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Chapter 9 The Dream of Thirty May

It's so quiet. Think about it.

"The noisy cicada forest is more quiet, and the bird singing mountain is even more secluded."

"The missing moon hangs on the sparse tung trees, and the missing moon makes people feel at peace."

"Silence is better than sound at this time."

"you saybest, when you say nothingall."

"In the middle of the night when no one is whispering."

What is the article about today?

Said... I accidentally fell asleep again yesterday.

When I woke up, the lights were on and my phone was completely empty...

Not really. One of them played songs all night and was actually very energetic.

Alas... there is no comparison.

Of course, it is a fact that the battery capacity of this mobile phone is larger. The 3000 mAh battery is really limited (is this the wrong word)?

What did you dream about?

First of all, let’s revisit old places. I always dream about old friends, such as former classmates or passers-by in life.

Most of the scenes are what I have experienced in my life.

A few have never been there and are created...pictureinmind.

There is nothing to say.

gonegone, ashes, dust.

There is an interesting thing that I must (ぜひ) share.

I like to record things that actually happened. Dreams are also an experience.

Say. How to describe it in a...

I thought of Tongzi Tower, but I didn’t even know what Tongzi Tower looked like.

Anyway, it's just a somewhat old-style building.

I guess it was based on the residential area where my good friend’s home in elementary school was located.

That residential area is very interesting... I have never seen anything like it since I left my hometown many years ago.

It looks like an ordinary building, but there are many passages in it.

For example, imagine a building: they are directly connected horizontally and connected vertically by stairs.

There are about three entrances to the building. If you enter from any entrance, you can visit the entire building without leaving the building.

To put it more vividly, the shopping area is equivalent to the balcony of a private home in a building today...

"onbalcony".

After talking about buildings, let’s talk about bungalows. In those days, many people didn’t lock their doors. Looking at it now, it’s really incredible.

(When I think of a word, I don’t pick up lost things along the way.)

In modern society, in Kerstin's words, people are living their own cages.

Um... I'm reminded of the song "Long Lost Pen Pal" again.

That's too far.

The protagonist is a hermit from a foreign country.

He was once very famous, but now he is anonymous and lives again as an ordinary person (bilingual).

Of course, someone still knows. After all, he was famous (around the world).

And then, it’s actually quite weird.

He raised an insect that was not considered a beneficial insect (or rather, it was not considered a beneficial insect in public perception).

This insect...well, how to describe it.

As for the size, it can be placed in the palm of your hand. It has wings.

The neighbors had objections. Some of them had bad intentions and wanted to kill the insects, and they tried many times.

I saw in my dream that someone was throwing stones at the bug while it was flying.

Speaking of flying bugs...

Last year, I saw a mantis in the middle of the road when I was taking a walk. With that amount of people, it might be trampled to pieces in the next minute. You said it’s okay to use the mantis as a car. Is it a waste of life to be trampled to death?

So I caught it from the hurried pedestrians on the road (the technique was very skillful, haha. If a child who has never seen a praying mantis tries to catch it, he might be caught by it. However, I haven't seen that kind of... ability in many years.

A mantis that can easily pierce human skin. The one here seems to be small.)

While looking for the grass, I noticed that it looked stupid (although I don't want to say this, but I just felt that it had no energy and didn't look like it would live long).

There was no sign of struggle. He just gently placed it on me.

After a few seconds, it actually flew away, "flying into the flowers."

In my impression, brown and gray mantises are good at flying.

So, my knowledge has been refreshed again?

The flightless green mantis with a big belly that I have seen before must be a pregnant female mantis.

A line from a movie comes to mind, it's always the woman who gets hurt.

When I was in my hometown, I could always get close to nature. When I came to the city, it was very rare to see insects. Sometimes I would see mole crickets under the street lights. I would think, wow, long time no see.

When you catch a mole cricket, it will use its claws to dig out the ground.

Well. Everything does, no exceptions.

I think of Shen Fu's "Children's Interest" and Lu Xun's "From Baicao Garden".

Think of Spivey's mother (entomologist) in "Young Spivey's Bizarre Journey".

Going too far again... and bringing it back again...

He asked: Why do you do such an excessive thing? It won't hurt you.

Those people replied: Pests will be pests after all.

The dream ends here.

What I want to share is such a short dream.

After waking up, I thought of two things. One is that after the mantises mate, the female mantises will eat the male mantises to prepare for the reproduction of offspring.

Some "good guys" suggested that if enough food could be provided for them, this behavior would not happen.

Second, I heard that ferocious beasts will not attack people after they are full.

I remember. What happened.

The BBC documentary "Humans" seemed to mention India at the end. It said that animals in India walk with people on the streets. Monkeys often steal or rob people of food.

I find it very interesting. In my impression, the monkeys on the streets in China are all chained and perform shows. Monkey tricks?

(As for the rat worship in India...

Well, I'd better keep silent.)

There are no wild animals in residential areas in China. Even in nature, there may be very few.

Grandpa said that when he was a child, he heard the true story of using iron gun/foreign cannon to beat a bear. The bear had a hole in its body, filled it back with grass, and continued to chase people).

Humans hunted all the animals and then established nature reserves.

The most ferocious and evil beast, isn't it human beings themselves?
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