Those years of engaging with the system for animal insurance

Amidst the jagged rocks, a black and glossy snake spits out a message and observes the surrounding environment.

After repeatedly confirming that there is no danger, he quietly hid in it. This is Li Cixin.

This time he turned into a black tiger snake in Tasmania.The feeling of not having limbs was very strange, but fortunately, the muscle memory of this body made him adapt quickly.

Open the system panel, he now needs to unlock a mission gene.In addition to the previous seven genes, he had to address one of the major disadvantages of possessing a snake: longevity.

Previous missions ranged from a dozen years to as many as 40 to [-] years.But this time, the body was a poisonous snake, and it was a small one, so its lifespan was not long.As for the lifespan of snakes, even in the systematic data, there is no such detailed collection.

但类比蛇类的平均寿命,小型蛇类一般是2～5年，中型蛇类5～12年,大型的蟒蚺可达三40年。

The size of the black tiger snake is not big, because it is a poisonous snake, the growth is slower, so the life span is only a few years, which is very unfavorable for the completion of the task.

Therefore, Li Cixin decided to unlock a longevity gene.Plus the previous strength, speed, hugeness, self-healing, invisibility, infinite proliferation, and strong corrosive liquid.A total of eight genes for the task.

This time up to six genes can be used.Li Cixin thought about it for a moment, and felt that the gigantic and infinite proliferation could not be used for the time being.The remaining six were transformed.

A day later, a seven-meter-long black tiger snake appeared among the stones.It may be due to the size of the snake, so after the increase in strength, it has grown a lot, but it is not thicker than a boa constrictor of the same body length.

This time the task is to save the thylacine and the local aborigines in Tasmania.

Tasmania is an island in the southeastern part of Australia and has a temperate marine climate.

Similar to mainland Australia, Tasmania is also home to marsupials.

There are many rare marsupials: echidnas, wombats, bandicoots, and the Tasmanian devil, also known as the imp.

There is also the only egg-laying mammal like the platypus.

The main target of this mission is the thylacine, which was originally distributed in the Australian mainland, but it was extinct due to competition by another animal.That's the Australian dingo.

There is fossil evidence that at least 3500 years ago, dingoes landed on the Australian continent.

Later research suggested that the landing time may have been even earlier.

The dingo may have migrated to the Australian mainland with humans 8000 or [-] years ago.

As early as tens of thousands of years ago, humans landed on the Australian continent. At that time, humans were already the top predators in nature.

After primitive humans came to Australia, the local large animals became extinct almost at about the same time, and there are speculations that primitive humans extinct them.

Such as marsupial lions, Australian dragons (ancient monitor lizards), giant marsupial tapirs, giant Newtonian birds...

In front of these animals, the thylacine is only a medium-sized predator.With the big guys gone, the thylacine took over as Australia's top predator.

And thousands of years ago, new immigrants came to Australia and brought Australian dingoes.Later, some scientists discovered through gene sequencing that the dingo originated in East Asia and was most likely a domestic dog in ancient China, because the war migrated with humans.

All the way south, through the Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago to Australia.

They quickly became wild on this continent, and because their size was not far from that of the thylacine, they competed with the thylacine for an ecological niche.

In the end, the local thylacine competed for extinction, which can be called a biological invasion in ancient times.

Because humans at that time did not have the technology to overly affect nature, the extinction of the thylacine in Australia is generally defined as: natural selection under unexpected biological invasion.

Fortunately, the dingo did not come to Tasmania, and the thylacine population continued on the island.

Until the European colonists discovered this place and ended this pure land.

Before the thylacine was killed, it was the aborigines on the island-the Tasmanians.

Tasmanians are short in stature and dark-skinned.Probably came here in the late Paleolithic.

The island was first discovered by Dutch explorers in 1642, and later Great Britain and France also began to come here.

When these colonists came here, there were about 6000 Tasmanians, roughly divided into twenty tribes.Because of the limited resources of the island, these natives have always consciously controlled the population of their own tribe.

