Chapter 121: Falling into a Trap
After listening to Fang’s analysis, the netizens were shocked.
[Shit! Isn't it invincible underwater? ]
[Too strong! It turns out that the one that Lao Fang was dealing with before was weakened.]
[How do you catch it? Lure it?]
[I can only lure him with a trap, right? Otherwise, I can’t defeat him.]
Not only that, Gu Qingyuan's next words made the netizens realize that the situation was more serious than they thought!
"The fact that this species still exists today shows that it has long been adapted to the environment here, and in areas like Qaidam that are hardly disturbed by human activities. In other words, there is no possibility of its functional extinction!"
"There is a population here!" Bifang blurted out, directly saying the second half of what Gu Qingyuan wanted to say.
But the audience is confused, what is functional extinction?
In response to the questions from netizens, Bifang gave a simple explanation.
"For any species to survive, there must be a minimum population size to cope with the accidental changes in individual births and deaths, genetic drift, a series of random changes in the environment, and various catastrophic events."
"Below this number, the species will become functionally extinct! They won't be able to reproduce on their own!"
"Functionally extinct species are therefore called 'zombie species', and their last few surviving individuals are called 'the living dead'."
"The most famous example is probably Lonesome George. Even if he were still alive, the Pinta Island tortoise species would actually be extinct."
There are many such species in nature, including the Siberian tiger today!
If there is no human intervention and the Siberian tiger and other tiger populations are allowed to reproduce, no matter how good their living environment is, they will have various problems due to inbreeding and will become naturally extinct within a few decades!
In short, there are many more monsters like the one last night under the pool!
Oh shit!
How to do this?
The netizens were stunned. Just when they thought the danger of this matter was outrageous enough, Gu Qingyuan suddenly dropped the bomb!
"I'm afraid it's more than that. The Tiktaalik here may be more dangerous than the one 300 million years ago. Do you know the famous fossil creature in Qaidam, Wu's Xianwen fish?"
Bifang wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded, "I know a little bit, this is a fish with incredibly thick bones. If it were any other fish, it would have been a disease long ago."
The wilderness survival skills the system gave him were no longer useful at this moment, and the plant and animal knowledge it granted him were basically about non-extinct creatures.
This creature, which has been extinct for millions of years, is beyond the scope of knowledge of survival in the wilderness. Bifang was able to know about it only because of the accumulation in his previous life.
"That's right. The bones of Wu's Xianwen fish are incredibly thick. The only fish similar to it is the thick-tailed killifish. These two creatures lived in a similar environment at the time and experienced almost the same process. Although the biological community has not yet reached a conclusion, we have always suspected that the thick bones of Wu's Xianwen fish are related to this environmental change."
“Put it this way, I think Tiktaalik, who has gone through the same process, might also undergo the same changes!”
Gu Qingyuan expressed his speculation and also gave his small suggestions.
"If capturing it alive is not an option, I suggest that when you are in danger, you should use blunt force to attack it, or find the joints between the bones. Otherwise, it may be difficult to cause damage to it with an ordinary knife."
[What does that mean? I don't understand. What does this have to do with Wu? ]
[I don't understand. Please explain it to me. Your conversation is too sophisticated.]
[At first, my teacher told me to study hard, but I didn’t listen. I didn’t regret it until I got a job in a factory. But now, I can’t understand the live broadcast and I am in tears. ]
[Don’t cry, even people who graduated from 211 universities are confused]
"To put it simply, the fish here may have overlapping armor."
If what Gu Qingyuan said is true, then the bones of Tiktaalik here are probably much harder than imagined. Compared with the original ones, isn't it just a layer of armor?
[If you had said this earlier, it would have been over...]
[Damn, how can I fight this? The opponent has already equipped himself with divine equipment, but he is still a natural counter to my dagger! ]
[Why not just give up and just survive? 】
"But there will be . Discovering new living fossils may only happen once in a lifetime!"
Bifang was unmoved, but instead eager to try.
He went straight to the edge of the pool. It was daytime and there was plenty of light. The water was very clear and he could see the surrounding rocks more than two meters below.
What does an underground cave look like?
What kind of creatures are inside?
These Bifangs were very curious. They held the flying drone in their arms and pretended to disassemble the camera, but in fact they reshaped the live broadcast device into a head-mounted camera and wore it on their heads.
"Don't you want to see the living environment of this creature? What does it eat? Its range of activities, the composition of its food web, whether it lives in groups, and what habits does it have?"
Yes, of course I do.
Gu Qingyuan behind the screen nodded desperately, but as he nodded, he suddenly froze.
Gu Qingyuan scratched his gray hair, feeling like something was wrong.
wrong.
Something is not right.
Didn’t we agree to catch a live Tiktaalik?
Wouldn't it be possible to just make some bait and lure Tiktaalik ashore like we did last night? How could we find out so much?
When he saw Bifang start to take off his clothes, an electric current suddenly connected Gu Qingyuan's brain, causing his brain to shut down.
It took him a while to reconnect to the Internet before it burned out.
Depend on!
This guy needs to go into the water to catch him!
[Absolutely not! ]
How can we catch it in the water?
Isn't this like an old man hanging himself because he thinks his life is too long?
But the barrage sent by Gu Qingyuan had already been drowned in the sea of bullets.
Bifang didn't even look at it.
"Since there are such huge creatures in the underground river, there must be more than one small exit, otherwise the oxygen supply would be a problem. So I think there should be other exits under the pool, and there may even be an underground world."
After stripping down to only his pants and inner lining, Bifang threw all the extra clothes into his backpack, then lay down beside the pool and observed carefully.
He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that there was a fishy smell in the pool.
"The rock wall here is made up of talc. Because of the wind and sand, there should be sand underneath. There should be other passages underneath that connect to the underground river. This is a water cave!"
"Water caves are much more dangerous than land caves. Once you get lost underwater, you can easily drown. Don't wait until you run out of oxygen before you think of coming back, because then it will be too late."
"If you really encounter this situation, don't panic. The more panicked you are, the more oxygen you will consume."
"The only thing we can do is to reduce consumption and follow the water flow. Where there is water flow, there must be a passage. And by following the water flow, we can also reduce oxygen consumption."
Because we won’t be able to speak once we get into the water, Bifang wants to explain the key points to everyone first.
Then, he took a few deep breaths, put on his backpack, took his camera, and jumped directly into the pool!
With a "splash" sound, the audience saw Bifang jump into the pool.
Following the camera's perspective, they only felt that the bottom of the pool was pitch black. In the enclosed environment, many swimmers had already started to have difficulty breathing and were extremely frightened.
Silence, deathly silence.
Unknown monsters lurk in the deepest place, just waiting for their prey to fall into their trap!
