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Chapter 99: Summoning Animals is Risky

Cui Jiqiu's daily life is very irregular. Since the end of the college entrance examination, he has been free and unrestrained.

His parents came back on the days when the results were released and he applied for the exam. They treated the teacher to a meal and then left in a hurry. At the dinner table, he saw his parents' smiles for the first time in a long time.

He thought that the smile was probably not for himself, but for the teacher and the grades. After all, the only thing he could show off in the past three years was his grades.

He won nine consecutive victories in two modeling competitions, with 160 points for himself and 40 points for sharing. He exchanged points with others and exchanged the shared points for his own points. He relied on the reputation of nine wins to snatch dozens of points from others. From 460 to 700, from a second-tier university to a key university, it is a cause for celebration.

For several days in a row, Cui Jiqiu had a very long dream every day, even though his sleep time was getting shorter and shorter.

Once he woke up from a dream and couldn't fall asleep again. He looked at the time and it was 8:24. It was still early, as he had only slept for less than two hours, but the dream seemed to last two years.

Just "like", not "is".

On a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, near the end of the evening self-study session, a longhorn beetle flew into Shahe Town Middle School. Someone tried to catch the longhorn beetle, but was seen by the teacher, who reprimanded him verbally, but the man did not stop.

The agile and strong longhorn beetle was clinging to the table and chair. The man bent down, reached out to the beetle's back, picked it up, put it on the table, and poked it with a pen.

Longhorn beetles are not uncommon in the countryside on summer nights. The house is lit, and there is a door curtain in front of the door to block mosquitoes and flies. At different times, those blue striped door curtains made of silk threads made of unknown materials are covered with all kinds of insects: grasshoppers, mantises, katydids, longhorn beetles, spiders, flies, crickets, rhinoceros beetles, cicadas, giant flat stag beetles... The worthless door curtains became a treasure for many people in their childhood.

People who catch insects probably grew up in this kind of environment, right?
The captured longicorn stayed in the pencil case for a while. As the bell rang for the end of get out of class, the man threw the longicorn into the flower bed in front of the teaching building.

From the time the longhorn beetle appeared to the time it lost its freedom and then regained its freedom, it took at most five minutes. During these short five minutes, the beetle repeatedly appeared in his dreams in multiple forms and from different perspectives, and every detail was taken into account, so that "the days passed like years".

The people who caught the longhorn beetle, the teacher, the classmates, the longhorn beetle... their "thoughts" and their "gaze" were all clearly visible in this dream. Curiosity, joy, surprise, nervousness, excitement, fear, envy, anger... The five minutes of repeated cycles, the small episodes during class, the ups and downs of a longhorn beetle, made Cui Jiqiu's inner world tremble continuously and could not calm down for a long time.

too weird.

Today it was the longhorn beetle, yesterday it was the cicada, the day before yesterday it was the mantis, and before that it was... Although I have borrowed a lot of things from you recently, I have already paid the corresponding price, so you don't have to disturb me in my dreams, right? My daily life has been disrupted by you.

Cui Jiqiu couldn't figure out what these animal friends meant, and he didn't want to think about it anymore. He moved his pillow, turned down the temperature of the air conditioner, opened the asymptotic domain, scanned the insects in the domain, confirmed that there were no abnormalities, and slowly fell asleep again.

Shahe Town is a small town with only one middle school and nine primary schools. The only prosperous area in the town is the short few hundred meters around the intersection and the two roads in four directions.

Cui Jiqiu's range of activities was exactly within these few hundred meters. His animal friends had done something quite excessive, and he was somewhat aware of it, but he did not think about how much forest they had eaten, how much crops they had devoured, and how many people they had harmed, and he did not know because he had never been to the disaster site and had never seen the swarms of insects in the distance.

The hotel where Tang Jingming stayed was also located in a busy area at the intersection.

He first went to several nearby Internet cafes for a field survey, which were all entertainment venues frequented by the culprit, and then strolled to Cui Jiqiu's door. If the content in the document was true, the people in the house were still sleeping at this time.

He wondered whether he should use lava to destroy the door and put an end to the other person completely in his sleep.

This is a very ordinary residential building. The door used to block outsiders looks like a wooden door, and it is indeed a wooden door, but it is hollow and can be broken by bare hands.

There was only one person living in this room. Judging from the position of the window, there was a corridor after entering the door, with a bedroom on each side. If the area of ​​the window corresponded to the area of ​​the bedroom, the one on the left was the master bedroom, and the enemy was more likely to live on the left. Moreover, there was an air conditioner under the window of the left bedroom, but not on the right, which made Tang Jingming more certain of his inference.

After breaking the door, they should rush to the bedroom on the left and drown the enemy with magma. This person's ability is to summon various arthropods, but there is no creature on the planet that can withstand being soaked in hot magma. This plan and this raid have a high success rate.

However, there is still a lack of theoretical basis, that is, whether Cui Jiqiu is guilty of a crime worthy of death? The assessment task never mentioned that Cui Jiqiu should be eliminated, and the stationmaster never revealed this idea. If he acted rashly, he might lose his job. However, considering the scope of the insect plague and the degree of damage, it would be too difficult to persuade this person to turn over a new leaf. It would be easier to just kill him directly.

Tang Jingming thought for a long time, but he didn't dare to act rashly before receiving a definite order. He walked downstairs and looked up at the direction of the air conditioner. The dripping water pipe indicated that there was someone in the house.

"I have found Cui Jiqiu. Can we solve the problem from the root?"

Mu Zhengguang was surprised: "We've only come so far? This is only the second assessment task, and you've already thought of solving the problem from the root? Although the institute does not prohibit solving the problem from the root, there are still countless tasks to come. Do we have to do this every time? From another perspective, even if Cui Jiqiu deserves to die, we can never end the life of others.

"Find out the reasons to solve the problem from the root and send them to me."

When Tang Jingming saw the news, he already had a plan in mind: You just think my methods are too cruel. That's easy. I will go to the disaster area to take some photos for you and interview a few victims, and then you can make a decision.

Mu Zhengguang received the interview video and pictures of the disaster area at around nine in the morning. He didn't expect Tang Jingming to be so quick. His action was even more powerful than Lu Hao's. However, because of this, he couldn't let him get what he wanted. It's no small matter to eliminate the lives of others. If you make such a decision easily without long-term observation, it will definitely be harmful to yourself.

"That's not enough. Wait for me." Mu Zhengguang watched the video and pictures. The land destroyed by insects was so scarred that it was shocking. Disaster relief could not be delayed any longer. He asked his teacher for leave, took a bus to Chengui County, and then changed buses from the county to Shahe Town.

Tang Jingming was very disappointed with the stationmaster: "So many vegetables, grains and trees were destroyed, and you were indifferent after seeing this? Every day those uncontrolled insects are active, they will cause damage to the town's ecology. If you are willing to make a decision, this disaster will end here, because I am fully confident that the sneak attack will succeed. But you said that the reason is insufficient, and I dare not act on my own.

(End of this chapter)