The scorching heat of July is coming to an end, and the scorching August is approaching, and the hot summer day at midday has sunburned the asphalt roads to the point of cracking, and the air has been steaming to the point of distortion.

In the heat of the day, when the road is ready to fry eggs, people who have already lived a modern life are naturally no longer willing to feel it in their own flesh, and most of them huddle in air-conditioned rooms to escape the heat, even if they occasionally go to the street to bring a hot air. Although it was broad daylight, the streets were quieter than midnight, with only the occasional whining sound of cars passing by at high speed, whining from the rubbing of tires against the dry ground, and a puff of dry dust swept away.

The temperature is 39 degrees, and no one wants to be exposed to the heat, so everything seems rushed in the sun that can almost make a person peel, but he is an exception.

A figure walked down the hot pavement with his head down, staggering and slow like a zombie.

Final Heng, an insignificant little person who lives in Y County.

Although he has a 985 university diploma, Zhong Heng is still a member of the unemployed army, for the simple reason that his major is too out-of-the-road:

Entomology is known to 999 out of 1,000 people, but not necessarily 1 out of 10,000 people will learn the major.

The reason why Zhongheng chose it in the first place is very simple, two words, interest.

Although Zhongheng is an authentic urban hukou, he has been going to his grandmother's house in the countryside every summer vacation since he was a child. Entertainment in the countryside was still relatively scarce in the first few years of the 21st century, so the mainstream entertainment method of returning to the countryside was to play like a wild man in the fields, forests, and mountains with a group of relatives or friends of the same age.

In this "wild child" general fun, the relatively more contact is insects, Zhong Heng and a group of friends have poked the hornet's nest, poured the ant hole, caught the grasshopper and learned to go home to fry, and also caught some more able insects, such as praying mantis, spiders, crickets, beetles, etc., thrown into a box to fight, the loser wants to eat a pack of spicy strips.

This is the childhood of many post-60s, post-70s and even post-80s, but in the post-90s generation, there are very few urban children who have such an experience, not to mention that many rural children after the 90s have also "degraded" with social development.

It is the experience of playing with insects since childhood, so that Zhong Heng gradually fell in love with these strange and small but ubiquitous, small animals that account for more than ninety percent of the number of animals on the earth, as he grows older, the experience of playing in the countryside has become a thing of the past, many of his peers have probably forgotten the childhood story of catching insects, but he still insists on playing with insects, and, also played to a higher level.

Feeding.

In the past, due to youth and ignorance, any insect that came into the hands of the final heng could be said to have entered the Auschwitz concentration camp, and none of them could survive more than three days, either to be played to death, or to be locked in an empty glass bottle to starve to death, thirst to death, dry to death, suffocation. But after Zhongheng went to junior high school, he was not satisfied with playing with dead bugs anymore, so he learned to look up information on the Internet and learned about the habits of different bugs. Based on this knowledge, coupled with some of his own exploration, he can already feed most of the bugs, and he has changed from the insect killer in the past to the angel of bugs.

The worm became his pet.

Birdcatchers, praying mantises, beetles, scorpions, centipedes, ants, cockroaches, crickets, butterflies, and even flies, almost all the insects that can be named have been raised, some bought from the Internet, some caught by himself from the outside - every once in a while, he would go to the wild to pick them.

It was the hobby of playing insects that made Zhong Heng choose the major of entomology without hesitation despite everyone's opposition after he was admitted to university.

If he succeeds in his studies, his hobby will be work in the future, and work will be his hobby, what a pleasant thing it would be, however, the cruel reality gave him a blow to the head.

Entomology is inherently unpopular, and the employment area is very narrow, not to mention that there are almost no other employment channels except for scientific research, not to mention that Zhongheng can't even squeeze into this almost unique channel.

He was admitted to graduate school, even if it was "World War II", he still failed, although the professional courses were almost full marks, but mathematics, English, and politics pulled him too much back from not liking to learn these knowledge, plus the two final balances were both high and low, one reported to Tsinghua University and one reported to Fudan Entomology graduate students, all of which were brushed off.

Although the "World War II" failed, the disheartened Zhong Heng was reluctant to find a job hastily after getting his graduation certificate, and his requirements for the job were very strange, that is: the salary can not be high, but I must like it.

And to get the job he likes, all of them are professional jobs, such a job that is already unpopular, and it is a job in a severe employment situation, to be able to find, it is almost pie in the sky, so he has been busy for most of the year, and finally Heng is still unemployed at home, and every day he is faced with either chattering or scolding, and what he hears most during the New Year's holidays is not the most annoying blind date introduction of others, but the job introduction that he feels more annoying.

"Why haven't you worked yet?!"

"Your cousin and I have a job here, accounting, do it or not, if you want to do it, go to get a certificate, and then go to work, I will give you 2400 a month!"

"Oh, isn't this Ah Heng, are you married? Ah, haven't worked yet?! ”

"You can't do this......"

