Chapter 28: The Food Chain
Lin Lie stepped on the crocodile's tail fiercely, condescendingly. Above these 6 grounds, he is able to stand and is 2.2 meters tall, while the crocodile can only stand on all fours, which is relatively short. On the shore, Lin Lie has an obvious advantage, no matter how many crocodiles come, they will have to die.
The crocodile suddenly screamed a few times, and its body writhed violently, trying to break free of its tail, but it couldn't succeed.
Lin Lie looked at it lightly, "Do you want to take a plane?" β
The crocodile naturally couldn't hear the words in Lin Lie's heart, so it had no choice at all.
Lin Lie bent down and hugged the crocodile's tail, and then his body began to spin in place, shaking the crocodile all over.
Whew...... The air was whirring, and Lin Lie was turning faster and faster.
Although the crocodile writhed desperately, trying to bow and bite Lin Lie, it couldn't do it at all. The quick flip made it dizzy, and more importantly, the blood in its body was concentrated on its head due to the whirling force, leaving its eyes bloodshot and red, and its headache splitting.
Spinning around, Lin Lie suddenly threw it into the sky, and then let go of his claws.
The crocodile's body, which weighed hundreds of kilograms, suddenly flew directly to a height of seven or eight meters, and then fell down heavily with a hula......
Bang!
The crocodile was smashed to ashes, and its eyes were full of stars, and it looked terrible.
Lin Lie didn't like to abuse animals, but remembering that he had almost killed him before, he couldn't help but punish it in this way.
At this time, the crocodile yelled a few times at its companions in the distance.
Lin Lie said coldly in his heart: "You want to summon your companions to besiege me? Hmph, thought I was going to be scared! β
On this shore, even if he faced those ten crocodiles at the same time, Lin Lie didn't have to worry. He was able to slap a crocodile to death with a single palm, of course, and this was in the case of hitting the crocodile head.
With his current strength, he was ready to deal with that group of crocodiles that were less than three meters long at the same time.
Lin Lie thought that those crocodiles in the distance would run over and besiege him after hearing the call, but who knew that those crocodiles not only did not come, but they all turned around and ran away.
In this regard, Lin Lie was quite surprised: "It turns out that you are not summoning your companions, but letting them leave. β
Suddenly, he had a new understanding of the crocodile under his feet. It should know that even if all the other crocodiles come, they will only be killed, and it probably doesn't want to add unnecessary casualties, so it will do so.
Lin Lie's original plan was to have a good time with it, let it vomit a belly of blood, and let his anger vent well.
But now, when he saw that the crocodile had a good character and valued love and righteousness, he changed his attention, and the crocodile also has a character.
"Look at you like a man, I'll give you a good time!"
Lin Lie slapped it with a palm, hitting the crocodile's head. While the flesh and blood were splashing and the minced meat was flying, the crocodile's body twitched strongly for a few moments, and then there was no more breath. Lin Lie's domineering strength directly resulted in the crocodile's life.
Looking at the motionless corpse of the crocodile, Lin Lie felt a little pitiful for a while.
From the point of view of a crocodile alone, it has done nothing wrong, but now it has paid with its life. Because, it is weak.
If you are weak, you will be beaten, and if you are lagging behind, you will be eliminated. If Lin Lie was weaker than him, then it was him who was motionless now, not a crocodile.
Nature is so cruel that while giving birth to countless lives, it makes these lives constantly fight and fight. But only then will the food chain be balanced, and killing is necessary, otherwise it will all collapse.
Compassion or something, Lin Lie doesn't need it now. As Godzilla, it's better to be ferocious, otherwise he will be bullied.
Finally got his wish to avenge with one arrow, and got the control of this lake again, Lin Lie was now happy in his heart.
Until now, he has not eaten breakfast, and the crocodile carcass in front of him has become his best choice.
Of course, he wasn't going to roast it.
Although barbecue meat is much more delicious than raw meat, roasting crocodile is a very troublesome thing, it will waste a lot of his time and energy, and it is not cost-effective at all, he might as well spend his time cultivating the internal strength of the iron cloth shirt.
Of course, in order to improve his diet and quality of life, Lin Lie would occasionally roast a wild rabbit......
