Chapter 746
744 Unexpected Gift
The next day, the last day of Zhang Zi An’s stay in the seaside town, he drove to Karl’s aquarium with a drive as usual.
“Hey! Jeff! Good morning!”
Water quality tester Paul is testing something, his eyes close to the eyepiece of the microscope, the sound of the shop door automatically opening and closing, and glanced at him casually – really just glanced, the distance from the eye leaving the eyepiece may not be enough 1 cm.
He always has a lot of work, he has to measure the proportion of water every week, and also measure the level of nitrate and phosphate. The level of ammonia and nitrite should be measured every two weeks. If abnormality is found, it must be timely. Adjust to determine whether there is a problem with the aquarium ecological chain or equipment failure, otherwise the loss of a fish will be great.
There are so many aquariums in the aquarium. He has to do batch inspections and random checks. In particular, he has to record the inspection date of each aquarium in detail. The work is very heavy. Of course, the salary that Karl gave him is probably very impressive.
“Good morning, Paul!”
Zhang Zi An laboriously put down the plastic storage box and glanced at the store. “What about Carl? Isn’t it?”
“It should be behind, you go find him.” Paul straightened up and recorded the data he had just observed on the computer. At this time, he noticed that the plastic storage box held by Zhang Zi An was very heavy. It seemed to be filled with a box of water. He kindly asked: “Would you like me to help you?”
“No, I will come by myself, thank you.” Zhang Zi An looked at Paul’s typical thin house shape, and estimated that he could only help him.
At this moment, Karl came out from behind with a plastic bucket.
“Jeff, are you going back to Berlin today?” he asked.
“Yes, I will leave after a while, thank you for your care these days.” Zhang Zi An threw the villa key to Carl.
Paul was very surprised. “What? Is this going to go?”
“Yeah, or you won’t be able to catch up with the closing ceremony of the festival.” Zhang Zi An smiled. “Thank you, Paul, I learned a lot from you.”
“This way…” Paul bowed his head in regret.
After a few days, he and Zhang Zi An became good friends, because he found that Zhang Zi An was very good at learning and could talk to him. This is the identity he could not get from Carl or others. Because other people are more concerned about the local team’s game wins and losses and whether they can advance to the Bundesliga next season, no sense of complex water quality records and monitoring.
“It doesn’t matter, keep in touch online. I will come over when I have time.” Zhang Zi An hugged him.
“Jeff, there is something you must take a look at with me!” Carl rushed to Zhao Zi An to wave.
“Oh? What?”
His mysterious appearance caused Zhang Zi An’s curiosity.
“You know when you come over and see, it’s still alive…” Carl was unclear and took him to the back-office area of the aquarium, where an aquarium was placed.
“Look, this thing hasn’t seen it yet?” Karl pointed to the aquarium.
Zhang Zi An is getting closer and watching it carefully.
The aquarium is only covered with a layer of bottom sand. The bottom sand is madly carrying a strange creature. The whole body is covered with a hard chitin shell, like a combination of apes and pimp shrimps. The people are a hundred times bigger.
The ape, that is, the larvae of the cockroach, gets the name because it climbs the tree and turns into a cockroach.
The creature’s outer shell is lavender, about a foot long, and it seems to be dead on the bottom sand. If its two tentacles are still moving slightly, Zhang Zi An really thinks it is dead.
Between its body and the bottom sand, several pairs of appendages can be seen faintly, and each appendage has sharp claws.
“This is… the king has a foot bug?” Zhang Zi An asked indefinitely.
“Yes!” Carl’s eyebrows were full of excitement and regret, and he sighed. “It’s a pity that it is dying. It won’t last long. We may be the last two people it has ever seen.”
“Is this sure? It is a deep-sea animal. After all, it is used to the huge pressure of the seabed. Not to mention the land, even in the shallow sea, it will die because of the pressure loss. It is not easy to support it now. “Zhang Zi An is aware of the fate of death that this rare creature faces.”
The king’s footworms generally live on the seabed hundreds of meters underwater, and it is almost impossible to raise them as ordinary people’s pets. It is also difficult to capture.
