Chapter 7 The Water Beast Returns
Tonle Sap Lake, Battambang Province, Cambodia Po Village
Tonle Sap Lake, also known as Phnom Penh Lake and Angel Lake, is also the largest freshwater lake in Cambodia, accounting for about 10% of the country's land area (depending on the season), the lake is surrounded by plains, due to the abundant rain, coupled with the fertile land, and its own latitude belongs to the subtropical region, which is the most suitable for biological growth, and the hot climate of the Indochinese Peninsula has contributed to this is the real land of fish and rice.
The main food of the Cambodian people (including the Indochinese Peninsula and the countries of South Asia) is rice. As far as rice is concerned, the Tonle Sap Lake area of Cambodia Village can grow rice three times a year, from the Tonle Sap Lake (Cambodia Village) to the outlet of the Mei Gong River (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) on both sides, and has been called the world's rice warehouse.
In addition to the vastness of Tonle Sap Lake, there are also abundant aquatic products, such as crucian carp, carp, golden cake river crab, and big-headed freshwater shrimp.
Forget to mention, this lake is connected to the Mukong River, so there are two very special aquatic creatures, known as the living treasure of the Meikong River, which refers to the freshwater manta ray and the giant catfish, and their habitat also includes the area of the Tonle Sap Lake, and they often swim to the Tonle Sap Lake from the Meikong River.
Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, collectively known as the three countries of the Indochinese Peninsula, are bordered by the Mekong River Valley. However, the peninsula turned out to be a tropical rainforest (directly connected to Guangxi and Yunnan in China is the Yuli region).
Until this moment, many forests have not been developed, so there are many strange things in the pristine forest here.
For example, during the Vietnam War in the sixties of the last century, an American military officer reported that in the forest of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, he encountered a wild man who could tear the American Marine Corps apart. In addition, there are reports of large snakes larger than a minivan, and reports of American and South Vietnamese soldiers encountering ants the size of an adult's fist...
And the most outrageous report, they say that (the U.S. military) has a UFO, which can cover the sky with a radius of three kilometers, in short, the Meigong River is a strange river, like the Amasson River, there will be different strange things happening every day.
The mysterious Meigong River Basin has become the ideal object for many field explorers and biologists.
Just flip through the newspapers or look up on the Internet, it is easy to find some interesting topics related to the Meigong River, such as giant fish, such as new species of creatures, etc...
Returning to the Tonle Sap Lake, the local police in Battambang province and nearby villages and towns have also received reports of missing children in recent days.
However, last time it was the Ganges River Monster, but this time it is the Tonle Sap Lake Monster.
In the rainy season, the lake covers an area of 16,000 square kilometers, and in the dry season it has an area of nearly 3,000 square kilometers, which is larger than Hongze Lake, the fourth freshwater lake in China (because they are all shallow lakes, there is a clear difference between the rainy season and the dry season).
Center for Genetic Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Professor Yun Ge arrived, and it turned out that he had also been a visiting adjunct professor at Harvard University for a season, where he met several experts engaged in animal and human genetic research. Why do you know?, it's for the Ganges River monster big catfish.
Dr. Martin Scorth, the vice president of the Harvard Institute of Genomics (the highest person in the unit) was in front of the door of the conference room, and when he saw the CIA accompanying Professor Yun Ge into the institute, Dr. Ma Tian stretched out his right hand and waited for Professor Yun Ge, with a smile on his face all the time...
The CIA, who was in charge of security, left, and Dr. Martin led Professor Yunge into the conference room. Professor Yunge stood at the round table and stopped, and first looked sideways, there were seven or eight participants waiting for him, not counting Dr. Martin, and two scholars and experts who had met and were also involved in the Ganges incident.
The first scholar who knew Professor Yun Ge spoke first: "Hello Professor Yun Ge, I didn't expect to see you again at Harvard, we need your valuable advice... Professor Yun Ge looked at the name tag in front of his place, Dr. Nguyen Van Khan, and he remembered the white teeth and the smile that always wore it, this confident Vietnamese scholar who was an authoritative scientist in the study of local fish biology.
He is next to a Thai, Dr. Shinchai, head of the Department of Marine Biology at Bangkok University, who has known Professor Yunge for a long time, but is not a deep friend, he also arrived today, it seems that there should be a problem with the Meigong River.
Dr. Martin introduced the others one by one,
Dr. David Campell is the Director of the Satellite Monitoring Division of NASA's Space Headquarters
Dr. Gary Robinson is Director of the Laboratory of Genomics and Genetics at Harvard
General Qiao Shen is the highest military and intelligence commander in Battambang Province, Cambodia
Dr. Morio Kondo holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and is the deputy director of the MIT Institute for Human Self-Intelligence
The last one, Professor Yuno, at first glance, was a mixed-race Spanish and Indian woman, a very strong woman.
Yun Ge remembers her as a frequent presence on the BBC's Animal Wild World frequencies, a modern field orienteering and biologist, 007 of the wilderness adventure community. Nina. Hapoman Lina. Dr. Sharpman.
For these eight people, Professor Yun Ge is a thunderous figure.
He was the idol of all researchers engaged in animal research, genetic variant and genetic engineering, from the catch, to the research policy, to the discovery of problems, and to the decision to eliminate the Ganges catfish monster. Because, the catfish of the Great Ganges River water monster has given the world a lot of unexpected things and data, but they do exist, and they have existed vividly.
When all the scientists and military and political personnel involved in the research saw the Ganges catfish monster, they thought that this creature monster was quite close to the dinosaurs depicted in the movie Jurassic Park, and it was several big steps closer to the study of paleontology.
In the future, the genetic research of humans and animals can be aimed at some terminal diseases and brain dementia in the world, and the emergence of the Ganges catfish monster can bring the research to a new milestone.
With the kind words done, it's the turn of the formal meeting
Dr. Ma Tian first dimmed the lights in the conference room and said: The following video is recorded from Sputnik in high definition, plus the video and photos of several amateur travelers nearby at that time, the length of the film is about 3 minutes, but it can definitely let everyone know what is the purpose of our meeting?
Well, the film begins... After the film was watched, the electric lights in the conference room returned to the brightness when Professor Yun Ge first arrived.
Professor Yun Ge did not speak, and the other eight people, sixteen eyes, kept looking at Professor Yun Ge and listening to him.
Professor Yun Ge first took a sip of water, cleared his throat, and then said lightly: I like the country of Cambodia, Angkor and Tonle Sap Lake, which are all places I like. I have studied two types of freshwater manta rays in the world, one is in the Amasson River in Brazil, and the other is the Meigong River.
The Tonle Sap Lake is very big and beautiful, I saw flocks of egrets, and I also saw groups of children playing in the water by the lake, and the parents would not worry, because the deepest part of the Tonle Sap Lake is only eight meters, it is a paradise for birds, a fairyland on earth.
But just now I saw in the satellite image, the monster must not be a manta ray, it seems to be a very large snake, or it may be a big eel, I believe that the chance of being a catfish, is relatively small.