After eating and drinking, Li Xiao went on the road again.
The highway that had been dredged for a long time did not have much traffic at this time, so he was able to drive with the camera on and chat with the audience.
"Speaking of which, have you ever played Ant Forest?"
Looking at a familiar name on the navigation, Li Xiao suddenly became interested.
Immediately, many viewers in the live broadcast room who were obsessed with "planting trees" exploded:
"I have been planting it since it was launched, and now there are more than a dozen trees!"
"I already have over 100,000 energy!"
"Poor early risers wait at seven o'clock every day to collect energy. They are afraid that their friends will take advantage of them, and they are tired of playing."
"Isn't this game the same as QQ Farm a long time ago? But now no one plays QQ Farm anymore."
"Are you guys upstairs like this? I also planted two or three trees. Later, when I got up late every day, my friends would drain me of energy. In a fit of rage, I turned this thing off. No one could harvest my energy!"
"The ruthless man upstairs."
"It's so cruel upstairs!"
Li Xiao opened Alipay and clicked into Ant Forest while watching the audience's comments.
"I remember using Alipay a long time ago. When it first came out, it attracted a lot of people with the name of environmental protection. I also planted a tree on it. Later, I didn't open the software every day, so I only used it occasionally.
I went up to collect some energy and didn’t care much.”
In order to prevent people from saying that he is hyping himself up, he did not mention that he also participated in many charity activities.
Above the interface is a towering tree with several energy bubbles floating on it.
I clicked all the bubbles and opened the tree planting interface to find that all the saplings had been harvested.
It seems that netizens are still very enthusiastic about planting trees.
Just five kilometers ahead of him was the Jiayuguan Railway. From here, you could see a lot of green shrubs.
"If you have the chance, you can walk up to the ant forest and see what's going on now."
After driving a few kilometers further, there was a group of people carrying huge backpacks. At the end of this group were carts of grass seedlings and shovels.
A large group of people appeared in front of Li Xiao.
"It looks like a tree-planting team."
Li Xiao looked around and there happened to be a service station nearby where he could park his car.
Seeing that Jiujiu was still sleeping soundly in the box, he felt relieved, got out of the car with his shooting equipment, and caught up with the team he had seen before.
"Uncle, are you going to plant trees?"
The leader was an older-looking man with a white beard, but he was very energetic and energetic.
"Yes, it's not far ahead. Young man, are you here to experience life?" The uncle waved to the people in the team to let them go first, and stopped to wait for Li Xiao to catch up.
"I came here to see what the trees I planted in the Ant Forest look like now. After all, they have been cultivated for several years, and they are very emotional." Li Xiao said.
"What a coincidence." The uncle patted Li Xiao on the shoulder and showed his work ID, "I am an outsourcing staff member of this group. Today happened to be our monthly tree planting activity, and you happened to rush me away.
Up."
"That's good." Li Xiao said with great interest, "I have wanted to see what the trees I planted have been like for a long time, and this time I can finally see it with my own eyes."
"That might surprise you." The uncle smiled mysteriously and took Li Xiao to the "Ant Forest".
Studio:
"I'm so looking forward to it. I can finally see my Haloxylon ammodendron tree!"
"We are planting the same tree upstairs!"
"Don't have too much hope in Ant Forest upstairs... to avoid greater disappointment later."
"Is the person upstairs trying to reveal that Ant Forest's... authenticity needs to be studied?"
"Anyway, we'll know what it's like when the anchor gets there and takes a look."
"After all, the place where the trees are planted is so far away from us, and not everyone has the time to travel to the northwest Gobi Desert in person. It's a good thing for the anchor to take advantage of the opportunity."
During the discussion in the live broadcast room, the planting team had already arrived at the "forest" and was ready to start planting trees.
Looking at the scale of the "forest" in front of him, Li Xiao exclaimed in surprise.
"You call this place a forest?"
In front of Li Xiao was a square-looking sign that read "Ant Forest No. 227".
On this plaque, it is clearly written that this "forest" covers an area of more than 3,000 acres and contains 150,000 Haloxylon ammodendron trees.
Aiming the camera at the explanatory sign above and shooting at the endless Gobi Desert ahead, Li Xiao's confused voice sounded in the live broadcast room.
