When night falls, most fish go into hibernation.
Normally, the lights in the aquarium are turned off at night, but for tonight's reconnaissance operation, the aquarium specially turned the lights to dark purple.
This color will not affect the fish's sleep too much, but it also leaves room for human observation.
At first, there was no movement in the museum.
It was not until midnight that Xiao Wu suddenly cried out in surprise.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Ran quickly walked to his side.
"Look over there!" Xiao Wu's eyes widened as he tried to keep his voice down. "Another shark got eaten over there! The ferocious fish is still there!"
Jiang Ran looked in the direction he pointed.
A medium-sized white-tip shark lay motionless, while a slightly larger shark nearby was tearing at its body. Under the dim purple light, a pale blood mist filled the air. Some nearby fish, aroused by the blood, were afraid to approach the ferocious behemoth, swimming only a short distance away.
"How cunning!" Jiang Ran exclaimed. "It even deliberately chose to hunt behind rocks. If you weren't keeping a close eye on it, you wouldn't have been able to spot it in the first place. No wonder you couldn't catch it before."
“Thanks to you this time!”
Xiao Wu was very excited. The entire aquarium had been worried about this issue for a long time, and now that it had finally been resolved, he felt relieved.
"Everyone can finally get a good night's sleep now," he scratched the back of his head. "To be honest, the last few nights, I've been dreaming of sharks getting mauled to death right in front of me. I've been terrified multiple times a night!"
After getting excited, Xiao Wu showed his talkative nature again. He pulled Jiang Ran aside and thanked her for a long time. She didn't even get a word in for a while.
Not only that, Xiao Wu also made various promises on behalf of the curator, and even boasted that he would give Jiang Ran whatever commission she wanted, which made her a little confused for a while.
It was not until early the next morning that Jiang Ran realized where his confidence came from.
"Dad! You're finally here!" Xiao Wu waved and shouted, "I've called you multiple times! Why didn't you answer?"
The director of the aquarium clearly hadn't had time to tidy up properly, with a tuft of hair still sticking up on his head. He said with a forced smile, "Look at what time it is now?"
It was barely daybreak outside, and the thin rays of light that filtered through the clouds resembled the twilight zone where light meets darkness in the deep ocean.
Director Wu secretly rolled his eyes at Xiao Wu, but seeing that Jiang Ran was still there, he somewhat saved face for his son in front of others and did not vent his anger at waking up.
God knows, he had been worrying about the fish that died in the aquarium these past few days and hadn't gotten a good night's sleep. He finally managed to drift off to sleep in the second half of the night, only to be woken by his son's string of life-threatening messages.
Without even glancing at Xiao Wu, he asked Jiang Ran directly, "Teacher Jiang, you're in such a hurry to get me here. Did you find anything?"
"It's not a discovery!" Xiao Wu shouted.
When Director Wu heard this, his heart sank slightly.
He didn't expect to solve the problem in one night. After all, Professor Tao, who was invited earlier, was a top expert from the Federal Academy of Sciences. Even he was helpless, so it was unlikely that Jiang Ran would be able to bypass him.
It was just that when Xiao Wu recommended Jiang Ran to him before, he praised him highly and kept saying that Jiang Ran was the expert in this field. This subconsciously made him hold a glimmer of hope.
In fact, Director Wu was not entirely angry when he was woken up by Xiao Wu's call early this morning.
He felt in his heart that although Jiang Ran and Xiao Wu would not be able to find the vicious fish and solve the problem overnight, they should have made some progress, which is why they were so anxious to find him. He didn't expect that after rushing over, his hopes would be dashed again.
Director Wu sighed in his heart.
It seems that I have to contact Professor Tao again and try to find a more powerful expert to take a look.
"It's not that we've made a discovery," Xiao Wu said, "it's that we've found the fierce fish!"
"W-what?" Director Wu didn't react at first.
Xiao Wu had just deliberately delayed the time, and now he had kept the suspense enough. Seeing his father's shocked and puzzled expression, he couldn't help but look smug.
"I said—we found the vicious fish!"
He raised his finger and pointed: "Look, Sister Zhang and the others came to help this morning. They've already set up the net to separate the vicious fish. Take a look for yourself."
Without waiting for Director Wu to respond, he pouted and muttered, "I called you to come earlier, but you kept dragging your feet. Look, you're the last one in the entire museum to hear this good news! What a shame!"
