CHAPTER 45: 45, AGAIN SEEING THE SUPREME TREASURE

Afternoon.

Tan Lake.

The Liren Lijiang Branch dispatched a large group of people, along with the Patrol Police Station, to seal off the entire Tan Lake.

This is because the team responsible for testing the water bodies across the city made a shocking discovery here.

The leader of the testing team quickly introduced, "We drilled hundreds of holes at different spots on the ice surface of Tan Lake and extracted hundreds of water samples.

"According to instrument tests, every single water sample contained a large number of poisonous mosquito eggs, without exception.

"Based on preliminary estimates, there are at least eighteen million poisonous mosquito eggs in the entire Tan Lake, you could say it’s become a breeding ground for poisonous mosquitoes."

The deputy director of the Liren Branch, Major Lin, was shocked: "That many?"

The leader’s tone was a bit excited: "We also discovered something very strange."

Major Lin asked, "What’s strange?"

The leader did not immediately respond, but picked up a tablet computer and played a video: "Major, please look, these are normal poisonous mosquito eggs, the samples are from Tintera."

Major Lin focused on watching the video.

The screen displayed an enlarged poisonous mosquito egg.

This egg gently wriggled nonstop, and through the transparent membrane, its internal material flowed rapidly like water.

The leader played another video: "This is a poisonous mosquito egg extracted from Tan Lake."

Major Lin immediately noticed the difference.

The second poisonous mosquito egg was motionless, the flow of material inside its membrane very slow.

He carefully chose his words, asking, "Are the poisonous mosquito eggs in Tan Lake experiencing developmental stagnation?"

The leader confirmed: "Yes!"

Major Lin then asked: "What’s the reason for this? Could it be the effect of low temperatures?"

The leader shook his head: "It’s not the low temperature."

He played a third video: "This is a poisonous mosquito egg found in the West River Province, where the temperature is about the same as in Linjiang. You can compare."

Major Lin immediately found that this poisonous mosquito egg was equally active, no different than those from Tintera.

The major finally understood: "So the poisonous mosquito eggs in Tan Lake seem to have a big problem."

The leader nodded: "Exactly!"

He paused for a moment and continued: "We tend to believe that the probability of the poisonous mosquito eggs in Tan Lake eventually hatching into mosquitoes is extremely low, maybe less than one in a hundred thousand."

Major Lin was greatly astonished: "What exactly happened in Tan Lake?"

The leader shook his head again: "We don’t know either."

Changing his tone, he said, "I can only think of one reasonable explanation, and that is..."

Major Lin suddenly had a flash of inspiration and interjected: "Mr. Spirit Crows!"

The leader nodded heavily: "Yes, Mr. Spirit Crows likely discovered the poisonous mosquito eggs in Tan Lake and issued an emergency alert to Liren.

"Then Mr. Spirit Crows used his superpowers to render the poisonous mosquito eggs in Tan Lake in a half-dead state. This is the most logical explanation."

Major Lin nodded slightly: "Ninety percent sure that’s it."

The leader laughed: "Linjiang City has only this one powerhouse. For things we can’t understand, attributing it to Mr. Spirit Crows is likely not wrong."

Major Lin found this reason too simple and crude but had to admit it made sense.

The major felt a bit emotional: "Mr. Spirit Crows is much more formidable than we imagined. The more I interact with this gentleman, the more I feel he’s unfathomable."

The leader had the straightforwardness of a technician: "It would be great if we could invite Mr. Spirit Crows to stay at the branch."

Major Lin shook his head: "You’re thinking too much; not even Shangjing can invite him."

He immediately ordered: "Even though the chances of mosquitoes hatching in Tan Lake are low, we can’t ignore it. Arrange people to disperse mosquito repellent."

The leader nodded: "Understood."

"Caw!"

A crow’s cry came from afar.

Major Lin looked up and spotted a crow flying past from the distance.

