The next day, the last day of Zhang Zi'an's stay in the seaside town, he drove to Carl's aquarium with Pegasus as usual.

"Hi Jeff! Good morning!"

Paul, a water testing expert, was testing something, his eyes were glued to the eyepiece of a microscope, and he heard the sound of the door opening and closing, and glanced at him casually — really just a glance, and his eyes were probably less than a centimeter away from the eyepiece.

He always has a busy job, he has to measure the specific gravity of water once a week, and also measure the level of nitrate and phosphate, and measure the level of ammonia and nitrite every two weeks.

There are so many aquariums in the aquarium, he has to inspect and random inspections in batches, especially to record the inspection date of each aquarium in detail, the work is very heavy, of course, Carl's salary is probably very considerable.

"Good morning, Paul!"

Zhang Zi'an laboriously put down the plastic storage box and glanced around the store, "Where's Carl?

"It should be in the back, you go find him. Paul straightened up and recorded the data he had just observed in his computer. At this time, he noticed that the plastic storage box Zhang Zi'an was holding was very heavy, and it seemed to be full of a box of water, and asked kindly, "Do you want me to help you?"

"No need, I'll do it myself, thank you. Zhang Zi'an looked at Paul's typical thin body shape, and estimated that asking him to help would only help.

Just then, Carl came out from behind with a plastic bucket.

"Jeff, are you going back to Berlin today?" he asked.

"Yes, I'll leave in a moment, thank you for taking care of me these days. Zhang Zi'an threw the key to the villa to Carl.

Paul was surprised, "What?

"yes, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to make it to the closing ceremony of the festival. Zhang Zi'an smiled, "Thank you, Paul, I learned a lot from you. ”

"That's right......," Paul bowed his head in regret.

After a few days of getting along, he became good friends with Zhang Zi'an, because he found Zhang Zi'an very studious and could talk to him, which is a sense of identity that he does not get from Karl or others, because others are more concerned about winning or losing games of local teams and whether they can be promoted to the Bundesliga next season, and are insensitive to the complex water quality recording and monitoring.

"It's okay, keep in touch online, I'll come back when I have time. Zhang Zi'an hugged him goodbye.

"Jeff, there's something you must come over with me to take a look!" Karl waved at Zhang Zi'an impatiently.

"Oh, what?"

His mysterious appearance aroused Zhang Zi'an's curiosity.

"You'll find out while it's ......still alive," Carl said vaguely, taking him to the aquarium's backstage staff area, where a separate aquarium was placed.

"Look, haven't you seen this thing?" Carl pointed to the aquarium.

Zhang Zi'an walked closer and observed carefully.

The aquarium was covered with only a layer of bottom sand, on which lay a strange creature lying on its stomach, covered in a hard chitin shell, like a combination of cicada monkey and skin shrimp, but hundreds of times larger than the two.

Cicada monkeys, that is, the larvae of cicadas, get their name because they will climb trees and metamorphose into cicadas, the process is like monkeys climbing trees.

The creature's shell was light purple and about a foot long, lying on the bottom sand as if it were dead, if it weren't for the fact that its two tentacles were still moving slightly, Zhang Zi'an really thought it was dead.

Between its body and the sand, several pairs of appendages can be faintly seen, each with sharp claws.

"It's ...... The king has a foot worm?" Zhang Zi'an asked uncertainly.

"That's right!" Karl sighed with excitement and regret on his brows, "It's a pity it's dying, it won't live long, and we're probably the last two people it has ever seen." ”

After all, it is a deep-sea animal, and it is used to the huge pressure on the bottom of the sea, let alone on land, even in the shallow sea, it will die because of the loss of pressure, and it is not easy to survive until now. Zhang Zi'an knew the fate of death facing this rare creature.

The king foot insect generally lives at the bottom of the sea hundreds of meters underwater, and it is almost impossible to keep as a pet for ordinary people, and it is also difficult to catch.

They can occasionally be seen in the deep-sea aquarium over there in Fuso, and the people of Fuso also have an unusual love for this creature, and the figurines, dolls, and key chains in the shape of the king are selling very well, probably because they think this creature is very cute.

