Those years of engaging with the system for animal insurance

After getting on the plane, Li Cixin just sat down and fell asleep when he suddenly received a task from the system:

"S-level mission, to save wild South China tigers in China. Save the fire of its wild population. The mission started in the 50s. Do you accept it?"

"accept."

"Okay, the mission is on."

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In the 50s, the Huaxia Kingdom had just been founded, and it was time to revive all wastes and vigorously develop productivity.

As the society stabilizes and the population soars, the conflict between people and the land becomes more and more intense.

Especially in the southern mountainous areas, the area of ​​arable land is scarce, and the common people have paid public grains, but they can't eat enough for themselves, so they have to reclaim wasteland.Coupled with extensive road repairs, many habitats that were originally suitable for wild animals have been cut into countless fragments.

Later, the situation became more and more serious. In order to be able to eat enough, the common people often went into the mountains to hunt, resulting in less and less prey for top carnivores such as tigers and leopards.

After these beasts tried to prey on poultry and livestock, they fell in love with this easy prey.Some tigers even enjoy hunting humans.

In addition, traditional medicine praises medicinal materials such as tiger bone and tiger penis, and favors tiger skin.

Due to the combination of reasons, jackals, tigers and leopards have all become existences that need to be attacked.Even house sparrows are on the list for elimination.

Therefore, the South China tiger was hunted and killed within a short period of 20 to [-] years.The rest can't support the reproduction of the population at all, especially the top beasts like tigers.

Later generations of wild South China tigers, known as the oldest tiger subspecies, were declared extinct in the wild, and only a few remained in zoos, which were still polluted by genes to a certain extent.

When Li Cixin accepted the background knowledge and opened his eyes again, he had already become a cub of a South China tiger.

At this time, he was being hung in the air, and the hot air from above told him that he was being held in his mouth.

This is the tigress changing the nest.Surviving in the wild is very difficult, and there are too many dangers, and female beasts tend to change their nests constantly.Because staying in one place for a long time is easy to attract danger, maybe the whole army will be wiped out, and there will be no cubs left.

The mother tiger gave birth to three cubs in total, and all of them have opened their eyes now.

According to the size of his body, Li Cixin figured out that he was probably the second child.The tigress goes out to hunt every afternoon or evening, and sometimes it can catch wild boars or muntjacs, and sometimes pheasants.But most of the time is just a waste of time, and nothing can be caught.

Raising three cubs takes a lot of energy, so the tigress often runs out of milk.

The largest tiger cub is bigger than its younger siblings, so it often crowds out the two smaller cubs and grabs the one with the most milk.

Although Li Cixin is not as big as his "big brother", he can fight back and forth with it with human wisdom, and as he becomes more proficient in controlling the tiger's body, he can even gain the upper hand.

As for the smallest and weakest tigress, when the two elder brothers were fighting for food, they could barely sneak a few sips to avoid starving to death.

Seeing this, Li Cixin knew that every tigress might become the hope for the continuation of the population in the future. Sometimes when he was full, he would give up a place for the third child to help manage the eldest.

More than a year passed like this, and the tigress unexpectedly raised three cubs under such a huge burden.The three cubs are already sub-adults and have already started eating meat.

In order to feed them, the tigress has lost almost one-fifth of her body weight over the past year.

And now it's time to teach the cubs to hunt. If there are live animals, the tigress will bring them back for the cubs to bite.

The nest has been basically abandoned. The tigress and her cubs wandered in the mountains and forests, and finally found a herd of wild boars in a river valley.

The tigress signaled the cubs to stay still. She lowered her body and approached the wild boars little by little.The thick meat pads of felines act as a shock absorber, and silently, the tigress lurked towards the target like an experienced assassin.

The tiger's colorful patterns are like a natural protective color, and it is impossible to notice it when it is hidden in the jungle.

Slowly, the wild boars were still digging into the sand, and when they reached the hunting range, the tigress's muscles collapsed, and it was ejected like a spring. The explosive force was so fast that the wild boars had no time to react.

Just as the wild boars were running around, the tigress locked on to one of the targets, threw herself on it, and locked her throat.

After a while, the wild boar kicked its legs a few times, and then there was no movement.

Today's hunt was undoubtedly very successful. According to human predictions, the tiger's predation success rate in the natural state is only 5% to 20%. This is already very powerful.

In the valley area, the terrain is too open.The presence of the tigress was too conspicuous, so she dragged the dead wild boar into the woods and called the cubs to come and eat.

After the family of four had eaten their fill, they lay resting in the woods when they suddenly heard gunshots from the next hill.

Someone? Li Cixin, who has not been in contact with humans for more than a year, is overjoyed.However, he quickly realized that he was a tiger now.Even if they meet people, it probably won't end well, not to mention that humans still have guns.

But the tigress seemed to have heard the curse, and hurriedly led the three cubs towards the depths of the mountain.

