Chapter 125: March 1998 Tianguang
March 1998 Tianguang
I didn't turn on the lights, the room was very dark, and the side of the window curtains were printed with street lights.
I pinched myself hard to make sure that I wasn't dreaming. I didn't feel sleepy. I sat on a chair and observed the activity of the butterfly lizard in the small cage on the table.
The two butterfly lizards are holding the cage with their small claws, flapping their luminous patterned wings from time to time. They are about ten months old and fully mature. I am watching them, and they are also watching me with their big eyes like jewels. .
Opening the door of the metal cage, two butterfly lizards tentatively climbed to the vicinity of the cage exit, got out one after another, flew lightly into the air, and circled the room.
They are really beautiful. The colorful wings and light patterns make them look like two fairies in fairy tales. I opened the packet and squeezed some lizard food and put them in my hands. He stretched out his small paws and picked up the round dumplings of lizard food.
I took out the observation diary, and carefully recorded the body length, wing size, and body condition of the two butterfly lizards, and then let them fly around to explore my room, and then I turned to observe the small box of living creatures. insect.
There are about fifteen worms in a small box. These worms that have just hatched for less than ten days feed on starchy food. They can eat the flaky dry food I bought for them, or they can directly eat the food of the butterfly lizard. They have a great appetite. Like silkworms nibbling on disc-sized cakes, the Cylencia people are basically not vegetarians, so these cakes made of grain and grass are animal feed.
Fifteen little bugs were numbered one by one and kept in small cells. Their body length and status were recorded. So far, they didn't feel any discomfort, which was very good.
I really can't wait to share my shocking discovery with my parents, I'm sure they know better than me what this event means, but I have to keep my composure, I have to do more tests, I need detailed information, I must know whether the creatures from the opposite world can grow or even reproduce after they are brought alive, which is very important to me.
I didn't sleep all night, all kinds of assumptions I wrote 60 or 70 pages of letter paper, the more I thought about it, the more confused my brain became, and some of the guesses even made me so frightened that I had to take a shower , trying to recite comforting words to calm down the complicated mood.
The butterfly lizard and those insects don't like strong light very much. In the morning, I took a lot of photos with my camera, and also recorded the video data of the experiment. I put the butterfly lizard back in the cage and hid it under the bed with a black cloth. Cover it up, and the little bugs do the same.
I didn't make breakfast in the morning. Liang Jiangbo yawned and went to the living room without seeing anything to eat. After that, he made sandwiches by himself, and even gave me one.
"What's wrong? You look tired." Liang Jiangbo asked me while eating.
"Is there?" I touched my face: "I probably didn't rest well."
"What happened?" He frowned: "Why are you so restless, you didn't answer the phone when someone called you yesterday."
He Quite sensitive.
I picked up my phone and checked it out. It was from the company, and I called back. They said that the project I asked them to talk about had been negotiated, and they could take 60 sets together. They were already preparing loan materials, and they just waited for me to make a decision. .
"Nothing to worry about, I'll come over in the afternoon."
With my support over there, he responded immediately and stepped up preparation of materials.
They all say, "I would rather have a bed in Puxi than a room in Pudong." We are not strong enough, and we can't really do it in Puxi, so we can only go to Pudong to make a little trouble.
Shanghai people only buy first-hand houses, and no one dares to spend money to buy a house. After all, they owe a lot of debt to the bank, and even if they live in a new house, they can’t sleep well. At first, three of my subordinates didn’t dare to consider taking out a loan, but I was brave enough to not give birth to a baby even with more than two million gold bars. It's good if you can, but it doesn't matter if you don't. I still have more gold, so be careful, sell the gold to repay the loan, and the building will not be damaged.
When I turned around after the phone call, I saw Liang Jiangbo was still looking at me, and said to him, "It's nothing, I've been busy with some things recently, and I may go out less often. You don't need to worry about me when you go out to play."
"Oh..." Liang Jiangbo touched his chin and frowned: "Are you sure you don't have to tell me?"
I wiped my mouth after eating the sandwich: "You can't help with this."
"Okay." Liang Jiangbo shrugged, he went to school, I asked On leave, go to the company to deal with things.
My three employees are quite strong, and they really negotiated the matter properly, but the three of them were still a little hesitant. They received rumors that they might consider canceling the welfare room this year, which will definitely affect the house price. At this time, when we went to Pudong to invest, it was just a waste of money.
As soon as I heard their words, my head was too big, and I was not at ease, but my heart was not here at all. I haven't finished the experiment yet, and I have to go to school. How can I plan carefully at this time?
"I'm all ready for a loan, so I can't plan to do nothing for a long time, right?" I was scratching my head in a hurry, I didn't even understand it!
The oldest of my employees is twenty-six years old, and no one can make up their minds and follow me to catch the blind.
