Chapter 9: Riot out of control
Xiaozhen opened the door.
Liu Xingquan was standing at the door, his eyes fixed on the shoes. This was the first time they had seen each other since the funeral.
"Hello."
Liu Xingquan raised his head, but his eyes were still looking at the ground, "...My mother asked me to send it over. My uncle and aunt forgot to take it last time." He reached out and handed Xiaozhen a gift bag.
Xiao Zhen reached out to take it. Liu Xingquan looked at him at this time, his dark eyes flickering a little, and he said: "You won't let me in?"
Xiao Zhen said flatly: "No. I'm a bit busy at home right now."
After he finished speaking, Liu Xingquan's face flushed red as if he had been stabbed. Xiao Zhen heard him say in a sullen voice, "I know." The boy turned around and left quickly.
The chicken flew over his head and asked, "Did you send him away?"
"Yes." I must have offended the boy's self-esteem somewhere, Xiao Zhen thought. If Yan's mother were here, she would surely welcome this fatherless boy into her home with tenderness and love to comfort him. He had a feeling that he had missed the best opportunity to solve some questions about the host Xiao Zhen and reconcile with Liu Xingquan. But right now there is really no time to study and understand the psychological problems of human teenagers. If the crazy plant growth in the villa is not dealt with, the entire block will become a primitive forest scenic spot.
Mr. Cat was jumping up and down in the room, cutting branches. It had strengthened its claws, and its sharp claws were flying like blades, cutting off the branches of plants in an instant, separating them and scattering them.
The branches that fell to the ground quickly branched out and took root again, entwining themselves around the furniture with their claws and fangs.
Xiao Zhen said: "Thank you for your tireless contribution to the growth of the planet's forests."
Mr. Cat jumped to the ground angrily, scratched the branches with his claws and said, "Please come up with some feasible plans."
"Of course I'm looking for after-sales service." Xiao Zhen said, took out Fox Merchant's business card from her pocket, and dialed Han Junqian's number.
After the call was connected, Xiao Zhen didn't waste any time and simply and clearly told Han Junqian the current situation.
Han Junqian's voice on the phone was unusually cheerful.
"No problem. We have certainly considered this unexpected situation. Don't worry, don't worry. We have after-sales service. I will provide a solution right away."
"Please be quick, my family may be back anytime."
"Don't worry! I will deliver the goods to your door immediately and solve all hidden dangers in a flash."
Xiao Zhen put down the phone. Mr. Cat said, "I feel like this fox merchant is waiting for us to find him."
"I think so too." Xiao Zhen glared at Captain Madara, "But he can't know that we have an idiot here."
"I told you I didn't mean it!!"
Boom, boom, boom.
Someone is knocking on the door.
Xiaozhen looked out through the peephole and there was no one outside the door.
Boom, boom, boom. Three more times.
Xiao Zhen opened the door, and there was no one at the door. When he was about to close the door, a thin voice came from under his feet: "I am the after-sales service sent by Mr. Han ."
There was a tiny mouse standing on the carpet at the entrance.
“…”
Under the glare of Mr. Cat, Captain True Spot, the little mouse swaggered into the room.
“Are you the after-sales service?”
"I am the after-sales service bionic robot XR3B2, here to serve you." Red light shot out from the mouse's eyes, scanning the plants around it.
“Why rats?”
"This is the appearance Mr. Han customized for me. He thinks it won't alarm the local humans."
Mr. Cat said, "No, I think your look will not only cause hysteria among the local humans, but will also cause a commotion among the local cats."
"Rats are the most common creatures in cities on this planet. My appearance is the result of reasonable consideration."
"Honestly, the mere fact that you appeared on my carpet is enough to make me subconsciously want to hit you with a broom." Xiao Zhencheng said honestly, his human body subconsciously stirring.
"Please calm down. We will analyze it soon." The red light quickly swept across the room, and the bionic mouse said, "Data collection is complete."
"Based on our analysis, and considering that this residence has been occupied for a long time, we do not recommend the use of chemical gas or toxic drugs.
Based on this situation, there are three solutions to choose from. Option 1, plant a gluttonous vine in your house. This vine likes to entangle green plants. Once the gluttonous vine entangles a plant, it will secrete digestive enzymes. There are countless absorption holes on its stems, and it feeds by decomposing the plant until the plant is digested. After the plant has finished absorbing, it will also produce seeds and die. Considering that your plants have mutated, this is the most cautious and cheapest solution. "
"So, how long will it take for the gluttonous vine to decompose all the crazy plants here?"
The mouse replied: "It will take about 10 days."
"Next plan!!"
"Plan 2, use the plasma cannon to fire at the crazy plants, which can destroy all target objects in the shortest time. It should be noted that all items in the room will be destroyed together..."
"Next plan!!"
"Option three, order a batch of blue locusts."
