Chapter 3 Chapter 2 The Metamorphosis of the Young Killer

metamorphosis August 31 I didn't go to see it this morning, I guess it was dead.The ancients said "Don't ask about illness, don't hang yourself when you die", probably the same mentality!Now that you know that you are bound to die, medicine and stone will take effect, since the sick person has already looked haggard and completely lost his former style, and since the hero can no longer hold a weapon, it is better to let him die quietly and leave me alone." Good old days" memories. Thinking of Eileen Chang, she lived in seclusion since 1972, moved constantly, never made phone calls, even rarely wrote letters, and rarely looked at strangers in the eye.Great writers no longer have desks, but use cardboard boxes as desks.There are no bookshelves anymore, and even my own works are thrown in a corner.

Of course, you can also think of it this way, since you are no longer a writer, why use a desk; since your work has been completed, and you don't intend to learn from the Tathagata, why bother to look back.Since a beautiful impression of a talented woman has long been left in people's hearts, why destroy it with a haggard face? Although this mantis is not quite like a mantis, let alone a hero.But a mantis is a mantis after all, and its appearance is naturally majestic and awe-inspiring.Just like the lion in The Wizard of Oz, even though he has no guts, he is a lion after all. Being a lion has some inherent honor. You should treat him with the etiquette of a lion. You should not spit at him. Superior coffin.

hey-hey!Thinking of Puyi, the last emperor, he got many wives, and was later assigned to take care of the garden, but how to say, he was still Boyi, not treated as an ordinary person, but received special treatment.Look again, after many celebrities and great men, no matter whether he is on the road or not, he is also considered to have a special temperament and enjoy some special courtesy? With this in mind, I thought it was time to visit this seedless praying mantis and hold a small funeral for it.As I walked towards the study, I thought: Actually, it’s very simple. Just like Amadeus, just open the glass box and pour it into the bush where it was caught, and it will be solved, and it can be regarded as returning to the hometown.As for the hornet, big ant, and fly that are still alive, since they were lucky enough to meet a stupid master and not be bitten off, and they were still alive after waiting to be killed until today, then should be released.

Therefore, when the funeral is held for the master, it is also the time for the happy event for the prisoner. Isn't this the case for many political prisoners?If he offended the Holy Majesty by speaking, or even beat the master a little harder, he was dragged out and locked up.Isn't it a great thing for this master to die? Now we can understand that the birth of a prince can amnesty the world.The new master's enthronement can also amnesty the world. It seems that it is a happy event, but it is actually quite different. Why do you say "the new master is enthroned"?It should be called "the old master stepped down".Now that the old master has stepped down, many merits and demerits can be re-identified, and many traitors can also be re-evaluated.Why not show generosity and pardon all criminals who locked up the "old master" together!

"Thank God, thank you, thank you grandparents! My master is dead. I'm saved!" When the hornets, flies, and ants were released, I wonder if they would cry like that. Go to the bookshelf and look in the glass box.Startled: what a big one!How did one become two?I saw two praying mantises embracing each other tightly, sleeping against the bottom of the box, motionless.Could it be that my eighty-nine-year-old mother caught another praying mantis and put it in secretly?I guess, she is the only old urchin in the family, so it is possible. Carefully lift the glass box to the bright place and see the "ghoul".It turned out that of the two praying mantises, one was the dead "it" and the other was "its ghost".

is not that right?The ghost was translucent, with its legs outstretched and its butt raised in exactly the same way, but its head was not clear, like a mask that had been taken off, rolled together.Shake again, "it" is still moving, not dead!Suddenly a flash of inspiration: "Holy shit! It's peeling off." Followed by remorse: how could I be so confused?It doesn't eat, drink, fight or fight. It turns out that it is waiting to shed its skin.What's more, it kept crawling back and forth, and leaned its head tightly against the bottom of the box. It turned out to be looking for a good place to shed its skin.Isn't it written in the book?Because the body needs to grow, but the outer skin does not grow, the mantis has to shed its skin five times in its life.Every time I don’t eat anything, I’m lazy for several days, and then I find a branch, hold on tightly, and get out of the “old clothes” head-down.

