They moved a little further, the distance was not too far, but the ice suddenly became so thick that no matter how hard they dug, they couldn't see the ground, and all plants disappeared.
Thinking of a possibility, Meng Jiuzhao stopped letting the Kantas run around, and the bags he took out from home came in handy again. All the backpacks were connected end to end, and Meng Jiuzhao made them into a long rope. The ends are respectively grasped on the right front paws of Louis at the front and Xiaohua at the back.
"Walk carefully, and if you find something wrong, bite your backpack." Facing the bewildered Kantas, Meng Jiuzhao had to gather them together, and explained the "rope" to them in detail before setting off usage.
Meng Jiuzhao made all the Kantas line up in a long line, and then moved slowly on the left side of the "rope".
Seeing Meng Jiuzhao being so cautious, the Kantas also became serious.
It's a pity that the Kantas who are queuing up, clinging to a strange rope, and creeping forward... how funny you look ￣▽￣
With all the plants gone, Meng Jiuzhao had to consider a possibility: Maybe they had already left the land and were about to set foot on the ice cap. But even on the other side of the ice cap, because it has not thawed for many years, sporadic plants will grow on it. Such a barren ice surface, Meng Jiuzhao suspects that it is the surface of a river that has just frozen, of course, it is more likely to be the surface of the sea.
Either way, it's best to be careful.
Now Meng Jiuzhao just wanted to leave this desolate and weird place as soon as possible. The ghost also knew that there was no food in this kind of place. As for breaking through the ice to find food under the ice like a while ago
forget it~
Fortunately, they found an old Triceratops carcass yesterday. Although the meat was very old and tasteless at all, it was big enough. Every Kantas was full. They spent a day and a half walking around. Driving here, if you can't get out... Meng Jiuzhao can only think of other ways when the time comes.
Meng Jiuzhao was the lightest, he walked in the front, and Louis was next to him. In case of any danger, Louis could fly up and down, and the other Kantas followed behind them one by one, and they moved forward cautiously.
Things went better than Meng Jiuzhao had imagined. They had been walking for a long time, and they hadn't found any danger so far.
It seems that the ice here is very solid.
Thinking in his heart, Meng Jiuzhao gestured for everyone to take a rest.
The danger came at this time—
Just as Meng Jiuzhao climbed onto Louis to rest for a while, a loud noise suddenly came from behind them.
Click—
Click click click!
This... This is the sound of ice cracking!
Terrified, Meng Jiuzhao hurriedly looked back—
At the end of the team, a crack suddenly appeared on the originally flat ice! The original small opening continued to expand, and the crack quickly radiated to the surrounding ice surface with a radius of more than ten meters—
"Don't panic! Stay close to the rope, everyone slowly walk towards me!! Don't worry if you fall, bite the rope, and then don't struggle, we will pull you out—"
Just like not struggling desperately when drowning, in this situation, if you want to save your life, the first thing to do is to lighten your movements as much as possible to minimize energy consumption. Perhaps the water can re-condense into ice, thus Increase the possibility of survival.
Under Meng Jiuzhao's command, all the Kantas calmed down, their front paws cautiously placed on the "rope", and they moved forward very slowly.
One head, two heads, three heads... Meng Jiuzhao counted the number of Kantas, and the last few Kantas in the team were already in sight. When they also came, they would have passed this hurdle—
Just when Xiaohua stepped out her right paw cautiously, an accident happened——
The speed at which the ice broke was still faster than their forward speed, and the ice under their feet cracked with a crack, and Xiaohua fell into the ice hole defenselessly!
It happened so suddenly that Xiao Hua hadn't had time to bite the rope beside her. Fortunately, Alan reacted quickly. The moment Xiaohua fell, he bit the rope and jumped in.
The water below was very cold, almost the moment he entered the water, Alan felt that the torso in the water no longer belonged to him. However, he was very strong, and he tried his best to open his eyes underwater, and he immediately found Xiaohua's figure.
Xiaohua was obviously terrified, but I don't know if it was because he was scared stupid, or because he remembered the precautions for falling into the water that Meng Jiuzhao told them just now. He didn't move in the icy water, just stared up and saw Alan's eyes returned to anger.
With the rope in his mouth, Alan struggled to get close to Xiaohua. Kantas's front paws were too short to grasp, and his mouth was also occupied, so he couldn't bite. Alan had an idea and swung at Xiaohua Out of his thick tail.
With a sip, Xiao Hua bit his tail.
Then the Kantas at both ends remained motionless.
Ah Tu said, don't worry when they fall into the water, don't struggle, and wait for your companions to pull them up.
They waited quietly.
While waiting, their eyes finally adapted to the darkness underwater, and the moment they saw the surrounding scene clearly, Xiaohua showed a look of terror on her face.
this-
Their companions didn't make them wait for too long, the backpacks in their mouths tightened, and immediately, Alan was biting on the rope, and Alan was biting a small flower on his tail, strung together in a string, and they were lifted up by their companions on the shore.
"You two...you're dead..." Qiaoqiao complained with a white breath in his mouth.
His voice stopped at the moment Xiao Hua left the water.
There were obviously only two Kantas that fell into the water, but there were three that were pulled up by them.
The third Kantas is a corpse.
