Those years of engaging with the system for animal insurance

The daughter ant queen heading northwest just happened to encounter the ethnic war of the local aborigines.

The scene is very cruel, full of primitive violence and wildness.

Because the offspring queen inherited the ability to be invisible, Li Cixin was able to observe the battle up close.

In the depths of the dense jungle, the aborigines with dark skin and facial features close to Asians, like sharp arrows in the dark, shuttled through it silently.

Because they have lived in the rainforest all year round, they have adapted to the environment here very well.

Except for the important parts covered with clothing, the other places are naked, and I am not afraid of being cut or stabbed by the sharp edges of the plants.

They can zip through the woods without making a sound.

In fact, from the perspective of human migration, there is a lot of evidence that the aborigines in the Americas basically came from East Asia.It is said that their ancestors were descendants of defeated East Asian tribes.

In order to escape for their lives, the ancestors of these people traveled all the way to the northeast, passed through eastern Asia, and crossed the frozen Bering Strait to America.

This is why, Kimchi Country often plays rogue, saying that it is a point of origin.Because in Liao Province in Northeast China, an important civilization was indeed born - Hongshan Civilization.

Although many nations and countries insist that they are descendants of this civilization, in fact the descendants have been tested and studied.

It was found that most of the Han people in the Kimchi Country, the Neon Country, and Huaxia basically did not have elements of the Hongshan civilization. On the contrary, it was the Xibe people and some Han people in Jin Province who had elements of this civilization.

It can be said that this civilization has been melted in the long river of history.

How the battle started, Li Cixin has no way of knowing, all he knows is that he saw the two tribes attacking frantically, throwing wooden spears in the air.

For a while, there was a bloody wind, screams and shouts one after another, and the smell of blood in the air wafted far away.

In the end, this primitive and savage battle ended with the overall victory of one of the tribes.

As winners, they have power over losers.

The men of the defeated tribe, from the old man down to the baby, were all killed.Older, infertile women were also doomed.

But this is not the scariest thing, Li Cixin discovered that these primitive tribes are actually cannibals!

They burned and ate young boys, just like eating a sheep, without distinction or burden.

A woman who was unwilling to submit was raped, and a sharpened wooden stick was used to pass through her throat from under her body, like a string of flesh and blood.

The aboriginal woman survived the last few minutes of her life in pain.

In the end, the corpse was also quickly divided and eaten.

Of course, this is not the main event, the development of the matter is beyond Li Cixin's expectation.

After eating the losers, the victors opted for the most primitive witchcraft prayers.Then, the head of the deceased was beheaded.

The heads of several important aborigines were hung up as trophies, with their hair used as ropes.

After some inexplicable praying dances, these heads were used to make something else.

They boiled the head in a pot, then scooped out and emptied the tissue and skull so that only a layer of flesh remained.

Then, put a red-hot stone into it and let it excite the fat.Put it back in the pot and cook, then take it out and fill it with hot stones.

Just like this process, after repeated several times, the head will become smaller and smaller.When finished, the head of an adult looks as big as a fist.

The final process is to sew all the openings with wooden sticks, such as: mouth, nose, and eyes.Because these aborigines believe that only in this way can the soul of the deceased be sealed in the head forever.

Li Cixin understood that this was the headhunter he had watched on science and education programs when he was a child.

Later, when this bad habit disappeared, many colonists rushed to use these "little heads" as collections.

During the whole process, even Li Cixin still felt hairs on his body.

This kind of fear is just the tip of the iceberg in this primitive jungle.

Li Cixin withdrew the consciousness of the offspring ant queen and continued on his way.

Finally, after a few months, the little ants began to take root and reproduce in the designated direction.In order to facilitate the task, Li Cixin multiplied another daughter ant queen.

He flew outside to check the situation.

At this time, South America had already been carved up by colonists.In terms of time, Brazil has been independent for seven or eighty years, and the Brazilian Empire has just abolished slavery.

However, in the southeast direction, because of the obvious advantages in transportation and other aspects, the population is also quite large.

When Li Cixin flew stealthily to the edge of the rainforest to check, he came across a rubber plantation planted by someone.

A group of rubber plantation workers were working, and Li Cixin heard them say:

"Did you know? The boss said to build a new rubber plantation!"

"Then we may not be able to work together in the future."

"There are more rubber plantations, what does it have to do with us? At that time, the salary will not be enough for the medical expenses for being bitten to death by a poisonous snake or being cut by a sickle."

"How can you think so, at least, we still have work to do. By the way, where is the boss going to build a rubber plantation?"

"Just two or three miles away from here, there are many mangroves and swamps."

"I remember that place, Boss, I even shot a very big crocodile there, it was scary."

"He seems to be hunting again today!"

What follows is some ordinary words, but Li Cixin became interested in the mangroves they were talking about.

In his impression, mangroves are the part of the forest in subtropical or tropical regions that ebbs and flows with the tide in the documentary.

So he asked Xiaobao:

"Xiaobao, why did the mangrove forest get its name? It can't be red, right?"

Xiaobao: "Of course not. Mangroves refer to tidal flat wetland woody organisms that grow in the upper part of the tropical and subtropical low-energy coastal intertidal zone and are flooded by periodic tides. The evergreen shrubs or trees mainly composed of mangrove plants community.

Its constituent species include herbs, vines and mangroves, so they are called mangroves.Because it grows in tidal flats and shoals at the junction of land and sea, it belongs to a special ecosystem that transitions from land to sea. "

"I see."

Li Cixin quickly flew towards the mangrove forest and landed on a big tree. It was the time when the tide was low.The tidal flats under the mangroves are exposed, and many fish, shrimps, and crabs are trapped in the shallow puddles, and a group of workers are quickly picking them up with tools on their backs.