The mention of "old clothes" reminds me of "Cicada clothes", that is, "Cicada slough", that empty shell hanging on the tree with its teeth dancing and claws.It makes sense to hold on to the "dead shell". Only by holding on to the "dead shell" can the "new body" get out, and slowly get out of the old clothes in a leisurely manner, and even "take off" every time the toes are intact. .Then stand on the old shell to rest and let the wings dry. Order now.I quickly opened the glass box and took it out, the old skin fell down as light as nothing, and the one with "weak limbs" in my hand was a newborn praying mantis.I really want to know how it got away with nothing to grab?

It's like taking off a glove. You have to grab the tip of the glove with one hand to get it off.Now, since the old skin of the praying mantis could not stand firmly on the branch, could it be that the old skin was thrown off by constant shaking? I paid attention to checking its six legs. Except for the two large pliers in front, there was still a small part that hadn't been removed, and three and a half of the other four legs had indeed come out.After a little tugging on the half of the foot that was not cleaned off, a thin layer of skin fell off.It's just that it must have struggled a lot. Although its legs were all out, the two rear legs and the thigh in the middle were all broken.

What's more troublesome is the wings. The book says that after "getting free", the praying mantis will stand with its head up and its butt down, so that the wings that were originally clustered together can be stretched out like petals. It was the most miraculous moment, but now it can't hang on the branch to let the body fluids flow into the wings, and there is not enough space for the breeze to dry the wet wings, but it is on the ground, lying on a corner of the box.No wonder the wings look like a few dirty rags, stretched into a ball. According to psychology, the helplessness and fear of childhood can be performed again in the form of games, and the original helplessness situation can be reversed during the performance, so that the hidden fear in the heart can be overcome.

I'm going to do this treatment for it now too. The three limbs that were broken in the first row had to be corrected first before the exoskeleton was finalized.Of course, this little thing cannot be bandaged or plastered. I found an adhesive strip, straightened the thin leg folded at a ninety-degree angle, and fixed it in the adhesive strip.I used to do this for flowers that I accidentally broke, but now that "gardener" is a "veterinarian", the reasoning should be the same. Then find a thin thread, tie it up from the chest, and hang it on the branch of the epiphyllum tree.It also makes sense to do so, think about it, six of its limbs were broken and three of its limbs were injured, and the two large pliers in front of it, and the small tweezers just peeled off the old shell bit by bit, of course it was impossible to stand, let alone climb up.And if its wings are not hung up to "use the pecking force of the center of the earth", it will not be able to stretch; if the newly corrected legs are forced to stand, it will be impossible to recover.

