Live in Doomsday Wasteland

Chapter 73 Humans cannot live in harmony with nature

The water slowly pushed the small raft and brought Chen Qi across one fjord after another.The Great Lakes Basin is worthy of being famous for its many and complex water systems. Chen Qi has drifted all the way, and he has seen rivers converging more than once, and at a certain place, they diverge into two rivers with completely different flows.

However, the complicated water system did not cause too much trouble for Chen Qi's journey. As a traveler with no destination, as long as the river is still flowing, Chen Qi believes that he will definitely encounter a city.

Human beings established city-states from rivers, starting from 5000 years ago, tens of thousands of years ago, and Chen Qi was not worried about this issue at all.

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Towards the afternoon, Chen Qi, who had been drifting in the water for more than seven hours under the sun, finally saw a small town located by the river.

And the reason why it is called a small town, not a village, is because Chen Qi saw many towering buildings, as well as what used to be streets, and things that used to be vehicles that were stagnant at random.

The passage of time has changed the shape and position of the river. Chen Qi searched for a long time but could not find a pier or a place where he could park the boat. In the end, he could only feel wronged and tied the raft to a tree protruding from the water, and observed it by himself. After there was nothing in the river, he stepped on the mud at the bottom of the river, waded through the waist-deep river, and came to land.

I can vaguely distinguish what it used to be like here, but the species living here have been completely replaced by another batch.

The floor covered with vines and moss has completely lost its purpose as a building. The lamppost fell to the ground, entangled by tree roots, and trampled underfoot.

Bunches of hyacinths grow on the manhole cover of the sewer, and the car destroyed by the wind and rain lies shriveled on the road. The red rust color is extremely dazzling in the whole picture.

Carrying a camping knife and a stick while walking on the soft road, Chen Qi felt a little uncomfortable.

There were squirrels running around on the branches, looking curiously at Chen Qi, a strange and unfamiliar animal.

Mr. Raccoon, who once could only live in the sewers of the city, lived by digging through trash cans and stealing human pet food, is now swaggering back and forth from the gaps between buildings.These little guys, once called city invaders by North Americans, are now free to come and go in their own territories.

Chen Qi saw a small deer, which came out gracefully and nimbly from behind a sculpture in the center of the street, looked up at Chen Qi.

As soon as he took a step, the deer seemed to be frightened, and jumped and ran back for a distance.Afterwards, he returned to his normal state, shook his head, and raised his head to eat a twig of a small tree.

Chen Qi took another step, Xiaolu looked back and ran away without looking back.

Walking to the place where the deer was eating just now, and standing under the sculpture that should be the center of the town, Chen Qi looked up at the sculpture and broke off a morning glory petal out of boredom.

Looking down at the camping knife in his hand, where he could faintly see the edge of the camping knife, Chen Qi suddenly sighed: "Oh...it seems like I'm redundant here."

Here, it has completely become a part of nature and returned to the appearance before the arrival of human beings.

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"I feel the same way, you're just redundant"

"I think it's okay, have you seen the castle in the sky, it's about the same meaning"

“Am I the only one who thinks the scenery is good?”

"Humans once invaded nature, and now nature counterattacks back, there is nothing wrong with it"

"After all, we humans are also a part of nature. If the number of humans on the parent planet is controlled, there should be no problem."

"If it's just for survival, not enjoyment, then it's completely casual, and you can do whatever you want"

"So slash-and-burn farming is done in a different place every two years?"

"Some birds will also set fires for food, and beavers will chew up trees to build dams. The former burns many animals but only eats part of them, and the latter drowns many animals. How can this be said?"

"But only we will exterminate some animals"

"No, animals can do it too, we just go extinct more."

"I don't care about those, I'm just watching the live broadcast, I want to live in this place..."

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Amidst a lot of barrage, Chen Qi finally saw the topic he wanted to participate in.

"If you want to live in this place, if you are alone, it is very unrealistic."

Wandering casually in the streets, Chen Qi kept alarming the little animals while also explaining: "No internet, no takeaway, no running water, no electricity, no shops...

These are small problems, to some extent, wanting to live here, or after actually coming, these are all difficulties that can be overcome.

The real difficulty is that, first of all, a new ecosystem has formed here. "

I poked the flowers and plants on the ground with a stick. These things were growing on the completely soft and broken road surface, and the feeling when I stepped on them was no different from grass in the wild.

"These are the first links in the ecological circle that can be seen. When you come here, you must have a place to live for a long time.

So, destroying them is the first step. "

Reach out to catch a butterfly, fail.

“Those bugs, bees, butterflies, spiders, etc., are the second ring.

Then there are those who eat grass, and those who eat meat at the top of the food chain. "

After staring at the bullet screen for a while, Chen Qi came to an intersection where the roads in the middle converged and crisscrossed. There should have been something there, but unfortunately there is a big hole there now, which should be a collapse caused by the destruction of the underground water system.

He looked around and started to walk back. As he walked, he said, "Of course, how could there be no predators? Even a small fish tank sometimes needs its own ecosystem, an ecosystem. Such an ecosystem is different from Forests and grasslands are different from glaciers and deserts. Of course, there will be carnivores living in the natural return area.

As for what you just asked, why don't I continue walking? Well...it's actually a small place, not much worth wandering around.

Let's find a place to grill some wolf meat and then leave to go for a walk in the big city. "

The names of various cities were written on the barrage, and Chen Qi laughed and didn't speak until a barrage mentioned Tieling...

"Oh~! Someone knows this place, um... that's the end of the universe, the central axis of time!
A big city must be a big city! "

There were no surprises in Chen Qi's exploration this time.

With the help of a knife, any work seemed to go much faster. After lighting a fire and roasting wolf meat, Chen Qi looked back at the town from time to time.

"Well, it's actually pretty good. But once someone comes, it will change.

Don't you go hunting deer, don't you chop trees.A dozen people, that is pastoral.

Hundreds of people, that is history repeating itself.Not many years later, it changed back here again.

so……"

Our problem is not that there are too few people, but that there are too many people.

(End of this chapter)