Li Qingshui stepped on the flowers and soil, and Liu Chang immediately heard the scraping sound of his trousers rubbing against the flowers and leaves and the soft sound of the soles of his shoes squeezing the soil. Although the sound was small, it struck in his heart , but it sounded like a loud bell.
With sweaty palms and clenched fists, Liu Chang stared intently at the flowers around Li Qingshui's feet.
Li Qingshui stepped into the flowers, and the bright red flowers at his feet immediately sensed this intruding "foreign object". Afterwards, they all turned their "faces" away, as if There are pairs of eyes growing in the middle of each stamen, "looking" at Li Qingshui's ankles.
"Sure enough, it can move!" Seeing this situation, Liu Chang immediately wanted to pull Li Qingshui back, but before he could cry out for alarm, Li Qingshui waved his hand at him on the spot.
"It's okay, just stay there and don't move."
Liu Chang understood the meaning of waving his hands very well. Based on his trust in Li Qingshui in the past, it also caused the thigh he had just lifted to be put back on the ground.
Seeing that Liu Chang was no longer coming forward, Li Qingshui carefully stepped the other foot into the flowers—both feet into the soil, he carefully avoided the densely growing flowers, and played a good role in the "Chinese people" Please don't trample on the fine tradition.
Of course, although he was careful not to step on those flowers, those monsters still felt his presence, and saw the flowers turn their "faces" away, like a crowd of passers-by watching a fight, Bright "faces" immediately formed a circle around Li Qingshui's calf.
Looking at such a scene, Liu Changxin had already raised his throat, wanting to make a sound to let him come back, but he was afraid that his voice would disturb those seemingly soft flowers, so he stood there, neither going nor shouting , It's not moving, I'm very anxious.
And Li Qingshui in the circle also showed the fear of future uncertainty in his eyes. The evolution of IQ did not hinder his emotional integrity. As an ordinary human being, he also understands fear.
But, also being a more intelligent than average person, he also knows how to suppress his emotions better.
Putting away the fear in his heart and suppressing his body that was about to tremble due to excessive fear, Li Qingshui took the third step cautiously towards the middle of the flowers...
Followed by step four...
Every step he took, was accompanied by the sensitive turning of the knee-high flowers, and he walked all the way and walked into the depths of the flowers under the "all attention".
Seeing Li Qingshui walking into the abyss of fear like a brave dragon slayer, Liu Chang's clenched fists could not stop shaking. He was afraid of seeing that familiar person being attacked by flower petals all over the sky in the next moment, and even more afraid of seeing that familiar person His face instantly turned into a mummy.
So he squinted his eyes slightly, standing on the edge of the flowers, wanting to look but not daring to look, he saw that Li Qingshui went deep into the flowers and found the company commander's body on the spot. And by the blessing of the heavens, the dense flowers did not pose any more problems for Li Qingshui in finding the compass. Ten seconds later, Liu Chang saw his fuzzy expression move slightly, knowing that he had found it.
After the familiar person carefully tucked his right hand into his cuff and wrapped it up, he picked up the compass among the flowers through his clothes, and then turned back.
Stepping out step by step, Li Qingshui's footsteps appeared to be more cautious when he came in than when he entered, and those flowers "watched" him leave his territory just like when he entered.
With one last foot stepping out of the edge of the flowers, Li Qingshui just returned to Liu Chang's side, his heels softened, and the emotions that had been suppressed just now completely exploded.
"It scared me to death." Putting the compass into his pocket, Li Qingshui panted heavily through the soaked cotton cloth.
"Go back quickly." Liu Chang supported his thin body and wanted to go back.
"Wait." After taking a few deep breaths to try to stabilize his emotions, Li Qingshui calmed himself down, "There is still something to do."
"What's the matter, don't stay here when you find the compass."
"Let's find the fog lights too. I remember that the company commander fell by the side of the flowers when he went crazy." Li Qingshui turned around and went to the place where the bloodstains first appeared, and after some searching, he found the fog lights that were no longer on. And after picking up this fog light, he also used the most stupid, primitive and most effective method to fix it within three seconds.
With two "pops", Li Qingshui slapped the head of the fog lamp vigorously twice, and the fog lamp that was broken due to falling to the ground also re-ignited the yellow light.
Turning off the fog lamp and hanging it on his waist, Li Qingshui possessed himself to the edge of the flowers again.
"What are you doing?" Liu Chang walked up to Li Qingshui and looked at him with a frown, but within three seconds of speaking, his frowning frown suddenly jumped three times - it turned out that Li Qingshui was possessing himself to the edge Afterwards, he grasped the flower buds of the two flowers with his wrapped hands in a lightning-fast manner, and in an instant, he had a handful of petals in his palm.
"You don't want to die!"
"It's okay, I have no teeth, and I don't know how to bite." After Li Qingshui grabbed the petal in his hand, he calmly showed it to Liu Chang, expressing that there was no danger, and then received the petal that was so bright that it could bleed. Wrapped it in the prepared iron box—obviously, collecting the petals was not a temporary action on his mind—he had made all the preparations as early as when changing clothes.
"You're such a lunatic, why didn't those flowers eat you up just now?" Seeing Li Qingshui finish all this, Liu Chang couldn't stand his crazy behavior anymore, and forced him to walk towards the crowd away from the flowers past.
