Chapter 151: Group Comparative Experiment of Thunder Light Water Nymphs

The Thunder Light water nymph has a large head, and its compound eyes are very large, which facilitates its ability to see underwater.

Its appetite is very large, and it needs to roam many places every day to fill its stomach.

On top of its head are two antennae like electrical cables, and after opening its mouth, spiral-shaped Sharp Teeth appear inside.

It possesses six legs, with the front grasping legs being thick and powerful, and distributed with fine hairs; these fine hairs have an effect similar to radar, which can help the Thunder Light water nymph sense movement in its surroundings.

The tail of a male Thunder Light water nymph presents a hooked shape, just like the shape of a plug.

While the tail of a female is square, like the shape of a socket.

The Sunflower Emperor happily scurried over to take out the Thunder Gall and the crystal core of the Ancient Lantern Fish; these are important experimental materials.

Ye Bai actually discovered a problem: what the Insight Eye sees is only one possibility, and in fact, there are some deeper hidden evolutionary paths that have not been revealed.

He is also using this opportunity this time to test whether the thoughts in his mind are correct.

Although the Insight Eye is powerful, relying too much on the Insight Eye could potentially be counterproductive.

After all, the Insight Eye is equivalent to knowing the answer in advance; as long as one acts according to the requirements of the Insight Eye, there is basically an eighty to ninety percent success rate.

This is equivalent to wasting Ye Bai's first talent—Photographic Memory.

This talent is the most suitable talent for conducting experiments, as it allows Ye Bai to observe very carefully and discover clues from within.

Ye Bai divided them into five groups, and fed them according to ratios of Thunder Gall to Ancient Lantern Fish crystal cores of three to seven, four to six, five to five, six to four, and seven to three.

He wants to see if a miracle will happen and a hidden evolutionary path will appear.

Of course, in order not to let the Thunder Light water nymphs starve to death, Ye Bai also has to put in a large amount of Dark Night Larvae.

The first reason is to facilitate Ye Bai's observation of how the Thunder Light water nymphs feed and the average quantity of Dark Night Larvae consumed every twenty-four hours.

The second is to observe how the Thunder Light water nymphs prey on the Dark Night Larvae.

As for where the Dark Night Larvae come from, now in the Jiaying River, as long as you cast a fishing net, nine out of ten cages will be full of Dark Night Larvae.

With this kind of high-quality protein, there is simply no shortage of resources; the people from the Pet Beast Association are all wishing you would pack up and take all the Dark Night Larvae away.

But Ye Bai knows that this cannot fundamentally solve the problem, unless the Dark Night Larvae are edible and taste very good.

In that way, this kind of invasive species, the Dark Night Larvae, might be eaten to the point of near extinction, or even require artificial breeding to continue the species.

After all, the Yandong Region is famously known for the fact that anything that crawls on the ground or swims in the water can be eaten.

Even a type of food called water cockroach is touted as a delicacy; after blanching it in boiling water to remove the urine smell, then putting it into a frying pan to fry, and finally sprinkling it with a handful of cumin and chili salt, the taste is simply beyond compare.

Unfortunately, the skin of the Dark Night Larvae is very hard, and the taste is unbearably sour and astringent.

It only takes five days for them to advance from larvae to Dark Night Mosquitoes.

As long as the Dark Night Mosquito absorbs enough blood, it can gestate the next generation, a time ranging from three to five days.

Therefore, one must also take advantage of these few days to snipe the Dark Night Mosquitoes; otherwise, once the Dark Night Mosquitoes absorb enough blood and form a Dark Night Mosquito army, history has seen a small country's people turned into white bones due to a Dark Night Mosquito outbreak.

At that time, the leaders of the Dark Night Mosquitoes had turned into Four-Winged Black Mosquitoes; this kind of Exotic Beast was so troublesome that they finally had to deploy nuclear bombs to completely destroy it.

From the system's intelligence, it is the people of the Five Poisons Sect who are secretly supporting the growth of the Dark Night Mosquitoes.

