Those years of engaging with the system for animal insurance

In the humid and hot forest, a big bird was lying listlessly on the dry leaves.

The long blue-green tail is dragging, a tuft of feathers on the head rises high, and the golden-green feathers on the neck like fish scales are extremely gorgeous.

Li Cixin did not expect that the first mission turned out to be a peacock, and it was also a native species of the national first-class protected animal—the green peacock.

I don't know when, the reappearance account collected the knowledge of human animal taxonomy at the present stage, and input it to Li Cixin.In addition, Li Cixin himself was interested in this aspect, and a lot of things were stuffed in his mind.

As a bird, Galliformes, the largest member of the pheasant family, the green peafowl has been widely distributed in southern China and the Indochina Peninsula in history. With the habitat destruction brought about by the development of human civilization, and climate change, the green peacock is now mainly Branched in the Indochina Peninsula, there are only Yunnan Province left in China, and there are less than [-] left.Is a critically endangered species.

"A peacock flies southeast, wanders five miles and one, thirteen..."

Bored, Li Cixin recited poems, and of course what came out was the crowing of peacocks.It may be that the Creator has given the face value, and the green peacock's cry is indeed not very pleasant.

On TV and in zoos, people often see blue peacocks introduced from India or Sri Lanka, because blue peacocks have strong reproductive ability and are easy to feed. In the end, the native green peacocks became a marginalized existence.It also caused blue-green peacock hybridization, and the phenomenon of green peacock gene pollution is serious.

Unlike the blue peacock, the female green peacock is as beautiful as the male peacock except that it does not have a long tail.Slender body, long legs, and larger body are the advantages of the green peacock.

After getting rid of the depression of becoming a bird, Li Cixin came to the small river slowly. Looking at the appearance on the water, he felt for the first time how beautiful the animals described in the poem are.

The green peacock is an animal with four-color cone cells, so when Li Cixin used the peacock's vision to see the gorgeous feathers on his body.It's hard to describe in human language, it's like looking at a colorful oil painting.Every nuance that is difficult for the human eye to distinguish is also clearly visible. If a person has this color resolution, there is a high probability that he can become an excellent color master.

"A very small number of human women may also have four-color vision." The reproduction number raised his mouth, and Li Cixin immediately nodded his peacock head.

Looking back at the reflection in the water, the green peacock he became was a male peacock that had just grown up.

Green peacocks are social animals, and the relationship between husband and wife is similar to that of lions, both of which are polygamous.

An adult male peahen and several female peahens form a small group, and like to live in sparse forests and grasslands, and river valley banks.Because they can fly, they generally don't like dense forests, but the original owner is a male peacock who has just grown up and was driven to the upper reaches of the small river.

The environment here is even worse, and the food is even more scarce. Li Cixin searched for a long time before catching two small fish and a crab by the river.As for bugs, frogs, and little snakes, because of psychological effects, he can't get their beaks out either.

Just when he was worrying about being hungry, the voice of the Reappearance sounded again:

"The host is asked to accept the initial mission to prevent the establishment of the Fenghuang River hydropower station and protect the last habitat of the green peacock."

"What is the relationship between habitat protection and hydropower stations?" Li Cixin was puzzled.

"Host, you are currently in the upper reaches of the Phoenix River. If the downstream Fenghuang Hydropower Station is built, the last small river valley will also be submerged. In order to protect the green peacock subspecies in China, please stop the construction of the hydropower station. "

Hearing this, Li Cixin was a little dazed: "You...you are kidding! I am a big pheasant now, how can I stop the construction of a hydropower station?"

"Why not?" The reproduction number asked back.

Li Cixin laughed angrily: "Humans have guns and machines, how can I stop them? Rush forward and be roasted chicken?"

Seemingly realizing that his request was a little too much, the reproduction number said uncertainly:

"This... because my energy storage is related to gene collection. The more genes I collect, the more abilities I can use. I don't use many abilities now. Otherwise, I... will give you a big boost. Endless genetic modification?"

"really?"

"Yes, you can start now."

"Well, something is better than nothing. Come on."

Afterwards, Li Cixin fell into a burning and painful transformation. When he woke up again, Li Cixin felt that the things around him became smaller. After a while, he looked himself up and down, only to realize that he had grown up lap.

Originally, the male green peacock's body length including the tail was between 1.8 meters and three meters, and its weight was between 3.8 and 5 kilograms. Li Cixin didn't know how big he was now, so he asked the system.

Reappearance replied: "You now have a body length of six meters including the tail, and a weight of 50 kilograms."

...Li Cixin gasped, six meters! What kind of concept is this?You must know that the wild Burmese pythons in Yunnan Province rarely grow to five meters long.That is to say, in Yunnan Province, apart from Asian elephants, Asian black bears, bison, and leopards, it is estimated that there are no animals capable of killing themselves, and of course there are humans.

