Chapter 4 Dongfeng Reservoir

The "Dongfeng Reservoir" is the largest freshwater reservoir area within a radius of hundreds of miles, and in the early seventies, after several renovations and repairs, it has been fully utilized by nearby villagers. The Pen & Fun &www.biquge.info Reservoir is not only the largest source of fresh water in the vicinity, but also the source of fish in several large rivers. Since the completion of the reservoir, it has been protected in various ways, and large-scale fishing of fish is prohibited, but fishing is allowed.

The reservoir is surrounded by several rocky mountains, and there are many trees planted on the mountains, which attract many people to visit the reservoir area every summer, not only to enjoy the shade, but also to fish.

After eating, Chu Hongtao immediately began to prepare, using fresh wheat bran, eggs, rice wine and other materials to make bait, and then filled the large blue off-road motorcycle with gasoline. Finally, I picked out a few sets of fishing gear from the storage room. Uncle has liked to catch fish since he was a child, and all kinds of materials for catching fish are well prepared, and Chu Tian is not polite, and picks the strongest fishing rod from the uncle's collection.

Quietly bring your own carefully prepared fishing hook and bait, sit on the uncle's blue Harley, accompanied by the roar of the locomotive, and rush towards the reservoir. For the "strange event" that will happen this time, Chu Tian is also full of expectations.

"Dongfeng Reservoir" is the largest freshwater reservoir in the city where Chutian is located, connecting almost all the large rivers in the city, the reservoir is dozens of miles long from north to south, and the widest place downstream is also several kilometers long.

In the 70s, the state invested a lot of manpower and material resources to build a huge dam downstream of the reservoir. Since then, the water level of the reservoir has continued to rise, and the aquatic products in it have become more and more abundant, and the water quality has become clearer and more transparent, and the deepest place has reached a depth of 50 meters.

Dongfeng Reservoir is still a lot of distance from Chutian's hometown, and with geographical restrictions, it is not suitable for driving a car to go there, so it generally takes two hours to choose to go by motorcycle.

Chu Hongtao's driving skills have always been very good, running wildly all the way on the road, and the speed was almost not lower than eighty miles, and it only took more than an hour to arrive at Chen Xiaowei's home.

Chen Xiaowei met Chu Hongtao a year ago, his home is near the reservoir, and he is also a fishing enthusiast. Chu Hongtao used to come to the reservoir to fish, but every time he got little harvest, in a fishing, he met Chen Xiaowei, who was in his thirties, and became friends after some exchanges. Chen Xiaowei is a person who is not good at talking, but Chu Hongtao is very hospitable, and the two are basically in the same way when fishing.

Chen Xiaowei doesn't like to eat fish very much, he just likes to go fishing with his own fishing gear in his free time.

Arrived at Chen Xiaowei's house, the temperature was not very high, Chu Tian looked at the time, it was only half past ten, it was too early to have lunch, after a simple discussion, the two decided to talk about cooking again, Chu Tian thought about it, and said to Chu Hongtao and Chen Xiaowei:

"Uncle Xiaotao, Uncle Xiaowei, I'm going to go around the neighborhood and come here for the first time to play."

"Don't go far, don't run around, come back early", the uncle didn't care, Chu Tian was no longer a child, so he simply admonished.

Chen Xiaowei also advised: "Don't run to the water, I'll cook later."

Of course, Chu Tian didn't want the two of them to worry, so he replied very obediently: "I know, I will definitely come back in half an hour, and I won't run too far, I'll go to the ground and come back." Then he walked out of Chen Xiaowei's house slowly.

When he came, Chu Hongtao drove the car fast, he didn't observe the nearby scenery at all, but at this time, he had the opportunity to walk around and see what was different nearby.

"Dongfeng Reservoir" is still halfway up the hill to the east of the village, there is a not too wide cement road leading to the reservoir area, the road is quite clean, but it is a little steep, if you walk, it will take more than half an hour.

Chu Tian came out of Chen Xiaowei's house and did not go to the nearby fields, but walked directly to the "Duck River" to the east of the village. The Ya River is an important river downstream of the reservoir, and when the reservoir is not open to discharge floodwater, the water from the reservoir will flow down the mountainside through a small outlet in the west, and flow into the Ya River through a mountain stream. Before the flooding, most of the water would pass through the Yahe River and then change direction at the bottom of the mountain and flow from west to east.

Approaching the Duck River, Chu Tiancai found that the current of the Duck River was much larger than he imagined. He did not approach the river directly, but stood on a high ground of the river and looked carefully into the middle of the river:

The river is flanked by stone walls, and the river channel has many traces of artificial carvings, and it is not as smooth as seen in other places. The upstream water rushes down through the river and crashes into the bulges on both sides of the river, splashing high waves. No wonder it is called "Duck River", the river water rolls up white waves, plus ripples, much like the wings of a white duck. The water flow in the middle is relatively stable, but the dark blue color indicates that the water level is not too low.

