I sighed, "Let's go to the farmer's market and buy something." For more exciting visits"

"Where can I buy anything?" She immediately got better.

"You just read that piece of information in vain!" I touched my forehead, "I have already checked the information when you bought it, and there are about 1,585 species of praying mantis known in the world." About 51 species are known in China. Among them, the Southern Great Knife Mantis, the Northern Great Knife Mantis, the Broad Axe Mantis, the Huada Knife Mantis, the European Praying Mantis, and the Green Spotted Small Mantis are the six most widely distributed species in this city. But in recent years, due to ecological reasons, there are many praying mantis that are difficult to see nearby, and according to your sister's description, it can be judged that there are probably only two varieties of praying mantis that they may have seen at that time, thin wings and broadswords! ”

"Awesome! I didn't expect you to be able to investigate such a thing with only a few clues! Worthy of being the world's top killer! She looked at the pile of books in her hand, "Do you still want these books?" ”

"If you want to keep it, it's useless to me." Why did you judge me as a killer again, extremely depressed! However, being so troubled by her, the tension in my heart was diluted a lot. There is a feeling that I haven't been so nervous for a long time, and if I don't have my previous self before my amnesia, maybe I'm rarely so nervous!

We bought a lot of things at the feed store and went home to set them up.

The night fell unstoppably and quickly, and I, Shi Yueying, Niu Niu, and Ms. Shi, the four of us sat quietly in the living room, and no one spoke. Even Niuniu, who is usually idle, is quiet for some reason, as if she has a premonition.

All the lights in the whole villa are on,

I sat on the couch, poured a glass of red wine, and looked at my watch, it was 2:59 a.m. Shi Yueying began to fall asleep sleepily.

When the pointer points to three o'clock. A huge black shadow appeared outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the black shadow was two meters long and more than a meter high, and sure enough, a pair of sickle-like things stood out from the shadow.

It's a praying mantis, a praying mantis magnified a thousand times.

The huge praying mantis was hovering outside the window, and suddenly with a hook of its sickle-shaped forelimbs, the entire floor-to-ceiling window shattered and fell to the ground, making a continuous crisp sound.

That praying mantis was leafy, with a triangular head and short antennae. It flapped its wings and jumped to the front of the living room, its mouth constantly chewing in the direction of Ms. Shi.

"It's a big sword mantis!" I shouted, "Yueying, plan two." ”

Shi Yueying was already frightened out of the clouds, carrying a bucket, and forced her nausea to splash towards the mantis. A lot of things flew out in black, all of which were big wax borers, corn borers, vegetable butterflies, soil yuan, mealworms and other insects that the big knife mantis liked to eat in the feed market next to the aquatic market.

The praying mantis was really attracted to attention, and it brandished its large knife and kept slashing at the insects flying in the air.

"Let's slip now!" I shouted.

Ms. Shi took Niuniu and ran towards the building with me. Shi Yueying asked with a strange face as she ran, "Xiao, what's going on?" Do those insects kill praying mantises? ”

"Of course not!" I glared at her, "Just trying to stop it for a while, we're stalling for time." ”

"Procrastinating for time? Why! She was puzzled.

"It's simple. If you think about it, your sister and brother-in-law made their promise at 3:19 a.m., and your brother-in-law's exact time of death was 3:19 a.m. According to this reasoning, 3:19 a.m. is a watershed, a watershed between life and death, and perhaps, the praying mantis will most likely only materialize for a short time, after which it will disappear temporarily. "Looking back at the praying mantis that kept eating insects that had been cut off from the air by its forelimbs, I didn't feel much realism until now. It's unacceptable that there is such a thing in this world!

"So we're going to get past 3:19?" Shi Yueying looked at the watch on her wrist, "There are still seventeen minutes!" ”

"That's enough, it's enough for it to eat for half an hour. I didn't expect the monster that came out of the indulgence pool to manifest, and the nature of being a living being, so lucky. "I tsk.

Time passed minute by minute, and when there were less than four minutes left, the accident finally happened.

Niuniu, who had been sleeping soundly on her mother's shoulder, woke up at some point, and she looked at the praying mantis without blinking with her big hazy eyes. Suddenly shouted loudly, "Ice cream, Mom, it's ice cream!" ”

At this moment, all the movements of the great mantis stopped. It raised its huge green compound eyes and stared at Niuniu as if it had locked onto its prey. Suddenly, its perimeter swelled abruptly. No, it's not that the body is expanding, but a sticky green light spreads, and in an instant, all the insects that have been flying around in the living room have stopped ringing, the green light has receded, and all the insects have fallen to the ground from the sky, like a rain of insects, disgusting.