If his body shape is discovered, it will definitely be recorded in the annals of history.Can't be found and arrested.

However, with the powerful genetic modification, it is estimated that few animals can kill themselves.

The most urgent thing to do is to look at the powerful hacker. He looked down at the thick bird legs and the sharp claws that were as sharp as daggers. He suddenly jumped up and slammed his claws at the big tree next to him.Four deep scratches appeared on the trunk.

"Good guy, if this is done on a human, it will probably be dead or disabled." Li Cixin couldn't help but sigh, and then thought that this is already an unlocked genetic modification, and other more advanced genetic modification can't be imagined.

After hearing his exclamation, the reproduction number warned:

"The host, please don't have the idea of ​​killing people. The purpose of this system is people-oriented, and it is also created for the future of mankind. Unless it is absolutely necessary, the host must not kill people."

"Okay, okay, I'm not a murderer. Let's go, target the downstream hydropower station!"

Trotting all the way, Li Cixin found that the running speed was much faster. He tried his flying ability again and found that it was an improvement in all aspects of ability.

After running for a certain distance, he stopped to drink water for a rest, his eyes suddenly turned to the river bank directly opposite him, three strange animals, one big and two small, were drinking water.

The face is like a big mouse, but the ears are like cat ears; the body is like a little leopard, with leopard prints on it; the tail is like a raccoon, black and white.

Through the knowledge of animals that had been systematically stuffed into his brain before, Li Cixin quickly recognized that it was a great spotted civet, one of the members of the civet family under the cat-type suborder of the order Carnivora.

What a miraculous creature, for a while Li Cixin began to watch it.At this time, the system voice suddenly sounded:

"Hey, I found the endangered species of big spotted civet, please catch the host quickly and hand it over to this system to collect genetic samples."

"it is good."

Because he had been resting on the ground before, he was not visually threatening, so the big spotted civet mother and son didn't take him seriously, not to mention that the river between the two was about seven or eight meters away, and if something happened, they could run away immediately.

But Li Cixin got up together, shook his feathers, jumped up, flapped his huge wings twice, and flew across the river with his whole body.

Before the mother civet and her son could react, the mother civet was caught by the huge claws.It resisted Li Cixin crazily, claws and teeth together.It can't break through the defense of the fish scales and spots on the bird's feet.

The little civet wanted to run away, but Li Cixin frightened them with a peacock.Now Li Cixin, the radius of the light tail screen is about three meters, in the eyes of the civet cub, it is extremely terrifying, so he can only shrink down on the bank of the river and tremble.

Seeing this, Li Cixin put down the tail screen.Urging the system to quickly collect genetic information.After a long time, he was afraid of hurting the female civet.

"...Mammals...Carnivora...Civetidae...Gene sequence..." Soon, the Reproducer collected the genetic information of this great spotted civet.

Now that the matter has been completed, Li Cixin gently let go of his paw.At this moment, the phenomenon appeared! The female civet pouted her buttocks and sprayed out some liquid.All fell on the feathers of the peacock's belly.

A strong stench permeated the air, damn it! He just forgot that the big spotted civet is also called smelly cat or spotted civet.It will secrete a strong smell to ward off enemies, and this smell can also be used as a fragrance agent after refining and diluting.

By the time Li Cixin reacted from the stench, the mother civet had already fled with her two cubs and disappeared into the bushes.

The lesson of nature is really hard to guard against!It's just the conclusion that Li Cixin has bathed in the river countless times.

While washing, he sighed. Fortunately, bird feathers are water-resistant to a certain extent, so they won't be marinated, and birds generally have a bad sense of smell, so they don't feel too uncomfortable.But this incident also took him a lot of time.So that the weather is already dark.

In this dark place, Li Cixin was worried about encountering a powerful predator. After all, except for owls, other birds' night vision ability is not very good.Although there is moonlight, he doesn't want to take the risk of traveling at night.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Cixin decided to stay and rest, and found a perfect shelter.

There is a huge tree on the bank of the river, which is close to the river, and almost one-third of the root system has been washed away by the river.A natural open cave is thus formed.In addition, it is the dry season now, and the whole cave is dry and cool.

Li Cixin probed his head, and used his bird's beak to pick out a few dead branches and leaves that were in the way. He flapped his five-meter-long wings like a giant plantain fan, blowing away all the miscellaneous things in the cave. Blow it out.

Then he pulled some weeds and vines, made a simple cover for the cave, and finally got into it to rest.

As for snakes, insects, rats and ants, they are not afraid at all, and they come to give him extra food, not to mention that small animals can't break his defense at all. You must know that the thick feathers and fish-scaled skin are not used as decorations of.

Just when he fell asleep after a busy day, what he didn't know was that two beams of lights were slowly walking towards him a few hundred meters downstream.