Si Wuyai looked at the koi fish with a filter on, looking particularly smug with its chin raised at him, and felt quite conflicted.
How could he, one of China's most outstanding scientific researchers, someone who could ask any bigwig for money without having to worry about their attitude, lower his noble head?!
But koi.
Forwarding this message can bring good luck, and praying to a lucky koi fish can increase your luck stat. Let alone someone with bad luck, even an ordinary person would find it incredibly attractive, right?
Who could resist a lucky koi fish that brings good fortune?!
Si Wuyai thought he could do it, but after persisting for a minute, he asked aloofly, "If I circle around you three times or pray to you or something, are you sure it will bring me good luck?"
"You must have evidence to support your claims."
Looking at this unlucky guy who was clearly tempted but still wanted to grit his teeth and hold on, Jinli Fugui gestured with his chin towards Xie Tianlang standing next to him: "Ask him if he could have escaped the suddenly gathered fog without any trouble if I hadn't given him the luck points?"
Si Wuyai raised his eyebrows and looked at Xie Tianlang, a strange light suddenly appearing in his eyes.
Xie Tianlang looked at this truly unlucky guy and felt he was thinking something bad. Just as he was considering whether to tell Si Wuyuan the truth and let him benefit from his lucky koi fish Yuanyuan's good fortune, Si Wuyuan, who had previously seemed particularly principled and persistent, immediately circled the lucky koi fish three times, while putting his hands together and chanting incantations:
"Share this lucky koi fish image so I can catch that perfect spark of inspiration!"
"Sharing this lucky koi fish image will help us find the core of the world as soon as possible."
"I don't have many requirements for forwarding this lucky koi fish image, I just want to be a little bit luckier than someone else."
After all, he can admit that he is wrong, but he will never admit that he is the most wrong one.
Xie Tianlang watched as this quintessential scientific atheist circled around his Yuanyuan like a worshipper, a wolfish contempt and mockery on his face: "Don't some people only believe in science and think there's no metaphysics in this world? Why are they circling around so diligently now?"
Dr. Si Wuyai looked at Xie Tianlang with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot: "As expected, you are all brawn and no brains. There has never been a distinction between science and metaphysics. So-called metaphysics is just science that we cannot explain with our current knowledge."
"The ability to transmit sound over long distances was once a mythical and mystical concept, as was the story of Chang'e flying to the moon. But now, these have become sciences that we can control."
"Whether it's science or metaphysics, the ultimate goal is the same: 'wisdom and power'."
So he wasn't sharing lucky koi fish images or engaging in metaphysics; he simply wanted to grasp more advanced scientific power.
Three people in the room: "..."
Indeed, when scientists start finding reasons, they are far more capable than ordinary people.
After quickly finishing his "Goodbye to the Lucky Koi" spin, Si Wuyai returned to his lab table and began another round of experimental research.
He hadn't rested for nearly twenty hours since last night. His bloodshot eyes, pale face, and dry lips showed that his body was in a state of considerable exhaustion, but the light of inquiry in his eyes grew brighter and more intense.
It's the madness and obsession of a truth seeker on the verge of finding the answer. Like someone who's stayed up all night playing a game and about to defeat the final boss, or someone who's stayed up all night reading a novel and about to reach the final conclusion, researchers seeking answers and truth are even more fervent and have a stronger faith.
So much so that they won't give up or stop until they've found the real answer.
The three people inside the room who were still complaining about Si Wuyai stopped at this moment, and even Xie Tianlang sat quietly to the side waiting for the answer.
They may not understand the choices and beliefs of those who are willing to give everything for the truth, but that does not diminish their respect for them.
Jinli Fugui even moved a chair and sat next to Si Wuyai, hoping to give him a better human-shaped koi-like boost.
Si Wuyai sensed this but didn't react much. After all, even if he did forward this human-shaped lucky koi, and believed that he couldn't quite understand the kind of lucky power that existed, it was still unknown how much of an effect this unknown little bit of luck could have. Maybe that power was so small that it couldn't affect any outcome?
Isn't there that saying again?
Mystery cannot be changed, nor can spending money alter one's fate.
Tsk.
These thoughts flashed through Si Wuyai's mind in less than a second.
He was still prepared to explore for another 10 or so hours.
However, he suddenly noticed something that flashed by in the petri dish under the microscope.