The further up the mountains, the less flat areas there are and the less big game there is.

Over the past year, the tigress has been showing a tendency to drill into deep mountains and old forests.

You know, Li Cixin understands the information sent by the system.Why do many people in later generations don't understand that tigers, a jungle species, will be driven to extinction so quickly, can't they just hide in the remote mountains where there is no one?

But in fact, this is just their one-sided cognition.

As a top predator, tigers require a huge amount of territory and food.

Coupled with the huge size of the tiger, it is impossible for its structure and weight to be like a leopard, walking on the ground at high altitudes and steep mountains and forests.

Therefore, most of the places where tigers live are valley plains, sparse forests, and hilly areas.And these places are highly coincident with the trajectory of human activities.

In short, where humans cannot live, neither can tigers.

This also greatly increases the chance of human-tiger conflict.

The tigress seems to have encountered humans, and her fear of humans can be seen from her non-stop migration to the deep mountains.

After the four tigers left, a group of people appeared the next day where they had preyed on wild boars.

These people are all equipped with earthen guns, and they are also leading a few hounds. These hounds are all trained from China's native pastoral dogs, and they are extremely fierce and sensitive.Some places in the south like to call it "mountain dog".

A grey-haired old man in the hunter's team squatted down and began to examine the wild boar's bones. After a while, he came to a conclusion:

"It is estimated that an old female worm brought cubs here, and there are almost three of them."

"Where did they go?" asked a young man.

The old hunter shook his head and said:

"This beast is very cunning. It's probably the old female worm that I caught and ran away. The male old worm nearby has been killed by us, and the remaining female old worms are dead. Run, run, this one has only brought a few cubs, and it probably won't run far."

"Then is it possible for them to go into the mountain?" The young man asked again.

The old man waved his hand and said with a smile:

"Hahaha, it's impossible. I've been hunting all my life, and no one knows these beasts better than me. If you go further inside, let alone wild boars, you probably won't even be able to catch muntjacs.

This tigress also brought a few cubs, don't worry, unless she wants to starve herself to death, she won't go inside.Let's take this place as the center, search carefully, and make a good trap. "

At the other end, the tigress and her three cubs had already traveled a long distance. As the forest deepened, there were fewer and fewer flat places.Gradually they have climbed the steep hill.

The angle of the hillside is about 70 degrees, almost vertical to the tiger.

The experienced tigress walked in front, and the three cubs followed her footsteps. Under such circumstances, there was no slack at all.

Because if you don't pay attention, you may fall down. Looking down, the hillside is full of rocks and thorns, and there is a narrow and swift stream at the bottom.Their family can only move forward, there is no way back.

Li Cixin was the last one, and the third child was in front.It may be because it is a female tiger, and it often does not have enough to eat. It is relatively thin, but it walks relatively easily.

On the other hand, the boss who was walking in the second place almost stumbled several times.And Li Cixin walked steadily because of his human wisdom.

After about two hours of climbing, we finally arrived at our destination.

Looking over the last stone and looking at the new place, Li Cixin suddenly felt admiration for the tigress.

It turned out that on the other side of the cliff was a large gentle hillside.Looking at wild flowers and weeds, sparse forests and streams, it is simply a good place to live.

The tigress finally breathed a sigh of relief, and walked towards a place with the cub, which was a dark cave.

The cave was very deep, and Li Cixin could smell another tiger, but it was very faint.

After following him in, he found that there was actually a dead tiger inside. The body had decayed a long time ago, leaving only some dark yellow fur and tiger bones.

The tigress sniffed the corpse twice, rubbed the corpse affectionately, and lay down to rest not far away.

Li Cixin curiously asked the system:

"System, please take a look, what is the relationship between the dead tiger and the tigress?"

"Drip, according to the DNA test, the dead tiger and the tigress are the direct parent-child relationship."

It turned out to be the mother of the tigress.She is almost the "grandmother outside the tiger" of the three of her own.

Tigers are very social.Typically, a powerful male tiger occupies a large territory.In its territory, there will be several tigress for its breeding.

After the female tiger raises her cubs, the adult male cubs will be expelled. Even if the female tiger does not expel them, the male tiger will not welcome other male tigers in his territory.

Therefore, male tigers who have just grown up must stay away from territories with other male tigers and create a new world.

The territory of the newly grown female tiger can be next to the mother. If possible, the territory is not enough to eat, and the female tiger will allocate part of the territory to her daughter.

This is probably regarded as a killing assassin like a tiger, a kind of rare warmth.

Li Cixin climbed up at dusk and looked far away, and found that this hillside was like a city surrounded by a city wall. The steep mountain forest was the city wall. It seemed that human beings would not develop here for a while.

I hope there will be more places like this, so as to leave a paradise for the continuation of the fire of the South China Tigers.

More than half a year later, Li Cixin finally became an adult, and the system heard a long-lost sound:

"Hey, the new gene ability is unlocked, please pay attention to check it."