Chapter 5 The Biosphere on the Scaly Tree

After digging and eating, digesting half of the fruit, Bufan finally felt that his hunger and thirst were beginning to subside, and he leaned against the trunk of the tree, in a reverie...... With more than 100 meters of trees and hundreds of catties of fruits, isn't this "big Ya pear" for giants to eat?

Or is the dominant creature of this world a giant ten or twenty meters tall?

Bu Fan felt a little confused, but this thing can't be directly called the big pear, in order to distinguish it from the earth, and in view of the texture of the scale tree on the surface of the "big pear", he decided to call this fruit the scale fruit.

The stomach was no longer rebellious, and the feeling of hunger and thirst finally subsided, and when Bufan wanted to rest for a while, he found that his place was beginning to be restless, and there were two strange-looking beetle-like things on the trunk of the tree under him, which were climbing up the juice of the scaly fruit, these two beetles were not small, each thirty or forty centimeters, and the large jagged pincers in front of their heads were swaying left and right, and a small furry and sharp-beaked beast appeared on the branch next to the left, this little beast was not much bigger than the beetle, and it was lying on the leaves and shaking its head and sniffing......

"Damn, eat a fruit, there's something to worry about!" Bufan muttered to himself, but he didn't dare to slack off.

He pressed his back tightly against the trunk of the tree, kicked on the remaining half of the scale fruit, and with three or two strokes, the "big pear" rolled down the horizontal branch, and knocked it on the branch below with a "bang", which happened to hit the body of a beetle, and then together with the beetle that was smashed, the two huge things fell to the ground together, and it was "poof" again With a muffled sound, the scaly fruit flattened a little, but the smashed beetle did not move, obviously dead, while the other beetle that escaped the disaster was not stunned, and quickly climbed down the trunk, and as far as the eye could see, he clearly saw three or five black beetles of the same size on the ground pounced.

The fluffy beast was startled by the sudden noise, shrunk its neck, and disappeared in the middle of the large green leaves.

It seems that this kind of place is afraid that he can't stay at the moment, Bufan stood up, looked around, up and down, left and right, and found that he still needed to climb up, and the insects were good to say, if there was a beast that could climb trees, he would not be easy to deal with.

If you climb up, even if a beast attacks, it won't be too big.

The upper half of the scaly tree is leafy, and the climb up couldn't be easier, it's just ...... With the beetle and the little beast he had just seen, Bufan's vigilance suddenly rose to the top, and he found a lot of strange things that he hadn't noticed before.

The trunk of the scaly tree is not smooth and traceless except for the branches, and there are a few more "nodules" on the trunk of a tree on the right, Bufan thought it was just a knot scar for the growth of the tree, but when he glanced at it, he found that the "nodule" was pushed away, and a furry pointed head poked out - it was the kind of small beast he saw before, and this small beast as big as a cat was like a squirrel, and pulled a hole out of the trunk to make a cave!

Looking at the one in the distance, the trunk of the tree coiled like a dragon, the reason why it did not look like a reptile like a snake was because Bufan found that the plant had many round leaves on it, and he could clearly see that the bottom of the climbing plant did not continue to the end, that is, it was a parasitic climbing plant.

Seeing the discovery of three more unexpected species, Bufan couldn't help but lie on the cross-branch and look down, through the gaps in several layers of leaves, more than 200 meters away on the ground, is the dead tree he once dug up the bark to catch insects to eat.

In a trance, he noticed that there was a small group of birds, which were pecking at the remaining insects in the trunk with their long beaks.

In fact, it doesn't seem right to say that it is a bird, Bufan's eyesight is good, he can clearly observe those guys with long beaks and eat insects, and after carefully rubbing his eyes a few times, he is sure that they have no feathers on their bodies, and the so-called wings are somewhat similar to bats...... Ptera, or Bird's Head Bat?

Bufan is glad that he is not a biologist, otherwise he would have gone crazy or would have a splitting headache in the face of such a different world.

What do insects eat trees, insects eat fruits, birds eat insects, and small beasts eat?

Bufan can't figure it out yet, but he doesn't want to be an intermediate link in the biosphere chain anyway.

......

Suppressing his curiosity, Bouvan began to climb to the top of the tree.

This process is not simple, and he needs to be very careful to consider the route he travels, not because of the danger caused by the terrain (tree shape), but because of the unknown biome.

There are eco-like insects that look like dozens of feet on tree branches, there are all kinds of strange small animals that feed on insects, and there are all kinds of flying insects of different sizes scurrying among the branches and leaves...... Birds, well, birds with bat wings.

