my stealth fighter

Chapter 525 Extinction
Both Xiaosui and Qianyang are students with upper-middle grades, and they accumulate credits step by step. Although the latter took a break from school for a period of time due to an incident that everyone knows, but with the help of the former, he worked hard to catch up with the courses that fell behind. There, it is different from Jiang Chanji and Chen Yiyi, so the two of them only take the minimum social practice courses, and they choose the less dangerous ones to do it, and they are satisfied with enough required credits every year, anyway Their grades have no desires or desires, more than enough, more than enough.

But Aurora is different, she is aiming at the honorary title of chief graduate of the year, even though it took her two years to get enough credits for graduation, she is still not satisfied, as the saying goes, the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, unless she is sure to throw away Open all the chasers, otherwise she will not slack off, and she will still participate if there is a suitable social practice opportunity, so Xiaosui asked Jiang Chanji and them to ask Aurora for advice.

Aurora had finished her meal gracefully, and after pondering for a while, she said to Jiang Chanji: "I have been paying attention to the task list of social practice, and it will be refreshed every day, but there have been no new tasks recently, not only because you can't take it When it comes to missions, there are also other students complaining anonymously on the message board—I mean the missions in the area near our school. The places where the beasts appear are often places with inconvenient transportation, or even wilderness forests. After passing by, they are likely to be empty-handed. In order to prevent the beasts from wandering and hurting people, the teachers stationed abroad often do not wait too long to deal with them. "

"Is that so?" Jiang Chanji was quite surprised, "I thought it was my bad luck, but it turns out that everyone is the same."

"Maybe it's your luck that caused other people to suffer... I learned a lesson on the plane this time..." Leila muttered.

"If you're in a hurry, you can try a field mission. I can let the helicopter take you there after the mission appears," Aurora said.

"It's not too urgent..." Jiang Chanji was a little hesitant about going to another place, because there might be something going on at school, and if he went to another place for a few days, he might not be able to make it back.

Aurora suggested: "If you're not in a hurry, it's better to wait for nearby tasks."

"Okay, then I'll wait." He nodded, "But senior sister Aurora, does it often happen that everyone fails to receive social practice tasks like this?"

Aurora recalled a bit, then shook her head and said, "As far as I know, there hasn't been any social practice task near the local area for more than a month... It seems to be the first time it has happened, at least when I started taking social practice courses. It hasn't happened in the past two or three years, and I don't know about it earlier."

"Ah?" Jiang Chanji was even more surprised. He really began to suspect that it was his own luck. Why did this kind of bad luck make him catch up?

Aurora said with certainty: "Actually, recently, the frequency of incidents has accelerated. I can feel this from experience. It can also be seen from the speed of tasks being hung up to being picked up— ——I think the teachers should have discovered it too. According to my prediction, if this acceleration continues, there will probably be a period of outbreaks, with so many incidents that the students alone cannot handle them. The situation, I am also... very puzzled."

Except for Leila, no one here will doubt Aurora's academic experience and insights. She may not be as intelligent as Zixuan's level of genius, but she is actually more suitable for schoolwork and exams. In this sense, she is a genius for exams and questions. She is good at grasping key points and discovering hidden trends in test papers and questions...Since she said so, she can never be wrong.

"Could it be...the calm before the storm?" Xiaosui interjected.

"...It shouldn't be possible." Aurora said tactfully, "Supernatural animals in the mountains are actually not too rare, but just like ordinary animals, they generally don't take the initiative to hurt people, and very few of them will be killed. It is defined as a ferocious beast. Once it hurts people, it will become addicted to human flesh and blood. It will not actively stop hunting humans, and it will not unite in order to... accumulate strength to create a storm and decide to temporarily hide its power and not hurt people. They are all driven by instinct, of different kinds, and they don't come together to discuss anything."

Xiaosui snorted, not caring about her opinion being denied.

What Aurora said is very reasonable. Zixuan also told them before that human beings are the only large organisms that have a stable source of salt intake among the land animals on earth. Other animals work very hard to replenish salt in their bodies. So once a ferocious beast tastes human flesh and blood, it will think—oh, KFC is better than fried chicken without soy sauce, so it’s better to eat KFC in the future.

But Jiang Chanji's doubts deepened.

"Then what do you think...what's going on with this situation?" Jiang Chanji originally wanted to ask when this situation would end, but then he thought it was wrong. Isn't this asking for the occurrence of fierce beasts hurting people?Logically, it would be nice if this situation never ended, but what about his credits?
"The key point should be, why is only the nearby area so calm?" Aurora corrected, "You know, things are still as usual in places farther away, and there are occasional incidents of fierce beasts hurting people."

"How far is this 'nearby area'?" he asked.

"Probably within a radius of three or four hundred kilometers."

"So far?" He thought that the so-called "nearby" means within tens of kilometers nearby.

"This kind of distance is not too far within the mileage of modern transportation, right?" Aurora said, "Of course this is my own division, mainly based on the terrain and terrain, with mountains and rivers as the dividing line."

Jiang Chanji nodded. The division of Aurora is quite scientific. The types of animals and plants are often bounded by mountains and rivers. The species on both sides may be completely different. The taller and longer the mountains, the more so.

"So what is your opinion?"

Facing Xueba, just ask the answer directly.

"After thinking about it, there are only three reasons." Aurora analyzed, "One is that due to some unknown reason in the nearby area, the animals can no longer awaken. But this possibility is too low. If it comes true, it may be a big deal, because this situation has not happened since the first extraordinary person awakened; second, the extraordinary animals in the nearby area all spontaneously The possibility of this situation is also very low, because it means that they are aware of some kind of terrifying existence nearby, and they can only avoid it in order to survive; Three, some people are spontaneously hunting ferocious beasts or superhuman animals, compared to the first two, the third one is quite absurd, but... barely passable."