The chicken asked, "What is a blue locust?"
"A kind of locust on Kang Kang Star. They will devour any plants they come across. They eat as fast as a storm. It only takes about 8 minutes to clean up the out-of-control plants in this house."
"That sounds good." Xiao Zhen asked, "How do you recycle blue locusts?"
"These blue locusts have all been implanted with neural chips, and will be recalled immediately once their mission is completed. They are safe and efficient, but of course they are not cheap."
(What do you think?) Xiao Zhen asked Mr. Cat and Chicken using brain waves.
Mr. Cat sneered: (The third option sounds the most acceptable. I don’t trust Fox Merchant, but I don’t have any other choice now.)
The chicken looked dejected: (I paid for it anyway.)
"1200 credits, thank you for your patronage."
The chicken croaked, "You are simply sucking blood and killing people."
A few minutes later, there was another knock on the door.
This time, two little mice swaggered into the door carrying a delivery box.
"Your blue locust has arrived~"
Xiaozhen picked up a little mouse. The mouse had soft fur, black eyes and long whiskers. It looked like a real mouse. He rubbed it with his fingers and it was very soft.
"Dear customer, I am not for sale, please do not interfere with my work."
"I was wondering what my neighbors would think if they saw mice coming into my house one after another." Xiao Zhen put the mouse down.
"We have a program that will hide us at the right time," the bionic mouse replied. It pointed at the void and a window popped up in the air. "Please sign for it."
Captain Spotted stretched out his paw to operate the window, and he complained angrily: "Why should I spend my savings on buying locusts!"
Blue locusts are just like their name, they are blue-green in color, slender, with flexible antennae swinging to both sides, and have a light yellow round abdomen. One of them jumped out of the box and flew to Xiaozhen's palm. Its antennae turned slightly and it fluttered into the green leaves and branches. Then, more blue locusts flew out, like a light blue mist, and pounced on the plants in the room.
At the same time, a rustling sound was heard in the room. It was the sound of blue locusts gnawing on plants.
Rustle, rustle, rustle, like a rhythmic melody. Under the melody, the green in the room began to decrease. The furniture that was originally entangled by the branches and vines and could not be seen clearly began to take shape slowly.
The ceiling covered with green leaves revealed its plaster decoration, and the floor covered with branches and aerial roots revealed its original color. Rustle, rustle, blue locusts are gnawing.
The plant seemed to be aware of its own death, struggling to continue branching and growing, but the locusts were eating it much faster than it was. Countless leaves made rustling sounds, lamenting the end of their lives.
It should be over soon. Mr. Little True Cat and Chicken all thought so. The matter should have ended after the blue locusts finished eating.
Xiao Zhen pointed a finger at a blue locust: "After-sales mice, can you please stop letting the locusts poop in my house after they are full."
The bionic mouse raised his beard. "The Blue Locust's chip is programmed to prohibit excretion while working. This can't happen."
"Look, it's pooping." The locust that Xiaozhen pointed at was excreting round pellets from its tail.
"Rejected. The chip is not set to excrete."
"You should take a look at the reality before you."
Captain Ban pecked a blue locust from the air and threw it on the table. The blue locust's tail swung and spit out a milky white round pellet. Mr. Cat leaned over and sniffed. The chicken croaked, "This is definitely not shit."
Mr. Cat said, "It is laying eggs."
"I don't think it's a matter of laying eggs." Xiao Zhen stared at the locust under Captain Ban's claws. He saw the eggs he had just laid quickly change from milky white to light yellow. After a few seconds, they cracked open and a tiny nymph crawled out of the eggshell. Its front wings were slightly green and its wing tips were blue. The nymph fluttered its wings and joined its parents in the feeding spree.
"The reproduction speed is too fast." Xiao Zhen looked around. In just a few minutes, the original number of blue locusts had increased several times, and was still doubling.
Mr. Cat looked at the bionic mouse and asked, "Is this also one of the settings for Blue Locust that you arranged?"
The mouse's eyes emitted red light again, scanning the surroundings. After a moment, it replied, "This is because the blue locusts ate plants containing excessive amounts of high-speed growth agents, causing their growth, reproduction and mutation to accelerate."
"Then this crazy plant can be eliminated in advance." said the chicken.
The mouse's eyes flickered red: "Sorry, there's a little problem now."
"What's the problem?"
"The neural chip of the blue locusts is only implanted in the first generation. The next generation born from their eggs does not contain the neural chip. So..."
"so?"
“We cannot recover and control blue locusts beyond the first generation.”
“…”
Xiao Zhen pointed at the room and said, "Thank you so much for telling us this good news! This batch of blue locusts has already multiplied to the third generation! And the number is estimated to be 30 times the original number!!"
"No, it's 300 times. When the third generation grows up, we will probably have an uncontrollable locust swarm thousands or tens of thousands times the original number in half an hour!!"
