Those years of engaging with the system for animal insurance

In the morning, the first ray of sunlight shines on the gorgeous peacock feathers through the canopy of the tree, and Li Cixin finally wakes up from his sleep.

He shook his head, let his mind go blank for a while, then shook his tail, flapped his wings twice, and stretched himself.Surprised to find that such a serious injury, he was completely healed!Sure enough, the system is reliable at critical moments.

It didn't take long for him to leave the shelter of the roots of the banyan tree. Before leaving, he collected some plant genes by the way. After all, this place happened to be within the Tropic of Cancer.It belongs to the tropics and is rich in plant species.

After collecting, Li Cixin found some wild fruits, and went back to the river beach to find a few small fishes, which was regarded as his breakfast.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of food in the tropical monsoon forest.

While Li Cixin was wandering without a clue, he suddenly heard a strange cry from above his head. He looked up and saw a strange bird was clinging to the trunk of a big tree, and he didn't know what it was doing.

The simple animal knowledge entered into the system before, Li Cixin immediately knew what it was - the helmeted hornbill.

This helmeted hornbill belongs to the class Aves—the order of Buddhism and monks—a member of the family Hornbill, and it is a resident bird.It is also the flagship animal in the tropical rainforest.

As for why this item is called Buddhism, Dharma, and Sangha?As the core of Buddhist teachings and demonstrations, Buddhism, Dharma, and Sangha have become an item in the classification of animals. It is also a ridiculous misunderstanding to say the least.

According to legend, he came from Dongying monk Kukai, yes, that is the monk Kukai in the movie "Legend of the Demon Cat" in which Yang Yuhuan was forced to claim the blood of a nonsense.

This historically real Zen master Kukai built a Zen monastery in Mount Koya of Honshu after returning from studying abroad in the Tang Dynasty in 806 AD.

In the dead of night, Zen Master Kukai heard a strange bird song, "bu-po-suo", which is very similar to the pronunciation of "Buddha, Dharma and Monk" in Japanese, so he improvised a poem:

Sitting alone in the thatched cottage in the leisurely forest,

The sound of the three treasures hears a bird.

A bird has a voice and a man has a heart,

It's all over the place.

As a result, the disciples called the beautiful blue bird they saw during the day the Dharma Monk Bird, and another name was derived, the Three Treasure Bird, which has been passed down.

But there was an ironic turning point. The later Dongying scholar Yukio Nakamura found that the blue Buddhist monk bird was not active at night.

In order to find out which bird called the "Buddhist Monk", this student Yukio Nakamura, who likes to play straight balls, took a gun to squat at night.Relying on the sound to identify the position, he fired a shot and shot in the direction of "Buddha, Dharma, and Monk" at night.

The instigator discovered that it was the Eastern scops owl, which is a kind of owl.It has been an oolong for thousands of years, so I got used to it, so I used the name of the Buddhist monk all the time.

The helmeted hornbill exists in a very small range in China, and the number is very rare, extremely rare.They are characterized by their large mouths, which are surprisingly large in proportion.

Li Cixin looked up at the helmeted hornbill, and found a spot in the tree with a different color and a small opening in the middle, so he understood.

Hornbills reproduce in a very special way. The female bird will lay eggs and hatch in the tree hole, and then the male bird will seal the tree hole with mud, leaving a small opening.The female bird works as a full-time wife to incubate the chicks inside, and the male bird provides food and cleans up garbage through the small opening until the chicks grow up.The division of brooding is rare in the whole nature.

However, this also means a huge risk. Once the male bird working outside dies unexpectedly, the female bird and cubs will also starve to death.

Li Cixin looked up for a long time, but finally felt bored, so he came under the tree, looked at the discarded food waste and bird droppings, let the system collect the genes of the helmeted hornbill, and left bored.

Just as he was returning to his job and began to think about how to solve the problem of the hydropower station, he suddenly heard other noises, as if someone was coming. Could it be that the person who shot yesterday came to search for him? Thinking of this, he quickly hid in the nearby grass .

Sure enough, within a few minutes, a group of people came to him.

Carefully counted six people, male and female, old and young.

In the lead were two muscular youths in camouflage uniforms with a gun strapped to their waists.Behind him was an old man with gray beard and hair, and the rest were a group of people who looked like college students.

Looking at the attire of this pedestrian, it doesn't look like the people here.More like doing scientific research.

The group happened to be nearer to Li Cixin, and because the terrain here was relatively flat, the group asked to take a rest here.

A young man in camouflage uniform raised his hand and stopped, speaking in Mandarin which was not fluent enough, he said:

"Professor Chen, I think everyone is tired, so let's take a rest here and collect those plants later."

"Alright, everyone, take a break and eat something." The old professor greeted the people behind him.

Everyone checked the side to make sure that there were no snakes, insects, rats and ants, so they put paper on them and sat down to rest.

During the break, the old professor said to a boy beside him:

"Little Gu, you said that you heard that the villagers here found green peacocks in this primeval forest. Is it true? You must know that no green peacocks have been found here for a long time."

