Chapter 65: The Beginning of the Food Web
As soon as Li Qingshui stepped on the flowers and dirt, Liu Chang instantly heard the sound of rubbing the flowers and leaves of his trousers and the soft sound of the soles of his shoes squeezing the soil.
With sweaty palms and clenched fists, Liu Chang looked intently at everything in the flowers at Li Qingshui's feet.
I saw Li Qingshui step into the flowers, and the bright red flowers at his feet immediately noticed this invading "foreign object", and then, they turned their "faces" in unison, as if a pair of eyes grew in the middle of each stamen, and "looked" at Li Qingshui's feet and neck.
"Sure enough, it will move!" Seeing such a situation, Liu Chang immediately wanted to pull Li Qingshui back, but before his vigilant cry could come out, Li Qingshui waved his hand at him on the spot.
"It's okay, stay there and don't move."
Liu Chang understood the meaning of waving his hand very well, and based on his trust in Li Qingshui in the past, it also caused his thigh that he had just raised to be put back on the ground.
Seeing that Liu Chang no longer stepped forward, Li Qingshui also carefully stepped into the flowers with his other foot - both feet into the soil, he carefully avoided those densely growing flowers, and played a good role in the fine tradition of "do not trample" of the Chinese people.
Of course, although he was careful not to step on those flowers, and those strange things still felt his presence, only to see that the flowers turned their "faces" one by one, like a group of passers-by who were watching the fight, and the bright "faces" suddenly surrounded Li Qingshui's calves in a circle.
Looking at such a scene, Liu Changxin had already mentioned his throat and wanted to make a voice to let him come back, but he was afraid that he would go out and alarm those seemingly soft flowers, so he stood there, neither going, nor shouting, nor moving, and was very anxious.
And Li Qingshui in the circle also showed the fear of the uncertain surname of the future in his eyes, the evolution of IQ did not hinder his emotional soundness, as an ordinary human being, he also knew fear.
However, as a more intelligent character than ordinary people, he also knows how to suppress his emotions better.
Putting away the fear in his heart and suppressing the body that was about to tremble because of excessive fear, Li Qingshui carefully took the third step into the middle of the flowers again......
This is followed by the fourth step......
Every step he took was accompanied by the sensitive turn of the knee-high flowers, and he walked all the way into the depths of the flowers under the "watchful eye".
Watching Li Qingshui walk into the abyss of fear like a dragon slaying hero, Liu Chang's clenched fists couldn't stop trembling, he was afraid that he would see the familiar person being attacked by the petals in the sky in the next moment, and he was even more afraid of seeing the familiar face turn into a dry corpse in an instant.
So he squinted slightly, stood on the edge of the flowers, and saw Li Qingshui walk to the depths of the flowers and find the body of the company commander on the spot. And God favored it, and the dense flowers did not pose more problems to Li Qingshui in terms of finding a compass, and after more than ten seconds, Liu Chang saw his blurred expression move slightly, knowing that he had found it.
The familiar man carefully retracted his right hand into the cuff and wrapped it, picked up the compass from the flowers through his clothes, and turned back.
Step by step, Li Qingshui's footsteps when he came seemed more cautious than when he entered, and those flowers also "watched" him leave his territory all the way as when he entered.
With the last foot stepping out of the edge of the flowers, Li Qingshui just returned to Liu Chang's side, his heels were soft, and the emotions he had suppressed just now completely exploded.
"Scared the hell out of me." Putting the compass in his pocket, Li Qingshui gasped through the soaked cotton cloth.
"Let's go back quickly." Liu Chang supported his emaciated body and wanted to go back.
"Wait." After taking a few deep breaths and barely stabilizing his emotions, Li Qingshui regained his composure, "There's still something to do." ”
"What's the matter, don't stay here if the compass is found."
"Get the fog lamps too, I remember that even the long hair fell on the edge of the flowers when he was crazy." Li Qingshui turned around and went to the place where the blood stains were born, and after some searching, he found the fog lamp that was no longer on. And after picking up this fog lamp, he also used the stupidest, most primitive and most effective method to fix him in three seconds.
"Bang" twice, Li Qingshui slapped the fog lamp head twice, and the fog lamp that was broken because it fell to the ground also re-ignited the yellow light.
Turning off the fog lamp and hanging it on his waist, Li Qingshui attached himself to the edge of the flowers again.
"What are you doing?" Liu Chang walked to Li Qingshui's side and looked at him with a frown, but less than three seconds after the words came out, his frowning brows suddenly jumped three times - it turned out that after Li Qingshui was attached to the edge, he actually grabbed the flower bones of the two flowers with his wrapped hand with lightning speed, and in an instant, there were more petals in his palm.
"You don't want to die!"
"It's fine, it's toothless, it's not going to bite." After Li Qingshui grabbed the petals in his hand, he calmly showed them to Liu Chang, saying that there was no danger, and then wrapped the petals that were bright enough to drip blood into an iron box prepared in advance - obviously, collecting the petals was not his temporary action - as early as when he changed clothes, he was ready for all this.
"You're such a madman, why didn't those flowers eat you just now?" Seeing Li Qingshui finish all this, Liu Chang couldn't stand his crazy actions anymore, and forcibly pulled him in the direction of the crowd away from the flowers.
