Meng Jiuzhao did not approach the ice hole rashly.
This year, thanks to Meng Jiuzhao's method of making ice bricks, most Kantas have their own nests. However, having a nest does not mean that they will be able to capture their own females. There are always bad builders whose nests aren't strong enough to trap the females, and these poor guys end up as wandering bachelors.
They are potentially dangerous elements on the ice sheet.
Eggless male kantas are very single and never leave without a mate, wandering around the breeding grounds all day, being annoying everywhere. They will not give up any opportunity they can take advantage of. When Louis was away, when Meng Jiuzhao was peeping out of the cave and peeping out, he once saw a bachelor Kantas sneaking into other people's lair while the master was not at home. Occupy other people's lairs plus a wife (maybe there are eggs in the stomach ==///). But the females in estrus are very fierce, and they will fight fiercely, so most of the time, these bachelor Kantas cannot get what they want.
However, there are exceptions. Once Meng Jiuzhao saw a particularly strong Kantas sneaking into other people's lairs while the owner was away. He probably hadn't learned how to transform into a human form, so he used the prototype to drill into other people's lairs. For the lair, the prototype of Kantas could not do too detailed work. When most of his body got in, the lair collapsed in half.
The female trapped inside escaped that day.
By the time the den owner came back with the fish after all his hard work, there was another bachelor on the ice field.
The two Kantas fought that day, and I don't know how many times they fought afterwards, and how they finally reconciled. When Meng Jiuzhao saw them a while ago, they went fishing together.
Now most of the male Kantas have entered the most critical incubation period. If there are still hunters here, they can only be these bachelors. Meng Jiuzhao has raised his vigilance.
Meng Jiuzhao waited by the side for a while, until Lolita's big head with a crooked mouth popped out of the ice hole, and then he trotted over quickly.
"Chirp~~~Alice!" With his chin resting on the ice, the little monster chirped cheerfully at him.
The cry of the female Kantas cub sounded similar to that of the male, but Meng Jiuzhao just couldn't understand what the other party meant, but he could hear the little guy's happiness from the tone of his voice.
"I've said it several times, Alice is your name, not mine..." Meng Jiuzhao was always deeply helpless about the way little Lolita greeted her.
It's a pity that Meng Jiuzhao was totally indifferent to Meng Jiuzhao's helplessness. The crooked mouth girl only heard Meng Jiuzhao called her name just now. In order to express her incomparable joy, she performed a difficult jumping action in the water—
The long body jumped up from the water, and then fell heavily, accompanied by huge splashes, Alice's laughter came from mid-air.
The light laughter echoed in the snow-white world, and it was the sound of nature that only a fairyland would be lucky enough to hear.
Fascinated by her laughter, Meng Jiuzhao sighed after a long time—the female Kantas's laughter is really a killer.
After the performance, when Alice got out of the water again, there was an extra fish in Alice's mouth, and she put her chin on the ice, then she let go of the big mouth that was biting the fish, and pushed the fish forward with her big head Pushing, she looked at Meng Jiuzhao expectantly.
Meng Jiuzhao knew that this was Alice's gift today.
"Are you full?" Meng Jiuzhao asked Alice habitually before accepting the fish.
Hearing his words, Alice skillfully turned her belly in the water to show him.
Well, my stomach is round and looks full.
After showing her belly, Alice deliberately exposed her back. Under the cover of dark blue scales, Meng Jiuzhao looked at it for a long time before noticing a palm-length wound there.
"Is this the injury you got today? Come here, and I'll show you." Meng Jiuzhao frowned immediately, and he waved his hand. Alice immediately jumped out of the water, lying on the ice with most of her body. Honestly let Meng Jiuzhao show his wounds.
For Alice who lived in the water, Meng Jiuzhao could do very little for her. He could only help her pick out the dirt from the wound as much as possible, and the rest depended on Alice's own repairing ability.
"Little girl, don't always suffer such serious injuries... It won't look good to have scars in the future..." While dealing with Alice's wound, Meng Jiuzhao habitually murmured.
Since she was a child, she helped her father deal with wounds. His movements were light and skillful, and Alice closed her big eyes in enjoyment.
For this female Kantas who had no mother since childhood, the wound of this degree is actually a minimal wound worth mentioning, and it can be healed if it grows casually. She has suffered wounds hundreds of times more serious than this. Big, rotted before it healed, chasing behind the team alone, worried that the moment he would be abandoned in the next second, no matter how serious the wound was, he had to pretend nothing had happened.
It feels good to be able to get hurt.
It feels good to be touched when hurt.
Squinting, Alice's mouth was gurgling.
"Mom?" The wound was healed and she didn't rush into the water. She continued to stay on the ice, and after dawdling with Meng Jiuzhao for a while, a word suddenly came out of Alice's mouth.
puff-
The mother in the crooked loli's mouth is Louis.
"Your mother is incubating eggs. By the way, he laid... three eggs a while ago." Meng Jiuzhao didn't stop, and after cleaning her wound, he also cleaned the gaps in her scales.
This is really the dirtiest little girl he has ever seen. From her scales, Meng Jiuzhao cleaned out a total of thirteen small shrimps, twenty shellfish, a large group of moss-like aquatic plants, and many other roots. Something that can't be named.
