Live in Doomsday Wasteland

Chapter 171 What a coincidence
In the morning after the rain, the air was extremely cool. If Chen Qi didn't know that it was impossible, he would have wished to lie down every day, and only work on rainy days.

Chen Qi was no longer interested in the mushrooms that grew everywhere after a rain.

At the beginning, he collected them all decently, one counted as one, as long as it was edible and not poisonous, he took it off and threw it into his backpack.

But not long after he left, Chen Qi felt nothing.

There’s no other reason, it’s just this thing, there’s too much of it.

"As expected of the legendary plant kingdom, the mushrooms here are more sensible than those in other places!

Good fellow, it is afraid that it will grow slowly!It doesn't matter how long the heap is! "

Under such circumstances, Chen Qi also provoked it.

If it doesn’t have a complete canopy, doesn’t taste delicious, and isn’t a relatively expensive variety, people won’t even look at it.

"Oh hoo. This, did you see it?"

Chen Qi saw a clump of mushrooms with long, pointed umbrella tops and fine dark brown grids next to a big tree that had been dead for some time and was almost rotten.

"This is a type of tripe mushroom, and it can be eaten. Not to mention the price, this thing is really delicious!

You don't need anything else, just this is a delicious meal. "

Chen Qi was very satisfied. He took out a piece of yellow mushroom from his backpack and put the morele mushroom inside.

When he was about to get up, he saw a strange bird with a particularly long tail feather in the distance, standing on one leg on the ground, shaking his head, looking at him with one of his eyes.

As a conditioned reflex, Chen Qigang wanted to touch the bow and arrow, but he took a closer look, curled his lips, and took his hand back.

"Cut~! Bad luck."

Pointing to the bird that was not afraid of Chen Qi at all and was still dangling there, Chen Qi also shook his head and said: "This kind of bird looks very beautiful.

Unfortunately, it cannot be eaten.

It is a corvette, and all its variants and relatives are basically found only in deserts and rainforests, and are different from other birds.

They don't like to eat fish, and they don't like to eat bugs too much.

Their food is basically lizards, frogs, and... snakes.

Because their recipes are somewhat strange, not only humans don't like to eat this food, but even other animals don't like to eat it.

Because their meat seems to have a strange smell, and there is a danger of parasites.

Needless to say, this is also a true portrayal of natural selection and survival of the fittest in the evolution process. "

Chen Qi threw a twig, and the strange bird didn't fly away, but ran away quickly with its long legs.

"This bird's static vision is ridiculously poor, and it can't fly, and you just saw it, this thing doesn't seem to be very clever.

It survives purely because there is nothing willing to eat it.

I said unlucky just now, not because there are prey but not edible, but because as long as you see this kind of stupid bird, you can basically be sure that there are many small snakes, small spiders, lizards and frogs nearby. "

Chen Qi curled his lips again: "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time. Brothers, retreat!"

After retreating more than 100 meters from the original road and turning a right angle, Chen Qi continued to move forward.

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In a valley, Chen Qi saw a wild elephant for the first time.

Although this kind of thing is known to be a herbivore and has a gentle temperament, Chen Qi himself was shocked to see such a big animal walking in the valley.

"It seems that although the oxygen content has increased a lot, animals like elephants really don't seem to have any obvious changes in size!"

Chen Qi has seen a popular science video before. The author of the video scientifically talked about the size of animals in nature through animation.

Generally speaking, the most affected by the level of oxygen are some small organisms, mainly insects.

For animals of top size like elephants, no matter what, the factors that affect body weight are not obvious to them.

When nature gave birth to a certain oversized species at a certain period, the shackles they faced were actually their own bones, their own heart blood supply system, and corresponding factors such as whether food could satisfy them.

Animals in the sea are basically larger than terrestrial creatures of the same period. This is because the buoyancy of seawater offsets part of the influence of gravity, and accordingly reduces the burden of some activities.

Generally, when encountering natural disasters, such as the ice age, large animals are always in a more difficult situation, because they often need more food.

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Chen Qi watched the scene of elephants and babies queuing up to eat for a while, but he was sensible and did not engage in any provocative behavior.

