The deeper you go into Maduo County, desertification is becoming more and more serious.

Shen Qi saw sand pits of all sizes, which were dry lakes.

"Mado County had more than 4,000 lakes in the 1960s, but now only one quarter of them are left. The fish are gone, the grass is gone, and the gold is seized, and all the remaining are large deserts, ecological refugees and national poverty-stricken counties." Shen Qi was very sad. Humans asked for resources from nature without restraint, but in the end they were punished.

"It's not that bad." The driver sighed, and he showed regret: "Professor Chen, the big pit on the left used to be a lake. The lake water was clear and could be used to be scattered with a small net to catch more than 100 kilograms of fish. Naked carp is a specialty at the source of the Yellow River. This kind of fish grows slowly. A bare carp with seven or eight kilograms of yellow river will grow for more than ten or twenty years. Now there are almost no wild bare carp, and the ecological damage is too serious."

"Once the ecology of the source basin of the Yellow River is unbalanced, the middle and lower reaches will be damaged even more." Shen Qi took a picture of the devastated desert and said, "Master Zhang, stop, I'll take a sample."

The car is parked on the side of the road, and there is no traffic police here and you can't see passing vehicles, so you don't have to worry too much about illegal parking or something.

Shen Qi got off the car to take samples, and the two graduate students helped.

The two graduate students are from the School of Literature and History and the School of Physics of Yan University. They are both literature and science. They volunteer to come to the western part of the motherland and become teaching teachers.

Shen Qi used a portable microwave radiator and a wind profile detector to detect the temperature, humidity, wind direction and latitude wind direction in this area.

Two graduate students took soil and vegetation samples and put them in sealed bags.

"Xiao Gan, Xiao Meng, you haven't arrived in Maduo County yet, and you still have time to change your mind." Shen Qi said to the two graduate volunteers.

"I've come here, I never thought of becoming a deserter." Liberal arts student Xiao Gan was determined.

"Gold and silver are not as good as green waters and green mountains, and there is great potential for the vast world." Science student Xiao Meng expressed his strong determination to contribute to the construction of the western region.

Everyone has their own ambitions, and no one forces them to do so. These two graduate students consciously and voluntarily teach. In the places where the motherland needs them the most, they use the knowledge they have learned to do something within their ability.

Shen Qi nodded and said, "Okay, during the teaching support period, if you encounter any problems or obstacles, you can contact me directly."

In this era when entertainment and materialism are paramount, there are many outstanding young people in developed countries, and intellectuals who volunteer to come to poor areas are particularly valuable.

"That clump should be a thorny bean plant, Xiao Meng, take samples." Shen Qi pointed not far away.

"Ok." Xiao Meng's major is astronomy, and sampling vegetation cannot hinder him.

Due to the influence of overgrazing, disorderly gold mining, Cordyceps mining, and natural factors such as global warming, a large amount of vegetation in this area has been damaged and the grassland has been degraded very seriously.

Man-made disasters and natural disasters have caused the desert gravel land in Maduo County and the area of ​​bare land without vegetation cover more than half of the county's land area.

Looking around, the yellowish yellow color of the desert is the main color of this once rich land.

Green grasses are dotted in the desert, and the average height of the grasses is visually measured not exceeding 5 cm.

Moreover, the grass is filled with poisonous thorn beans, which can be clearly judged that it cannot be grazed here, and no valuable human production activities can be carried out here. Desolation is still spreading, and it is no longer suitable for human survival.

Xiao Meng was collecting thorn beans, and suddenly an animal jumped out of the cave under the plant.

"Damn it, there is an ambush!" Xiao Meng, who was caught off guard, was startled and almost handed over a flash.

The yin cart squatting in the grass is spherical in shape, a little smaller than a rabbit and a little larger than a field mouse.

The slut has no tail and has a pair of small ears, which looks like both a rabbit and a mouse.

The animal was standing upright afterwards, and her eyes were rolling around. It seemed that she had no attack power, but was a little cute.

After receiving the signal that his teammate met Fu, Shen Qi quickly supported Xiao Meng and captured the cute animals alive.

"Squeak!" The little animals finally realized that the group of bipedal humanoid monsters who broke into their territory wanted to make trouble!

Shen Qi punched the small animal and dislocated it to death.

"It has control and explosion, Professor Chen is very skilled!" Xiao Meng witnessed Professor Chen's amazing combat power. He looked at the executed animal and asked, "Is this guy a rabbit or a mouse?"

"This is a rat and rabbit, a creature that is relatively close to rabbits, and it moves in high altitude areas." Shen Qi took samples of rat and rabbit for scientific research purposes.

"Rat isn't a protective animal, right?" Xiao Meng asked.

"This cute little animal is a vicious beast in this area." Shen Qi looked around and saw many caves on the land: "Look, those caves are all caves of rats and rabbits. They eat grass, dig grass roots, and have super reproductive ability, which has caused the severely degraded grassland to make the worse. The natural enemies of rats and rabbits are eagles, lynxes, golden leopards, and clouded leopards. However, the natural enemies of rats and rabbits in this area have been hunted and killed by humans within more than ten years, and are mostly caused by poachers."

"The food chain is broken, the ecological imbalance is imbalanced, rats and rabbits are reproducing in large quantities, they eat all the grass, and there is no cattle and sheep to eat. They threaten the living environment of human beings." Xiao Meng hated poachers extremely, and poachers frantically hunted and killed precious wild animals. The local indigenous people in Maduo County were punished by nature.

"There is no harm without a deal." Shen Qi patted Xiao Meng's shoulder and prepared to continue on the road.

At this time, countless heads appeared in the caves on the surrounding land, big and small, gray and white, all of which were rats and rabbits.

The rabbits are crowded and dense.

A rat rabbit is a cute creature, but thousands of rat rabbits are densely packed together, staring at the four humans in some unified and strange posture and eyes, which makes Shen Qi and others numb on their scalp.

Xiao Meng, who had dense phobia, no longer thought the rat rabbit was cute. He quickly ran into the car and slammed the door: "Retreat, don't start a group with them!"

The driver started the car, walked along the highway, and headed towards Maduo County.

Doudou!

Didi!

The driver, Master Zhang, clamored the car horn quickly, frightening the Rat and Rabbit Legion that was about to open the group.

Master Zhang is still experienced. Rats are rats, so how dare you really be against humans?

Crunch!

Click!

During the driving process, within 500 meters, Master Zhang's car smashed more than a dozen rats and rabbits to death.

The rats and rabbits who were fleeing in panic could not tell the direction, so they ran under the wheel to die.

"These rats and rabbits are very annoying. They can be said to have formed a rat disaster. In Maduo County, the grass eaten by rats and field mice every year is equivalent to the amount of grass for all cattle and sheep in the county in three years." In the eyes of Master Zhang, these rats and rabbits are beasts.

After driving for hundreds of meters, more than a dozen rats and rabbits were crushed to death, which shows that rats in this area are indeed disasters.
Chapter completed!