Chapter 50: ◎Antarctic Sweet Girl Adélie (16)◎
After being beaten violently by the little penguin's "talisman" and almost vomiting out the food he had eaten, Klein threw him out of the penguin colony.
The Adélie never expected such consequences and left in despair.
This also teaches other penguins a lesson.
Among the remaining Adélie, even the new ones didn't dare to act recklessly, especially they didn't dare to do anything immoral to a certain little penguin.
This method of killing chickens to scare monkeys is very effective. Shi Qiao has successfully been promoted to beings that these Adélie dare not easily provoke. They wish they would stay far away from her. Shi Qiao is also happy and relaxed.
The ice on the continental edge here is not big, and further in there is the real land. After foraging for food underwater, they can go ashore to rest. It is much warmer than where they came from.
Shi Qiao estimated that the temperature in the current settlement was around minus 50 degrees, which was not something a little penguin like her who was afraid of the cold could tolerate.
After migrating to warmer places, Adélies no longer insist on living in groups. Some split into small groups and head to their favorite territories. They wait until the breeding season approaches before preparing to return.
Now is the time for free activities. Klein and the little penguin also broke away from the noisy army and drove away the three geese who were reluctant to leave.
The little penguin was very happy.
Finally, she can play with the big boss in this world!
She adapted well to the new land. They crossed the ocean to another sea area to escape the severe cold and stayed for a long time on the continental ice where the temperature was relatively friendly.
There are a lot of krill under the floating ice here, and they don't have to travel long distances to meet a group of them like before. This is a canteen specially tailored for Adélie.
After unlocking the new map, Shi Qiao has nothing else to worry about except dodging natural enemies every day. She has adapted to the extreme weather in Antarctica and can live a comfortable life in less extreme places, especially the life of a follower behind a big boss.
After a certain Antarctic bully broke away from the group, he no longer looked like he didn't like everyone before, and even his aura became less fierce.
In front of the little penguin, he was just a normal penguin, and his mood even improved a lot.
Shi Qiao thought to herself, that if she had known that the boss was unwilling to act with other penguins, she would have left the group earlier. It seems that even if the other penguin has become a social animal, he still has the hidden personality of a leopard lone ranger in his heart.
After taking action by themselves, everything became much easier. She didn't have to worry about being amputated when foraging for food, and there was no longer the chirping sound in her ears all day long.
All she hears every day is the voice of the big brother, and the little penguin is simply purified physically and mentally.
Otherwise, those Adélie were all low-quality penguins. They would quarrel together when encountering minor setbacks every day, which made the goose very annoyed. Fortunately, Klein did not have this problem. If there were times like that, Shi Qiao would have to endure it.
Who makes the other party the boss?
There is a lot of broken ice near the new map, and ice floes are everywhere. It is convenient for Adélie to get ashore in time after finishing their meal underwater. After encountering a seal, they can also jump back and forth between these adjacent ice floes.
Shi Qiao also practiced the move of walking seals. The penguins slide around on the ice floe, and the seals behind them have to come up piece by piece on the ice to reach them. Soon, the natural enemies will be tired and give up the pursuit.
Successfully escaping from the mouth of natural enemies every time depends not only on luck but also on strength most of the time.
When she was first caught as food by leopard seals and other natural enemies, Shi Qiao was a little panicked. Now she has become accustomed to it. She will always encounter natural enemies if she goes to the sea too much. If she doesn't go to the sea, she will have nothing to eat.
As an Antarctic flat-headed brother, Adélie creed is the same as that of the prairie flat-headed brother. She doesn't care about life and death and does whatever she refuses to do. What can't eat her will always make her stronger, and escaping again and again can also train her mentality. At least the little penguin is now much more comfortable when encountering seals.
After several months of hard work after leaving the colony, the young penguin today is completely different from the hatchling that only fluttered when she first entered the water.
With the help of her boss, Shi Qiao has grown into an excellent adult Adélie and spent the whole spring on the new territory after the ice and snow melted.
After the snow melted here, the original dark frozen soil was revealed on the surface, and green lichen moss grew in some places. The little penguin finally saw such spring colors outside Antarctica and ran over to pick up the lichen with her sharp beak.
Then she spits it out with a grimace, it didn't taste good at all.
Unexpectedly, after becoming a penguin, she would not be able to eat vegetarian food. When she was a leopard, she could still eat some grass from time to time to promote digestion.
Klein walked behind a pile of rocks, stretched out his head, and pecked out a small light yellow fruit from inside. He walked over to the little penguin and fed it to her.
When the boss feeds her, Shi Qiao always opens her mouth and swallows whatever it is. The small, round fruit breaks open before passing through her throat. The pulp is still sweet and sour and is much more delicious than the moss on the ground.