Of course, I had to hang it. Then I turned back the time. In order to prevent it from catching cold, I dipped a brush in water to wet the "ball" of wings, and then smoothed them out, hoping to go back to the time when the old shell had just come out, standing on the branch and spreading its wings. Oh!In fact, it cannot be called two wings, just like Qingying, it has four wings.Two green-brown ones are on the back of the second part of the body, and the other two maroon ones are on the back of the third part, which is the so-called "belly". When it folds its wings, the green ones should cover the red ones.So the whole praying mantis looks green and brown. I also made a plan to take a step back. It would be great if the wings could spread.If there is still no way, instead of letting it drag such a big lump, it is better to have an operation to cut it off.Praying mantises don’t need to fly in the first place, they fly mostly to escape. Now that they are in my box, they can be the king in the box for the rest of their lives, waiting to eat and drink spicy food every day.Why do you need wings? As for those broken feet, if the strips work, they probably won't be disabled.If it has been injured and broken, and it cannot recover, I am afraid I will have to kill it cruelly. This is not cruel, but benevolent.Instead of letting it starve to death, or putting it outside where its enemies, ants, kill it, it's better to have a good time.It is like a horse that hurts its foot. Since it is a horse but cannot run, it is better to shoot it.Please don’t think I’m cruel, praying mantises are not human after all, disabled people can still think, Stephen W. Hawking who wrote at Harvard, divorced his wife, and found a new love, isn’t he severely disabled? ?It is said that he is also considered the greatest scientist after Einstein! But can this praying mantis think?What is the meaning of the existence of a praying mantis that cannot think or hunt?Suddenly I thought of Xiang Yu, who was very good at killing, but he couldn't think.In fact, it's not that he can't think, but he is a little more kind when he thinks.The kindness of the hunter is like the "pleasure" of a prostitute in doing business, which is the most terrible and degrading thing. I told myself that since I raised it to watch it kill, appreciate it kill, let it entertain me with killing, if it can't kill, I should kill it. Like many "Masters" throughout history, I cannot be merciful.Rehabilitation September 1st As soon as he got up, he rushed to see it, and thought that the killer who should have climbed up the tree trunk by himself and regained his divine power was actually hanging in the air motionless.On the contrary, the wings that were curled into a ball yesterday have become flat and straight.Hanging behind the body, it seems to be wearing a green cloak. Is it dead?I blew it a bit.Immediately swayed on all fours.It just moved back and forth, but I couldn't grab the branches around me. Looking back against the light, I saw a struggling body hanging by a rope, like a hanging in a western movie.I also thought of the picture of Mussolini and his mistress being hanged upside down and letting the crowd spit. The greatest end of a hero is to die on the battlefield, the second is to die in office, and the second is to die well after retirement. The worst thing is to die on the enemy's execution ground. A hero deserves to die like a hero. Even if he enters the arena, it is good to be killed heartbroken and heartbroken.If you are bound and obediently go to the gallows, you will lose the hope and support of the masses. correct!the general public.Heroes are born to be admired by the masses.How much you are supported when you are a hero, how much you are cast aside when you are a bear, just like a martial arts master who creates a set of martial arts and weaves many myths, and under the praise of a gentleman's disciples, he has countless admirers The masses; everyone gathers before dawn, and listens to the teachings together, like being enlightened, being suppressed and filled.Then practice the indestructible power of the diamond together. One day, this commander-in-chief, this "man of god" who should never die, actually got sick, and was too sick to "go to court" any longer.What will happen when the news arrives?With such a small illness, the god-man collapsed. What future and security do we mortals have if we follow him?Therefore, the god-man is not dead yet, the myth has been shattered, and the disciples have scattered. You say, can this "man of God" fall down?Just like when Chu and Han were fighting, the king of Han was obviously shot by an arrow and was seriously injured and lay on the bed.He had to be dragged up by Zhang Liang reluctantly, and went out to work as a soldier. The God-man is dead, and the worst thing is the big disciples below. Half of the myths about the God-man are made up by them. The myths and illusions are shattered. All the famous generals became accomplices. So the god-man does not even have the right to die.If you die, the news may be suppressed, and you dare not make a funeral. is not that right?Now I also have a problem, who made me tell my daughter so many myths