For the day after the rain stopped, Dr. Neville spent almost the entire day collecting a few jù in the pit, collecting various samples and measuring the changes in the size of the blood orchid in real time......

Finally, on the evening of the second day, they finally collected enough jù to begin the collection of blood orchids. Inside the pit, Dr. Neville carefully used a shovel to remove the root system of the blood orchid from the soil intact and place it in a nearby bucket.

After he finished loading, Shen Chao immediately put the bucket away, labeled it, recorded the time, and then tied it with a perforated plastic sheet. This is for them to have a comparative test when they go back.

Dr. Neville recorded the location, size, and other information of each blood orchid collected. They collected a total of 9 blood orchids, and then Dr. Neville climbed up. It's about ten percent of the blood orchids, and this is the end of this collection.

Of course, they had the ability to collect all the blood orchids, but Dr. Neville disagreed, technically speaking, no matter how similar their simulated environments were, there was a chance that the cultivation would fail.

So, they only need to take a small amount of samples and go back to study them, and if the artificial culture fails, they can come back and take samples again. There is no such thing as a make-or-break situation.

Once they had collected these Blood Orchids, their main goal had been accomplished. Now they only need to complete the sampling of nearby flora and fauna.

Dr. Neville needed to figure out the exact composition of the python's food chain. Find out how much and how well the special compounds produced by the blood orchid accumulate at all levels of the food chain.

According to the statement in the movie. The blood orchid produced is supposed to be a super antioxidant. Cells that protect the animal from replicating incorrect genetic information when dividing can be extended, and the number of times the cell can divide can be extended thereafter.

According to the Heflich limit theory, the initial cell of a human cell can only divide 56 times at most from embryonic state to death, beyond which the cell can no longer replicate normally.

The next stage of their work is to investigate the nearby ecosphere to determine what the pythons eat and which animals were the first to eat the blood orchid.

After setting up a couple of cameras nearby, they left the place. They need to search the vicinity for any other blood orchids. The movie doesn't state that this is the only habitat for the Blood Orchid, so they still hope to find the Blood Orchid elsewhere.

Half an hour after they left. Shen Chao's multi-purpose tool popped up a prompt window, and one of the drones they left in place spotted an animal that was approaching the deep pit where the blood orchid was.

Shen Chao clicked out of the picture and saw that it was a small local monkey, which only had brown hair and crawled flexibly to the entrance of the cave. After carefully observing for a while, he suddenly jumped into the deep pit, and then flexibly ran to the position of the blood orchid.

The monkey jumped here and first picked and chose as if looking for a suitable target, then suddenly grabbed one of the flower hubs, then bit a piece of blood orchid petals, and quickly chewed it.

It doesn't look like it's the first time it's eaten Blood Orchid. Shen Chao let Dr. Neville look at the scene, and the other party smiled knowingly and said, "Very good, we have the first goal." ”

Then Dr. Neville urged Shen Chao to hurry up and catch the monkey. The operation has reached this stage. Shen Chao and the others all had to listen to Dr. Neville's command, because only he knew which samples to collect.

Shen Chao first asked one of their drones to lock on to the monkey, and then he went to catch the monkey himself, and he was the fastest among several people, so he was also duty-bound.

Alice and Custer continue to search the jungle with Dr. Neville, hoping to find other blood orchids or pythons. Their future research isn't just for Blood Orchid. …,

For the next two days, they searched for and hunted down various animals in the jungle, during which time they caught 3 monkeys, 4 wild boars, 13 fish of various types, and many other small samples of flora and fauna.

The tools in Dr. Neville's right hand carefully studied the ecosystem. And the completion of the food chain here has been largely determined.

It's not an easy job without the help of their drones to the number of their members. Such an expedition would have to last at least a month before the detailed results are as detailed as they are now.

Although the hunt of small animals was very successful, the pythons were still not easy to find, and they failed to catch the female python in several operations. Within a dozen kilometers of the vicinity, they found only a few male pythons.

That's why they haven't left yet, as an important part of the research. Dr. Neville insisted on catching the female python before leaving. So they can only stay here and wait for the estrus of the pythons.

