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The water dragon beasts on this planet not only look very similar to the water dragon beasts on Earth, but also have exactly the same living habits... The universe is so magical!

It is indeed a dragon (deaf), the most awesome creature on the planet, ruling the planet. The same is true for the water dragon beast, which has ruled the earth for millions of years and is the ancestor of all mammals. Do you think it is extremely ferocious? In fact, it is a fool. The adult water dragon beast is less than 1 meter in size and weighs about kilograms, which is about the same size as the domestic pig next to us, and it is also a vegetarian animal.

How did it become the dominant planet at that time? In fact, there is only one word: survive!

As an existence at the bottom of the food chain in the last era, the water dragon beast chose to dig holes and survive underground in order to avoid natural enemies. The mass extinction event caused the extinction of most creatures on the ground, and no large species were spared. Therefore, the water dragon beast went from being a digger at the bottom of the food chain to the ruler of the earth's animals. At this point, the resources of the entire earth fell into the hands of the water dragon beast, and the era of the water dragon beast began. Paleontologists speculate that the reason why the water dragon beast was able to survive and prosper was mainly due to their excellent digging and hibernation skills, which enabled them to successfully survive that dark period in the history of the earth. But as time went on, the changes in the earth's climate brought new challenges, and dinosaurs gradually emerged and eventually took over the dominance of the earth.

The water dragons on this planet are similar. They also live in groups and like to dig holes to hibernate.

So it's not difficult to find them and catch them.

As long as you find the entrance to the hole, you can just reach in and grab it.

This made Geer feel like he was catching mice in his hometown when he was a child. (Although there may not be such creatures as mice on Geer's planet, there are definitely creatures with similar ecological niches, so let's call them mice for the time being)

Rats are good things, especially in times of famine.

In rural areas, rats have always been regarded as one of the four pests that cause headaches, but they have also attracted people's interest because of their unique behavior. The intelligence of rats is comparable to that of humans in some ways. They are not only able to store large amounts of grain, but also able to dry them and store them in warehouses by category. This discovery has become an important survival strategy in the past years of disasters. People survived the famine by digging rat holes to obtain stored grain. In the past, my country's agricultural technology was relatively underdeveloped, and natural disasters and extreme climates often led to large-scale famine. In this situation, people had to find various ways to make a living. When they found that rats stored a large amount of grain in their caves, this discovery became a valuable opportunity for survival. The wisdom shown by rats in storing food is amazing. They not only store grain in caves, but also dry them to keep the food fresh and edible. Even more amazing is that rats will classify and store them according to different food types, creating a well-organized granary. This discovery prompted people to adopt a unique way to obtain food, that is, by digging rat holes. People used these smart rat holes to obtain stored food, helping them survive famine in difficult times. Although this method is not common, it still exists in some rural areas and has become a traditional activity.

The most interesting thing is that the food they store will not go bad for several months!

In contrast, if human food is not aired, it will easily germinate, and the germinated food often produces toxins and reduces its nutritional value. However, voles do not need to take out the carefully stored food and air it.

This is all thanks to their living environment. Voles are large and burrowing animals, and their burrow networks are intricate and numerous. There is a saying that "a cunning rabbit has three burrows", but the number of burrows of voles can be as high as 3 to 10. This difference in the number of burrows is closely related to their living habits. Voles live in a way that is similar to humans. They carefully divide different spaces in their burrows, such as bedrooms, kitchens and living rooms, and each area has its own specific function. Similarly, voles will carefully plan each burrow to ensure that food is properly stored and create a comfortable resting environment for themselves. Voles can preserve food for a long time mainly due to three key conditions. The first is temperature control. Grain contains moisture inside. If it is piled up for a long time without drying, the internal temperature will gradually rise, which will cause germination. However, voles usually hoard food in late autumn and early winter, when the temperature in the burrow is low and the food cannot germinate. Secondly, voles are very strict in selecting food. Their food comes from a wide range of sources, including stolen from farmers' drying food and lost in the fields when people harvest. These grains have been naturally dried before being eaten by voles, so they are not easy to germinate. The reason why voles can store grain for a long time without letting it germinate or mold is that they benefit from their carefully planned caves and strictly selected grains, as well as the suitable storage environment and strict drying process. Voles are ingenious in storing grains. They do not pile them up like humans, but store them in different caves in an orderly manner. These caves are kept at a certain distance from each other. This layout design effectively avoids the heat and moisture problems caused by the accumulation of grains, thereby fundamentally reducing the possibility of germination.

