Those years of engaging with the system for animal insurance

In the dark underground cave, Li Cixin lazily opened his eyes.

It's a pity that he can't see anything now in this place where he can't see his fingers.Today, he has become a young Jamaican hamster that has just grown fur.

The place he is in is the breeding cave of Jamaican hamsters, because it is deep underground and the temperature is constant, so it is more comfortable.

The mother mouse just came back and briefly nursed and licked her 6 pups.

After Li Cixin drank his fill without any disturbance, he began to dispatch information from the system to browse.

When Jamaica is mentioned, the first impression of many sports fans should be the country of sprinting, which has produced many world champions in sprinting.For example, the legend of "12 gold medals in four Olympic Games", Jamaican trapeze -- Bolt.

At the same time, people who love food may know this country from the famous Blue Mountain Coffee.

Jamaica is located in North America, in the northwest of the Caribbean Sea and south of Cuba.It has a tropical rainforest climate with high temperature and rain all year round.

It is an island country with a territorial area of ​​only 10991 square kilometers, which is smaller than China's Tianjin Wei.

In 1494, the famous Columbus came to this island.

In 1509, it became a Spanish colony.

In 1655, Great Britain defeated Spain, occupied it and became the new ruler.

It declared independence in 1862 and joined the Commonwealth of Nations.

Jamaica was originally the territory of the Arawak Indians, and they came to the island at the latest in the fifth century BC.After being colonized later, the colonists used the local aborigines as labor force.

Gradually, the colonists found that labor was not enough.It is through the triangular trade that a large number of blacks are transported here to serve as labor force.This made blacks the main race here in later generations.

The target of this mission is the Jamaican hamster, which belongs to Mammalia-Primates-Rodentia-Murinomorpha-Hamsteridae-Hamster Subfamily-Dwarf Hamsters-Jamaica hamsters.

The Jamaican hamster has a body length of only 0.2 meters and a weight of 0.5-0.6 kilograms. The tail is about half of the body length. It is a relatively short tail, which is easier to accept for "rat tail fear patients".

Like other rodents, Jamaican hamsters are highly fertile and can breed year-round.Each pregnancy lasts 28 days, and one litter can give birth to 5-6 cubs. The cubs will be sexually mature in two months and can start to join the breeding army.

The extinction process of this small animal fully reflects the importance of the food chain.

Originally, the number of Jamaican hamsters has always been in a relatively normal range. According to the system, they may have a lot of natural enemies in the local area, which can maintain the balance of species numbers.

As a result, after the colonists came, the population increased, and other wild animals were hunted and killed for land and food, which made the natural enemies of Jamaican hamsters decrease suddenly.

The population of Jamaican hamsters began to explode, and like rodents in general, they reproduced very fast!

In a short period of time, the number of Jamaican hamsters has reached a very scary level.

They steal food and eat cash crops on the island, causing serious rodent infestation.People at that time hated them, and people began to hunt them in various ways.

Especially when people use food mixed with poison to trap and kill, a large number of Jamaican hamsters die as a result.

From the 16th century to the [-]th century, for almost three centuries, the struggle between man and hamster has never stopped.

Until the early 19th century, with the advancement of human technology, the number of Jamaican hamsters was finally reduced.

However, the number of hamsters under control did not bring a sense of security to the locals, and they decided to exterminate the Jamaican hamsters.

In this way, until 1880, the Jamaican hamster was completely extinct.

After reading the information, Li Cixin couldn't help sighing.

The previous task targets, even if they were as powerful as the South China Tiger, failed to last more than half a hundred in the hands of humans.It turned out that such a group of small hamsters actually started a 300-year tug-of-war with humans on such a small island.

It has to be said that everything has its two sides.

Weak as these Jamaican hamsters, even if the individual combat effectiveness is weak, the reproductive ability and stealth guarantee the continuation of the population.

In the following days, Li Cixin had no mobility at all, until two months later, he had reached the sexually mature age of a Jamaican hamster.

He also immediately left the cave and crawled to the surface.Because it may become bigger after genetic modification, it would be embarrassing if it gets stuck in a narrow cave.

He cautiously walked through the narrow passage and poked his head out.

It was late at night, and because it was located in the tropics, the surface climate was hot and humid.

Li Cixin had just climbed to the ground, and before he had time to observe the surrounding environment, the system's alarm sounded:

"Warning! Warning! Deadly danger is approaching, please flee quickly, there are still two seconds left. Countdown, 2, 1..."

Li Cixin was dumbfounded. He was about to fight monsters just after leaving Xinshou Village?

But now is not the time for him to be dazed, he quickly returned to the cave behind him.

He doesn't know where the danger is coming from now, he must find the nearest safe place.

But God seemed to have played a little joke on him. As soon as he got half of his body into the hole, a similar creature crawled towards him.

Good guy, come to block the way at this time!

In desperation, Li Cixin could only pretend to grin fiercely at the hamster, as if he also sensed the danger outside, and the hamster also started to run back.

But it was too late for Li Cixin, he only felt a tingling pain in his buttocks, and a force pulled him out.He clawed at the cave wall and ran down with all his might, snap, he felt something break!

Li Cixin, who was temporarily out of danger, looked back while fleeing: a huge owl face was staring at the entrance of the cave.A pair of big round eyes shone strangely under the moonlight, and the claws were still pawing at the hole.