When everyone was sweeping around, a worker suddenly let out a scream, and it turned out that a huge crocodile rushed out of the mud unexpectedly and bit his leg.

Just when the crocodile is about to perform a death roll.

Snapped!With a gunshot, the crocodile's head exploded.

"It's okay." A white man put down the gun he had just pulled on a few trees not far away.asked loudly.

The worker wailed in pain, and the people on the side quickly dragged him into the range of the crocodile, and someone rushed to the man who shot and said:

"Boss, his leg is probably broken!"

The man put the gun belt behind his shoulder, jumped over nimbly, and said:

"In the next few days, you should rest and come out to work after you have recovered."

"thank you boss!"

Two people came and carried the injured worker away. The white man walked up to the dead crocodile.

Apparently he didn't know the species of the crocodile very well. After looking at it for a while, he began to order everyone to carry this big guy away.This is his biggest trophy in recent times.

Li Cixin looked at the crocodile being dragged out of the mud, and exclaimed what a big crocodile it was.

Xiaobao adopted the gene and said:

"This is an adult saltwater crocodile, 6.7 meters long. Female."

Li Cixin: "Like large reptiles, the females are basically bigger than the males!"

Xiaobao: "Yes, for anacondas and the like, male snakes can grow up to three or four meters long, while some female snakes can grow up to six or seven meters, which is several times that of male snakes. The same is true for birds. Among birds of prey, females Generally stronger than male birds.

Of course there will be a few exceptions, the male king cobra is bigger than the female.Considering the close relationship between birds and reptiles, one is archosaur and the other is lepidosaur, so it may be caused by the game between male and female during their evolution.

In mammals, males are generally stronger than females, and mammals with strong females like the second African brother, the spotted hyena, are also a minority.

Maybe this is what is said on the Internet, the difference between the orcs and the dragons. "

After learning the new knowledge, Li Cixin nodded and began to search for information on saltwater crocodiles.

This giant crocodile, which can survive in sea water and even travel across oceans, is the largest existing crocodile in the world.

They have traveled all over the world and are very powerful characters.Adult individuals can grow up to seven meters.

In the history of China, there was once a distribution of saltwater crocodiles.Historically, Han Yu, one of the famous Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, was demoted to Chaozhou in the south of Lingnan.

Because of the disturbance caused by the local crocodiles, the common people were disturbed by it.It often happens that crocodiles devour cattle and sheep.At the same time, people were killed.

The crocodile that brings harm among them is the saltwater crocodile species of the saltwater crocodile after research by later generations.

After Han Yu was demoted to this place, he witnessed the disaster that the crocodile brought to the common people.So the Crocodile Festival was held, and the "Crocodile Festival" was written.

This piece of prose basically exhorts the crocodiles to move away from this place.From a later point of view, this is undoubtedly a very stupid behavior.

Of course, Han Yu also did some practical things. He put metal weapons, such as maces, iron hooks, and other things in the bait to lure the crocodiles to eat, and he also killed some of the crocodiles by these methods.

But after all, it is a drop in the bucket.

Surprisingly, it seems that Han Yu's "Crocodile Worship" had an effect, and after a year, the crocodiles disappeared from the local area.

All of a sudden, the local people thought that it was Han Yu who wrote the "Crocodile Sacrifice" to drive away the harmful beasts, and built temples and longevity temples for him one after another.

This story has been handed down like this.

But the good times didn't last long. Just 29 years after Han Yu cured the crocodiles, the crocodiles made a comeback again.

Li Deyu, an official who was also demoted to Chaozhou, just happened to encounter a saltwater crocodile returning, and the boat capsized.

What ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, treasures and literature, all sank to the bottom of the sea.Simply people took back a life.

After professionals, the detection of local temperature changes.

It just happened that around 820, the local temperature was lower than the average level, and in 819, when Han Yu was demoted, it reached the lowest point in history.

Therefore, it is not the saltwater crocodile that was driven away by an article in "The Essay on Crocodiles".It was Han Yu who was so lucky that the saltwater crocodiles had to move south for refuge just in time for the sudden drop in temperature.

But Li Deyu, who was demoted later, was not so lucky.When he came, the temperature picked up and the saltwater crocodiles returned.

Similarly, there is another legend about the saltwater crocodile, but it is the "Legend of the Anti-Japanese Crocodile" that happened in modern times.

It is said that in 1945, Great Britain and Neon went to war in Burma, and about 1000 Japanese soldiers were trapped in the swamp.

As a result, one night, these people were attacked by a group of saltwater crocodiles, and about 20 people escaped from the mouth of the crocodiles.

This rare incident was recorded in a diary by a Japanese soldier and spread along with it.Saltwater crocodiles are also known as man-eating crocodiles.

Li Cixin read these materials with relish, looked at the crowd leaving in the distance, thought for a while, and planned to live here.

At night, the tide has receded to the extreme under the influence of the moon's gravity.

Under the melting moonlight, the animals on the beach began to come alive.

Many crabs drilled out of the mud and climbed along the exposed tree roots of the mangrove forest.

Li Cixin looked curiously at the crabs that had crawled under his branch, and suddenly a bad taste arose in his heart, and he knocked them down with his claws.

The crabs climbed hard for a long time, and somehow fell down.But they were not discouraged, they got up and continued to climb.

Li Cixin found it boring after playing a few times, so he found a tree where there were no crabs to climb.

Before resting, he also contacted the other eight queen ants with consciousness.

In the early morning of the next day, the noisy sound startled the dormant Li Cixin, and he began to fly towards the source of the sound.