The sea breeze in the polar night is cold and lonely.
Fang Ning stared at the sea, puzzled. The tide was getting stronger and the moon was approaching, but the observatory did not warn in advance. This was obviously abnormal.
He looked around subconsciously, waiting for the dragon and carp to come back from their exploration, passing the time.
In the gray night, far to the west, under a mountain peak, one can vaguely see ice walls with obvious artificial traces, stacked neatly and layer upon layer, like a Great Wall on ice.
Through the gaps in the ice wall, Fang Ning, with his now super strong eyesight, could occasionally see one or two fat, black and white objects moving around.
Out of curiosity, he took a closer look and found that they were a group of fat penguins, but he couldn't tell what species they were.
Fang Ning was thoughtful and asked Old George: "When you work here, do you often encounter penguins?"
Old George was stunned. Although he didn't understand the meaning of Dongfang Beacon's question, he still replied cheerfully: "Yes, I often encounter them when I work nearby. They are just like my grandchildren. I like to play with them very much. They played and I taught them a lot of things.
"Actually, the changes in the waves were what they told me a few months ago, and I only started observing and recording them."
Fang Ning nodded and continued, "So, did you teach them to make the ice wall at the foot of the mountain to the west?"
Old George turned his head to look, and then exclaimed: "Sir, your eyesight is so good. That is a group of emperor penguin tribe, seven kilometers away from us, and I can't see anything."
"Yes, I taught them to make those ice walls. They are a bunch of stupid guys and they have no hands. I wanted to teach them to make Inuit igloos.
"But after months of playing around, they only learned how to use their mutated beaks to be sharp and powerful enough to cut ice bricks from the ice layer and then build them into ice walls. They could never build an exquisite igloo. I think it will take a few years. With a lot of effort, they can master this complex house-building technology.
"But this is a hundred times better than relying on their own bodies to block the wind before. It should save them a lot of fat consumption. I think this winter, the male penguins who are incubating eggs can have a comfortable winter for the first time."
Fang Ning was filled with admiration after hearing this. If animals could develop spiritual intelligence, many huge problems in survival would be easily solved by just learning a little from humans.
He has seen some documentaries. One of the major difficulties for Antarctic penguins to survive is the harsh and cold climate, which greatly reduces the survival rate of little penguins.
Fortunately, this cold also prevents most ferocious predators from appearing, and only a few natural enemies exist, which is a good and bad thing.
Fang Ning nodded and continued, "It seems that we need to ask the locals again and collect more clues."
In fact, he was just too bored to wait and wanted to find something new to see.
You must know that this is the Antarctic, there is no wireless signal, and you can’t get online...
Then he ordered Heigouzi to stay here and wait for the dragon and carp to come back from the investigation.
Then he took old George and Robert, sitting on the flying sword, and arrived at the ice wall in an instant.
After looking down from above, Fang Ning was even more amazed, feeling that the trip was worthwhile and that he had gained a lot of knowledge.
It turns out that this ice wall is layered on top of each other. There are three layers inside and outside, one layer higher than the other. It is close to the foot of the mountain, just like a city wall, tightly surrounding a large area.
There are only two openings left. It seems that one is the entrance and the other is the exit.
Inside the city wall made of ice, there are densely packed with fat penguins.
They did nothing but stood there, occasionally calling each other something.
As old George said, the cold wind is howling outside, but behind the ice wall, the wind noise is much quieter.
This large group of emperor penguins is about one meter tall. They are all fat and plump, with streamlined bodies and black and white colors.
When they saw the appearance of the three people, they did not panic. They just stayed in place and started chirping without knowing what they were talking about.
After a while, the tallest and fattest penguin squeezed his way out of the penguin group.
It came to an open space, looked up at the three people, and finally said to old George: "Oh, it's our dear old George. What do you want to teach us when you come here?"
What surprised Fang Ning was that this penguin could still speak English, but with a strange accent.
Well, that's right, maybe old George is too old and can't learn profound Chinese. Unlike Robert, the three of them used to speak in English before.
Old George briefly introduced Knight A to the fat penguin and the questions they wanted to ask.
After hearing this, the fat penguin moved his body, then rolled his eyes and said: "Oh, you want to ask about the big waves? In fact, I can tell you, but this time, you have to teach us a kind of practice. Fa, I know there are many of you humans."
After hearing this, old George was very helpless: "Hey, Mike, you were not so greedy before. I have taught you how to build a house. After you learn it, you can avoid skuas, damn cold wind, and even... Your old rival, the sea dog.
"You should stop being so pushy. After all, what I want to ask has no value to you. It's just a casual mention."
Old George is not stupid. He is a scientific researcher with a very high IQ. He naturally knows how long it would take to develop a method suitable for penguins to practice...
