Chapter 43: The Red Bird
What they see is a red fantasy world. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The flat wasteland is inlaid with a huge red lake, and the water of the lake is not a single red, but different degrees of red, like fluttering ribbons, and like a red satin, spreading along the horizon.
The red satin horse is indeed dancing. When they got closer, they realized that instead of the lake being blown by the wind, the lake was crowded with thousands of birds with red gradient feathers. With slender legs and beaks like red-crowned cranes, they roam the lake gracefully.
"Lots of birds." Simon swallowed.
"It's red all over." Ansu said that she finally knew the targets of the wolves, and it was probably the red birds. With a sweep of her eyes, she saw the wolves hiding in the shadow of the mound. The wolves also spotted them, raised their heads and sniffed constantly in the air, showing great interest in them. It seems that humans are more to its appetite than a bird with a mouth full of feathers that bites down.
The wolf's red eyes locked onto Ansu, who glanced at it with the same red eyes. It seemed like an understatement glance, but the head wolf felt a murderous aura. It shook its silver-red fur and bared its teeth at Ansu.
There was a smell of sulfur wafting through the air, and the smell intensified as they got closer to the red lake. Ansu noticed that some of the ground along the way was covered with a layer of yellow material, which was supposed to be sulfur. Wisps of smoke were rising from the cracks in some of the ground. The further down you go, the higher the temperature gets, but it's still tolerable.
The water is so clear that you can see the sulphur condensed at the bottom of the lake, and what looks like the red algae that feeds on the red birds that cover the surface of the sulphide. There were occasional bubbles at the bottom of the water, and a light layer of smoke shrouded in the water, but it was quickly dispersed by the flock of red birds.
Ansu tested the temperature of the water with her hands and quickly took it back. She looked at her red fingers, the water temperature here was about 100 degrees, and it was estimated that only these red birds and algae could survive in the lake.
"It's a pity." Simon licked his lips and sighed, "You can't drink so much water." "The lack of water means they have to move on to find water.
"But there's food." Ansu pointed to the nests of birds made of stones and earth built by the lake, some of which had a red bird incubating eggs.
Simon's eyes lit up: "Eggs!" ”
Because it may be the breeding season, there are nests of birds scattered around the lake, densely packed. The females and males of the redbird take turns incubating eggs, and they can lay an average of three eggs at a time, and the eggshells are also red, like red eggs.
Breeding redbirds are unceremonious to any egg thief, and they use their sharp beaks and claws to deal with their enemies. Being attacked by them is like being slashed by a knife. Simon was accidentally pecked by them a few times, scratched a few paws, and left a few red marks on his body, but fortunately he had thick skin and thick flesh. The hatred value was all on Simon, and Ansu easily took one in each litter.
Ansu put the eggs in the boiling hot spring water and saw fine bubbles popping up from underneath. After waiting for a while, she picked out the eggs from the water with a saber and landed steadily on the red mud ground of ****.
Simon trotted back with a nest of tousled hair, and several red birds were chasing him and pecking him. He had a few feathers on his head and a few scratches on his face, making him look a little embarrassed.
"Damn, Captain, this bird is so fierce that I can't even get the egg, so it pecks me desperately." He touched his face and hissed, "This claw is sharp, too." ”
"It's okay, I got it." Ansu handed over a few hard-boiled eggs.
"When did you get it?!"
"While you're being beaten."
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Simon silently took the egg, his innocent heart was wounded and needed to be mended.
They ate a few eggs, drank the last drop of water in the bladder, and the whole person felt like they were born again. Simon shook the water bladder upside down, licked his lips, then looked at the clear lake and sighed: "There are so many in front of you that you can't drink, it's just torture." ”
Ansu put the remaining eggs in a bag and carried them on her back.
"Let's go."
As he continued to walk eastward, Ansu's eyes met the head wolf again, the head wolf bared his teeth and roared in a low voice, while An Su coldly hooked the corners of his lips and calmly left.
The head wolf hesitated, but finally did not catch up with the wolves, it was the breeding season of the red birds, they were not short of food, and the creature was very dangerous. The wolf's instincts told it.
Turning over these red mounds, there is a desert in front of you, covered with sand and gravel. They finally got out of the saline. Looking around, An Su saw some familiar figures.
Giant cactus.
The sky as pure as sapphire, the desert yellow sand, and the deep green between heaven and earth constitute an oil painting with strong colors.
In the distance, the towering mountains have revealed their clear outlines.
"Cactus! Ha, we don't have to worry about water shortage! Simon was very happy, and with a long step, he roared forward.
Here are a group of low rocky mountains, sparsely populated with cacti, bushes, and in the low-lying areas a strange plant grows. Its leaves are unusually wide, about a palm's width, and the length is also amazing, about six meters, and if straightened, I am afraid it will be longer. They grew together, like green ribbons and flowing water.
"Captain, look how much these look like kelp."
"Well, it's like that." Ansu squatted down and flipped their leaves, which were thick and had a layer of silver fluff on their backs. If you make a cut with a dagger, you will come up with mucus like a cactus.
Ansu dipped it with his fingertips and tasted it, and it was a little salty.
For the sake of prudence, Ansu still chose cacti to replenish the water of the body. In addition to the cactus stem being edible, its fruit is also edible and rich in sugar, which is quite delicious. It's just that it's a bit difficult to pluck them, as most of them grow on stems that are more than ten meters tall.
But in addition to the giant cacti, there are also some smaller ones with palm-shaped stems, and they also bear red fruits the size of eggs at the top.
After a short break, they set up shelter before sunset. Knowing that there were wolves in the vicinity, neither of them dared to take it lightly.
They found a crack in the rock, the entrance just wide enough for Simon to burrow, wide in the middle and narrow on the sides, like a grinning mouth.
After making sure that there were no rattlesnakes, scorpions and other poisons inside, Ansu and the others brought some rocks and blocked the gaps on both sides, leaving only the middle entrance.
"It's finally done!" Simon dusted his hands and wanted to climb in and give it a try.
"There's one thing missing." Ansu said suddenly.
"What?"
Ansu's eyes moved downward, Simon's whole body stiffened, and the night breeze swished through between his legs, feeling a little bad.
"Pee." (To be continued.) )