Mysterious creature sightings

Half an hour later, Ling Jiangyue was escorted back to the inspection building at the back.

——Like a primary school student, he was handed over to a beautiful researcher.

Ling Jiangyu made it clear that she could not let the captain of the Special Investigation Division approach her, and repeatedly emphasized that he must be picked up immediately after the observation period.

The researcher was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to do.

Ling Jiangyue pretended to be obedient when he could see her, but as soon as she was out of his sight, she was like a bird out of its cage, fluttering to find the people from the Special Office. They needed her help in detecting jellyfish pheromones. Woolen cloth.

Lin Zheng and the others were in the laboratory on the third floor, chatting in a low voice about "Since someone was staring at her yesterday, I knew she had nothing to do with that organization."

After hearing the thumping sound in the corridor, they held their breath and concentrated for half a minute, and then saw the door of the laboratory being pushed open and a head poking in.

"May I come in?"

"Of course, consultant teacher, we need your help." Jiang Yuxing wore glasses on top of his glasses, and a mask covered the lower part of his eyes. He spoke in a low voice and waved to her.

The instrument can only detect certain components, and they still have to distinguish whether those components are active sex pheromones, which is a complicated project.

And she can directly see the pheromones, which is as easy as picking up thread, much more efficient than using instruments.

Ling Jiangyue pursed her lips and smiled, and followed their instructions to put on a lab coat and protective mask.

The headband of the mask had to go around the back of her head. Her hair was not tied well, and it was uncomfortable to adjust the strap back and forth. She frowned impatiently.

Seeing this, Lin Zheng took off his gloves and went over to help her adjust them.

He was much taller, and when he stood behind Ling Jiangyue and lowered his head to help smooth his hair, he had a strange aura of a full-time househusband.

Jiang Yuxing shivered and winked at Xu Jiayan.

Xu Jiayan: ...The whole face is covered, and he can't see it unless it's X-rayed.Brainless, sick.

Ling Jiangyue enjoyed Lin Zheng's service and reacted with embarrassment on his face. He seemed eager to change the topic and was shy. When he caught someone he was looking at, he had nothing to say: "Your glasses can't afford it." Mist?"

The person asking was Jiang Yuxing, who was yawning with his jaw expanded.

Jiang Yuxing pretended to flick the temples of his glasses and said, "Specially made lenses, no fogging."

"Oh--"

"Have you ever seen anyone's lenses fog up?" Lin Zheng asked suddenly from behind.

Ling Jiangyue paused.

Indeed, no one around her, including Ling Jiangyu, Yu Zhang and the others in the group photo at the orphanage, wore glasses.

Only he wears it.

The vigilance is really high, and even small details can be grasped.

She returned to normal in an instant, tilted her head and said, "I've seen it before. My brother occasionally wears glasses when doing work, and Xiang's mother in the orphanage also wears reading glasses."

Lin Zheng didn't question her explanation. He seemed to ask casually. He just put his hand on the side of her head and told her: "Don't move yet."

"Oh."

Donning a lab coat and protective mask, she joined the team to identify the jellyfish's pheromones.

The jellyfish in that tank, among other things, were really beautiful in the water, especially the moon jellyfish that bit her, which looked like a four-leaf clover growing in a fluffy fluorescent veil.

She bent down to watch the moon jellyfish swim and shared their different colors with others.

"This greenish female has a skirt, and the long tentacles of that one are yellow, and there are patterns on her body. There are many small lightbulb-like juveniles in the water. I don't know if they are male or female."

Xu Jiayan: "They are divided into males and females only at the transverse stage. Which one moves particularly slowly?" "There are spots on its jellyfish hat, as if it has worms. Its forward movement of spraying water is weak."

Jiang Yuxing: "Jellyfish also have worms? Do I need anthelmintics?"

Lin Jia: "Driving you away?"

Jiang Yuxing: "..."

