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"This mountain will inevitably be developed sooner or later; better to have it firmly in the zoo's hands than let soone else do it," Mr. Song said. "We don't need that much space just for releasing animals into the wild and wildlife conservation. But have you thought about what exactly you want to do with such a large piece of forest land? Setting up factories or building houses is definitely out of the question, as it can't affect the animals' habitat."
"I understand that, but as for what to do with it exactly, I haven't given it much thought yet. Maybe plant a load of cabbages when the ti cos?"
Suming cracked a joke and then pointed at Shuijun Lake below: "The urgent task at hand is to deal with the fish in the lake first, it's almost the end of the year."
Ti does fly. Wandering here, strolling there, and half a year has almost passed. As the weather gradually got colder, the fish-riding business on Shuijun Lake had already stopped. Several large fish had been transferred to the aquarium, where they enjoyed 'benefits' typically reserved for the nation's honoured retired cadres, along with the river dolphins and baby fish. anwhile, the boat-riding business was still ongoing, with the big and small cats coming every day to sell tickets.
One of the cats seed to have gotten its belly enlarged by who knows whom, lazing around all day. Suming simply gave it maternity leave—when the kittens were born and weaned, then it could co back to work. He wasn't short of money now.
He suspected that Hei was responsible, but it could also be another cat; the relationships among the felines had beco very complex! After getting their fill, these animals beca just like humans, all day long thinking about that sort of thing. Since hanging out with Suming, the previously stray cats had skipped ahead an entire human era, bounding into a communist paradise with their legs thrown up high, no worries about food and shelter, hence they seed to lack other pursuits. Especially with their continually increasing intelligence, there seed to be signs that a sort of 'palace intrigue' was unfolding.
The poor wolf dog brothers, both being male and related by blood, couldn't even get up to any mischief if they wanted to! But wait until that group of dogs arrived, those two scoundrels were probably going to be worn out.
Speaking of the fish in Shuijun Lake, they've been growing at an astonishing rate recently!
They say 'astonishing,' not 'delightful,' and for a reason. On the one hand, the growth rate of the fish was just too fast, surpassing common sense. The fish in Shuijun Lake had only been there for six months, and even with Hei's fish poop acting as fertilizer and Liang Shi's excellent care, there's no way they could've grown so much in just half a year. The average size now was that of fish that would normally be two years old!
This of course had to do with the Animal Friends! Suming found that different animals often had varying results when frequently interacting with the Animal Friends. Generally speaking, there were three categories of effects: size, constitution, including strength and agility, and intelligence.
For animals like cats and dogs, extended interaction mainly increased their intelligence, followed by constitution, with minimal change in size. Fish, on the other hand, primarily grew in size; for example, the bighead catfish, which grew from half a pound to over ten pounds in just six months.
Suming even wondered if the bighead could live for decades, it might just grow into a whale!
On the other hand, especially in recent tis, the fish in Shuijun Lake seed overactive. Fish are usually rather quiet when the weather is cold or very hot, dutifully lying low in their nests and not moving much. But lately, Shuijun Lake has been 'boiling with fish activity,' with fish of all sizes darting about as if their nests had exploded.
Liang Shi was taken aback at first, thinking it was either a lack of oxygen or so fish disease. He tested the oxygen content in the water, which turned out to be very OK, no issues at all. He then scooped up a few fish to check them, and they didn't look sick either.
"So what's going on?" Suming didn't understand either.
"I don't get it, I can only say the fish have too much energy!" Liang Shi scratched his head, sowhat embarrassed to say.
Was there such a thing? Suming was surprised. Even with an abundance of energy, there's a limit, right? Take humans, for example; they get excited for a few days over a joyful occasion, maybe act a bit crazy, and that's about it. But based on Liang Shi's words, it had been almost a month, and the fish in the lake were still in an extrely excited state.
That wasn't excitent; that was madness—exactly like Fan Jin getting his degree.
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Fortunately, this wasn't really a bad thing. Fish that are more active are less prone to disease and their flesh tends to be firr. The only issue was their excessive appetite. Recently, the fish feed business alone couldn't satisfy these creatures, so we had no choice but to employ the zoo staff in full force, scattering feed by the river after work.
But fish being so lively all the ti was ultimately not normal. Suming wouldn't dare sell them to the market without finding the cause. If people ended up getting sick from eating the fish, the trouble would be huge. Hundreds of tons of fish from Shuijun Lake could harm so many people. If things went south, within half a year, the people of Yangchuan City might all develop illnesses, and then this book could be rebranded as a post-apocalyptic zombie saga…
Thinking it over, could it be that bastard Zhou Jin had done sothing again, releasing so weird substance into the lake?
That possibility wasn't nonexistent, but it wasn't likely. The lake's defensive periter was lax on the outside but strict on the inside. The wolves and cats had been called back from guarding the river banks. However, with the dramatic increase in bee and horsefly populations in the back mountains, Queen Bee and Hu Hou had sent quite a few minions. Now, nearly every tree by the lake had one or two bees or horseflies on duty, so if there was any movent, it surely wouldn't escape my notice.
After thinking it through, there was only one possibility: the supernatural being Tai Sui! Recently, Shuixie Lake, where Tai Sui resided, had been connected to Shuijun Lake, with the waters mingling. Clearly, the water that Tai Sui soaked in had so special effects, which the savage and the giant baby fish could attest to.
Could it be that the water soaked by Tai Sui was causing the fish's excessive excitent?
As a result, Suming conducted an experint specifically for this purpose. He netted several dozen fish of different types and placed them in the aquarium's tanks. A few days later, when he checked on them, those fish were indeed behaving normally! But once he returned them to Shuijun Lake, they started causing a commotion again.
Without a doubt, it was the water influenced by Tai Sui that was causing this!
"Su ng, draw so water for to drink," Suming called out to Su ng, who was sprawled by Shuixie Lake, gulping down water.
Su ng, this fellow, ever since following back to the human world, was quite normal, except for not being able to speak and having extraordinary strength and appetite. In all other aspects, he was becoming more and more like an ordinary person. There was just one thing: he drank water from Shuixie Lake every day like an animal.
Suming sotis drank a bit of the water Tai Sui had influenced, which indeed had the effect of invigorating the spirit, but it was always boiled first, and he didn't drink much. Now, he had to confirm that this kind of water indeed had no negative effects.
Soon, Su ng returned with a large bucket of water, this ti steeped with lake water. The water in the bucket seed to contain so floating matter, looking like cotton fluff.
"Damn it, consider it a sacrifice for science!" Suming prepared a bunch of common dicines, set his mobile phone number to the ergency line 120, and then, with clenched teeth, hugged the bucket and gulped down the water furiously.
Sa old recipe, sa old taste! After chugging half a bucket, other than feeling a bloated stomach, everything else was normal. In fact, he felt clear-headed and spirited.
Then, Suming just sat in the chair, motionless.
"Little Su, what are you doing?" Mrs. Tong called out from a distance as she walked by the lakeside and saw Suming sitting alone on the platform by Shuixie Lake, zoning out.
"I'm waiting for diarrhea!" Suming waved his hand, looking like he wanted no one to bother him.
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