Chapter 7 Undercurrent
In a biological laboratory, a group of people in white coats were walking around busily.
Each glass cover simulates the different climates and landforms of different places.
Temperature, humidity, oxygen, are constantly changing.
The researchers looked serious and kept writing down the data.
In the tea room outside the laboratory, a young researcher took a sip of coffee and turned on his mobile phone.
Since following his supervisor to this laboratory, the only time he can take a break is probably when he takes a break from his busy schedule like this.
Soon, he stopped scrolling through short videos.
"Fuck!"
The young man took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.
What did he see?
An iguana actually chopped down a 1.5-meter-long harpy eagle from the air with just a slap? !
As a biologist, he was well aware of how good the harpy eagle's hardware was.
This can be said to be one of the most powerful birds of prey in the world. The grip strength of its claws alone is over 180kg on average. With its extremely sharp claws, it can easily pierce the skull of its prey.
Even in his opinion, the fighting ability of this thing is not much worse than that of a grizzly bear, and it can be regarded as the best in the entire natural world.
Although the iguana is not weak, it is much inferior to the harpy eagle, and is even directly on the harpy eagle's diet.
And according to his experience, the harpy eagle in the video is at the king level even among its peers.
Such a harpy eagle was actually killed by an iguana, and it was killed instantly!
How can this be?
"Wang Hao, you're being lazy again! After drinking so much water, will you need to go to the toilet soon?"
"Lazy people poop a lot!"
A dissatisfied voice came from behind the stunned Wang Hao, and snatched the phone from Wang Hao's hand.
A moment later, Wang Hao's mentor, Liu Jingcai, a well-known domestic biologist, shuddered and almost dropped his phone to the ground.
"Is this an iguana?!"
Liu Jingcai, who was as steady as a mountain, widened his eyes and said in disbelief: "How could an iguana make such a move? And it was an adult harpy eagle!"
"Where is this? In the rainforest on the other side of the ocean?"
Wang Hao looked at his mentor's frightened expression and felt secretly happy, but he didn't dare to show it.
He took the phone and opened the comment section.
After a moment, he suddenly said: "This video was taken by your daughter."
"Xinyi? Nonsense, when did Xinyi go so far away?"
"It's not very far, it's very close to Haicheng."
Wang Hao explained, "Hain't they just opened a Haicheng Wildlife Park recently? It's a huge investment. They took Xinyi there to promote it, and accidentally captured this scene."
Liu Jingcai suddenly realized: "Oh, that zoo!"
When constructing the landform and setting up the ecosystem, the consortium invited him and several experts in the industry to serve as references.
"Then I have a basic understanding of the zoo's situation. It seems that changes in the environment have begun to affect some animals."
"But it's rare to see such a significant change."
Liu Jingcai frowned slightly and walked in circles, which was his habit when thinking about important issues.
"Since the oxygen concentration has risen sharply, the ecology of the entire world has been quietly changing."
"Many beasts showed more violent and aggressive behavior than before."
"The land for the zoo was approved so quickly, in fact, this is one of the reasons."
“We really need a place that can simulate environments from around the world to see how organisms change.”
Liu Jingcai looked up and saw that the walls of the laboratory were covered with all kinds of bizarre photos.
A male deer stood on a leopard, with its head buried deep in the leopard's belly, its mouth full of blood and its eyes glowing red.
In another photo, an elephant is closing its upper and lower jaws, with a tiger hanging miserably in the elephant's mouth under its thick tusks. In another photo, an exaggeratedly large spider is crawling towards its captured prey, which is actually a strong eagle!
"Could it be that... this iguana is one of them?"
"What's going on in this world?"
A look of confusion appeared in Liu Jingcai's eyes.
The oxygen concentration is rising inexplicably. Although it has not yet reached a level that is harmful to humans, too many strange things have happened.
The world of wild animals is too far away from humans, and there are many things that ordinary people don’t know.
But in fact, signs of drastic changes have already penetrated into human life in all aspects.
The most significant change is that the frequency of incidents involving injuries caused by various pets raised by humans has greatly increased!
In the primitive jungle far away from human beings, countless originally docile creatures began to become brutal.
It seemed as if something was madly stimulating their ferocity!
If Su Bai were standing here at this moment and saw these three photos, he would be shocked.
Because the protagonist in these three photos is exactly the world he was in before his rebirth.
The most advanced one has transformed into a terrifying existence that is a king-level behemoth!
Su Bai didn't live in the apocalypse for very long, and his social class was not high either.
So he didn't know that in fact every living thing has talents.
Only creatures with real talents can reach the most powerful king level in the behemoth disaster.
Before his rebirth, Su Bai was just an ordinary person who could die at any time and had no way of knowing the inside story.
In fact, disasters do not happen overnight.
Before the energy column from the center of the earth was ejected, the energy had already begun to diffuse in small amounts.
And just this small amount of spread has already caused some powerful individuals to begin to awaken.
Everything they have accumulated will officially explode when the energy column is ejected, and become the capital for them to surpass other behemoths!
It can be said that if Su Bai was simply reborn as an iguana.
Even if he has human intelligence and a huge information gap.
It is not necessarily possible to stand out among a group of special individuals!
"We need to inform the higher-ups..."
Wang Hao looked at the frowning leader and said cautiously, "Send someone to control this iguana?"
"no!"
Liu Jingcai refused without even thinking: "First of all, we are not sure whether this iguana is a special individual."
"Secondly, the conditions required for the growth of a particular individual are completely different for each one."
"If we act on our own and cause it to lose the possibility of further progress, the loss will be too great!"
"According to the curve, oxygen concentrations will continue to rise in the near future."
"Oxygen concentration is a very important indicator."
"The reason why the creatures in the dinosaur era were so huge was because of the oxygen factor..."
"We are not sure whether humans can adapt to this drastic change in the environment. All the answers must be found in these special individuals!"
"This is an extremely rare specimen. Its life must not be disturbed."
"Not only that, we also want to remind the owner of this zoo... to stop adding unnecessary details!"
"This is not just the observation of a creature..."
"It is still a far-sighted country with strategic reserves for the future!"
Liu Jingcai let out a long breath.
In any case, being able to discover a suspected individual within Daxia is already the greatest achievement of this laboratory since its establishment.
I didn’t expect that I would discover it through a short video…
In places that ordinary people cannot see, the entire world is actually surging with undercurrents!
(End of this chapter)