Live Streaming: Great Adventure in the Wilderness-Chapter 575 - 572

Cicadas were crying for their lives, and the world outside was filled with the blinding sunlight, the shadow of the eaves on the ground sharp as knives.

Gang Tianwu stood by the window and tugged at his collar, the air conditioning repairman had yet to arrive, and in just over ten minutes, he was feeling unbearably hot, his saliva sticky like glue in his throat, the office stuffy as if it were the steamer where monsters in "Journey to the West" cooked the fat monk.

There was a knock at the door, and a team member stood at the entrance, saying, "Group Leader Gang Tianwu, someone wants to see you."

"Who?"

"Chief Matsumoto Kiyonaga from Taiji Town."

"Do I know him?"

"Chief Matsumoto asked us for the hunters’ information from the hunting season a couple of days ago."

"Oh!"

Once the team member mentioned it, Gang Tianwu recalled some memories, strode back to his seat, tidied up his desk briefly, wiped off the sweat, and nodded, "Invite Chief Matsumoto in, please."

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A moment later, Gang Tianwu stood up to greet him, "Ah, Chief Matsumoto’s visit is a surprise, you should have said something in advance. How was it, have you checked the previous information? Any issues? Nagano, pour Chief Matsumoto a cup of tea."

Matsumoto had come straight from the subway station without a moment’s rest to see Gang Tianwu, not even having time for a drink, drenched in sweat. He thanked Nagano as he poured the tea, and after gulping down an entire cup, he finally caught his breath, "I apologize, Group Leader Gang, I’ll skip the pleasantries.

There was nothing wrong with the information, but how much do you know about Bertrand Guy?"

"Oh, you mean the hunter ranked second? Do you remember him?"

"I do." Gang Tianwu nodded, as he was the one who ultimately confirmed the participants’ list, of course he remembered, especially the second-ranked, almost knowing it by heart.

"Bertrand Guy, born in Ugly Country Minnesota State, has held a professional hunter’s license for over thirty years, enlisted when he was young and performed excellently, and after ten years of service, he retired. He has been a truck driver, hunter, archer, actor, singer, sailor, engineer, farmer, with a total of more than fifteen black and brown bears hunted, which is quite an impressive resume."

Bertrand’s career was so diversified and spanned such a broad range that one might wonder if it was fabricated. This man in his fifties had an extremely rich life experience.

His application quickly caught the attention of the reviewers, who placed him on the list, and Gang Tianwu also readily agreed upon seeing it.

Connecting this to Matsumoto’s previous actions and his haste in coming here definitely wouldn’t be without reason, Gang Tianwu thought for a moment, "Is there a problem with him?"

"I can’t be sure, but there is a good chance." Chief Matsumoto Kiyonaga didn’t dare to confirm it outright, then he asked Gang Tianwu, "Are you familiar with Tiangella?"

"Tiangella? What is that?" Gang Tianwu was confused.

Chief Matsumoto Kiyonaga let out a long sigh of relief, as expected, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was also unaware of it, and he explained with slight pride, "It is an international company..."

At that moment, Nagano brought a second cup of water, and Chief Matsumoto Kiyonaga received it with a smile. This time he didn’t gulp it down but held it in his hand, sipping slowly.

Without utilization, there is no protection.

That was Tiangella’s company philosophy, and also what they had always professed externally.

In this regard, it was almost identical to what Bi Fang had said in an interview program half a year ago.

Commercial hunting protects wildlife animals.

This viewpoint had been briefly explained by Bi Fang, supported by a systematic chain of relationships.

Chief Matsumoto Kiyonaga took out his phone, opened a video, and showed it to Gang Tianwu.

In the Old Stone Age, when the human species had just been born, agriculture was yet to appear. As omnivores at the top of the food chain, humans relied on a combination of hunting and gathering to survive and develop, mere parts of nature like any other dominant species at the top of the food chain.

During the process of hunting, clever humans invented spears and bows and arrows, and with them came the habit of collaborative survival, which laid the foundation for modern civilization.

At this point, humans thoroughly established themselves as the sovereigns of the natural world, the relationship with wild animals being a very direct food chain dynamic.

The upper-level species depended on preying on lower-level species to survive and continue their existence.

In the Old Stone Age, humans definitely did not have the concept of wildlife conservation.

However, through repeated trial and error, humans instinctively understood not to over-hunt or over-gather.

One reason was the lack of good storage conditions to save any surplus harvest, and the second was to avoid unnecessary trouble for the next hunt.

On this point, there are two most direct pieces of evidence.

First, we can see species like pigs, horses, cattle, and sheep that have been domesticated today. They were formed during the Old Stone Age, and this process of domestication was a way of "protecting" animals.

Domestic animals like pigs, horses, cattle, and sheep have become the mammals with the most abundant numbers in the world, the reason being their value, which leads humans to want to breed them.

Second, studies on primitive Old Stone Age tribal civilizations that still exist in contemporary society have shown that they consciously protect the healthy breeding and continuation of populations in their habitats.

This awareness of not exploiting excessively is the bud of the animal conservation mindset, a practice that creates conditions for better sustainable use in the future.

"If farming is not done at the right season, the grains will be inedible; if fishing nets are not used thoughtfully in the Tamaki Pool, fish and turtles will be inedible; if axes and saws are used responsibly in the forests, timber will not be overly consumed." The point of the grains and fish and turtles being inedible, and the timber being overly consumed, is to let the people live and die without regrets.

Living and dying without regrets is the beginning of the king’s way.

Mencius explained this principle thousands of years ago.

After that, a series of even more complex changes took place, as the agricultural-pastoral model replaced the hunting-gathering model, and human survival no longer relied directly on the use of wild animals, loosening the direct food chain link between them.

Thereafter, the emergence of metallurgy enabled the large-scale use of metal farm tools, leading to a qualitative change in the efficiency of farming, and increasingly more human groups began to completely break away from the direct use of wild animals.

Humans became the single species at the very top of the food chain, with no wild animals they couldn’t hunt down.

Humans started focusing on the efficiency of obtaining meat, with large-scale animal husbandry replacing hunting, the main purpose of which was no longer just for food.

As the wheels of history continued to turn, the Age of Discovery dawned between the 15th and 17th centuries, giving rise to significant geographical discoveries and the great exchange of species.

Crops like potatoes and sweet potatoes appeared, with more efficient agricultural-pastoral models further squeezing out the residual hunting-gathering model, blurring humanity’s bond with nature.

Humans began to isolate themselves from wild animals, inhabiting towns and cities, while wildlife took to the jungles. The food chain relationship between them almost completely disappeared, and they ceased to coexist in the same area; the boundaries between their territories became clear, and their paths no longer crossed.

The wheel stopped in the modern era.

Humans have become a species that can only survive and develop by relying on an economic society. With modern agriculture and animal husbandry increasingly developed, ordinary people no longer need to utilize wild animals, so their value has plummeted, reducing them to nothing more than objects for the rich to pursue for excitement and aesthetic pleasure.

Ordinary people might take real action over the price of pork going up, but they wouldn’t give a second thought to something that only the rich care about.

The words in the video abruptly stopped, and Gang Tianwu pressed the pause button. He had been very patient: "What is Chief Matsumoto trying to say?"

Sitting upright, Matsumoto Kiyonaga said, "I would like you to agree to suspend the hunting season and allow me to arrest Bertrand Guy!"