They are occasionally seen in the deep-sea aquariums on the other side of Fuso, and the Fusang people also have an unusual love for this kind of creature. The big king has a foot-shaped hand, a doll, a key chain and the like, which sells very well. This creature is very cute.
“Yeah,” Carl nodded. “So I am anxious to ask you to come over to see it. The living king has a footworm that is hard to see. When it dies, I will ask someone to make it into a specimen. At the door of the store.”
“Where did it come from?” Zhang Zi An asked. “Is it caught by fishermen?”
Carl shook his head. “It’s strange. It was my friend’s strolling on the beach yesterday. Is it sound unbelievable? This kind of creature living in the deep sea knows that it will die when it floats in Shanghai, but it violates them. Survival instinct, like eager to go somewhere. My friend also knows a little about the aquarium, and suddenly thinks it is the Douglas Sham Shui Po on the side of Fuso – the creature is not worth it, it only appears in Germany. The seaside was very strange. Later, he took a closer look and recognized that the king had a foot bug and called me to inform me. I drove it back.”
Zhang Zi An knows that this 80% is the vision caused by the appearance of the mermaid.
“Right, I have a gift for you.”
He signaled that Carl would return to the outside with him.
“What? Don’t tell me that it is a Berlin bear doll. I am too old to be suitable for that kind of gift.” Carl said half-jokingly, “Famous’s signature is also there.”
Zhang Zi An also smiled and uncovered the lid of the storage box and pointed at the creature in the water and said, “This is this.”
When Carl saw the giant sea scales, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
“My God! This… Is this a giant sea scale insect?” he whispered. “You brought it with a storage box?”
“Because nothing else is available.” Zhang Zi An is also very helpless. “You can’t buy an aquarium for this stuff.”
Carl really is the person who knows the goods. He knows all kinds of hunting creatures and recognizes the identity of giant sea scales at a glance. He knows that this is a newly discovered species by scientists.
He looked around the storage box like a treasure, and if he didn’t know the danger of this creature, he really wanted to hold it in his hand.
In contrast, the rareness of the king’s footworms is far from complete.
When Paul heard the voices of the two men, he also came over from the water test bench and saw that this strange creature was also a slap in the face.
“This giant sea scale bug is a gift for me?” Carl suddenly returned with a taste. “You want to give it to me? You should know how rare this creature is? There is probably no aquarium in the world. The museum has them!”
“Yeah, in order to thank you and Reina for taking care of me, and you like this creature very much, isn’t it?” Zhang Zi An smiled. “We Chinese people pay attention to courtesy, I can’t take care of you, otherwise It makes people laugh.”
He turned his voice and said with a half-joking smile: “How can I bring this guy back to China? I am afraid it will be stopped by the customs? It will be inevitable that it will cost more time, and maybe there will be trouble.”
“But… how did you get this giant sea scale insect?” Carlson thought, and asked with surprise, “As far as I know, are they living in the South Pole?”
“I don’t know how it came to Germany thousands of miles away. It’s also a coincidence. I also found it when I was walking along the beach yesterday.” Zhang Zi An shrugged. “Probably about the experience of your friend. It’s just that my luck is good. The living waters of giant sea scales are not so deep, and they will not die when they land.”
Carl Lian thanked him and urged Paul to vacate the best aquarium in the store, arrange the cooling equipment, simulate the water quality of the Antarctic waters in the aquarium, and use the best conditions to entertain the new guest.
He is very confident that using this giant sea scale worm as a signboard will definitely attract more customers to visit.
According to his experience, rare pets do not have to be sold. In fact, leaving them in the store as a display may be more effective and can promote the sale of peripheral products.
To a certain extent, Zhang Zi An has the same feeling, because some of the customers who come to his store are attracted to the rare chocolate-colored Abyssinian cats, but in the end they are on the edge of other kinds of cats, or I bought imported cat food and cat supplies…
Through this opportunity, he clarified his own ideas and hoped that Carl could help him introduce a batch of high-quality German aquarium equipment.
Carl has always been a big customer of local aquarium equipment manufacturers. He can get the equipment at a preferential price. He promised, please Zhang Zi An, and he will be sent to China immediately.
After paying attention to the matter, Zhang Zi An and their Yiyi farewell, started the car and set foot on the road to Berlin.
(End of this chapter)