about how powerful the praying mantis is, and the little girl is standing behind me, what should I say? "Look! That's great! Daddy's great! How beautiful are the wings from yesterday's mess?" "But why is it still hanging?" "It's recovering, and when I remove the rubber strips on its legs, it will look good." I said with a guilty conscience.To be honest, I am also curious about the results of this rehabilitation. Take tweezers and scissors, and untie the thin thread that hangs it, and hang it, like a paratrooper, slowly hanging to the ground.It even spread its wings, thinking it was a wanderer in the air. The carpet is creamy yellow with a skylight on it, and the sun is shining in, so you can see it more clearly, and you can perform "stitch removal" surgery.It's really shocking to see clearly, this guy didn't eat or drink for several days, and he suddenly became bigger, a full third of his size.Just looking at the triangular head, it is much more decent than before.It turns out that the old skin is like a high-pressure armor. If you put it inside and break it out, you can "see the wind".I finally understand that women's corsets and corsets actually make sense.I originally thought that meat was meat, so I tightened it here and squeezed it there.Now the praying mantis can know that the meat can be compressed and become smaller.I just don't know if the woman who wears many "bundles" will become one-third bigger once she takes off the "bundles". It is not an easy task to remove the stitches for this little thing, just like a doctor sawing a patient's plaster cast with a chainsaw, if you are not careful, blood will splatter.Ten years ago, my wife broke her leg and had a plaster cast on most of her leg. I also drew a lot of pictures and wrote a lot of limericks on her plaster leg. When the doctor sawed off the thick plaster I broke out in a cold sweat. Now I'm going to remove the tape.Try to tear off the relatively sticky adhesive strips first.too difficult!And as soon as he touched it, "it" twisted its body due to the rotation of the legs. Maybe the glue strip was not torn off, but the legs were torn off at the root. Instead, use tweezers, hold this side of the strip, and carefully cut the other side.I bought the scissors in Wuhan. The old Communist Party is famous for its precision instruments. This new type of surgical scissors is obviously much easier to use than the traditional "Zhang Xiaoquan scissors". The strip of glue on the first leg was cut off. As expected by my genius doctor, the injured leg, which was bent and soft yesterday, has hardened now.This peeling is probably like giving birth to a baby. The skull of the fetus is sutured in a jagged shape. When passing through the "birth canal", the pieces of the skull can slightly overlap.Therefore, the newborn baby's head is often squeezed into a pointy head, and it will stretch back after a short time. The same is true for praying mantises. When molting, the outer "old shell" is hard, but the inner body is soft. Only the soft body can come out of the hard shell.After coming out, the new outer skin (exoskeleton) hardens again when the wind blows.I believe that the time of the operation yesterday happened to be shortly after it came out of its shell. It is its good fortune that I met my genius doctor and rescued it from the hell of "dystocia" in time. Of course, if I hadn't caught it and misplaced it, and I couldn't grasp the branches to peel off the bark well, it wouldn't have suffered so much.However, if it is wrong, it is wrong, just like a mother who took the wrong medicine during pregnancy and gave birth to a deformed child, what is the use of apologizing?The most important thing is to give birth to him and raise him.As for me, I killed it first, and then saved it. The glue strip for the second leg was also cut out, and now it was the turn of the third leg, which was also the worst broken one.How amazing!The wound that was flat yesterday is now round, and I can't see the miserable appearance of the injury at all. Since the strip was close to the belly, I flipped it over and clawed at the air with its legs, so I had to be very careful not to cut its legs.Suddenly my thumb hurt a little, and this kid actually bit me secretly. Reminds me of a story—— A scorpion asks a frog to take it across a river.The frog said, "You are a scorpion. If you sting me halfway across the river, I will be finished. I cannot take you." The scorpion said, "But if I sting you and you sink, I will drown too. what!" The frog thinks it makes sense.Just let the scorpion stand on his back and take the scorpion across the river.Swimming to the middle of the river, the frog suddenly felt a pain in his back.Turning around, he shouted, "What? You actually stung me! Didn't you say you'd better not sting me?" Scorpion spread his hands: "Yes! But, but I can't help it, who made me a scorpion!" So the two guys sank together. Now, this guy is still in my hand, lying on my operating table, and it actually started to bite me.I am a little angry, but also a little happy, angry at its ungratefulness!Glad it was a praying mantis after all.Like every dog ​​owner who yells: "Don't bark at people", there is no one who