Chapter 144: Alien Island 3
Qian Xiao ran to ask for biochemical weapons for a ridiculously long time, and it wasn't until the island was so big that it occupied most of the field of vision in front of him, and he slowly returned to Qiu Yu's side.
Although the patrol boat in front had not found the reef or dangerous animals, it was still nearly a kilometer away from the island, so Su Hao ordered the boat to stop, and first transported a few third-story game participants to the island in small boats, and only after confirming that they were not attacked, did they start to let a large number of people land on the island.
This island is at least 100 square kilometers above 100 square kilometers from a visual point of view, and the vegetation is quite dense, so if you want to find a few people in a short period of time, you need to invest enough manpower.
On the other hand, about the Nine Tails, Su Hao has also investigated it a long time ago, it is the world's No. 1 killer, and his survival and combat ability in the wild are also quite good, if he asks for help, it can only mean that he is in a predicament, and it should not be a fatal crisis. But now that the fleet has reached the edge of the island, and has just released so much smoke to drive away the giant birds, it is absolutely impossible to see it as long as it is on this island.
And seeing it but not coming can only show that the trouble of the Nine-Tails is not something that can be easily escaped. Although Su Hao didn't want to make trouble, since he had already arrived here, he couldn't hesitate, and he had to use his greatest strength to solve the problem in the fastest time.
Boatload after boat of people were constantly transported to the island, and the final number reached more than 2,000 people, if it were not for the fact that these 2,000 people had already rejected 90 percent of the ammunition in their hands, and considering that no matter how many people came without ammunition, it would basically not be useful, and perhaps the number of people who stayed on the ship and the number of people who came to the island would have to be exchanged.
When facing sea monsters, many people seem useless because they have no experience in dealing with them, but as soon as they arrive on the down-to-earth island, their capital to survive in this era is quickly revealed.
Those who arrived first on the island immediately began to build defensive points on the spot. Some of them are from the same organization, and the division of labor is even clearer, and those who explore the path, those who are vigilant, and those who make traps perform their duties, and they don't have to worry about Su Hao and his subordinates at all.
Qiu Yu took a boat to the island with Qian Xiao, Su Hao, and Odonio when thousands of people arrived on the island. The time difference between the first batch and the first batch of people was only more than half an hour. But in this short half hour, the landing site has become an improvised fortress. Although Qiu Yu didn't think that this fortress would have any effect on those perverted monsters, at least he felt safe psychologically.
"Now we haven't even seen where the landing bay is, we have lost 5 ships and 421 people, so we can't keep consuming, even if we save people on the island, we must save our strength on the premise."
While continuing to wait for more people to arrive, Su Hao took the lead in expressing his attitude to Qiu Yu.
"How do you get that?" Qian Xiao frowned and said, "It won't have much effect if a few thousand people are directly thrown into this dense forest, if you also have to consider preventing the attack of monsters, I'm afraid it will drag on for too long, I don't know if our rescue will be useful." ”
Odonio also said, "The main problem is that Nine-Tails and Qingqiu are both people with law abilities, and if they all need to be rescued, the people here are too separated, and most of them are going to die." ”
Qiu Yu chuckled, "No, in fact, what they can't deal with is that we find their best marker item and set off directly to the center of the island." ”
"If you were the commander-in-chief, as long as the order was given, I would carry it out before asking the reason, but now ......" Su Hao looked at Qiu Yu, "I can't let so many people take risks just based on your whims." ”
"The island is high in the center and low on all sides. This should be true for islands in general, but if you consider that the more central the location, the less affected by the tides and marine fauna, then the central location should be the place where the first land life to land will develop. And the strange birds that attacked us had no dirt on their paws, indicating that they lived in trees. When they ran away just now, I paid special attention to it, and they did fly back to the center of the island......"
"Wait, let the birds more than ten meters big inhabit the trees! Didn't you mean to ......" Su Hao looked at the front that was covered by layers of plants with some surprise, "The reason why this island is high in the middle is not only because of normal geographical reasons, but also because the further you go in the middle, the bigger the creatures there are, right?" ”
Qiu Yu nodded, "That's probably it." ”
"But that's not right, haven't we met a lot of animals from other planets before? And that town, which is a normal size for both animals and plants. ”
"That's because the creatures on the earth are relatively small, and if they are directly put down by creatures that are tens of meters in size, just the food that makes them grow is a problem, so the first step to invade the ground is to lay a foundation with small creatures, and then the normal-sized creatures on the other planet. And this island in the middle of the sea, after decades of slow changes, is enough to support those large creatures. ”
"Master, what are you talking about? What is a creature tens of meters in size and of normal size? Qian Xiao asked confusedly.
