As a child who grew up in a family with three generations of Kantas on display at home, Meng Jiuzhao knew very well how to tell the age of Kantas.
The kantas in front of me are roughly divided into two factions. Those with large bags and small bags are the kantas who are about to grow up, while those without backpacks are mostly adult kantas. Of course, there are also very few people who carry bags. Kantas in the prime of life.
As for the old Kantas... Meng Jiuzhao said that he has not seen the old Kantas so far. It is said that Kantas who live beyond a certain age will turn pure white, I don't know if it is true.
Those sub-adult Kantas carrying big and small bags are obviously the cubs of the adult Kantas next to them, as you can tell by the way they dawdle.
Hello! You are obviously taller than your father, but you still insist on hanging on your father, is this okay? How is your dad's waist? Even if your father's waist sword is not old, is the ground under your feet okay? It's almost broken!
And you! You're already almost an adult, so stop tweeting! Sounds scary, doesn't it? !
Meng Jiuzhao looked at the Kantas army in front of him with a dark face, speechless.
It turns out... Is this what normal Kantas sub-adults look like
It's really ruining the three views—
I am much better than them ← Meng Jiuzhao, sitting on his father's neck, thinks proudly (==///)
Carrying a cub and leading a cub, Black and Bai struggled to squeeze into the middle of Kantas in front of them. Compared with other species, Black's height is definitely the tallest, but compared with a group of Kantas, he is mediocre. However, because he was worried that the baby on his neck would be damaged, Black carefully lifted Meng Jiuzhao to his head. It's a great location! Meng Jiuzhao looked curiously at the group of dragon heads below.
Then, not long after, a lot of dragon eyes appeared below and stared at him.
In a group of prototype Kantas, suddenly there is a human figure, not to mention how eye-catching it is~
"Father, I want to sit on your head too." At this moment, Meng Jiuzhao heard a Kantas say to the Kantas next to him who looked similar in size.
Meng Jiuzhao: ==///Unfilial son! Your dad will die.
Sure enough, the other Kantas looked at the cub, and he seemed to have weighed the possibility of holding up his son...
Conclusion: totally impossible.
After a while, the Kantas rejected the cub, but the cub also got a comforting rub.
It seems that Kantas is really a race that loves cubs very much.
Being raised by Kantas until now, Meng Jiuzhao's daily experience only confirmed this conclusion repeatedly.
He is now deeply grateful that he was picked up by Black and Bai, and changed to another race, and he is now 99% likely to have been reincarnated.
Meng Jiuzhao lightly rubbed the top of his father's head.
"Is the baby uncomfortable?" Black immediately sensed the cub's movements sensitively. He slightly raised his head and asked Meng Jiuzhao above.
"No, that's fine, Dad." Meng Jiuzhao rubbed him again.
Blake lowered his head in relief.
He realized that the action just now was just the cub acting like a baby.
The cubs in his family have been different from other cubs since they were young. Although they don't know how to speak out, and they don't take the initiative to ask their father to hug them, they always express their caring with actions. Occasional rubbing is the baby's limit of acting like a baby.
But... in the future... such a thoughtful gesture... will it never happen again
Thinking of what he was about to do to the cub today made Black sad.
As a Kantas living on a primitive planet, Blake would not use gorgeous words such as "heart-piercing" and "heart-piercing" to describe his feelings at the moment.
All he knew was that he was very uncomfortable now, very uncomfortable.
My heart was swollen, and my eyes started to feel hot.
Because of the cub on his head, he didn't dare to lower his head casually to hide his loss of control, so he could only tighten his facial expression to force himself not to cry.
Meng Jiuzhao hadn't figured out what they were doing here after listening for a long time. This group of Kantas probably gathered from various places around them, and their accents were also from different places. Many Kantas spoke a strong dialect. Said that he was really incapable of understanding.
"Father, are we going to a rally?" Meng Jiuzhao vaguely understood that they seemed to be going to a certain place. The adult Kantas didn't specify the specific place. At the end of the hearing, the sub-adult Kantas who had nothing to do He had already started pestering his father to order dinner, so Meng Jiuzhao withdrew his ears and lowered his head to ask his father.
