Super Zoo

The entire working group consists of fifteen people. Excluding Wang Jianshe and two government workers, the people actually responsible for the on-site operation, including Su Ming, total twelve people.

The twelve people were divided into three groups, carrying walkie-talkies, sonar detectors and some shallow water equipment, and boarded three small boats respectively.

These three boats originally belonged to the fishing company. Now that Zhou Jin was injured and hospitalized, and the patient was still being rescued, these three boats were temporarily requisitioned.

As a matter of course, several of Zhou Jin's men were also requisitioned, and the "local people who cooperated with the work" were responsible for guarding the fishing boats.

The last time the bald man secretly released the alligator gar, he came back with injuries all over his body, and was discharged from the hospital yesterday.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Jin entered the hospital right after he was discharged. When he suddenly saw Su Ming, the bald man didn't know why, but he felt uneasy. A chill rose on his head and buttocks at the same time. He subconsciously took a step back and said in surprise: "Is it you?"

Before Su Ming spoke, Wang Jianshe's secretary asked with a stern face: "This is Comrade Su, the expert designated by the higher-ups. Do you have any questions?"

The bald man looked at the stern-faced secretary, and then looked at Su Ming in doubt. Isn't this guy a temporary worker at the zoo? When did he suddenly become an 'expert designated by the higher-ups'?

It doesn't matter whether he is an expert or not. The key is that the word 'high-ups' is really scary.

"Oh, it's okay. We know each other." Su Ming laughed, "Brother Bald, now is not the time to reminisce."

"Yes, yes, yes..." The bald man woke up as if from a dream, and quickly made way, untied the rope of the fishing boat, and let Su Ming and others get on the boat.

Soon, the fishing boat sailed away from the shore.

The bald man stood on the shore with a few of his brothers. One of the brothers saw that everyone around him was his own people, so he came up and said, "Brother, this guy has a grudge against us, so let's find an opportunity to deal with him!"

"Go get your sister!"

The bald man glared at him, and slapped his forehead with helplessness and frustration, saying, "Didn't you see that he has a relationship with the government? I thought, how dare he, a temporary worker, snatch business from Brother Zhou and make trouble? It turns out that he has someone above! No wonder, no wonder..."

"So we just put up with it?" the younger brother asked.

"What if we don't put up with it?"

The bald man tilted his mouth towards the temporary tent on the shore and said, "Who of those people in the tent can we afford to offend? If we anger them, Director Wang will say a word, and General Manager Zhou's reservoir will not be contracted, and we will be left with nothing!"

...

The fishing boat where Su Ming was was about the same size as his assault boat in Shuijun Lake. In addition to Director Song and him, there was also a graduate student of Professor Chu named Liang Shi on the boat.

Liang Shi is the kind of person who looks very honest. He wears thick glasses and doesn't talk much. After getting on the boat, he kept staring at the sonar on the bow with a nervous expression and didn't talk much.

Beep... Beep... Beep... Beep...

The sonar emits a constant light sound. The principle of the monitor is the same as that of the radar. With the boat they are on as the center point, it constantly scans the surrounding waters within a hundred meters.

From the video of Zhou Jin being hit, the length of the finless porpoise is at least 1.2 meters, which should be an adult finless porpoise. As long as the sound waves detect large creatures with a body length of more than 100 centimeters, they will be fed back to the monitor.

Director Song also took a walkie-talkie and talked to the search personnel on the other two boats every now and then.

Su Ming was not in a hurry. After learning that a special team was formed to investigate, he had already let the alligator gar sneak back to the water army lake, and even temporarily blocked the entrances of the several channels at one end of the reservoir, so as not to fall into the enemy's guns instead of falling into the hands of his own people.

Before closing the waterway, Su Ming specially summoned the big-headed catfish and brought more than a dozen half-grown black carps, letting them spread out and search for injured finless porpoises in the water.

After searching for more than half an hour, the three boats found nothing, and Su Ming did not receive any feedback. He did not know whether the finless porpoise was dead or hiding.

Liang Shi stared at the detection screen without moving his eyes away. He was nearsighted and kept rubbing his eyes. His eyes were red. Su Ming couldn't bear it. He patted his shoulder and said, "Take a break, I'll take your place."

"Thank you, thank you! Then please help me watch for a while, I'll put a few drops of eye drops and come back to take your place."

Liang Shi thanked him repeatedly, moved away from the position in front of the monitor, sat behind the boat, touched a bottle of eye drops, took off his glasses, tilted his head back and dropped a few drops.

Su Ming looked at the monitor absentmindedly and chatted casually: "Brother Liang, you are still a student, right? Why are all the student soldiers sent out?"

"Yeah... I am a third-year graduate student this year... Oh, Comrade Su, we are about the same age, just call me by my name..."

Liang Shi closed his eyes and spoke a little stiffly, saying: "Our postgraduate practical courses at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences also count as credits, and the title of my graduation thesis happens to be about wild finless porpoises, so Teacher Chu specially brought me to participate in this operation."

"Oh, then you are the real finless porpoise expert." Su Ming joked.

Liang Shi said a little embarrassedly: "It's all theoretical knowledge learned from books. In fact, I have never even seen a wild finless porpoise."

"Ah? Then how do you write a thesis?" Su Ming was stunned.

Speaking of finless porpoises, Liang Shi obviously had more to say, saying: "It's like this, there are three types of finless porpoises. The finless porpoises we are talking about are generally freshwater finless porpoises, called Yangtze finless porpoises. In 2006, the United Nations conducted a survey and found that the total number of wild Yangtze finless porpoises was less than 1,500, and it was decreasing at a rate of 10% every year. As of now, there are probably less than 500 wild Yangtze finless porpoises in the world. In fact, there may be even fewer. In the past few years, I have followed Professor Chu and traveled all over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including the nearby Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake, but there have been no signs of finless porpoise activity in the area for a long time."

"How do you write your graduation thesis?" Su Ming asked.

"I hope I can find that finless porpoise this time. If I can't find it, I can only take another year of study and change the subject."

Liang Shi smiled bitterly, then opened his eyes, crawled forward along the cabin, and said: "Brother Su, my eyes are better, let me do it."

Su Ming was about to make way when the detector suddenly made a long "beep" sound!

The three people on the boat looked at the detector at the same time, and saw a black fish-shaped shadow appear under the water about 20 meters away from the boat on the detector screen, swimming slowly forward in the same direction as the fishing boat.

Liang Shi suddenly became excited, grabbed the walkie-talkie, and said anxiously: "Hello, hello, ship No. 2 has found a suspicious target, ship No. 2 has found a suspicious target!"

After a slight noise on the other end of the walkie-talkie, Professor Chu's voice came, and he did not answer Liang Shi directly, but asked: "Old Song, are you there?"

Liang Shi was stunned, and then he realized that what he did was a bit inappropriate. Director Song was the leader on this ship, and he was reporting across levels. Liang Shi scratched his head awkwardly and handed the walkie-talkie to Director Song.

Director Song nodded at him without saying anything, and said to the other end of the intercom: "I'm here, I found a big guy, it looks very similar to the finless porpoise."

"Let the young people go down and check it out."

"Okay." Director Song put down the walkie-talkie, and before he could say anything, Liang Shi hurriedly put on the diving suit and said, "I'll go, I'll go!"

"Xiao Su, you go with us, you two should take care of each other and pay attention to safety!" Director Song said.