Chapter 1: Zombie Fish Reappears
Ye Feng is a 15-year-old junior high school student and a researcher at the Institute of Occult Biology. This day happened to be the Dragon Boat Festival in May, Ye Feng packed up the petri dish on the table, and as soon as he opened the global information, he saw a news: the prehistoric creature zombie fish reappeared on the earth after 200 years of extinction.
The scientific name of the zombie fish is the lamprey, also known as the seven-star eel, or the eight-eyed eel, which is two and a half feet long, has no mandible, and only has a sucker-like upper jaw, which is an extremely ancient parasitic fish. Dating back 300 million years, zombie fish are the most primitive vertebrates ever discovered.
When the temperature is right and the food is plentiful, the zombie fish's body can grow indefinitely, and its toothy upper jaw can even develop into a huge toothed disc like a sunflower. In 1690 (325 years ago), countless ancient fossils were unearthed near the equator in South America, including a well-preserved zombie fish skull.
The skull is 8.8 meters in diameter, and according to the proportions of the zombie fish's body, the zombie fish's body is at least 140 meters long, which is twice as large as the 70-meter-long fragile double-chambered dragon. Therefore, everyone who sees it can't help but secretly say, fortunately now that the earth is cold, there is no more suitable environment for the growth of zombie fish, otherwise who can withstand the bloody mouth of this monster?
In the 60s of the 18th century, the industrial revolution began, environmental pollution intensified, and the environment in which zombie fish lived was further destroyed, so the number of zombie fish in various countries around the world plummeted. By 1820, the zombie fish had become extinct, and in the mid-60s of the 19th century, the last zombie fish died, and the zombie fish was completely extinct.
In 1927, the famous biologist Tang Hao, in order to study animal evolution, offered a reward of 500,000 US dollars to buy live zombie fish around the world, which lasted more than 20 years and was not found, but he did not expect that today, 150 years later, the extinct zombie fish would reappear again.
"Maybe this is an opportunity!" Ye Feng couldn't help but fall into deep thought, since the study of supernatural creatures, it has been three years, the four divine beasts in Chinese mythology, except for the white tiger with a little clue, the other three have no clue at all, Ye Feng has studied the four divine beasts for so many years, and there is not even an object that can be traced.
"Eighty years of life in the world, when will the clouds look at Kyushu?" Thinking of these setbacks, Ye Feng sighed, feeling physically and mentally exhausted. The last organization of the White Tiger also died in the early hours of this morning, losing all its vitality. Ye Feng studied from morning to evening, but did not find the cause of the tissue inactivation.
This organization of the White Tiger was not easy to come by, and it cost a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is also one of the core secrets of the Institute of Paranormal Biology. Ye Feng originally planned to use the totipotency of the cell to dedifferentiate this tissue into embryonic cells, and then re-cultivate purebred white tiger cubs, but before the cell dedifferentiation process was completed, this tissue was completely inactivated.
"Is it because the specific differentiation of animal cells is too high? Then why can the cells of zombie fish be cultivated into seedlings?" "Zombie fish parasitize on the body of fish, which will bring huge losses to the fishery, but the meat of zombie fish is delicious, and it is an expensive European famous dish. In the late 90s of the 21st century, Wang Lei, the Chinese three-flavor chef, commissioned the Durag Research Institute to clone the zombie fish in order to taste the zombie fish soup.
This is the second animal to be cloned in cells after Dolly the sheep in the United Kingdom. However, compared to Dolly the sheep, the cloning technology of zombie fish is more advanced. Sheep Dolly is a nuclear clone of sheep mammary gland tissue, but in order to ensure that the taste of the zombie fish remains unchanged, Wang Lei asked the Dulag Research Institute to clone the zombie fish with the cells of the zombie fish.
After more than three years, the Durag Research Institute successfully cloned the seedlings of zombie fish using cells refrigerated by the Huaxia Gene Bank. Although this zombie fish only grew to about five and a half years old and was eaten by Wang Lei, it is still the only successful case of using animal cell cloning so far.
Ye Feng also had the idea of cloning a zombie fish, but this cloning plan was owned by Wang Lei, and Ye Feng really didn't have the money to buy the right to use it. I didn't expect that there was no way out of the mountains and rivers, and the zombie fish that had been extinct for 150 years would reappear again, which was simply sleepy and picked up a pillow.
Ye Feng pondered these secret files, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and then he became excited: "Maybe the zombie fish is the key to uncovering all these problems!" The zombie fish is one of the few vertebrates with metamorphosis development, and every time it undergoes metamorphosis, its life will be evolved.
This evolution is extremely thorough and comprehensive, and will even break its original shackles, such as its growth into a 140-meter monster, which is to break through the limit of two feet in length and seven years of life. Perhaps it is this breakthrough in metamorphosis development that is the reason why zombie fish cells can be dedifferentiated!
"However, the zombie fish is thousands of miles away, and I definitely can't get it on my own...... It seems that Mr. Bai is going to trouble again. Ye Feng was about to go to find Teacher Bai, and suddenly remembered that Teacher Bai had already left work. Teacher Bai's family is scarce, her husband is often out on business, only she and her mother-in-law are at home, and recently her mother-in-law has been hospitalized, and she has to accompany her every day.
Ms. Bai is a filial and kind woman, who is very different from the others in the research institute. Yefeng's family is poor, and he has been sponsored by Teacher Bai since he was a child, and from elementary school to junior high school, Yefeng has received countless money and things. Three years ago, Ye Feng graduated from elementary school, and it was because of Teacher Bai's recommendation that he was admitted to the Institute of Supernatural Biology. For so many years, in Ye Feng's heart, Teacher Bai has been like a parent and elder.
"Forget it, don't bother Teacher Bai, I'll figure it out myself!" Ye Feng picked up the handbag, locked the door of the laboratory, and turned around and walked home. It was evening, the sky was full of clouds, the vegetable market had dispersed, and the streets were empty. Looking at the vegetable leaves all over the ground, Ye Feng's heart was full of melancholy.
Unlike Teacher Bai's family, the people of the Ye family are prosperous, and Ye Feng has two older sisters, an older brother and a younger sister. The ancestor of the Ye family is even more powerful, with seven brothers and two sisters. Two weeks ago, my cousin had a full moon, and my parents and little sister went to celebrate my birthday, and I haven't come back for half a month. The two sisters went to work in other places, and they never came back until the Chinese New Year, and Ye Feng was left alone at home, so I really didn't know what to eat.
"Why don't you make a beef tendon noodle?" Ye Feng suddenly remembered that there was still some chicken essence left at home. Add some vinegar to the beef tendon noodles, and then add some chicken essence and salt, which is simple and delicious and slimming, which is simply not too perfect. "Or another potato cake?" Ye Feng likes to eat potatoes the most. Whether it's shredded potatoes, potato wedges, potato chips...... Or fried potatoes, baked potatoes, boiled potatoes...... As long as it's a potato, Ye Feng likes it.
"Smack!" Ye Feng was secretly thinking in his heart, when suddenly someone slapped him behind him. Ye Feng turned his head to see that it was Yao Bin. Yao Bin holds a broiler chicken in his left hand and a bag of salmon in his right hand. Yao Bin was sweating, and said happily: "Crazy, go to my house for dinner?" ”
"You miss me, right? Your mother misses me!" Ye Feng smiled and snatched the broiler chicken and helped Yao Bin carry half of it. Yao Bin is Ye Feng's good buddy, and he has a friendship with peeing and mud. Although Ye Feng didn't have a positive shape on his mouth, he knew very well in his heart that Yao Bin was worried that he would have no place to eat.