"How did you do it?" Aoki was curious as to why milk flow evolved so quickly and if there was any shortcut.
"I just thought about not storing the sap in the trunk of the tree, but moving it all to the branches, so they can't cut it." Liu Nai's innocent voice sounded.
"Ah? Is this okay? Damn it. It seems that I have complicated my thoughts." Aoki only thought in the direction of evolution, and never thought of simply moving the sap to the branches.
To put it bluntly, these rubber latexes are a compound produced by photosynthesis. They were originally used to resist oxidation, sterilize and maintain the health of trees. It was only after generations of selective evolution (artificial) that the current ability appeared.
Produces more juicy rubber tree species.
"It's done!" Aoki was delighted. As long as there is a precedent of milk flow, other trees will definitely be affected by it. Perhaps, some of them will have the same mutation.
After the milk flow is successful, the next thing Aoki has to do is to wait, wait for them to be affected by the milk flow and evolve into milk flow, or wait for them to be catalyzed by the energy to evolve themselves.
The reason why Aoki is not afraid of those rubber plantation owners cutting down those evolved rubber trees is as follows.
There is a 30-year taping period for a rubber tree after it is planted. If the rubber forest is cut down, it will take 4 years for the rubber tree to be replanted for the first time. In these four years, there is no harvest, and you must continue to pay.
No one will do the business of losing money due to labor costs. Therefore, rubber plantation owners are definitely not willing to cut down rubber forests without special reasons.
In April next year, when the rubber plantation harvests its first rubber of the year, if the rubber plantation owners discover that some of the rubber trees are no longer producing rubber, their first reaction will definitely be to see what's going on, rather than rushing to cut them down.
This can buy Aoki some time.
But soon Aoki no longer had time to think about this matter. Aoki suddenly discovered that there was something wrong with many animals in the valley.
At noon, during an inadvertent scan, Aoki was shocked to find that many small animals were lying on the ground, some were twitching slightly, some began to foam at the mouth, and many animals were even dead. The entire valley
Shrouded in a sad atmosphere, the originally lively birds stopped singing.
"Oh my god! What's going on?" Aoki couldn't believe what he saw was real.
Aoki noticed some signs yesterday, but didn't take it to heart, thinking it was an isolated phenomenon. Unexpectedly, such a big problem would arise today. Two giant squirrels and hamsters were also lying in their nests under the Aoki tree.
Soft and lifeless.
Looking at other animals, it seems that the carnivores are fine for the time being, while the animals that are in trouble are basically animals that feed on plants.
Aoki was stunned by this scene and murmured to himself: "Why?"
"I should have been able to stop it, it's all my fault!" Aoki fell into self-blame, feeling extremely regretful for not being alert enough to the signs he discovered yesterday. Thinking of the sound of them celebrating him after he woke up from being struck by lightning, that
This feeling of admiration and spiritual resonance made Aoki hate himself even more.
"No, I can't do this. This is not the time to regret, but the time to find solutions. Regret will only make me make more mistakes. I need to calm down." Thinking of this, Aoki slowly calmed down,
Analyze the reasons.
"Why are so many animals poisoned? And none of them are carnivores? If that's the case, the source of the poison should come from plants."
During the last investigation of the poisoning incident of Amuto tourists, Aoki was just struck by lightning and didn't know the result, so he still doesn't know about the accelerated evolution of plants due to predation, and he doesn't know about the impala last time.
What is the truth behind the poisoning incident?
"Seeing that the poisoned animals in the valley are spread out over a wide area, it means that the poisonous plants definitely do not grow in scattered places. There may be one or more species. Since they are poisonous, it is logically impossible for animals to eat them.
.Why do they eat it? It shows that the animals have no experience, that is, the toxins of this plant have just been obtained."
After peeling off the cocoon, Aoki felt more and more that his idea was right: "In other words, this or several plants have just evolved, and have accumulated or exploded in the animal's body before the animal can react at all."
"Generally, large plants should not evolve poisonous substances so quickly, so the source of poisons should be small plants."
