Ling Ling took the Vile Maggot away to study it.
That evening, she woke Mo Fan and the other four, brought them to the shore, and released the Vile Maggot into the sea.
At the same time, a red dot and a green dot appeared in the center of her tablet's screen. The red dot was moving steadily away from the green one.
"Why did you let it go?" Zhou Sining asked.
"I studied it. The juvenile Vile Maggot is tiny, only as thick as a thumb. It has no tissue we can use to make a vaccine, so I think we'll have to wait until it grows before we can obtain a tissue sample," Ling Ling said.
Ling Ling nodded and waved her tablet. "I've implanted a Tracking Mark in it. No matter where it swims, I'll know exactly where to find it..."
"But didn't you say it was fragile? What if it dies out there?" Mo Fan asked.
"That's why I woke you up! Vile Maggots have an alarmingly low survival rate in the wild. Very few grow up and complete their transformation. So if we want a vaccine sample, you'll have to protect it from now until it reaches adulthood!" Ling Ling said with a smile.
The five of them wore different expressions, but each was cursing up a storm inside.
That Vile Maggot had harmed so many people. Instead of killing it, they had to keep it safe while it grew up? It was absurd!
Bobby, who had lost two relatives to it, nearly exploded. Only the thought that trusting Ling Ling was his best chance to avenge them kept him from cursing aloud.
"How long will it take? If it takes too long to grow, we might not be able to do this," Zhou Sining