The train arrived at the station at exactly eight o'clock the next morning. I got off the train and breathed in the fresh air, and I finally felt a little more comfortable.
I woke up many times during the night, thinking that Zhang Feng's feet were smelly enough. The dormitory unanimously asked him to put his sneakers on the balcony when he came back every day.
Unexpectedly, one mountain is higher than the other. I don’t know which master took off his shoes while sleeping last night, and the whole carriage exploded instantly.
Nearly a hundred sleeping passengers were woken up by the smoke. Some passengers cursed and said that this was comparable to a biological and chemical weapon and should be sent to an island country. Maybe it could wipe out that nasty country.
There was a crisp "pop" sound.
I felt a cold sensation on my neck, as if something had hit my neck.
He reached out and touched the greasy spot on his neck, and when he looked at his hands, he saw a smell of gray dust.
The moment I saw this dust, I was shocked. Isn't this the dust that falls off the wings of the poisonous moths that the elder sister on the train mentioned?
When I saw my condition on the ninth day of the lunar month, I had already wiped the dust from my hands onto my clothes.
"Guo Guo, let me take a look at your neck."
After Chujiu took a look at it, he said it was not as scary as the eldest sister said, there was no redness, and there was nothing abnormal.
Finally, Chujiu asked me if I felt anything. After I replied that everything was normal, the two of them finally breathed a sigh of relief.
On the way to the bus station, I was attacked several times by different bugs for no reason.
Twice it was a moth, twice it was an unknown black hard-shelled beetle, and once it was a two-inch venomous wasp.
Fortunately, Chujiu noticed it and was not stung by a poisonous bee. Otherwise, the injury would have been serious.
I found a step on the side of the road where I could sit, and Chujiu asked me to check carefully to see if there was anything unusual on my body.
After checking again and again, we found nothing abnormal.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, I bought two tickets with great concern, and we boarded the bus before long.
After my previous experience on the train, I never dared to fall asleep on the train again this time.
During the eight-hour drive, I spent half the time staring at the soles of my feet.
Finally, I concluded that the bugs were indeed attracted to me. To be more precise, they were attracted to me and Chujiu.
It shows that small reptiles hidden in the cracks of the bus gradually appear, and when the bus stops to rest, flying insects that are active in winter will fly in our direction.
On the car window near us, the traces left by the insect impact and the corpses can tell everything.
At a service area where we took a break during the trip, we went to the toilet and basked in the sun on the road near the bus.
In order to confirm my guess, I deliberately found a piece of land with hay to stand on.
Sure enough, after a while, several large ants emerged from the nearby dry grass and crawled directly towards me and Chujiu.
When I was in high school, I read an extracurricular book in the library about ants.
Ants are relatively special insects. When the temperature drops below ten degrees in winter, they will hide in their holes and basically never come out, but they will not hibernate.
Unless they encounter special circumstances, such as earthquakes, floods, or other events. For non-important things, they just hide in their holes and eat the food stored in the autumn.
Ants are social insects that live in colonies and are very fond of nests. Worker ants specialize in building nests, foraging, raising young, etc., and are the most numerous.
The foods that ants like to eat are sweet foods, such as sugar and bread crumbs.
The situation of ants looking for food is very interesting. As long as you place the sweet food in a place where ants often hang out, wait patiently and observe carefully, you can see the whole process of ants looking for food.
The ants will crawl around endlessly at first. When they get close to the sweets you put, they will smell the sweetness and then slowly crawl over.
First, test the food with your legs to see if it responds. If it doesn't respond, it will eat it and try to drag the food away.
If the food is too big for it to drag, it will go back along the way it came and call its companions. At this time, if you look carefully, you can find the ant's nest.
Soon after the ants get into the nest, several ants will come out and crawl along the original route in the direction of the food. Halfway through the crawl, some ants will turn back and meet other ants on the road. They will use their tentacles to talk.
Information is continuously conveyed through the tentacles, and eventually a long team of ants transporting food will be generated from the ant nest to the food.
As for the few large ants I saw, they did not crawl around endlessly. After crawling out of their nests, most of them rushed towards me.
A few of them rush towards Chujiu very purposefully. Just like we have a strong smell that they like here, which directly attracts them.
However, the few that rushed toward Chujiu became violently uneasy when they were about to touch Chujiu's shoes. After spinning in circles for a long time, they changed their targets and crawled towards me.
Now I am certain that there must be something on us that attracts insects.
After the observation results were revealed to Chujiu, Chujiu frowned more and more.
I just doubted it. As Chujiu said, there is indeed a sweet smell on me, because I can't think of any other smell that ants like.
When Chujiu felt that the matter was serious, a leaf suddenly jumped on my shoulder from the tree behind me!
Leaves! That's right! It's a leaf! A withered yellow leaf jumped directly to my shoulder like a living thing.
Mantis? A mantis that mimics a leaf! That’s right! It’s a mantis!
In winter, a praying mantis actually appeared, and it was a very large adult.
As we all know, the lifespan of a praying mantis is only a few months, especially an adult praying mantis that cannot survive the winter. The praying mantis will leave its eggs for the winter, and when spring arrives, the eggs will develop into small mantises.
Mimicking the leaves of a mantis is one of the mimicry behaviors of mantises.
They grow leaves and protrusions on their thorax, abdomen, tibia, and scutes, imitating leaves, branches, and tree scars to confuse small insects and achieve the effect of preying.
Many people have seen in books a story about people from three seasons. The style and context are similar to "The Analects of Confucius".
The original text says: During the imperial dynasty, Zigong was doing some cleaning, and a guest arrived and asked, "Who are you, Master?" He said, "Mr. He Lao?" He said, "It's time to ask."
Zigong saw it and said, "You know." The guest said, "What are the seasons of the year?" He smiled and replied, "Four seasons." The guest said, "Three seasons."
The discussion then continued and did not rest until noon. When the master heard the sound, he came out. Zigong asked about it. The master did not answer at first, but after checking, he said: "Three Seasons."
The guest is happy and happy, and he laughs at the Master.
When Zigong asked, Confucius said: "It is the four seasons." Zigong had different colors.
Confucius said: "This time is not that time. The guests are green and pale, and the grasshoppers in the fields are born in spring and die in autumn. How can we see winter? Confucius discussed the time with him, and it lasted for three days." Zigong thought so.
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This story is actually about a praying mantis. It was born in spring and died in autumn, never seeing winter at all.