Chapter 17 The Animal World of the Islands
In the enlarged clearing of the island, clusters of meadows kept emerging, not falling out of thin air, nor emerging at high speed, just as if they were there, just shrouded in mist, gradually revealing in the morning light.
"Hey, there's a little vole in this place, and the creatures that first invested in it have already run so far. Xu Wu looked at a vegetation that was frightened by the sudden appearance of vegetation and sighed.
Yes, this vole is a little vole that has just come to this grassland, and naturally it has no name, and now it is extremely excited in his heart.
It saw the spectacle that its grandfather had said, and it turned out that there would really be plants out of thin air. So what Grandpa said about other things, is it also true? There really is a heaven in this world, and there is really a place full of food without natural enemies. Where, it can live without being afraid every day, without constantly running for food every day.
Ah, it's not too pretty.
Try this new plant and see if you can eat it.
The vole bites the tallest of the new plants with their mouths open. The leaves are soft and have a mediocre taste, but this one is a bit sweet and can be used as a snack.
And what about these little blue flowers, which look pretty tasty. And the plants here, the leaves are like a saw knife for the first time, isn't it delicious? And this kind of is a little bitter, remember you, never touch it again.
Just as Xu Wu was watching the little vole continue to perform Shennong's behavior, a breeze blew, and a yellow-red fox suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
The fox lowered itself and hid itself in the grass, as if because of the aura on its body, it pressed the grass to bow its head behind it.
I don't know how long it waited, but apparently it got the opportunity it needed.
One flew forward, and the distance between the two was shortened in an instant, and then his limbs were like the wind, and his body rushed to the vole's side like electricity.
This is not an adjective, nor is it an exaggeration, in Xu Wu's eyes, the fox's action is really like wind and lightning. He complained to Phantom Moon, who was holding a book (projected) on the side, "Phantom Moon, can't the three-dimensional projection on this island be slowed down? I look at the animal world as if it is fast-forwarding ten times, and there is no narration yet." ”
"It's not impossible to slow down, when you unlock the teleportation function, you can see the normal picture, and I'll explain it to you when the time comes. But I can still give you a difficult explanation or two. ”
Phantom Moon confidently put down the book in her hand and explained to the ongoing picture: "On the sparse wasteland, a fox that goes out hunting, squatting in the downwind position with sophisticated movements, can effectively prevent its own smell from being sniffed by the prey. Foxes can reach speeds of up to 50 km/h and hunt mainly on rodents, hares, birds, fish and insects.
The fox pounced, its hands on the left and right sides of the little vole, its mouth slightly open, revealing its sharp teeth and biting at the little vole's head. Did this end the life of the little vole? was bitten off in the process of grazing at such a time?
Oh my God, what did we see, that vole, that vole, the movement is so sensitive, the body is like a compressed spring, it bursts, it ejects, it doesn't run away, but rushes towards the arms of the fox......"
Xu Wu looked at the blurry picture on the projection of the island, and could only rely on the nondescript explanation of Phantom Moon to fantasize about the picture at that time. He nervously asked, "Is it a subconscious escape route in the arms, if it succeeds in escaping, I will throw an adult heterosexual vole into it, and I can't even find a second vole around that place, and I don't know how it got here." ”
And at this time, I don't know that my sexual happiness is in the future, the little vole has only one mind, I want to run, I want to run flexibly, I want to survive!
The fox's hands are sealed left and right, and it can only run forward or backward, where to go?
Go forward, distance yourself as much as possible, and then shake each other off with a flexible change of direction. The little vole that has always survived like this, and the first reaction is to pull away.
Just as he took the first kick, the little vole suddenly shivered, and subconsciously stepped back. The body, the body is not controlled, and if you continue to move forward, you will die.
Yes, the fox predicted the position of the mouse running forward, and if the vole continued to move forward, the mouse would have entered the fox's mouth and thrown itself into the net.
With a nimble turn, the little vole stooped towards the fox's arms, and its agile body floated directly out of the fox's body like a catkins in a whirlwind, running towards his goal.
How could the fox let his child's breakfast run away like this, there were still four children in the family who had not opened their eyes waiting for food, even this little vole.
The forelimbs landed on the ground, and the fox used this as a fulcrum, a gorgeous air turn, and then chased the little vole with force again.
But to the fox's disbelief, the little vole was so fast! a notch faster than all the voles it had ever encountered. It's so hard to chase, and the foot, it hurts, did you just twist it?
After that, the result was obvious, and the little vole went directly into the hole he had dug in advance and escaped from the ascension.
The mother fox tiptoed helplessly to find the next target.
"Awesome, this vole is so fast! Okay, do what you say. Phantom Moon, what gender is this vole?" asked Xu Wu as he turned to Phantom Moon.