"This is biologically normal. The largest whales in the ocean on Earth can grow to tens of meters long because the ocean can afford them. On the ground, because food resources are not as abundant as in the ocean, the largest animals are only elephants...... Oh, not to mention the dinosaurs, in the age of dinosaurs, the whole earth was covered with plants, food was not a problem, herbivorous dinosaurs had no effective means of defense, so they relied on food to be abundant, and kept growing. And because the herbivorous dinosaurs were large enough, the carnivorous dinosaurs developed two directions in order to hunt, one was group predation, and the other was that they also grew very tall. Qiu Yu let Qian Xiao digest it a little before continuing, "To put it simply, how big a creature can grow depends on its living environment, and the most important of them is food. The strange birds we just saw obviously couldn't be grass-eating. And the larger the size, the greater the consumption, if they are allowed to prey on rabbits, I am afraid that the energy brought by eating a rabbit is not much consumed by catching a rabbit, and the final result can only be to starve themselves to death when catching rabbits. Therefore, if you want to raise a bird that is tens of meters large, you must first have an animal that is several meters or more than ten meters large. And the pyramid of creatures is not something that one or two creatures can support, so the appearance of that kind of big bird is associated with at least several, if not dozens, of huge creatures. ”
Qian Xiao hugged his head and shouted, "Those birds can catch fish, such as sharks, which can barely feed them." ”
Qiu Yu shook his head, "The birds that prey on fish generally live by the sea, and those strange birds come out of the center of the island, and this alone almost proves that they don't eat fish, at least not fish as their staple food." Moreover, sharks are creatures of the earth, and those birds are aliens. They appear because of their original food chain, not because they were established on Earth. Besides, haven't we seen a lot of ridiculously large creatures in the sea? It stands to reason that the larger the animal, the higher the status of the food chain, and the so-called high-end refers to the scarcity of numbers, and these large animals we see in the sea are not rare at all. If you add to that the kilometre-sized sea monster...... Its size is completely meaningless except for wasting energy, unless, the size standard on that planet is itself very large, and in order to survive, it must grow that big. ”
Qian Xiao patted his head as if he suddenly realized, "So, our opponent this time is a giant star." ”
Qiu Yu groaned slightly, "This statement may not be accurate, but the meaning is correct. ”
"Then can you deduce what kind of trouble the Nine-Tails are having?" Odonio has gradually adapted to Qiu Yu's amazing reasoning ability, and it is natural that he should give more information, and Qiu Yu really did not disappoint him.
"When the Nine-Tails asked us for help, his tone didn't look like he was going to hang up immediately, especially since Qingqiu was also by his side, if the situation was too dangerous, it was impossible for him to calm down. So this tone also shows that although the situation is troublesome, but we are confident that we can save them, and the most suitable for this situation should be trapped. In addition, the Nine-Tails is not an unorganized person, and if we are in danger when we go to rescue them, he will explain the situation first, or at least give some brief hints to facilitate our actions. If we don't, we won't dare to rescue them because we're afraid of the situation, or the situation isn't too dangerous for those of us who are rescuing. And judging from the fact that Qingqiu was beside him, he couldn't pretend to be calm, most of the latter. Qiu Yu habitually gave a few people a time buffer before concluding, "They didn't run over after the boat arrived, either it means that they are in a place where they can't see the boat, or they can't come even if they see it." There is only one explanation for both cases, and that is that they are in the center of the island. As for the reason for being in the center, the most likely reason is that they are hiding from some kind of animal or event that is too large to be resisted by human power - the terrain of the sea is too small to find a safe enough hiding spot, just like ants have to hide from people, and it is safer in a pile of rocks than on the beach. ”
After experiencing the huge sea monster that made everyone completely powerless, Qian Xiao was already a little afraid of large creatures, and now after hearing the analogy of Qiu Yu's ants and human level, he kept wiping the sweat on his forehead, "Uh...... As a master, it seems that everything has been thought of by you, even if you don't have me with you, you won't encounter any danger, so you go quickly, I'm here waiting for your triumphant return. ”