors.

On each step, there were conservatively estimated to be twenty to thirty remains.

Director Guan cleared a path with cleaning equipment, and the group ascended from the first floor to the second, and then to the third, finally arriving at the fourth floor.

Director Guan, as a retired special forces soldier, although not as exaggerated as the king of soldiers in the story, his experience and psychological endurance were still commendable.

For example, during his peacekeeping mission abroad, he had seen blood and faced off against vicious criminals.

However, even such a tough man, upon seeing the scene on the fourth floor, got goosebumps all over his body!

At this moment...

The corridor on the fourth floor, which was more than thirty meters long and three meters wide, was densely covered with at least three centimeters thick of cockroach bodies!

Then Director Guan and the others, suppressing their discomfort, stepped over the pile of cockroaches, leading everyone to the epicenter of the entire incident.

That is, the blank area on the fourth floor where the garbage pile was placed.

Well, how should I put it.

This area should not be described as 'blank' now - the originally relatively clean walls were now densely covered with cockroach excrement, turning the entire wall black.

On the windowsill, in the trash can, the entire area was full of cockroaches!

Various limbs piled up into small hills on the ground, within this area of a dozen square meters, the thickness of the cockroaches was at least ten centimeters, the number was countless!

.........