Chapter 185: Chapter 149: Biological Mosquito Control Method (Part 2)
"You can think of it this way: in a Pet Beast Store, dragonfly Exotic Beasts and Dark Night Mosquitoes are sold separately. Do you think the price of dragonfly Exotic Beasts is higher, or that of Dark Night Mosquitoes?"
Everyone replied that the price of dragonfly Exotic Beasts is higher.
Ye Bai shrugged at this moment: "Isn’t that the case?"
"The value of dragonfly Exotic Beasts is high. When something is valuable, someone will go and capture it."
"We can completely establish an industry chain for dragonfly Exotic Beasts. First, it can create jobs, and second, we can increase fiscal revenue by selling dragonfly Exotic Beasts."
"Think about it, would you still think that dragonfly Exotic Beasts would become overabundant?"
After hearing Ye Bai’s explanation, everyone thought Ye Bai made a valid point.
After all, the Dark Night Mosquito is a pest, has no value, and is only about the size of a fist.
In contrast, a dragonfly Exotic Beast is at least over a meter long, with wings as thin as cicada wings and scythe-like claws, making it look impressive.
Aren’t Dark Night Mosquitoes just natural food for dragonfly Exotic Beasts?
With this thought, everyone’s minds became more active.
"Now, here’s another problem: we’ve discovered hundreds of species of dragonfly Exotic Beasts."
"How can we find the dragonfly Exotic Beast suitable for cleaning up Dark Night Mosquitoes from this vast family?"
"We don’t have the time to make mistakes anymore."
Liu Chenggong said sternly.
"President Liu, we can operate like this: first, conduct a survey of dragonfly Exotic Beasts to find out which dragonfly Exotic Beasts look impressive, are large, and feed on Dark Night Mosquitoes."
"Then we can choose those, and after selecting five groups, conduct parallel experiments."
"We can conduct experiments alongside every river channel, which allows us to select suitable dragonfly Exotic Beasts and prioritize cleaning out some Dark Night Mosquitoes, suppressing their reproduction speed, so we can do whatever it takes to eradicate Dark Night Mosquitoes."
"Oh right, dragonfly Exotic Beasts must have a good personality, or else, just like President Liu said, they might become a troublesome invasive species."
Ye Bai’s words received everyone’s approval.
Now everyone looked at Ye Bai with curiosity. Whose disciple was this guy? Things they thought were difficult got solved by Ye Bai in an instant.
The Cultivator Union, this behemoth, immediately sprang into action.
The staff screened and selected larvae Water Scorpions of five kinds of dragonfly Exotic Beasts.
By now, Ye Bai had become a valued guest of Liu Chenggong.
"Report to the president, we’ve screened larvae Water Scorpions of five kinds of dragonfly Exotic Beasts. Here are their files."
Ms. Zhang, Liu Chenggong’s secretary, placed the files on the table, but Liu Chenggong did not look at them. Instead, he handed the files to Ye Bai.
"Ye Bai, could you please review these for me?"
Ye Bai opened the files.
The larvae of these five kinds of dragonfly Exotic Beasts were listed as follows.
Fiery Flame Water Scorpion: The larva of Fiery Flame Dragonfly, typically living in warmer river waters. As larvae, they have the Water Attribute, but once they evolve into Fiery Flame Dragonflies, they change to Fire + Wind Attributes.
Thunder Light Water Scorpion: The larva of Thunder Light Dragonfly, they generate high-voltage currents within their larval form. In places where Thunder Light Water Scorpions are, other aquatic creatures are generally absent.
Brute Force Water Scorpion: The larva of Brute Force Dragonfly, and the largest of the dragonfly-type Exotic Beasts. Even as larvae, they reach half a meter in length, and when they evolve into Brute Force Dragonflies, their wings span four meters.
Gentle Wind Water Scorpion: The larva of Gentle Wind Dragonfly, the smallest of the dragonfly-type Exotic Beasts, and a favorite among girls.
Grass Water Scorpion: The larva of Grass Dragonfly, bearing something like aquatic plants atop their heads, possessing the ability to purify water.
Ye Bai immediately spotted Thunder Light Water Scorpion. According to the system’s information, Thunder Light Dragonfly was the most suitable Exotic Beast for clearing up Dark Night Mosquitoes.
"First of all, we should rule out Fiery Flame Water Scorpion. Its personality is rather explosive and hard to control."
