EBE Chapter 3 The Return to Antiquity of Cockfighting
Chapter 3 The Return to Antiquity of Cockfighting
Bai Zhou witnessed the entire fight between the cockfighting rooster and the wild dog, but he wasn't particularly moved.
Ecological restoration is a long and brutal process, and death is inevitable. In addition, fighting cocks are relatively weak in the early stages, so this situation will happen many more times.
However, this situation won't last long. Once today is over, the survival rate of fighting cocks—or more accurately, retro-style fighting cocks—will increase significantly.
Bai Zhou glanced at the time; the timeline of the Retro Continent had been pushed back five thousand years.
Tracing back in time has also brought about geographical changes.
Compared to the beginning, there are now many more trees on the ancient continent, and the grass on the ground has grown much taller.
The environment of the entire continent has returned to what it was 5,000 years ago.
Not only geography, but all the creatures living on the ancient continent also underwent some changes.
Take the Central Plains fighting cock as an example. After five thousand years of revival, the overall size of the Central Plains fighting cock has actually shrunk compared to before!
Bai Zhou was not surprised to see this scene; shrinking was normal, a typical retro change.
Aside from the changes in body shape, its feathers have become shinier, and the tail feathers on its rump are longer.
The most crucial change is that fighting roosters can now fly. Well, saying they fly isn't quite accurate; it's more like they glide briefly. Nowadays, roosters can probably glide for about fifty or sixty meters.
Bai Zhou knew that in another five thousand years, the fighting cocks of the Central Plains would revert to the ancient form of the Red Plains Chicken, and that would be the opportunity for him to use his intervention points.
Not only Shirasu, but also Tanami and Yamamoto Ken noticed the changes in the fighting cocks.
Tian Guan was able to discover this because he was the head of the Dragon Kingdom Earth Online Research Lab and needed to constantly observe the cockfighting situation.
The reason why Ken Yamamoto discovered the changes in the fighting cocks dates back to an hour earlier.
An hour ago, Ken Yamamoto noticed a strange phenomenon: the number of fighting cocks had begun to increase slowly, breaking through the previous limit of more than 200 and reaching more than 500!
The increase in the number of fighting cocks is not a big deal; the more fighting cocks there are, the easier it is for one's own wild dogs to hunt, and their numbers will also increase. But what's strange is that the number of one's own wild dogs has hardly changed.
Logically, as the number of fighting cocks increases, the number of wild dogs, which are the cocks' predators, should also increase. However, the current situation is that the number of wild dogs has only increased by ten.
Ken Yamamoto knew very well that this meant his wild dogs had encountered problems during the hunt.
Realizing this, Ken Yamamoto shifted the focus of his observation screen to a wild dog that had been trying to catch a fighting cock an hour earlier.
The stray dog had its eyes on several fighting roosters from the Central Plains that were pecking at grass seeds.
Ken Yamamoto's lips curled up slightly, already envisioning the scene of wild dogs tearing apart fighting roosters.
Not only Ken Yamamoto, but others in Japan are also confident in their ability to hunt cockfighting with wild dogs.
[Japan: How many fighting cocks do you think this stray dog can kill this time?]
[Japan: I bet two.]
[Japan: I bet three.]
[Japan: Watching wild dogs hunt is such a wonderful thing!]
The wild dogs crouched low, using the tall grass for cover, and gradually closed the distance.
However, just as the wild dog was about to charge, a wary fighting rooster suddenly raised its head and let out a rapid "clucking" sound.
The chickens immediately became agitated.
Several fighting roosters spread their wings and ran in different directions.
After a moment of hesitation, the stray dog chased after the nearest fighting rooster.
Despite its reduced size, the fighting rooster's speed hasn't changed much compared to before.
The wild dog pounced on all fours, catching up with the rooster at a speed that surpassed even its own. Seeing the tail feathers so close, the wild dog opened its mouth in advance and pounced on the rooster with its entire body.
Just as the stray dog was about to catch up with the fighting rooster, the rooster suddenly spread its wings and leaped up from the ground, gliding low forward and flying more than fifty meters in an instant, landing on a high ground at the edge of a bush in the distance.
The wild dog opened its mouth and bit at nothing. It tried to chase the other fighting cocks but found that they had already run far away. In the end, it could only growl unwillingly at the shadowy figures of the cocks that had not yet landed in the air.
After watching the entire hunt, Ken Yamamoto frowned. As the cocks reverted to their ancient form, they became smaller than before.
Thinking of this, Ken Yamamoto nodded to himself. The shrunk size of the fighting rooster was very much in line with the "survival of the fittest" concept he had learned.
Judging from the size alone, it does fit, but why did the fighting rooster glide briefly?
According to the "survival of the fittest" principle, weak creatures were weak in the past, so how come they can fly in the fighting cocks? That doesn't seem right.
Could it be that going from running on land to flying is a weakening effect?
The Japanese audience, who were just discussing how many fighting cocks a stray dog could catch, have now turned their discussion to why they couldn't find any fighting cocks.
[Japan: Why are these chickens so hard to catch now?]
[Japan: Can Chickens Fly?]
[Japan: Could it be that participants from China used intervention points?]
These words were like a thunderclap from a clear sky, waking everyone up.
[Japan: That makes sense. It must have been the Chinese participants who used intervention points; otherwise, how could the chicken possibly fly after its reversion to ancient times?]
[Japan: I suggest Yamamoto-kun also intervene.]
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Time flows extremely fast in the retro continent, and hundreds of years have passed in the blink of an eye.
The size of the Central Plains fighting cock has been further reduced, and its feathers have become more colorful, but the most significant change is the improvement in its gliding ability.
From the initial fifty or sixty meters, he can now glide steadily for nearly a hundred meters.
The number of chickens also slowly increased due to the improved survival rate, exceeding six hundred.
Soon, fighting cocks will completely revert to the ancient form of the red junglefowl, which is a more primitive form of Galliformes birds and a key milestone in the White Island Project, marking the first use of intervention points.
Red junglefowl are more resilient than Central Plains fighting cocks, but they still cannot directly confront large predators.
The goal of Baizhou is to guide them to evolve into the more powerful dinosaur branch, Tyrannosaurus Rex, but becoming Tyrannosaurus Rex cannot be achieved by simply reverting to ancient forms; it requires precise intervention.
At this moment, Kenji Yamamoto, the observer from Japan, could no longer sit still.
He observed that the hunting success rate of wild dogs continued to decline, and the gliding ability of fighting cocks made them difficult for wild dogs to catch, resulting in slow population growth.
The fighting cocks' survival skills have been greatly improved, but their wild dogs have not changed much.
If things continue like this, Ken Yamamoto feels his stray dogs will starve to death.
In the live stream room in Japan, viewers anxiously urged:
[Japan: Yamamoto-kun, quickly use intervention points to strengthen the stray dogs! We can't let the chickens of the Dragon Kingdom continue to run rampant!]
[Japan: Stray dogs must evolve stronger jumping or pouncing abilities!]
After a moment's hesitation, Ken Yamamoto finally pressed the intervention button.
His chosen approach was to enhance the explosive power of the wild dogs' hind limbs, enabling them to jump higher and farther to counter the gliding of fighting cocks.
[Japanese participant Ken Yamamoto used 1 intervention point to guide the strengthening of the hind limb muscle structure in an African wild dog population!]
[Japan: Very good, stray dog, open your big mouth and bite hard!]
[Japan: Let the Dragon Kingdom see your true strength.]