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

Shi Qiao turned her head to focus on looking for her prey, and soon she saw a mound fish. This fish is a little larger than sardines and herrings and likes to be solitary.

This kind of fish only exists a few dozen meters away from the Antarctic. Just by looking at its compact body, she can tell that it cannot be unpalatable.

Shi Qiao shook her tail, adjusted her posture from above, and rushed downwards. The whole penguin was like a menacing little cannonball, blasting straight towards the fish's back.

As the speed reaches the fastest level, the water pressure felt is greater than before. The greater the resistance encountered, the faster one must speed up, otherwise the speed will be affected.

After the little penguin chases after it, she sees the right moment and opens her mouth to catch the fish tail. This process takes only a short time, but it tests the penguin's eyesight very much.

If she is not careful, her mouth will twist under the influence of acceleration. If she makes a mistake, she will leave an opportunity for the opponent to escape from sight.

Compared with groups of fish and shrimps that can slide into the stomach by opening their mouths, catching larger sea fish alone is more difficult, but it is easier than catching squid.

The squid's escape mechanism is very convenient for dealing with penguins. The ink can be sprayed back to muddy the water in front of Adélie. By the time the penguin swims out of the turbid place, the squid has already escaped.

Fish don't have so many fancy escape strategies. All they could do was swim faster or get into the coral reef and seaweed. Shi Qiao had to ensure that her speed was extremely fast from the beginning so that she could succeed before the opponent escaped into a narrow area.

When the little penguin rushed behind the fish tail, she suddenly stretched out the tip of her beak forward, grabbed the opponent's tail accurately, and grabbed the fish's body bit by bit from the tail.

The fish swung its body desperately in the opponent's mouth, but unfortunately, it was firmly fixed by the penguin's beak, which was comparable to pliers. In the end, it could only become the opponent's prey.

Shi Qiao happily took her freshly caught fish to find Klein. She thought that the size of her fish would definitely make him praise her, but when he turned around, she saw a bigger fish in his mouth. 

Shi Qiao: "..."

Sometimes she is worried if her boss is too good.

This makes her look fine.

Fortunately, compared with other penguins who had nothing to catch, she was still very powerful. At least the three geese group together didn't catch a single small fish.

Klein released the larger fish from his mouth and signaled the smaller penguin to eat his own.

Shi Qiao shook her head desperately. She was already an adult penguin, and she didn't need to be fed by the boss like she did when she was a child. She wanted to catch a bigger fish and give it to the other party, but now she is a little bit unable to get it. Everyone should eat what they have, and the boss can eat more.

Unexpectedly, the other party suddenly swam in front of her, and the distance between the two penguins disappeared in an instant. Klein took the smaller fish from her mouth and signaled the little penguin to eat the big fish and grow more.

Shi Qiao let go of her mouth depressedly, fearing that the boss's prey would be cut off by other animals, so she turned around and picked it up.

Having grown so big and being coaxed like this by a big boss, the little penguin feels that in the other person's mind, she is still a cub that needs to be fed by her parent.

If the other penguin knew what she was thinking, he would definitely feel that she was not satisfied with being held in the palm of his hand. If she was placed in the Adélie group, there would be no telling how many young penguins would want to hold her in their lap.

After exchanging food with Klein, Shi Qiao was almost half full. This amount of food was not enough to support them swimming more than a hundred kilometers underwater. They still needed to dive and swim to find more food.

Shi Qiao felt that she could eat more in one meal than when she was a leopard.

The number of krill and sardines eaten by Adélie every year can reach half of that of killer whales. Comparing the sizes of the two animals, Adélie penguins can be regarded as giant stomachs of the abyss.

Unlike the world of leopards, Adélie seldom cooperates in hunting in the sea. It makes sense if she thinks about it carefully. After all, the prey of penguins is only that small. Unlike hoofed herbivores on land, one prey can feed several beasts. Two penguins chasing one fish at the same time is a waste of resources.

Some of the hunting skills that she was familiar with could not be used in the ocean. Shi Qiao spent a lot of time just practicing fishing.

So much so that the calories consumed by eating this meal in the stomach are almost the same as swimming.

The longer it takes to find food, the longer it spends in the ocean. When they came ashore again, all the Adélie penguins who jumped on the ice floe shivered in unison.

The little penguin shivered, and without enough time to shake off the water droplets on its feathers, it burrowed into the big man's arms.

It was so cold that it almost turned into an ice sculpture.

Some of the same kind stretched their necks to fight against the severe cold, but as soon as they opened their mouths, their voices were split open by the cold. Their already demonic voices became even more ridiculous, sounding like a screaming chicken that had swallowed a mouthful of cold air after croaking.

The local anti-freeze version of penguin has been frozen into this kind of virtue, Shi Qiao is even worse.

The ocean is warm, and snowflakes that fall on the water automatically melt and are absorbed into the seawater. There are only a few broken ice floating on the surface, and she can't feel the temperature on the shore when diving.

Who knew that they would encounter a snowstorm right after they got there?

The young Adélies, who were born in the same batch as the little penguins, experienced severe cold in the spring that was similar to the current one. For Shi Qiao, who had just arrived here after missing the spring and summer, this weather was torture.