"Oh no, run! Hurry up, hurry up! We were all stunned by this incident, and I finally reacted, and one of us slapped on the back, opened the door behind me and stuffed Niuniu and Ms. Shi in.

Shi Yueying was about to go in, but I pulled her out, then closed the door tightly, and stood tightly in front of the door to block it.

"What are you doing, you don't want to die!" Shi Yueying's face turned pale with fright, and even her tone was trembling and unstable.

"My life is very hard!" I looked at the praying mantis that began to be irritable, I only felt that my heart was beating wildly, and my legs were trembling with fear, but I still forced myself to calm down and said, "Neither of us is a committed relation, I read the information left by Yijiang, and I have not heard of a case of indulging in the punishment of the pool and hurting others." Praying mantis shouldn't be able to reach us! We've got to find a way to keep it and stall for time! ”

"But that praying mantis can sweep down the insects that fly into the air, and it can also shatter the floor-to-ceiling glass. It can easily cut off our heads if it wants to. Shi Yueying spoke nervously and incoherently.

"Trust me!" I grabbed her hand hard.

She looked sideways at me, and kept looking, women were such strange creatures, and she suddenly laughed, shook me back, and mumbled loudly, "I believe in you." Let's die together, I won't be alone anyway! ”

3:18:23 a.m.

The compound eyes of the praying mantis saw us, one wing, two pairs of backwards and kicks, and jumped to the second floor. Its forelimbs touched the wall, and the reinforced concrete wall was cut like tofu. It glared at us both with compound eyes, and its mouthparts were less than 10 centimeters from our heads. I could even see the clear liquid in its mouthparts.

3:18:52 a.m.

Shi Yueying held my hand harder, and I felt that her palms were wet, all in cold sweat. There was a disgusting sour smell coming from the mouthparts of the praying mantis, and Shi Yueying endured the fear of fainting and stared back at it with me without blinking. The praying mantis, presumably satisfied with its kindness, was not interested in our obstacle, and slowly lifted its right sickle-shaped forelimb and swung it at us......

It's exactly 3:19 a.m.

Shi Yueying and I subconsciously closed our eyes, only to feel that the sharp sickle set off a gust of wind, even the wind pressure made the facial muscles faintly painful. When I was overwhelmed and thought I had made a big mistake, I closed my eyes and saw the scythe approaching us, slashing through our bodies.

There was no pain, and after opening my eyes, I roughly examined my body, and no part was missing. And the praying mantis, at exactly 3:19, as I guessed, suddenly disappeared without a trace. If it weren't for the messy living room and the deep marks on the walls on the second floor, it would have been a nightmare with exceptional clarity.

"Are we okay? Not dead? Shi Yueying, who originally thought that she was going to die, also opened her eyes, she touched her body incredibly, and shouted for a long time.

"Of course we're fine!" I laughed.

She cheered and hugged me and kissed me hard. Then excitedly opened the door behind him, and happily shouted, "Sister, you're all right, the mantis is gone......"

Her shouting stopped abruptly, and the man froze in place, unable to move.

"What's wrong?" I walked forward in amazement, and was stunned. It was originally an empty room with nothing. Now, there is still nothing.

Even Ms. Shi and Niuniu disappeared completely, and disappeared without a trace for some reason......

"Huainan Zi Human Training" tells a story about an old man who lost a horse, and when he was sad about the loss of the horse, the horse came back and brought back the Hu people's horse. The old man was very happy to get the horse, but he injured his son because of a fall on his horse. The son was crippled, and the old man was heartbroken. At this time, the war broke out, the imperial court conscripted soldiers, and his son was exempted from military service due to disability, avoiding death on the battlefield. Later, people used the phrase "Saiong lost his horse, and he was not blessed" to describe the changeable world, impermanence, and bad things can become good things.

People will encounter many forks in the road in their lives, and each intersection will face a choice, and each choice will not affect the future. Everyone will encounter difficulties and setbacks of one kind or another. Is it to give up, is it to persevere? Full of dialectics. Life's biggest test of life is not only "gain", but also "loss", that is, giving up. Which ones need to give up and which ones never give up? At this moment, wisdom is needed, and courage is needed.

Voltaire said that it is not the distant mountains that make people tired, but a grain of sand in a shoe. On the road of life, we must learn to pour out the "sand" "in the shoe" at any time.

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