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Know-know-know.

The chirping of cicadas on the trees adds to the restlessness in people's hearts in the hot summer.

Passing under the luxuriant trees, listening to the invisible singers hidden among the branches and green leaves, He Teng fanned the banana fan in his hand, but he didn't feel relieved at all.

"I know this, what's the point of shouting all the time?" He said rather angrily.

"Cicada?"

Xia Shili followed him, "To be precise, cicadas do not make sounds by 'calling', but the membranes on both sides of their abdomen vibrate the air to make sounds. Speaking of which, this sound structure is similar to the guitar in humans. Musical instruments are similar, but the cicada's song muscle can vibrate tens of thousands of times per second, which is far from being achieved by humans."

Xia Shili sighed: "Compared to nature, human beings' own abilities are too small, even a small insect can't compare."

"You can't say that." He sat down and picked up a branch from the ground. "Humans' physical strength is not enough, but human beings can use tools. And the greater the power of the tools used, the greater the power humans will gain."

"Because they can use tools, are human beings higher than ordinary life?" Xia Shili murmured, "But no matter how capable you are, it's just a reed that can think, and your life will be taken away by accident at any time."

"Human beings who are strong yet extremely fragile are so self-contradictory, but this contradiction can also produce a kind of beauty. Because they are not omniscient and omnipotent, flawed human beings can continue to evolve and improve themselves. So..."

After talking for a long time, Xia Shili smiled apologetically when he realized that he was suspected of going further and further away. "Sorry, I'm rambling again, it's a bad habit."

"Again?" He asked sarcastically.

"When talking with others, I always subconsciously direct the topic to the direction of my attention. For ordinary people, these topics are probably boring and meaningless." Xia Shili said.

"That's not true." He shook his head, "It's just that I really didn't expect you to be so sensitive. Generally speaking, shouldn't people like you who study natural science be very rational?"

"Rationality?" Xia Shili asked, "Which one do you mean?"

"It is to completely classify things into categories, do things in a well-planned manner, and not be troubled by emotions at all. To put it in a bad way, it is probably to measure the value of everything with reason, without emotional interference." He said: " It just so happens that I have a... friend who is just like that."

"So, there's nothing wrong with it." Xia Shili smiled wryly, "In fact, not long ago, I was still like what you said."

"Now it is not?"

"...Now, I probably understand it." Xia Shili rubbed his palms, and it was only then that He Tun noticed that he was holding a mobile phone in his hand.

In fact, these days, Xia Shili can always be seen carrying his mobile phone with him, sometimes taking it out to look at it from time to time, but he has never seen him make a phone call.

"My girlfriend said that to me before, so now she is angry with me and doesn't want to see me."

Xia Shili looked at the phone in his hand and sighed. "It's been ten days, and she hasn't called or sent a text message."

"You have a girlfriend?"

"Well, we talked about it before graduating from university, and it has been several years now. I was planning to get married this year. Who knows..."

Seeing Xia Shili smiled and stopped talking, He satirized cautiously and asked: "She is very angry? Ignore you, did you quarrel?"

Xia Shili nodded.

"You don't travel around for this reason, just to relax?"

"Yes, I seem to want to escape a little bit, and I'm afraid that she will say the word "breakup" to me."

"So you just hid in the depths of the forest?" He said in disbelief, "In this case, why don't you just go to her and make up? Just make it clear?"

"It's not that simple...Hey, have you never been in love?" Xia Shili suddenly asked: "No, it shouldn't be called love. Have you never taken the initiative to pursue someone?"

He Tun just wanted to deny it, but when he thought about it carefully, he was dumbfounded. From childhood to adulthood, it seemed that people around him were chasing him, but he always accepted it passively.

Looking at his expression, Xia Shili already understood, stepped forward and patted He Tun on the shoulder, and said, "So you don't understand, this fear of being rejected is precisely because of deep love, so it is even more frightening."

If you love someone, shouldn't you say it clearly and let the other person know, there are so many others?

He satirically admitted that he really didn't seem to understand this concept of love at all.

Seeing him confused, Xia Shili smiled, pointed to the cicadas on the tree and said, "It's like the cicadas singing, do you know why they struggle to make such noises?"

"Hmm...courtship or something?"

Xia Shili nodded.

"After the cicada is born from the soil, it will start looking for its other half. But the difference is that the male cicada can make such a clear and distant sound, but the female cicada is dumb, can only listen, but can't make any sound " He looked at the dense branches and leaves above his head, and said lightly: "So at this time, the male cicada can only wait for it with all his heart and heart, playing the music of his courtship, from morning to night, day and night. their love."

"But there are still a lot of male cicadas, who may die for various reasons before waiting for the female cicada, and even if it does, the female cicada may not be satisfied with it, it can only continue to wait. So you know, to find a How difficult it is to have a love that two people stay together, but once they have it, people often become more timid because they are afraid of losing it."

