At that time, the mayor of Natalie Town was Chen Tongzhong's grandfather, named Chen He. When Kahesha crossed the border post and appeared at the gate of the town committee, Chen He personally received her.

"Hello, Comrade Mayor of the Town."

The blonde Kahesha has never lived in China, but she speaks fluent Chinese. She carries a coffee-colored backpack and a silver metal case in her hand. The May sun gently shone on her shoulders, and when she saw Chen He, who was not strange to foreigners, she couldn't help but feel excited, and she thought in a trance that it was the angel described by the missionaries who came to her.

By letting the beautiful guest into the office and pouring her tea, Kahsha reveals an impatient personality that does not match her beauty. She had no intention of greeting Chen He, so she patted the silver box straight to the point and asked, "Comrade Mayor of the town, do you know what this box contains?" ”

Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen He had studied with foreign priests in the church for several years, so he had some cultural background, and he thought that he was already erudite and talented in this remote town, which was equivalent to the Qing Dynasty.

But when Kakhsha threw out that long list of titles, saying what he was "empty" and what he was "learning" and what "doctor", Chen He still heard it in a fog, and for a moment felt that Chinese was more difficult to understand than Russian.

Regarding the question of the silver box, he was even more inexplicable, only shook his head with his mouth open, and replied with an expression, "How can I know?" ”

Kahesha seemed so anxious that she simply excused herself from these words, opened the box in a hurry, and pulled out a yellow glass bottle from it for collecting biological specimens.

"Comrade Mayor Mayor, now you can see what I brought, right?" She looked serious, and it became clear that the glass bottle was what had prompted her to come to town.

Chen He looked closer, and there were four beetles the size of thumb heads in the bottle, with dark red tentacles and hard wings. Probably due to the thin air in the bottle, the beetles were dying, but they still kicked their legs unwillingly, trying to escape.

"Hehehe", he laughed, "isn't this the common black firefly in the birch forest in summer?" It's only been out in May, and it's really early this year. ”

Although Natalie used to be called White Pine Town, behind the town, there is a large birch forest connected to the border. In the summer, the branches of the birch trees are connected and the leaves form a natural green network that blocks most of the daylight, making it very dark even at noon, when the sun is very hot.

But at night, the birch forest will light up instead, precisely because the fireflies begin to release light signals for courtship. The small lights hanging from their bellies flickered and flickered, as if the mythical elves flew out at night and began a fluorescent dance party set in the primeval forest.

Chen He's face was relaxed when he recognized the bug, but Kahesha's nervousness continued unabated. She grabbed the bottleneck with her white hands, uncorked the bottle, poured out a beetle, and pinched off the glowing part of the worm's stomach in three or two strokes.

"Eh, you...... What are you doing? Although it was just a bug, Kahesha's actions were cruel, and Chen He looked a little uncomfortable.

But without the prompting of the female scientist, a strange thing happened, the belly of the worm exposed to the air actually melted like ice particles, turning into a drop of water with a dark light, like a pink pearl covered in dust.

"Mayor Chen, do you understand now?" Kahesha asked, but Chen He was even more confused.

Kahesha shook her head anxiously, and finally said clearly, "What I'm showing you is not an ordinary firefly, but a virus!" ”

She stared at Chen He mysteriously, her voice getting lower and lower, and by the end, the word "virus" seemed to come out of her throat, so that Chen He thought she had misheard.

"Comrade Kahesha, what are these beetles?"

"Yes, a virus! A virus that will bring great disaster to your town! So you have to take urgent measures to burn that birch forest, the sooner the better! ”

"This ......"

Beginning with no scruples, Kahesha shouted a series of warnings and waved her thin arms, looking very out of shape.

Chen He stammered, not knowing how to answer. However, what flashed in his mind at this time was bacteriological warfare, biochemical troops, and the battered human body used by the Japanese army for experiments in black and white photos.

People who have experienced the eight-year War of Resistance are extremely fragile in their nerves, and they will be suspicious and frightened themselves at the slightest disturbance. Now that someone suddenly said "virus" in front of him, and the tone he used was enough to prove the seriousness of the situation, how could he not be irritated?

The loyal smile disappeared without a trace, and Chen Heru was hit by a drought and thunder, and asked softly: "Is the virus you are talking about left by the Japanese back then, or is it newly released?" ”

Kahesha was stunned for a moment, realized that he had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "No, no, no, the virus I'm talking about is not the kind you think, that kind is a biochemical virus, my firefly is a physical virus, and the object of physical virus poisoning is not people, it is electronic devices, it is the entire computer system!" ”

"Of course," she probably thought that this expression would still cause ambiguity, and she paused before continuing: "The ultimate goal of destroying electronic devices is to prevent human beings from continuing to survive and develop, but it is not as direct as biochemical viruses that kill people." ”

"Physics...... Computer ......"

Chen He was speechless again. Kakhsha wants to mention Gorky or Turgenev, he can still say a few words and pretend to evaluate the works of these people, but if he wants to talk about physical viruses, it sounds like a book in heaven, and he really can't answer.

But one thing he knew was clear now, and that was that Kahesha had asked him to burn the birch forest behind the town that housed the inhabitants of Natalie!

Although Suifenhe is only more than 200 kilometers away from Vladivostok, the most prosperous port city in the Soviet Union, and many Heilongjiang people have made a fortune by taking advantage of the geographical advantages, the residents of Natalie have always adhered to a simple and simple way of life.

Every winter, people go to the forest to cut down trees and select the best wood to make wood. When spring comes, merchants from outside will come to the town to collect wood, and although the purchase price is not high, it is enough to support people's livelihood for a year.

Of course, timber is only a basic supply, and the young people of the town also like to go into the old woods to hunt, and when they are lucky, they will hunt wild deer or roe deer, and the whole town will be happy for a while.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government issued a ban on the hunting of wild animals, and the hunting activities gradually decreased, but no one interfered with picking some mushrooms or harvesting some wild fungus.

Now this woman who came from a foreign country opened her mouth and instigated him to burn the forest, didn't she want him Chen He to become a sinner in Natalie Town, and be scolded for thousands of generations?

Thinking of this, Chen He no longer delved into the truth of Kahesha's words and what his intentions were, and his dark and thin face sank.