Every day is one step closer to reality

The discovery of a blind snake on the edge of a protected area is indeed good news for scientific research.

After sorting out the data, Professor Zhou and the others told the rest of the scientific expedition team to be careful when leading the team to do science popularization in this area, so that no one would mistake the blind snake for an earthworm.

Cheng Si sends the videos and photos he took to his colleagues, who will reprocess them and publish them on the platform.

But after all, he didn't discover it by himself, he didn't catch it with his own hands, and he couldn't brag about it while recording the video, so Cheng Si was still a little unwilling.

He turned over so many rocks and found no snake underneath any of them!

Now he understood why the South 6 team recruited Feng Yi.

But this is just the beginning, Cheng Si believes that he will definitely catch one with his own hands later! Generally speaking, he thinks he can handle more than half of the snakes he has seen.

With Feng Yi's stimulation, when the team continued to move forward, Cheng Si was not as nervous as before. Although he still paid attention to his surroundings, his mentality was different.

If Steve found any signs of snake activity, he would explain it to them. Feng Yi and the other young people listened attentively. Steve's experience was very valuable.

After going deeper, the traces of human activities are almost invisible, and the significance of discovering the blind snake is not that great.

Therefore, Cheng Si set a new goal for himself. The first snake he found after the scientific expedition team came in last year was a bungara snake, and he hoped to find one too.

First, as the number one national server, the Bungara serrata is more respectable than the Water Snake and Cauliflower Snake.

Second, he had experience catching bungara snakes. Although the snake is poisonous, he is not much afraid of it.

The team had planned a rough route of action before setting off. At night, they would pass by a place with a ditch. Professor Zhou also said that nocturnal snakes might be found there.

Everyone else in the group was talking about where the next snake would be found and what species it would be.

Feng Yi was not interested in what they were discussing. He was carrying a bag and a clip in his hand to collect garbage.

Nowadays, almost every scientific expedition team entering the mountain forest will collect the garbage encountered on the road into garbage bags. When the garbage bags are full, they will find a place to put the signal transmitter, and the person responsible for collecting garbage or smart equipment will come over. Pick.

As for the edge of the reserve, the research base usually cooperates with various schools in activities. After entering the forest, the students have the task of picking up garbage.

Especially plastic waste.

Different plastics have different storage times in different environments. For example, some plastic products may remain on the surface of the sea for thousands of years, while the same plastic products buried in the ground may remain for tens of millions of years or even longer.

Feng Yi found another piece of garbage based on his sense of smell.

After pushing aside the grass, a plastic belt was exposed outside the soil. I took a photo and then pulled up the plastic belt. "There is also a plastic bottle underneath. Teacher Lei, do you want to take a photo of this?"

Teacher Lei came over to take a look and said, "Shoot! The plastic bottle below is almost completely buried in the soil. I'll adjust the camera and dig out the bottle later... Li Han, you come and dig it out."

Teacher Lei asked Professor Zhou's student Li Han to do it. After all, Feng Yi was not a professional and there might be artificial damage during the digging process, which would interfere with the data collection.

After a while, Li Han dug out the plastic bottle buried in the soil. There is no printing, but the bottle cap has the brand engraved on it.

"It should have been buried 20 to 30 years ago, or maybe longer. This brand went bankrupt during the abnormal climate period." Li Han said.

"Twenty or thirty years later, there is no sign of decomposition." Teacher Lei continued to shoot.

"Plastic bottles. Humans created them but didn't dispose of them well." Professor Zhou shook his head and sighed.

As a product of industrial civilization, plastic has brought the glory of petrochemical industry.

The N billion tons of plastics emitted in the past, present and future will be scattered around the world and become part of the "Anthropocene", retained in the geological record formed in this era.

Plastic products become plastic fragments, from microplastics to polymeric organic matter to oil and gas.

From oil, to oil.

As the saying goes, "The power of nature will eventually take over."

Professor Zhou watched Li Han put the dug things into the sample bag, "It can't be digested in twenty or thirty years, but in the end, all these will be digested by this planet. Maybe it doesn't matter to the planet itself, after all, it It has existed for more than four billion years and has experienced too many things.

“It may only affect life on this planet, including humans themselves.

"Plastic fragments are everywhere, including in our bodies. Humans, who stand at the top of the food chain, will accumulate a large amount of microplastics in the human body that cannot be digested due to enrichment. Some will be excreted and some will not. In the end, it is humans Beared everything..."

"Hey, I heard that a new degrading microorganism has been successfully cultivated?" Professor Zhu asked.

"It has been cultivated, but the efficiency is still low." Researcher Xie said.

After that, Professor Zhou and others began to talk about the strange microorganisms. Several more were discovered, several were directionally cultivated, and what were the pros and cons of artificial interference...

To how the lab uses catalysts to break down plastics into simple hydrocarbons under specific conditions...

Feng Yi couldn't understand the rest.

Forget it, just keep picking up garbage and catching snakes.

Feng Yi picked up more forest garbage by himself than the other eight people combined.

Professor Zhou smiled and said, "I have to give you a salary increase!"

Feng Yi smiled cooperatively and said to himself: I don’t want money, just give me a few more points!

At around 8 pm, the team stopped at a place where they would rest tonight.

Professor Zhou and the others are definitely not as strong as Feng Yi and the others, who are in good health and in their early twenties.

Feng Yi packed up the tent, and Cheng Si said hello to Professor Zhou and asked him to take a look around.

"Don't go alone, Feng Yi. Go with him. Take care of each other." Professor Zhou said.

"Okay!" Feng Yi put down what he was doing and went to look around with Cheng Si.

When the tent was out of sight, Cheng Si took a flashlight and looked around, "Where do you think there are snakes? The ditch in front is too long. There are frogs croaking everywhere, but there may not be snakes."

Feng Yi pretended to look around with a flashlight and pointed in the direction, "Over there."

"How did you judge?" Cheng Si asked.

"Guess."

"Believe it or not!"

Cheng Si smiled and cursed, and walked towards the direction Feng Yi pointed.

Having seen Feng Yi catch a blind snake, Cheng Si still trusted Feng Yi in this aspect. No matter what, it's more reliable than searching blindly on his own.

"If there is a snake, what kind of snake do you think it is?" Cheng Si asked.

"Yin Huan," Feng Yi said.

"Haha! I hope so too! I'd like to lend you some good advice! Don't grab me later!" Cheng Si walked a few steps quickly, leaving Feng Yi behind.

Feng Yi was not in a hurry. There were no other dangerous creatures around, just a silver krait. Cheng Si should be able to handle it.

Sure enough, I soon heard Cheng Si's excited voice over there.

"Wow! There really is a silver krait! It's mine... Damn it! Feng Yi, come and help!!"

Feng Yi heard the sound and ran over quickly.

Cheng Si was seen holding the snake's tail with one hand. The bungara snake was trying its best to burrow into the grass ahead, while Cheng Si was lying on the ground and sliding into the ditch.

Feng Yi rushed over and caught Cheng Si.

Cheng Si: "Don't worry about me for now. You can help me catch the snake. I'll get up by myself!"

When Feng Yi heard this, he did not immediately let go of Cheng Si's hand. He threw the flashlight aside and went to pick up the silver krait in Cheng Si's hand.

When Feng Yi leaned over, the mobile phone in his pocket fell out, fell on the grass on the slope, and was sliding into the ditch.

In order to free his hand, Feng Yi grabbed the snake's tail in his mouth in desperation, and used his free hand to save the mobile phone.

Steve heard the sound and rushed over: "..."

Shut up! ! !

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