Chapter 1861

Xia Qing had long guessed that her idol would ask to watch the video, so she handed over the USB flash drive, "This is the video of the cave exploration session."

Other sessions—such as fighting with the waist-broken wolf, talking to the handsome giant wolf, changing the medicine for the little wolf brother, negotiating with the Xiong Wang father and son using food, and riding the bear to check task points—Xia Qing didn't record.

Because she was afraid that after her idol finished watching, he would get a petty illness, increase her task load, and make her write another paper.

After Zhang San carefully watched the cave exploration video recorded by the mechanical spider, he still didn't get the answer to the previous question and asked again, "What is the basis for your confirmation that the Xiong Wang likes to eat giant salamanders?"

It seemed that her idol really wanted to send the giant salamander in the laboratory back to Mountain 62 to raise fish there. The difficulty of this task was much higher than raising evolutionary Sichuan moss in the rapids of the southern wolf troop.

In order to dispel her idol's idea, Xia Qing could only tell the truth, "After the Xiong Wang saw the mechanical spider discover the giant salamander, it used actions to indicate that it wanted to eat the fish. I explained to it that the fish couldn't be caught in the cave, but it didn't believe me and tried to stuff me into the cave. It only gave up after discovering that I couldn't be stuffed in."

Zhang San was silent for a full eight seconds before reaching out, "Video, don't tell me you didn't record it!"

When using instruments to explore caves, cave exploration personnel must keep the camera on their protective mask on throughout the process, the purpose of which is to record the animals that run out of the cave during the cave exploration process. This is common sense for entering the evolutionary forest to execute tasks.

Xia Qing could only dig out the memory card of the protective mask hanging on her waist, hand it to her idol with both hands, and remind him carefully, "It's the video around 12:45."

Zhang San rolled his eyes at Xia Qing, plugged in the memory card, and found that Xia Qing had recorded 16 videos today using the high-definition camera on her protective mask. Just by looking at the shooting angle of the covers of these videos, Zhang San understood why Xia Qing didn't want to show them to him.

Because this new human was riding a giant bear and checking task points in the bear troop territory!

Zhang San lifted his eyelids and looked at the new human opposite the table who was baring her teeth and smiling in a wolf-like manner, clicked on the video from after 12 o'clock, and began to watch.

Although he was mentally prepared, when Xia Qing turned her head and Zhang San saw the Xiong Wang's large head right beside her, and the entire surveillance screen was filled with wet fur and a large eye, his heartbeat still accelerated involuntarily.

Xia Qing's current height is 1.79 meters. When she is sitting, the height of the camera on the protective mask on her head from the ground is about 1.05 meters. According to the image shot by the camera, the head height of this giant bear lying on the ground is about 1.1 meters.

At this distance, the giant brown bear could bite Xia Qing to death with one bite! Was she not afraid at all?

The subsequent videos proved that this new human was not afraid, because while she was manipulating the mechanical spider to explore the cave, she was chatting with the Xiong Wang about the scenery inside the cave...

When the Xiong Wang let out a roar that made Zhang San's headache worsen and his heartbeat accelerate, the new human standing beside the Xiong Wang was still as steady as a rock, manipulating the robot to jump into the water and avoid the giant salamander's large mouth.

No wonder Luo Pei always said that Xia Qing had the potential to become the number one sniper in China; her psychological quality was truly not ordinarily strong.

Just as Zhang San finished sighing, he saw the Xiong Wang stretch its claw in front of the screen, clearly indicating that it wanted to eat the giant salamander.

After discovering that Xia Qing didn't immediately satisfy its request, this giant bear directly grabbed Xia Qing with its claw, walked to the flowing rock cave, and tried to stuff Xia Qing inside.

Listening to Xia Qing communicating with the Xiong Wang with stable emotions, Zhang San's mood was even more complicated than the messy and shaking video images on the laptop.

Xia Qing's judgment was correct: the Xiong Wang really liked to eat giant salamanders.

Zhang San pressed his throbbing temples and lowered his eyes in thought.

After watching the video, her idol still had such a headache, so Xia Qing began to ask about the key point, "Third Brother, is the difficulty of breeding giant salamanders in the laboratory too high, or is the cost too high?"

Zhang San pressed his temples and answered rigorously, "Both aspects. The dependence of the evolved giant salamander on the environment is not just water temperature and water quality, but also the microbial community, light cycle, the sound of water flow, and the native bacterial film. I just analyzed the samples you brought back, and the difficulty and cost of simulating its native bacterial film in the laboratory are very high..."

Seeing Xia Qing's expression, Zhang San understood that she didn't remember this professional term and added an explanation, "Native bacterial film is a complex, stable, and functionally complete microbial community formed by microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and algae long-term attached to the surface of rocks or substrates."

She seemed to have seen this concept somewhere...

Xia Qing, who was very guilty, tried hard to make up for it, "Third Brother, is it because the laboratory cannot imitate this microbial community, so only by putting 11-9 back into that rock cave will it be in heat and lay eggs during the breeding season?"

"Not that rock cave, but a rock cave or mountain stream with a similar environment. Not necessarily, but highly likely."

Zhang San answered Xia Qing's question professionally and rigorously, "The male fish in the rock cave can live until now, indicating that the environmental signals in the cave are complete. If the female fish is put into a similar environment and receives environmental signals, it is highly likely to enter the estrus period, but there is also a possibility of failure—the female fish has been raised in the laboratory for four months, and the bacterial environment has changed. Suddenly returning to the native environment may cause stress reactions such as immune system disorder, loss of appetite, or even refusal to eat."

"Giant salamanders are solitary animals. According to video analysis, that male fish has already established territorial awareness in the rock cave water area. If the female fish is put in rashly, the male fish's first reaction is not mating, but expulsion. Therefore, we need to find another cave in that water area suitable for giant salamander survival, and then release it back in mid-April."

Releasing it back to the native environment in April is because the extract of this giant salamander is an important component needed for the medicine to save Wu Wu Chengyu and the tiger. Only after keeping it for two more months and obtaining enough extracts can it be released back.

Two months, enough.

Xia Qing gave an action plan, "Third Brother, give me another sturdy and durable large laptop. I will use the next two months to max out the Xiong Wang's favorability and improve its cultural level, so that it agrees to let us raise fish in the rock cave of Mountain 62. After the first Qiang rain, I will go to the Mountain 62 region to find a rock cave suitable for the female fish to survive."

Test the quality of the male fish in Mountain 62? That's impossible. That male fish's combat power is not low, and it's hiding in the cave and won't come out. Xia Qing can't get its body fluids, nor can she perceive its magnetic field.

Zhang San, who had already classified himself as a new human, accepted the plan proposed by Xia Qing and put forward two improvement suggestions, "Giant salamanders are solitary animals. There should be other places suitable for giant salamander survival under the second peak of Mountain 62. You find at least three suitable rock caves, mountain streams, and meadow shallows, and set up environmental monitoring equipment in all of them. I need to continuously monitor the native environment for at least one month to confirm the data of water quality, water temperature, and microbial community, and make a horizontal comparison with the laboratory data. Once the data matches, 11-9 can be released back into the evolutionary forest. Secondly, the laptop screen is too small for the Xiong Wang; you can consider installing a 90-inch or larger LCD TV in the bear cave."

As a human who owns a 55-inch LCD TV, Xia Qing deeply felt that she was not a qualified fan, because she could no longer keep up with her idol's pyramid-style thinking...

Idol, do you know how many points a TV over 90 inches needs?