This girl is like a miniature model house of underwater creatures!
However, aquatic plants are a good thing, and only Kantas, the female aquatic creature, can get them. Meng Jiuzhao put them away carefully, and decided to add vegetables to Louis at night.
"Single?" Alice snorted.
"It's not a single, it's an egg, and it will grow into a Kantas like your mother." In principle, this explanation is correct, but the egg that Louis is hatching...what will hatch in the end...he really doesn't know.
"I think the eggs your mother is hatching are really rocks~ But he won't believe it. If nothing hatches in the end, I don't know what to do. Is it possible that I really want to steal one for him in the end? No, I have to steal three of them..." Meng Jiuzhao narrated his troubles to the female Kantas who couldn't understand anything.
"Damn! George! George!" Meng Jiuzhao had listened to too many random thoughts, and the crooked loli could already utter a few words now. However, the words she uttered this time shocked Meng Jiuzhao.
He swore that he never said the cub's name or anything in front of this loli, and he never taught Alice the words, but Alice could pronounce them accurately, it seems—
"It seems that your mother has already told you." Meng Jiuzhao usually looks unimpressed by this female, and he has never seen Louis approaching Alice. Unexpectedly...
It seems that when he was locked in the den and couldn't get out a while ago, Louis probably came to see this loli.
"Mom, fish~"
Well, it looks like he even fed fish to Lori.
Meng Jiuzhao felt that he had discovered another little secret of Louis.
Hearing that Louis "laid an egg", the crooked loli blinked her eyes, her huge body immediately rolled up, rolling into the water, leaving only the tip of her tail for Meng Jiuzhao.
Is this urgency
Meng Jiuzhao watched in astonishment as the water first became choppy and then calm again. Just as he was hesitating whether to go back, the loli in the ice cave appeared again.
She looked at Meng Jiuzhao smugly, opened her mouth wide open for a while, and all kinds of fish, which were full of it, rolled out of it.
"Eggs! Eat!"
Well, it turned out that it wasn't urgent to pee, she went to catch fish for the balls under Louie's ass.
Not wanting to refuse her kindness, Meng Jiuzhao put the fish one by one into his backpack in front of Alice.
"I'm going back, you should go back too." Dragging his heavy backpack, Meng Jiuzhao waved to Alice. He wanted to tell her not to come. After all, this is the place where male Kantas enters the water to hunt. A young female often I don't know when I will be caught and taken to ooxx, but seeing her infinitely attached eyes, I can't tell her not to come again.
After waving his hand again, Meng Jiuzhao left without looking back.
Grabbing the ice with her fins, Alice kept staring at Meng Jiuzhao's back until Meng Jiuzhao completely disappeared from her field of vision, then she let out a mournful chirping sound for a long time, echoing everywhere on the ice Echoes of herself.
That day, Alice stayed on the ice for a long time before returning to the water.
***
Meng Jiuzhao was completely unaware of Alice's actions after he left.
There were all kinds of fish and shellfish in front of him, and there was no joy on his face due to the abundance of food. On the contrary, Meng Jiuzhao's brows became more and more wrinkled.
He didn't pay attention at the time, and he didn't realize these fish until he went home to sort his prey... they didn't look right...
In the past, most of the fish that Lolita Crooked Mouth gave him were of the same species as the fish that Louis usually brought back, and they were also some kind of deep-water fish that they had been eating since they came here. Even if they occasionally gave him some strange-shaped species, But most of them can’t escape the appearance of deep-water fish. In order to adapt to the deep-water life, deep-water fish generally grow thicker, with thick and delicate meat, and have obvious characteristics in appearance, which can basically be distinguished at a glance.
But this time, the fish Alice brought to him obviously had the characteristics of shallow water fish. Meng Jiuzhao didn't notice the types of these fish at first, but when he picked up one of the fish, he had to Pay attention.
He had eaten this kind of fish a few months ago! Louis said at the time that it was delicious!
Meng Jiuzhao was happy when suddenly—
months ago? He hasn't been to the breeding ground a few months ago? Not to mention the breeding ground, they didn't even set foot on the ice sheet a few months ago!
After thinking about this point, Meng Jiuzhao finally realized that something was wrong.
Why did you catch shallow water fish in deep water? The current, the current must have started to change—
Meng Jiuzhao went to the ice cave early the next morning to find little Lolita to verify the matter. According to Alice's body language, he knew that this kind of fish had only appeared in the past few days. It's easy to catch, it's like a delicacy that fell from the sky, and the little Lolita has been enjoying her daily life recently.
From Alice's plain performance, Meng Jiuzhao judged that this kind of thing happened once or twice. Don't underestimate the prudence of wild beasts. When there are other foods, they will definitely not take the initiative to touch completely unfamiliar food unless someone has eaten it. If they are not dead, they will try it cautiously.
Periodically, freshwater fish come to deeper waters via warm ocean currents…
Meng Jiuzhao thought hard, what he could see was too limited, and he couldn't make any inferences based on these clues alone, but he couldn't be fooled by panic, and instinct told him that something important was about to happen.