"Similar to the love of cicadas, sincere love between human beings is often hard to find." Xia Shili smiled slightly, "But I almost lost it because I made a mistake, how stupid it is."

"Well... Well, I think that as long as you sincerely beg, the other party will always forgive you... right." He satirized and said in deliberation.

Xia Shili shook his head and stopped talking.

"Then you look at your phone every day, are you waiting for her to contact you?" He mocked and asked tentatively.

Xia Shili nodded, then shook his head.

There was a strange expression on his face, which seemed to be mocking or... It was some kind of emotion that was hard to explain at the moment.

"Rather than waiting for her to contact me, it's better to say I'm waiting for myself. When the day comes, I will make up my mind to go back to her." He said softly, "However, it's not yet."

The cicadas on the tree were making noise again and again, but miraculously, this time, He Tun didn't find it noisy.

Like what Xia Shili said, if this is the once-in-a-lifetime courtship ballad uttered by the male cicadas in pursuit of their love, then the sound of this song at this time sounds particularly tragic and poignant.

The life of cicadas is only one summer, so their meeting and staying together is only for a short moment.

Meet in a hurry, and leave in a hurry.

Short, hasty love.

Unlike He Tiao who was moved to express emotion, Xia Shili seemed to blend into the sound of cicadas and become one with it.

The sound of cicada, cicada, seems to be their cry of chasing love.

You know it, you know it, I'm waiting here.

He Tun looked at the man standing quietly in the forest with his eyes closed and deep in thought, and he couldn't help but have some speculations in his heart.

This mysterious, melancholy, and extremely sensitive man who suddenly appeared on the mountain, what kind of story is there between him and his lover?His love, is it silent like a cicada but waiting for life and death, or is it hot like a fire but burning for a short time.

He satirized thought, most of it should be the former.Because Xia Shili's expression of pity and regret when he talked about the cicada was almost as if he was talking about himself.

"It's getting late."

Xia Shili suddenly opened his eyes and looked at He Tun, grinning.

"Shouldn't we go on a forest tour?"

"Ah, er."

He was taken aback for a moment, quickly regained his senses, and then remembered the real mission of this forest patrol - to let Xia Shili relax his guard against him, so as to find out his real purpose of coming to the mountain.

This was the original plan, but at this moment, He Tun actually couldn't bear it.For such a sensitive and sincere person, is it really okay to deceive him with his trust in himself?

The moment he hesitated, Xia Shili was already walking in front, and he asked, "Is it right this way, looking for suspicious persons...Hey, who are the suspicious persons you are talking about?"

Hearing his sudden question, He Xi, who was in a daze, didn't even think about it, and said honestly: "Of course it's someone who behaves suspiciously, is sneaky, and seems to have committed suicide... Ah!"

As soon as he realized that he had slipped his mouth, he saw Xia Shili in front of him nodded, walked firmly towards a certain bush, and then poked his head out again.

"I have a question."

"kindness."

"Compared to living people who show signs of committing suicide, the dead who have successfully committed suicide...are they still suspicious?"

"Of course... what!" He was surprised, "Are you joking?"

"A joke?" Xia Shili smiled, and walked out from the bushes, dragging a long rope in his hand, dragging and dragging the rope, as if there was something heavy tied to it.

With a stabbing sound, a blue-purple foot was suddenly dragged out of the bushes, and stretched out straight in front of He Tun's eyes.

"This proves that I'm not joking."

Xia Shili said solemnly: "Then, does this kind of person count as the category of suspicious person you mentioned? Hey, hey, wake up?"

He Tun really showed signs of fainting at this time, why!Why did one or two of the corpses he met be so weird? Not only did they not change their faces when they met dead corpses, but they could even play with them casually like this. Aren't they afraid of attracting ghosts and gods by being so disrespectful to the dead?

Forget about Lin Shen, he is a professional, but Xia Shili... He looked at the smiling person standing in front of him.

This guy is just an insect lover?Does he really have no other special hobbies?Such as torture or something.

"Am I completing the task of patrolling the forest?" Xia Shili asked very professionally.

He satirized all the sighs in his heart, and stepped forward to check on the unfortunate suicide who was dragged out.

"Forget it, I should get used to it..."

"kindness?"

"Uh, what I mean is, you've completed the task, and you've done it very well!" He slapped him on the shoulder vigorously, "You must be praised by the boss when you go back."

But he secretly said in his heart, he must find out the details of Xia Shili with Lin Shen when he goes back.

A man like Xia Shili who has such a strong psychological quality but is also sentimental is really rare in the world!No, besides Lin Shen, who is even more wonderful, he is the second least strange man in the world.

At this time, Lin Shen, who was on the way back to the mountain, suddenly sneezed three times in a row.

After beating, he rubbed his nose, wondering. "Who's missing me?"

The only response to him was the singing of cicadas all over the mountain, like whispers and chuckles.

Got it, got it.

You know where the person who misses you is.