In 1772, the French expedition landed on the island, and the relationship between the two sides was relatively harmonious at this time.The French sailors would gift something to the Tasmanians, and these Tasmanians were also very interested in the color of the whites.

Until 1803, the British colonists established the first colony here.

The original local Tasmanians were just watching the British colonists building camps.The suspicious British colonists suddenly shot and killed a group of Tasmanians.

This move broke the tranquility of the island.

Then there was the massacre on the part of the British colonists.The Tasmanians, who were in the stage of collecting civilization, were not the opponents of the colonists at all.We must know that among the many white immigrants from abroad at that time, many of them were vicious criminals.

In this way, a large number of Tasmanians were killed.

At that time, two white men who traveled with the ship witnessed the massacre of the Tasmanians by the colonists and recorded it in words:

"The head of the wounded was smashed, the baby was thrown into the fire, the bayonet was inserted into the trembling flesh, and before dawn, the bonfire that the natives were snoozing around became their crematorium."

A deputy governor stationed here in 1828 was named George Arthur.He posted a bounty:

'Regardless of life or death, catch an adult reward £5, a child reward £2. '

This clever, but bad-tempered governor implements two sets of policies.

On the one hand, a reward was issued to encourage the colonists to slaughter the aborigines.

On the other hand, he made friends with the aborigines and tricked them into the so-called resettlement area, in fact to smash their resistance and occupy their territory with the least cost.

The bounty greatly stimulated the white people. They launched a roundup. Naturally, the Tasmanians would not be caught without a fight. Under the stimulation of the roundup, another massacre was caused.

The hypocritical and vicious George Arthur continues to incite white people to hunt and kill aborigines, while at the same time acting as a good person in front of aborigines, he can be called a top "hermaphrodite."

Even Colonial Secretary George Murray condemned his policy.

In this way, in October 1830, a blockade across the island drove the remaining Tasmanians to the Tasman Peninsula.

In 1835, a missionary named Robinson held sympathy for the Tasmanians and began to risk his life to lobby in the forest.He successfully concentrated the last group of Tasmanians on a small island called Flints.

At this time, there were only 6000 Tasmanian aborigines who originally numbered more than 203.

Later, these 203 people also died one after another due to the infectious disease brought by the colonists.

In 1876, the last Tasmanian died, her name was Trugnini.

She was born in 1812, right at the time of the turmoil.Since she was a child, she has been wandering with her family, hiding in the forest.

Later, when she was a teenager, she experienced many misfortunes: her parents and sister were killed, she was raped many times, and her fiancé was also killed in the process of stopping her.

When she was young, she also participated in the anti-colonial team, and met a white doctor who kindly treated her...

In the last years of her life, she was alone in her race.

Before she died, she begged the colonists not to dissect her body and not to exhibit her body!It is hoped that her cremated ashes will be scattered at sea.

Of course, her last wish was not fulfilled.As the last Tasmanian, her remains were dug up by the colonists and made into specimens.

It was officially displayed in the Tasmanian Museum in 1904.

He was not cremated until 1976, exactly one hundred years old.

This past has also become a notorious chapter in human history.

Check out the tragic fate of the Tasmanians.

Li Cixin was like eating a big lump of ice in the twelfth lunar month of winter.The coolness emanating from the inside out made him shudder.

All that has been seen in the past is human harm to animals and plants.But this time, it is the extinction of the same kind by human beings!

The level of cruelty and horror is outrageous.

Of course, maybe the colonists back then never regarded these poor aborigines as people like themselves.

He couldn't help thinking of the sentence Hugo wrote in "Letter to Colonel Bartley": "But this is what civilized people do to savages."

Back then, the plundered China was the same in the eyes of the colonists.

Li Cixin calmed down and continued to open another mission goal, the fate of the thylacine.

The thylacine in Tasmania, like the aborigines, has an almost identical fate.

In the beginning, the colonists were too busy dealing with the aborigines to manage the thylacine.

After occupying most of the island, the British colonists began to plunder resources.

They slashed and burned, cut down forests, and reclaimed pastures, which seriously damaged the ecology.

The environment on which the thylacine lived was destroyed, and the dogs brought by humans also increased the competition, and the number of thylacines began to decrease continuously.

