The next day, the third season of "Back to Earth" began to warm up, and the production team released three highlights at once.

First tidbit.

The video cuts directly into the panoramic view of Papua New Guinea, looking down from the sky, with the vast blue sea, whales chasing each other, and the islands surrounding it, all in sight.

The next second, the camera switches, and with the rhythm of the background music, the thrilling underground caves, the freely swimming humpback whales, and the huge tsunami as high as a hundred meters are presented one by one before your eyes, which is amazing.

Second tidbit.

This is an underwater video. From the well-lit shallow-water ornamental fish to the pyrosomes in the twilight zone and the eel larvae in the dark water, the diversity of life constantly stimulates the audience's eyes.

As soon as Jiang Ran saw the behind-the-scenes footage, she knew the video was shot from the camera on her submarine. She glanced at the comments section and saw the first post was from the official account, circling her account and claiming she was the one who filmed it.

Jiang Ran felt very sorry——

I originally wanted to discuss the copyright issue with the program team.

The third tidbit is quite special.

The first two gags depict the Earth itself, while the third focuses on the conflict between the contestants.

The video opens with a group of contestants surrounding Bian Zhao, vying to rent her hovercar. The contestants, having traded points, show a pained expression, then, as if watching a show, glance secretly at Jiang Ran.

The video ends with a real-time points ranking table, and Jiang Ran is far behind the first-placed Bian Zhao.

Jiang Ran specifically switched to various major platforms and looked at the real-time comments from netizens.

As expected, the third highlight was the most discussed, with almost all major discussion forums heatedly discussing whether she could still defend her title.

The intention of the program team is obvious -

Jiang Ran had won two championships in a row, her strength undeniable. The sudden announcement of her falling behind in the competition naturally drew a lot of attention. Once everyone was in the spotlight and the main segment aired, satisfying everyone's excitement, they'd pull off another comeback, capping the show with a third consecutive championship. This was definitely a brilliant scenario.

Judging from the current traffic and discussion, the third season of "Back to Earth" has become popular before it even airs. All major investors are smiling from ear to ear, and the staff of Blue Sky Culture are also in high spirits. The only one who feels sorry is Jiang Ran.

Out of a subtle sense of guilt, the Blue Sky Culture staff were somewhat absent-minded the entire morning. They had discussed ahead of time and prepared a large variety of snacks, desserts, and galaxy specialties, just waiting for Jiang Ran to arrive at the company so they could immediately feed him.

However, the opposite happened.

Until noon, they still didn't see Jiang Ran.

Xu Yang was also very depressed about this.

He called Liang Feichen and said, "Didn't you say yesterday that Jiang Ran would definitely come looking for me today after I took the initiative?"

Liang Feichen argued confidently: "Didn't you read today's news and trending searches? She's very popular right now. If you go out at this time, you will be surrounded and chased to ask about the results of the competition. If you chase someone, be patient. In two days, she will definitely come to you."

"Okay, I'll wait a little longer."

"Oh, that's right."

Jiang Ran, the person at the center of the conversation, was unaware of this. In fact, she had originally planned to go to Blue Sky Culture today, but before she could leave, she was tripped up by another matter.

For some unknown reason, a well-known oceanarium on the capital planet found her and asked for her help.

Jiang Ran was also confused.

How can she help the aquarium?

She has never kept fish before.

The staff member said, "To be honest, two very valuable sharks recently died in our aquarium. Judging from the condition of the bodies, they didn't die of natural causes, but were killed by other fish. However, we've put in a lot of effort and still haven't found the dangerous fish. We don't know what went wrong."

Jiang Ran was still puzzled: "Then you should go find an animal expert?"

"We've already looked," the staff member said with a wry laugh. "In fact, we've not only consulted animal experts, but also marine experts and biological experts... but they're all helpless."

"You shouldn't have come to me then. Isn't that desperate?" Jiang Ran asked, "Do you know what I do?"

Her main job is a wildlife photographer, and now she has a secondary job as a wilderness survivalist, but how can it be related to marine animal breeding?

"certainly!"

The other party's attitude suddenly became firm: "It's like this. Our aquarium is quite special. The marine life on display are all rare species transported from ancient Earth, and most of the experts we found study modern species, so it's difficult to solve this problem..."

"But!" he said, his tone somewhat excitedly. "We saw the behind-the-scenes footage of 'Back to Earth,' and the official Weibo account said that the video of the deep-sea creatures was shot by you! We can tell that you have some knowledge of ancient Earth's marine life! That's why we'd like to ask for your help."

With this said, Jiang Ran could probably understand the other party's mentality.

After refusing several times without success, Jiang Ran sighed: "Okay, I can come and take a look, but there's a high probability that I won't be able to help you. It's best not to pin your hopes on me."

The other party readily agreed: "Okay, okay! Of course, of course! All up to you!"

Jiang Ran: “…”

It sounds perfunctory.

However, Jiang Ran kept his word and temporarily put his plan to go to Blue Sky Culture on hold, and instead headed towards the aquarium.

As soon as I arrived near the aquarium, I saw someone squatting at the door, looking around from afar.

As soon as he saw Jiang Ran, the man jumped up excitedly and rushed to her in two steps.

"Teacher Jiang! Hello! Hello! I've been waiting for you! Just call me Xiao Wu!"

"Xiao Wu..."

