Blue Wolf Castle.

Although it has begun spring, the Blue Wolf Fort is still covered in snow, and the ice and snow are cold.

It was late at night, and everything was silent.

"Toot toot!" A shrill phone ringing woke up the biochemist Dr. Zhou Shibin from his dream, and he opened his eyes to the alarm clock at the bedside, it was only one o'clock in the morning.

As the chief biochemist of the Blue Wolf Country, unless there was an emergency or a major accident in the research institute, it was easy not to disturb him in the middle of the night, and Dr. Zhou suddenly felt a bad omen in his heart.

"Toot toot!" The phone rang again, Dr. Zhou gently lifted the quilt, got up and sat on the bed, turned on the lamp on the bedside table, and took the reading glasses resting on the bedside and put them on.

"Toot beet!" the phone rang for the third time, and he picked up the receiver unhurriedly.

"Who?" Dr. Zhou asked.

"Dr. Zhou, it's me, Yang Li. The anxious voice of the first assistant Yang Li came from the phone.

"Oh, Yang Li, what's the matter?" Dr. Zhou said straight to the point.

"Dr. Zhou, something big has happened in the lab," Yang Li said loudly, "You'd better come right away." ”

"Don't get excited," Dr. Zhou said calmly, "what the hell is going on?"

"Dr. Pan is dead," Yang Li said, "and he was dragged into the big pool by the king squid and drowned." ”

"Dr. Pan, which Dr. Pan?" asked Zhou Shibin.

"Pan Hua," Yang Li said, "the one who is engaged in paleontological evolutionary research." ”

Dr. Zhou's mind immediately raced, and the voices and faces of thousands of staff members with the title of doctor in the Institute of Biochemistry quickly switched in his mind, and finally the picture was fixed on a middle-aged man who always liked to wear black-rimmed glasses and had a slightly shy personality like a big boy.

"I remember, is his lab full of all kinds of amber stones?" Dr. Zhou asked.

"Yes, it's him!" Yang Li said.

"I see, I'll be right here!" Dr. Zhou said.

Half an hour later, Dr. Zhou's anti-gravity RV stopped steadily in front of the building of the Institute of Biochemistry through the night, and when he got out of the car, he was facing a biting cold wind, Dr. Zhou hurriedly tightened the collar of his black fur coat, and walked into the extremely heavily guarded five-story building with his head down.

Dr. Zhou slapped the snowflakes on his coat and walked into the elevator, swiped the ID card on his chest, and the elevator started and slowly slid towards the twenty-sixth floor underground.

The twenty-sixth basement floor is the aquarium, where the large pool where the king squid is kept.

Soon, the elevator reached the 26th basement floor, and when Dr. Zhou stepped out of the elevator, the assistant Yang Li was already standing at the door waiting, and she handed Dr. Zhou a white coat.

"What's going on now?" asked Dr. Zhou, putting on his white coat.

"Dr. Pan Hua's body has been fished out," Yang Li immediately reported the situation, "but that king squid seems to be a little wrong." ”

"What's wrong?" Dr. Zhou asked, "because the king squid didn't eat Pan Hua?"

"No," Yang Li said, "You'd better take a look at the scene first!"

The two said as they walked, and hurried to the big pool, and in the distance, they saw that a cordon had been set up around the big pool, and several uniformed security personnel were preparing to put Pan Hua's body into a body bag and pull it away.

"Wait!" Yang Li shouted to stop, and the security guards stopped.

When the two approached, they saw Pan Hua, who was already stiff and swollen in the body bag.

"What about the medical examiner?" Dr. Zhou asked.

"I'm here. Not far away, a white coat with the word "forensic" printed on it replied, and a lean man answered.

"How did he die?" Dr. Zhou asked, approaching the lean man.

"Apart from a few abrasions on the skin of the body, two fractures on the left arm and ribs, there are no other wounds, and the preliminary judgment is that it is drowning," said the lean man, "but the autopsy will have to be performed before the conclusion can be drawn." ”

"Where was the body found?" Dr. Zhou continued.

"It's in the big pool," replied a bearded security guard next to me, "and I was the first to find him." ”

"Did you fall overboard?" or something else?" said Dr. Zhou with a frown.

