The Fat Chirps were very obedient. Although they were tired and hungry, they followed the guidance of the adults very cooperatively. They lined up in two rows and climbed up from the bottom of the cave. Although, in order to facilitate their crawling, Meng Jiuzhao has carved many wedge-shaped ladders on the surface of the "slide" for their claws, but it is still very difficult for the cubs' delicate little paws to climb up, and there will always be someone who climbs up. Climbing and rolling down.
When they rolled down, they were a large piece. They were too heavy. When they rolled down together, Meng Jiuzhao could be rolled down by the way. There was no way, and the people below were replaced by ashes.
Meng Jiuzhao discovered something interesting:
George was also one of this group of Fat Jiu who climbed up. Although he was his own cub, Meng Jiuzhao didn't give him any trouble. In the beginning, George was always at the back. Meng Jiuzhao was a little worried. His cub was really not very strong... It was fine for him to be small, but he weighed more than ordinary cubs. However, when Meng Jiuzhao went out again and changed his gray to go down to pick up the cubs, Meng Jiuzhao found that George was climbing up behind his ass!
The tender yellow chick chirped at herself, although it looked cute, but...
Meng Jiuzhao always felt that he could hear the gratification from George's chirp.
Oops~ Dad, you finally climbed up. I climbed so slowly with you before, and George was also very tired. After feeling, George lay fatly at Meng Jiuzhao's feet and closed his eyes to rest.
Unexpectedly... being pampered by his own cub... this...
Meng Jiuzhao felt very complicated.
Sure enough, Kantas had to do the hard work. Even though Hui was injured, his strength was still much stronger than Meng Jiuzhao. After he went down, the cubs quickly climbed up, and those who couldn't climb up were hanged by him. Bring it with you.
Meng Jiuzhao counted the number of cubs again, and after making sure that all the cubs came up, he was worried again.
Just when Meng Jiuzhao was at his wit's end, suddenly, a fish fell from the sky, and it just landed at his feet.
Meng Jiuzhao couldn't help looking towards the sea, where he saw Alice leaning on the shore and looking this way.
"Yo~Alice!" Today's Alice is also full of vitality. She has eaten well during this time, and her body has grown a lot, and she looks... more and more terrifying.
Having never seen the female of Kantas, the cubs did not dare to show their anger, and hid behind Meng Jiuzhao one after another.
On the contrary, George and Alice knew each other very well, and with a chirp, he also greeted Alice.
There was no resistance to the obedient George, so Alice spit out another small fish from her mouth, and sprayed it precisely in front of George. Alice generously invited her brother to eat, "George, eat!"
Today, Alice has a sense of pride in supporting her family. She knows the hobbies of each member of her family very well. Uncle Gulunsa likes to eat that kind of unpalatable shells, and Mother Louis likes to eat big red fish. Daddy likes to eat shrimp, and then, cute little brother George likes to eat fish that are as cute as he is.
Whenever she thinks that these foods are for her family, Alice feels that the dark seabed is no longer lonely, and she is even more desperate to face other big fish monsters who want to rob her of food.
When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, and now Alice fights even harder.
George glanced at his father, saw that his father had no objection, quickly took the small fish Alice gave him, and started to eat it hungrily.
These fish, which are small fish to Alice, are actually very big, and George generously pushed them to other cubs to eat the unfinished part. Hui looked very envious.
"Ah Tu, your cub is really... really nice." He didn't quite understand the word upbringing, but he just thought this cub was very caring? Very... very good!
Faced with Hui's praise, Meng Jiuzhao felt a little guilty.
Only he knows that George's current behavior is not generous at all, he is just lazy.
George is a picky and lazy cub. Meng Jiuzhao often finds that he eats his favorite part of the food, and then lies down on the rest and sleeps soundly. Fortunately, the temperature in the breeding ground is low. If it is in a tribe, this, this is simply a chick crawling out of a garbage dump! ! ! !
It is tolerable or unbearable! Meng Jiuzhao issued a password for George alone: Whoever eats the leftovers of the daily food will be responsible for throwing it outside, and if he can't do it, he will be spanked.
George was terrified of spanking, so the command worked: George ate all his food every day so he wouldn't take out the trash.
It is to eat, get, refine, light, oh! Even fish scales, which no one wanted to eat, he ate up firmly in order not to take out the trash.
How lazy is this kid—
Today, George generously shares the leftover food with his companions. It must be very happy for him, right? You can be picky eaters openly, and you can not take out the garbage openly.
Letting his companions scramble for the leftover food, George closed his eyes and rested in the trembling cold wind.
Meng Jiuzhao then threw the big fish that Alice first threw to the cubs. They were still young and relied on food to maintain their physical strength every day. They had to go on by themselves for the next journey, so they had to eat.
While the cubs were eating, Alice also saw the body of Kantas on the ground.
She tensed up immediately.
"Mommy mommy?"
Meng Jiuzhao decided to tell her the truth. So, after most of the Kantas in this breeding ground went foraging for food, a group of strange Kantas came to snatch the cubs and told Alice all about it.
