Mysterious creature sightings

At eight o'clock in the morning, Ling Jiangyue arrived at the hospital on time with breakfast in hand.

Lin Zheng and the others were still in the intensive care unit and could not visit, so she sucked the soy milk and took a look outside to estimate the time when they would wake up.

Then I went to find Xu Jiayan, sitting there acting like an illiterate who couldn't understand advanced academic knowledge, taking a bite of the crumbled sesame cake from time to time, and chewing it pretending to be confused.

Several of their experts talked to each other for two hours, starting from the birth of the toad to its breeding period, and then from its appearance to its extermination methods, and finally came to some simple and simple conclusions.

Ling Jiangyue found the right opportunity to raise her hand and asked: "So there are still a lot of those toads?"

"No, at least in that mountain col and other places we know, there are no similar creatures."

She asked again: "If they were caught and put there as natural hallucinogens, then why haven't their numbers increased a lot in the past 20 years? I went back to search last night, and the reproductive capacity of toads is quite strong."

The mycology professor explained: "Because there is a fungus called chytrid that loves to 'eat' toads and frogs."

This was his professional field, and he felt that she couldn't understand it just by talking about it, so he directly took out a toad that was infected by mold and held up the transparent box to show her.

"Did you see that? That mass of moldy skin is chytrid fungus. Their spores will live on the toad's skin and continue to grow new spores. Finally, the entire toad will be covered with mold, which is equivalent to eating it alive. .”

Ling Jiangyue pretended to be confused, opened her mouth slightly, and then hesitantly asked: "Then is this mold the reason why this toad is different?"

"Probably. We can't detect the specific uses and sufficient amounts of many ingredients at all, and it's not easy to study them clearly. But when it comes to macroscopic effects, it's obvious——"

"Chytrid fungus is like a hand left by nature, which is slowly pushing this toad towards extinction. Because of the existence of chytrid fungus, they have not spread and affected more people."

"In fact, if we push the investigation back a few years, this weird neurotoxin toad may no longer exist in the world, and those things will completely become weird events that cannot be investigated clearly."

"Nature is adapting to changes in the environment, erasing the continuation of some organisms. Toad toxins lose their activity after leaving the body, which can be regarded as nature's efforts to exterminate it."

At the end of the sentence, the professor sighed.

As a biologist, the extinction of any kind of creature is not a good thing, but as a human being who considers himself unique, the extinction of such dangerous creatures can only be a good thing.

Things are always complicated, and I don’t know how to judge absolute good or bad.

Xu Jiayan was not as sentimental as he was. They had seen a lot of strange and weird creatures in the special place. They always learned that those creatures still had relatives in some corner of the world, and they were always on tenterhooks.

If extinction were really certain, he would just applaud.

Those who can feel sorry for them are either perverted scientists or crazy researchers.

Considering this, Xu Jiayan also politely told the professor: "Leave all the follow-up processing issues to me. Our Special Investigation Office has a dedicated biological storage space."

The professor has dealt with them many times, how can he not understand what he means?
"Take it, you're afraid I'll take the toads home and breed them."

Xu Jiayan smiled awkwardly.

After Ling Jiangyue finished eating her sesame cake, her eyes fell on the transparent box handed to Xu Jiayan's hand.

The toad infected by chytrid fungus had reached the "late stage of cancer" and its body had very little fluctuation.

When they were in the tomb cave, Lin Zheng and the others said that the toads moved very slowly, mostly because they ate poisonous weeds that had a sedative effect, and the remaining one or two were because of the chytrid fungus that was like gangrene attached to the bones.

It's so miserable. Instead of dying heroically in the fight for food, territory and mates, we are instead suffering from chronic diseases and waiting for death. Even with such special abilities, we still can't escape the threat of a fungus that is not special.

If that person is still around, he should feel very sorry for them and be willing to do everything possible to save them.

Ling Jiangyue's eyes rolled slightly, and the toad in the box twitched, ending the pain.

She curled up her lips happily - she was not that person, she was good at giving pleasure to these creatures.

The basic information on the toad was completed, and the containment work was in progress. It was busy until night, and news finally came from the intensive care unit - Lin Zheng and the others had woken up.

But Xu Jiayan was the only one who could visit. Ling Jiangyue stood outside, leaning against the glass window and looking in.

Lin Jia recovered the best, while Jiang Yuxing seemed to be languid, blinking very rarely.

Lin Zheng suffered from external injuries and had the most severe symptoms. He was lying there wearing a respirator with a calm expression on his face.

She scribbled on the glass with her fingers, thinking: It's so pitiful. She suffered two disasters in a row. I don't know if her body can still survive.

Just as she drew a simple smiley face with her finger, Xu Jiayan, who was speaking inside, suddenly turned his head and looked at her.

Lin Zheng did the same, staring at her calmly for two seconds.

She opened her eyes slightly, making her look innocent and confused.

What did Lin Zheng and Xu Jiayan say?Why are you looking at her suddenly?Do you doubt her?

How annoying, she saved him twice, she is so ungrateful.

She stopped smiling and deliberately looked away to look at Lin Jia.

After a while, Xu Jiayan came out of the intensive care unit, took off the sterile clothes, and told her: "It's a good thing to wake up. We can go back probably tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The hospital technology here is still not as good as the headquarters."

"Oh...what did you see me doing just now?" she asked curiously.

"Just..." Xu Jiayan was a little embarrassed, "I told Brother Lin that you made his wound pause, and he asked you how you did it. How did I know?"

"I don't know, it just works somehow." She touched her ears and lowered her eyes to her toes.

Xu Jiayan's eyes were subtle and he added: "When he gets better, he will definitely ask you in person. He will definitely not believe your explanation."

"Whether he believes it or not, I am saving him, not reporting to him." She said confidently.

Xu Jiayan was speechless.

How should I put it? One of them expressed dissatisfaction outside and the other expressed doubts while lying on the hospital bed, but the subtle atmosphere that even the ICU could not block was so exclusive that he couldn't even say anything.

Let them communicate by themselves when the time comes.

"Well, Brother Lin also said that you were frightened this time, and you will get a bonus when the time comes, and... you can go home now."

It really felt like throwing away people after using them, and I was embarrassed to say it to that disappointed face.

Ling Jiangyue bit her lip, but insisted on asking more questions: "What happened in their hallucinations? Why is Jiang Yu so scared? Lin Zheng... Lin Zheng is even more serious."

"Jiang Yuxing said that he dreamed of a lamprey seeking revenge."

"...What about Lin Zheng?"

Is that the main thing you want to ask? Xu Jiayan cursed in his heart and said, "I don't know, Brother Lin didn't tell me. Maybe it's just some cutting vines."

"Oh - then you ask him, why did he stop hallucinating inexplicably when I told him to stop for no reason?"

After she finished speaking, she left. After walking a few steps, she stopped and said in a low voice, "I'm not going back today. The hotel I booked has just renewed my room."

Xu Jiayan: "...I will definitely convey it properly."