Thinking of the smell of roast rabbit meat, Lin Lie couldn't help but want to catch a few rabbits to roast and eat for a while, he quickly stopped his thoughts, and said to himself in his heart: "There must be a limit to gluttony, growth is the most important thing!" β
As he spoke, he took a hard bite and bit down on the crocodile's hard leather armor.
A few days have passed in a blink of an eye, and in the past few days, Lin Lie has already touched all the conditions of this Crescent Lake.
There are a lot of resources in the water, and some of the fish are more than three meters long, which is no less than the crocodiles before them, but they are vegetarians and feed on aquatic plants. A variety of fish live here, forming a colorful ecosystem.
He estimated that the fish in the lake could feed him for more than three months, and this was a conservative estimate. If he could adjust the food chain in the lake, then this time would increase to more than four months, and as long as he didn't eat all the fish in it, they would keep breeding, so Lin Lie would always have fish to eat.
The food chain in the lake, forming an ingenious cycle.
The basis of the food chain is algae, plankton, microorganisms, and so on. The sun, the land, the water, give them life. They are producers.
Small fish, insects in the water feed on the "producer". The same is true for some big fish. They are known as first-tier consumers.
Carnivorous fish, on the other hand, feed on "first-class consumers". They are known as secondary consumers.
The way in which these organisms live, which is divided into different levels, and forms a connection, a cycle, is the food chain.
And the creature standing at the top of this food chain may be a crocodile, or maybe something else, anyway, now it's Lin Lie. They are the top consumers and feed on "primary and secondary consumers".
The small fish eat the algae, the big fish eat the small fish, the crocodile eats the big fish, and then the crocodile dies, and its corpse will decompose, and the nutrients will return to the earth, and then it will be absorbed by the algae and plankton, and then start all over again. Over and over again, this cycle is the complete food chain.
And if so...... Lin Lie kills all the big fish, then the food chain will be out of balance.
There are no big fish to prey on the small ones, and the small fish will flood and multiply wildly, quickly eating all the algae in the water. After that, I didn't have to eat...... They will starve to death, the ecosystem will be destroyed, and a qiΔ will be out of balance.
However, what if Lin Lie cleaned up these small fish regularly? Then the exhibition of the small fish will be subject to him, and the food chain will continue.
Of course, if Lin Lie didn't eliminate the secondary and tertiary consumers, the food in the water would still be provided to him, but the output was worrying him.
There is a large part of the loss of energy in the process of transmission along the food chain, the energy of the assimilation of the next trophic level only accounts for 10% to 20% of the assimilated energy of the previous trophic level, so the energy flowing into the next trophic level will gradually decrease, generally a food chain is only 4 to 5 trophic levels, tigers are usually located in the highest trophic level, and there is a lot of energy that needs to be consumed; Usually the higher the trophic level, the smaller the number of organisms, and "one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers".
To put it simply, in lakes, algae, microorganisms, and plankton contain the most energy. The small fish that feed on it is second, and the big fish that feed on the small fish are located behind the small fish, and the energy of each layer is lower than that of the layer, because part of the energy is consumed and lost in the process of transformation. Then the predators at the top of the food chain, such as the crocodile, used to have only ten crocodiles, and their energy is nothing compared to the fish in the whole lake, but they control the development of the fish.
To put it more simply, the crocodile eats much more important food than its body, but it still weighs so much. Most of the energy it eats is consumed and lost in the process of transformation, and it is no longer stored in the food chain. And this kind of loss is exactly what Lin Lie wants to reduce.
If Lin Lie cuts down the crocodile and the big fish, then the energy of the small fish will be Lin Lie's, and he can also obtain and retain the energy to the maximum, so that some of it will not be diverted by the big fish and the crocodile.
In the past, Lin Lie killed all the other carnivorous fish in the piranha river, and it was Cheng DΓΉ who played this role, but the effect was obviously not obvious. And the river is flowing, and the resources in it will be lost. But this lake obviously doesn't have such a problem, and the resources are much more abundant.
Therefore, if Lin Lie really did this, then he could get the greatest benefit. There will be more food, and it will come faster.
With this kind of benefit to be obtained, why wouldn't he do it?
So, Lin Lie decided, he wanted to kill all the carnivorous fish and stand proudly at the top of the food chain in this area alone!
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[The end of the chapter is a little verbose, because I'm afraid that some people won't understand it, and I don't know if it will be counterproductive.] In a word, that's good for the protagonist. This can also lead to the next plot by the way]
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