There are dry weeds surrounding the sign below, and it looks like it has lost all life.
“So where is my Haloxylon ammodendron tree?”
"My Haloxylon ammodendron tree doesn't grow underground, does it?"
The uncle had a calm look on his face. It seemed that this was not the first time he saw Li Xiao with such a confused expression.
"This is a Haloxylon ammodendron forest planted according to standards. It doesn't look so obvious this season. After all, the environment here is harsh and the growth cycle will be longer."
The audience in the live broadcast room were not willing to buy what the uncle said, and they immediately started arguing in the live broadcast room.
"So the Haloxylon ammodendron tree I planted is in the Gobi desert in front of me?"
"So the Haloxylon ammodendron trees I planted are the dead grass in front of me?"
"Woc? The tree that I planted with so much energy is the air?"
"Report it, report it, this is fraud!"
"Can this be tolerated? It's a scam under the guise of public welfare, right? How much traffic did Alipay attract with these activities? But this is the truth? It's because we are far easier to fool, right?"
The live broadcast room was in full swing, but outside the live broadcast room, Li Xiao still had some sense. After all, the carts of saplings he just saw couldn't be fake.
"Don't worry, I'll go with uncle's team to see how the event works."
The uncle's tree planting area was in the front, and Li Xiao couldn't stay here alone for too long, so he continued to keep up with the team.
When they reached a piece of grass that didn't look so desolate, Li Xiao was stopped by his uncle when he wanted to follow the team.
"Wait, don't step on the tree."
"What?"
Li Xiao suspected that he heard wrongly.
All around my feet were clumps of stunted, leek-like grass that was only as high as my knees at most. My uncle called it a tree?
Does any of them have any misunderstanding about trees?
At this time, other people in the team quickly took out the saplings from the car, and Li Xiao saw that the saplings in their hands were almost the same as the "weeds" at his feet - except that they looked more colorful.
More green.
As far as Li Xiao knows, the Haloxylon ammodendron tree is 1-9 meters high, and the "grass" at its feet is not even one meter high.
"Is this a joke?"
"It's great that this tree has grown like this in our Gobi desert. If earlier, the wind and sand here had been so severe that if I didn't wash my clothes for one day, I wouldn't be able to wear them out the next day. They would be full of sand." The uncle said.
Directing the people in the team to plant the saplings according to the plan, he explained to Li Xiao.
"This?" Li Xiao was puzzled. If you really want to say that, then why not change the name of the Haloxylon ammodendron tree to Haloxylon ammodendron.
He had learned before that the Haloxylon ammodendron tree is a common terrain plant in the desert. It is drought-resistant and drought-resistant. It likes dry environments and has strong windproof and sand-fixing capabilities. It is planted in many arid places in the Han Dynasty.
But no matter what, the appearance of this tree is really too shabby.
The tone said it was a tree, but Li Xiao would rather call it grass.
The planting team moved very quickly. Li Xiao spent about half an hour filming everywhere, and this time the tree planting came to an end.
"We have dug the holes beforehand, and this time we came here to plant the saplings, so it doesn't seem too complicated." The uncle explained.
"Even so, no matter what, this Haloxylon ammodendron tree looks too disappointing, right?" Li Xiao followed the large army and couldn't help raising his objections to the uncle.
The uncle smiled and said, "Don't you know why this kind of tree, which looks so small, is promoted by the country?"
"Although it is only less than your knees on the ground, it can actually extend to almost ten square meters underground. In other words, planting a Haloxylon ammodendron tree can protect ten square meters of land and reduce the impact of wind and sand.
Doesn’t it look much stronger this way?”
"It sounds like I understand." Li Xiao nodded, and made up his mind to go deep into the "forest farm" just now to see if there were any trees planted there.
After bidding farewell to the team, Li Xiao held up the camera and walked all the way to watch, and even asked the audience to look for it together.
Li Xiao had been walking in this deserted forest farm for more than ten minutes. Except for a few scattered "Hoxylon ammodendron trees" that looked like withered grass, most of the place was empty sand.
"This is completely different from the Ant Forest I expected."
"Although the uncle just said that the growth cycle is long, it's too embarrassing to see that there are no saplings on the ground."
