Chapter 301: Natural Automatic Fire Extinguisher
Ling Zikai's shouts startled the little white eagle, and he didn't know what was going on, so he quickly jumped off his shoulder. Unexpectedly, the horns and toes on his claws hooked his clothes, tearing off all the sleeves of his shirt, revealing his bare arms.
When Du Juan and Su Guoer heard the movement here, they hurriedly ran out of the wooden house, and when they saw Ling Zikai's embarrassed appearance from a distance, they all let out a burst of laughter.
At this moment, there was a sound of eagles in the air, and I saw the adult big white eagle couple soaring from a distance, and after reaching a place three or four meters above the ground, the male eagle let go of the prey on its claws, but it turned out to be a white rabbit.
Seeing the prey falling in front of his eyes, the little white eagle immediately pounced. But he didn't expect the little white rabbit to be alive, his body fell to the ground, and after rolling, he immediately spread his limbs and got into the grass.
After the little white eagle pounced, he was stunned for a moment, and then chased after him.
It's just that the grass and trees on the shore of the lake grow very luxuriantly, and the little white rabbit jumped in it a few times, and then disappeared. Let the little white eagle jump up and down there.
Fortunately, the big white eagle couple has been hovering in the air, and their sharp eyes are always staring at the little white rabbit fleeing in all directions, as long as it escapes a certain range, it will swoop in front of it, but it does not catch it, but flapps its wings to deter, so that the little white rabbit has to turn around and run back for its life. It controls the direction of its escape from beginning to end, and tries to drive it near the little white eagle.
After watching it for a while, Ling Zikai somewhat understood the intentions of the Great White Eagle couple. They are using the white rabbit to train the little white eagle to hunt!
After being busy for a while, seeing that the little white eagle never caught the little white rabbit, the big white eagle couple seemed to be a little dissatisfied with its performance. The eagle swooped down to the little white eagle, grabbed it, and then flew into the air with it, hovering and screaming, as if teaching the little white eagle some skills.
At this moment, he is in mid-air, looking down on the earth condescendingly, no matter what the little white rabbit is drilling in the grass, he can never escape the search of the eagle eye.
After circling a few times, the male eagle threw the little white eagle towards the place where the little white rabbit was hiding.
The little white eagle spread its wings in the air and swooped down on the little white rabbit. Seeing that a pair of sharp claws were about to catch the little white rabbit, he was dodged by it again.
Perhaps it was after some * just now, so that the little white eagle comprehended some skills, although still did not catch the little white rabbit, but the little white eagle did not have the previous anxious look, but spread its wings and flew into the air, in the circle found the trace of the little white rabbit again and then swooped over.
In this way, in the process of diving again and again, the movements of the little white eagle became more and more skillful and agile.
There were a few times when I was able to catch the little white rabbit, but I was deliberately let go by the little white eagle, and it seemed that I wanted to take the process of capturing it as a fun game, full of novelty and excitement.
Finally, after the little white eagle was a little tired and lost interest, he grabbed the little white rabbit, flew to Ling Zikai, threw the half-dead rabbit in front of him, flapped his wings a little proudly, and put on a virtuous attitude of asking for merit and reward.
The little white tiger in his arms suddenly broke free from Ling Zikai's arm, picked up the rabbit with his mouth, and without waiting for Ling Zikai's command, he had already turned around and ran in the direction of the wooden house in the restaurant, it seemed that he was going to hand over the rabbit to the hostess and make a hearty game meal.
Ling Zikai touched the head of the little white eagle and praised: "Yes, it seems that we don't have to worry about not being able to eat game in the future!"
The little white eagle who was praised by Ling Zikai seemed to have some lingering interest, and even spread his wings and rushed into the air, flying towards the forest outside Weiyang Lake, probably thinking of the broader mountains and forests to show his skills.
The big white eagle couple was afraid that something would go wrong with it, so they hurriedly followed.
Looking at the white eagle that was gradually moving away, Ling Zikai looked down at his shirtless shoulder, smiled bitterly, and did not go back to change his clothes immediately, but continued to walk along the lakeside.
After a while, I came to the meadow.
From a distance, seeing Lin Xing'an's figure, Ling Zikai walked over.
When I arrived, I saw Lin Xing'an holding some dead grass and lighting it, and kept throwing it at a very lush grass and tree next to him, as if he wanted to set those fresh plants and trees on fire.
However, when the burning dead grass fell into the bushes, there was a crackling sound, followed by a splash of water in the bushes, which extinguished the burning dead grass.
Ling Zikai walked up to him and asked curiously, "Uncle Lin, what are you doing?"
Seeing Ling Zikai's arrival, Lin Xing'an threw away the burning withered grass in his hand and said, "Brother Ling, you came just in time. Come and see, these plants are amazing!"