"They didn't eat me because they haven't evolved to that level yet." Pulled by Liu Chang, Li Qingshui said with a smile: "As expected, they only evolved a sensory system, but the matching feeding system is not perfect yet."
"That's because you're lucky. In a few days, maybe these flowers will jump up and eat you." Liu Chang frowned, expressing that he didn't understand Li Qingshui's actions, "What are you doing with these meaningless adventures?" What do you want to do?"
"Is it meaningless? I won't do meaningless things." After putting away the iron box, Li Qingshui pulled out the arm held by Liu Chang and said, "I did this to study the newborn ecosystem."
"Now that we are all dying here, are you still in the mood to study this?" Liu Chang continued to frown.
"Uh, plan ahead. Humans are a little bit higher than other species because of their dangerous imagination."
"But it's too far away for you to plan ahead?" Liu Chang said: "After all, we are still in the middle of the forest. If we were in the military area, I can understand what you are doing now."
"No, no, I'm not planning for the future of mankind. I'm just thinking about tomorrow. Do you think, if we really arrive in Zhengzhou, where will we go?"
"Institute." Liu Chang replied.
"Well, here comes the second question. How can I gain a foothold in that so-called research institute? The same question—to put it more bluntly, if there is only a mutation in the brain without matching science If I contribute, will I be treated as a guinea pig for slice research when I get there?"
"So..." Liu Chang's brows loosened, and he understood Li Qingshui's intentions.
"So I wanted to show my scientific value before I got there, and let them know that compared to being a guinea pig in an experiment, it is obviously more important to keep me as a person." Li Qing Shui said as he walked, "Although the place is not as dark as I imagined, but in this world, only by realizing and demonstrating one's own value can we seek greater benefits for us."
"So that's how it is." Liu Chang understood completely, "Then have you achieved anything?"
"Yes, partly, based on what I have seen and heard these days, I have roughly constructed a theory of a nascent ecosystem. Of course, you should not underestimate the theory. Research will help a lot.”
"Then roughly speaking?" Liu Chang showed interest.
"Uh, the current overall theoretical system is not perfect. I only made a theory about the new food chain in the ecosystem." Li Qingshui suddenly smiled, "I call it the first theory of the food web."
"A Preliminary Theory of the Food Web?"
"Yes, I said it's a preliminary theory because it's still not perfect. Let me tell you roughly." Li Qingshui tapped his fingers, "You should know the food chain system of the earth before?"
"I know, big fish eat small fish and small fish eat dried shrimps!" Liu Chang said as he walked.
"Well, the layer-by-layer transfer of organic matter in nature connects all species closely through various relationships between eating and being eaten. Of course, what you said about big fish eating small fish is just a part of the predation food chain. In fact, big fish eat small fish. There are three types of food chains in nature—predatory food chains, scavenging food chains, and parasitic food chains." Li Qingshui circled a piece of sky and land and said, "But look, do traces of these food chains still exist now? ?”
"It seems..." Liu Chang looked at the various plants in front of him and shook his head in confusion, "It seems that they are gone."
"Yes. Since the appearance of the red mist, the original food chain system of organisms has actually completely collapsed. Can big fish eat small fish? Are shrimps necessarily prey? Trees are also pure producers in nature Does it exist?" Li Qingshui asked three questions in a row.
After Liu Chang thought about it, he shook his head again: "Indeed, now all species don't play their cards according to the previous routine. Those who used to be vegetarians seem to eat meat now, and those who used to eat only meat, Maybe eating green grass can barely make a living now. And even those trees don’t seem to be easy to mess with now.”
"Yes, the new food system is no longer a single chain as before, but has completely become an intricate network, and it has completely blurred the three original concepts."
"Blurring the original concept of producers and consumers - trees that were originally pure producers may also become consumers of predators, and what is even more amazing is that they do not lose their original The ability of producers to absorb soil to synthesize organic matter; blur the concepts of vegetarians and carnivores among consumers—there is no clear distinction between vegetarians and carnivores, and everyone is changing towards omnivores at the same time; blurring the relationship between advanced predators and carnivores in the food chain The group concept of low-level predators—rats can prey on cats when they are strong, and cats can eat people when they are strong.”
"The current ecosystem is no longer a competitive race, but has completely turned into a big fight for organic matter!"
"A big fight?" Liu Chang raised his eyes and looked at all the flowers, plants and trees around him, as if he could already smell the bloody smell of competition among all things in the air of the sky.
And Li Qingshui said so many words in one breath, he also paused, swallowed a mouthful of spit, "Besides, I picked these petals not only for research."
"In the future, if we can enter Zhengzhou, we will inevitably meet such and such people, and where there are people, we will inevitably fight. But in the process of fighting with people, things that are on the bright side will never be as good-looking as those hidden in the dark. —Actually, I’m thinking now, if I had these petals before, I wouldn’t be so passive when facing the family that you killed.”
Hearing Li Qingshui's words, Liu Chang, who was immersed in the "Food Web Preliminary Discussion", suddenly turned his head to look at him, and caught the strange smile that had been restrained at the corner of his mouth with surprised eyes.