? !
Is he seeing things? It seems like there's a double image in the sliced plant cells.
Si Wuyai quickly looked up and blinked, then glanced suspiciously at Jinli Fugui sitting next to him, took a deep breath, and continued to observe.
The second time, he saw a fleeting double image of cells in the plant slice.
It's like a nearly transparent membrane covering the plant cells, seemingly overlapping the cells of the sliced plant. If they don't move, they are difficult to observe with the naked eye even when magnified many times under a microscope.
He had never observed this double-image-like cellular condition before.
Si Wuyai's hands trembled slightly. He quickly placed the plant slice petri dish on the table and picked up another plant slice to observe.
The plant cells under the magnified microscope lens still looked familiar to him, except that they were still highly active and looked no different.
However, Si Wuyai waited with bated breath.
He shouted in his heart, "May the koi carp grant me strength!"
Then, after a agonizing wait of several tens of seconds, his eyes once again caught the vibrations of plant cells in the microscope, like double images.
This time, the transparent double image was clearer. He could observe that without exception, every single cell of the sliced plant showed that slightly vibrating double image, it was almost like—almost like—
The imposter, growing weary and impatient from the long period of disguise, shifted his toes slightly and yawned.
Although the movement was extremely subtle, it exposed the imposter's presence and revealed a corner of a conspiracy that seemed to have no flaws.
!!
Si Wuyai suddenly stood up.
The sudden movement of standing up startled the other three people in the room.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong?!" Song Sanchuan jumped up suddenly.
"What did you see?" Gou Fugui raised his eyebrows at his expression.
Xie Tianlang didn't speak, but looked at him with the same questioning gaze, waiting for his answer.
Si Wuyai calmed down his excitement mixed with shock.
She closed her eyes briefly, then opened them again: "...I might really have found the correct answer. But I need to confirm it again."
He didn't know if the distorted double image he saw was real or a visual illusion caused by his exhaustion.
Therefore, he still needs to confirm, and it can't be just him confirming it.
"Do you still have the special microscopes I prepared in the space? Take out three more; we need to observe them together. Then I need your feedback on the results."
At this moment, Si Wuyai couldn't help but feel grateful and even thankful that they had such a personal space where they could carry enough supplies and equipment. Otherwise, he would have needed a much longer period of observation and repeated experiments to confirm his discovery.
Gou Fugui quickly brought out three sets of experimental equipment that Si Wuyai had requested.
After everything was arranged, the three of them looked at Si Wuyai, waiting for his explanation.
"As I said before, plants have different characteristics and ways of survival because of their different species. It is impossible for different species of plants to have completely identical characteristics. If it is possible, then they must be related to each other in some way."
"But the killer plants we brought back along the way also possess a high degree of active aggression against humans, highly active cells that are difficult to kill even when separated from the main stem, and strong resistance to various experimental reagents."
"This is something that shouldn't have happened, but it did. So it gave me a big shock and a lot of questions."
Si Wuyai paused slightly: "Although I myself find it absurd and impossible, I still believe that after the fog cleared, these plants mutated into another, the same kind of plant."
“I hadn’t found any experimental observation data to prove this before, but I just saw a ‘real mutation.’ That could very well be evidence that those plants are no longer the original plants.”
Si Wuyai gave Gou Fugui, Song Sanchuan, and Xie Tianlang four glass slides each.
Three of them are different kinds of killer plants, and the other is a simple slide for observing lake water.
"What we need to do next is to carefully observe these four different slides, and observe the plant cells and the lake water."
"If you observe that the cells of those plants are distorted and appear double, then it proves that we have found the key that has been hidden in the plants. It may even be able to solve the mystery of the fog illusion."
"As for the lake water... I don't know what I want you to observe, because there are only a lot of microorganisms in the lake water, so it's probably difficult to observe anything special. But if the plant cells are problematic, then there must be something distorted in the lake water as well."
After Si Wuyai finished speaking, he sat back down at the lab table: "Let's start observing now. What I see with my own eyes may not prove anything, but if we all observe it, then we've grasped it."
Gou Fugui understood what Si Wuyai meant.
It was precisely because I understood that I felt a moment of disbelief and dread.
He glanced subconsciously at the four experimental slides next to the microscope, and felt a chill run down his spine, sensing that they contained terrifying, incurable viruses and bacteria.