Ling Jiangyue lay beside the tank and found a particularly beautiful jellyfish: "It's so fluffy and has several points on its body that look like eyes."

Lin Zheng: "It's because they have a special gland that can emit carbon monoxide to expand the umbrella. That point is not an eye, but an ear, called an otolith. It can receive infrasound waves in the sea and predict storms more than ten hours in advance. .The jellyfish ear storm predictor I told you before was developed based on their ability."

Ling Jiangyue listened with great interest, and Jiang Yuxing also pretended to be a newbie in urgent need of knowledge training. After listening, he typed on the smart screen for Xu Jiayan and Lin Jia to see——

[I remember this is a laboratory, not an aquarium for dating, right?Why didn’t I know before that he could explain so much scientific knowledge in one breath? 】

[Also, just now he was habitually suspicious of friends who did not wear glasses, and now he is doing science popularization about love. He is such a changeable man. I doubt that he can really fall in love? 】

Lin Jia deleted his words and typed: [He can see it. 】

Jiang Yuxing: "..."

He coughed, seriously interrupted Ling Jiangyue's game of getting to know the jellyfish, and asked: "So can you find out which one is most likely to be the eldest son of the mother? Just like you were looking for the black-butt bumblebee yesterday."

Ling Jiangyue pondered for a while, running his fingers back and forth among the jellyfish, but he still couldn't find the most obvious one.

Facing their expectant gazes, her eyebrows knitted tighter and tighter because she really couldn't find it.

This situation is rare.People with special abilities always have great panic about the failure of their abilities, and they don't like to encounter situations that they can't control.

Subconsciously, she raised her hand to bite her finger again, but Lin Zheng stopped her.

"Don't chew your hands. There are a lot of dirty things in the laboratory."

Speaking in a cold tone, she put down her hand, pursed her lips, and said anxiously, "I can't find it."

Lin Zheng didn't say "Forget it", but asked carefully: "Have you encountered any problems?"

"A lot of them are the same, I mean energy colors and pheromones, just like... like a broken pen throwing out a puddle of ink on the paper, there are actually many identical patterns."

It was another incomprehensible analogy. Lin Zheng realized it after changing it: "Random became fixed?"

"Yes. Do jellyfish give birth to multiple births?"

Xu Jiayan got some inspiration and answered first: "More than that. But the problem you mentioned should be the result of asexual reproduction."

"In addition to sexually reproducing by swallowing a tadpole when passing by, jellyfish can also reproduce asexually, splitting themselves into two genetically identical individuals, and relying on this method to form large racial groups."

He spoke faster and faster, and the conclusion was ready to come out: "So it's not a mother body. The jellyfish carrying human-like sex pheromones here are all clones produced through asexual reproduction, inheriting the same ability to simulate the secretion of sex pheromones by higher vertebrates as the original individual. abilities, as well as diseases in which cells grow faster.”

"The lifespan of jellyfish is already very short, and their cells are forced to grow at an accelerated pace. Their gonads secrete hormones rapidly. The pheromones are so thick that they can stick to other jellyfish that are attracted to them. However, when they mature, they don't even have time for sexual reproduction. It can only keep dividing itself to increase the population. So the initial individual should no longer exist."

"But what are those people doing by making jellyfish grow rapidly? Are they doing this in experiments to quickly draw experimental conclusions? Are they studying human-like sex pheromones as trading goods? Or turning men around the world into demented animals? Also , how did they discover the first mutant jellyfish?”

Ling Jiangyue looked around and tried to answer: "Maybe he found that special one among the many jellyfish?"

Xu Jiayan: "Why do they study a large number of jellyfish and have to make the jellyfish grow quickly? Are there any special abilities that need to be observed?"

Lin Zheng thought of a creature: "Lighthouse jellyfish."

The only creature that can return to the larval stage from sexual maturity. This ability is often called "immortality" and "rejuvenation" by humans. It is exactly the field that scientific geeks are passionate about.