Chapter 18 - 23 Theater Troupe
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Thump!
His heart suddenly jumped, and the sensation of [Genetic Hunger] struck again, but Li Cheng's expression was only slightly serious, without much panic.
He had already prepared thoroughly, and immediately took out a finger-thick paper tube from his pocket.
The tube was filled with wood shavings, and deep within was a female cricket.
Male crickets have sound-producing organs on their forewings, consisting of scrapers on the wing veins, friction veins, and mirrors, they raise their forewings and rub them together to vibrate the mirrors and produce sound.
However, female crickets have no forewings or extra organs, and do not chirp, hence they are gathered by Li Cheng as an option for addressing [Genetic Hunger] under special circumstances.
Now it was too late to bike home, Li Cheng took the tube into a bathroom stall, poured the cricket into his palm, and began to absorb its genes.
Buzz—
His phone received a message on WeChat from Yuan Zhixia. Last time, she substituted for Li Cheng as the school newspaper's photographer to interview and photograph Xue Luomeng and was very pleased, thus requesting Li Cheng to ask for leave next time—she wanted to indirectly save her country, by approaching Xue Lingyu next time to get closer to his sister Xue Luomeng.
...Sisters, you can't really be such jesters, right?