"The plants in our house have been eaten up." Xiao Zhen remembered something and ran to the garden at home. Soon his angry voice was heard: "My garden has been eaten up by blue locusts and there is not a single blade of grass left!!"
The bionic mouse retracted its scanning red light: "According to calculations, in about two hours, all the greenery in the city will be eaten up by the new generation of locusts. In 12 hours, half of the country's plants will be eaten up by the locust swarms. In a few days, the plants on this planet will be completely destroyed."
Mr. Cat said angrily, "I knew Fox Merchant couldn't be trusted!!!"
The chicken shouted: "We paid! You are the after-sales service! You must take care of it for us!!"
"Please be patient. I am looking for a solution." The light in the mouse's eyes turned blue. "The Interstellar Plant Protection Research Institute sells a kind of happy appetite enhancer."
"I think they are already eating like crazy, there is no need to force them to eat anymore!!"
The bionic mouse's whiskers trembled, and it said softly, "Please calm down. This appetite stimulant is for birds. It can stimulate the appetite of birds and attack the pests that are invading plants as soon as possible. We can use this appetite stimulant to attract birds to clean up the subsequent locusts."
"Then take it out quickly!"
"Dear customer, according to the current situation, you need to pay an additional 1,500 credits to order bird feeding agent. Please..."
Mr. Cat knocked the mouse away with one claw, and then pounced on it and pinned it down, "Believe it or not, I can swallow you right now."
"Please calm down, dear customer. I am a bionic robot mouse and I do not have the functionality of mouse meat."
"It doesn't matter. Just let your master know and I'll bite you three rats to pieces right now. This locust plague is the result of your negligence. If he doesn't clean this up as soon as possible, and if he really attracts the eyes of the supervisor, he will die more miserably than us!"
"I'll convey your meaning." The mouse's eyes glowed and a window popped up, revealing Han Junqian's smiling face. "Don't get excited. I'll release the appetite enhancer right away and let the bird take care of the mess."
"hurry up!!"
"Wait a minute." Xiao Zhen said, "These locusts are mutants that have eaten growth agents. Will there be any problems if birds eat them?"
"You can rest assured. The out-of-control plants in your home have been eaten up. After being passed on by locusts for several generations, the efficacy of the drug has been greatly reduced and will not affect the birds. At the same time, we will put a trace amount of growth agent antibodies in the happy feeding agent to minimize the potential harm."
"I hope so."
Han Junqian's follow-up service was quick. First, two swallows flew in from the window. They tilted their heads to look at the locusts flying all over the house, and chirped twice for this grand feast. Then came more sounds of flapping wings. Xiaozhen lay on the windowsill and saw countless flocks of birds flying towards here in the sky.
It's a feast for the birds.
The birds' joyful chirping intertwined into string music. The birds in the house flew up and down, devouring the locusts. The blue locusts in the house saw that the situation was not good, and they condensed into black mist and rolled out. But on the walls of the street, on the bushes, on the trees on the street, on the telephone poles, there were birds resting everywhere. There were sparrows, blackbirds, spotted doves, white-headed bulbuls, pigeons, magpies, swallows, etc. These birds that usually hide in every corner of the city all appeared in groups, soaring in the sky, drawing beautiful waves and arcs to chase the locusts.
Passersby kept noticing this rare dance of birds. They stopped to admire the wonder in amazement. "It's so beautiful." A child said, holding her mother's hand.
Yan's father was sitting in the car reading some information when the driver turned around and told him that there was a traffic jam ahead.
"Boss Yan, look, there are so many birds flying here from nowhere."
Father Yan leaned out and saw countless flocks of birds chirping and flying in the sunset sky, with golden light drawing dazzling edges on the wings of the birds. He stared blankly at the countless birds flying freely in the sky in the glow, just like the large flocks of migrating birds he saw when he rode his bike home from school many years ago.
A bird landed on their car. It was a beautiful bird with a long, thin beak and a gray body, but its wings and tail were a soft green. The driver wanted to use the windshield wipers to drive it away, but Yan's father shook his head to stop him.
"What kind of bird is this?"
"It's a green-winged short-legged bulbul." Yan's father said. A voice from the past rang in his ears: "Yan An, what kind of bird do you think this is?"
"It's a green-winged short-legged bulbul." He repeated in a low voice, and the bird flapped its wings and flew into the sky. He looked in the direction where the bird flew, which was where the flock of birds was dancing. The setting sun dyed the sky behind the flock of birds into a gorgeous golden red.
Yan An stared for a long time, and when he realized it, his eyes were already red.
At Yan's house.
Chicken said: "So we saved the planet today?"
Mr. Cat said angrily, "Now we are back to the starting point. What should we do with that damn bean sprout?"
"I just know that my sister is not the only one who wants to kill me now." Xiao Zhen said calmly as she looked at her bare garden.
