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Chapter 151 Group Comparison Experiment of Thunderfly

The lightning nymph has a large head and very large compound eyes, which enable it to see underwater.

It has a large appetite and needs to travel to many places every day to fill its stomach.

It has two antennae on its head that look like cables, and when it opens its mouth, spiral-shaped sharp teeth appear inside.

It has six legs, with the front tentacles being thick and powerful, covered with fine hairs that act like radar, helping the lightning nymph sense its surroundings.

The male lightning nymph has a hooked tail, resembling the shape of a plug.

The female's tail is square, like the shape of a socket.

Sunflower King eagerly retrieved the crystal cores of Thunder Gall and Ancient Lanternfish, as these were important experimental materials.

Ye Bai actually discovered a problem: the Eye of Insight only saw one possibility, and there were actually some deeper evolutionary paths that had not been revealed.

He also used this opportunity to test whether his ideas were correct.

While the Eye of Insight is powerful, relying too heavily on it can backfire.

After all, the Eye of Insight is equivalent to knowing the answer in advance. As long as you follow the requirements of the Eye of Insight, you will have an 80% to 90% success rate.

This is equivalent to wasting Ye Bai's first talent—photographic memory.

This talent is the most suitable for experimentation, allowing Ye Bai to observe very carefully and discover clues from it.

Ye Bai divided the fish into five groups and fed them with crystals of Thunder Gall and Ancient Lanternfish in ratios of 3:7, 4:6, 5:5, 6:4, and 7:3.

Let's see if a miracle happens and a hidden evolutionary path is revealed.

Of course, in order to prevent the Lightning Narcissus from starving, Ye Bai also had to invest a large number of Night Larvae.

Firstly, it helps Ye Bai observe how the Thunderlight Narcissus feeds and how many Night Sprouts it consumes on average every 24 hours.

The second observation is how the lightning nymphs prey on mosquito larvae.

As for where the mosquito larvae come from, these days in the Jiaying River, if you cast a fishing net, nine out of ten nets will be full of mosquito larvae.

This high-quality protein is abundant; the Pet Beast Guild would love for you to pack up all the Night Elf larvae and take them away.

However, Ye Bai knew that this would not solve the problem at its root, unless the night mosquito larvae were edible and tasted very good.

This could drive invasive species like mosquito larvae to the brink of extinction, and even necessitate artificial breeding for their survival.

After all, the Yandong region is known for its edible creatures, whether they crawl on land or swim in water.

Even a food called water cockroach is touted as a delicacy. It is scalded with boiling water to remove the urine smell, then fried in oil, and sprinkled with cumin and salt and pepper. The taste is simply amazing.

Unfortunately, the skin of the night mosquito larvae is very hard and has an unbearably sour taste.

It only takes them five days to evolve from mosquito larvae into night mosquitoes.

Once a night mosquito has absorbed enough blood, it can reproduce, which takes anywhere from three to five days.

Therefore, the fight against night mosquitoes should be carried out during these few days. Otherwise, the night mosquitoes will absorb enough blood and form a large army of night mosquitoes. Historically, an outbreak of night mosquitoes has caused the entire population of a small country to turn into skeletons.

At that time, the leaders of the Night Mosquitoes had all transformed into four-winged black mosquitoes. These strange beasts were so difficult to deal with that nuclear weapons were finally deployed to completely destroy them.

According to the system's intelligence, it is the Gu Poison Cult that is secretly supporting the growth of the Dark Night Mosquito.

It seems we'll soon have to confront the Gu Poison Cult, a cult skilled at manipulating poisonous insects.

Ye Bai made a phone call, and the Pet Beast Guild members caught a large number of Night Mosquito Larvae.

Because of his outstanding performance at the meeting, he has been appointed as the deputy leader of the epidemic prevention and control team, specifically to coordinate the research on the evolution of nymphs and the control of nocturnal mosquitoes.

The reason why Ye Bai was entrusted with such an important job at such a young age is because everyone thought that Zhang Lingxue, who was behind Ye Bai, would lend a helping hand.

After all, Zhang Lingxue had sent Ye Bai to attend the meeting in her place. Ye Bai was researching the evolution of nymphs, which was exactly what Zhang Lingxue was researching.

In reality, Zhang Lingxue was so busy preparing for the inspection that she was now in seclusion day and night, and had even given Ye Bai control of the Groundhog Secret Realm.

Now, Ye Bai even has great difficulty seeing Zhang Lingxue, let alone anyone else. She would definitely put on an expression that says, "I'm busy, don't bother me with anything."

After thinking about it carefully, Ye Bai realized that the Dark Night Mosquito and the Blood Pool actually complemented each other.

Night mosquitoes need the essence of blood to reproduce in large numbers, and the blood pool contains this essence.

With sufficient resources, it might be possible to breed a two-winged black mosquito. As for breeding a four-winged black mosquito, that would probably require a massive amount of resources.

The water tanks that Ye Bai released were very large, each with a space of two meters by two meters by two meters.

Each tank is equipped with at least four cameras, and these cameras are designed to withstand electric shock. This allows for clear observation of the movements of each lightning nymph.