The fans in the live broadcast room were still encouraging him to compete with the elephants, but Chen Qi just gave him a blank look.

"Are you crazy, or am I crazy?"

He took out the bow and arrow for the fans to take a look at, and held an arrow specially to let the fans take a look at the arrow.

"That's an elephant! If they weren't hungry, lions and tigers wouldn't bother with such a thing.

With my bow and arrowhead, at this distance, if an arrow hits an elephant, it might just break the skin.

Besides, because of things like ivory, killing an elephant can take years in prison.

On the current mother planet, there are not many animals that are not allowed to be touched, killed or eaten until a critical moment, and there are not many animals that are full of fights and calculations. Elephants are one of them.

You tell me, why should I bother to make myself miserable? "

The lions and tigers that Chen Qi mentioned, although they usually don't want to provoke overlord creatures like elephants, they still dare to make gestures when they are hungry.

But the local carnivores, basically the highest fighting power is the leopard.

It's not that Chen Qi looked down on it, but the leopard's two moves, the elephant stood there and let it bite, it couldn't do anything.

"The elephants are truly invincible here."

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The backpack is almost full. Chen Qi's backpack is not small, and it is quite heavy to carry too many things. He might as well consider walking back.

After this trip, he spent almost a whole day looking for food, and Chen Qi's harvest was pretty good.

In addition to a large number of various mushrooms, Chen Qi also found a lot of wild vegetables.

In Sri Lanka, where the average annual temperature is 28 degrees, even when there were humans living here, they didn't even talk about seasonal vegetables, let alone greenhouse planting techniques.

As long as you are looking for it, there is a crop in March, a crop in October, everything is there!
It was the end of December and the beginning of January when Chen Qi came, which was a bit out of season after all, but although he couldn't eat all the vegetables, Chen Qi also found quite a few things.

For example, in his backpack now, there are all kinds of radishes, eggplants, onions, cucumbers, a lot of green beans, kidney beans, etc.

Chen Qi originally wanted to go hunting and get some meat back.

But I don't know what's going on, the wild boars, goats and other animals he was looking for, came out in the morning all day long, and it was only past two o'clock, and Chen Qi didn't come across any of them.

Although this area used to be a large area of ​​farmland and human settlements, and the existing trees were basically grown later, it would not have been so many years, and there are still no creatures to spread the habitat to this area?
After thinking for a long time, Chen Qi couldn't figure out the reason for this place. Seeing that his backpack was full, Chen Qi stopped thinking about it and sent the things back first.

Then I turned another corner, and when I was about to explore the road on the way back, I ran into a golden pheasant.

"Shh...don't move...don't move..."

Chen Qi is now carrying a bag, his bow and arrow are hung outside the bag, and only a knife in his hand.

Things like golden pheasants are very alert.Although the flying ability is also poor, and the dynamic vision is far better than the static vision, but this little thing runs away at the sound, it is still very difficult to catch up.

The whole bag was full of vegetables, not a bit meaty, Chen Qi really didn't want to let this big meal go away.

Slowly lowering his center of gravity and squatting down until he felt the big backpack touch the ground, Chen Qi took out his hands bit by bit, staring at the golden pheasant still under the hillside in the distance, groping with his hands behind his back. , brought the bow and arrow.

Draw the bow, nock the arrow...

"Go away!"

At the same time that Chen Qi's arrow flew out, the pheasant thumped and ran away.

"Fuck! Run? Impossible!"

Anyway, he was alarmed, so Chen Qi stopped pretending to be dumb and looked up at the sky. It was a sunny day. He had a direction and could not lose it!
For the time being, he didn't care about the arrow that shot in the air. Because of the backpack, Chen Qi's quiver had been hanging on his waist. He picked up the bow and ran after it.

Along the way, the trees everywhere and the undulating terrain caused great troubles to Chen Qi. Although he was used to shooting moving targets, the four arrows shot out, but still failed to hurt the golden pheasant.

Chen Qi was not discouraged, and was still chasing and running, but after all, this place was his home field. When he passed a small river valley with gurgling water, the golden pheasant, which was not good at flying, flapped its wings, flew over and landed in the valley opposite.