Thick snow appeared on the ice shelf. The snow was frozen hard in the blink of an eye and became part of the Antarctic ice sheet. A group of Adélies were slowly advancing on such an ice sheet.

It was not safe to rest on the continental ice bordering the sea. They still had to walk inland to see if there were suitable ice caves and ice walls under the nearby glaciers.

If the soles of her feet were not thick, Shi Qiao felt that a layer of skin would stick to her with every step she took. The fragile human body would not be able to withstand the severe cold in Antarctica.

The low temperature was not bad, but it was also accompanied by a knife-like wind and snow. The northwest wind carried snow as brittle as gravel, and soon the Adélies in the penguin team were wearing white jackets.

In addition to being famous for its severe cold, Antarctica is also characterized by windy and extremely strong winds, which bring huge obstacles to the survival of animals.

As the only penguin living in this kind of place, Adélie, like the emperor penguin, relies on the camaraderie of the same kind and its righteousness. On the low-quality Antarctic penguins, it may not be righteousness but evil.

Shi Qiao shook the snow off her body to prevent it from freezing and forming small ice patches on her feathers. She heard the grumpy old geese behind her cursing as they walked.

"This damn weather will freeze the goose to death."

"It would be better to go back to the sea and be eaten by seals."

"What kind of wind is blowing? It feels like I've been beaten."

Shi Qiao couldn't understand why such a strong wind didn't freeze their mouths, especially the three protruding mouths. They didn't stop complaining along the way.

They dislike the Antarctic environment so much and still want to live here for generations. The little penguin thinks that it is probably because there are not many creatures in Antarctica that can discover their evil nature.

Opening her mouth to eat a stomach full of cold air, Shi Qiao simply swallowed her words to the noisy old geese to be quiet and concentrate on following the big man's footsteps.

She needs to be extra careful when walking at this time. If she is not careful, she may step into a hole in the ice that is not frozen, fall directly into the water, and be eaten by seals or killer whales lurking around.

As usual, Klein took the lead, and the other Adélie followed closely behind Shi Qiao. The dark column was particularly conspicuous on this white ice desert.

Shi Qiao felt like she couldn't walk anymore while walking. Unexpectedly, she just stopped and rested for a second, and her short legs seemed to be nailed to the spot and she couldn't lift them.

She opened her mouth and called out to the big guy in front of her, but most of her voice was swallowed up by the wind.

After she stopped, the other Adélie behind her also stopped. No penguin had the idea of moving ahead of her and continuing to follow. Fortunately, Klein immediately turned around when he heard the sound and found that the little penguin behind him had an expression that wanted to show off. He decided to stay where she was and rest instead of looking for an ice wall to block the wind.

The other Adélie also followed suit and prepared to hug together on the spot, so Klein had no choice but to turn back to the little penguin.

The nearest ice wall they could see had to be walked for several kilometers. It looked like the little baby was in such a bad state that she wouldn't be able to survive. Fortunately, she still had companions by her side.

These Adélie usually fight and bully each other, but it is very useful to gather together to keep warm at critical moments.

Shi Qiao found a place and drilled hard. She felt the wall of penguins approaching behind her immediately. She didn't need to look back to know that it was the boss who was following her.

The temperature today was really unbearable for the goose, so the little penguin simply turned around, turned its face towards the other's belly, lowered its head, and buried it in to absorb the warmth.

Thinking that the little penguin was trying to act coquettishly, Klein gently patted the other person's back with his flipper, indicating that the little penguin should turn around and sleep well.

Unexpectedly, the little penguin didn't react at all and actually fell asleep in this position.

After falling asleep, it is easy to lose control of the head. When it tilts to the other side and is about to fall off the soft belly, the boss will wake up at the slightest movement and raise his right flipper to use it as a pillow for the other party.

When the little penguin fell to the left, the male Adélie learned the penguin-style hug without any instructions and wrapped his two flippers around the little penguin to prevent it from falling and waking it up.

While all the penguins were sleeping on their backs like spoons and spoons, two unusual penguins were sleeping facing each other in a certain position.

The bigger one puts its head on top of the little penguin's head, and its flippers firmly protect the other's back. The smaller penguin is like a chimera in the other's arms, forming a perfect pair.

Shi Qiao was leaning on the boss's belly with her head tilted, sleeping more soundly than anyone else.

In the dream, she hugged a softly compressed penguin pillow, buried her face in the white belly, and rubbed it. The "pillow" smelled very good, and she felt as if she could feel the refreshing feeling of wandering in the sea when she took a breath.

The only fly in the ointment is that her mouth is a bit sharp and tingling, and her mouth is a bit itchy after being hugged.

The little penguin clicked her mouth, followed the voice in her heart, opened her mouth, and took a bite of the fragrant and soft "cushion pillow" belly. She couldn't taste anything, but only bit the slippery feathers.

Shi Qiao was still thinking in her dream that the workmanship of this penguin pillow was as exquisite as the real thing. It looked like it had a bad temper, but she didn't expect it to be soft when she bit it.

She eagerly took another bite, and then the big man who woke up stuffed her head into his arms again.

The winter in Antarctica doesn't seem to be that cold anymore.