Standing in front of the double-glazed window, Shen Qiang frowned as he gazed at the autumn cicada trembling and chirping in the blizzard outside.

It was strange. In the frigid winter, with temperatures below twenty degrees, it was absolutely impossible for a cicada to survive.

Opening the window, the biting cold wind swept in with frost and snow, making Shen Qiang, standing at the window, shiver. Yet when Shen Qiang extended his hand, the peculiar autumn cicada didn't fly away but crawled slowly and stiffly into his hand.

"Little guy, are you here for help?" Shen Qiang raised an eyebrow, murmuring to himself.

Then, Shen Qiang bizarrely witnessed the cicada in his hand vibrating its wings and emitting a cicada's call.

This surprised Shen Qiang.

"I'll speak, you answer. If I'm right, chirp once; if I'm wrong, chirp twice—agree once, disagree twice," Shen Qiang said. "If you understand, chirp once."

The autumn cicada in his hand chirped once immediately.

This brought a hint of an amused smile to Shen Qiang's lips.

"Did you come to seek my help?"

The cicada chirped once.

Shen Qiang laughed, "Alright, there's heating in the room, the temperature is comfortable. You can move freely, just don't disturb my rest."

The cicada chirped twice.

Shen Qiang frowned, "You disagree with this proposal. So you're here to deliver a message to me?"

Upon hearing this, the cicada chirped once, then, as if regaining its vigor in the warm room, pointed outside with its forelegs and started flying, banging against the window.

"You want me to go out with you?" Shen Qiang was surprised.

The cicada chirped once immediately.

Shen Qiang smiled, standing in the room silently for a long time, then activated his Observation Skill.

Cicada Gu.

Born this year.

Existed for six months.

No danger.

The information coursing through his mind made Shen Qiang unsure whether to laugh or cry.

But after thinking about it, he realized it was true; ordinary cicadas couldn't survive this season, nor could they inexplicably come here.

After pondering, Shen Qiang left the room and found a coat.

After dressing, he raised his hand.

The cicada was already flying in front of him.

"Alright, I don't know who your master is, or what they intend, but I think if they could send you here, then I should go meet them. Lead the way."

Hearing this, the autumn cicada fluttered excitedly.

Shen Qiang followed it outside.

Just descending the stairs, he encountered Kang Luoying, braving the snow on her way home.

"Shen Qiang, you're going out?"

Shen Qiang smiled and said, "Yes, want to walk with me?"

Kang Luoying immediately coquettishly smiled and said, "Sure."

She just came over and took Shen Qiang's arm.

In a flash, Ye Guyun, with her two sharp little fangs, appeared by their sides. Shen Qiang didn't mind, but Kang Luoying was startled, then suddenly her eyes lit up as she said, "You're Ye Guyun, right?"

Ye Guyun, with two little fangs, stared at Kang Luoying for a long while and said, "You hid some food."

Kang Luoying smiled, flipped her hand, and handed a big bag of peanut candy to Ye Guyun.

"Delicious!" Ye Guyun's eyes shone brightly, hugging the large candy blocks to eat.

At this point, Shen Qiang hadn't moved, making the cicada obviously anxious.

Thus, Shen Qiang helplessly said, "Let's go, let's take a look outside."

Saying this, Shen Qiang stepped outside, while Sleeping Fire Lotus Demon Ke Bizhu followed, forcefully dressing the cold-resistant Ye Guyun in a down jacket, then calmly followed behind Shen Qiang.

Once outside, the autumn cicada landed straight on Shen Qiang's car, seemingly indicating a long journey meant Shen Qiang had to drive.

Everyone got in the car, the snowy roads were slippery.

Sleeping Fire Lotus Demon Ke Bizhu drove.

After just a few hundred meters, Great Demon Qiongqi's evolution, the wild Ye Guyun, was a bit distressed.

"This space is too small, moving as slow as a snail. Just say where we need to go, I'll take you there. We'll arrive in no time."

Hearing this, Shen Qiang felt helpless.

In fact, had this cicada not appeared so bizarrely, Shen Qiang should have been studying the Nine Heavens Thunderbolt Technique.

He tossed a large bag of snacks to Ye Guyun.

The usually quiet gold cicada also emerged, glaring as she wrestled Ye Guyun for the peanut candy Kang Luoying gave, yet strangely, Ye Guyun, who was fiercely protective of food, seemed not to mind.

Following the cicada's guidance all the way.

The car entered the city.

When the cicada madly banged against the window, signaling to stop.

Shen Qiang, stepping out of the car, bizarrely discovered.

This was near the second ring, only about a kilometer from the parasite prevention institute.

Getting out of the car.

Under the dim streetlight, snowflakes danced.

The few pedestrians hurried by.

The cicada flew in the air.

Navigating through the wind and snow, Shen Qiang, with his female companions, followed the cicada entering a residential area.

This looked like an old community of at least twenty years.

Poor greenery.

Peeling walls.

Iron fences securely latched onto balconies' windows of each home.

Walls painted with various advertisements.

As Shen Qiang followed the cicada, reaching the center of four apartment buildings, the excited cicada suddenly fell.

When Shen Qiang picked it up, he found it had died.

Indeed.

Ordinary insect Gu still can't resist nature.

Turning, Shen Qiang surveyed the nearby apartment buildings.

Activating his Divine Sense, Shen Qiang clearly sensed in his mind the presence of a few individuals with Spiritual Energy on the top floor of an eastern residential building.

Without a doubt, though their cultivation wasn't high, they were indeed cultivators.

If the cicada was dispatched by someone, they were likely there.

Thus, Shen Qiang didn't hesitate, heading straight to the east.

The old building had no elevator.

He climbed the stairs to the seventh floor.

Only then did Shen Qiang realize the seventh floor housed only one family.

Standing in front of the door, Shen Qiang knocked using True Yuan.

"Coming!"

Following a man's voice.

The door opened.

Shen Qiang and the person who opened the door both froze.

"Shen Qiang? What are you doing here?" The old man's gaze was chilling and wary.

Shen Qiang smiled. Although more than half a year had passed, he recognized the old man at a glance—it was the parasite expert who had clashed with Shen Qiang at Bikang, whose name Shen Qiang forgot but remembered he had a female disciple who used the Iron Wire Gu, eventually killed by Shen Qiang's gold cicada.

Later, his female disciple once invited Shen Qiang, purportedly to attend some parasite research conference.

But Shen Qiang ignored it, and hadn't seen them since.

Seeing his wary yet surprised expression now, Shen Qiang calmly tossed him the dead cicada in hand, saying, "This thing brought me here. If you think I'm in the wrong place, then goodbye."

In an instant, the old man's expression drastically changed, then he urgently said, "I understand. Come in quickly, save her!"

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