"It was the king squid who dragged him down the pool," replied the security officer, "and we've seen the surveillance footage." ”

Dr. Zhou turned his head to look at Yang Li, who nodded and said, "Yes, I also checked the surveillance, and it was indeed the king squid that attacked Dr. Pan and dragged him into the water with its tentacles." ”

"The king squid took the initiative to attack the fishing boats in the sea, and there are records in the legend of the human slave, but it took the initiative to attack the creatures on the shore, which is unheard of!" Dr. Zhou was puzzled, he thought for a while, and asked Yang Li, "You said earlier that the king squid was a little wrong, what is the situation?"

"Oh, Dr. Zhou, please follow me!" Yang Li said, guiding Dr. Zhou to a staircase next to the large pool, Dr. Zhou immediately followed, and the two quickly went down to the basement floor of the large pool, through a piece of tempered glass curtain wall of several square meters, the environment at the bottom of the large pool was unobstructed.

"This is ......" Dr. Zhou was shocked when he first saw the king squid prostrate at the bottom of the pool—the five-ton, huge king squid was transparent and amber as a whole, like a giant amber stone immersed in the water.

The king squid is known to have the ability to change the color of its skin at any time, making it in harmony with its surroundings, but the king squid turns transparent amber in front of it, which is very different from the environment at the bottom of the pool.

At this moment, the king squid was sitting at the bottom of the pool, and its eight thick and long tentacles were tangled in a clump, squirming lazily, as if sleeping, as if intoxicated, and more like lingering.

"When did it become like this?" Dr. Zhou asked Yang Li.

"I don't know," replied Yang Li, "it had already become like this when Dr. Pan's body was recovered. ”

"Where was Dr. Pan's body at that time?" Dr. Zhou asked.

"Right at the bottom of the pool. Yang Li replied.

"Didn't the king squid entangle and devour him?" Dr. Zhou asked.

"Nope!"

"That's very strange, if the king squid took Dr. Pan as its prey, then it should have eaten his corpse, but Dr. Pan's body was almost intact just now, which means that the king squid didn't want to eat him at all, or that the king squid didn't go for Dr. Pan in the first place. Dr. Zhou was puzzled.

"The king squid only changes the color of its skin to the same color as its surroundings, and it does that now, unless it ......" Dr. Zhou thought as he stared at the transparent amber king squid and its tangled eight tentacles, "unless it gets an amber stone!"

"Hey, this inference of yours is simply wonderful, very likely!" Yang Li's eyes lit up.

"When you checked the surveillance, did Dr. Pan have an amber stone in his hand?" Dr. Zhou asked Yang Li.

"No, Dr. Pan walked by the edge of the pool with his hands empty," Yang Li said with certainty, "but he may have kept the amber stone somewhere, like in the pocket of his clothes or pants." ”

"Then there is only one way, Yang Li, you go find someone to open the gate and release the water, let's see if this king squid has obtained the amber stone. Dr. Zhou gritted his teeth.

"Yes!" Yang Li took the order and left.

Soon, the drain valves of the large pool were opened, and the water level slowly dropped until it was drained, but the king squid seemed to be unaware of the changes in the outside world, and still lay lazily in place and squirmed on its own

"Dr. Zhou, what now?" Yang Li asked.

"What about the electric shock," Dr. Zhou asked, "and if the electric shock doesn't work, then shoot it, and then I'll cut it open and examine it carefully." ”

Soon two security guards in protective suits, each with an electric shock gun in their hands, quickly approached the edge of the pool, and they pointed their guns at the king squid and pressed the firing button.

"Bang Bang!" Two lightning-like arcs of lightning erupted from the muzzle of the electric shock gun, accurately hitting the body of the king squid at the bottom of the pool.

"Squeak!"

The king squid screamed, spewed out a large amount of thick black ink, and its body trembled violently, and was instantly killed by two electric arcs as high as 100,000 volts, and the color of its body instantly turned into a lifeless gray-black, with a puff of green smoke and a pungent smell of burning.

After electrocuting the king squid, security personnel immediately brought in a crane to lift the body of the king squid out of the pool for further examination.

When the crane lifted the body of the king squid from the bottom of the pond and washed away the thick black ink with a high-pressure water gun, an amber stone the size of a duck's egg was revealed.

"Sure enough!" Yang Li said in surprise.