When they first arrived, they thought the end of the world was a global fog and the toxins it carried, a climate disaster like the Doomsday Sea.
But now, he can't tell whether this is a climate disaster, a biological disaster, or... an even more bizarre apocalypse.
However, he quickly sat down in front of the microscope and began to observe the four experimental slides that Si Wuyai had given him.
He felt a mix of anticipation and trepidation; he wanted to see something extraordinary, but he also didn't want to see the source of terror that had strayed from his safety.
"Hmm, I don't see any double images, but all the plant cells look the same... Holy crap?!"
While Gou Fugui was pondering and hadn't yet taken action, Song Sanchuan had already begun his observation. He had originally intended to observe for a long time before noticing anything unusual, but the image under the microscope did indeed show a momentary distortion.
However, the change was fleeting, so fast that he wondered whether what he was seeing was real or just a momentary illusion.
"Did you see that?" Si Wuyai quickly followed up with his question.
Song Sanchuan understood why Si Wuyai had asked them to observe together, because he wasn't entirely sure either: "I don't know if I'm seeing things, let me take another look!"
As Song Sanchuan continued his observation, he glanced to the side and noticed that Xie Tianlang had been observing intently for a while, while Gou Fugui was still sitting in front of the microscope watching him.
"Fugui, don't look at me, look at the microscope! You know, out of the four of us, two are unlucky and dragging us down. I'm just an ordinary person who added a little bit of luck to the world consciousness, but you're the real deal! Maybe those things in the slide you're looking at are writhing wildly!"
Xie Tianlang and Si Wuyai, who hadn't observed anything yet: "..."
Damn, this is a really frustrating time.
Instead, Jinli Fugui couldn't help but laugh when he heard Song Sanchuan's words, "Even if it's a koi carp itself, it's impossible to have such an immediate effect, okay?"
If it were really that effective, wouldn't it just be metaphysics?
He took a sip of water and immediately looked down at the microscope. What he saw made him spit out the entire mouthful of water. He was so startled, as if the golden tail had reappeared, that he jumped back sharply and almost fell to the ground.
The three people next to him turned their heads in unison, and Xie Tianlang immediately jumped to his side and put his arms around him, "What's wrong?"
The fortune associated with koi fish is hard to describe in a few words.
He couldn't help but glance at Song Sanchuan, who was watching him from the side, wondering whether Song Sanchuan's luck was due to his bad luck or because his lucky bloodline was too strong.
"Oh, it's nothing."
"I just saw the plant cells on my slide writhing and dancing wildly, so lively they didn't look like cells at all."
Si Wuyai had already lowered his head to examine his plant cell slide when Gou Fugui spoke.
To his disappointment, he did not see the scene of cells twisting and dancing wildly that Gou Fugui had described. But he was not completely disappointed, because on the slide of Jinli Fugui's experiment, he saw "plant cells" that twisted every two or three seconds.
With actions and movements that plant cells could never possibly exhibit, they finally and truly tore off the disguise covering them, revealing their true nature to him.
"...So, this is not a plant at all."
Si Wuyai stared intently at the image under the microscope, a cold smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
"They are a kind of living organism."
"It does not belong to any kind of creature I know."
"Those killer plants may have already been invaded and occupied by these microorganisms when the fog appeared, turning into another kind of 'highly disguised creatures' that need to prey on humans."
Because they have all been invaded by these difficult-to-observe microorganisms, strictly speaking, plants with different habits and living environments have become the same species after being invaded.
That's why killer plants exhibit the same characteristics regardless of their species or family, even though these plants show no abnormalities on their exterior or even in the cells observed under a microscope.
This powerful camouflage ability is probably one of the capabilities of this unknown microorganism that he was unaware of.
They must be very good at camouflage, which is why they can disguise themselves as plant cells after invading plants.
They must also be very good at sensing danger and emotions in the outside world, which is why they were able to perfectly disguise themselves and show no abnormalities every time he observed the experimental slides of plants.
If it weren't for that stroke of luck that allowed him to inadvertently observe that momentary distortion, it would have taken him a very long time to observe it, and by then it might have been too late.
However, Si Wuyai turned his head and glanced at Jinli Fugui, who still looked distressed, while holding the glass slide. Why was this guy able to see the changes in the disguised creature so easily?
