"You're right, I'll get tested right away."
"Thank you so much, your discovery has been a great help to me." Fu Mengfan was very excited. He picked up the fish from the ground, took it into the inner room, and didn't even bother to talk to Xiao Lingfeng anymore.
"Shall I take you there?" Xiao Lingfeng asked with a smile.
"No need, you go back and get busy. It's not like I don't know the way. By the way, did you talk to the commander about the base site selection?" Jian Ning was still quite concerned about the matter.
"It's already been reported. As for whether we can choose that side, I can't say for sure. The leader said he'll hold a meeting as soon as possible to discuss it and then decide."
"Then don't ask. When are you going back tonight? How about we have hot pot? It's been a while since our families have gotten together, let's have some fun."
"Okay, I'll try to get home by seven. Thank you for your hard work."
Xiao Lingfeng watched Jian Ning's slender figure walk away with a smile in his eyes. Although he really wanted to accompany her, he had to stay here due to his mission.
On her way back, Jian Ning saw that there were still quite a few people picking up fish on the road.
Some people filled basins with water, including large, uneven spots, where the seawater and fish were still alive. They took these basins home to keep the fish alive and could feed them for a few more days.
Not only fish, but Jian Ning also noticed white eggs on the road.
They were quite large, with an elongated oval shape. They probably weren't fish eggs; they might have been laid by a giant sea turtle. I picked one up and examined it; it contained a vibrant life force.
"Master, put it down quickly, you can't take this!" Huang Fugui couldn't care less about speaking outside and hurriedly whispered.
"Has this been contaminated as well?" Jian Ning channeled her spiritual energy to her fingers, creating a protective shield, but did not put down the egg in her hand.
"Yes, Master, look, this egg is white on the outside."
But I can see that it's completely shrouded in murky black mist, even blacker than that two-headed fish. If this egg hatches, the creature inside will definitely be quite powerful.
"I'm quite interested in what you're saying," Jian Ning said, taking a bag out of her spatial storage and picking up all the eggs from the ground.
“Girl, why are you picking that up? It’s not easy to handle and it uses a lot of water. I boiled a few yesterday, and they were as hard as rocks. I had to throw them all away.”
The elderly woman picking up fish nearby spoke very kindly to Jian Ning.
"I just thought it was cute, so I took it home and drew some patterns on it for the kids to play with," Jian Ning said with a smile.
"You young people are so thoughtful. We're all old now, we're just content as long as we can manage to eat and not go hungry. Unlike you, who are still full of hope for life!"
The woman sighed and continued picking fish into the bucket.
"Auntie, you'd better choose ribbonfish or this kind of fish to eat; the others all have poisonous fumes."
Especially those with strange shapes. Like those with two heads and several eyes, they look like monsters and shouldn't be eaten.
This isn't just something I made up; I heard it from Dr. Fu in the military. He's still undergoing testing. The results should be out soon.
"Thank you, young lady. Even if you hadn't said anything, I knew in my heart that this kind of fish wasn't a good thing. Yesterday I even picked up a fish with claws and buried it."
Don't let my age fool you, I'm not stupid at all. Throughout history, people have tried all sorts of strange and uncharted things.
Just like with crabs, there must have been someone who was the first to eat them, because people were less knowledgeable back then.
But things are very different now. There are very few species we haven't seen before. I'm really afraid of getting sick from eating fish like these strange-looking ones in the sea.
So I picked out fish like this, including the ribbonfish you mentioned, since I used to eat that often.”
"Auntie, you're right,"
Jian Ning glanced into the bucket the old woman was carrying, and indeed, there wasn't a single one of the heavily polluted fish that Huang Fugui had picked out in the old woman's bucket.
The fish I picked up were either those with a light gray aura or those without a black aura. You know, old people have a lot of experience.
Although there's no scientific basis, she can still seek advantage and avoid harm based on her intuition. It's truly impressive, Jian Ning thought with admiration. She exchanged a few more words with her before leading Huang Fugui back to Jinmao Mansion.
After arriving home, he took the eggs back to his immortal abode.
He specifically took out a defensive array. He took the egg inside, added a spiritual energy shield, and then took out an axe to smash the egg open.
Just like that old lady said, the eggshell was really hard, like a rock. Jian Ning had to smash it twice with an axe before she could crack it.
Pry the egg open with the tip of an axe, and the liquid inside flowed out. It was pitch black and had a fishy, foul smell.
The creature inside was already half-formed. It was clearly not a turtle. It even seemed to have several tentacles, a round head, and looked like an octopus or a jellyfish at the same time.
Since we wouldn't know what it was if we didn't hatch it, we simply called Huang Fugui in.
"Have you seen this before? I've never heard of it."
"I don't know what it is either, it should be a mutated species. A hybrid of an octopus and a turtle? Is that right?" After Huang Fugui finished speaking, he suddenly covered his mouth with his paw and chuckled.
I don't know what I was imagining.
"What are you grinning about? These eggs would be amazing if they hatched. I wonder what kind of impact they would have on humans. Maybe I should try to hatch one first?"
“It’s not impossible. I can suppress it. Although it’s a sea creature, its level is here. I’m a divine beast!” Huang Fugui proudly raised its little head.
"Yes, you are a divine beast, you are amazing."
As Jian Ning spoke, she unleashed a fireball, igniting the broken egg mixture on the ground. The smell of the burning egg was foul and extremely unpleasant.
He quickly used another purification spell. Then he took out two new eggs and began to use his spiritual power to hatch them.
It wasn't until nightfall that the two eggs started to move, like chicks pecking at rice, constantly tapping on their shells with something.
Within minutes, a sharp point appeared on the right side of the eggshell. After a few more taps, a larger hole was created, and the creature inside slowly crawled out.
The first thing to emerge should be its tentacles, which are thin and long, with pincers like those of a crab at the tip.
It looks like human fingernails. Next is a semi-circular head, which does resemble an octopus, with three slender, vertical eyes on it. They are evenly distributed, one on each side.
After it had crawled out completely, Jian Ning discovered that it actually had a rather hard shell and sixteen tentacles, only the two in front had pincers, the rest did not.
As soon as it crawled out, it used its pliers to crack the eggshell behind it, then put it in its mouth. The creature's head wasn't big, but its mouth took up almost half of its size.
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