It seems that before long, he will have to face the people of the Five Poisons Sect; this is a sect that excels at manipulating poisonous insects.

Ye Bai just made a phone call, and the people from the Pet Beast Association caught a large number of Dark Night Larvae.

Because of his outstanding performance at the meeting, he has already been arranged as the deputy leader of the epidemic prevention and control group, specifically to coordinate the research on the evolution of water nymphs and the prevention and control work of Dark Night Mosquitoes.

The reason why Ye Bai was appointed to such an important job at such a young age is because everyone feels that Zhang Lingxue, who is behind Ye Bai, will lend a helping hand.

After all, Zhang Lingxue delegated Ye Bai to attend the meeting on her behalf; Ye Bai researching the evolution of water nymphs is Zhang Lingxue researching the evolution of water nymphs.

In reality, Zhang Lingxue is busy to the point of madness trying to cope with inspections; she is now in seclusion day and night, and has even given the control rights of the Burrowing Rat Secret Realm to Ye Bai.

Now, even Ye Bai finds it difficult to see Zhang Lingxue, let alone others; she would definitely put on an expression of "I am busy, don't come looking for me for anything."

Ye Bai thought about it carefully; in fact, Dark Night Mosquitoes and the Blood Pool are complementary.

Dark Night Mosquitoes need to rely on the essence of blood to reproduce in large numbers, and the Blood Pool contains the essence of blood.

As long as the resources are sufficient, it might even be possible to cultivate a Two-Winged Black Mosquito; as for cultivating a Four-Winged Black Mosquito, that would likely require massive amounts of resources.

The water tanks Ye Bai put out are very large, each having a space of two meters by two meters by two meters.

Each water tank is equipped with at least four cameras, and they are even anti-electric shock cameras.

This allows for a clear observation of the movements of every Thunder Light water nymph.

Between the different groups of Thunder Light water nymphs, Ye Bai also used a marker pen to make a mark on their backs.

Dark Night Larvae come in different sizes, with the large ones being the size of a fist and the small ones being the size of a thumbprint.

Ye Bai put one hundred Dark Night Larvae into each water tank.

Only in this way can he better record the number of Dark Night Larvae preyed upon by the Thunder Light water nymphs in a day; with objective data, Ye Bai can better advance his work and give the people of the Breeder Association an explanation.

The Dark Night Larvae wiggle their tails flexibly in the water tanks; their swimming speed in the water is not slow, and one can see them flexibly wiggling their bodies, performing one flexible movement after another in the water tank.

Moreover, as soon as they see a Thunder Light water nymph, it is as if they were sharks that had smelled blood, surrounding the Thunder Light water nymph in a circle.

The diet of the Dark Night Larvae is very mixed; dead branches, rotten leaves, and small fish in the river are all their food, and even against an Exotic Beast like the Thunder Light water nymph, which is much larger than them in volume, they dare to go up and fight.

The Dark Night Larvae extended their needle-like mouthparts and fiercely stabbed toward the body of the Thunder Light water nymph.

Some Thunder Light water nymphs ignored the attacks of the Dark Night Larvae entirely, instead opening their mouths and taking a fierce gulp in the direction of the Dark Night Larvae, swallowing dozens of them into their mouths and chewing with their Sharp Teeth.

Its movements were large, scaring the surrounding Dark Night Larvae into hiding, for fear of being targeted by the Thunder Light water nymph.

Some Thunder Light water nymphs had arcs of electricity erupt from their bodies, and as the arcs spread throughout the water tank, all the Dark Night Larvae were electrocuted until their whole bodies trembled, floating up with their bellies white.

They were grabbed by the Thunder Light water nymph, which extended its thick and powerful Zhua, directly picking up an electrocuted Dark Night Larva and biting off its head in one gulp.

Some Thunder Light water nymphs were lazy, summoning a small vortex in the water tank; all the Dark Night Larvae felt a terrifying suction force coming from the vortex, and before they could even react, they were swept into it, their bodies torn to pieces.

