After Turning Into An Animal, I Rely On My Face To Make A Living

After seeing the lonely little penguin chick, the surrounding Adélie all looked at her with sympathy.

The little penguin who was abandoned by her parents at this age is just waiting to die by herself.

Shi Qiao didn't believe in evil and ran all the way up from the bottom of the slope. People said that penguins have a strong sense of direction and can find their former habitat from a hundred kilometers away. She can definitely do the same.

Shit!

She couldn't find it at all.

There were too many of the same kind here. Shi Qiao had never seen such a dense group of people on the grassland, except for the wildebeest and zebra during the great migration.

Even when crossing a river in the dry season, herbivores will remain free and break up into small groups. In comparison, the concentration of Antarctic penguins is simply the highest in the world.

Shi Qiao didn't dare to relax. She recalled the characteristics of the two penguins and compared them one by one. Finding a nest and identifying the penguins were more difficult than the others. The Adélie's nest can't be called a nest, it's just a layer of small gravel spread on the ground.

Now that the ground is bare in summer, the rocks are mixed with large rocks, and each nest looks exactly the same.

Shi Qiao searched for a long time and finally gave up.

It was really difficult for a new penguin who had just arrived in Antarctica for a few days to find an adult penguin among tens of thousands of penguins. She had only spent a few days with him, so she couldn't do it.

Damn it.

No wonder those penguins stretched their necks and screamed loudly when they came back to find their partner. They probably couldn't tell who was who with just their eyes.

If she were a little penguin who had been with her parents since she was an egg, she might be able to distinguish the calls.

However, her old father had gone out to sea to look for food since she opened her eyes. After all, she had been with her mother for a long time, and even if she heard the cry, she would not be able to recognize the adult male.

Shi Qiao was exhausted from walking. She looked at the only two colors on Adélie body for so long that she felt dizzy when she looked at them again.

The sky is getting darker and darker, the long day has passed, and there is no natural light. Shi Qiao is caught in a dilemma among the penguins.

Afraid of danger at night, she still found other cubs' nests and sought temporary care just like she had avoided skuas before. Unfortunately, not every Adélie parent is so kind.

When there are natural enemies, helping to drive them away is for the sake of their own cubs. Now that there are no Antarctic skuas, it is impossible to help others of the same species take care of their babies.

The little penguin drooped her head, feeling like a homeless street child.

In the human world, she can still seek help from the police, but in the penguin world, it is not so convenient. She can't even find an orphanage.

If she continues to get lost like this, she will either starve to death or be picked up and eaten by a giant skua.

When the temperature dropped at night, Shi Qiao patted her flippers and cheered herself up. It was better to live than die. She had to try a few more times to see if any kind-hearted penguin family would be willing to take her in.

She stopped after taking two steps and tentatively squeezed in between the adult penguins. Most of the penguins mercilessly kicked her out of their homes.

After many efforts, a female Adélie mother, who was holding her cub motionless, finally acquiesced to the wandering little penguin's movement.

Shi Qiao called the other person twice gratefully, but the adult female Adélie obviously didn't understand and looked at the cub with some pity in her eyes.

If she doesn't even know how to talk, she will definitely be abandoned by her parents sooner or later.

No matter how the other party looked at her, there was finally an adult Adélie who was willing to let her stay temporarily for one night. Shi Qiao glanced at the cub on the other side's right side and politely stayed on the left side, trying not to cause trouble to the other side's cub.

The wind at night was mixed with coldness, and the temperature was several degrees lower than during the day. Shi Qiao shook her flippers and retracted her head into her neck.

The feeling under the geese's fence was unpleasant. Even when it was cold, she was too embarrassed to squeeze in for fear of waking up the sleeping adult penguins. The little penguins curled up into a small ball of fur and survived the night tenaciously.

When she woke up, the unbearable cold for the penguins had passed. The sky slowly lit up, and the sun illuminated the entire Antarctica. This also meant that Shi Qiao had to face the tragic situation of having nowhere to go again.

Another cub in the strange Adélie den was already chirping with hunger. Adélie mother fed her child the food left for herself in the crop and watched the little one eat it with endless interest.

Shi Qiao had not eaten for several days, so when she saw other parents feeding their cubs, Shi Qiao swallowed unconsciously.

So hungry.

If she had known about this disaster, she would have had to fight Eric for the stutter last time even if she risked her life.

