At night, the camp was ablaze with lights.
Exhausted after a long flight and the following trek across the mountains, the team managed to stay excited until this hour thanks to the new discovery and their craving for knowledge.
On the south bank, inside the laboratory, researchers sat around and a specialist was announcing test results from their experiments earlier that day. Gu Yu was among the crowd, listening carefully to his words.
"The strange fish is indeed a variant of the snakehead. We have taken samples from twenty individuals and obtained some data. The fish were of a length between 20 to 50 cm. The head took up about half of its body length. Two rows of teeth—along both upper and lower jaws—were found in the mouth and they were thick, long, and sharp. Preliminary estimation is that the bite force is equivalent to that of the black piranha—the strongest among fish—and about 30 times of its weight.
