Chapter 1201 Gretel White-Eyed Holy King Nordmark arrives!
Gretel actually knows what flies he wants.
To be precise, he knew very clearly that he wanted fruit flies - yes, the kind of fruit flies that mostly have red eyes and occasionally white eyes, the enlightenment of the white-eyed Holy King Morgan.
In other words, if the white-eyed fruit fly had not successfully transferred its genes to a certain red-eyed fruit fly at the last moment of its life, human history might have changed as a result——
As for Morgan, it is estimated that he will not be able to rise to the level of the Holy King with White Eyes. Instead, he will end his life as a nagging old man with a reputation for stealing milk bottles.
However, Gretel could not say to the elves: "Go and help me find someone with three pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes. Most have red eyes, some have white eyes, some have small wings, and some have long wings."
The fruit flies are here..."
In fact, he once asked the elves if they had heard of "fruit flies". However, after the words he named in human language were translated into magical common language, and then translated into elven language through the art of glib...
…
The elves he questioned all showed blank eyes without exception.
Ahem, this road is blocked.
Maybe there are fruit flies in this world, but this animal, which is selected as a common experimental material by modern genetics, must not be called this name in this world.
Well, considering that borax is called "Moonlight Sand" by the elves, this result is not too surprising.
So Grete can only look for it by himself. This kind of fly is too big, so it won't fly; the second kind has black eyes, so it won't fly; the third kind, has a strong metallic luster on its body, so it won't fly.
Lose……
"Uh...it seems like there's nothing I want..."
"So what kind of fly do you want?"
Ashe Yuege covered her nose and asked him patiently. A thousand bottles, more than a hundred thousand flies, everyone climbed up and down, dug through garbage piles and dug pits for so long, and this kid just said a word
"Not what I want"?
I'll break your skull!
"Well, I want a very small fly..."
Grete also felt that he was going a little too far. But there was no way. Since he was not sure that he could find fruit flies, or even that there were fruit flies in the world, he could only cast a wide net, catch more fish, and use manpower to find them.
Experimental animals:
At any rate, it is easier to find flies than to search among countless insects, or even to target a certain experimental animal among numerous animals, isn't it?
He broke off his fingers one by one:
"First of all, it must be very small. A bottle like this can easily hold one or two hundred of them. Secondly, it must reproduce very quickly. It is best to reproduce one generation in seven or eight days, and at most ten days, half a month.
A little slow..."
Ai Xi Yue Geying's energetic face immediately distorted. Small flies are easy to find, but flies that reproduce very quickly are really hard to find. Who can study flies when they are full?
Although elves communicate with nature, study nature, and protect nature, insects are also within the scope of their research, but the objects they study and communicate with are mostly beneficial insects such as bees and butterflies.
Some elves will expand their research subjects to praying mantises and ants, which are insects with special characteristics or special abilities, but flies?!
no way!
"How do you know this? Little Gretel, tell me, are you taking revenge on me?"
"Ouch—Sister Yue Ge, let go!"
In the end, it was Elder Fahim who saved Gretel. The elder looked at it with a smile for a while, waved, called Ashe Yuege aside, and walked towards the pile of flies:
"Hmm, flies? They are wonderful little creatures. Although they look dirty and smelly, they play an irreplaceable role in the decay and decomposition process of nature——"
The old man walked slowly to the fly bottle, bent down, and observed the flies one by one. Soon, a long list of numbers came out of his mouth fluently:
"This...it takes 7 to 14 days from egg to adult, and reproduction can begin in 1 to 2 days after adulthood."
"This... takes 19 days..."
"This...depends on the temperature. It takes 15 days on Everjum Island, but only 13 days in the Fertile Forest..."
"This kind of..."
Gretel tried hard to record. On his right, Ash Yuesong's gaze became more and more admiring:
Is it true that he is a legendary elder because he has even studied flies? In other words, it is precisely because he has studied even dirty things like flies without hesitation that Elder Fahim has become a legend?
Ashe Yuege shuddered and shook her head vigorously. Even if she knew this method, she would not study it——
Anyway, she is taking the warrior route anyway!
"Well, these are the only types of flies I know." After reading it once, Elder Fahim straightened up and shook his head at Gretel:
"However, it is not difficult to know the situation of other flies. As long as you raise them for a period of time, or in other words, a complete cycle from eggs to adults, you can know this information, right?"
Grete's face immediately twitched.
The truth is that this is true. However, let him raise these flies for a complete cycle, and he may have to raise them for more cycles in the future...
He wants an apprentice!
He wants subordinates!
He wants a lot of spell casters to help him, including conjuration, transmutation, and necromancy. He doesn't choose!
Ah, is there any way to establish the [Grate Institute of Biogenetics] here...
There was no reason for him, the subject leader and the head of the research institute, to do such a menial job as raising flies himself!
He turned to Elder Fahim for help. The elder pondered for a moment and looked around. He saw that the elves around him had basically run away, and even Ashe Yuesong was walking back in small steps.
As for Miss Serira, she had been standing firmly by Gretel's side before, but now she is about to retreat back to the entrance of the institute...
"Ahem, little Gretel," the elder thought for a moment and smiled gently at Grete:
"We all know that the purpose of your research is to cure Ms. Jasmine's father - and other compatriots who have been irreversibly harmed by the Well of Eternity. However, raising flies seems a little far away from this goal...
…”
He pondered, choosing his words carefully, and said slowly:
"If you can explain clearly why you want to raise flies, or what is your research path, maybe I can find a few people to help you work?"
Gretel was confused. From chromosomes, to sex-linked inheritance, to genes, to gene collapse, there was a long way to go, and he was not sure at all——
Since you are not sure, how should you explain it?
"Well...I suddenly remembered that the fly I'm looking for should meet one more condition...it's easier to raise...for example, it doesn't eat rotten meat, doesn't eat dirty things, and eats fruits?"
"You should have told me earlier!!!"
Elder Fahim, Ashe Yuesong, and several elves who popped up around them all spoke in unison.
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