Chen Qi was out of breath when he caught up with it. He could only watch it land on the water's edge and get ashore in embarrassment.

There was just one downhill and one uphill, separated by a small river two to three meters wide. By the time Chen Qi passed by, the golden pheasant had already gone 800 meters away.

"Special..."

Chen Qi was looking at the drowning chicken and cursing, when suddenly he saw something flashing out from the woods opposite, biting the chicken with one bite, and after shaking it twice, the chicken stopped moving.

"Fuck!"

Chen Qi cursed in a low voice, took two steps back while holding his breath, and raised Zhang Gong's hand again.

"Leopard..."

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As an island country, Sri Lanka is known as the kingdom of animals and plants, but in the end there are still natural terrain restrictions.

A top hunter with a price similar to that of a tiger or a lion would basically not be able to survive in such an area for a long time.

Let's not talk about lions living in groups, let's talk about tigers walking alone.

Regardless of how it walks alone, it must pass on from generation to generation, and there must be a male and a female.

But if there are only two tigers, one male and one female, the species will be extinct within a few generations. Because there are no other tigers, inbreeding will cause its offspring to have more and more genetic problems.

What about ten tigers, 5 males and 5 females?

That's enough.

But the tiger, it walks alone.

Except for the communication during the breeding period and the "group living" during the parenting period, the rest of the time, even the territories of male tigers and female tigers do not completely overlap.

Well, ten tigers basically allocate the relatively wealthy areas on the island where there is plenty of food.

Then, this top predator will find that here, it is neither thirsty nor hungry, and there is nothing else that can kill it.

Then, there will be more and more tigers, causing an imbalance in the local ecosystem, killing all the animals in a certain size range, and starving themselves to death many years later.

Knowing this is also why Chen Qi is so "arrogant" in the forest, even capable of tracking prey in the forest by himself.

Because he knew that this place couldn't support any top hunters.

At most, it was a leopard.

Oh, how could it be such a coincidence.

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"Oh, it's such a coincidence..."

Still holding the unlucky golden pheasant in its mouth, the leopard stared at Chen Qi from a distance of more than 20 meters. Its mouth was full of blood, and a lot of chicken feathers fell off the ground.

"Male leopards are more than 60% larger than female leopards, and they also like to live in groups. Their spots are darker, their heads are wider, and they have dewlaps on their necks...

All in all, this is a female leopard. "

Chen Qi didn't take a step back, and was still "lecturing" to the fans.

“In this situation, if it’s a bear, you have to slowly raise your hands and back away slowly.

If it's a leopard, it's almost the same, but this distance...

Then you can’t take a step back!

I have a bow and arrow in my hand now. If I don't step back, I still have a chance to fight. If I push back, at its speed, I will never have a chance to draw the bow and arrow. "

Chen Qi pursed his lips: "Cats have hunting instincts, even if they are not hungry, they will have the desire to hunt, and then kill them without eating them.

The leopard just now may have seen the unlucky golden pheasant fly to its mouth, which made it perfect.

Mudd!I would rather come to feed the leopard than let me eat it. This golden pheasant has quite a personality! "

Chen Qi was cursing, but the movements of his hands were steady all the time, and the bow was only opened at a small angle. He was ready for a long confrontation.

And the female leopard on the opposite side also looked at Chen Qi, and after an unknown amount of time passed, she slowly opened her mouth and spit out the unlucky golden pheasant in her mouth, and then...

Step by step, slowly retreat.

"This leopard looks like it's full and came here to bask in the sun!
It makes leopards eat it and won't let me eat it!Gan! "

The leopard retreated slowly, and Chen Qi remained motionless, slowly, slowly... Chen Qi saw the leopard retreat behind the bushes and forest, and with the trembling of the grass, it fell completely silent.

"call……"

Chen Qi heaved a sigh of relief, and randomly and quickly glanced at the drone's barrage: "Oh~! What a pity.

snort.Count it running fast, otherwise, I will have lunch today. "

After finishing speaking, Chen Qi turned around naturally, put the drone in the direction of the back of his head, and ran there quickly.

"Hey! Run after loading b, what a red chicken!"

(End of this chapter)