He was puzzled: "Why are crows flying everywhere today? The Crow’s Nest is almost empty. Is Mr. Spirit Crows searching for something?"

The leader responded perfunctorily: "Maybe."

*

Yue Bay District.

Through the crow’s vision, Yang Fan saw a large group of people busy at Tan Lake.

He pouted: "I issued a warning days ago, and Liren only found Tan Lake now. That efficiency is too slow."

In fact.

Just as Major Lin said, he commanded the crows to make a large-scale move. Indeed, they were searching for something.

Specifically speaking—Falcon.

Yang Fan sighed: "I seem to have been too idealistic."

Although the Hedong Province is the falcon’s range of activity, there aren’t many of these birds, so this aimless search is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

He thought of a backup plan: "If it really doesn’t work, I’ll waste some Spiritual Source Value and enhance the flight speed of Night Owl."

He closed the laptop and yawned: "Didn’t sleep well last night, better get a nap first."

He lay down with his clothes on and soon began to breathe evenly.

Some unknown time later.

Yang Fan had another strange dream.

In the dream realm.

He saw an old self-built house.

Inside the house’s utility room was a dusty, old craft wooden boat, about as long as an adult’s palm.

A strange shimmer suddenly flickered in the utility room.

Craft wooden boat bizarrely swayed a few times, then mysteriously vanished, only to reappear a few seconds later.

At this point.

The dream dissipated.

Yang Fan suddenly woke up, blurting out: "A curiosity!"

The wooden boat’s performance in the dream was too similar to the Thunder Branch, Soul Stealing Wisp.

This must be a curiosity.

Yang Fan was exhilarated for a moment and then realized a serious problem: "The dream was too short, with no geographical information. Where is this self-built house?

"Throughout the entire Great Xia Kingdom, there are at least hundreds of millions of self-built houses. Even if I spend a hundred years searching, I might not find it."

He was a bit frustrated: "Looks like I’m likely to miss the fourth curiosity."

Yang Fan was unwilling: "No, I must give it a try. How will I know if it can be done without trying?"

He carefully recalled the dream, especially every detail of the self-built house.

He also fetched paper and pen and used his horrendous drawing skills to sketch the details simply.

Yang Fan studied the sketch on the paper and exclaimed: "Hey, I feel like I’ve seen this self-built house somewhere before?"

He racked his brain for a while, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "I remember now, Jingyun County!"

The so-called "Jingyun County" was the small county town that, in his earlier dream, had been attacked by a super poisonous mosquito swarm, where tens of thousands of people died.

At that time, Yang Fan searched for relevant information online and specially opened the street view map to check the internal situation of the county town.

Back then, he caught a glimpse of a self-built house adjacent to the street.

Now, with his Spirit Value as high as 17.4, his memory was astonishingly good. Though he only scanned it briefly, he remembered the appearance of the self-built house.

Yang Fan eagerly opened his computer and once again opened the street view map.

He quickly found the self-built house and was overjoyed: "Sure enough, this is it, exactly like the dream."

Yang Fan suddenly thought of a question: "Right, the curiosity is in Jingyun County, and the mutated poisonous mosquitoes are also in Jingyun County. Is this a coincidence?"

He didn’t think so.

He softly murmured: "The wooden boat has become a curiosity, probably due to the power of the Primordial World seeping through, causing this thing to mutate.

"The mutated poisonous mosquitoes are just nearby, so it’s very likely they’ve been contaminated with a bit of that power, causing them to evolve into mutated poisonous mosquitoes."

Yang Fan pondered deeply: "In places where curiosities were found before, the appearance of superpower users and mutated creatures nearby is probably not rare. I just didn’t pay attention."

He cleared away the miscellaneous thoughts determinedly: "Tonight I’ll modify Night Owl, then head to Jingyun County to get the curiosity."

The wooden boat was covered in dust, clearly having sat in the utility room for a long time, untouched by anyone.

So there’s no need to rush, going there at night is still in time.