"Why do you say the third option is ridiculous?" Jiang Chanji thought of Ouyang Caiyue, and felt that the third option was quite reasonable. Maybe someone would make a move for the valuable things on the extraordinary animal.

Aurora looked at him speechlessly, "Our school cooperates with the public security system, and we will notify our school as soon as possible when there is a suspected beast incident. Only then can we get the general location of the beast. How can others know where there is a beast in advance? Extraordinary animal?"

"That's right." Jiang Chanji scratched his head. Ouyang Caiyue came to look for the extraordinary gorilla after getting the news.

"Unless someone awakens... the ability of 'Supernatural Animal Radar', and then team up with other people to hunt and kill supernatural animals and share the spoils. This is reasonable, so I say that the third possibility is absurd, but it is relatively reasonable. Words are the most likely, after all, no one dares to assert that such ability does not exist." Aurora said.

"Uh..." Jiang Chan thought that the squid whisker should be his radar, but it usually only pointed out the supernatural animals or superhumans that threatened him. If there was no threat, it didn't bother to point it out.

"Why is the second impossible?" Layla said half-deliberately finding fault.

Aurora didn't want to talk to her at first, but seeing that other people were also looking forward to her explanation, she could only say: "Because...it's unlikely. This kind of statement is common in novels, but it's extremely rare in nature. In reality, it is impossible. Where there are sharks in the waters, will other fish disappear? Where there are tigers in the mountains, will all other animals run away? The giant bear you met in the crash forest last time has already disappeared. It can be regarded as the overlord of that forest, but there are not many other animals in the forest."

Jiang Chanji and others suddenly realized that this kind of statement is very common and bluffing in novels, but it is not realistic in reality. It is very common for prey and hunter to live in the same area, and prey will not live in this area because of natural enemies. Just move the whole family, after all, other places may not be safe, staying is nothing more than playing hide-and-seek with natural enemies.

"The biggest loophole of this statement is that each beast has a specific diet. If you say that seals escape because of the presence of sharks, then there is no need for turtles to escape? Neither do crabs. Most common small and medium-sized fish There is no need to escape. Sharks will not eat them to fill their stomachs. In fact, even seals have not escaped. If they want to continue the race from predators, as long as they have enough babies, predators can’t eat them anyway. use up."

Aurora paused for a moment, feeling that what she said was too absolute, and added: "The only condition for this to be true, I am afraid, is the emergence of a special kind of... extraordinary animal that only picks other extraordinary animals. Extraordinary animals eat, have no interest in ordinary animals, and have no interest in ordinary people, so there have been no fierce beast incidents, and there must be only one such animal, otherwise it will be difficult for just one animal to make the extraordinary within a radius of three or four hundred kilometers. Animals are extinct, they have to live in groups, or they are birds of prey, but extraordinary animals like birds of prey are too conspicuous in the air, so this kind of animal must be very stealthy, good at hiding its tracks..."

At this point, she suddenly opened her mouth and stopped talking.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly dropped to a freezing point, and this was a freezing point that even Xiaosui couldn't ease.

Everyone understands why Aurora didn't say anything, because everyone knows what she suddenly thought of, and they all thought of that kind of thing.

Cryptomonkey?
In the crisp autumn weather, they felt a little cold sitting in the restaurant.

Except that it is not sure whether the Cryptomonkey only feeds on extraordinary animals, other aspects seem to be quite consistent.

But it's not impossible for the Cryptomonkeys to feed on otherworldly animals, since they come from another world, another world where awakening is common.

"No... no way?" Xiaosui smiled palely, "Didn't the two recluse monkeys that appeared in the depression last time die and one was injured, and then fled back to the other side of the 'passage' with their tails between their legs?"

"But who can be sure, only two hermit monkeys came out of the 'passage'? We couldn't see them at the time, so we can only say that two of them participated in the attack on us." Jiang Chanji swallowed, not full My appetite was full at once.

"Having said that... three, four, or five at most, it's impossible to have more, and if you take out the two that were killed and one injured, the remaining two or three fish that slipped through the net wouldn't be able to cause any trouble, right? Laura didn't say anything, it has to be a group..." Xiaosui argued.

"But don't forget, Zixuan also said that the animals in that world may be parthenogenetic, and these two or three may be able to give birth to each of them, and they may even be pregnant in the first place. If you add high-yielding Like sows, there are no natural enemies for them in this world... Although I am not good at math, this is exponential growth, right?"

Jiang Chanji had already told about Zixuan's parthenogenesis to other people who were not present at that time.

The most important thing is that there are no natural enemies. The cryptomonkeys must have natural enemies in that world, otherwise they would have already dominated that world.

This world does not allow the existence of absolute invincibility such as the Angel of Light. In fact, no matter which world does not allow the existence of absolute invincibility, everything born must have a gram. If a certain animal has no obvious natural enemies, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, then they The number of animals must be relatively small, and they exist as the tip of the pyramid on the food chain... There are only a large number of animals without obvious natural enemies, and there is only human beings on the earth, if you don't count cockroaches.

But this world has not evolved any natural enemies that can restrain the recluse monkeys. If they are mixed in, it will be an extremely dangerous alien species invasion. One of the reasons why the school teachers took great risks to block the "passage" is because they are afraid of this. In this situation, especially the whereabouts of animals like cryptic monkeys are too stealthy. If they are not interested in ordinary people and ordinary animals, and only hunt extraordinary animals, it is indeed possible for them to lurk for a long time without being noticed by humans.

Moreover, if they hunt supernatural animals for food, then superhuman... is also a kind of prey that can be included in the diet for them?
(End of this chapter)