"Well, it's a gathering, the Kantas gathering." The annual breeding season should be regarded as the biggest gathering in the Kantas group, right? Find a mate, mate, then lay eggs and raise young. It is a festival that only belongs to Kantas once a year.
Meng Jiuzhao didn't think too much, "By the way, what do we need to bring back?"
"Eggs... It's enough to have eggs." Feeling the little piece of warmth from the cub above his head, and imagining how happy the baby is now, Blake instructed earnestly.
"Eggs? Okay, I understand—" Although I don't understand why the tribe has so many eggs provided by Haru, why do they buy extra eggs, maybe the eggs in the Kantas Bazaar are more unique
Really thinking that he was just going to the market, Meng Jiuzhao happily included the eggs in the shopping list.
Until this moment, he still didn't pay much attention to it. After all, Black and Bai had nothing unusual before. Just a while ago, they urged themselves and Luigi to go to other markets.
Because his father insisted on waiting, Meng Jiuzhao could only wait patiently. Fortunately, he is not a real cub in his mind. He is very patient. When many sub-adult waiters around him are asleep, he is still very energetic chatting with family members.
Sitting on top of my father's head, I ate a lot of quack fruits with my father and Louis. Finally, when even Meng Jiuzhao was impatient to wait, a stunned scene happened.
Suddenly there was a huge roar from below the mountain wall!
Apparently, something happened down the mountain wall—
Swallowing the quack fruit in his mouth quickly, Meng Jiuzhao grabbed his father's head and tried to look down, but they were too far away from the mountain wall to see anything.
"Roar——" I don't know which Kantas roared first. The deep and powerful roar was like a signal, and all the Kantas present roared. For the far point, it spreads out layer by layer in waves.
The sound below the mountain wall was completely drowned out by Kantas' roar.
This scene was so spectacular, Meng Jiuzhao excitedly grasped the scales on the top of his father's head, and then, with the vibration under his palm, he heard his father's moan.
Black and Bai also responded.
what happened? What is going to happen
Although Meng Jiuzhao could roughly distinguish the meaning of Kantas' roar, he was really dumbfounded by the frequency he had never heard before.
He didn't understand what the signal just now represented!
However, he didn't understand that the other Kantas had a tacit understanding.
The Kantas, who were lying down and chatting their teeth, stood up one by one, carrying the bewildered cubs, and they walked in the same direction.
mountain wall!
The direction they are going is the mountain wall! Below the mountain wall is a cliff!
Meng Jiuzhao couldn't help swallowing, and then he found that Black and Bai also started to follow the team.
All Kantas are in a straight line, all standing in front of the cliff.
This way... is really dangerous~~~~~~
It's like the rhythm of collective cliff jumping!
It is said that many animals will commit collective suicide, but as the overlord of the planet, Kantas should not be necessary, right
Black and Bai also don't look like dragons who commit suicide with their cubs!
However, in front of them, Black and Bai are only one Kantas stomach away from the cliff.
Meng Jiuzhao could already see the scene below the cliff clearly.
He saw what could have been a wonder of the world:
Like pouring water into an empty bowl, the raging waves roared in from the east, half of the originally lush valley below the cliff was filled by the current, and the other half was also being filled rapidly.
Where does this water come from
Meng Jiuzhao didn't know it at all, but he knew that these Kantas gathered here were obviously waiting for this moment.
What are you waiting for this moment
Meng Jiuzhao suddenly had an ominous premonition.
Then, his hunch came true—
Kantas on the easternmost side kicked Kantas next to him down!
Kantas, who was kicked off, was carrying a large bag on his back. He was obviously not prepared to be kicked off by his father. He was obviously frightened and stupid. He tried to use his wings to fly back to his father on the cliff, but the sub-adult Kantas's wings were probably not very good. After flapping a few times to no avail, he fell helplessly, and the huge black figure fell into the raging water all of a sudden.
He was washed away.
The roar just now was the first signal, the fall of the first cub was the second.
