Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 460 Cockroach Rat: I've Traveled Across the Ocean to See You

3602.

Meijia, Guangu, Curry Sauce, and Zeng Xiaoxian, who was forcibly dragged along, did not immediately begin capturing monsters. Instead, they all went to Guangu's bedroom to prepare for a great battle to save humanity.

...At least that's what Guan Gu and Mika said.

"Done!"

As Guan Gu put down his paintbrush, a sketch of a monster that looked like both a cockroach and a rat appeared in front of Xiao Xian and Curry Sauce.

The monster in the drawing has six cockroach-like legs, a hard insect-like carapace covered with rat-gray fur, and a long rat tail extending from its rear end.

On the head of a huge rat, long cockroach antennae extend from both sides of the ears.

If the monster that Mika talks about is really just like the one Guan Gu drew, then this mutated monster, a combination of a cockroach and a rat, is indeed the most terrifying, disgusting, and worst thing in the world.

only……

Curry Sauce pointed to the monster's excessively long fangs protruding from its mouth and asked, "Guan Gu, are you sure this monster really has teeth that long?"

Guan Gu made a tiny gesture: "Just a tiny bit, I only did a little bit of artistic embellishment."

"All right."

Fortunately, none of the people in the room were Korean, so they didn't pay much attention to the gesture Guan Gu made.

Guan Gu coughed lightly, then stood up and solemnly said, "Now I declare that the 3602's [Ultraman Operation] has officially begun. Now, please welcome our chief coordinator, Ms. Chen Meijia, to the stage to speak."

He then stood next to the easel, making room for Mika.

Curry Sauce was taken aback: "Ultraman Operation?"

That's true. In Japan, the only way to eliminate monsters is by relying on something that falls from the sky and releases a lot of light and heat.

"Depend on!"

Zeng Xiaoxian, who had been forcibly dragged into the fight by Meijia and Guangu, sat to the side with a disgruntled expression. He stroked Guangu's Spider-Man doll and said, "It's just catching a mouse, is it really necessary to hold a battle conference and a pre-battle mobilization?"

Curry nodded in agreement as he ate potato chips, saying, "Exactly, and we've been in 3602 for so long without hearing a thing."

"Teacher Zeng, Curry Sauce, please be serious."

Guan Gu stared at the two nonchalant guys and said sternly, "The appearance of this monster is not just a matter for our 3602, but may threaten the safety of the entire apartment building and even the entire Earth!"

"Your current attitude toward combat is extremely negative, which is irresponsible to yourselves and to the people of the world."

Guangu's words left Zeng Xiaoxian stunned: "No, Guangu, isn't what you're saying a bit too exaggerated? You can't just flatter people and use moral blackmail like that."

"...Anyway, what I mean is, I want you to take this seriously!"

Guan Gu said with a dark face, "And Teacher Zeng, please don't touch the doll in such a lewd way!"

He couldn't stand it any longer and stepped forward to slap Zeng Xiaoxian's unruly hand hard.

"This is a Spider-Man doll, Spider-Man, male, a pure man!"

"Could you please stop pinching his chest all the time?"

"You're a pervert!"

Zeng Xiaoxian rubbed his hand, which had been slapped red by Guan Gu, and chuckled dryly, "This isn't your doll, is it? These pectoral muscles are rock hard!"

"Be serious!" Guan Gu reminded him again.

"OK, OK."

Xiaoxian patted Curry Sauce, who was still eating snacks next to him, and the two of them sat up straight, pretending to be good students who were listening attentively.

"Mika, you can begin."

"Very good, now you all listen to what I have to say."

As she spoke, Mika took out the chopsticks she had just gotten from the kitchen and pointed to the monster in the drawing board.

"I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing for our Love Apartment, but we have indeed discovered creatures beyond our previous understanding. They are cockroach rats!"

"Cockroach rat?"

"That's right, it's a cockroach rat!"

Meijia, with an elegant demeanor, said in a serious tone, "While Guangu was drawing, I used the most powerful intelligence-gathering capabilities to retrieve relevant information about this cockroach rat."

"As a result, I unexpectedly discovered that cockroaches and rats had already been recorded in historical documents."

"The most powerful intelligence gathering force?"

Curry Sauce was completely confused: "But you were clearly looking down at your phone the whole time..."

"Oh……"

She suddenly realized: "Baidu and Google, right?"

Mika replied matter-of-factly, "Just tell me, isn't this the most powerful intelligence gathering force?"

"Yes, yes, yes."

Curry Sauce gestured for Mika to continue.

"Cockroach mouse, whose main habitat is probably not much different from that of ordinary mice and cockroaches."

According to historical records, it was first discovered in the seventh episode of the first season of How I Met Your Mother.

"By the sixth season of How I Met Your Mother, the cockroach rat already had a happy family, which directly proves that the cockroach rat has the ability to reproduce and expand its population."

"However, based on my speculation, its reproductive ability should be much, much, much worse than that of ordinary rats and cockroaches, otherwise it wouldn't have only had so few family members by the sixth season."

"Logically, this kind of creature should only exist in the United States, however, the building where the cockroach rats lived was destroyed by the end of the sixth season."

"Therefore, we have reason to believe that this cockroach rat is very likely a branch of that cockroach rat family that came to China after their home was destroyed.