"They didn't eat me because they hadn't evolved to that point." Pulled by Liu Chang, Li Qingshui said with a smile: "They really only evolved a sensory system, but the matching eating system is not perfect." ”
"That's your luck, in a few days, maybe these flowers will jump up and nibble on you." Liu Chang frowned, saying that he didn't understand Li Qingshui's actions, "What do you want to do with these meaningless adventures?" ”
"Meaningless? I'm not going to do anything meaningless. After putting away the iron box, Li Qingshui pulled out the arm that was being pulled by Liu Chang and said, "I did this to study the nascent ecosystem. ”
"Now that we're all dying here, are you still in the mood to study this?" Liu Chang continued to frown.
"Well, it's because of the dangerous imagination that people are a little bit higher than other species."
"But you're too far ahead, aren't you?" Liu Chang said: "After all, we are still in the middle of the forest, if it is in the military region, I can understand what you are doing now." ”
"No, no, no, I'm not planning for the future of humanity that far away, I'm just thinking about tomorrow. Do you think, if we really arrived in Zhengzhou, where would we go? ”
"Institute." Liu Chang replied.
"Well, the second question is, how can I get a foothold in that so-called research institute? Same question -- to put it more bluntly, if it's just a brain mutation that doesn't match the scientific contributions, will I get there and be sliced like a guinea pig? ”
"So......" Liu Chang's brows loosened, and he understood Li Qingshui's intentions a little.
"So I wanted to show my scientific value before I got there, and let them know that obviously there was a lot more to keep me as a person than a guinea pig doing an experiment." Li Qingshui said as he walked: "And even if it is not as dark as I imagined, but in this world, only by realizing and showing our own value can we seek greater benefits." ”
"I see." Liu Chang completely understood, "Then have you achieved anything?" ”
"Yes, partly, based on what I have seen and heard these days, I have roughly constructed a new ecosystem theory, of course, you don't underestimate the theory, the theory is the foundation of science, I believe that this theory will be of great help to the scientific research of human beings in the future."
"Roughly what to hear?" Liu Chang showed an interested look.
"Well, the overall theoretical system is not perfect, and I have only made theories about the nascent food chain in the ecosystem." Li Qingshui suddenly smiled, "I call it the first theory of the food network." ”
"The first thing about the food web?"
"Yes, it's the first theory because it's not perfect, I'll tell you about it." Li Qingshui tapped his fingers, "You should know about the earth's food chain system before, right?" ”
"You know, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat!" Liu Chang said as he walked.
"Well, the transmission of organic matter in nature is closely linked to all species through the relationship between eating and being eaten. Of course, the big fish eating the small fish is only part of the predatory food chain, in fact, there are three types of food chains in nature - predatory food chains, carrion food chains, and parasitic food chains. Li Qingshui said with a stroke of his finger, circled a piece of sky and land, and said, "But look, do the traces of these food chains still exist now?" ”
"It seems to be ......" Liu Chang looked at the various plants in front of him and shook his head in confusion, "It seems to be gone." ”
"Yes. Since the appearance of the red mist, the original food chain system of living organisms has actually completely collapsed, can big fish still eat small fish? Does it have to be a predator? Do trees still exist as pure producers in nature? Li Qingshui asked three questions in a row.
And after thinking about it for a while, Liu Chang shook his head again: "Indeed, now all species are not playing cards according to the previous routine, those who used to be vegetarian now seem to have eaten even meat, and those who used to eat pure meat may be able to barely survive by eating grass now." And even those trees don't seem to be easy to mess with now. ”
"Yes, the nascent food system is no longer the single chain it used to be, but has completely become an intricate web, and it has completely blurred the original three concepts."
"Blurring the concept of producer and consumer - trees that were pure producers can also become consumers of predators, and what is even more surprising is that they prey on animals without losing the ability of the original producer to absorb organic matter from the soil; Blurring the concept of vegetarian and carnivorous among consumers - there is no longer a clear distinction between vegetarian and carnivore, and everyone is changing towards omnivorous at the same time; Blurring the concept of groups of higher and lower predators in the food chain - rats can prey on cats when they are strong, and cats can eat people when they are strong. ”
"The current ecosystem is no longer a competition for everyone, hello, hello, everyone, but has completely become a big battle for organic matter!"
"Is there a big fight?" Liu Chang raised his eyes and looked at all the flowers and trees around him, as if he had already smelled the tragic bloody smell of the competition of all things in the air in the sky.
And Li Qingshui said so many words in one breath, he also paused, swallowed a mouthful of foam, "Moreover, I didn't pick these petals just for research. ”
"If we can enter Zhengzhou in the future, it is inevitable that there will be such and such people, and where there are people, there will inevitably be fights. But in the process of fighting people, what is on the bright side will never look as good as it is hidden in the dark - in fact, I am thinking now, if I had these petals before, I would not be so passive in the face of the family you killed. ”
Hearing Li Qingshui's words, Liu Chang, who was immersed in the "Preliminary Theory of Food Network", suddenly turned his head to look at him, and caught the strange smile that had converged on the corner of his mouth with a surprised look.
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