According to the information in the movie, the reason why the pythons get together is because they are in estrus and gather from all over the world to find the same female python to mate. At that time, there will be a lot of male pythons coming from all over looking for females.

They waited another whole day for the incident, and at noon the next day, images from several drones showed that they had spotted several pythons moving in one direction.

By the time they arrived at the scene, the pythons had already been entangled and mated, and it was certain that at least one of the 5 or 6 pythons that were entangled was a female.

They couldn't tell which of the pythons was the female, so they waited on a small hill a few hundred meters away.

It wasn't until two hours later that the mating of these pythons ended today. Dr. Neville speculated that the pythons would repeat this chaotic mating behavior several times over the next few days.

They didn't wait, and after confirming that the males had left the vicinity, they began to capture the giant female.

The methods they used were no different from when they captured the first male python, they all created interference first, and then Shen Chao rushed up to administer tranquilizers.

However, this time the situation was not as smooth as last time, after Shen Chao gave the female python a tranquilizer, the female python immediately roared, although the sound was not very loud, but it attracted the male pythons who had not gone far again.

Shen Chao felt a little funny when he saw the images transmitted by the drone, because the IQ of these giant pythons did not look low, and they did not look like beasts with only basic instincts at all. The female python can actually call for help through the guò voice!

However, they were surprised and surprised, Shen Chao and the others still took out their weapons after throwing the female python back to the base, and it took a few minutes to eliminate the giant python that came to support.

In the battle, their weapons showed great lethality, especially the broadsword shotgun held by Shen Chao and Custer, which could bulldoze a small piece of forest in front of them with a single shot.

After finishing the battle, they counted that they had killed a total of 5 pythons just now, and Dr. Neville asked Shen Chao to bring two of the more intact corpses back to the base after sampling the bodies of these pythons.

After doing this, they were finally able to return to the base and end the operation. After a routine disinfection procedure in the Crossing Zone, they sent the prey and a large number of samples of flora and fauna to Dr. Neville's building.

The construction process of this real yàn building is already relatively high, and in the next period of time, Dr. Neville will start three real yàn projects at the same time. It's going to be a busy place.

After carrying and placing everything, they went their separate ways to rest. At breakfast the next day, Dr. Neville looked rather excited and brought his sheepdog to their table in the quarters. …,

However, he did not rush to eat as usual, on the contrary, as soon as he entered the door, he couldn't wait to follow them to the real yàn building.

"I've got something to show you," Dr. Neville looked very happy, as if he had a $100 million jackpot out of thin air.

"What's the matter, Doctor?" Shen Chao put down his chopsticks and said strangely, Dr. Neville had only started studying Blood Orchid for a few hours, and Shen Chao didn't believe that the other party could produce results so quickly.

"You'll have to see for yourself to see if it's good news. Dr. Neville seemed to have some surprise he wanted to share with them, but he couldn't express it.

Shen Chao looked at Alice and Custer, and several of them finally put down the dishes first and followed Dr. Neville to his real building.

Upon arriving, Dr. Neville took them to his ground floor room, where they were given three all-metal security doors and underwent a disinfection procedure, before they all changed into white coats and entered the outer containment room of the core isolation area.

It is very much like an interrogation room, with single-sided glass, monitors and control panels. This is the room they set up for Dr. Neville to observe the behavior of animals.

Dr. Neville came in, turned on the lights, and then asked them to sit down. Then he manipulated the control panel to turn on the lights in the interrogation room, and as the lights turned on, they saw a familiar figure sitting in the interrogation room.

"This is Leah, she's already recovering some of her memories...... Dr. Neville said, gesturing to the figure in the interrogation room. He was pointing to one of the two real yàn bodies they had brought back from the world of I Am Legendary. The female mutant, or the current patient.

At this time, the female patient was sitting on a chair in the interrogation room, and she looked very different from the last time Shen Chao saw her. Not only did she change into the clothes Dr. Neville had given her, but she didn't have any restraints on her.

Of course, the most important thing is that she now looks like a normal person, and without the violent chest heaving and high-frequency breathing, she has even started to grow her hair back.

At this time, the "former" mutant sat quietly in the interrogation room, his hands on the table and playing with a pencil. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )