area51novel Chapter 527: 524: Boss Yao, One Step Ahead
Chapter 527: 524: Boss Yao, One Step Ahead
Chapter 527: Chapter 524: Boss Yao, One Step Ahead
[Population aging leads to a surge in bear numbers, a path never before envisioned.]
[All the young people have gone to work, and now this is my kingdom, Black Bear King, hahahahaha]
[Can this black bear steal a cassock?]
“If you don’t believe it, that just shows you haven’t grasped the deeper meaning here,” Bi Fang said meaningfully.
Everything is interconnected, especially humans and nature. Changes in human society have a significant impact on nature.
“By the end of the last century, Japan was developing rapidly, and cities were siphoning labor from the surrounding areas like a whale sucking in water, drawing many young people from villages into urban areas, resulting in serious aging in the countryside. As the elderly gradually passed away, many villages even became ‘ghost villages.'”
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“For instance, in 2015, in Japan, as many as 190 villages ceased to exist.”
Bi Fang casually mentioned a set of statistics, which left the audience stunned. Had so many villages vanished within a single year?
Becoming a ghost village isn’t something that happens overnight, plus with the current economic slump in Japan, wouldn’t there have been even more before?
With the disappearance of villages, the habitats for wild animals have effectively increased.
A village composed of hundreds of humans has an extremely vast impact on nature.
The disappearance of hundreds, even thousands of village-like nails, has opened up a paradise for numerous wild animals, where no overpowering civilization exists anymore.
Furthermore, the transition to different energy sources and building materials has reduced the demand for wood, allowing trees to grow lush and strong.
“At this time, the trees around the villages grew thickly, and the ghost villages became a paradise for wild animals. But a problem arose. With the decline in carnivores, mainly wolves – as the Japanese wolf had been extinct for a long time – wild deer started proliferating to the point of being a nuisance.”
At this, many in the audience had already caught on.
Many people learned in elementary school about a lesson where, in an attempt to protect deer, wolves were extensively culled, resulting in an explosion in the deer population that led to the destruction of entire forests.
“With the absence of natural predators, the deer’s ability to flee weakened, giving omnivorous bears, which primarily consume a vegetarian diet, a very stable source of meat. And so, by the end of the 20th century, bears discreetly started multiplying across many areas of Japan.”
“Black bears and brown bears have similar reproductive abilities, gestating for about seven months, and then birthing 1-4 cubs at once.”
“At that time, there were no natural predators for bears in Japan, so the survival rate for bear cubs was extremely high. Plus, with increasingly fewer people around where bears roamed, by the early 21st century, wild bears began to proliferate.”
“The significant increase in bear numbers led to an obvious shortage of food within their natural habitats.”
“At this point, black bears and brown bears started descending from the mountains in
Three straight Tree sticks fell from the leaves and landed on the ground.
Bi Fang grabbed a thick branch, jumped down from the air, rolled over, and picked up the Tree sticks from the ground.
“A Spear should not be too long, being about your height is enough, too long and it’s not only inconvenient to use, but it also increases the risk of breaking. We can now start a fire and briefly process them.”
Bi Fang gathered some dry grass nearby, dug a pit, and took out a Firesteel from his bag. With a gentle scrape, a lot of sparks flew, and the flames were quickly ignited.
Whether it’s the bow drill, hand drill, or the cord-saw method, none could compare at this moment.
“Industrial products make fire starting so much quicker.”
The firelight illuminated Bi Fang’s face.
The moment magnesium rod struck, it was almost like igniting a blaze in his hand. If he didn’t hold on to the handle at the back, he could have burned off a layer of skin from his fingers.
[I’ll bet a package of spicy strips that Old Fang’s same model of Firesteel will be on the clubhouse’s mini-mart shelves within half an hour.]
[You lose, it was stocked before this live broadcast.]]
[Boss Yao is always one step ahead.]
Sitting in front of the campfire, Bi Fang took out his Harpoon and silently carved the wooden spear.
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