"Hey! You must be tired after coming all this way here. Let me take you into the museum so you can have some water!"

Xiao Wu was too excited, and Jiang Ran didn't say a word until he entered the hall and slowly drank the drink, and then his mood gradually calmed down.

"I'm sorry, Teacher Jiang," Xiao Wu also reacted and apologized, "Because this matter has been bothering our aquarium for a long time, I was a little excited when you came."

"It's okay," Jiang Ran took a sip of his drink, "Just take your time."

"Let me take you to the exhibition hall first," Xiao Wu said, "so you can see it more clearly."

When Jiang Ran first saw the exhibition hall of the main building, he was also slightly amazed.

The vast exhibition hall was over a hundred meters long and several dozen meters wide, connected at both ends with a walkway in the middle for visitors to pass through. The fish habitat wasn't just a large tank like some previous aquariums, but a true simulation of the ocean environment, complete with reefs and seaweed stretching out in unbroken rows.

Jiang Ran: "You guys did quite well."

Xiao Wu said proudly, "Of course, we are the largest aquarium on the capital planet, and we always have the most visitors!"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Wu seemed to remember the recent accident and his mood became depressed again.

He organized his words, "As you can see, our shark aquarium has a lot of ornamental fish. This is to simulate a real natural environment and is one of our aquarium's special features. We've been doing this for a long time and there have never been any accidents. But since last month, ornamental fish have been disappearing continuously. So far, there are probably thousands of them gone."

Jiang Ran looked around while listening to him.

Most of the ornamental fish in the aquarium are carefully selected species. They are light in color, large in size, and swim relatively fast. Basically, they are the types that sharks are not very interested in. It is not surprising that they can coexist peacefully with each other.

"Didn't the fish that disappeared leave behind even their carcasses?" Jiang Ran asked. "Have you checked?"

"We've checked many times," Xiao Wu said with a wry smile. "It's because they disappeared completely that we concluded they were eaten by other fish."

Jiang Ran nodded and reminded, "You said in the communication that two sharks died in the aquarium."

"Yes, this happened in the past few days," Xiao Wu paused and continued, "After the large number of ornamental fish disappeared, we were also very surprised and tried to find the culprit, but we didn't take it too seriously at the time. It wasn't until these few days, when that vicious fish even started attacking sharks, that we truly realized the seriousness of the situation."

"Ever consider it was a shark?"

"Of course I've thought about it, but it's unlikely."

Xiao Wu took two steps forward and pointed at a shark swimming nearby. "Look at the sharks kept in the aquarium," he said. "They're basically the same as this nurse shark. They're not very aggressive."

Jiang Ran nodded.

Indeed, all she had seen along the way were nurse sharks, leopard sharks, and whitetip sharks, and she had not seen any shark species that were too aggressive. What Xiao Wu said made sense.

"Actually, we considered this at the beginning," Xiao Wu scratched his head. "After all, small white-tip sharks are quite energetic, so we also kept an eye on a few of them... But to be honest, the shark that died yesterday was a white-tip shark."

"I see."

Jiang Ran stroked his chin and thought: "Could it be that the change in environment caused the shark's temperament to change?"

"I once heard about a peaceful shark that changed its temperament after being transferred from saltwater to freshwater and bit a diver. If you transport sharks or other animals to an aquarium and their living environment changes, they might also experience similar changes, right?"

“It’s unlikely”

Xiao Wu smiled wryly. "These fish, including the ornamental fish, were all transported from similar marine environments. The environment in the aquarium also completely simulates the ocean they originally inhabited. It's unlikely that the situation you describe would occur."

This is troublesome.

Jiang Ran fell into deep thought.

Any creature that can prey on whitetip sharks is definitely not a good creature, and is most likely at the same level as a shark.

However, the aquarium is so big and the fish are swimming around everywhere, they will not stay in one place and wait for her to check them one by one. And it is impossible for the aquarium to pull all the fish out of the aquarium for a closer look just to identify the vicious fish, which makes catching the vicious fish much more difficult.

Besides, Jiang Ran is not an expert in this area.

After careful consideration, Jiang Ran suggested taking a rest during the day, and then wake up at night to keep an eye on the aquarium to see if there is any chance to catch the ferocious fish.

"Why wait until night?" Xiao Wu asked, puzzled. "Wouldn't it be clearer during the day?"

Jiang Ran explained: "Fish have the habit of being active during the day and resting at night, so for sharks, night is a good opportunity to hunt, and for us, night is a good opportunity to explore."

Jiang Ran thought for a moment and added:

"Besides, during the day all the fish are active and we can't tell who is who. But at night when the other fish are resting, it's much easier to tell the aggressive fish apart."

"You're right! We used to do our inspections during the day, but even if we watched all day, we wouldn't be able to find anything!"

The more Xiao Wu thought about it, the more she felt she made sense. "The aquarium has no guests at night, so there's always only one person on duty. We never thought of waiting at night before, but now it seems like the right thing to do!"

"Not necessarily. It's just a possibility. Don't have too high hopes." Jiang Ran gave him a heads-up.

"It's okay, don't worry. We've failed so many times, we're already mentally prepared."

"That's good."

In order to prepare for the battle plan that evening, Jiang Ran and Xiao Wu took a nap in the afternoon to recharge their batteries.

As tourists come and go, night finally arrives.