Some people may ask, since the temperature is lower in winter, won't the food still sprout in spring and summer? This actually involves the survival strategy of voles. Voles are active in spring, but the food they stored last winter has been consumed. Since spring is the season for sowing crops, the food supply outside is relatively small, so the food they find can only meet basic needs, and it is difficult to store extra food.

In summer, voles will usher in the breeding and mating season. They will be busy looking for food to sustain their lives. It is not until the harvest season in autumn that voles will start a new round of food storage activities. After a season of hard work, they will store enough food before the cold winter comes to ensure that they can survive the winter safely. Therefore, it is rare to see voles outside in winter.

Amazingly, the food stored by voles is completely suitable for human consumption. Therefore, in ancient times, people even said that they would "borrow food" from voles. In times of difficult living conditions, many poor families often chose to dig vole holes to get food. These holes contain a variety of food crops such as peanuts, corn, and soybeans, which can sometimes even sustain a family's food for a long time. However, digging vole holes is not an easy task. The burrows of voles are intricate and the places where they store food are often unfathomable. If you cannot accurately determine the location of the burrow, you will often return in vain.

In the past, people would determine the location of a rat hole by observing the traces of soil turning or new soil outside the hole, because these signs indicate that voles are constantly searching for food to store from the outside world, and also indicate that the food reserves in this hole may be quite rich. Of course, some holes look very clean, but this does not mean that there is not much food stored. This requires experienced people to accurately judge.

The same is true of the 'rats' in Gel's hometown.

In fact, the mice themselves are a very good source of food!

I would like to point out here that voles are much cleaner than mice!

(The older generation has eaten it and it is said to be very delicious. Even the story of looking for food in the vole holes mentioned above was told by the old people.)

Although voles look ugly, their meat is actually very delicious after being roasted. It is a rare delicacy with high nutritional value. In the past, many people fell in love with this kind of game after eating it once. Voles are rich in nutrition and taste good. They grow up eating crops. Now they have become a delicacy on the tables of many places. The price is not low, and the nutrition is higher than chicken. Provinces that eat more voles, such as Fujian and Guangdong, roast them and eat them, or dry them and make them into jerky. The taste is very good and is better than ordinary meat products. Voles used to be domineering in the fields, but now they are on the farmers' tables like crops. Fortunately, they can be eaten. Many places have controlled the proliferation of voles through predation, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

At least Ger likes this little animal very much.

Not only are they delicious, but they will not be taken away as sacrifices... Yes, no matter how many advantages field mice have, it cannot change the fact that they are mice, so using them as sacrifices will be considered blasphemous. So in the tribe, basically, whoever catches it owns it, and the big guys in the tribe won't care. After all, no matter how poor the big guys in the tribe are, they will never lack mouse meat.

Thinking of this, Gel actually wanted to try the taste of this "big rat".

Speaking of which, Gel hasn't had a proper meal for a long time.

Because of the Black Death Sword, he does not need to eat. When the Black Death Sword kills its prey, it absorbs the prey's biomass and passes it to Gel. As a result, Gel does not need to eat at all to maintain his life activities. And Gel, who is deeply trapped in the vortex of hatred, has no interest in food and drink. All he wants is revenge!

Thinking about it now, Gel suddenly felt like he was crazy.

Who would suddenly change their habits and even abandon their body instincts such as eating, sleeping and excretion?

He did it as he thought. He caught a water dragon beast, ripped it open roughly, and then started to grill it with fire.

These tasks were not difficult for him at all; he could even be said to be very familiar with them.

Soon, a unique aroma of barbecue wafted out.

Gel took a big bite and it tasted... delicious!

Although, there is no taste at all, and the meat of these water dragon beasts, to be honest, is not very good. Especially without seasoning, the earthy smell is enough to make people vomit.

But Kegel still thought it was delicious... You know, when he was in the tribe, being able to eat a bite of meat was already a very rare thing for a tribesman of low status like him, not to mention that this fat water dragon beast had a lot of fat!!!

Fat! That's fat! Who can resist this?

Braised, stir-fried, stir-fried, dry-fried, dry-pot. Don’t these dishes sound delicious?

Various puffed foods, ice cream, desserts, fried skewers. Are you drooling? Now think about the taste of milky white salad dressing or vinaigrette mixed with fruits and vegetables. It's very appetizing, right?