Fortunately, now, the only full meal she has had since arriving in Antarctica was a few days ago. It was the first full meal and probably the last.

Little Adélie patted her flippers and turned her face away to brainwash herself. She's not hungry. She's not hungry. She's not hungry.

Although the female Adélie did not chase her away, she also had no intention of feeding her. Obviously, the other party clearly distinguished her own cubs from the borrowed cubs. The male Adélie who took over the shift had not returned, so the food in her crop was the most precious treasure.

Even if she sympathized with the little girl's plight, she wouldn't share her cub's rations.

When the sun hung high over the Antarctic again and the settlement in front of her became clear, Shi Qiao began to look for her old father among the Adélie penguins.

Looking from a distance like this, they still look the same as yesterday. Some penguins are far away and cannot be seen clearly unless they run over. There is no way to find each other if they stay in the nest.

Shi Qiao finally found a kind-hearted parent who was willing to take her in temporarily, and for a while, she didn't know whether to start back on the road or stay where she was.

She thought about it and decided to leave.

She can only get temporary stability by staying here. When the male parent of the nest comes back, she may be kicked out. Moreover, if she continues to stay, she will still face the risk of starving to death. It is better to go out and try your luck.

Deciding to take the opportunity into her own hands, the little penguin chirped twice at the adult female Adélie beside her, said goodbye, and left the gravel nest.

Shi Qiao's current location is in the middle of a large slope. Yesterday she walked up from the bottom but couldn't find her old father who was raising the cub alone. Today she is going to walk up and look around to see if she can find him.

The position closer to the slope is closer to the sea point and easier to access, but it is also a place where Antarctic skuas prefer to gather.

When Shi Qiao takes a few steps, she has to raise her head and look around cautiously. As soon as she sees a great skua appearing, she will quickly find a nest and swoop in behind the adult Adélie.

In addition, every time she passed a nest, she had to raise her head to carefully identify the appearance of Adélie. She could not move any faster. Finding one of the penguins in this colony of Adélie penguins is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

The more Shi Qiao searched, the more frustrated she became.

Why is she dressed as a cub?

If she were an adult Adélie now, what kind of parents would she find? She could just find a place to squat by herself. When she was hungry, she could go to the sea with other penguins.

It's a pity that her body is still covered with lanugo hair. Such a fluffy little penguin has not transformed into the black and white diving suit of an adult penguin that does not touch water. Even if it can reach the estuary, it cannot dive down.

When Shi Qiao walked from day to day and the sun set again, her short legs, which were originally so fast, were as heavy as lead, and her body was swaying, all supported by perseverance.

Tired, hungry, and still without a clue.

She stretched her head and chirped, hoping that her old father would recognize her voice and take the initiative to take her back. Then she thought about how the other party was going to abandon a baby. It was unlikely that he had left Eric alone in the nest to find her, and he had a little penguin squawking here, which was obviously attracting natural enemies to come and capture him.

No matter how many ways she tried, she couldn't solve her current predicament. Shi Qiao was frustrated and prepared to repeat her old tricks and find an Adélie parent who was willing to take her in for a night.

As a result, God did not give her this opportunity.

Shi Qiao had just selected a female adult penguin who looked kind-hearted and saw that the other person's eyes suddenly became alert, and her body instantly stretched upwards, making her body larger than before, as if she was in an attack posture.

She took two steps back and was about to leave. Unexpectedly, she turned around and saw an Antarctic skua with sharp eyes.

It happened that she encountered her natural enemy at this time!

Shi Qiao didn't have time to think, so she jumped into the penguin pile.

The other adult Adélie penguins received the signal and all put on a defensive posture, firmly protecting their chicks behind them and pecking at the probing Antarctic skua with their beaks.

Only Shi Qiao didn't have her own shelter. One cub was hiding around alone, standing out among a group of Adélie cubs hiding under the flippers of its parents. Not surprisingly, it was quickly identified as its attack target by several Antarctic skuas.

Shi Qiao ran up behind the adult Adélie with her short legs but was pushed out without hesitation and blocked in front of her cub.

If they have extra back support, their cubs will be less in danger. Eat this little thing that can't live for a few days, but don't eat their precious cubs.

The little penguin was selected by several Adélie parents to be the "target for knife protection". She felt that diving into a pile of adult penguins was no different from actively seeking death.

