Super small monster

Tran Quang

There are so many strange facts that we can be the subject of a science fiction movie. Russia's " Phenomenon " (strange phenomenon) magazine posted this bizarre story with the statement: "We have not been able to check the absolute accuracy of the story but still decided to publish, not because running after the sensation that because of the serious problem, nature is polluted by all kinds of waste, hiding the threat of threatening us all, it is the appearance at any time of the Extremely dangerous microorganisms that we call super small monsters'.

The disaster started

On the last day of the spring, fishermen on Lake Baikan (Siberian region) were surprised to find on them that the fish they had just hit were full of small holes, looking like they had just been drilled by someone. Drill into yourself until death.

Lake contaminated (Photo: SK & D)

Immediately, this phenomenon attracted biologists at Lakusk Center not far away. They took hundreds of liters of water in this lake to the lab. In that country, biologists found that there was a strange microorganism that existed. And the experiments started.

A similar phenomenon occurs with large experimental fish. As for a small fish, only after one night, the microorganisms in the bottle have " digested " completely clean, so that there is no longer any bones of scales.

Curious, a biologist stuck his hand into the jar. Immediately he screamed and pulled out his hand. A piece of leather fluttered, dangling. After this, the scientists immediately gave it the name " demon mushroom " and stuck it into the shape of a skull and crossbones.

Then they bring a part of the mushroom to cool at -18 degrees Celsius. After 3 hours at a normal temperature, the mushroom melts, turning into a dough. 5 days later, the mushroom revived. This time it cooled it at -18 degrees Celsius for 30 days and nights and then hammered it into powder. A small piece of mushroom is placed in a nutrient-rich container. 10 days later, opaque spiral lines appear very difficult to see with the naked eye. Every day, the twisted line thickens. By the 15th day, the entire surface of the water was covered with foamy membrane.

The second part of the fungus was dried by the researchers at high temperatures, which turned into a thin, elastic film. After being hotly pressed by the iron, it lights up like a mica and becomes very brittle. When added to the nutrient solution, the " glass piece " comes back to life and after 10 days turns into a slime, does not bubble.

Next, they turned the mushroom container in a centrifuge for 200 hours. After this " torture ", the mushroom skipped eating for a day and night, not understanding because they were dizzy or forced to change the structure to survive. Then they fed the mushroom a " lunch " consisting of antibiotics: 10 pills of penixillin 250 units were overgrown and 10 tetraxyclin tablets, all of them were eaten .

All these singularities happened under the direct witness of a group of prestigious scientists. Throughout life as a scientist, this is the first time they have encountered such a bizarre and vigorous microorganism. Later, it was confirmed that the same macabre phenomenon recurring on the Pocomoke River in Maryland in 1997 and in the states along the Atlantic Ocean in the next period.

Identify the killer

A group of scientists at the University of North Carolina, headed by the brave schoolgirl JoAnn Burkholder has put in a lot of effort to identify mysterious fish-eaters. The culprit is a type of microorganism that can change shape called Pjiesteria. Ms. Burkholder said: "The life cycle of this microorganism goes through 24 very complicated stages in which there are 4 stages it becomes extremely dangerous. In some stages, it absorbs energy from the sun. , through photosynthesis like plants, at some other stages of development, it clings to bacteria, algae and can move on its own with a tail, and there is no clear indication , it morphs into a kind of super small monster ".

While the Lakusk group's research goes into understanding the " evil " ability of Pjiesteria, the Burkholder's research found an unusual factor that stimulated Pjiesteria to turn into a malicious form. That is the level of nourishing spike in the water. Evidence obtained from dead fish outbreaks shows that this increase is caused by humans.

Large-scale pig chicken operations have created an incomparable amount of waste in a large city. In agricultural industry, it is common to remove waste to the soil and let nature treat itself. Some scientists believe that the nitrogen and phosphorus compounds in waste have changed the chemical properties of water, in the direction of making Pjiesteria grow into a toxic form.

Luckily, just a few hours after the " crime ", the monster that scattered that terror suddenly disappeared from the scene, as mysteriously as it appeared. Tragically dead fish no longer see being washed ashore. Fishermen return to normal life. In the laboratory, to destroy the studied mushrooms, the scientists put all the mushroom containers in an old xitec and cremated it. However, no scientist can confirm whether this kind of super-small monster will reappear!