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She said angrily, "Is this how you kill time?"

"Where did you get these?" Gray asked, pointing to the videotapes.

The fat woman said, "Of course, from your doghouse, which you call a room."

"How dare you enter my room like that?"

"You're bringing up privacy with me? I'm in the same club as Lana's aunt, and my son is secretly filming her niece. How am I supposed to face her after this?"

Did you go to Lana's house tonight too?

Gray lied, saying, "I didn't, I just went to collect insects."

Gray's mother said without any mercy, "Two disgusting hobbies!"

“Insects aren’t disgusting!” Gray retorted weakly.

His mother came to him with the videotape, stroked his hair and said, "Grey, you weren't like this before."

“But people change, Mom.” Gray’s eyes sharpened at this moment.

Faced with Gray's words, his mother became completely enraged, and she threatened as usual, "I will call Clermont Military Academy on Monday morning."

Gray sneered and said, "Go ahead and fight, Mom."

"I've had enough of your behavior, and this time I'm really going to make the call!"

Hearing his mother's words, Gray hysterically exclaimed, "Hey, then who's going to take care of my insects?"

In the bedroom, Gray turned on the light on the glass insect breeding box.

He gazed intently at the various insects in the room and the green stones he had used as decorations.

It was obvious that Gray's insect breeding box contained a considerable amount of kryptonite.

He picked up a jar of fireflies that glowed green and said, "I won't abandon you. I will take you to a safe place."

It was still dark outside, but Gray didn't care anymore.

If I'm to be sent to Clermont Military Academy tomorrow, I must move these insects away before dawn tonight.

He moved all the insect breeding boxes into his car, then drove his little green car out of town.

However, after a moment of instability, several glass jars containing insects placed on the vehicle fell off.

Instantly, the glass jar shattered, and the insects inside flew out.

They ran around haphazardly in the car, even biting and tearing at Gray.

Gray drove with one hand while waving his other arm and yelling, trying to shoo away the flying insects.

However, the interior space of the car was too cramped, which did nothing to help.

Ultimately, due to the interference of insects, Gray and his car crashed into a tree.

The enormous impact shattered all the insect rearing boxes.

Countless flying insects swarmed out; they were trapped inside the closed car and eventually rushed towards Gray.

Early in the morning, Gray's mother kept calling his name.

"Grey! Grey!"

"Where did you run off to?!"

She opened Gray's bedroom door and found that all the insects inside had been moved away.

But Gray was still nowhere to be seen in the bedroom.

She shook her head helplessly and left the room.

All of this was clearly seen by Gray, who was clinging to the ceiling.

At this moment, Gray was shirtless, his body covered with pustules left by insect bites.

Although he looked miserable, his expression was completely different from his previous timid demeanor.

At this moment, Gray's eyes were sharp, like a ferocious insect beast that would devour its prey.

At the Kent residence, Clark dreamt of Lana.

He was floating unconsciously on the bed until his mother, Martha, called out to him.

"Clark! We're leaving in fifteen minutes, and you haven't finished your work yet!"

Startled awake, Clark collapsed onto the bed, so hard that he broke the bed frame.

He looked around in a daze, unaware of what had just happened.

Meanwhile, Depp clapped from his villa in the distance.

"It seems you are slowly awakening your ability to fly, Clark."

At the town's market, Clark pressed the "Kent Farm" sign against the wooden pole, then picked up a nail and braced it against the sign.

Looking around and seeing that no one was paying attention, Clark simply pressed the nail in with his hand.

Not far away, Whitney and Lana Blue approached hand in hand.

Chloe spotted the two first and said, "Let's welcome the King and Queen!"

Lana Lan saw Clark and immediately went to greet him, asking, "I didn't see you at the ball last night?"

Clark thought for a moment and said, "I'm..."

Upon seeing this, Whitney immediately gave her a look.

Clark immediately changed his tune, saying, "I...I have something to do."

Depp walked up behind Clark with a look of exasperation, a scene that overlapped with a fragment of his memory.

So Depp immediately knew why Clark had been outside last night.

He said, "That's right, last night kind Clark was playing with the children at the orphanage. You know, those orphans without parents are very pitiful."

Upon hearing this, Clark turned and glanced at Depp in surprise. Then, the sunny young man suppressed a laugh and said, "Ah, yes, I was indeed playing with a group of orphans yesterday. Lana, you know, those orphans all have some psychological issues to varying degrees. I think it's more important to accompany them and help them grow up healthily than to cause misunderstandings."

Lana Lan smiled and nodded upon hearing this, saying, "Clark, you are always so kind."

Whitney stood to the side, her face turning a deep shade of liver with rage.

Jonathan, noticing the atmosphere was getting a bit tense, immediately stepped in to defuse the situation, saying to Whitney, "Hey, congratulations! I've never seen such a beautiful attack in all my years of playing."

Seeing this, Clark said, "I'll go move the boxes from the truck."

Seeing Clark walk away, Whitney immediately said, "I'll go help!"

He walked up behind Clark, put his arm around Clark's shoulder in a seemingly friendly yet reproachful manner, and said with a sunny smile, "Kent, you know that was just a joke last night, right?"

Clark did not respond. When they walked away from Lana Lan, Whitney's expression changed, and she said coldly, "I need you to give me back that necklace."

Clark turned and glared at the guy who had almost killed him last night, and said, "I didn't."

"Listen, that's Lana's favorite..."

Clark suppressed his anger and said with a forced smile, "Then you'd better go look in the cornfield; you might still have time."

After saying that, he walked away without looking back towards the truck loaded with his family's agricultural products, leaving Whitney behind.

At the market, Lana was fiddling with the butterfly wind chimes on a general store with great interest.

Gray, wearing a leather jacket, suddenly appeared behind her and said, "They're beautiful, aren't they?"

Lana turned around and exclaimed in surprise, "Hey, Gray, I didn't recognize you at all without your glasses!"

“Do you know they only have eight hours to live?” Gray asked.

Lana took a step back, widening the distance between herself and Gray. She keenly sensed that the boy in front of her seemed to exude a dangerous aura.

"Their lives are short and fleeting," Lana Lan said. "They are like shooting stars in the insect world."

“Can you help me write a literary report?” Gray asked.

"Did doing your homework at home freeze your brain?" Lana joked.

"Yes, that almost killed me!"

"Okay, no problem."

"How about coming to my house after school?"

"I think...the library would be more convenient."

"A word is settled!"

Depp watched Gray and Lana Lan from a short distance away, his monocle displaying their information.

Lana Blue, the school beauty of Smallville High School

Main ability: Unparalleled beauty.

Favorability rating: Quite favorable.

[Greg] Kryptonite Mutant

Main ability: Insect mutation.

Favorability rating: Strangers.

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Hey, isn't that the little bug-man?

Depp remembered this guy, who was bitten by a bug affected by Kryptonite and then gained increased strength and speed.

Furthermore, it also acquired some of the habits of insects.

For example, right now, the way this guy looks at Lana Lan is like an insect that's always ready to mate!

Besides Depp, Whitney also noticed Gray's unusual behavior.

This guy actually went and chatted up Lana while I was away!

Whitney walked over to Gray and said to Lana Lan, "Lana, your aunt is looking for you."

As soon as Lana Lan left, Whitney immediately turned to Gray and said aggressively, "Hey, Bug Bro, please stop stalking my girlfriend!"