Why do these foods have a fatal attraction to ordinary people? Because everyone thinks they are fragrant and taste good. Anyway, it is hard to explain, but they just want to eat them. In fact, the reason is very simple, because these foods contain very rich or even excessive fat! If you don’t believe it, you can observe that most children have no resistance to fried foods. 35%-58% of the nutrients in breast milk are fat. Fat is a nutrient that our body needs, but many chronic diseases in the human body today are directly related to excessive intake of sugar, oil, salt and meat.

Why do humans love oil so much? In fact, it is not just humans, most mammals cannot resist the temptation of oil.

The oil we often talk about is actually a kind of fat. Humans crave fat. Fat is an essential nutrient for humans. In addition, it is also a super concentrated calorie!

When we taste delicious food, "sweet and delicious" is almost the first word that comes to our mind. Faced with desserts and fried foods, many people find it difficult to control their appetite. This is actually determined by our genes and the result of biological evolution. Fat is the most energy-rich part of animal food. Many meat dishes in Chinese cuisine, such as Dongpo pork elbow and braised pork, are rich in fat, which makes people feel greasy. Although some meals are mainly lean meat, such as soft fried tenderloin, these meals are also inseparable from frying. Only after frying can they be fragrant and delicious. Many animals in nature often live on a one-night stand, accumulating fat quickly when food is sufficient so that they can survive when food is scarce. The reason why brown bears can hibernate for so long, and even give birth and breastfeed during hibernation, is because they have a 20-centimeter thick fat reserve in their bodies. When brown bears end hibernation, their fat reserves are almost gone and they are skinny. If animals do not have enough fat in their bodies, they may not even be able to reproduce, because when animals have insufficient fat reserves, their own survival becomes a problem, let alone the birth of healthy offspring. This also applies to humans. Women who are too thin not only have irregular menstruation, but also have difficulty getting pregnant, because fat is an energy storage substance. Insufficient fat makes it difficult to maintain good health and provide the necessary nutrition for the fetus. From this perspective, we cannot lose weight blindly. We must maintain a certain amount of fat, which is conducive to a healthy life. In the long process of evolution, animals are often in a state of severe food shortage. It is difficult to feel at ease when eating, and they need to constantly pay attention to the safety of their surroundings. Animals must eat as much food as possible as quickly as possible, which is the so-called "wolfing". Only those species that can obtain a lot of energy in a short period of time can survive. Therefore, animals gradually developed a love and sensitivity for sweet and delicious food, and formed a reward mechanism for sweets in the brain.

Human evolution has been going on for about 30 years, and during this period, most humans were in a state of insufficient calories for 29.99 years. It is only in recent decades that Chinese people have been able to eat well and clothe themselves, and eat a lot of meat, fish, oil, and sugar every day. If we go back a hundred years, we will find that except for some hated landlords and evil capitalists, ordinary people can only eat fried food during the New Year and festivals or go to restaurants. Let's go back a thousand years, when the Chinese began to grow oil crops in general during the Song Dynasty, and civilians could buy cooking oil on the market. Before that, oil and fat could only be regarded as a by-product of farmers slaughtering livestock and a luxury for dignitaries. Going back a hundred thousand years, human society had just taken shape, some people engaged in farming, some engaged in hunting and nomadism, and the only cooking methods were roasting, boiling, and eating raw. In the long process of human evolution, the most important issue affecting human growth and reproduction is calories! How can we talk about balanced nutrition if we don't have enough food every day? Whether farming or nomadism, people have to think about where to get food for the day when they open their eyes every day. At this time, high-calorie food is king, and fat and sugar have a fatal attraction to humans. Because animals need to quickly obtain the most energy, if they have a choice, they will first choose foods with stronger sweetness and fragrance, that is, foods richer in sugar and fat. This also explains why organisms have a good recovery function for malnutrition. For example, when blood sugar is too low, people feel weak or even faint, but they can recover quickly by drinking some sugar water. However, high blood sugar and high blood lipids are difficult to treat because the body has formed a mechanism to cope with food and energy shortages during the process of biological evolution. Only humans have achieved food abundance through social division of labor and high organization, but this is still short-lived in the history of biological evolution. The body has not yet evolved a mechanism to respond to excess nutrition. This is why "rich diseases" such as diabetes and hypertension are difficult to cure.

Anyway, the race that Geer belongs to has never heard of diabetes, and even obesity is an extremely rare thing! In the Tang Dynasty, people regarded fat as beautiful, not from an aesthetic point of view, but a natural selection after being hungry. After all, ancient people saw too many poor people with yellow faces and skinny bodies, so they would definitely think that white and fat people looked more prosperous.

So even though it has no taste, Geer still eats it happily! After all, it is fat!!!