In a room with unknown function-

Nicole stared at the bald man in surprise, she didn't expect this guy to look stupid, and he knew so much about this aspect, it seemed that what this person said was hardly a lie. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"If the zombie ants don't die in the plants, then the place where the ants die usually has the most ideal environment for the fungus to grow." The bald man also looked around at the room they were trapped in, and said meaningfully.

Nicole was slightly stunned, looking at the silly bald man, it should have been light and funny, but the goddess couldn't laugh at all.

If everything the bald man said was true, and some shady experiments were going on in secret, what was going to happen in a moment might not be a good thing......

At this moment, the lights in the entire room suddenly went out, and it was pitch black, because the pupils needed a dark adaptation process, so the three of them couldn't see anything at this time.

Nicole took a small step to avoid being attacked in the dark......

But there was silence all around, except for the cough of the bald man clearing his throat and the rapid panting of the old man.

The two foreigners did not move their steps, but stayed in place. I don't know if they were too scared to move, or if they were used to it?

Nicole's hands had been raised to her waist, and her palms were in a posture that could adapt to attack and defense at any time, and she didn't know why the old man's breathing was so rapid.

The bald man was still very calm, and he continued to speak slowly, as if nothing could stop him from speaking......

"After the ant dies, the fungus begins to sprout slowly from its head and grow spores. At night, these spores are released to the rainforest floor to infect other ants. The bald man didn't seem to care at all about the sudden darkening of the environment, he just felt that he finally had an audience, and he had to show it well......

Nicole had gradually adapted to the darkness, but since there was no light source in this room, even if her pupils adjusted to the environment, she still couldn't see anything.

Nicole heard the sound of the old man sitting on the ground, and the guy's rapid breathing slowly eased......

"Then you say, is there any solution to this fungal virus?" Nicole was just a casual question, trying to stop the bald man's rambling words with a difficult and unlikely answer.

Unexpectedly, the bald man sneered contemptuously, and in the dark, when he couldn't see his Mediterranean-shaped brain at all, only his magnetic voice remained, so it sounded a little mature and steady.

Of course, Nicole still has enough judgment to not be fooled by her voice and eyes......

"There's a fungus that can save these poor ants, and that's a fungus that castrates zombie fungi called hyperparasite-fungus, double parasites." Bald men seem to be extremely proficient in this field.

Nicole couldn't believe it, she paused and asked, "Have you read a biology magazine about ophiocordyceps-unilateralis (zombie fungus)?" ”

What puzzled her the most was that the magazine didn't mention this important thing at all - how to fight zombie fungi.

Now this bald man can talk like a head, and the hyperparasite-fungus, the double parasite, that he said, Nicole is also unheard of......

On top of that, Nicole had searched for all the information on the subject, but it seemed that the research professor in the magazine, after writing the paper, disappeared, leaving behind a pen name Mac, and was not heard from again......

Now when you are in the dark, if you judge by the sound alone, this bald man still feels extremely similar to the style of the top biology professor with the pen name Mac in his paper, is it ......

At this time, the bald man sighed and said, "That magazine will not sell very well, because after I published that paper, on the day of the magazine's release, the sales volume has not exceeded 100, and the editor-in-chief of the magazine has already disappeared." ”

Nicole was shocked that the American school she was staying at was a very high-end one, and that school was often able to get the most cutting-edge news and information and a thousand strange materials before various local institutions......

This is also the reason why Nicole always likes to go to the library when she has nothing to do, she is not the kind of girl who has no life to study, but some special materials and literature in the library, which attracts many students who are interested in it, Nicole is one of them.

But according to the bald man, Nicole remembered that after reading the magazine about ophiocordyceps-unilateralis (zombie fungus), she hadn't looked for it since the next day.

At that time, Nicole didn't think much about it, thinking that some student who was too interested in this knowledge quietly took the magazine and smuggled it......

In fact, even in the United States, in most cases, everyone is more humble and harmonious, but occasionally there will be a phenomenon of cutting in line, and people who are greedy for small and cheap people take the sheep by the hand.

So the disappearance of a magazine from an inconspicuous display shelf in the library doesn't seem like a big deal......

Moreover, all the information about Professor MAC could no longer be found on the Internet, and eventually even the Professor MAC became a virtual character, and disappeared from the public eye after a flash in the pan.

And those who pay a little attention or care know very well that Professor MAC is real, but everyone is a very ordinary citizen, and for this kind of thing beyond the scope of life, it gradually fades out of everyone's sight......

In the same way, Nicole never cared about this matter after that......

Unexpectedly, when she connected everything together today, she could vaguely feel that either an earth-shattering conspiracy was already brewing, or there was an unknown plan quietly operating.

"You...... It's Professor MAC who was popular all over the Internet at the time!? Nicole was a little surprised, she was surprised and delighted, in the air psychiatric prison, if she really met Professor Mac, it would be too ......

The bald man took a deep breath, and after relenting, he fell silent and finally ended his "lecture on the course", and it seemed that he was really the same Mac professor who wrote about Ophiocordyceps-Unilateralis (zombie fungus)!

"And how did you get here?" Nicole asked curiously, according to what Professor MAC said, could he have been caught here? …… (To be continued.) )