Tomorrow's Ark is too real

Chapter 990 Ecological Balance

The sandworm island landing operation was a great success, with countless spoils and no ghosts.

1 hours later.

After Xia Feng and Nanye Shimoda confirmed that there was no danger, almost all the young people in Nanye Village boarded the island in small wooden boats.

Although the excitement had subsided a lot at this time, Xia Feng still looked radiant, as if he had become the richest person in the world.

The villagers of Nanye Village were also very happy, and everyone kept looking back and forth near the location where they landed on the island.

Xiaohui's elder brother Maruyama, carrying a big net, moved to Xia Feng's side and asked.

"Fuutarou, there are so many sandworms that are inexhaustible. It is estimated that the whole village will not be able to eat them all in 100 years."

Xia Feng said with a red face.

"If you still eat for 100 years, whether you can live to be 100 years old is a question."

Maruyama smiled silly.

"Heh, I'm sure we won't survive. By the way, let's not come in vain this time. Let's catch a few and bring them home. The whole village will eat sandworm meat tonight."

Xia Feng touched his chin and stroked the stubble that was not there at all.

"Maruyama, you think things too simply."

Maruyama was taken aback.

"Ah? Could it be that the sandworms on this island cannot be eaten?"

"Of course you can eat it."

"That's it. We came to the island to catch sandworms and eat them."

Xia Feng smiled mysteriously.

"No, besides eating, this island can also perform miracles."

After finishing speaking, Xia Feng clapped his hands and called all the young people nearby.

"Come, come, gather at home, and I will arrange work."

Hearing his words, everyone gathered together without knowing why.

These young people were all stupid, some were carrying nets, some were carrying hoes, and asked him puzzledly.

"What else is there to do?"

"Catch a few and go back. My mother asked me to collect the dried fish in the afternoon."

"That's right. Anyway, if you bring too much, you won't be able to finish it. Next time you want to eat, come and grab it."

Xia Feng raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then cleared his throat.

"Comrades, you listen to my command from now on. I, Futarou, I, Xia Feng, guarantee that everyone will have no worries about food and clothing in the future. As long as you listen to my arrangement, you will never go fishing at sea at risk again, and you will never have to take fish away." Go back to the town to change things in a humble way, from now on, you are my veteran employees."

A young man with a turban on his head raised his hand.

"What is a veteran? I'm only 21 today, so I'm not old at all."

Xia Feng pressed his hand down.

"If you talk too much, you won't understand. I'll just say a word. As long as you believe in me, follow me. Do whatever I ask you to do. I promise you won't suffer."

Seeing that the villagers were still a bit blindfolded, Xia Feng could only raise his right hand.

"It seems that you still don't trust me, well, I swear to the sky, Xia Feng, if I"

Maruyama next to him immediately grabbed him.

"All right, all right, we believe you, we are all our own people, don't be so cynical."

Seeing Xia Feng's swearing, Nanye Shimoda, who is an elder in the village, also nodded.

"It doesn't matter, Fuutarou, as long as you are sure, then we will listen to you, the big deal is to waste some time, heh, anyway, we have plenty of time."

Although they didn't know what Xia Feng was going to do, the simple villagers believed him.

Afterwards, Xia Feng began to assign tasks to everyone, trying to grasp a relatively accurate situation on the first day.

Starting at noon, the villagers divided into several teams, and planned to explore the map of Sandworm Island from several directions, and at the same time, roughly count the distribution of sandworm swarms.

Maruyama is a carpenter, and his professional skills in drawing are definitely not bad, so he was distributed with paper and pens. His task is to draw a rough map of the island starting from the place where he landed on the island.

Today's weather is fine, the sun is at the highest point in the sky, but it's late autumn now, so it's not hot.

In this way, the whole island is in full swing.

Until the sun gradually set in the west, the setting sun dyed the sea red.

Having been busy for a whole afternoon, seeing that the sky was about to darken, Xia Feng collected the work that everyone completed today, and then waved his hand.

"Today is OK, brothers, go home!"

"it is good!!!"

Before leaving, everyone grabbed more than a dozen sandworms, and the whole village will improve its food tonight.

After returning to the village, Xia Feng declined Uncle Nanye's invitation. He is not in the mood to go to the village for dinner now. He just wants to go home quickly and analyze the collected data to see if it is as he expected.

Chasing the last rays of the setting sun, Xia Feng returned to the small yard on the edge of the cherry blossom forest.

"Fengbao."

"Wang!"

Glancing at Feng Bao who was crawling in the kennel and doing his duty as housekeeper, Xia Feng stepped forward and patted its head.

"Are you hungry?"

"Wang Wang!"

"Be patient, I still have a job!"

"Wang?"

After entering the house, Xia Feng lit the oil lamp and compiled the data collected by the villagers one by one.

At the same time, calculations are being made in the brain.

According to Uncle Nanye, this sandworm island has existed for at least a hundred years, that is to say, for a hundred years, the creatures such as sandworms have not become extinct, but instead crowded the entire island to the brim.

Obviously, the big sea monster used the island as a free cafeteria.

Sandworms are extremely nutritious and slow-moving, making them easy to prey on.

Judging by the size of that sea monster, it was definitely over-nourished.

Afterwards, Xia Feng made a rough calculation based on the investigation results of the villagers during the day.

With the huge size of that sea monster, I am afraid that it must eat at least several hundred sandworms every day.

If it is calculated by 500, then there will be 1.5 in a month, and 18 in a year.

In other words, the sandworms on Sandworm Island can still maintain the reproduction of the population in the case of accidental death of 18 adults every year.

Moreover, this is without human intervention, that is, in a purely wild state.

As we all know, the biggest threat to the survival of oviparous marine animals such as sandworms is not the predation of adults by predators, but the survival rate of eggs.

For example, things like lobsters can lay about 1000 eggs at a time, and they can lay 3-4 times a year. In the wild environment, the final survival rate of these eggs may be less than [-]%. eaten.

Of course, the ecology of nature is balanced.

If all these eggs survive, there will be a severe shortage of corresponding food, and eventually the population will starve to death, but it will return to the original number.

However, if human beings intervene, the result is completely different.

To put it bluntly, it is farming.

By formulating special feed to meet the huge reproduction speed and multiply the number, this is traditional breeding.

Although Xia Feng doesn't understand farming, he also understands that it is definitely not a question of 1 plus 1 equals 2.

而是，1乘以1乘以2乘以3乘以4的无限叠加。

To be exaggerated, as long as your site is big enough and the feed is enough, you can even fill the whole world with sandworms.

(End of this chapter)