"After they evolve into Fiery Flame Dragonflies, might they affect the fire safety of Jiaying City?"
"The second one to be excluded, I think, should be Gentle Wind Water Scorpion. Its practicality is low, although it looks quite pretty, it isn’t very useful for our Dark Night Mosquito control."
"The remaining three groups of dragonflies, I think, can begin the experiments."
"We’ll divide the Jiaying River into three segments and release these three types of Water Scorpions."
"First, control the number of Dark Night Mosquito larvae from the source."
"Once they’ve evolved into dragonfly-type Exotic Beasts, we’ll clean up the number of Dark Night Mosquitoes. How about that?"
Ye Bai suggested to President Liu and President Wang.
"I have no objections."
Both President Wang and President Liu nodded in agreement.
"Let’s execute everything according to your plan."
Jiaying City’s residents had been complaining for days, given the continuously rising number of Dark Night Mosquitoes, which seemed to appear everywhere.
Even during sleep, the buzzing of Dark Night Mosquitoes was omnipresent, driving people to distraction.
However, after the Cultivator Union released a chemical mosquito-repellent formula, citizens who followed it indeed found some peace.
Yet the number of Dark Night Mosquitoes did not appear to decrease, instead showing an implicit upward trend.
Ye Bai brought Thunder Light Water Scorpions to the riverbank.
Due to the flood, the river remained muddy, with larvae of Dark Night Mosquitoes occasionally appearing in the water.
A heavy truck loaded with Thunder Light Water Scorpions dumped them into the river.
As the Thunder Light Water Scorpions plunged into the river, crackling sounds of electric currents soon reverberated from the water.
The Thunder Light Water Scorpions emitted a golden yellow glow from their bodies.
The Dark Night Mosquito larvae were no match, being electrocuted and immediately having their heads bitten off.
This was how Thunder Light Water Scorpions could swiftly eliminate Dark Night Mosquito larvae.
Moreover, Water Scorpions are very picky feeders, only eating the heads of Dark Night Mosquito larvae.
"Let’s go, back to the lab."
Ye Bai wanted to understand how the Thunder Light Water Scorpions evolved into Thunder Light Dragonflies.
Could Thunder Light Water Scorpions have a special Evolution Method?
Ye Bai took out Thunder Element treasures available in the research lab.
Among them, most were Thunder Galls and the Crystal Cores of Ancient Lantern Fish.
"These two are Water Element Exotic Beasts, should be interoperable, right?"
Ye Bai activated the Eye of Insight, and indeed a hidden Evolutionary Path appeared beneath the Thunder Light Water Scorpion.
[Name: Thunder Light Water Scorpion]
[Gender: Male]
[Attribute: Thunder/Water]
[Level: Tier One, Level Five]
[Skills: Discharge (Skilled): Releases electric currents to attack the opponent.
Biting (Skilled): Uses its mouth full of sharp teeth to bite the opponent.
Pursuit (Beginner): Rapidly swims underwater to chase or attack an opponent.]
[Evolutionary Path 1: Thunder Light Dragonfly, Thunder Light Water Scorpion reaches Tier Three, naturally evolving into Thunder Light Dragonfly.]
[Evolutionary Path 2: Thunder Dragonfly, consuming Thunder Gall and Ancient Lantern Fish’s Crystal Core, with varying effects depending on the ratio.]
Ye Bai understood the hint upon seeing it.
This suggested that the hidden Evolutionary Path required group testing to find the optimal ratio of Thunder Gall to Ancient Lantern Fish’s Crystal Core.
If this were the case, it would be similar to the Blood Poison Moth experiment.
Should Ye Bai be able to develop the evolution path for Thunder Dragonfly, it would likely receive high Evaluation.
This time Ye Bai brought back five pairs of Thunder Light Water Scorpions, totaling ten.
If evolution failed, the Thunder Light Water Scorpions would likely evolve into Thunder Light Dragonflies.
Ye Bai took out ten large transparent tanks and filled them with clean water, marking the Thunder Light Water Scorpions before placing them inside.
He also needed to compare whether experiments could achieve the same effect with Thunder Light Water Scorpions of different genders.
For example, feeding Thunder Galls and Ancient Lantern Fish Crystal Cores in the same ratio to Thunder Light Water Scorpions of different genders, would the females evolve into Thunder Light Dragonflies, while the males evolved into Thunder Dragonflies.