I just want to be a quiet scholar

Chapter 523 Lying in a trough, there is an ambush!

The deeper you go into Maduo County, the more serious the desertification phenomenon is.

Shen Qi saw large and small sand pits, these pits were dry lakes.

"Maduo County had more than 60 lakes in the 4000s, but now only a quarter of them remain. The fish are gone, the grass is gone, the gold has been snatched away, and all that is left is a large desert, ecological refugees and national poverty County." Shen Qi is very sad, human beings ask for resources from nature without restraint, and in the end it is human beings who are punished.

"It's not good." The driver sighed, and he showed regret: "Professor Shen, look, the big pit on the left used to be a lake. The lake water is crystal clear. A small net can catch more than 100 catties of fish. Naked carp It is a special product at the source of the Yellow River. This kind of fish grows slowly. A yellow river naked carp weighing seven to eight catties will grow for more than ten or twenty years. Now there are almost no wild naked carps, and the ecological damage is too serious.”

"Once the ecology of the source basin of the Yellow River is out of balance, the damage to the middle and lower reaches will be even greater." Shen Qi took a picture of the devastated desert and said, "Master Zhang, stop the car and I'll take a sample."

The car is parked on the side of the road. There is no traffic police and no passing vehicles can be seen here, so don't worry too much about illegal parking.

Shen Qi got out of the car to take samples, and two graduate students helped.

The two postgraduates are from the School of Literature and History and the School of Physics of Yanda University. They studied literature and science, and they volunteered to come to the west of the motherland to become supporting teachers.

Shen Qi used a portable microwave radiometer and a wind profile detector to detect and collect the temperature, humidity, meridional wind direction, and latitudinal wind direction in this area.

Two graduate students took soil and vegetation samples and put them in sealed bags.

"Xiao Gan, Xiao Meng, you haven't arrived in Maduo County yet, you still have time to change your mind." Shen Qi said to the two postgraduate volunteers.

"I've come all the time, I never thought of being a deserter." Xiao Gan, a liberal arts student, was determined.

"Mountains of gold and silver are not as good as green mountains and green waters. The vast world has great promise." Xiaomeng, a science student, expressed his strong determination to contribute to the construction of the western region.

Everyone has their own aspirations, and no one forces them. These two graduate students voluntarily volunteered to serve as teaching aids, using their knowledge to do what they can in places where they are most needed in the motherland.

Shen Qi nodded and said: "Okay, during the teaching period, if you encounter any problems or obstacles, you two can contact me directly."

In this age of entertainment and materialism, there are many outstanding young people who want to go to developed regions and developed countries, and educated youths who volunteer to come to poor areas are especially valuable.

"That clump should be spiny beans, Xiaomeng, take a sample." Shen Qi pointed not far away.

"OK." Xiao Meng's major is astronomy, and sampling vegetation is not a problem for him.

Due to natural factors such as overgrazing, disorderly gold mining and cordyceps excavation, and global warming, a large amount of vegetation in this area has been destroyed, and the grassland has been seriously degraded.

Man-made disasters and natural disasters have resulted in more than half of the county's land area covered by desert gravel and bare land without vegetation.

Looking around, the earthy yellow of the desert is the main color of this once fertile land.

The desert is dotted with green grass sporadically, and the average height of the grass is no more than 5 cm.

Moreover, the grass is mixed with poisonous weeds of spiny beans. It can be clearly judged that there is no way to graze here, and no valuable human production activities can be carried out here. The desolation is still spreading, and this place is no longer suitable for human survival.

Xiao Meng was collecting spiny beans when suddenly an animal popped out of a hole under the plants.

"Fuck, there's an ambush!" Xiao Meng, who was caught off guard, was taken aback and almost handed over Flash.

The Yinhuo squatting in the grass is spherical in shape, a little smaller than a rabbit and a little bigger than a field mouse.

Yinhuo has no tail and has a pair of small ears. It looks like a rabbit and a mouse.

The animal stood upright with its rear feet on the ground, its eyes rolled around, and it didn't seem to have any aggressive power, but rather cute.

After Shen Qi received the signal that his teammate was in ambush, he quickly supported Xiaomeng and captured the cute animal alive.

"Squeak!" The little animals finally realized that the group of biped humanoid monsters who broke into their territory wanted to make trouble!

Shen Qi knocked the small animal unconscious with one punch, then dislocated it and killed it.

"There is control and explosion, Professor Shen is very skilled!" Xiao Meng witnessed Professor Shen's amazing fighting power, he looked at the small animal that had been executed and asked, "Is this guy a rabbit or a mouse?"

"This is a pika, a creature that is closer to rabbits and lives in high-altitude areas." Shen Qi took a sample of the pika for scientific research purposes.

"Isn't the pika a protected animal?" Xiao Meng asked.

"This cute little animal is a vermin in this area." Shen Qi looked around and saw many holes in the land: "Look, those holes are the holes of pikas, they eat grass, dig grass roots, The reproduction ability is super strong, which makes the already seriously degraded grassland even worse. The natural enemies of pikas are eagles, lynxes, leopards, and clouded leopards. However, the natural enemies of pikas in this area have been hunted and killed by humans in more than ten years. Mostly it was done by poachers."

"The food chain is broken, the ecology is out of balance, the pikas multiply, the grass is eaten up by them, the cattle and sheep have nothing to eat, and they threaten the living environment of human beings." Xiaomeng hates poachers very much, and poachers frantically hunt and kill precious wild animals , it is the local aborigines in Maduo County who are punished by nature.

"No business, no harm." Shen Qi patted Xiao Meng's shoulder, ready to continue on his way.

At this time, countless heads popped out of the holes in the surrounding land, big and small, gray and white, all pikas.

The rabbit heads are crowded and dense.

A pika is a cute animal, but tens of thousands of pikas are crowded together, staring at the four humans with a unified and strange posture and eyes, making Shen Qi and the others scalp numb.

Xiao Meng, who has trypophobia, no longer thinks pikas are cute. He hurried into the car and slammed the door: "Retreat, retreat, don't start a group with them!"

The driver started the car and drove along the road towards Maduo County.

Beep!
Drop drop!
The driver, Master Zhang, honked the horn in a hurry, scaring the pikas who were about to form a group and fled around.

Master Zhang is still experienced, and a rat is a rat, so how dare he really confront humans head-on.

Crunch!

Click!

During the driving process, within 500 meters, Master Zhang's car ran over a dozen pikas to death.

The pikas fleeing in a panic couldn't tell the direction, and they ran under the wheels to die.

"These pikas are very annoying. It can be said that they have caused a plague of rats. In Maduo County, the pasture eaten by pikas and voles every year is equivalent to the amount of forage for all cattle and sheep in the county for three years." In Master Zhang In my eyes, these mice and rabbits are vermin.

A dozen pikas were crushed to death by driving a few hundred meters, which shows that this area is indeed infested with rats.

(End of this chapter)