"How about... Jing'an Temple?" I remember a few of my brothers inspected some time ago. The house price around Jing'an Temple is 2,000 yuan per square meter. Now we can eat about 3,000 square meters, which is half of that in Pudong, but it is more stable.
The three buddies looked at each other, all looking at me.
"Let's do it, let's do it! It depends on the situation to buy a second-hand house. It's better if you can get it cheaper. Also, since you're going to invest in Jing'an Temple, you can find a shop on Changshou Road that you were optimistic about before. My family wants to do it. For a small business, our company can also move to work there."
The three brothers nodded again and again and set off to get new information.
In any case, this one has to be done within a month.
From the time when the company was in a hurry to the school, I had missed two classes. I was worried about something, so I was not in the state of class. Not only did Liang Jiangbo remind me twice, but even Yang Chen found out and asked me if I was in any trouble.
I don't know if I'm in trouble, but I know they can't help me. I was distracted in the afternoon lab class and made several mistakes. It was because other students in the same group couldn't see it and did it for me. I got more accurate data. I usually take classes very seriously. Today, my performance was really poor. The teacher asked me if I was uncomfortable and should I go home early.
I know I shouldn't leave early, but my mind is really not here. I stuffed Liang Jiangbo with the car keys, and I took off my lab coat and left.
As soon as I got back to the apartment, I hid in my room. The butterfly lizard and the little bugs were not abnormal. The interval between feeding and excretion was the same as the previously recorded data, and there was no problem in measuring the body length.
When Liang Jiangbo came back, I was already lying on the table and fell asleep. He knocked on the door and tried to open the door to come in, but found that the door was locked by me. When I woke up, I hurriedly opened the cage and let the two butterfly lizards fly back to the cage and packed it up. After hiding under the bed, I went to open the door.
"Why don't you turn on the lights?" Liang Jiangbo stood at the door and saw the darkness behind me.
"I just slept."
"What's wrong with you?" He had a weird expression. Normally I would open the door to let him in, but today I caught myself in the doorway and didn't mean to let him in at all.
"Nothing." I scratched my hair.
"You haven't eaten dinner yet? Want something to eat?" he asked me.
"Well..." I lowered my head and thought: "Anything will do, you know I'm not picky eaters."
"Okay," Liang Jiangbo said, "then I'll buy it from the restaurant and bring it back."
"Okay."
"Wang Kai , are you really all right?" Liang Jiangbo was about to turn around, but he couldn't help but ask, "We are very worried about you."
"I know, I'm fine, but I have something to deal with during this time, so you don't need to worry about me . "
"..." Liang Jiangbo looked at me from time to time.
"I'm really fine, don't worry, hug?" I opened my arms.
"Cough!" Liang Jiangbo came over speechlessly, put his arms around me, patted my back, turned around and went out to buy food.
The next day I woke up very early to observe the growth of the butterfly lizards. Their food was normal, and their excrement was normal. There was no significant difference in the length of their bodies and wings.
The bugs in the box are slightly different. They eat normally and excrement is normal, but their body size has been reduced to varying degrees. The size of the one with the largest change has decreased by nearly two millimeters, and other individuals have also decreased.
I found that I had forgotten another important piece of information, which was the change in their weight. After class in the morning, I hurriedly bought a precision electronic scale to go home, weighed the weight of the butterfly lizard and the insect, and recorded it again. data, and went back to school.
After class, Liang Jiangbo and Yang Chen both sat beside me, watching me put bread and milk in my mouth during class, Liang Jiangbo asked me, "Did you go home at noon?"
"Yeah." I nodded.
"Why didn't you even eat, you are really worrying these two days." Yang Chen also muttered.
But I didn't want to explain it to them, I just told them I wanted to be alone right now.
The brothers were very helpless when they saw my uncooperative expression. They rubbed their heads, shrugged their shoulders, and backed away helplessly.
It's not that I don't care about them, it's just that I'm very nervous and flustered right now. I'm not in the mood to deal with their concerns. I can't even eat until I get the results. I have to force myself to eat.
I'm not a kid anymore, I can take care of myself.
I bought a microscope before rushing home at night, and once I got home I buried myself in the bedroom.
The butterfly lizard basically did not change, but the weight of those worms was significantly reduced, they ate a lot and exercised a lot, but their bodies not only did not increase or age with time, but instead showed a younger state.
What the bugs showed coincides with one of my many conjectures, that is, the species brought over from the opposite world cannot age, but will continue to "younger" or "younger" with the passage of time.
I didn't try to observe the flora on their bodies with a microscope, because they had inevitably been exposed to the microorganisms of this world because of my previous operations. What I have to do is to prepare some of the world's microbes before going to the opposite world. Microbial specimens, as a reference, are brought to the opposite world for observation.