Such an owl is simply a monster to him at this time, and it is the kind with its own weapon.

Li Cixin, who narrowly escaped death, ran to an abandoned nest, and turned around to lick his wound with saliva.

It turned out that the tail was broken.The small tail, which was half the length of its body, had disappeared at this moment.There was only a bare buttocks and a deep gash.

What a bad start, it almost became an owl's snack.

Li Cixin felt sorry for his missing little tail, and thought, how can he carry out genetic modification if he doesn't go out?

Fortunately, such bulk mice are often social to a certain extent.While Li Cixin was recuperating from his injuries, he was able to get a bite of food from other hamsters, so he finally didn't starve to death.

In this way, a week later, Li Cixin's wound scabbed over, and he was almost healed, and he started his second adventure.

This time he chose daytime, and quietly crawled out of the cave again, the sunshine that he hadn't seen for more than two months!

Just when he thought there were no owls in the daytime, suddenly a swimming snake in the grass rushed towards him.

Gan!run!

This snake was much more difficult to deal with than the owl, and when he got into the hole, that guy actually followed in.

Li Cixin could only speed up his pace, but fortunately, the snake's elongated shape was very inconvenient in the cave with many twists and turns, and his speed was obviously much slower than that of Li Cixin with short legs.

One minute later, Li Cixin successfully got rid of the swimming snake.

For a small hamster, the outside world is too dangerous. No wonder such fertile Jamaican hamsters can maintain a balanced number.

No, he had to find a way, he had to fight for a space where he could be genetically modified.

Thinking that the outside world threatened him too much, Li Cixin had no choice but to find another way.He found an abandoned hole and began digging not far below the surface.

The excavated soil was piled up to the entrance of the cave. After two weeks of hard work, Li Cixin finally dug a shelter of about one cubic meter in the ground, which should be enough!

He was inside and clicked on the panel.See the newly opened quest Gene: Bio-Slime Glue.

He curiously looked up this new ability. It turned out to be an ability to control prey by spraying mucus. Some arthropods and insects have this function, such as velvet worms.

This kind of biological slime is like quick-drying glue, it will quickly become viscous after being applied, and then condense, sticking the target tightly.

With the addition of this biological slime, now Li Cixin has nine genes for tasks: strength, speed, gigantic, self-healing (top level), invisibility, infinite proliferation, strong corrosive liquid, longevity, and biological slime.

This allows up to seven quest genes to be used at one time.

Li Cixin thought for a while, as a rat with a short lifespan, he had to choose the longevity gene.Finally, after thinking twice, he still gave up the gigantic and infinite proliferation genes.

It may be because of the small size of the Jamaican hamster. After six hours, the genetic modification was basically completed. The hamster's body was originally 0.2 meters. No, after losing the tail, he was only 0.14 meters.

The genetic modification is complete, and his current weight has grown to 15 kilograms, which is larger than ordinary corgis.But a rat weighing thirty catties is quite terrifying.

Li Cixin twisted his body twice, although it was a bit crowded, but he could barely put it on.

"Drip! Since the transformation target is too small, there is still a certain amount of energy left, so you can choose another gene for transformation!"

oh!It's okay.

"Then I choose infinite proliferation!"

He wanted to see what would happen if this ability was combined with an animal body.Three hours later, Li Cixin broke through the ground after completing the transformation.

A big mouse came out of the soil, leaving a big hole in the ground.

Li Cixin didn't worry about anything that could kill him now, he could finally hang around outside with a big swagger.

He began to observe his position. It seemed to be a piece of farmland. Not far away was a sugarcane plantation, and several black people were working in it.

It seems that the colonists have arrived at this time, but they just don't know where the matter has developed.

"Xiaobao, what time is it?" Li Cixin asked.

"This is the late eighteenth century."

It seems that this time is already in the time of conflict between man and mouse.

Just when Li Cixin disappeared and planned to visit the sugarcane plantation.A brown figure passed in front of him, and its long tail revealed its identity!

——Isn’t this the common Rattus norvegicus?How could it appear on this island?

Sure enough, Li Cixin watched as the Rattus norvegicus ran to the sugarcane field and began to nibble on the sugarcane.

After a while, a few black mice came out again. Isn't this a black house mouse?

Li Cixin was stunned. Didn't the information say that Jamaican hamsters were stealing food and sugar crops? What happened to these two kinds of mice?

He continued to follow, watching some black people on the plantation start to drive away the house mice.

These house mice are fast and cunning.After nibbling for a while, when the humans came, they immediately ran away quickly.

During the observation along the way, Li Cixin found many mouse holes, and the smell emanating from them clearly told him that many black and brown rats lived here.

After not observing for a long time, Li Cixin noticed that there were many big ants coming and going in the mouth of a Jamaican hamster's cave.Inside the burrow they carried a baby Jamaican hamster, killed before it had even grown fur.

A few days later, Li Cixin's observation gave him great doubts, and he asked:

"Little Treasure? What's going on, why are there so many black and brown rats, and these strange ants."

After a long time, the system's voice sounded: "The system information is basically obtained from mainstream websites, and there is a certain lag. Now it has been updated again, please pay attention to receiving it!"

Li Cixin: ...

He opened it and browsed, and sure enough, the new information was another storyline.