At this time, Aoki thought about the time the gorals were in trouble before they were struck by lightning. They might have been hit by this trick. "Hey, it's all my fault. If I had been more vigilant, problems like today wouldn't have happened."
"The reason should be poisoning by small plants, but how should we detoxify it?"
"Detoxification...detoxification...how to detoxify..." Aoki said to himself, racking his brains to think of how to detoxify.
"Last time with the goral, wasn't there some detoxifying grass?" Aoki suddenly thought of the incident with the goral, as if he had caught something, but it was fleeting. Aoki continued to think, trying to grasp that key point.
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Suddenly, Aoki remembered an unidentified law of nature: there is species competition between all adjacent animals and plants. Generally, where poisons appear, antidotes will appear not far away, just like the saying goes.
The saying in "The poison must have an antidote within three steps" is pretty much the same.
From a biological point of view, the living space given by nature to living things is limited, so there must be competition for survival between species. In order to fight for living space, species will inevitably compete fiercely with each other. Among them, poison is used to attack other species.
Species are an important means, and if other species do not adapt, they will be eliminated.
And those species that have adapted have adapted because they already have antibodies or other things to resist these poisons.
However, the reason why this rule has not been recognized is that it does not apply in some places. For example, in the desert, there is a rattle living, and there are only sand and gravel nearby. Can the sand and gravel be used as an antidote? Obviously it is impossible.
However, here in the valley, maybe if you find those poisonous plants, you can find plants that are detoxifying (or have antibodies).
Thinking of this, Aoki couldn't help but get excited.
"Xiaocang, how are you now?" The first thing Aoki asked was the depressed little hamster. Because it was smaller than the giant squirrel, Aoki gave it priority to help it.
"Brother Shu, I'm dying!" Its voice was low and weak, very weak, as if it might die at any time.
"Brother Shu, you have to help me preserve this home from now on! Also, thank you Brother Shu for your continued care. Also, Brother Shu, don't miss me in the future..."
"..." Aoki wanted to interject, but found that the hamster was now almost incoherent.
"Woooooooooo!!" At this time, the little hamster started crying, as if he couldn't let go of this world and Aoki.
Aoki was a little touched. In fact, although Aoki thought of a method, he felt that the hope was slim. Among the thousands of plants around, it is difficult to find the corresponding detoxifying herbs. What is even more difficult is that there may be no detoxifying herbs at all. In the end, it will be very difficult.
He may be working in vain. Thinking that it may leave him, Aoki cannot help but feel sad.
"Ugh!! Brother Shu, I was still a virgin before I died, ah...! I'm not willing to give in!"
"..., virgin, your sister!" Aoki, who was still feeling sad, was made happy by the little hamster's declaration before his death. "Don't be like this. Tell me what you ate before. Maybe
You can still save a small life."
"Really?" After hearing the good news, the hamster seemed to regain a little energy.
"Really, but the prerequisite is that you must explain clearly what you have eaten in the past few days."
"Let me think about it, I have eaten a few small fruits, a few leaves, a few roots, and some small insects in the past few days, that's all."
"...I can't tell the difference when you say it like that. To be more specific, the kind I've been eating recently." The hamster spoke too generally, and for Aoki, this information was completely useless.
In the end, a lot of time was wasted without finding the answer, and the hamster was even more depressed at this time, as if it had consumed too much energy just thinking and talking. However, it still muttered the words "virgin" in its mouth.
With incomplete information and desperation, Aoki could only avoid surveillance. He gritted his teeth and collected all the nearby grass that looked more like an antidote, put it under the tree, and "carried out" the hamster. Of course, the surveillance cameras here had been captured by Aoki.
destroyed or covered.
With Qingmu's support, the hamster sniffed all the plants continuously.
"Brother Shu, no!" the hamster became even more depressed.
Seeing its appearance, Aoki felt sad and quickly comforted him: "Okay, let's change to the next batch. Don't worry, I can find them."
Aoki went to collect other plant leaves and roots again.