The boy named Xiao Gu had an ordinary appearance, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, he looked like a scholar, his eyes were piercing, revealing a bit of elegance.He said firmly:

"Teacher, that's right. I came here to collect plant samples before. A hunter told me that he strayed into the depths of the woods and found a group of peacocks. He also picked up peacock feathers. The green peacocks here must not be there yet. Exterminate!"

"It would be great if it is not extinct. There are only three hundred green peacocks in the wild in our country. This beautiful bird is about to become extinct. If you want to see it in the future, you can only go to zoos and Southeast Asia." The old professor nodded.

Thinking of this, everyone immediately quieted down.Originally, they were all members of the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Botany. They came here these days to collect some wild plant samples. They heard the words of the new graduate student Gu Songbai, who was just this little Gu.

He said that traces of endangered green peacocks were suspected to be found in the primeval forest here. Although Mr. Chen is an expert in plant research, at his age, he knows a lot of other knowledge.

So on a whim, I contacted the local county forest police, arranged for two forest policemen to protect them, and the group entered the forest.

Although Li Cixin learned very little information from their short conversation, it is certain that they at least want to protect the green peacock.

The group left after a short rest. Li Cixin stood up and was trying to find a way, when there was another movement suddenly. Could it be that group of people came back again?He was so frightened that he quickly squatted down again.

But this time it's not the same group of people, but the people on the construction site before, and I don't know what they are going to do?

Seeing them walking away, Li Cixin planned to follow them quietly, but who knew, another wave of people would come!There is no end!The bird's legs are numb!

But this time the team made Li Cixin's pupils shrink when he was hiding in the dark!

He saw that the group of people were well equipped, with weapons pinned to their waists.At first glance, the fighting power was stronger than the previous forest police and workers. As for those scholars, he took the initiative to ignore them.

What surprised him even more was that the backpacks hung on the backs of this group of people were bulging and of different shapes, which gave Li Cixin a bad feeling.And these people seemed to be led by the blond foreigner, they all surrounded him, stopped here and said something:

"Mr. Carley, will you just pay me if you catch what you said?"

"Of course, our boss said, as long as we can catch the live ones." The foreigner is very fluent in Chinese. After speaking, he continued:

"However! If you can't catch any live ones, you won't get any money!"

"Don't worry, even if our brothers can't catch any live ones, and there are other things that can be caught and sold for money, we won't go empty-handed." A person spoke up.

"Hey?" A person let out an exclamation, and then said: "Boss, look, someone has been here just now, the grass and dead leaves in this place have been stepped on, and they are still fresh, and there are bread crumbs on the ground." !"

The man called the boss left the foreigner, came to the land, inspected it, and said:

"Everyone, be careful, I guess a lot of people passed by here just now."

"Boss, can't it be a note?!"

"It's unlikely, the forest police here rarely send so many people here, but..." The man pondered for a while, then said:

"Shouhou, you said that you saw a good product at the spot before, where is it?"

"Not far in that direction, about two or three hundred meters away, the females have started to build their nests."

"Okay, let's go to pick up the goods over there first, so as not to meet the people in front of us."

After speaking, he led a group of people to turn around and walk.

After coming over for a while, Li Cixin got out of the grass after making sure that there was no one there. It was really hard for the grass and thorns to hide such a big free-range chicken.

However, who was that group of people just now, and what kind of goods are they taking?

"Female... build a nest, that direction... 300 meters..., no way! Oh shit, their goal is the helmeted hornbill!"

When the word poachers came to his mind, the questions about this group of people were immediately answered.

What was said to be alive before, but now I have to pick up the "goods", and I have sensitive investigative capabilities...

The knowledge about the helmeted hornbill entered by the system popped up in Li Cixin's mind, which showed that this bird is also an animal that is missed by poachers.

There is a saying in the literary and entertainment circles: "One red, two black, and three white."

One red is the red crest of a crane, the second black is rhino horn, and the third white is ivory.

This red-crowned crane is not the poison that seals the throat when it sees blood in martial arts novels, nor is it the bald head that represents maturity on the red-crowned crane's head.

It is the beak and part of the skull of the helmeted hornbill. Because the beak is solid, the color and luster of the material are also very good. It is red on the outside and yellow on the inside, and some are even translucent. Good for engraving.

Crane Dinghong used to be a tribute from Southeast Asian countries to China in history. It was called Crane Ding at that time, which was similar to the crane totem of first-class civil servants in Ming and Qing Dynasties, implying prosperous official career and rising clouds.In addition, it is very scarce, so it has become a rare item and is sought after by some people.

Therefore, many helmeted hornbills are hunted every year and their heads are cut off to be carved.Collectors especially like to carve Buddha on it, which is extremely ridiculous.If human bones were not illegal that day, it is estimated that they could even use human bones to wrap pulp.

Of course, there are such outrageous things. In a certain country in Southeast Asia, there was once a rich second generation who made a handbag out of a child's spine. It was called a work of art, which made people creepy.

Li Cixin knew that the situation was not good today, he had to get ahead of these poachers and stop them, otherwise the helmeted hornbill family would die.

Thinking this way, in order not to disturb these people, he decided to go around another direction and rush to the tree hole.

When he arrived, the male bird had not come back from hunting for food, so he could only find a place to hide and wait and see what happened.

Unexpectedly, the group of poachers came so quickly.