Phantom Moon lowered the book, glanced at Xu Wu, and then picked it up again, and replied with contempt in a flirtatious tone: "It's been so long, you still haven't made much progress, and you can't even tell the difference between male and female creatures." Children cannot be taught. ”
Xu Wu subconsciously replied: "How could I not know, I just asked you for convenience." After speaking, Xu Wu enlarged the vole hole and soon found the little vole hiding in the depths and panting.
Shifted the perspective to the little vole, (anyway, I know where it is, so I won't write it out, so as not to be blocked.) After concluding that the baby vole was male, an adult female vole was placed directly in the vole's hole.
But he said that the red fox with his twisted foot was looking for the target of today's breakfast little by little.
On the left side of the ground is a foraging sparrow, seemingly attracted by the emerging vegetation, pecking at the fruit of the star grass. Star grass is a grass plant with the same fruit as wheat waterways.
By the way, because with the establishment of the forest ecosystem, Xu Wu's daily biomass income has directly doubled, so Xu Wu has contracted some bad habits. For example, in order to save biomass, all biomass is invested in the lightest state. This time, some vegetation that has already entered the flowering and fruiting stage was introduced.
It's just that the sparrows are hard to catch, and I don't know if I can catch them this time.
The fox looked down at his left hand, a little worried about whether he could catch the sparrow, which used to be a bit difficult to catch.
If there's a chance that things will go bad, no matter how unlikely that is, it will always happen – Murphy's Law.
This mother fox used her experience to prove that this psychological phenomenon is not only applicable to humans, but also to thinking foxes.
Catching the sparrow, the fox that was slow to beat because he was afraid of the pain of his left hand threw himself into the air, and because he was worried about whether he could catch up with the rabbit, he failed to catch any rabbit that could only eat down at all. What should I do, I can't feed my newborn children when I'm hungry.
Mother Fox, standing on tiptoe, moved a little in the direction of home, no matter what, it was almost time to go back to feeding the child.
Near her home, the mother fox lifted a branch and looked at the cyan and white insects that were constantly wriggling underneath, and her face was a little hideous.
Bite the worm into your mouth and swallow it in your stomach three times and two times.
It's slippery, sticky, and unpalatable, and if she hadn't been able to find food, she wouldn't have looked for bugs to eat.
The mother fox barely filled her stomach and walked back to her lair, and although her steps were slow, she was not in any danger. In order to avoid the wild wolves in the forest, he deliberately gave birth to a baby on the edge, which is a wonderful decision.
"Chirp~" The four little babies who smelled their mother's smell made a subtle sound.
The mother fox walked up to the children, bowed down, and exposed her belly.
The four little foxes who hadn't opened their eyes yet sucked directly.
Grow up, kids. The mother fox looked at the four little dolls and looked forward to it.
We rewind the clock to ten minutes ago, when the fox caught the sparrow.
The sparrow was flying in the air at this time, and its heart was still pounding. Just now, it was almost caught, and it was all because those novel plants that suddenly appeared disturbed its heart and lost its concentration.
However, it was quite delicious.
The little sparrow, while flying, reminisces about the nuts that have just been eaten. The texture is so crisp and has a bit of umami. Next time, you must pay attention to whether there are those bad ass foxes, and wild cats too, they are all terrible killers, speaking of which, it has an older brother who has never come over since he went out to find food last time, and he won't be taken back, right?
The little sparrow doesn't fly very high, just ten meters higher than its big banyan tree.
This banyan tree is large and is home to many small birds like it, and it bears some small fruits every year. It's strange to say that such a big tree bears fruit smaller than a sparrow egg.
But the little fruit, which was super delicious, had some tiny particles in it, and it flowed like fine sand through the tip of the tongue, slid down the throat, and then passed to the head.
There are also some small bees in the fruit that move from time to time, which tastes better.
Just as the little sparrow's tears flowed into her stomach, the sparrow suddenly felt that the light around her had become dim. There is a kind of, bad feeling.
The little sparrow, who thought like this, subconsciously changed his flight trajectory and flew towards the banyan tree below.
The sparrow made this unintentional action, but it just dodged the attack of the eagle behind him. The huge wind pressure over which the eagle flew directly made the sparrow's flight movements chaotic, and it spun in the air for a few weeks.
The sparrow flicked its wings desperately, adjusted its body, and accelerated towards the woods, and in a blink of an eye it stepped over the banyan canopy and flew into the forest.
The eagle naturally will not let go of this mouthful of fat, even if there is a forest in front of it, and you can still see the movements of the sparrows, and there is no possibility of giving up at all.
The eagle again instigated its wings up to three meters long, swooping down at high speed, the target, the sparrow, the canopy.
"Wow!"