"Now we need to find a safe place for the cubs, lest bad people come and snatch them away." Meng Jiuzhao said what he was going to do now.
Alice has been listening quietly. She can understand many words now, even if she can't understand all of them, she finally understands the current situation.
"Other... places? Safe?" She tilted her head, and because of this movement, her mouth looked straight.
"Well, yes, do you have any good suggestions?" No one should know the distribution of this sea area better than Alice, who has lived in the sea since she was a child. Meng Jiuzhao decided to ask Alice for help.
Alice then thought about it seriously, and soon, she showed a happy expression.
"Over there!" Stretching out her left flipper, she pointed in a clear direction. Pointing to the direction, she then described the place again. Although Alice's description sounded a bit cloudy, Meng Jiuzhao finally figured out that she was talking about another ice sheet, and there were many fish nearby. The most important thing is that it is the closest ice sheet to here.
Not daring to be careless, Meng Jiuzhao immediately confirmed the details with her, and finally, he and Hui decided to take the cubs there.
Although they couldn't hear the fighting sound from the nest at this moment, they knew clearly that this was a fierce battle. Even after their own Kantas came back, it was still a fierce battle. If they continued to hide here, the cubs might They will be dug out, and maybe they will be used as hostages. Meng Jiuzhao doesn't know if he is thinking too much, but since Gu Lunsa Xiaohua and the others handed over the cubs to him, he must ensure the safety of these little guys .
Going to another ice sheet sounds like a delusion! But it is actually the safest way.
At this time, he was extremely fortunate to have met Alice. Without Alice, it was absolutely impossible for this plan to succeed.
"Next, Sister Alice is going to take you to another place to play." Touching George's little head, Meng Jiuzhao looked at Alice, and exchanged glances with him, and Alice slowly opened her eyes. own big mouth.
Inside Alice's mouth, there is a pouch that is separate from the stomach pouch. This pouch is the key to Alice becoming the egg-saving hero.
The best way for deep-sea female kantas to take care of their cubs is to take them with them.
Male kantas are egg-laying, while female kantas are viviparous. Female Kantas not only have two sets of respiratory systems, but they also have two sets of reproductive systems. After mating with males during the breeding season, the egg-bearing males will be left to the males, and the males will provide the temperature to ensure the continued development of the cubs in the eggs. The female cubs will be conceived in the body of the female kantas, they will be fully developed in the mother's body, and finally born in the deep sea.
This world, whether on land or in the deep sea, is a very dangerous world for the cubs. For his cubs, the male Kantas will live with them until they reach adulthood. Females are no exception. Even, because the seabed is too dark and the risk is higher, female Kantas even evolved a tool that can carry cubs, which is the cub sac in their bodies.
This is vividly called "hotbed" in the research of later generations.
Newborn female cubs are very small and weak. Most of the time, their mothers will let them live in their own hotbeds. After they grow up, they will be allowed to swim outside. However, once they encounter danger , or when a quick transfer is required, the female Kantas will not hesitate to put her cubs into the "seedbed" again.
Compared with the male Kantas, the female Kantas implements the rule of "if you want to get my cubs, step on my body" more thoroughly.
So much to say here is actually just to explain the hotbed in Alice.
Female Kantas have this pouch in their bodies since birth, but unlike the pouches of their mothers, their hotbed is mainly to hit something they like, and its specific function is more like that of a sub-adult male Kanta They would carry their favorite food, small stones, or even larger things in their pouches. For them, this is the instinct of survival. When they accidentally lost their mother Afterwards, they can survive a considerable period of time with the food stored in the pouch until their mother retrieves them.
Secondly, if they practice storage skills from an early age, they will be more proficient at storing their cubs after they mature and become true females.
Alice also has such a "hotbed" in her body. She is big and lives a frugal life. Alice often stores a large amount of food in her body. Therefore, compared with the little loli of the same age, Alice's hotbed can be described as a luxurious queen. SIZE!
It was thanks to this big pouch that I was able to pick up so many eggs (+stones) at once! Meng Jiuzhao was very curious at the time, and he couldn't figure out how Alice picked up all these eggs: Although Alice's mouth is very big, it was too much force to put so many eggs at once, until he asked Alice, then Alice...
Alice can't explain it ==///
Turning around anxiously, Alice finally swallowed Meng Jiuzhao directly.
After personally experiencing how the balls were treated before, Meng Jiuzhao finally understood everything.
but…
Daughter, it would be even better if you could tidy up the boudoir before letting dad in...
"Go, go to Elder Sister Alice." Pushing the cubs' buttocks, Meng Jiuzhao signaled them to go straight ahead.
Actively crawling into the mouth of a ferocious beast, the courage value required for this is a bit high!
The fat bodies of the cubs were trembling, no matter how Meng Jiuzhao pushed them, they would not move. At this moment, George finally moved.
Standing up lazily from his father's legs, he walked straight into Alice's mouth. He usually played with Alice a lot, and this pouch had gone in more than once. Even when he felt cold, He will also take the initiative to ask his sister to put him in to sleep.
With a precedent, it will be easy to say later, one after another, all the cubs finally entered Alice's pouch.