At this time, many barrages appeared in the live broadcast room and began to popularize science.
"Don't worry, it may not have grown yet. If the anchor lowers his body and looks carefully, he can still see some seedlings."
"Be careful, anchor, don't step on my Haloxylon ammodendron tree! (dog head)"
"The Haloxylon ammodendron tree is almost at a stagnant growth stage this season, so it's normal to not find it."
Several barrages caught Li Xiao's attention.
In order to see with his own eyes what the Haloxylon ammodendron tree here looks like, Li Xiao squatted down as he said.
What appeared in front of him was a palm-sized "grass".
If you compare it carefully, you can still see its distinctive "skinny" branches, gray-white skin and fragile-looking brittle twigs.
"I may know why Ant Forest is called Ant Forest."
"From an ant's perspective, wouldn't such a big tree be a forest?"
Li Xiao said half-jokingly.
"If you look carefully, you will see that there are actually some Haloxylon ammodendron trees growing in this forest that are hard to look at."
"According to what is written on the sign I just saw, there may be some discrepancies with the actual number of Haloxylon ammodendron trees planted."
"There is another possibility that the saplings were indeed planted in this ant forest, but the saplings were planted but not cultivated, so they grew freely and became what we see now."
"Of course, these are just my guesses. Whether it is actually implemented depends on whether the environment of the local people here has changed in recent years."
"This is what we should and most fundamentally should pay attention to."
Studio:
"I am a local, and I feel that the sandstorm situation has improved a lot in recent years."
"I major in geography. There was news that the northwest of Han Dynasty has turned a lot greener on the satellite. It should be said that the effect is great!"
"But we can't say that all the credit is due to Ant Forest! After all, when has the country not paid attention to the greening of the northwest in recent years?"
"I am a local herdsman. The cost of planting one acre of Haloxylon ammodendron trees here is about 100 yuan, but the government will subsidize 200 yuan. In addition, the Haloxylon ammodendron tree itself is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. The economic benefits we get from this are
The income is good."
"When I go to school here, the school organizes two tree planting activities every semester. It can be said that it attaches great importance to environmental protection!"
"The above is the correct way for local people to open it!"
Li Xiao has no way to interfere with Ant Forest’s positive or negative attitude in the live broadcast room. After all, he is filming the live broadcast truthfully. As a big company, whether it can respond quickly and effectively to consumers’ questions is not what Li Xiao should do.
Things to pay attention to.
"To be honest, when I first saw this "pasture", my first feeling was that I was deceived, but the team of tree planting staff just now are still very enthusiastic about protecting the environment. As for what the situation is like on this land, it depends on
Let’s see what kind of reply there will be from Ant Forest.”
"I may not be able to pay too much attention to this place in the future. After all, I still have my plans."
"I hope that if you have the opportunity, you can go here for a walk and see more intuitively what the scene is like."
"Today's trip to the Ant Forest is almost over here," Li Xiao looked at the time. He had spent almost three hours here. I'm afraid the dumplings he left in the service area had woken up early and started complaining that they were hungry.
?"The next stop is Zhangye, see you there."
Hurrying back to the service area, Li Xiao got in the car and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the black and white dumplings still sleeping soundly in the box.
When there was no accommodation on the way, he had to worry about Chiu Jiu's situation almost every time. He should always think of a way to keep a low profile while keeping an eye on Chiu Jiu.
Setting off again, Li Xiao drove on the legendary longest road in the Han Dynasty.
G30 line.
On the endless green grassland are herds of cattle and sheep, grazing leisurely on the grass under their feet. Occasionally, there are sika deer with "thick eyebrows and big eyes" jumping lightly among them, complementing the thin and thick clouds in the distance.
Going further, zigzagging up the foothills of the mountain, golden rapeseed flowers bloomed in large tracts on the roadside. Li Xiao could even hear the sound of bees' wings flapping in his ears - logically speaking, rapeseed should not be blooming.
It blooms at this time, but perhaps because of the high altitude, the flowering period is extremely late.
The overlapping peaks recede one by one beside Li Xiao, and the reservoir in the distance is like a flat canvas reflecting the scene of heaven and earth...
After a two-hour journey, the stop for this trip appeared in front of Li Xiao.