"It's a shame to play with insects and demons......"

Tired of the nagging, Zhong Heng could no longer stand the disdainful eyes of the seven aunts and eight aunts in his family, so he found an excuse to partner with his classmates to breed locusts and start a business, ran away from home, and returned to Guangdong Province, where he studied at university.

Of course, he didn't come to look for a job, but just wanted to find a quiet and quiet place, and finally found a wealthy friend he met when he was a university student in the capital of Guangdong Province, and lived in his home.

This friend's name is Zhang Jiawei, not a college classmate of Zhongheng, but a "worm friend" that Zhongheng met on the Internet.

Zhang Jiawei is four or five years older than Zhong Heng, his family is in business, he is relatively rich, he has met and communicated with Zhong Heng, and he has also been wild with Zhong Heng, and he is a very good friend.

He doesn't do anything at home except eating, drinking, and having fun, anyway, the family business is supported by his brothers, and Zhang Jiawei, as the youngest son, can make money every day with his eyes closed, which is very common in his hometown S area.

Zhong Heng lived in Zhang Jiawei's house for two months, and did nothing every day except for huddled in the house with Zhang Jiawei to play black games, and occasionally exchanged and exchanged experience in raising insects.

As the head of Zhang Jiawei's family's business, Zhang Jiawei's father, who loves Zhang Jiawei the most, was diagnosed with cancer, and the family business was gradually eroded by Zhang Jiawei's greedy brothers and sisters.

There is no way, it is difficult to help the long-term poverty, not to mention that Zhang Jiawei is also poor now, not to mention facing a cruel battle for property, except for 3,000 basic living expenses per month, he has nothing.

This also meant that Zhong Heng lost his temporary residence, and he had to move out of Zhang Jiawei's large apartment in the center of the city and rent a shared house in an urban village with almost a penny in half.

If this continues, soon Zhongheng will face either shutting down and finding a job as a food delivery person and barely gaining a foothold in an international metropolis like Yangcheng, or spending all the money and living on the streets and being sent back to his hometown.

Fortunately, he got some capital from Zhang Jiawei that allowed him to gain a foothold - bugs. Different from Zhongheng, Zhang Jiawei has raised many precious varieties of insects worth thousands or even tens of thousands because of his good economic conditions: Amazon giant bird-eating spider, Peruvian giant centipede, South American halberd giant beetle, Palawan giant flat beetle, Titan longhorn beetle, African orchid mantis, ......

Many of them are all because Zhang Jiawei can no longer raise them, they are all packaged and given to the final Heng, and it is by selling these insects on the Internet that the final balance can barely have some economic resources in Yangcheng.

The price of these bugs is not low, and the total value can even reach millions according to the market price, but they are not easy to sell. Because of the rarity of things, many insects are inflated because of their rarity, and the reason why they are expensive is because they are brought in from abroad or even war-torn areas, and the transportation is difficult and the cost is high. Ordinary bug players don't have this need, and they don't have so much money.

Therefore, many bugs are sold at a tenth or even a tenth of the price by the final balance. Tighten your belt in Yangcheng for a month, the insects were sold for one-tenth, and the final balance only earned more than 4,000 yuan, and the old capital on the body was almost spent, and the high rent in Yangcheng, even if it was in the urban village on the outskirts of the city, was close to 2,000 a month.

If it goes on like this, sooner or later, it will be empty.

Although pulling down his face and going home can end all these problems, his character has always been a tendon, and until the last moment, he can't pull his face and go back to his hometown to be embarrassed, he already has another plan in his heart.

Since there are so many precious insects in hand, it is really a tyrannical thing to sell and waste like this, it is better to do business with them as capital and open a reptile shop of your own, so that you can not only survive, but also make money in the future and have a stable economic source.

What's more, the insects are very durable, there are many pairs in it, and the cost of raising them can be said to be almost none, as long as the breeding is successful, and then the price is lowered to find a market, it is almost a money-making business.

Feeding, breeding insects for the original is to learn this profession of the final balance is not a problem, in terms of sales, because the final balance on the Internet of the major insect forums is also a little famous, I have sold myself before I am tired of raising insects that I don't want to raise, as long as I give time to expand, I won't worry, now the only thing to worry about is the cost of living, Yangcheng is an international metropolis after all, no matter how to pull the belt of living costs is impossible to be low.

Anyway, selling insects is sold through the Internet, as long as the buyer and the seller have express delivery and network, and finally Heng does not plan to stay in Yangcheng, he decided to go to Y County in the north of Guangdong Province, on the one hand, where prices are low and rents are cheap, on the other hand, it is a mountainous area, when he was in college, he had practiced there in the wild, and he was more familiar, whether it was to find a place to live or to explore and catch insects in the wild in the future.

After finding a rental house in Y County, Zhong Heng packed the bugs into a courier and sent them, and then took a bus to Y County.

However, the nightmare began a few days later.