Day by day, something unexpected happened. Contrary to the shrinking bugs, the two butterfly lizards have grown in both body length and wing width. Although there is only a gap of less than two millimeters, but But it is a real increase, which makes me very contradictory, almost to overthrow my assumptions.
In any case, after seven days, the box of worms had shrunk to the form of newly hatched larvae, and they were now only slightly larger than a grain of millet, and it was difficult to even move.
Contrary to the little bugs that were about to degenerate into egg form, the two butterfly lizards grew in different degrees. The male butterfly lizard was four millimeters longer than the original, and the female butterfly lizard was three millimeters longer than the original.
Isn't the butterfly lizard different from the insects, and will not be affected by that rule after coming to this world? I'm at a loss.
On the ninth day, all the worms retreated into nearly egg-shaped embryos. They did not continue to return to the form of fertilized eggs, but because their body functions could not be maintained, they all lost their vital features.
They are dead.
Bacteria and mold quickly take over their tiny bodies, and they rot and stink, returning to nature.
The size of the butterfly lizard did not continue to increase.
By the 15th day of this month, the body length of the butterfly lizard had decreased. Although the deviation was only less than one millimeter, it had indeed decreased.
By the twenty-fifth day of this month, the body lengths of the two butterfly lizards have shrunk to the state where they came to this world at the beginning of the month. Their appetites are not affected, their health is in good condition, and they have learned a lot from me because they have been with me for a long time. Teach them little tricks, fly close to me when I get home, and fall on my hands or shoulders at my command.
In addition to observing butterfly lizards, I have not stopped designing various experiments. I have many things to be sure, and I must have enough experiments to prove my own conjectures.
On the twenty-eighth day of this month, I took a leave of absence from school, left the apartment and went back to my home to start a series of preparations.
I made mung bean sprouts in water and planted them in long plastic troughs.
I brought ten small, fast-growing plants and kept them all at home.
I made a yeast-filled broth at home, and I was going to make slides out of it to look at with a microscope.
I brought a bunch of straw mushrooms with medium and growing well, which I specially bought from the greenhouse. Its growth cycle is less than 20 days, and it is a very good observation object.
I also bought two tubes of experimental fruit flies and a large number of mice in three batches. Hundreds of mice were kept in separate cages, labeled, and recorded and processed according to the classification.
Drosophila lay eggs and hatch in my operation, waiting to be used.
My parents asked me what was wrong, I didn't tell them, I just buried myself in doing my own thing until the stone gate opened at the end of the month.
I took a deep breath, put the labeled cages and utensils into my pocket, and then closed my eyes and crossed the stone gate. I didn't bring the butterfly lizards in the cage, and I wanted them to stay in Shanghai to further verify my conjecture.
I have a lot of things to do. Before I can bow my head and kiss my sleeping son, I grab the space bag and go down to the basement.
The first is to take out a few mice that have been killed in the opposite world and put them on the experimental bench. As expected, the dead mice have not been revived, but this is only what I have observed now. I made a record first, using crystal The cages separated them, and placed the dead mice in plastic bags next to them, which were also closed with crystal cages to prevent them from escaping after being resurrected.
Then look at the other individuals. The four mice that were injured by puncture and were about to die have significantly increased their vitality after being taken out. Except for one of the mice that died of excessive bleeding due to severe injuries, the other three mice were seriously injured. Relatively calm, showing a state of being out of danger.
Four mice that were given lethal doses of rat poison struggled when they were taken out, but all died.
The four mice that were given a near-lethal dose of rat poison were originally struggling, but their symptoms were relieved to varying degrees after being taken out. One of them returned to normal after 15 minutes after violent vomiting, while the other three showed Sequelae of poisoning, but none died.
The amputated mice were calm, had appetite, and had stable wound recovery.
The healthy mice in the control group did not change significantly, and similar to the previous butterfly lizards, they showed normal appetite and activity.
The saliva of the mice was collected for slide observation. There were small microorganisms in the mouth, but they were rapidly shrinking and losing activity.
I had similar results with slides from yeast culture, the yeasts were degenerating and dying at an alarming rate, and after two hours my yeast culture was sterile, except for those that had died The yeasts that were originally active have all "disappeared".
Fruit that had been laid with Drosophila eggs continued to be cultured, but none of the eggs hatched.
The larvae that had hatched for a day lost their vitality due to degeneration after half a day and all died.
The adult fruit flies have not changed significantly for the time being. They continue to eat and also show sex behavior. It remains to be seen whether they will lay eggs and reproduce a new generation of fruit flies.
The mung bean sprouts soaked in water shrink in my observation, and there is a significant difference almost every few minutes. Hundreds of mung bean sprouts shrink in one photo, they all shrink into bean granules, but they are not complete bean granules, because Most of them are incomplete in form, not returning green beans that can be replanted, but inactivating and dying.
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