The Eve bug swarm will establish a base in Mt. Miaomu and serve as a cutting-edge research base. It will not cause damage to the environment of Mt. Miaomu, let alone prey on toads.
Not necessary.
One of Meiji's main purposes is biological investigation, and fishing for tadpoles is one of them.
After putting down the swarm of Eve bugs, Miki took a stroll on Mt. Myoboku, with Jiraiya following behind Miki.
At a rough glance, the types of living things are very rich.
Not to mention the giant plants that can be seen everywhere, there are also giant mushrooms that can be seen everywhere.
Although mushrooms look like plants, they are not plants.
Among these giant plants, Meiji saw many giant ferns. Among them, many bryophytes and ferns grew to unusually large sizes.
Huge leaves of all kinds hang low above the head, like giant umbrellas.
For a moment, it was like arriving at the giant kingdom in a fairy tale.
Mei Ji stopped and looked at the giant plant in front of her.
This is a cycad, and not far away there is a cycad, which looks like a palm tree.
Belongs to gymnosperms.
Dreaming back to the Jurassic Period.
Mei Ji continued to walk among the vegetation. There were many kinds of insects. Compared with similar insects in the outside world, most of them were larger in size. Insects as big as a palm could be seen everywhere.
Therefore it can be called huge.
The small animals are quite normal. There are no huge predatory beasts in the forest, and most of them are various types of loose mice.
Its obvious feature is that the species is primitive.
Compared with their relatives in the outside world, there are more than thousands of years of evolutionary differences.
This primitiveness also appears in plants.
The first plants were algae, which lived in the water. As they evolved, they gradually climbed up the mountainous ground and covered the barren land with green.
These are the original ferns. As plants continued to evolve, better gymnosperms emerged.
What is more outstanding than gymnosperms are angiosperms.
Simply put, they are non-flowering and flowering plants. The most obvious features of angiosperms are their genitals and flowers.
In the outside world, it can be said that ferns and gymnosperms cannot defeat the mainstream angiosperms, and their living space is occupied.
At Mt. Myoboku, the situation was the opposite. Meiji didn't see many flowering plants.
Therefore, there is a striking feature here, primitiveness.
Are the bugs here also primitive?
Not really.
It is a sad fact to say that many types of insects have not evolved for a long time.
Take dragonflies, for example, except for changes in body shape, their body structure has not changed at all. To a certain extent, they have evolved perfectly.
Even Meiji didn't start with this perfect structure.
In addition, the creatures here have another characteristic in common.
huge.
It is normal for plants to grow huge. The plants here are because there are no angiosperms competing for living space, so they grow huge compared to their relatives outside, and they all rely on the contrast of their peers.
It is normal for mushrooms to grow huge. What is the largest creature in the world?
Whale?
It's a mushroom.
Because competition in this closed ecosystem is not very fierce, mushrooms can grow as they please.
As for the size of insects, it may depend on the concentration level of oxygen, but Meiji did not notice any abnormalities in oxygen.
And don’t the little animals want to grow huge?
No, they think, the problem is that the living environment is harsh.
What occupies the top of the ecological niche here is this group of toads.
The smallest of these toads is also terrifyingly large compared to its relatives in the outside world, making it a veritable giant beast.
So, wouldn’t it be nice to use your small size to dig holes and go up trees to eat bugs?
fragrant!
The toads here are not vegetarian, they will be eaten when they grow up, that's for sure.
In addition, Mei Ji did not find odd ungulates, that is, vegetarian animals such as cows and horses. Most of them are omnivorous and not picky eaters.
Finally, Meiji hasn't seen the grass yet.
What do you mean by grass? It's very grassy, but it's not something that ordinary creatures can deal with. Once it grows, all the animals and toads here will be finished.
After walking down, Meiji discovered that this ecological circle had also been modified to a high degree of specialization, but it was harmless.
Among them, there seems to be another reason for the hugeness.
Moreover, because it is in a barren mountain, the soil quality is not very good. The sparse fertile land causes most plants to grow densely, or sparsely distributed here and there.