Ye Bai also used a marker to make a mark on the backs of the different groups of lightning nymphs.

The mosquito larvae vary in size, from as big as a fist to as small as a thumbnail.

Ye Bai put one hundred Night Mosquito larvae into each of the water tanks.

Only in this way can we better record the number of night larvae that the Thunderfly Dragonfly preys on in a day. With objective data, Ye Bai can better advance his work and give the Breeding Family Guild an explanation.

The mosquito larvae nimbly swung their tails in the water tank. They swam quite fast in the water, and they moved their bodies nimbly, making a series of agile movements in the tank.

Moreover, upon seeing the lightning nymphs, they surrounded them as if they were sharks smelling blood.

The Night Mosquito Larvae have a varied diet, including withered branches and leaves, and small fish in the river. They even dare to fight against beasts much larger than themselves, such as the Lightning Narcissus.

The night larvae extended their needle-like mouthparts and fiercely stabbed at the body of the lightning serpent.

Some of the lightning nymphs completely ignored the attacks of the night larvae, instead opening their mouths and sucking in dozens of night larvae, chewing them with their sharp teeth.

Its movements were so large that the surrounding night larvae hid, fearing that they would be targeted by the lightning serpent.

Some of the lightning nymphs emitted bursts of electric arcs, which spread throughout the tank, causing all the night larvae to tremble and float to the surface with pale bellies.

The lightning nymphs extended their thick, powerful claws, grabbed a stunned night larva, and bit off its head.

Some of the lightning nymphs lazily summoned a small vortex in the tank. All the night larvae felt a terrifying suction force coming from the vortex. Before they could even move, they were sucked in and their bodies were pulverized.

The Thunderfly opened its mouth and sucked in the severed limbs.

Just then, Ye Bai noticed a fist-sized night larva floating motionless on the water's surface.

Its body was constantly struggling inside.

A crack appeared on the back of the night larva, and the crack quickly spread out, growing larger and larger, as if something inside was trying to crawl out.

Not long after, a pair of slender legs appeared, and a wet, dark mosquito crawled out from them.

Before it could react, it was swallowed whole by the lightning nymph, leaving only a lone larval skin floating on the water.

The lightning nymph had been observing the night mosquito for some time, and when it saw it emerge from its pupa, it immediately attacked.

At this moment, Ye Bai observed something else: compared to the night mosquito larvae, the lightning nymphs seemed to be more interested in the night mosquitoes that were about to emerge from their cocoons.

They even started to stop attacking the fist-sized Night Mosquito larvae and instead wiped out the slightly smaller ones.

Ye Bai watched as they specifically attacked the night mosquitoes that had emerged from their cocoons but were not yet able to fly.

There were mosquito larvae floating on the water tank. Ye Bai counted them and realized that his guesses were still too few.

The male lightning nymphs ate about six hundred night mosquito larvae in just one hour.

The female lightning nymphs ate about five hundred of them.

This also takes into account the digestion time of the lightning nymphs, so a male lightning nymph can eat about 6,000 night mosquito larvae a day, while a female can eat about 5,000.

Moreover, Ye Bai discovered that these lightning nymphs were very clever, knowing how to catch the small ones and let the big ones go. They deliberately left the night mosquito larvae that were about to emerge from their cocoons, and then swallowed them the moment they emerged.

Before Ye Bai could proceed with the next evolutionary experiment, he was summoned away by a phone call from a breeder's guild.

Before leaving, Ye Bai instructed Big Gray and Sunflower King to prepare a record. They were to record how many times the food was fed into the water tank, and Big Gray was also to ensure that no night mosquitoes escaped.

Because he was walking in a hurry, Ye Bai arrived at the Nurturing Family Guild in less than ten minutes.

Chairman Liu and Chairman Wang were shrouded in a somber atmosphere, their faces ashen, as if something had happened.

"Ye Bai, a large-scale invasion of night mosquitoes has occurred in Xijiang Province. The situation is quite critical, and a special inspector has been dispatched to handle it."

“Small-scale outbreaks of nocturnal mosquitoes have also appeared in various cities and prefectures of Yandong Province. Now Chairman Zhang is asking each city and prefecture to come up with a plan.”

“Especially in our Jiaying City, since it is not far from Xijiang Province, we are afraid that some of the night mosquitoes will migrate from Xijiang Province.”

"So we have to come up with a solution."

"The idea of ​​dragonfly creatures is good, but we currently have no way to form a large-scale dragonfly population, which is the most pressing problem we are facing right now."

Well, it's not that I wanted to pad the story; some of the plot points were my own ideas, like the flood plot. Now I roughly understand it, so I'm focusing my research on that direction. Thank you all for the opportunity you've given me. I will continue to write well. Last month I wrote 10,000 words a day, and I plan to continue writing 10,000 words a day for this book for another month. Thank you all for your support. Sometimes writing 10,000 words a day is necessary to push the plot forward. Writing 10,000 words a day on Qidian is too tiring, and the psychological pressure is too great. If I could write 4,000 words a day, I think I would write even better.

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