Dao Meihua stood expressionlessly in front of the experiment table, staring at the dozen or so samples of medicinal materials in front of her.
After a long while, she rubbed her forehead and focused on analyzing the medicinal properties of these materials.
Over an hour later, she removed the analyzed materials from the equipment and was about to fill out a form when she heard Chen Ying calling her from outside.
"Forest Police said that the issue with the Yellow-throated Marten was due to rodents accidentally eating Physalis fruits. We're planning to go check it out today, do you want to come along?"
Wild Physalis is not uncommon in nature; under normal circumstances, animals wouldn't eat its fruit. So how the two rats managed to consume it, whether the Physalis fruit contaminated the water source, and other questions, all needed to be investigated.
