"Hey~"
Qiu Qiu looked at Shao Zifeng aggrievedly, pointed to the steak, and then pointed to his smooth gums, the scaly bones on his head drooping, indescribably depressed.
Shao Zifeng looked at it helplessly, tapped its little head with his fingers, sat down and took a knife to help it cut the steak into shreds.
"Hey~"
Ah Qiu clasped Shao Zifeng's wrist with his two small claws, and looked at the steak slowly turning into shredded meat on the plate, his happy eyes narrowed.
It looked at Shao Zifeng moved, and wiped the tears from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.
"Okay, let's eat."
Shao Zifeng held a little shredded meat with his hand and handed it to Qiuqiu's mouth, watching it open his mouth to eat it.
"Is it tasty?"
"Hey~"
"Then eat more."
"Hey!"
In the next time, Shao Zifeng feeds and Qiuqiu eats.
Time seemed to return to that small rental house, and that's how he fed Balls with mealworms.
"Hey!" (Don't think about such disgusting things when eating!)
"Okay, okay, don't think about it anymore, eat more."
"Hey~ woo."
Qiuqiu licked the corner of his mouth and looked at the clean plate.
Shao Zifeng looked at it with a smile: "Are you full?"
"嘤~" Qiu Qiu hesitated, peeking at the other plate, and then nodded firmly.
Seeing it like this, Shao Zifeng suddenly felt a sense of relief in the old father's heart to see the child's sensibleness. He took out some dragon-type nutritious dry food from his pocket: "And this~"
"Hey!" Qiuqiu cheered with gleaming eyes, lying on Shao Zifeng's palm and eating.
After eating, Qiuqiu obediently ran into Shao Zifeng's pocket to sleep.
The crowd gathered again in the rest area in the center of the hall.
"Where did we talk earlier?"
Station Master Cui stretched out his beer belly and stretched out comfortably on the sofa. He held a toothpick in his mouth, and the toothpick seemed to fall off at any time when he spoke.
"Speaking of the legendary elemental creatures in Antarctica." Tang Tang with two braids raised his hand, like a good student answering the teacher's question in class.
"Oh, that one."
Station Master Cui took off the toothpick, and his eyes instantly became full of vicissitudes. He seemed to be an old man who had experienced the storm.
"Stationmaster! Can you tell me about the voyage? You've already told the story of Antarctica all afternoon." A tall and thin male voice interrupted.
Station Master Cui glared at him fiercely: "I'm brewing feelings here, you'll kill me now."
Speaking of which, he said angrily, "Is it the one on the voyage?"
"Yes, yes, after being far away from the mainland, are there many mutant creatures on the open sea?" Tang Tang looked at Station Master Cui eagerly.
Everyone is engaged in related research. Except for the shallow sea, the mutant creatures in the deep sea are very rare.
It's not because the number is scarce, on the contrary, the number of mutant creatures in the deep sea must be beyond people's imagination, simply because the deep sea is too dangerous for ordinary people to go, and major organizations are unnecessary.
Station Master Cui laughed and said, "That's not true. Mutated creatures in the deep sea don't really like to surface."
"They live in the deep sea with extremely high pressure, which is basically the same as the pressure in the body. But after leaving the deep sea, because the pressure outside is small, but the pressure in its body remains the same, which will cause them to die due to the rupture of their internal organs."
"Just like many years ago before the 'unknown resuscitation event' broke out, humans needed to wear anti-stress suits when going to outer space."
Hearing the words of the stationmaster Cui, Shao Zifeng suddenly felt a little dazed.
After getting accustomed to life here, he will try to look at problems through a non-scientific perspective.
For example, when sailing on the deep ocean in his imagination, he should see many interesting mutant creatures, and they have magical powers to interpret the anecdotes of the journey.
But when someone suddenly explained it to him from a scientific point of view, Shao Zifeng couldn't turn his head.
Station Master Cui picked up the cup and found that there was no more drink, and the young man sitting beside him filled it up for him diligently.
At this time someone asked: "Does that mean that on the way to the Antarctic continent, apart from all kinds of bad weather, only the drift ice waters on the Ross Sea side are the most dangerous?"
When stationmaster Cui heard this question, his hand holding the cup paused slightly: "Have you heard the legend of the Kraken?"
Siren
Shao Zifeng's expression moved slightly, but he did not speak.
Didn't you talk about science just now? Why did you suddenly have a taste of the great voyage of the Middle Ages.
It's hard to wait for a Cthulhu and steampunk to pop up.
Seeing that no one spoke, Tang Tang raised his hand and hesitated: "Is the sea monster a mermaid?"
"Mermaids are also a kind of siren."
Station Master Cui stroked his chubby belly with a look of reminiscence on his face: "That was what happened on my first voyage to the South Pole ten years ago."
"The icebreakers used at that time were second-hand goods bought from other countries, and the facilities were much worse than they are now. In addition to sleeping and eating, most of our scientific expedition personnel spend most of their time playing cards to kill time."
"One night, after we finished our usual meal, it was too stuffy to stay in the room all day, so someone suggested going on the deck to get some sea breeze."
"I still remember that the moon was very bright that day. A few of us were lying on the railings of the foredeck in windbreakers and admiring the moonlight. At this time, a layer of mist suddenly appeared on the sea level."
"While we were arguing about this rare natural phenomenon, the mist gradually thickened, and a man named Li Changgeng said that there was a woman singing in the sea fog, and he also said that the woman was smiling at him. "
"We all joked that he was crazy about his wife, but he turned over and jumped off the boat as if he was possessed."
There was silence in the hall, only the voice of Station Chief Cui, and everyone listened intently as if fascinated.
Chef Wu took off his apron after tidying up the kitchen table. He looked at Station Master Cui and pouted.
He remembered that the first time he followed him to the Antarctic for an expedition, the stationmaster Cui used this story to fool himself. When he really believed it, he would suddenly burst into laughter, saying that he made up all this.
"It's really low-level bad taste." Chef Wu murmured to himself.
Chef Wu, who had been busy all night, was going to take a look at the viewing area. There are floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides, which can clearly see the vast sea.
This is his rare personal space as a chef.
The story in the hall continued, Chef Wu looked at the group of children with sympathy, and then walked into the viewing area.
Sitting on the chair, Chef Wu crossed Erlang's legs.
Um.
This action was a bit difficult for him, and he gave up after thinking about it.
Today is not a good time for viewing.
Because it was a cloudy day, the entire observation deck could only see the searchlights of the icebreaker, illuminating the few areas on the front deck.
The rough sea was only briefly seen when lightning flashed across the sky.
But Chef Wu still enjoys it.
At this moment, a blue-purple electric snake crossed again, and Chef Wu's expression suddenly froze.
He rubbed his eyes, in disbelief in his heart, ready to take a look when the next lightning strikes.
Not long after, another flash of lightning flashed across, and Chef Wu suddenly stood up with wide eyes.
His body trembled slightly, and the words of Chief Cui came from his ears were the whispers of the devil.
Because, he really saw the mist on the sea!
(End of this chapter)