The little penguin immediately fell in love with the taste. She was tired of eating fish and wanted to change her taste occasionally.
The two penguins ate all the yellow fruits on the shore. Shi Qiao went to other places to stroll around and was surprised to find that several small white velvet flowers were growing there.
Because it grows in a cold place, the stems, leaves, and petals are covered with a thin layer of down, making it look like wearing a furry coat.
Being able to see plants growing vigorously in a place like this makes the little penguin feel better after not seeing any plants for a long time.
She only dared to touch the tender little flowers with her mouth, for fear of damaging the two rare little flowers and not smelling anything. Shi Qiao raised her head regretfully and then saw Klein picking up the two little flowers in one gulp.
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It's so cruel to destroy flowers with ruthless hands.
Not realizing anything was wrong, Klein directly fed the little penguin's favorite velvet flowers into her mouth.
Shi Qiao: "..."
She touched the flowers just to smell them, not to eat them!
Shi Qiao quickly took over the two drooped flowers and placed them in the same position, hoping that they would continue to grow well in the coming year. Klein looked at the little penguin who had never seen much of the world in confusion and pointed to an area with his flippers.
There is a large area over there.
Shi Qiao turned around and looked over, and sure enough she saw a patch of identical little flowers in the direction indicated by the other party.
That's okay.
Shi Qiao left the two little flowers behind and turned around to embrace more flowers. After staying on the ice for a long time, seeing so many plants felt a little like a world away. The little penguin rolled solidly on the ground several times.
The ice cap was much softer than the hard and cold ice, giving her the feeling of spring for the first time in a long time.
They also saw fishing boats nearby. When humans are bored at sea, they will yell and wave to penguins when they see them on the deck. Shi Qiao glanced at Klein, who turned his back to the camera of the human cell phone and imitated him, leaving the back of a cold little penguin to the human being.
As temperatures rise, krill swarms are less accessible than before.
The little penguins went back to their old business of fishing and catching squid. When other migratory fish schools returned to this sea area, the penguins could replenish their bodies before migrating back.
Even though there are many small plants inland that have never been seen before, penguins cannot stay on land for too long.
They depend on the sea, so it is best to live near the ice on the continental edge. This makes it easy to go to the sea to look for food at any time, but it is inconvenient to travel back and forth inland. Seeing that the little penguin liked the inland land very much, Klein went against his own survival principles and stayed with her inland for a long time.
Going to the sea like this requires walking a long distance. Fortunately, they can eat one meal without having to forage for several days. As long as they hunt well, it won't be a big problem.
Shi Qiao soon unlocked more continental maps, which were wider than other Adélie activities.
A few times, she even walked to a place with a house. She could see humans a little further forward. She wanted to go over and take a look but was dragged back by the boss.
After thinking about it carefully, safety is more important, and the little penguin still slipped away.
The warmer weather means that the sea ice melts faster and more. Within a few days, other nearby Adélie came over again. The reason was that the continental margin ice was getting less and less, and there were not many places to live, so they had to gather again.
Shi Qiao had just lived a leisurely life for a few days, and then she was surrounded by the same kind of people again. She quickly took the boss and moved to another place.
However, such relaxed days will not last long. The more they see the same kind, it means that spring has passed, and after a short summer, they will migrate again and return to the Antarctic settlement.
At this time, the male Adélie penguins will move separately from the females of the same species. Shi Qiao suddenly became vigilant when she saw the passing females giving the boss a hint of "see you during the breeding season".
Just one or two. In the end, she can't even count them on ten fingers.
Before the breeding season, some penguins take advantage of the male and want to make the male remember their calls in advance.
These Adélie styles are very open, and they don't hide things at all. They are equivalent to girls in the human world singing love songs around them, and they use very explicit words.
Tired of talking about "like" and "love", the Adélie penguins simply shouted: "Please lay eggs with me."
Little Penguin can't hear this!
Shi Qiao glanced at Klein, who was already used to it, and felt that she was quite crisis-conscious now. She had heard from the Three Geese Group about last year's breeding season, and that a certain penguin should not be too popular.
She became sour when she heard the cries of other females, and felt that the whole sea was filled with a sour smell.
The leopard world has a separate territory, and other animals of the same species who intrude will be driven away immediately. The entire Antarctic and surrounding areas are the common territory of penguins, and there is no way to hide each other from other penguins.
The little penguin blocked the big guy behind her, but she could still hear the cries of other penguins jumping out of the water.
Fortunately, Klein had no intention of responding, as if those love songs were not sung to him. He ignored the other penguins' hints and took the little penguin back to the sea to find food.
Shi Qiao sighed inwardly. The females indeed had sharp eyesight and could accurately pick out the boss among a group of people.
She was not in a hunting mood and followed Klein eagerly.
