Chapter 1044: A Strange City (2)
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"School." The girl took out the schedule from her pocket: "There are classes." β
"Do aliens need to learn too?" I quipped.
"Integrating into life on this planet is a must without revealing one's identity." The girl said yes.
I scratched my forehead: "You guy, when you see someone, you say that you are from the Cygnus Alpha planet, and you have already been exposed." β
The girl tilted her head in confusion and thought about it: "Ye Yuxin said that when she sees people, she will say that she is an alien, but she will not be exposed." β
This truth seems to be true. At least even if I have such a rich experience and such a brilliant imagination, I can't believe that the girl in front of me is really an alien. Of course, this radio wave girl is 100% purebred on Earth. It's a pity to be a beautiful person and ruined in escapism.
Without wasting any more foam, I led her out of the room and downstairs. As soon as I got out of the elevator room, I walked into the green belt of the community and saw a group of people surrounding my mother-in-law and mother-in-law.
These people have nothing to do every day, and they get together all day long to talk about gossip, which is really idle and a little enviable. Yesterday I talked about the dead bodies in the underground parking lot, but today I don't know what kind of appalling news there is? I complained in my heart as I walked out.
Suddenly, from under a large tree overhead, something like a catkins fell on top of my head. I was about to brush it off with my hand, when the 'catkins' actually moved, bypassed my hand in a very tricky position, and fell to the ground.
I was taken aback, and when I looked intently, it was indeed catkins. It's just that the appearance of this catkins is very strange. I picked up a branch not far away, touched it gently, and the catkins immediately jumped far away like a cricket.
"Is it some kind of bug?" I was stunned, and my head didn't react. What bugs are so weird? Then he poked with a branch, and the bug quickly jumped long. Its tail opens and closes like a peacock, and it looks very strange.
When I looked up at the trees around me, I was shocked to find that the trees in the entire neighborhood seemed to be covered with a layer of hoarfrost. Every tree is covered with this kind of slave, densely packed, I don't know how many there are.
Grabbing one and putting it in my hand, I finally figured out what they really looked like. These insects have a flattened and round body, mostly white and pale cyan in color, and have six long legs. A pinch of white fluff on the tail takes up more than half of the body length and opens and closes like a peacock's tail. When stopped, the fluff of the insect spreads out, covering almost the entire body, and when jumping, the fluff will cluster into a clump.
Strange insects lurk on the branches and leaves, like a small white fur ball, and when viewed from a distance, it looks like a small piece of fluff wet by raindrops sticking to the tree, and it is impossible to detect it without looking closely. With a light touch of his hand, the 'small white hairball' quickly jumped up, and the visual distance was almost 1 meter away.
Once I saw them clearly, I had a preliminary idea of what it was. Insects look abstract and are simply different from creatures on Earth.
Lu Xiaoxiao wondered: "Alien creatures? β
"Of course not." I smiled and explained, "This insect has a very beautiful common name, called feather coat. The scientific name is wax cicada. It is a pest. Although this small insect has a cute appearance, it is not small harmful to plants, and mainly feeds on the sap of plant leaves, young shoots, flower spikes and fruits. It is found in most parts of Asia, mainly on Rutaceae plants and some fruit trees. β
"But their tails are very Martian." The girl seemed to be born with no fear of insects, so she actually tore off the tail hair of her feather coat and put it in front of her eyes to study.
I was disgusted by her movements, and hurriedly threw away the wax cicada that was struggling to die in the palm of my hand: "The fluff on the tail of the wax cicada larvae is actually a kind of wax secreted by itself, which is an important self-protection tool. It can be camouflaged, and when resting, the body is hidden in the inside of the fluff, which looks like a ball of catkins from a distance, thus confusing the predators; It can also be used as a doppelganger, because the fluff is only a kind of wax, when the birds attack, it can fall off as a protective umbrella, and then quickly get out with the help of super bouncing power; Moreover, when the fruit grower sprays pesticides on the fruit trees, the fluff is like an umbrella, blocking a large amount of pesticides, and the amount of insect contact is very small. β
My tone hesitated for a moment: "Last night's uninvited guests are probably these wax cicadas." There is indeed a large orchard to the south of Pigeon City, and I am afraid that they flew from that place. But what are they flying into the city? There is neither food nor living space. Odd! β
Everything is really weird. Since coming to Pigeon City, there have been several strange incidents in a row. Yesterday's termites gathered, and today's wax cicadas entered the city. It seems that there is nothing like nothing, and it always smells of some kind of conspiracy.
Out of the neighborhood and on the road, almost any place with trees in sight is basically covered with a layer of hoarfrost. Those wax cicadas are everywhere, attracting the attention of passers-by. From time to time, TV station cars drove by, and waves of reporters got out of the car to interview and film this strange biological incident.
The gate of Pigeon City University is on the other side of the intersection, and the students who come and go are also very interested in the wax cicada, and the students enter the school in groups, talking and talking. Some people even go around preaching the theory of the end of the world, saying that the recent pigeon city chaos is a precursor to the end of the world.
However, such extreme remarks are of course dismissed as crazy talk.
One student even came up to me and told me that the end of the world was coming, that there was no need to save the money that should be saved, that there should be fun in time, and so on. I smirked and almost pumped over. The student's eyes accidentally touched Lu Xiaoxiao behind me, his neck jerked, and without saying much nonsense, he immediately left in a gray manner.
I was puzzled and glanced at Lu Xiaoxiao. The girl continued to walk behind me with a blank face, not glancing at the students around her at all, as if they were just rotten wood.
It seems that this girl's background is not simple. Looks good and has a funny head, these will not make people who have a purpose or a heart for her shy away. Unless, it was her parents who used some means to warn some people strongly, so that the whole school knew not to provoke her.
It didn't take long for me to forget about it, after all, it didn't have a dime to do with me. I called the old man and asked him to help me investigate a few things that I cared about, and then the whole person was idle. Hengzhu didn't have anything to do, so he simply followed Lu Xiaoxiao to class.
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