The Thunder Light water nymph opened its mouth to inhale, and these severed limbs and broken arms were sucked into it.

Just at this moment, Ye Bai discovered that a fist-sized Dark Night Larva was suddenly floating on the water surface, motionless.

The inside of its body was struggling incessantly.

A crack split open on the back of the Dark Night Larva, and soon the crack spread out, getting larger and larger, as if something inside wanted to crawl out.

Not long after, a pair of slender legs were exposed, and a soaking wet Dark Night Mosquito crawled out from within.

Before it could even react, it was swallowed in one gulp by a Thunder Light Water Nymph, and in the end, only a lonely mosquito pupa skin remained drifting on the water's surface.

That Thunder Light Water Nymph had already been observing this Dark Night Mosquito for some time; seeing it break out of its pupa, it struck directly.

At this moment, Ye Bai observed another point: compared to Dark Night mosquito larvae, the Thunder Light Water Nymphs seemed even more interested in the Dark Night Mosquitoes that were about to break out of their pupae.

They even began to stop actively attacking the fist-sized Dark Night mosquito larvae, instead wiping out the slightly smaller Dark Night mosquito larvae.

Ye Bai watched as they specifically attacked the Dark Night Mosquitoes that had just broken out of their pupae and had not yet been able to fly.

Mosquito pupa skins drifted on the water tank; Ye Bai tallied them up, and it seemed his estimate had still been too low.

The male Thunder Light Water Nymph ate about six hundred Dark Night mosquito larvae in just one hour.

And the female Thunder Light Water Nymph ate about five hundred.

This also had to account for the Thunder Light Water Nymphs' digestion time, so a male Thunder Light Water Nymph could probably eat six thousand Dark Night mosquito larvae in a day, while a female could eat about five thousand.

Furthermore, Ye Bai also discovered that these Thunder Light Water Nymphs were very clever; they would catch the small and leave the large, deliberately sparing those Dark Night mosquito larvae that were about to emerge as mosquitoes, only to swallow them the instant they broke out of their pupae.

Before Ye Bai could conduct the next evolution experiment, he was called away by a phone call from the Breeder Association.

Before leaving, Ye Bai had Dahui and the Sunflower Emperor prepare to keep records; they needed to record how many times they fed the water tank, and Dahui also had to ensure that no Dark Night Mosquitoes could escape.

Because he left in quite a hurry, Ye Bai arrived at the Breeder Association in less than ten minutes.

President Liu and President Wang were both radiating low pressure, their expressions as dark as ink; it seemed something had happened.

"Ye Bai, a large-scale Dark Night Mosquito invasion event has occurred over in Xijiang Province; the situation is quite critical, and a Teshun Xunchashi has already been dispatched to handle it."

"Various cities in our Yandong Province have also seen small-scale appearances of Dark Night Mosquitoes, and now President Zhang requires each of our cities to come up with a plan."

"Especially our Jiaying City; because it is not far from Xijiang Province, we are afraid that a portion of the Dark Night Mosquitoes might migrate over from Xijiang Province."

"Therefore, we must come up with a countermeasure."

"The idea of using dragonfly Exotic Beasts is good, but we currently have no way to form a large-scale dragonfly population; this is the most urgent problem we are facing right now."

Sigh, actually it's not that I want to pad the word count, it's that some plot points are things I thought of myself, like the flood plot; now I roughly know it too, so I will specialize in researching this direction. Thank you to all the book friends for giving me this opportunity; I will write well. Last month I wrote ten thousand words a day for a month, and I plan to continue writing ten thousand words a day for this book for another month to see how it goes. Thank you all for your support. Sometimes when writing ten thousand words a day, I am forced to push the plot forward; writing ten thousand words a day on Qidian is too tiring, and the psychological pressure is also too great. If I only wrote four thousand words a day for this book, I reckon I would write it even better.

(End of this chapter)