The landing operation on Sandworm Island was a great success, and the loot was countless, and there were no internal ghosts.

....

1 hour later.

After Natsukaze and Minamino Shimoda confirmed that there was no danger, almost all of the young people of Minamino Village boarded the island in small wooden boats.

At this time, although the excitement had subsided a lot, Xia Feng still looked full of light, as if he had become the richest person in the world.

The villagers of Minamino Village were just as happy, and everyone kept looking back and forth around the location of the landing island.

Xiaohui's elder brother Maruyama carried a large net and approached Xia Feng's side and asked.

"Kazetaro, there are so many sandworms, it's inexhaustible, it is estimated that the whole village will not be able to eat it in 100 years."

The summer breeze was full of red light.

"If you have 100 years to eat, it is a question whether you can live to be 100 years old."

Maruyama smiled.

"Heh, that won't survive, by the way, let's not come in vain this time, grab a few and go back, the whole village will eat sandworm meat tonight."

Xia Feng touched his chin and brushed the stubble that he didn't have at all.

"Maruyama, you're thinking too simply."

Maruyama was stunned.

"Huh? Can't the sandworms on this island be eaten? ”

"Of course you can eat it."

"That's it, didn't we come to the island to catch the sandworms back and eat them?"

Xia Feng smiled mysteriously.

"No, in addition to eating, this island can do wonders."

With that, Xia Feng clapped his hands and summoned all the young people in the vicinity.

"Come, come, gather at home, I'll arrange the work."

Hearing his words, everyone gathered for some reason.

These young people were all stupid and stupid, some carrying nets, some carrying hoes, and asked him puzzled.

"What else is there to do?"

"Catch a few and go back, my mother even asked me to collect the dried fish in the afternoon."

"That's it, I can't finish eating it anyway, so I'll catch it next time I want to eat it."

Xia Feng raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then cleared his throat.

"Comrades, from now on you obey my command, I'm Futaro .... Phew, my Xia Feng guarantees that everyone will have no worries about food and clothing in the future, as long as you listen to my arrangement, you will no longer have to risk the sea to fish, and you will no longer have to carry dried fish to the town to change things humbly, from now on, you will be my veteran employees. ”

A young man with a turban on his head raised his hand.

"What do you call a patriarch, I'm only 21 years old today, and I'm not old at all."

Xia Feng pressed his hand down.

"You don't understand if you say too much, I'll just say a word, as long as you believe me, follow me steadfastly, and I will do whatever I ask you to do, I promise that you will not make everyone suffer."

Seeing that the villagers were still a little blindfolded, Xia Feng could only raise his right hand.

"It seems that you still don't trust me, well, I swear to the sky that if I ......."

Maruyama, who was next to him, immediately grabbed him.

"Okay, okay, we believe you, everyone is their own people, don't be so outsider."

Seeing Xia Feng's sworn appearance, Nanno Shimoda, who was an elder in the village, also nodded.

"It's okay, Futaro, as long as you're sure, then we'll listen to you, it's a big deal to delay some time, heh, we have time anyway."

.....

Although they didn't know what Xia Feng was going to do, the simple villagers believed him.

Subsequently, Xia Feng began to assign work to everyone, striving to grasp the relatively accurate situation on the first day.

From noon, the villagers divided into several teams, from several directions, to explore the map of the sandworm island first, and at the same time, roughly count the distribution of the sandworm swarm.

Maruyama was a carpenter, and his drawing skills were certainly not bad, so he was given a pen and paper, and his task was to draw a rough map of the island from the place where he landed.

Today's weather is good, the sun has risen to the highest point in the sky, but it is already late autumn, so it is not hot.

In this way, the whole island is busy.

Until the sun goes down and the setting sun turns the sea red.

....

After a busy afternoon, seeing that the sky was about to darken, Xia Feng collected the work that everyone had completed today, and then waved his hand.

"It's OK today, brothers, go home!"

"Good !!"

Before leaving, everyone caught more than a dozen sandworms, and the whole village will improve their food tonight.

After returning to the village, Xia Feng declined Uncle Minamino's invitation, he was not in the mood to go to the village for dinner now, he just wanted to return home quickly and analyze the collected data to see if it was the same as he expected.

In the last rays of the sunset, Xia Feng returned to the small courtyard at the edge of the cherry blossom forest.

"Wind Treasure."

"Wang!"

Glancing at Feng Bao, who was crawling in the kennel and taking care of the house, Xia Feng stepped forward and touched its head.

"I'm hungry."

"Wow!"

"Bear with me, I still have a job!"

"Wang?"

....

After entering the house, Xia Feng lit the oil lamp and summarized the data collected by the villagers.

At the same time, estimates are also made in the brain.

According to Uncle Minamino, this sandworm island has existed for at least nearly a hundred years, that is, for a hundred years, the sandworm has not become extinct, but the entire island has been crowded.

Apparently, the Kraken had used the island as a free cafeteria.

Sandworms are highly nutritious and slow-moving, making them very easy to prey.

Looking at the size of that sea monster, it is definitely overnourished.

Subsequently, Xia Feng combined the results of the villagers' investigation during the day and made a rough calculation.

....

With the huge size of that sea monster, I am afraid that it will eat at least hundreds of sandworms every day.

If you count it as 500, it is 15,000 in a month and 180,000 in a year.

In other words, the sandworms on Sandworm Island can still maintain their population despite the accidental death of 180,000 adults every year.

And, this is in the absence of human interference, that is, in a purely wild state.

.....

As we all know, the biggest threat to the survival of sand worms, an oviparous marine animal, is not the predation of predators on adults, but the survival rate of eggs.

For example, lobsters can lay about 1,000 eggs at a time, 3-4 times a year, and in the wild, the final survival rate of these eggs may not even be 10%, and most of them are difficult to be eaten as adults.

Of course, the ecology of nature is balanced.

If all of these eggs survive, there will be a severe shortage of food, which will eventually lead to starvation and return to their original numbers.

However, if human intervention is carried out, the result is completely different.

To put it bluntly, it is farming.

By formulating special feed, to meet the huge reproduction speed, to increase the number exponentially, this is the traditional breeding.

....

Although Xia Feng doesn't know how to breed, he also understands that this is definitely not a matter of 1 plus 1 equals 2.

Rather, 1 times 1 times 2 times 3 times 4 infinite superposition.

To put it mildly, as long as you have a large enough field and enough feed, you can even pile sandworms all over the world.