Chapter 64: The Missing Spider
Saturday, Museum of Natural History.
"Oh my God, look, what's that?" Peter pointed to a huge dinosaur skeleton in front of him on the left and said excitedly, looking like a child.
"It was a model of a dinosaur fossil made by a model company, and I saw the real fossil in my dad's collection room, and it wasn't like that." Harry poured a basin of cold water on Peter.
"Can't you think of him as a real fossil? Damn capitalists. Peter was so angry that he crossed his waist and looked very cute.
"Okay, wow, I didn't expect that such a huge creature once existed on the earth, and the Creator is really great!" Harry's performance was exaggerated, and Peter and Lee both burst out laughing.
"Don't talk about this, look at the female staff under the dinosaur fossil, she still wears so little in winter, isn't she cold?" Peter pointed to a girl in a museum uniform, who looked to be about twenty-five years old, convex and backward, a ripe peach.
"Peter, since you know that the living body of the nature exhibition has an incubator, then you should also understand that the natural history museum has air conditioning, don't you feel a little sweaty when you touch your back?" Li Ji smiled, the three of them looked at each other, and laughed again
"Hey, Lee, what a coincidence, are you also coming to see today's nature exhibition?" A familiar voice came from behind him, but Li Ji didn't want to hear it too much, if you ranked Li Ji among the people he didn't want to see in the world, this person would definitely be in the top three, it was Wendell. The other two are Professor Charles and Salith.
"What a coincidence, Windell, aren't you going to prepare for the masquerade?" Li Ji turned around with difficulty, revealing a smiling face that was not very good-looking.
"I couldn't find a male companion, so I decided not to go, and chose to come to the Natural History Museum to see the latest nature exhibition, relax, I didn't expect to meet you guys. What were you talking about, laughing all the time, could you please let me join you in the conversation as well? Wendell's reason was clear, and he also found an excuse to join Li Ji and the others.
"We were betting on the age of the Tyrannosaurus rex fossil and agreeing that the winner would invite everyone to dinner. I guess 80 million years, Harry guess 70 million years, Peter guess 15 million years, and I think Peter deliberately guessed wrong in order not to invite everyone to dinner. Li Ji said casually.
"Peter's little abacus has failed, the Tyrannosaurus rex fossil is a model made five years ago, although the fifteen million years of this number is still very different, but it is already the closest number, it seems that Peter has to be in charge of lunch." Wendell pursed her lips and smiled, and Peter blinked, with words of suffering.
The next exhibition visit was not too smooth, Wendell always wanted to hold Li Ji's hand, Li Ji had to take off the heavy down jacket on his body and put it in Wendell's hands, so Wendell had no time for his hands, so he couldn't come up to hold hands again.
"There are more than 42,000 known species of spiders, most of which live in the tropics and subtropics. The Arachnids are divided into two major suborders, the Meso-Spinning Suborder and the Post-Spinning Suborder, of which the Post-Spinning Suborder is divided into the Neo-Spider Order and the Proto-Spider Order. ”
Li Ji and the four of them entered the spider exhibition hall, the center of the exhibition hall is a simulation ecosystem system of more than ten meters in size, there are some tropical spiders in the middle of the piece, and around it are dense glass display cases, each display cabinet displays different spiders, counting thousands of species.
"I can't believe it, these guys are so cool, do you say yes, Lee?" Harry asked Li Ji, who ignored him, and he looked at Harry again, "Harry, what do you think?" ”
"I think you're cooler." Harry nodded.
"Each spider has different abilities, some build webs, and some rely on venom for prey. For example, this spider from Australia can jump to prey on prey. In the exhibition hall, an Asian woman is explaining the habits and predation methods of various spiders.
"Wow, sure enough, I still think intellectual girls are the most beautiful." Peter's voice was small, and he said close to Li Ji's ear, causing Windell to look at him coldly.
"The next spider is a special web-knotted spider belonging to the new order Spideridae, the family Shrinking Web, which can produce funnel-like webs that are as strong as steel cables used in construction."
Peter put his face on the spider's display case and was pulled away by the security guard: "If I see you doing dangerous things again, I'll send you out of the museum." ”
"This spider uses reflex movements to hunt for food, and its reflex nerve response is so fast that most researchers believe that it has the ability to foresee danger in advance, although they can't explain why the spider has this ability, which they call spider sensing, or spider sixth sense."
Just as Peter and the security guard were theorizing, Li Ji suddenly contracted his pupils: "Spider sense?" Isn't that one of Spider-Man's abilities? ”
"In the past few years, the International Association for the Study of Spiders has drawn up a genetic blueprint for spiders, and with this DNA data, many impossible things have been made possible. The association could use the synthesized DNA to create entirely new genomes that would give spiders more unique abilities. ”
The introduction continued, and Li Ji listened to it with a sense of sleep, he didn't have much interest in this arthropod.
"Lee, do you like these spiders?" Wendell saw Li Ji yawn and asked suddenly.
"Oh, this, it's okay, it's not annoying. Anyway, it's just a matter of one kick. Li Ji stepped aside, and Harry followed, "It is said that there was a particularly huge spider in prehistoric times, with a body length of several meters, Lee, can you crush such a spider with one foot?" ”
"As long as he's not as tall as me, I can do it with one kick, and if he's taller than me, I have to jump first." Li Ji sat down on the bench where he was resting, his eyes fixed on Peter's movements.
"You're unreasonable." Peter finally finished arguing with the security guards, and angrily stepped aside and continued to observe the spider.
"Using the above-mentioned spiders, as well as genetic synthesis technology, the International Association for Spider Research has created this super spider, a total of fifteen, which combines the characteristics of the above three spiders......"
"Isn't it fourteen?" Peter counted twice, but found no fifteenth.
"What do you say? Is a spider missing? The staff walked over, looked at the display case, and counted it, and there were indeed only fourteen spiders.
"I guess...... Maybe researchers are using it for experiments, and they're the darlings of researchers. The staff said with some trepidation, he couldn't afford the consequences of losing a super spider.
"Is the plot on track?" Li Ji touched his chin.