After thinking about it for a while, Chu Tian still decided to observe the water quality situation closely, he walked south along the main road by the river, until he saw a three-hole bridge, this not very big bridge is across the top of the river, more than 20 meters long, seven or eight meters wide, a big hole in the middle, and there are two small holes above the big hole, very similar to the famous "Zhaozhou Bridge", the river from north to south passes through the three-hole bridge, divided into one large, two small and three tributaries.

Looking into the distance, Chu Tian continued along the smaller stream to the west, and if he guessed correctly, this smallest tributary was used for irrigation.

Sure enough, after only a few minutes of walking, a large field appeared in front of me, and a long artificial canal surrounded the field. After passing through the surrounding canals, the flow of water began to become smaller and smaller, and the water level dropped considerably.

When you come to a field next to the canal, you can see that the water flow here is much better than the water quality in the canal. If you look closely, there are quite a few aquatic creatures in the water. Chu Tian came to the ground from the side of the canal, squatted down to study the various things in the water.

The first thing that catches your eye is a small black fish with a tail of more than a foot long, which is very active and gathers at the water inlet. The water of the canal flows into the field through the small entrance, and various aquatic weeds and plankton are brought into the field, and the small black fish swim happily at the entrance to hunt. This kind of little black fish Chu Tian caught a lot by the river in front of the door when he was a child, this kind of fish is always very stupid to hide in the aquatic grass, and it doesn't come out when it is frightened, and the best thing to catch when he is a child is this kind of fish. However, this fish rarely exceeds a foot in size, but there is a school of fish in this paddy field!

After squatting at the inlet and looking at it for a while, there were already several aquatic creatures pouring into the fields through the inlet, including crucian carp, loaches, and grass shrimp. Looking around the field, the water flowing into the field slowly seeped into the ground through the cracks in the edge of the field, and the new inflow of water maintained the water level in the field. After observing for a long time, Chu Tian was sure that something had indeed happened in the reservoir recently, which had caused the anomaly of this piece of aquatic life.

Under normal circumstances, the water in the reservoir area should be relatively clear after such a long buffer and diversion. There won't be too many fish activities in the water, and now Chu Tian has seen a different situation: the water quality is not as clear as he imagined, and the aquatic life in the water is more active than he imagined.

Looking at the other fields, the situation is similar. This is also very understandable, why Chu Hongtao in the previous life could easily catch so many aquatic creatures from the reservoir. This thought made Chu Tian a little excited, if this was the case, then his own harvest this time might also be greatly increased.

He didn't have much interest in the small fish downstream of the reservoir, and he targeted the kiwi fish that remained in the reservoir, or the more thoroughly evolved fish that remained in the reservoir. The aquatic creatures that remain in the reservoir are certainly much larger in terms of evolutionary than these small fish here.

The rules of the food chain allow a few organisms that are not too far apart from each other to have a more obvious impact, just like the wolves on the grassland will not be directly affected by the grass, but will be directly affected by the number of sheep in the grassland. If he can catch some exotic fish, he can try something interesting.

Human beings stand at the top of the food chain, and the restrictions of the "gene lock" in the receptors are rarely and difficult to change morphology. The lower organisms are the opposite, the more they live at the bottom, the more susceptible they are to environmental stimuli and undergo morphological changes. It's not that human genes are more difficult to break than other organisms, but under normal circumstances, human genes are more complex than other organisms and more difficult to mutate easily. Of course, human beings are sometimes susceptible to drastic changes in specific environments, such as nuclear radiation, mutant viruses, or superbugs.

Due to the environment, there is always too much space for life on the land. And fish in the water, even if they have evolved early, it is difficult for them to migrate from the water to other places. Even in the late apocalypse, most aquatic organisms did not overcome the limitations of the environment. In fact, the evolution of many human beings in the last days is closely related to aquatic life, and fish are the darlings of that era.

After the outbreak of the apocalypse, most aquatic creatures can still be captured by humans due to the influence of their own living environment. But as time goes on, it is definitely a stupid choice to want to go to the water to catch those fish, there are too many aquatic creatures in the water, and there are too many unknowns.

One of the reasons why Chutian insisted on choosing to go to Han was that it was close to the Yangtze River, the largest ----river in the country, which accounted for almost half of the country's rivers, and if he could survive near the Yangtze River, the chances would undoubtedly be much greater than in other places.

After the outbreak of the end times, human beings discovered a very general evolutionary law for themselves, that is, complementation, that is, "what to eat, what to make up" Through the simple means of eating, human beings can easily obtain the excellent genes of the eaten species.

In the previous life, Chu Tian only awakened the water system ability a year later. Before that, he accidentally caught a strange-looking cuttlefish on the edge of the Yangtze River, and after eating this cuttlefish, he quickly awakened the water ability, in his opinion, if he could catch a few strange fish in the "Dongfeng Reservoir" this time, maybe he could awaken his ability in advance.