Now that the crisis is imminent, how can they have that time
Penguin leader Mike shook his head and said: "It may not be of much value to us, but it should be very important to you. I have often seen you running to the beach recently, braving the dark night and cold wind. Is it because if the waves get bigger, it will Flood the house you built on the beach?"
Old George sighed helplessly and turned to look at Knight A.
Knight A said: "You bird, you want to learn human cultivation techniques. What will you do with it after you learn it?"
The penguin leader Mike turned his head to look east, with a fierce look in his eyes: "I want to kill all those damn seals in the east..."
At this time, another fat penguin interjected: "Those seals ate leader Mike's first wife. After the leader turned on his spiritual wisdom, he remembered this and always wanted to take revenge, but he couldn't beat them."
When the penguin leader Mike heard this, he suddenly screamed loudly, his tone full of hatred.
Fang Ning felt a little shuddered when he heard this. The biological community that has not yet developed intelligence also has a revenge mentality, but it is impossible to have such a strong purpose and planning.
From the simple conversation of the penguin leader, he knew that the other party already had complete thinking ability and self-awareness, which made him feel a new pressure sincerely.
Is the earth big? Very big.
But in the face of biological populations with strong reproductive capacity, they are still very small.
Now two different biological species, obviously in a place that humans don't pay much attention to, are going to have a bloody conflict to determine the winner...
One of the diets of these predators, fur seals and seals, is penguins.
In the past, penguins had no self-awareness and could hardly escape. They often just waited to be eaten, just waiting for the carnivores to be full.
It's different now. Like humans, they also want to take the initiative to eliminate their natural enemies.
The system uncle suddenly said: "Those seals should be killed for doing such a sinful thing! I have exercises suitable for penguins to practice. The bird plays in "Five Animals" can be passed on to them."
Fang Ning said speechlessly: "Uncle, don't apply our human morality to these animals. Their hunting behavior is a natural law.
"On the contrary, if this penguin learns human skills, he will definitely kill all the fur seals first, then seals, and walruses, and finally dominate the Antarctic biosphere, multiply wildly, and cause ecological chaos."
Fang Ning knows very well that humans, who have had a long experience of ruling the earth, already know that they must maintain ecological balance and protect the natural environment.
Although far from enough has been done, this concept has become an unshakable consensus.
But these new intelligent races probably still have dreams of excluding dissenters and dominating the earth.
Just like in modern times, humans have no sense of protecting wild animals. They just eat every one they see and destroy every one they eat.
I don’t know how many species were exterminated. It wasn’t until I learned a bloody lesson that I started to change my approach.
Now even an emperor penguin, which is considered a cute creature in the eyes of humans, has such murderous intent, not to mention other more aggressive species.
When they grow stronger, they will definitely massacre other hostile species and turn the earth upside down.
How could Fang Ning not feel new pressure
When the system heard this, it said honestly: "I don't understand... what should I do?"
Fang Ning had no idea for a moment.
After a while, the penguin leader Mike seemed very impatient. He urged: "Are you going to teach me or not? The waves are getting bigger and bigger these days.
"How those waves got big, we don't know, but we know exactly when it started getting big. We haven't told old George that yet."
Old George touched his head and said helplessly: "Mike, you have learned to speak human language for less than half a year, but you have become more cunning than humans, and you know how to hide the most important information. I kindly taught you how to build a house, and you are still here Deceive me."
Mike said proudly: "I learned this from you humans. You used fake penguins to pretend to be our kind, deceive us, and collect information about our changes. Do you think I don't know?"
Before it finished speaking, a tall figure covered its sight.
Robert grabbed the proud emperor penguin, held the opponent's neck, and said coldly: "You smart, ungrateful fool! You only have two choices now, one is to confess immediately, and the other is I will send you to see your second One wife.”
"Let go, let go, we need peace," Emperor Penguin Mike shouted quickly, and then said in a panic, "I said, I said, the waves have gotten bigger since this time last year. No, no, it should be postponed for another one or two Months. By the way, right after that star fell from the sky, and then we noticed that the waves were slowly getting bigger every day at high tide.”
When Fang Ning heard this, his heart was shocked, and a flash of lightning flashed through his mind.
"Who has the ability to push the moon against the laws of nature?"
Detective Fang Ning suddenly recalled what Robert had just said, and he had a vague understanding.
He immediately said: "Let it go, I already know who did the good thing, let's go."
Robert let go immediately, and the old man George glared at Mike who was hiding deep among the penguins, and quickly followed him.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't expect even a penguin to be so cunning." Old George explained.
"Haha, these guys who have just learned how to speak have not yet learned the moral concept of repaying a favor. Only the most primitive means are effective." Robert acted as if he had done an insignificant thing, not at all. The meaning of taking credit.
Fang Ning secretly agreed. Sure enough, professional things should be done by professionals. The things that worry you may seem simple to others.
This Robert is a former SBI agent. For him, getting some confessions is really a basic course.