is not secretly proud.Originally!To keep a dog is to bark at outsiders.Otherwise, why bother with a dog? Praying mantises don't bite, so why raise them?Abandoned work on September 2 It turned out that the weather report said that there would be a big typhoon today, but on the contrary, it was sunny and sunny.The big typhoon first turned into a tropical storm and traveled northward from North Carolina, then turned northeastward and entered the Atlantic Ocean. This disappoints me. . It makes sense for me to expect a big storm.Because the wind and rain will break the branches and leaves of many large trees, it is easiest to find praying mantises among the branches and leaves. Don't I already have one? right!But I guess it's dying. At first I thought it would be a miracle, but after a day of observation, I found that there was still a problem, and it was a big problem.The four thin legs at the back have indeed recovered, and they can stand and walk. The problem is that the two front limbs, which are the two most important, powerful, and most attractive weapons of the mantis, have failed. It seems that there is no problem at all. Why can the two arms be raised, but the front "hook" can't move?This is like a person practicing "Mantis Boxing", but his hands are stiff and unable to move.A killer loses his weapon, even if he still has part of the weapon in his hand, he just holds the handle of the knife empty, but without the knife, it can only become a kind of irony. What's more, this weapon is so perfect and natural. The "mantis arm" is a "mantis arm" after all, it is like a fork, a saw, and a pliers; the section closest to the body is covered with thorns, and it is also like a "mace".As for the fifth segment at the end, it is divided into five little toes, which can be used for washing its face and for the most gentle touch.What weapon in this world can compare with it?There is punishment, there is tenderness.One side is a knife, which can kill you; the other side is tenderness, which may touch your most sensitive places.This is the sexiest, most exciting thing, with the terror and pleasure of bound hands making love. However, now the most magical part has lost its effect. I first guessed that it was too tired to recover because of the peeling.Later, I thought, maybe I didn't exercise in time and caused the blood to not circulate.So I helped it turn back and forth, hoping to soften its muscles and bones. It just moves back and forth. Although it can turn with my help, when it walks by itself, it is completely useless.Now it's in big trouble.On the surface, it looks like it walks on the back four legs, and the front two pincers are only used for hunting.However, when the two weapons are not moving, the problem comes out. First of all, those two pincers are like the hooks that climbers use to climb.A praying mantis has such a big body, but only four slender legs, and its hind legs are not as thick as a locust. When it wants to climb, it depends on these two pincers.So, it can no longer climb higher now. Second, it even had trouble walking.The creator is very wonderful, it often creates things that seem unbalanced at all, such as "fish dog", which has a small body, small wings, and a shorter tail, but has a very large head and a long and pointed "beak". ", standing on the branch, looking like he was about to fall forward. For example, a duck has a big and round head, plus a fat and round chest and belly, but its mouth is very big and its legs are very short, and its legs are too far behind. When a duck swims, it has to pull its head back. As long as the head is moved forward a little more, it will fall into the water because of the weight of the head. In fact, the Creator intentionally created this imbalance.The fish dog must rush into the water at the fastest speed at any time, just like a "dart". Of course, the head must be big to be heavy enough; the tail must be small to be fast enough.Ducks have to plunge their heads into the water at any time, and they have to do so for a long time. Of course, it needs the weight of the head on the one hand and the help of the bi-fins on the other to repel the water. This praying mantis has the same design.For a small worm, if you want to have a heavy hand, even if your body is not heavy, your weapon must be heavy.It's like a skinny man dancing with a sledgehammer. Even though the skinny man is thin, with the strength of swinging the hammer, he can immediately lose his brain when he hits someone with the sledgehammer. Of course, the technique of wielding heavy weapons is also very important. If you watch people practice mantis boxing, you will know that you must shrink your neck when punching.The real mantis is like this. On the one hand, the upper body shrinks back to prevent the enemy's counterattack, and on the other hand, it attacks the opponent's vital points directly at the speed of lightning. On the contrary, when it "attacks" without "shrinking its upper body" backwards, it will immediately lose its balance and fall forward due to the heavy "pliers". Now it has this problem.The two most deadly weapons have become the greatest burden.Due to the inflexibility of the joints, it could