"Mr. Zheng!"

Zheng Guo heard someone calling him behind him, and when he turned around, he saw that it was a man in blue overalls.

The man waved at him from the courtyard, then pushed open the half-man-high fence gate and walked out.

Flat head, round face, ruddy and slightly fat, wearing black-framed glasses, looking in his thirties.

"Welcome, welcome." He greeted him warmly, "I'm the supervisor here, my surname is Gu, just call me Lao Gu." ”

"I'm sorry." Zheng Guo shook hands with him.

"Where, where, I dare not slack off on Mr. Chen's guests."

He reached out and made a gesture of please.

The two of them walked through the path in the flower field in the direction of the research institute.

"It's a nice place." Zheng Guo looked at the terraced fields on the side, "Are those all alien varieties?" ”

"Not exactly." He laughs and explains, "Most of the plants that are planted here are the product of genetic hybridization. To put it simply, it is the insertion of a gene fragment of another species into the gene chain of an individual, thereby changing some of its traits. This is also the main project of our institute. ”

Zheng Guo nodded. In fact, he just listened to the general idea, genetic hybridization or something, the major is not right.

Walking into the yard, Zheng Guo saw an animal with long black hair bowing its head and grazing in the stable.

It was about the size of a horse, and its body was covered in long hair, as if it were draped in a robe, and it was impossible to tell what it looked like.

"It is the product of the genetic crossing of the local Przewalski's horse and the Przewalski's horse on the earth, with a gentle temperament and strong endurance."

When Zheng Guo looked at it, it also happened to raise its head, and the two sides looked at each other.

The yak chewed the hay slowly in its mouth, and its dark eyes stared at him through the cover of its long fur.

Maybe it's because of preconceived ideas, Zheng Guo always feels that it looks nondescript.

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Office of the Director.

"Mustard tea, dwarf mustard grass with Longjing genes inserted, tastes great."

Lao Gu held the teapot in his hand and poured him a lamp.

Zheng Guo took a sip.

The mouth is bitter and the taste is strong, but soon the bitterness spreads out, and the astringency gradually weakens, transforming into a light fragrance, which is inhaled from the respiratory tract into the lungs and exhaled along the exhaust gas.

Zheng Guo doesn't know how to taste tea, but it feels really good to taste it as a layman.

It seems that hybrid species are not the only one that is nondescript.

"When are you going to go up the mountain?"

Zheng Guo put the tea cup on the table: "Tomorrow." ”

"Climb to the top?"

"Well, the destination is the outpost."

Lao Gu's expression was slightly restrained and became a little serious.

"The environment in the mountains is not as gentle as at the foot of the mountain, and there can be a lot of unexpected dangers along the way."

"That's the essence of my live stream," Zheng Guo said with a smile, "Adventure, not tourism." ”

"That's what I said, but ......"

In fact, Lao Gu wasn't really worried about his safety, after all, he had just met today, and he could only be regarded as a stranger.

The problem is that this guy is Chen Lan's friend, and if something happens to him, everyone will not look good.

"The outpost is nearly four thousand meters above sea level, and there are four areas to walk up from here."

Lao Gu thought for a while, dipped his fingers in some tea, drew a triangle on the table, representing Bai Ze Mountain, and then drew a few bars in the middle, dividing the mountain area into four parts.

"First of all, if you walk a short distance up from the bottom of the mountain, you will see the tree line, and after passing through the tree line, you will enter the forest area." He tapped on the bottom area, "This area is about a third of the way. ”

Before coming here, Zheng Guo checked a lot of information, and he knew all of this.

However, out of politeness, he did not interrupt Lao Gu's popular science.

Just go through his mouth and review it again, check and fill in the gaps.

"Passing through the wooded area, you enter the grassland area. There, there are almost no tall plants, only endless meadows. This area is about a quarter. ”

"Further up, there's the desert area. The altitude there has reached more than 2,000 meters, and the sun radiates strongly during the day, the surface is scorching, and at night it quickly loses temperature and enters a frozen state. Coupled with the drought and lack of rainfall, few plants survive, and the most you can see are mountains and rocks. In that kind of place, the shorter the stay, the better. ”

"After passing the desert area, and then crossing the snow line, we enter the snow area at the top of the mountain, where the temperature can reach as low as minus 40."

After a pause, he continued: "The drastic changes in the climate and environment are not the biggest challenge, you must beware of the beasts in the mountains. To tell you the truth, every year in our institute there are incidents of beasts hurting people. He leaned forward and said in a low voice, "Last year, one of our employees was attacked by a group of pygmy elephants in the mountains, and both legs and right hand were missing, and now there are people to take care of all three meals. ”

He found that Zheng Guo was a little distracted, as if he was thinking about something, and he was happy.

There is a door, this guy makes himself scared.

This is the best, to dispel him from the idea of going up the mountain, so as not to cause trouble to himself.

After Lao Gu finished "popularizing science", he leaned back on the chair and sighed deliberately: "Do you still have any questions?" ”

Zheng Guo came back to his senses.

"Huh? Oh, by the way, do you have an observer named Mo Sheng? ”

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Lao Gu took Zheng Guo to the back of the building.

A dome-shaped glass cover with a diameter of tens of meters is buckled to the ground like a bowl, and when you look closer, you find that there is a hole under the dome.

It seems to be a small settlement, the kind in the zoo.

Inside there is a rockery, part of which is covered with snow.

No signs of biological activity were seen.

Lao Gu walked around to an underground entrance on the side and walked down.

Zheng Guo followed.

Soon, the two of them went deep underground, through a hallway, and came to a glass door.

Lao Gu took out a card, swiped it in the induction area, and the door opened.

A cold, swishing air current.

"Xiao Mo." Lao Gu shouted inside.

After waiting for a while, no one answered.

"Strange." Lao Gu muttered, looked inside a few more times, and said to Zheng Guo: "She should be around here, you wait." ”

With that, he closed the door and hurried to the other side of the hallway.

Zheng Guo was a little curious about what animals lived inside, but when he looked through the glass, he didn't find anything.

Shaking his head, he turned around and leaned against the glass door, waiting for Lao Gu to come back.

Suddenly, he heard a cough behind him.

Because of the glass door, the sound sounded a little dull.

Zheng Guo turned his head.

A white-haired humanoid creature was sitting on a stone, with Erlang's legs crossed, looking at Zheng Guo with a faint look in his eyes.

"Dude, do you have any cigarettes?"