Super Zoo

Important things are written in front, please take a few days off.

I was not feeling well yesterday. I had vomiting and diarrhea in the middle of the night. Either my head or my butt was facing the toilet. Every ten minutes or so, it felt like there was a hand pulling hard in my stomach. It hurt so much~~~

I caught a cold and had bacillary dysentery. The doctor prescribed some medicine in the morning. I need to be on IV drip for two days. I can't maintain four updates.

Today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, I will update twice a day for the time being. It's not a serious illness. Three days should be enough. As long as the stomachache and diarrhea are better, I will try to resume four updates~~

Forgive me!

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A black box, a leather bag, and a thin black man in it.

Su Ming covered his nose and leaned over to take a look. There was a black animal corpse in the box. It was already smelly. Fortunately, it was treated with lime and probably soaked in formalin. It has not rotted yet, and the body can still be clearly distinguished.

"Big bat?" Su Ming was stunned. He looked at the body in the box and then at Antonio. His face was full of disbelief. Is this old man a psychopath? Why would he hide a bat corpse under the bed?

The bat corpse in the box was about 60 to 70 centimeters long. Its fleshy wings wrapped around its body like a cloak, and its head looked a bit like a fox. At first glance, it looked like a dormant vampire in a movie.

A specimen of a giant flying fox?

Flying foxes are a type of bat. They are divided into giant flying foxes and small flying foxes. The one in front of him is obviously a giant flying fox. An adult giant flying fox weighs more than two kilograms and has a wingspan of more than 1.5 meters. In a widely circulated picture on the Internet, several people caught a super-large bat and nailed it to a wooden frame like a kite. It is a giant flying fox.

The giant flying fox is the largest bat in the world in Southeast Asia. Its meat can be eaten and its fur has a certain economic value, but it is not high. Due to overhunting, it is said to be on the verge of extinction.

However, it was only about to be. There are still many wild flying foxes. Every year, tens of thousands of flying foxes are captured in Southeast Asia alone.

Su Ming couldn't understand. The flying fox was not a rare thing and was not worth much money. Was it necessary for Antonio to carry it around like a treasure?

Perhaps seeing Su Ming's doubts, Antonio used a small metal tool to pry open the mouth of the flying fox specimen.

Su Ming leaned over to take a look, and his scalp was numb. There were two rows of sharp teeth like barbs in the mouth of the flying fox. The two largest teeth were almost as long as a thumb, like a sharp little dagger.

"Mr. Su, you are an expert in zoology. Do you think this is normal?" Antonio asked.

"Not normal." Su Ming shook his head.

The 'normal' Antonio asked about was the teeth of the flying fox. After thousands of years of evolution, the teeth of animals are directly related to their food. For example, carnivorous animals have sharp teeth that are easy to tear meat, and herbivorous animals have flat teeth that are easy to grind plant fibers.

Although the flying fox looks huge and scary, as far as Su Ming knows, neither the big flying fox nor the small flying fox is a carnivore. The former feeds on fruits, while the latter is simpler, eating nectar and plant roots like bees.

Logically, the teeth of flying foxes cannot grow like this. Even if they have canines, they will not have a mouth full of sharp teeth.

Su Ming looked at Antonio, waiting for him to explain.

Antonio showed a mysterious expression: "Do you know vampires?"

Su Ming almost mistook him for an Amway salesman.

"Mr. Antonio, you are not going to tell me that you caught a vampire and nailed it to death with a cross, and it showed its original form and became the bat I see now?" Su Ming rolled his eyes.

Legend has it that vampires can transform into bats. Such a big flying fox, with a mouth full of sharp teeth, does have some vampire style.

But that's a legend! There are no vampires in real life! You must be sick to believe him if you pretend to be a vampire with a dead bat!

He might as well pick up a bloody sanitary napkin from the trash can and say that it is also a vampire...

Antonio said: "The word vampire is too unprofessional and easy to mislead. Strictly speaking, this is a vampire bat."

"Flying bats are vegetarians, and the blood suckers are flying monkeys!" Su Ming said.

Flying monkeys look very similar to bats and live by sucking the blood of animals. There are often legends that farmers woke up one night and found that the pigs and cows raised at home were sucked dry of blood by some magical creatures. This was done by flying monkeys.

In fact, although flying monkeys suck blood, they don't suck much each time. It is unlikely to suck the blood of large animals such as pigs and cows. At most, they only suck a few dozen milliliters at a time, which is similar to humans going to the hospital for blood tests. A syringe of blood can feed a flying monkey. The biggest danger of flying monkeys is not sucking blood, but spreading diseases in the process of sucking blood, especially rabies and Ebola virus.

The earliest legends of vampires and werewolves came from flying monkeys and people who got rabies after being bitten by flying monkeys.

And the specimen in front of him, with all its characteristics, shows that it is a flying bat, not a blood-sucking flying monkey. Su Ming still has some biological common sense.

"Yes." Antonio nodded, looked at Su Ming with a smile, and emphasized: "Flying bats are vegetarians."

"Then... Oh!!" Su Ming slapped his forehead, pointed at the flying bat and said: "You mean, this is a blood-sucking flying bat?"

"Absolutely correct!" Antonio said solemnly.

No wonder this old man treats a not-so-rare flying bat as a treasure!

Flying bats are common, but blood-sucking flying bats are completely different. They are like a rabbit that starts to eat meat. This...

"What is going on?" Su Ming sat down and asked Antonio in confusion.

"It's a long story. My family has a long history and originated in Sicily..." Antonio's face showed a sacred light, and Su Ming listened to his bragging patiently.

A great family with a long tradition, after entering the modern society, due to the "single" family business, could not adapt to the needs of social development, and carried out a series of upgrades and transformations to expand the business. Antonio was responsible for medical research in the family. A few months ago, this blood-sucking mutant flying bat tribe was discovered in the deep mountains of China.

"Mr. Su, the change of animal diet indicates that the gene has changed. The gene is not immutable. Just like the evolution of apes into humans, under normal circumstances, the gene undergoes major changes, either after thousands of years, or under some kind of strong external stimulation. If we can figure out the cause of the mutation of flying bats and use it in medical and life sciences, it will be a priceless treasure!" Antonio said.

"Are you still a scientist?" Su Ming said unexpectedly.

"I have two doctoral degrees and have been a visiting professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine." Antonio said with a little pride.

"Mr. Antonio, even if we need to do research, it should be our government that is doing it. What you are doing is stealing!" Su Ming said.

"I admit it." Antonio shrugged indifferently, "But if your government does the research, what benefits can you get? A bonus of tens of thousands of yuan? Or patent sharing of research results? Mr. Su, the results of the research belong to the people of the world, so why should we care about which country conducts the specific research?"

"If I am willing to help, what are the benefits?" Su Ming asked.

"You will become a friend of me and my family..."

"Speak realistically." Su Ming interrupted him.

Antonio held up three fingers: "1% of the patent income, one million US dollars in cash, choose one. I suggest you choose the former. Although there are risks, if you can really produce results, this 1% of the income will bring you a steady stream of huge wealth."

"Mr. Antonio, take me to the place where the bats were found first." Su Ming relaxed his shoulders, "What you said is so shocking that I can't believe it completely for a while."