Jiang Ran couldn't help but laugh softly.
I don’t know how long Xiao Wu has been oppressed, but whenever he gets the chance, he starts to blame his old father.
Director Wu didn't pay any attention to Xiao Wu's arrogance or Jiang Ran's laughter. His mind was blank and his eyes were fixed on the shark separated by the big net, staring at it carefully without making any mistakes.
After a long while, Director Wu suddenly realized and asked:
"Is this the vicious fish that killed several of my precious sharks?"
“That’s it!”
Xiao Wu boasted, "Last night, Teacher Jiang and I saw it bite a white-tip shark to death!"
"I've already told you that when it comes to ancient Earth creatures, Teacher Jiang is the real expert. You still..."
"Okay, okay, I admit my mistake!"
Director Wu interrupted him hurriedly and secretly glanced at Jiang Ran while speaking, fearing that the other party would notice his previous somewhat contemptuous attitude.
"It should have been done a long time ago!" Xiao Wu muttered.
Director Wu saw that he showed no sign of stopping and continued to criticize him for his previous wrong decisions, which made him feel very troubled.
I don’t know if this is my own child. Why does his elbow keep turning outward?
"Hey, take a closer look!"
Director Wu tried to change the subject: "The vicious fish you caught is a whitetip shark, but one of the sharks killed before was also a whitetip shark."
"What's going on? Don't whitetip sharks usually not harm their own kind?"
“Because it’s not a whitetip shark.”
Jiang Ran explained, "I only discovered it this morning when I was setting up a net to isolate it. Although it looks similar to a whitetip shark, it's actually a bull shark."
"Bull shark?"
The Wu family father and son had never heard of this and looked at each other in bewilderment.
"right."
Jiang Ran said: "Bull sharks are one of the most aggressive sharks in ancient Earth's oceans. They really like to attack living creatures and are even called the wolves of the sea."
"Bull sharks are not only cruel, but also not picky eaters. They eat not only sharks but also humans. Moreover, they are the only shark species that can swim into inland freshwater rivers, making them a threat to human safety."
"Because of the bull shark's violent nature, from ancient times to the present, almost no aquarium... and even fewer people dare to keep it."
Having said that, Jiang Ran gave the Wu family father and son a subtle look: "So, you can be considered the first family since the beginning of time."
“Cough cough cough!”
Director Wu was so embarrassed that he felt panicky.
He coughed twice, clapped his hands pretentiously, and echoed, "Ah! Now that you mention it, I remember it too!"
"This whitetip shark, no, bull shark, was very special when it was first brought in. It swam around non-stop every day! And it grew faster than other sharks. When it first arrived, it was very small, but it grew to three times its original size in no time!"
"Oh! I should have thought of that earlier!"
Director Wu sighed. "This bull shark is so unique! How could it be an ordinary whitetip shark? It's a wolf in sheep's clothing!"
Director Wu sighed for a while and gradually calmed down.
The rest is much simpler, just need to think about how to deal with this bull shark.
At first, Director Wu wanted to release it back to Earth, but Jiang Ran persuaded him.
According to Director Wu, this bull shark should have been sent to the aquarium when it was relatively young. Even though the aquarium tried its best to simulate the real ocean environment, it was still artificially fed.
If this bull shark is released directly back into the sea, it may not be able to quickly master the ability to hunt in the ocean, nor may it be able to adapt to the real ocean environment.
Therefore, releasing sharks back into the sea is not a good option.
"So what are we going to do with it?"
Director Wu has a headache.
Jiang Ran thought for a moment and said, "I remember that the sub-house next door to you has some ferocious creatures. I think there's even a giant grouper there?"
"That's right."
"Then you can transport this bull shark to the adjacent pavilion. If these fierce guys gather together, they will be evenly matched and unable to defeat each other. This way, they can coexist peacefully."
Director Wu: “…”
Why does it sound both reasonable and cruel?
Later, the curator adopted Jiang Ran's suggestion.
Having just solved a big problem, Jiang Ran was like a living ancestor in his eyes. Who else could he listen to if not her?
However, Director Wu did not expect that there would be another difficult problem waiting for him.
"What did you say?"
Director Wu opened his mouth in shock.
"What do you mean by 'Teacher Jiang can propose any commission, conditions, or requirements, and we'll agree to anything?'"