only let the two pincers stretch forward, and the upper body lost its balance, so it had to lean forward, and followed its weapon, lying on the ground. What's even more tragic is that apart from being disarmed, every part of its body is normal, and its seven emotions and six desires must also be present.If it doesn't eat or drink for a few days, it must be thirsty and hungry, so whenever the big ants and bees pass by it, it still turns its head brightly, staring at the "food". At the end of the hero, all the clowns will come out to humiliate him.The ant seemed to climb onto its body time and time again on purpose, and it bounced all over its body tremblingly, and even jumped to the other side of the glass box.Stretching its arms straight, it lay on the ground panting. "If it behaves like this again and cannot support itself, I will kill it at night." I said to my daughter. "What is an execution?" "To execute is to kill it!" "Why? Why?" The little girl cried while hugging the box.It made her mother run away. "Because I love it. Don't you know? The Society for the Protection of Animals, which advertises in the newspapers all day long, kills countless small animals a year." I said to my daughter, "Recently, residents are not allowed to keep pets in the buildings built by the Hong Kong government. Small animals, I watched reports on TV that the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Animals has almost turned into an animal killing association." "I don't understand!" The little girl shouted loudly. "If you want to throw it away, why don't you throw it away quickly? What are you procrastinating for? The more you procrastinate, the sadder you will be." My wife said. "You don't understand this, it's called late execution, just like autumn execution, execution in the most chilling season, this is benevolence, it's also Shuntian. It's noon now, except for Jiangyang robbers, how can there be an official execution at the most prosperous hour of?" After lunch, braving the sun, I ran to the yard.It's not to find the execution ground, but to find another praying mantis.Children have a wonderful mentality of keeping pets. When the old pet dies, as long as you buy a new pet for him, he will be happy immediately.In fact, adults are similar. The old love is gone. If we can meet the new love in time, the painful emotions will be easily calmed down.This is probably the reason why many people remarry and remarry after falling out of love or losing their spouse.It's not that I don't love the old one anymore, but I love the old one too much. In order to love him too much, to love him too hard, to forget him, and to survive, I had to form a new relationship. Noon is probably not a good time to catch praying mantises, because they are afraid of heat and naturally love the dark, so they like to hang on the back of leaves.Of course, it is also possible that there is the best hunting position. Like a hunter, he will never wait in a conspicuous place. Otherwise, how can the prey surf the Internet when they see it? So I adopt a low posture, bent over, and look under the leaves from the side of the tree.Praying mantises are mostly green, or brown, and many have green bodies with brown wings, mixed in the bushes, looking like dead branches and leaves, probably "invisible to see". Probably that is the "protective color"!I believe that where there are many dead leaves, there must be more brown praying mantises; among green leaves, there must be more green praying mantises.For me, that's its protective color in case I get caught.But on the contrary, for those bugs that are hunted and killed by it, the protective color is not to protect the powerful class, so that those ordinary people can be plundered and hunted unknowingly. So the white way is often the underworld.Just like a white cloud is also a black cloud, if you look down from the plane, the thick ones that can reflect the sunlight are white clouds; when you look from the ground, the same cloud becomes a black cloud because the sunlight cannot penetrate it. We may be born as white clouds or black clouds all our lives; we all think we are white clouds or black clouds.We may all be praying mantises, eating the weak and hiding from the strong.And use the ability to avoid strong enemies (protective color) to bully the weak.Just like those who cheated the most when they were students, when they become teachers, they are the best at "catching cheats".Those who were the best at catching the underworld when they were policemen became the best at hiding from the police once they entered the underworld. too difficult!Especially in the dark, where the truth is not clear, I really have no way to catch the master who can't distinguish between black and white.I searched the whole yard, thinking I saw quite a few, but I didn't find even a praying mantis. That's why I hope the typhoon will come.When the current situation is chaotic, black and white are the least obvious.The current situation is really chaotic, and black and white are revealed. Back in the house, I made a decision. Before the new hero appeared, the old hero could not be killed temporarily. Tomorrow, I will pay three visits to thatched reeds.