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Plants occupy areas with good soil quality, and the exposed ground is hard loess.
It constitutes a unique ecological environment.
Jiraiya followed Miki like a bastard, but Miki wandered aimlessly, looking like a tourist.
At this time, Mei Ji came to a pond, and the sound of the nearby waterfall was deafening.
There are large pieces of frog eggs floating in the pond.
Speaking of which, it’s also frog breeding season.
After looking at them for a while, I saw that these eggs were very big. Logically speaking, the growth behind them would also be very big. Meiji licked her lips and wanted to study the quality of the flesh.
Meiji channeled her spirit and took out her net bag, ready to catch some.
"Stop!!!" Jiraiya rushed in front of Miki, opened his hands to stop Miki, and shouted in a broken voice: "What are you going to do to other people's children!!!"
Miki stared at Jiraiya.
Looking at the charred and terrifying mask on Miki's face, Jiraiya subconsciously took a step back.
"That's right, you can't steal it." Mei Ji said, "I'll exchange it with their parents later."
Which adult would exchange their children?
Jiraiya didn't know what to say for a moment, and felt that there must be something wrong with Miki's mind.
"You can't even buy it!!!" Jiraiya yelled.
Mei Ji took the net bag and turned to leave.
Seeing Miki stop, Jiraiya couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and followed Miki's footsteps nervously, for fear that she would do something fatal.
The two of them walked one behind the other and continued in silence.
Until Meiji said aloud: "Jiraiya."
"What for?" Jiraiya replied.
"Do you think why ninjas fight each other?" Meiji asked.
Why are you asking this question suddenly?
Jiraiya was a little confused for a moment, then he thought about it, and said after a moment: "Maybe it's because of hatred."
"Maybe." Mei Ji said: "How do you think hatred should be eliminated."
Jiraiya frowned and thought hard. He was a little unable to answer. After a while, he said: "It should be mutual understanding. Just like Tsunade always beats me, I am very angry, but I will always forgive her. Orochimaru too, old He looks down on me and thinks I'm a fool, but I am magnanimous and can forgive him."
"As expected of you." Mei Ji said: "A typical idiot's speech."
"What, do you have a better way?" Jiraiya said.
"Human beings are forgetful creatures. They only look at the present and don't care about the past and the future." Mei Ji said: "The so-called hatred can be completely forgotten in three generations."
"Impossible!" Jiraiya said.
Mei Ji turned to look at Jiraiya and said: "The hatred of grandpa's grandpa, do you think I want to kill the grandson of the other's grandson? Do you think it is reasonable? I really have something to do with this person who has never met before.
Hatred?"
"This..." Jiraiya frowned and thought, and finally said anxiously: "You are sophistry!"
"Really?" Mei Ji said nonchalantly: "Hate is just an excuse. You have not seen the essence of the matter. The key to the problem is the root of the conflict."
"Hate is just an incidental product."
"What?" Jiraiya asked in confusion.
"The root cause is survival." Mei Ji said: "It is natural selection and survival of the fittest under limited natural resources."
Jiraiya felt he didn't understand and looked at Miki's back in front of him.
"The ninja world is too small and cannot support so many people."
"So, what man wants to defeat is not man, but nature."
"Transform the environment, create more resources, and feed more people."
Mei Ji stopped and looked at the two toads on a huge toad stone statue in front of her.
"What do you think?"
"Don't you think Miaomu Mountain is too small? There's no way it can support more toads."
Meiji said.
When the two Toad Immortals heard this, their pupils shrank.
"It's painful to watch a child die, right?"
"And we don't dare to set foot in the human world outside easily."
"It's really sad. The ethnic group is trapped in a small world and we don't know when it will disappear."
“Advocates are a good strategy.”
"But, it's too stingy and cautious."
The Toad Immortal couple looked at Mei Ji and asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?"
"Guess." Mei Ji chuckled.
The Toad Immortal and his wife took a breath after hearing this.
"It's Bughime! Aburame Bughime! My classmate! The ninja of Konoha!" Jiraiya quickly tried to smooth things over, for fear of starting a fight.