As a low-quality Antarctic penguin, the Adélie species itself is not as docile and honest as the Emperor Penguin, let alone at such a critical moment, they will do anything to protect their only baby.

Shi Qiao was left alone and could only run toward a few lone adult penguins not far away when the Antarctic skuas were squawking and preparing to swoop down.

The penguin population is huge, and even during the breeding season, there will be singles who have not found a suitable partner. They will occasionally be kind enough to help take care of the young of the same kind, usually when two Adélie parents go to sea at the same time to look for food.

The penguin chicks that are no longer under the supervision of their parents will gather together and hug the lap of single adult penguins.

It may be more useful for parents with biological children to seek shelter from these penguins.

In a flash, Shi Qiao made up her mind and rushed towards the circle of bachelors without cubs.

Penguins without chicks naturally don't have to guard against Antarctic skuas. They just stand there and stare at the raptors, and don't react as strongly as their parents.

It seems to be a breath of fresh air among the penguin group, with a sense of comfort that it has nothing to do with oneself.

When he saw her running towards him, he just stretched his head, flapped his flippers twice, and didn't even move his feet.

To attract the attention of those big penguins, Shi Qiao ignored the Antarctic skuas behind her and ran while shouting at the Adélies. Translated into her own language, it was, "Help me, help me!"

It's just that she hasn't mastered the essence of communication with Adélie. To other adult penguins, it's just a little penguin being chased by a natural enemy, making it incoherent and incomprehensible words.

It felt like she had run as fast as a goose. She had never run so hard to grab food, but several times Shi Qiao felt the wind from the wings of the Antarctic skua blowing on the fur of her tail, causing her to jump forward suddenly and continue to jump.

When she was about to run into the place where the adult Adélie was, Shi Qiao suddenly secretly thought something bad.

A sharp protruding stone struck her between the webs of her toes, and her fluffy body tilted to one side uncontrollably. The whole penguin fell to the ground like a gray glutinous rice dumpling.

The little penguin fell without any defense, and there was a natural enemy following closely behind.

Shi Qiao felt that God was playing tricks on her.

Is this still possible?

At this point, she couldn't escape no matter how hard she struggled, so she simply closed her eyes and waited for death to come and claim her life.

At the critical moment, a gust of cold wind blew up next to her, and Shi Qiao felt a darkness in front of her eyelids as if something was running over and blocking her.

The harsh and rough call of the Antarctic Skua could be heard in her ears. The sound contained the raptor's unique persistence towards the penguin chicks and a hint of threat.

If Shi Qiao could understand the language of the great skua, then she would know what the other party is saying now. The Antarctic skua is warning some penguins not to come over and meddle in their own business, and to go back to their own territory.

The target of its warning did not take the raptor seriously at all. Instead, it made up its mind to stand in front of the little penguin, with its hard black beak pointing at the other person.

The Antarctic skua who had been waiting for a long time did not take her away. The little penguin tentatively opened its eyes a small slit and saw the adult Adélie in front of her, flapping his flippers to drive away the raptors.

The opponent's back looked extremely tall and mighty to her at this moment, like a superhero who acted bravely for justice.

The Antarctic skua refused to give up and wandered around the adult Adélie several times, trying to pick up the cub behind it through the gaps. All of them were blocked, and the head was pecked several times by the ferocious Adélie.

Seeing that he probably had little chance of succeeding, the big bird didn't waste time and turned around to fly elsewhere to find the next suitable prey.

When Shi Qiao saw the Antarctic Skua flapping its wings and flying away, she couldn't tell whether she was relieved or not.

She didn't die this time, she was still going to die in a few days, and she didn't know how long she would have to survive, so she might as well give her a break.

After the little penguin was out of danger, she staggered up from the ground. She was about to say thank you to this life-saving goose. When the goose turned around, Shi Qiao suddenly squatted on the spot.

It was obviously a black and white fur coat that was no different from other Adélie penguins, but she, who was face blind, could tell the difference.

The other person has white eye circles, but they are not as round as other Adélies. The ends of his eyes seem to be raised upwards, and his gaze is a bit more arrogant than that of a raptor.

Now she saw the little penguin staring blankly at her, motionless, and barking impatiently as if asking her whose cub was her and why she was here.

Shi Qiao stared at each other in a daze.

Is this, this, this familiar look really not Klein?!