By the time the female American cockroach kicked the bucket, more than an hour had passed since the roaches first began eating the gel bait.
So, apart from that one unlucky roach, the first batch of roaches to eat the bait had also begun to show symptoms one after another.
In containers 1–3, several clusters of roaches could now be clearly seen, rustling as they held a wild little party.
In stark contrast was what was happening in containers 4–6:
More than forty minutes had passed, yet even in container 4, where the bait worked best, only five or six roaches had become hyperactive.
Another hour passed.
In container 2, the males that had eaten the female roach also began showing symptoms one after another.
At the same time, as pheromones spread, several female roaches gathered around each male.
The dead male roaches soon became food for the females.
Then the females dispersed in turn, repeating the cycle and spreading the effect to another batch.
Eight hours later.
Only a few roaches in containers 1–3 still showed signs of life. The rest were either incomplete corpses or had kicked the bucket intact.
In container 4, there were only about ten roach corpses, and around fifteen or sixteen roaches were in a hyperactive, poisoned state.
As for containers 5 and 6, there was even less to report; each had only single-digit death counts.
Seeing this, Tang Yiqiu, the youngest of the group, couldn't contain her excitement and let out a "Yes!"
"Senior, it looks like our experiment was a success!"
As a fourth-year student, this was her first time participating in a project of this caliber. How could she not be thrilled to see the research team getting results?
But to her surprise, Xu Yun merely shook his head.
"Success? Xiao