"They multiplied and grew in the small, dilapidated apartment until this morning when the apartment was sealed off. One of the cunning cockroach rats escaped and fled here."

After explaining her guess, Meijia looked at Zeng Xiaoxian and Curry Sauce: "Did you two understand?"

Xiaoxian: w(Д)w?!

Curry sauce: w(Д)w?!

After hearing Wan Jia's conjecture, they both felt that their worldviews had been severely impacted.

Zeng Xiaoxian's eyebrows started twitching wildly, as if he was about to perform an eyebrow dance for everyone on the spot.

He rubbed his face hard, trying to clear his head, but Mika's outrageous remarks still lingered in his ears.

"What you're saying, according to historical records, is my parents' romance?!"

Zeng Xiaoxian said incredulously, "That's just a sitcom, it's not real!"

"We are too."

Meijia and Guan Gu said in unison.

"Okay, never mind."

"Ask a question!"

Curry Sauce raised her hand like a model student and asked, "If this is the only mutated creature that escaped from the dilapidated apartment—a cockroach rat—does that mean it's incapable of reproduction because it's all alone?"

"That's not necessarily true."

Mika pondered, "After all, the cockroach rat was just a single individual at the beginning, but by the sixth season it had a happy family."

"It's difficult for us to determine whether this was because there were unknown cockroach-rats lurking at the time, or whether it was hermaphroditic and capable of reproducing on its own."

Xiao Xian continued to play with the Spider-Man doll in his arms. He suddenly felt that, apart from himself, the Spider-Man doll was the most normal-looking person in the entire room.

Cockroach rat?

Can there really be such unscientific things in this world?

Although Xiaoxian didn't believe it, he also didn't think that Guangu, Meijia, and Youyou would be so bored as to make up such an outrageous story to deceive everyone.

Today isn't an April Fool's Day prank, so there's absolutely no benefit to them making up this story.

Without looking up, he asked, "So what do you plan to do with this cockroach rat? Catch it and send it to Xiao Hei for research?"

Mika corrected, "It's not 'you,' it's 'us'!"

"Okay, okay, we'll stick with it."

Since he had nothing to do today, he decided to see just who this cockroach rat was.

Meijia answered Xiaoxian's question earlier: "I already asked Xiaohei. He said his main focus is on machinery, big data, and AI. He's not very interested in cockroaches and rats. He told us to figure it out ourselves."

"I also called the relevant research institute for consultation, but they said that they had obtained several live samples of cockroach rats from the small, run-down apartment this morning, and the one in our apartment is not of much value."

"If we're willing to pay, they can send professionals to help us get rid of this cockroach rat."

Xiao Xian laughed in exasperation upon hearing this: "We're going to spend money to send them live samples? This research institute must be desperate for money!"

Meijia, holding her chopsticks, said in a serious tone, "So, relying on heaven and earth is not as good as relying on ourselves."

"Our goal this time is to catch the cockroach rat—dead or alive!"

Curry Sauce muttered, "But we've been here for so long and haven't heard a sound from the cockroach rat. Could it have run away?"

"impossible."

Mika, the home improvement expert, confidently stated, "All the doors and windows in 3602 are closed, and the toilet seat was also closed just now."

"I specifically installed filters in the drains and sink pipes to prevent rats and cockroaches from crawling out of the pipes."

"Unless this cockroach rat mutates to the point of being able to walk through walls, it must still be in our suite."

Guan Gu concluded, "So the first step in our operation is to find it."

Xiaoxian was not optimistic about the first step of this operation: "It's easier said than done. This thing is a combination of cockroaches and rats, each one better than the last at hiding. Who knows where it is hiding right now?"

He didn't believe in the existence of cockroach rats, and he certainly didn't believe that if such a mutated creature really existed, it would wander around aimlessly in broad daylight unless it was extremely hungry.

Xiao Xian suddenly had a flash of inspiration. His eyes lit up and he said excitedly, "I have an idea. Since we can't find it, and it can't escape now."

"Let's just...starve it to death!"

The three asked in unison, "Starve it to death?"

"Yeah, let it starve to death."

Xiao Xian raised his eyebrows smugly, seemingly quite satisfied with his idea: "You all clear out everything edible. For the next ten days or so, you'll eat, drink, relieve yourself, and sleep in the other suites."

"If there's absolutely no food in the entire suite, and it can't escape, it'll definitely starve to death!"

He laughed loudly, "No matter how much it mutates, I don't believe it can mutate to produce photosynthesis!"

"Come back in ten days or two weeks, and then..."

"Then when we return to 3602, we will see a sofa, cushions, blankets, and towels that have been gnawed beyond recognition by starving cockroaches and rats, and a suite that smells like a corpse in the middle of summer."

Guan Gu looked at Zeng Xiaoxian expressionlessly: "Teacher Zeng, why do you always make such procrastinating, dawdling, and ultimately self-destructive decisions?"

"that is."

Kind-hearted Mika said with a look of pity, "This cockroach rat is still a life. It's too cruel to let it starve to death."

"Can't we take some more humane measures?"

"For example, killing it with a baseball bat, swatting it with an electric mosquito swatter, or poisoning it?"

Curry Sauce nearly spat out the potato chips in her mouth: "Sister Meijia, is this your humanitarianism?"

"Otherwise what?"

Mika asked back with an innocent and guileless expression.

I'm coming

(End of this chapter)