A hundred-meter queue had formed outside the entrance of the Taiji Chamber of Commerce Patent Office. People in the line were carrying a walking garlic sculpture, others were pushing wooden carts full of glowing abacuses, looking just like a band of eccentric characters who had stepped right out of a New Year painting. Huwa wore a "Creative Director's Cap" rolled up from a patent certificate and held up a garlic-shaped megaphone that puffed out colored smoke. "No shoving! Anyone with an invention that's too outrageous gets dragged straight off to arithmetic cram school!"
First Wave of Impact: "Living Patents" That Can Serve as Pets
Wang Po the vegetable vendor rushed in again, clutching a securely bound large white goose. "The divine goose from last time laid an egg that can recite the *Twenty Rules of the Chamber of Commerce*! I want to apply for a 'Smart Goose 2.0' patent!" Before her voice had even faded, old man Zhang next door leaped out dragging a cat wearing gold-rimmed glasses. "My cat used glass-blowing techniques to make itself an abacus-shaped cat nest, and it even collects dried fish for 'rent'!"
Huwa stared in astonishment at the miniature abacus in the cat's paw, which was densely covered with records of rent arrears owed by its "tenant" mice. "This... is this going to turn into an animal chamber of commerce?" Huwa pulled out his "Absurdity Detector," and just as he was about to scan, the goose suddenly let out a "quack" and spat out a glowing egg engraved wit…
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