"There are a lot of Kantas down there." Surrounded by his companions and warmed by his body temperature, Xiaohua finally regained some body temperature, and with some strength, he began to stutter and talk about what he had just seen.
"Dead! They're all dead! They look terrible—" Xiaohua flinched suddenly, probably thinking of the scene at that time.
After finally adapting to the darkness under the water, when I looked around, I found myself in the middle of dozens of corpses of the same kind. There is no more terrifying scene than this!
Dozens of the same kind all opened their mouths wide and their eyes widened.
In the eyes of other races, the expressions are very scary, but Xiaohua, who is of the same race, immediately understands what they mean: they are asking for help—
At this moment, the life-saving rope began to move up slowly, and without knowing where the strength came from, a Kantas was clamped between its claws, and Xiaohua was pulled up with a hollow mind.
Trembling, she arched her body in front of Meng Jiuzhao, and after Meng Jiuzhao touched him for a long time, Xiaohua managed to recover from the panic of falling into the water.
"... It should be that the entire team of Kantas fell down." Meng Jiuzhao spoke after touching Xiaohua's big head to see that he was no longer trembling.
This may also explain why most of the ice is thick, but only a part is so fragile that it will crack when stepped on.
It's been trampled through there before.
In this place where no other creatures exist, the only one who can perform this action is the sub-adult Kantas on the slow courtship road. The group of Kantas didn't have any concept of formation. They probably rushed in a swarm, so they also fell in a swarm.
Before they died, they were still dying and struggling, and finally those who drowned drowned, and those who froze to death froze to death.
The water froze again, covering their burial place until a few days later another Kantasian party crossed the same ice they had passed.
The Kantas body was finally pushed back under the ice by the Kantas.
A dragon is on the shore, no matter where it is buried, it is a bit lonely, so let's be with your companions.
The group of Kantas rejoiced secretly again.
So when Meng Jiuzhao and Lu Yi were sitting, they were inexplicably licked.
First, he was licked by Xiaohua, and then Alan came over and licked them both. Then, all the Kantas ran over and gave them a little saliva. These guys ran away after licking, without explaining a word!
It took a long time for Meng Jiuzhao to realize that this was the unique way of thanking Kantas cubs: "Licking with love".
Well, Meng Jiuzhao only saw this kind of thing when he was a child living in a group of cubs. At that time, when the fat little chickens jumped into his father's arms one by one and gave him a loving lick, It's so cute!
Once upon a time, Meng Jiuzhao's wish was to be able to be kissed by more than one Kantas cub. But now I have...
how…
Do you always feel different from what you imagined
Xiao Hua's saliva was half dry, and the cold wind was blowing on Meng Jiuzhao's body, it was so cold.
However, the experience of Alan and Xiaohua falling into the water was not entirely a false alarm.
Worried that something bad would happen if they stayed where they were, they quickly left the place. It wasn't until Meng Jiuzhao signaled that everyone could rest that the group of Kantas sat down and breathed a sigh of relief.
Worried about freezing, Meng Jiuzhao asked everyone to untie the ropes made of backpacks and spread them flat. Today they still rely on these leathers to protect them from the wind when they are resting~
Then at this moment, a fast-moving Kantas shook out a lump in the bag he was in charge of.
"fish!"
Originally, Meng Jiuzhao asked everyone to put the backpacks down just to rescue Xiaohua and Alan, but he didn't expect that the backpacks accidentally acted as a fishing net and caught a fish!
It's still a very fatty fish~ It looks very delicious~
In the following time, without waiting for Meng Jiuzhao's reminder, all the Kantas excitedly rummaged through their backpacks~
Although there is no guarantee that there will be fish in every backpack, they still harvested a lot.
As a result, the Kantas, who had planned to go hungry, not only did not go hungry, on the contrary, they ate the most delicious fish they had ever eaten in their lives.
This incident inspired them. From then on, they would dig holes in the ice every day and put their backpacks down. Although they couldn't eat very much every day, at least they wouldn't be hungry.
Dad made himself carry this backpack, which really had a profound meaning—that night, after eating delicious deep-sea sashimi, Meng Jiuzhao thought of his fathers again.
It can be used as a lunch bag, a tail, and a quilt cover, and now, it can be used for fishing... Dad, you really are the best!
Black & White at this time:
After searching in the lair for a long time, Bai got up and asked his partner behind him, "Honey, where is the shopping bag I made before? The next tribal exchange day is coming, we can take it to carry thing."
Blake was silent.
After a while, he finally spoke.
"I used that bag to pack the baby and Louie. I didn't prepare other bags in advance, so I had to use that..."
Speaking of their cubs, the couple became sad again, and cried for a long time, and Blake wiped away the tears.
"Our cubs will definitely be found."
"Well! I will, I secretly put the sweater knitted with your feathers in it."
"Yeah! I put daddy's poo in there too!"
After checking with each other what they secretly put in, Black and Bai discovered that they both added a lot of stuff to the cubs' luggage while the other wasn't paying attention.
With so many "tasteful" things, the cubs will definitely be able to find them back!
As a result, the two Kantas were happy again.
So, it turns out that Meng Jiuzhao really thought too much. What he took out was actually just a shopping bag that Papa Bai made casually, and there were a lot of mysterious and dangerous things in it waiting for him to discover...