She usually spends her time dealing with natural enemies or fishing for shrimps, forgetting that the big boss in this world has no memory, so there is a little more uncertainty, and she doesn't know if she can catch him.
The little penguin swam around, scaring away all the sea fish she was interested in. Klein stopped diving and looked at her, feeling that the little baby was hesitant to speak.
Shi Qiao couldn't help but hesitate to speak. She was almost dying of anxiety.
She doesn't know how other females manage to hit the ball so cleanly and straight. It's really hard for her to imitate the straightforward calls of those penguins!
She drank several mouthfuls of seawater, and finally, she closed her mouth and headed upstream to get some air. She jumped out of the water to take a breath of fresh air and did some mental training for herself. When she dived down to find the other person, a fish was stuffed into her mouth before she even opened her mouth.
Shi Qiao: "..."
After all her breath was released, Shi Qiao swallowed the fish in her stomach depressedly and followed the boss to hunt honestly.
Anyway, it's not the breeding season yet, so don't worry, let her think about how to chase after him.
Maybe it was because she had never experienced this kind of trouble before, and she was even more timid about being close to home. The little penguin suddenly became thin-skinned. With such a delay, the whole summer passed.
During this time, Klein had been taking her immersed in hunting, feeding the little penguin until it was full with every meal. Shi Qiao's belly became round after eating, and she also jumped up again.
Every time Shi Qiao mustered up the courage to ask the other party about the breeding season, she would be interrupted every time by feeding. After several times, she was even more confused about how to ask.
Should she ask Klein directly if he wants to mate together with her when the breeding season comes?
She can't open her mouth!
Fortunately, within a few days, her mouth substitute arrived in time, and the three mouth-splitting penguins who had been enjoying themselves all summer found Klein and asked if they wanted to go home together.
Spring and summer are fleeting, and before it gets warm enough, it's time to go back again.
Schools of fish and shrimp in the ocean migrate with the alternation of warm and cold temperatures. Just like herbivores on the grassland, other marine organisms that feed on fish and shrimp also follow the tail of their prey.
Now that they have been waiting for a while, based on the time it took when they first came here, they will have to wait a long time on the way back. By the time they get there, it will be almost the time for Adélie breeding season to arrive.
The ocean is so big that it will take several months to go back and forth. When the same small group of penguins gathers around them again, it means that the time to leave is not far away.
The Adélie penguins who returned on this trip all had one goal in mind, to go on a blind date.
Each one of them has fed themselves fat and strong as early as spring and summer so that they can occupy a place in the dating market and be the first to attract the favor of females.
The male Adélie, who wanted to return to the settlement early to occupy a position and build a nest, were eager to try, including the three-goose group that failed to find their favorite partner last year.
When they came back, they were all in high spirits, with glowing faces, and they were like penguins who had been eating meat for a year.
When it was time to return to the settlement, Klein accepted the offer to go on the road together. Last year, he had no interest in building a nest. This year, he could go back early and build a gravel nest.
Victor saw the female who was continuing to happily feed in the opposite direction in front of them, and said firmly: "I must get a female this year, and I will never live with you guys again."
Koloff said disgustedly: "I don't want to live with a group of bachelors. I want to find a sweet-smelling girl to hatch eggs with."
"Shamefull!"
"Yes, I didn't have any nesting experience last year, but I will definitely be able to do it this year!"
Hoover looked at the little penguin that was still being taken by Klein after such a long time, and asked the little penguin in confusion: "Aren't you leaving? The female doesn't have to come back with us so early."
Klein said: "Thea is with me."
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They have never seen a female penguin go back with the male.
Victor looked disapprovingly at a certain "male mother" who was not willing to let his child go free: "She has grown up! She has to work hard on her own, and then she can fall in love in a settlement. Don't keep following her."
"It's just that you don't want to find a partner yourself. Do you have to stay by the side when Thea is looking for a partner?" The other two penguins also agreed.
In their view, Klein is a blind parent who won't let his child leave until the breeding season is approaching.
When she returned to the settlement, there was an Antarctic Bully by her side, so of course it was inconvenient to do anything.
After all, she is the cub they have grown up with, and they want to fight for Thea's cub's right to love freely!
Shi Qiao just wanted to object.
The person she wanted to fall in love with was right next to her, and of course, she couldn't let him leave first. Then she thought about it. It was rare that she had a voice to explain the sensitive issues she wanted to clarify. She might as well pretend to be an obedient penguin and listen to what the boss says.
Unexpectedly, Klein didn't bother to pay attention to the three penguins. He turned to her and asked her, "Do you want to go to dinner?"
Shi Qiao: "..."
It is reasonable to suspect that the big boss regards herself as a rice pail. During this period, he did nothing but feed her.
She glanced at the penguin next to her, became cruel, closed her eyes, and shouted at him: "I don't want to eat, I want to fall in love!"