Xiao Wu curled his lips and said, "Don't be so stingy, Dad. Teacher Jiang has helped us so much, this is what we should do!"
"That's not the case!" Director Wu wanted to slap him on the head. "Does it sound good if the rumor that Teacher Jiang is asking for an exorbitant price gets out? You don't even think before you act! You just think whatever you want!"
Xiao Wu was so depressed after being scolded.
Director Wu was very angry, and it was only after Jiang Ran persuaded him for a while that the father and son of the Wu family finally stopped fighting.
Seeing them like this, Jiang Ran was really at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
She could completely understand Director Wu's anger. If Xu Yang withheld her prize money without even saying hello and put it into the next round's funding pool, she would have wanted to beat Xu Yang to death.
After all, Xiao Wu is young and doesn't understand how dangerous the world is.
If Jiang Ran acts like a villain and asks for three to five million federal coins, how could Director Wu really agree?
While I was thinking about it, Director Wu had already turned around.
He was worried that Jiang Ran would misunderstand, so he explained repeatedly: "Teacher Jiang, I just scolded the child. He is too ignorant. If it accidentally affects your reputation, we will be guilty of a great sin."
Jiang Ran doesn't care about these.
She had come to the aquarium out of curiosity to find out what was going on, and the reward was not that important to her.
After all, he had just received a bonus of tens of millions, and now was the time to count the money until his hands were numb.
She waved her hands and was about to say it was okay, but Director Wu spoke before she could.
"I heard you recently won the championship and received a good amount of prize money, so you shouldn't be short of money for the time being. If I transfer money to you, it would be too insincere."
"Is this okay with you? I'll transfer the ownership of a single-family duplex with a small garden in the central district of the capital planet to you."
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Wu looked at him in shock.
What right does his father have to say about him? Isn't this more than he promised?
If it were just about money, no matter how high the price is, it would only be tens of millions at most. But a single-family villa in a prime location on the capital star would start from nine figures, and there is no demand for it!
Xiao Wu couldn't help but think of an old saying his history teacher had said.
The officials are allowed to set fires, but the common people are not allowed to light lamps!
Jiang Ran, on the other hand, had no idea how high the housing prices were in the capital. Based on the words "central area", "small garden" and "detached duplex", he could roughly judge that they would not be cheap, but he didn't know how much.
"Will this be too expensive?" Jiang Ran probed.
"No, no, it's as it should be!" Director Wu waved his hands repeatedly. "You may not know that every shark in our museum is a rare species transported from ancient Earth..."
"The total value of the sea fish we lost previously is more than this property. If you hadn't helped us solve this problem, we would have lost even more, perhaps double or even triple! So it's only right that we give you this!"
After Director Wu said this, the price sounded much more reasonable, so Jiang Ran did not refuse.
After everyone in the aquarium saw Jiang Ran off, Director Wu returned to his office.
He called Professor Tao, a biological expert at the Federal Academy of Sciences, to tell him that the oceanarium's difficulties had been resolved so that he wouldn't have to worry about it.
After congratulating him, Professor Tao asked curiously, "Who helped you solve this difficult problem?"
Director Wu hesitated for a moment, then told the truth: "She's a very capable young person. You may not know her, but her last name is Jiang..."
"Jiang Ran?"
"Ah... you know?"
"I know it all too well! Do you have her contact number? Give it to me right away!"
“…”
Hang up the call.
Professor Tao was ecstatic.
He had asked the dean for Jiang Ran's contact number so many times but had never succeeded. Now he finally had the chance!
He has so many questions to ask about the series of photos of deep-sea creatures taken by Jiang Ran!
no.
You need to review it carefully before making a call.
If the questions asked are too simple, it would be a waste of the hard-earned opportunity to communicate with Jiang Ran!
On the other side, Director Wu sighed deeply.
It turns out that Jiang Ran is so famous and powerful that even Professor Tao wants her private contact number. He is really ignorant.
Fortunately, I was not too stingy during the negotiation just now and gave them a generous reward, otherwise it would be so embarrassing!
Thinking of this, Director Wu patted his son's head.
"What?" Xiao Wu was very alert.
"I'll enroll you in a cram school starting tomorrow," Director Wu said lovingly. "Learn more. I'll be relying on you in the future."
Xiao Wu: “…”
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