In addition, there was more than one species of plant parasitic on the Scaly Tree—Bufan wasn't sure it was, as many of the creatures hanging from the Scaly Tree had leaves and the dried corpses of a few insects......

Faced with such a world without the slightest understanding, what can Bufan do?

Playing personal heroism like the main character in the Oak Ridge (Hollywood) movie on Earth? and then expecting everything to be the case? That's really a brainless fool!

So all Bufan can do is take one step at a time.

No, it's not enough to see one step, you have to see what happens after two or three steps, and any detail that goes wrong can turn into an existential crisis.

It is not easy to see the trend of things and read the crisis, but it is still possible for Bufan, who has participated in survival training on Earth, because this judgment is not without context.

For example, animals with full front teeth are more likely to be vegetarians, while those with sharp teeth are definitely carnivores, and creatures with large mouth cleft are definitely more dangerous than those with small mouths, especially those with sharp claws...... This is not an evolutionary theory, but a basic principle derived from functionality.

Animals are no exception, plants with aerial roots or vines must be better at finding water than those without, brightly colored plants with spiky fruits must be more nutritious, and plants with strange organs and strange smells are very likely to be predators of plants!

As mentioned earlier, when Bufan was on Earth, he used to work as a logger in the Amazon forest, and in his opinion, the jungle in front of him is not more complex than the rainforest, at least this jungle does not have as abundant water vapor as the Amazon, and the absence of too much water vapor at least means a very important point - the climate change in this place is not so impermanent, and it also indicates that the biological chain of this environment is not as complex as the rainforest environment, at least the types and numbers of insects will be much less, such as mosquitoes.

Of course, the results of such an analysis are just a kind of guess under normal circumstances, and it will take time to verify it with various personal observations.

In the face of such a world, with extraordinary foresight and prediction, and avoiding all of the above, it does not mean that everything is safe and sound, and there will definitely be dangers.

The original words of the Dead Sea Urchin are "This is a three-dimensional space similar to yours", but Bufan clearly remembers the word "similar", and "similar" means that there will be differences, and they will be different...... God knows what the consequences will be?

A difference in one amino acid may cause food intolerance, how can everything in this world be so simple? A very ordinary bacterium may be a probiotic that helps digestion for the creatures of this world, but what about Bufan, an alien species? It may be the culprit that causes vomiting and diarrhea!

So, from the very beginning, Bufan was taking a risk, eating insects is an adventure, and eating scaly fruits is also an adventure, because if he doesn't eat it, he will starve to death and die of thirst, because the dove quenches his thirst and says so.

Just like now, climbing trees is a last resort, and climbing to the treetops is also a last resort, because the terrain is low, the bottom creatures of this jungle may bring him an irresistible existential crisis, and if he can climb the top of the tree, in addition to avoiding the possible beasts, he can also use this to understand this unknown world, at least to understand how big this jungle is, and what the surrounding environment is like......

The results of his adventures proved that Bufan's luck was not bad, he was not poisoned by insects and scaly fruits, and he hoped that he would not be favored by the giant bird flying over the tree, and he did not want to become a delicacy in the mouth of the giant bird.

That's right, the canopy of the scaly tree is tens of meters square, and he tossed and turned on the tree, bypassing unknown obstacles, and finally approached the top of the tree.

It's just that the creatures on the top of the tree are not simpler than below, on the tree he is in, there are more than a dozen small bird nests densely packed, and what is drilling in and out of it is the small bat-winged birds he saw when he looked down before, these birds are not big, but they don't see any threat, but on a nearby tree more than 100 meters away, there is a bird's nest with a diameter of at least three or four meters, and a bird's head with a hooked beak pokes out of it, and that head is the size of an ordinary household microwave oven!

In the pink sky, several giant birds with blue feathers are circling around, and their wingspans are at least seven or eight meters wide!

Bufan didn't want to be targeted by these guys.

Not to mention how the blue feather giant bird could live next to the bat-winged bird, the most important thing is that he knows that most of the birds with hooked beaks are predators, which means that this thing eats meat!

The guy with a wingspan of seven or eight meters wanted to catch him, a meat man who was only one meter and eight five meters long, it was obviously easy, but it happened that he was in a tree near the giant bird's nest, wouldn't such delicious meat be sent to the door?

Lying down under a few huge leaves, all Bufan could do was pray in his heart silently - I am a branch, I am a dead leaf, Uncle Bird, Aunt Bird, you must not see me!