Is it that those disguised creatures are completely unguarded against koi and too lazy to disguise themselves, or is it simply the power of those damn lucky people?
Sometimes, luck is such a frustrating thing that you can't help but grit your teeth in anger.
The koi fish, having just been calmed down, looked up and saw Si Wuyai staring at him with a look that seemed to want to possess him. A chill ran down his spine: "What kind of look is that?"
Si Wuyai suppressed the roar of the unlucky guy and pointed expressionlessly at the microscope in front of him: "Come and take a look at the other three experimental slides. Tell me what you see."
Since having a lucky koi fish can shorten the time to observe the truth, there's no harm in not using this tool koi fish.
Fortune Tool Carp: "..."
That's why he hates experiment maniacs the most!
However, in the end, Jinli Fugui obediently sat down and continued to observe.
Then he saw again the "microorganisms disguised as plant cells" writhing and arranging under the microscope, confirming their existence.
When he observed the last slide of the lake water experiment, he saw various small aquatic insects magnified under a high-powered microscope. These aquatic insects did not look special. They were probably nothing special except for making Koi Fugui determined never to drink raw water again.
"Did you observe anything?" Si Wuyai asked nervously from the side.
"Perhaps the prototype of that microorganism exists in this lake."
Koi Fugui continued to examine the microscope, saying, "Besides the common microorganisms that you told me about in the water, I didn't see anything special."
Undeterred, Si Wuyai presented him with another glass slide depicting a lake droplet: "And this one?"
Koi Tools carefully observed all the water droplets, then shook his head again, looking pale: "Nothing special."
"It's okay, take another look at this."
"this."
"this."
"And this too."
...
The koi-themed tool was so valuable that, under Si Wuyai's urging, he observed more than twenty experimental slides of lake water. He felt as if his eyes were suffering from the aftereffects of double vision. He couldn't help but look up and rub his eyes: "Is there really a prototype in this lake water? If there is, I should have seen it by now, right?"
"Also, maybe my lucky streak for today has already exceeded the limit. Should we wait until tomorrow morning to observe again?"
At this moment, Si Wuyai shook his head resolutely and coldly, like a cruel overseer and an exploitative tyrant: "We are about to find the answer, why give up halfway? At least we should observe the entire bottle of lake water!"
Then he looked at Song Sanchuan and Xie Tianlang: "You two hurry up and circle around him! Circle around him a few more times and pray a few more times to give him a power boost! I have a feeling that we will definitely find the truth about the mist tonight!!"
At this moment, Si Wuyai looked excited and his eyes were bloodshot, making him look exactly like a terrifying research fanatic.
Under these circumstances, Gui and his two unfortunate companions could only sigh and continue to observe and forward the lucky koi fish in circles, without complaint.
Perhaps the fervent researcher's premonition was indeed correct.
Perhaps forwarding the lucky koi fish image really brought me a surge of good fortune.
As Jinli Fugui numbly observed the 225th drop of lake water experimental slide that Si Wuya handed him, he had just brought his eyes close to the microscope lens when he keenly noticed the difference—
Unlike the previous hundreds of drops of lake water teeming with various aquatic microorganisms, this water droplet slide in front of me contained absolutely no microorganisms.
This drop of water is excessively clean.
It's like pure water without any impurities.
Gou Fugui subconsciously sat up straight and reached out to adjust the microscope lens and slide position. His heart suddenly raced, his intuition screaming that what he was looking for was about to appear.
Then, when the microscope and the slide were subtly positioned, Koi Fugui saw the extremely tiny, long, curved gray substance that remained in the water droplet where there were no microorganisms.
His eyes widened in an instant, and the "gray" he had observed seemed to sense the gaze descending from above the sky the moment he saw it.
Then, this tiny, gray "creature," invisible to the naked eye, suddenly expanded its body and opened its enormous mouth, roaring and devouring towards the microscope that Gou Fugui was observing!
Gou Fugui suddenly sat up straight, his mind filled with the gigantic mouths and sharp teeth of the microorganisms magnified thousands of times. They were so tiny that they could not be observed with the naked eye, and they were lives that he could crush with his fingernail.
But in that instant, he felt an extremely strong sense of aggression and oppression.
The gaping maw and the pitch-black, unfeeling eyes clearly indicate their existence.
They exist!
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