摘要
八月的上午，骄阳似火。在亚利桑那州东南部的奇里卡瓦峰的高处，生物学家苏济·埃雷特正徒步踏行于一处干涸的河床上。突然，离她数英尺远的岩石处传来一阵嘶声，似某人正在用手指摆弄干叶子发出的声响。埃雷特止步朝嘶声处望去，只见淡绿色地衣，好像油漆的色斑，铺蔓在岩石上。她心里有数，知道是何“东东”在“作祟”。
A bzzzzz coming from the rocks stopped Suzy Ehret in her tracks. She had been walking up a dry streambed high in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona. The August morning was hot.