"yes," Karl nodded, "so I'm anxious to call you over to see it one last time, the living king of the Legodod is a rare sight." When it dies, I'll ask someone to make a specimen of it and put it in front of the store. ”

"Where did it come from?" asked Zhang Zi'an, "was it caught by fishermen?"

Carl shook his head, "Strange to say, this is what my friend picked up yesterday while walking on the beach - doesn't that sound incredible? My friend also knew a little about the Aquarium, and when he looked at it, he thought it was the Dow Deepwater Lice from Fuso—the creature wasn't valuable, but it was strange to see it on the coast of Germany. Later, when he took a closer look, he recognized it as a king pod, so he called me and I drove it back. ”

Zhang Zi'an knew that this eighty percent was a vision caused by the appearance of a mermaid.

"By the way, I have a gift for you. ”

He motioned for Carl to come back with him.

"Don't tell me it's a Berlin bear, I'm too old for that kind of gift. Carl half-jokingly said, "I also have a signed photo of Flying Mass." ”

Zhang Zi'an also smiled, lifted the lid of the storage box, pointed to the creature in the water and said, "This is it." ”

Carl was stunned the moment he saw the giant sea scale worm, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

"Oh my God......! Is this a giant sea scale worm?" he said in a trembling voice, "and you brought it with you in a storage box?"

"Because there's nothing else to use. Zhang Zi'an was also very helpless, "You can't buy an aquarium in order to hold this thing." ”

Carl was indeed a man of knowledge, and knew all kinds of strange creatures well, and recognized the identity of the giant sea scale insect at a glance, knowing that this was a newly discovered species by scientists.

He looked around the crate like a treasure, and if he didn't know how dangerous the creature was, he would have held it in his hand.

In contrast, the rarity of the king pods is far worse.

Paul heard the two of them talking, and he also came over from the water quality test bench, and was equally shocked to see this strange and rare creature.

"This giant sea scale worm is a gift to me?" Carl suddenly snapped back, "You're going to give it to me? You should know how rare this creature is, right? There probably isn't any aquarium in the world that has them!"

"Yes, to thank you and Rena for taking care of me, and you like such creatures very much, don't you?" Zhang Zi'an said with a smile, "We Chinese pay attention to courtesy, I can't take care of you in vain, otherwise it will make people laugh." ”

His tone changed, and he also said half-jokingly: "Besides, how can I bring this guy back to China? I'm afraid that he will be stopped by the customs? ”

"But...... How did you get this giant sea scale worm?" Carl asked, surprised, "As far as I know, they live in Antarctica, right?"

"I don't know how it got to Germany, thousands of miles away – I picked it up yesterday while walking on the beach. Zhang Zi'an shrugged, "It's probably similar to what happened to your friend, but I'm lucky, the giant sea scale worm doesn't live in that deep water, and it won't die when it comes ashore." ”

Carl thanked him repeatedly, and immediately urged Paul to vacate the best aquarium in the store, set up the cooling equipment, and simulate the water quality of the Antarctic waters in the aquarium, so as to be sure to entertain the new guest in the best conditions.

He is confident that using this giant sea scale insect as a signboard will definitely attract more customers to come to his door.

In his experience, rare pets don't have to be sold, and in fact it may be better to keep them in the store as a display to boost sales of merchandise.

To some extent, Zhang Zi'an feels the same way, because some customers come to his store for the rare chocolate-colored Abyssinian cat, but end up eye-catching with other types of cats, or buy imported cat food and cat supplies......

Taking this opportunity, he explained his idea and hoped that Karl could help him introduce a batch of high-quality German aquarium equipment.

Carl has always been a big customer of the local aquarium equipment manufacturer, and he can get the equipment at a preferential price, so he promised that Zhang Zi'an would rest assured that he would arrange for it to be mailed to China immediately.

After explaining the matter, Zhang Zi'an said goodbye to them, started the car, and embarked on the road to Berlin.