The eagle broke through the canopy of the tree and broke several branches with force, like a runaway train, sprinting towards the sparrow.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the impact of the eagle directly ignited the entire banyan tree. Countless birds kept chirping and running away. In the midst of a chatter, flying in all directions.
The little sparrow, of course, is no exception, and it flies along the flock of birds in the direction of the rising sun.
When it crossed the lake, the eagle was chasing it, and there were a few green birds around it, when it crossed the next banyan tree, the eagle was still chasing it, and there were a few big white birds around it, when it crossed the oak tree, the eagle was still chasing it, and there were few flying birds around it, and when it crossed the woods, the eagle was still there, hey, no longer chasing it!
I don't know when, the eagle is no longer behind it, and it seems that it is chasing another bird.
The sparrow, relieved, had the energy to pay attention to where he had flown to.
There seems to be a faint layer of fog around it, and you can vaguely see the situation on the ground.
Speaking of which, why is this place so dark? It can't be that the eagle is chasing after it again? Completely frightened, the timid sparrow hurriedly turned his head sideways, and did not see the eagle chasing after him, so he was relieved.
It's definitely safe. The sparrow comforted himself like this.
Why would it be dark without the eagle? The sparrow looked up and looked around, only to realize that it did not know when it had flown to the east side of the mountain. It was so close to the mountain that the light was blocked.
But I don't know if it's an illusion, as its mood gradually improves, the surroundings seem to gradually light up, and the fog dissipates little by little.
What a spectacle that is!
As the fog cleared, the sparrow finally saw the scene below.
The golden, golden earth shook in the breeze, as if the valley in autumn that my mother said, setting off layers of wheat waves. It is like a cloud in the setting sun, rolling up the waves.
Are they all fruits? The corners of the sparrow's mouth left tears of shame.
Why didn't you discover this kind of place sooner? If you had known that there was such a place where food was abundant, it would not have to toil every day to find food, but could lie on the ground every day, with a mouthful of wheat on the left and a bite of worm on the right.
The sparrow happily flew down towards the place of his dreams, only to find that it seemed to be farther away than it had imagined. And as it got closer, the sparrow found that there was no wheat field or fruit field below.
Below was a terrain it had never seen before, a puddle of water, and like the ground, with pale green or pale yellow plants growing here and there.
It seems that it is because of the reflection of the many water surfaces that it is golden.
Extremely disappointed, it landed on a meadow with some unwillingness.
"Chirp (Nothing to eat?)" The little sparrow suddenly noticed an abnormality - the ground was a little soft.
The little sparrow was unwilling to return empty-handed, and fled all the way here, so tired and hungry, that if he didn't find something to eat, he couldn't fly.
The little sparrow nodded to the ground, and suddenly found that there was some hollowness under the ground, and it seemed that there was something hidden underneath.
That's it, find out, find out the food. The small sparrows that grabbed and pecked quickly destroyed the vegetation. Then it was desperate to find that there was only a small puddle underneath, and there was no fruit and no bugs.
I also thought that I would find a treasure like my brother, and then go out from home and become independent. Although I haven't had any contact with my brother since then, I'm probably very happy.
But that was its last thought, and the sparrow only felt a pain for a while, and then its body was numb and unconscious.
A black-black cobra let go of its fangs biting the sparrow, dragging it to a hidden corner little by little.
After making sure that the surroundings were safe, I swallowed the whole sparrow into my stomach little by little.
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"Phantom Moon, you said it was possible to turn into a swamp here? Is it true? I haven't seen a real swamp yet. Xu Wu pulled the projection screen of the island to the position between the forest and the mountains, and asked at the phantom moon.
Phantom Moon put down the book in her hand, I don't know when there was an extra pair of glasses on the bridge of her nose, picked up a teacher's pen, tapped the white wall and replied, "Well, it will take some time." The place is located in a valley, and the presence of mountains reduces the exposure to sunlight and the evaporation of energy.
The low-lying terrain is also a place where the river passes through, and there is an abundant water source. The ground is permafrost that reduces the loss of water and has a good water storage capacity. As long as the owner of the island has a variety of wet plants that store water and moisturize, and appropriately put some anaerobic microorganisms, there is a very high probability of evolving into a swamp. ”
Miraculously, with the explanation of the phantom moon, the wall is like a slide showing the ecological change process of the entire swamp.
It's just that Xu Wu's focus is obviously not on this magical scene, but instead asks Phantom Yue, "Hey, Phantom Moon, what kind of nondescript dress are you, why is the teacher wearing a student costume?"
Phantom Yue's face stiffened, the smug look on his face gradually converged, and with a wave of his hand, all the dresses and pictures dissipated into points of light, turning back into his original daily clothes, and said coldly: "Love to listen or not, who let your sister only have such a little clothes, I want to wear nothing else." ”