Ling Zikai looked at those plants, which were obviously different from the other plants growing around them in shape, with wide leaves and crisscrossed stems and branches, which were more suitable than weeds and vines.
It's just that ordinary vine plants are clinging to the branches of other plants and growing, but these vines in front of you can grow independently and form their own living area.
"What kind of plants are these, like vines and non-vines, like grass and not grass, I don't seem to have seen them before!"
Looking at Ling Zikai's puzzled look, Lin Xingan said a little proudly: "Don't say that you haven't seen these things, even if it's the first time I've seen them."
Didn't you collect some saplings and seeds from Tiger Leaping Stream a few days ago?
I planted the saplings and all that stuff around the lake.
I didn't know what kind of plant the seeds belonged to, so I sowed them on the meadow and transplanted them when they had grown and knew what kind of seed they were.
These days, because of the death of the ginseng under the forest, I have been staying in the forest, and I don't care about the situation here.
When I came over this morning, I suddenly noticed that a plant that I had never seen before had popped up here. It only took a few days from sowing the seeds to germinating and breaking the soil, and it's a miracle that these plants can grow so quickly!"
Looking at Lin Xing'an's incredible expression, Ling Zikai smiled slightly in his heart.
The seedlings and seeds that had only come back from the old forest had been secretly injected with some ancestral energy by him, and their vitality was very abundant.
"Uncle Lin, what happened when you burned them just now?"
Lin Xing'an said with a smile: "I saw that these plants were growing fast, so I took a little sample and took it back for testing, but there was an unexpected discovery. Do you know what I've isolated from these plants?"
Lin Xing'an deliberately sold a pass, knowing that Ling Zikai would definitely not be able to answer, and after a pause for a few seconds, he said, "I found a large amount of carbon tetrachloride in these plants. ”
Ling Zikai asked puzzledly, "What is carbon tetrachloride?"
"It is a colorless, volatile, non-flammable liquid, and it is also a very effective chemical raw material for making fire extinguishing agents. ”
"You say these plants can be used to make fire retardants?"
"Come over here and take a closer look!"
Lin Xing'an didn't explain again, but let Ling Zikai walk over to those plants.
"Do you see the knots on these branches?"
Ling Zikai looked along Lin Xing'an's fingers and saw that there were ping-pong ball-sized buds growing on the branches of those plants. The bracts are densely covered with small mesh holes, and there is some transparent sap in the buds.
"Is the liquid in these buds carbon tetrachloride?"
"Don't worry, I'll give you an experiment!"
Lin Xing'an said and grabbed a handful of dead grass, lit it with a lighter, and approached the plants.
When the flame touched the knots on the branches, a strange scene occurred:
I saw that from the small mesh holes on the knots, a large amount of transparent liquid was sprayed out, and the burning flame was extinguished.
Ling Zikai was a little dumbfounded, and stammered: "This plant is also amazing, if you plant these plants in the forest, wouldn't it be like installing a lot of 'natural automatic fire extinguishers'?"
Lin Xing'an nodded, and said with excitement on his face: "You are right, if we can breed a large number of such plants, and then promote them to the entire forest area, we can prevent forest fires."
To put it mildly, if the development of this plant is really realized, Brother Ling, you will make immeasurable merits for the entire Xing'an Forest Area, no, it should be said that you have made immeasurable merits for the firefighting cause of the entire country and the entire earth!"
Ling Zikai was also a little moved when he heard this.
Forest fires are the most dangerous enemy of destroying forest vegetation and the most terrible disaster of forestry, which can bring the most harmful and devastating consequences to forests.
Every year, there are a number of large and small forest fires that occur all over the world.
The causes of the fire are man-made fire and natural fire.
Man-made fires include productive fire sources: fire used in agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, fire used in forestry sideline production, and fire used in industrial and mining transportation; and non-productive fire sources, such as outdoor cooking smoke, cooking, paper burning, heating, etc., and even deliberate arson for burning hay and setting off firecrackers.
Among the previous fires in the Hung Yen forest area, the fires caused by reclamation and burning, smoking, cooking smoke, and burning paper on the grave accounted for the absolute number.
Strictly speaking, such man-made fires can be controlled as long as people strictly follow forest fire prevention regulations.
However, although the proportion of fires caused by natural phenomena such as lightning strikes and spontaneous combustion is small, it can be controlled by human will.
After the fire, it not only burns down the forest, harms the animals in the forest, and even endangers people's lives.
At the same time, fires also reduce the ability of forests to regenerate, cause soil impoverishment and destroy the role of forests in conserving water, resulting in an imbalance of the ecological environment.
Despite the rapid development of science in today's world, mankind has not yet made long-term progress in overcoming forest fires.