Next, just like dominoes, the big and small cubs were kicked down one by one by their fathers (a few of them jumped off by themselves, but very few), and then, Meng Jiuzhao was horrified to find that his turn was about to start. It's up to me!
Blake lifted the baby off its head, held it in its paws, and carefully placed it on Louie's neck.
Staring at Meng Jiuzhao and Louis, Black and Bai's eyes were full of love.
His family's cub~ It was only such a small one at the beginning, but now it has grown into a strong male who is not much worse than himself.
You can lay eggs︿(￣︶￣)︿
Gritting their teeth, Black and Bai kicked Louis down together.
"Baby! Louie! Remember the eggs! Eggs!"
They let out a long roar towards the bottom of the cliff.
Shocked and dumbfounded by the sudden change in front of him, Meng Jiuzhao held on to Louis' scales tightly. He desperately looked towards the top of the cliff. The huge figures of Black and Bai were now just a small black dot.
Meng Jiuzhao's heart was infinitely terrified.
Having been by their side every day since childhood, Meng Jiuzhao never felt that his father was so far away from them—
Louis let out a low growl.
The situation is better than other cubs. Louis' wings can already glide for a long time, and he can stay in mid-air for a short time, but now he is almost unable to hold on. He was notifying Meng Jiuzhao that the two of them were about to fall!
Looking at the fathers who were getting smaller and smaller, Meng Jiuzhao opened his mouth and let out the most heart-piercing roar since he was born, "Dad! We got the eggs - we will be back right away! Goodbye!!!!!! !"
egg-egg-egg-
come back — come back — come back —
bye-see-see-see-see-
The echo echoed among the cliffs, and Meng Jiuzhao's voice could be heard far away.
Finally unable to bear it any longer, Black and Bai cried and hugged each other on the cliff.
Soon they were joined by other Kantas who kicked away the cubs.
There was a constant cry on the top of the cliff.
*Regulate mood*
It took a long time for the crying to stop.
The other Kantas stopped crying long ago, and Black and Bai were the last to stand up.
Then, as soon as they stood up, they were surrounded by other Kantas.
"There are still two cubs here!" One of the Kantas pointed out the identities of Black and Bai with its red and swollen bulb eyes.
"Kick it down! Why haven't you been kicked down yet!" Kantas next to him immediately started to yell anxiously, "The water is about to pass, and if you go down at this time, you will eat mud!"
Blake sniffed his nose, and turned sideways to the big paw that was about to kick off the white buttocks, "Who is the cub? We are here to send the cub to the breeding ground!"
The faces of the other Kantas dragons suddenly showed the same expression.
Do not believe! Your eggs must have been stolen!
"The cub that screamed the loudest at the end is my family! He also said that he would come back to us with eggs~" Bai immediately defended Black.
listen! Among the cubs that just fell, his baby growled the loudest! Not afraid! Instead, he told his father that he would come back.
How caring
"Impossible... The way to go to the breeding ground is different every year. It takes a long time for the cubs to go to the breeding ground, and it takes a long time to lay eggs there, and then... by the time they hatch their eggs, the surrounding environment will have changed. It's..." Although I was still very surprised about the identity of the father of these two too young Kantas, but when the cubs were mentioned, the other Kantas immediately became depressed.
"The cubs are not coming back."
I don't know who replied this sentence, so the crying that had stopped beside the mountain wall started again intermittently.
It takes nearly twenty years to raise a cub. During these years, the father and the cub have been together day and night, relying on each other, and the relationship cannot be deeper. However, the cub will have to leave its parents one day when it grows up.
Going to the breeding ground is the signal that this day is coming.
Due to the special breeding place of Kantas, none of the cubs can be found again. It would be a great blessing if the father and son could meet in the breeding place.
Most Kantas don't raise too many pups in their lifetimes because parting is so painful.
The Kantas on the top of the cliff flew away intermittently, leaving only Black and White Kantas beside the lively mountain wall.
"No, the baby said he would come back with the egg, so he will definitely be able to come back." Bai comforted his partner who was still sad.
"Because he said goodbye."
"Baby said, people who say goodbye will definitely meet again."
"We'll meet again—"
Volume Four: The Golden Fairy Tale