But the fuse that really led to their demise was an unfounded rumor.

Because the livestock on the farms of the colonists were killed by animals, those people began to spread that it must be the thylacine that killed the poultry and livestock.

In fact, there is no evidence at all that it was done by thylacine, and the only image record is just a posed photo of a thylacine specimen.

In this way, the thylacine who was charged with crimes began to be hunted and killed by people.

In 1888, in order to vigorously develop the animal husbandry industry, the colonial government used the original formula and a familiar routine. They released a bounty plan:

'An adult thylacine can be killed for £1 and a young for 10 shillings'

Bounties issued over the next 20 years estimate that more than 2000 thylacines have been killed.Judging from the resources of Tasmania, there may only be more than 3000 thylacines in the first place.

In 1909, the colonial government only issued 2 pounds.

It was not seen again for several years.

Later, a hunter named Elias Churchill was so lucky that he caught eight thylacines while checking his traps.

Six of them had died, and he took them to claim the bounty.The remaining two were kept in captivity by him.

In 1933, hunters sold the last living thylacine to the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart (the state capital).

The name of this thylacine was called "Benjamin" by later generations, which means "son of the south" in Hebrew.

The lonely Benjamin left three precious black-and-white images to future generations.

But its death was very absurd, because it was placed in a wire cage for people to watch, and the sun was directly baking Benjamin.

In addition, the breeder forgot to close the zoo gate, and Benjamin had no shade to hide at all.

After being exposed to the sun for a day, it quietly left this world when the temperature dropped sharply at night.The time of the thylacine species will always stay on September 1936, 9.

After reading the materials of the two mission targets, Li Cixin let out a snake-like hiss in anger.After a long time, he dragged his body and began to search for the mission target on the island.

People are easier to find than beasts, after ten minutes of wandering.He finally met the Tasmanians.

These aborigines are indeed short in stature, with dark skin, thick lips, and flat nose bridges.They don't wear clothes, and they still exist in the form of tribes, and the weapons they use are stone tools, wood and shellfish.

With such a backward situation, it is no wonder that they were massacred by one side.It simply stopped the pace of civilization evolution. In contrast, Western colonists already had guns.

Tasmanians have not changed much since the Stone Age.However, they can persist for decades under such a disparity in strength, which shows that they still have advantages.

The node where Li Cixin traveled was the middle of the 18th century. At this time, the colonists had not yet paid attention to this place on a large scale.

Blacksmith need its own hardware!

He had to give the Tasmanians a little bit of self-preservation before the colonists came.Not to mention achieving it overnight, becoming an industrial society, at least not being reduced to being helpless!

Li Cixin remembers the introduction of Oceania when he was studying geography at the beginning of the year.There are copper mines on Tasmania, and they are of good quality!

It's useless to guard Baoshan for so many years, it's too reckless.Otherwise, at least there must be a bronze civilization!

Looking at the comfortable aborigines in the tribe, Li Cixin climbed forward and decided to release his invisibility.Aboriginal people believe in witchcraft, and seeing such a big snake, they should think it is a god.

As a result, he showed a seven-meter snake body. After seeing him, the people present were stunned for a while, and ran towards the woods screaming!

"Hey! They all ran away."

The imagined scene did not appear, so Li Cixin had no choice but to chase after him.

I have to say that if it weren't for the snake's strong perception, it would be difficult to spot the hidden Tasmanians by sight alone.

Not long after, Li Cixin successfully found out all the people from this tribe and rushed them to an open field.

He performed a "miracle" with great force and strong corrosive liquid, and finally got the approval of this tribe.

This trick of pretending to be a ghost is really time-tested.

Two months later, he finally conquered [-] tribes on the island, with a total of more than [-] people.Became their "snake god".

Tasmanians belong to the Melanesian type of Negro-Australians, but the language family is unknown.

Fortunately, with the help of Xiaobao, the ancient human language converter was updated.After all, the language has a certain traceability. It didn't take long for him to understand some simple words of Tasmanians.

The next step is the infrastructure template, marching towards civilization!