The three penguins next to them flapped their flippers and applauded the little penguin's "declaration of love". They wanted to resist oppression in this way. They, Adélie, wanted to fall in love and be free.
Touched by eyes a hundred times sharper than knives, Victor, Koloff, and Hoover instantly shut up, and looked at their noses and hearts, pretending to be penguin ice sculptures.
Klein turned back, his eyes that had just threatened the three geese groups had faded, and he said to his little baby who was being led askew: "They said this to ask me to find other females by myself. Do you want to go?"
Um?
Shi Qiao quickly reviewed the current situation in her mind.
From the perspective of native penguins, if they want to fall in love, the male must first go back to the colony to build a nest, while the female will stay in the sea and continue to have fun for a while. The meaning of the three gossips is that Klein should leave with them first and leave her behind.
That's not okay.
It wasn't that she couldn't find her way back to the colony, but she was afraid of delays in the process. She might not be able to find him for a while after returning to the original base camp, and other penguins would get there first.
No, no, no, she should go back to the settlement with the boss.
Shi Qiao shook her head quickly: "If you don't want to go, I won't go. I want to follow the boss."
Seeing the satisfied expression of a certain cub's mother, the former bodyguard penguins hated the iron that wouldn't turn into steel. They were willing to help the little penguin speak up despite the risk of being attacked by sharks. They didn't expect the other party to be so unsatisfactory.
Shi Qiao also glanced at the three penguins.
She thought the gossipy trio could help her out, but in the end, they almost left her behind, and she no longer trusted these pig teammates.
The little penguin and the three geese disliked each other and complained to each other in their hearts.
Shi Qiao followed Klein into the sea and stayed there for a seafood dinner for the last time. When he returned to the ice at the edge of the continent, a group of male penguins gathered together prepared to rest and return to the colony.
The weather is getting colder, and the penguins huddle together to stay warm and sleep as before.
Shi Qiao was stared at by the boss in the sea and had a full meal. After eating, she began to feel sleepy and buried her face in the opponent's stomach to sleep as before.
She found that sleeping like this was better than spoon-shaped sleeping position, and even her dreams were filled with the fragrance of the other person. No matter how many strange and complex similar scents were around her, she still felt safe.
While the little penguin was sleeping, the three geese group quietly came over to chat with Klein: "You are very active in returning to the colony this year."
You must know that last year, when they were just adult male penguins, the other party was not interested in returning to the colony to build a nest, and even returned to the colony a few days behind.
All the good spots were taken by other males, who took the initiative to isolate all the females, and finally became the golden bachelors living uphill like them.
Hoover clicked his tongue: "You are bringing an adult cub with you this year, and I don't know if any females are willing to find you."
"There's no need to look for him. Klein is not a good male who cares about his baby. Just let those females come to me."
"It's quite strange." Victor stretched out his flippers and scratched his head. "He doesn't like to deal with females. But his cub is still a female."
The three penguins were chatting about different topics unconsciously. When they got excited, they started talking about the topic. In the joy of gossiping, they forgot how painful it was for a certain male Adélie to hunt geese next to them.
"God must not be able to stand it any longer and sent a female cub to treat him."
"He is so good at raising this baby. This year's blind date will be considered a bonus. He can show Thea to the other penguins. Maybe the females will see how well he raises babies and come to him. Damn it."
"How is it possible? If the females see him hanging around the cubs he picked up all day long, they will definitely not pay attention to him."
Koloff was convinced, and turned to Klein: "If you were half as good to other females as you are to Thea, you wouldn't be single until now."
Not even half is used, just one-third and one-quarter. Some penguins pay too much attention to their little babies, like controlling parents, and are still unwilling to let go.
Not normal, very abnormal.
The three male Adélie talked more and more loudly, and they could no longer suppress their voices. They made the little penguin in his arms move twice and almost woke up.
Klein patted the little penguin in his arms twice and watched the little penguin fall back into a deep sleep before giving a warning look to the three penguins next to him.
The three geese clap their flippers, look, look, look at how he looked at them!
"Are you really not going to let Thea find a partner?" Victor asked curiously, "If she finds another male, will you cry to death."
Klein glanced at the little baby who was pushing hard into his arms, and lightly replied: "She can be with me."
Hoover laughed: "Why does she have to be with you? You are not at the..."
The four words "appropriate age" were swallowed back hard, and Hoover suddenly realized that something was wrong.
Klein is also going on a blind date. He is only one year older than Little Penguin, so he is said to be of the right age.
Victor and Koloff also widened their eyes when they heard this.
Wait, wait, did they hear that right?
The CPUs of the three penguins exploded at this moment. They used their whole life's understanding ability to analyze each other's meaning, and then their jaws dropped in shock.
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How come?!
Has father's love deteriorated like this?!