"White ......"

"White Fox ......"

"Corner ......"

"Why didn't I see anything (O_O)"

……

Zheng Guo sporadically discerned a few words and phrases.

The sailors seem to be describing the appearance of something.

An animal with horns that looks like a white fox?

Zheng Guo showed slides of various animals in the Baize Mountains in his mind, but none of them could be right.

"You found a creature in the woods, right?" Zheng Guo asked.

A positive reply floated across the screen.

"What does it look like? Be specific. Zheng Guo said.

"White ......"

"White Fox ......"

"Corner ......"

"I didn't see it, I didn't see it (O_O)"

……

Nothing has changed......

At this moment, through the virtual screen, Zheng Guo saw a figure appear on the opposite side of the waterhole.

The figure was snow-white, and in the sun, it seemed to be shrouded in a faint halo, which was very holy.

It was an animal one size bigger than the pastoral dog, and when Zheng Guo looked at it, it also looked at it quietly, with a faint blue light in its pupils, and it was not afraid at all.

Only then did Zheng Guo understand what the sailors meant.

First of all, it is indeed white.

The hair is purer than that of a white carp, like snow, and is very eye-catching.

Secondly, it does have two horns on its head.

It's not the aggressive type of horns, it's more like antlers, or like forked branches. It's also white, and it's slightly duller than the hair.

Others mention the "white fox" because they probably see its two ears – long, elongated, upturned and ended with a pinch of white hair – like a fox.

This is also the main idea of naming extraterrestrial creatures – to look at the similarities between that organism and a certain organism on Earth. It doesn't matter if other places don't look like it anymore.

Take the spotted bear as an example, if you look closely, there is still a big gap between its appearance and the bears on the earth.

The only similarities are its pair of beanie eyes and two silly little ears that are disproportionate to its fat body, which will give people a bear-like sense of déjà vu. So, whether it wants it or not, it is classified by biologists as an alien bear.

This naming method is simple and crude, but it brings convenience to research.

"That's what you're talking about, right?"

Zheng Guo asked, pointing at the creature.

The camera pans in the direction he is pointing.

"It's what it is, it's what it is."

"Damn, bring your own holy light!"

"Bright Blind =_="

"I'm sorry everyone, the immortal pet of this seat has gone down to earth without permission and caused trouble for everyone."

……

"That's the fox, some people in China call it the fox, and it's a very rare herbivorous animal."

Zheng Guo walked to the edge of the waterhole and was less than ten meters away from it.

"Since the colonization of Changxixing, there have only been a dozen or so human sightings of foxes. It can be inferred from this that the number of this creature is quite scarce, and I am afraid that it is on the verge of extinction. I didn't expect that there would also be one in the Baize Mountains. ”

Zheng Guo paused, and then said: "Interestingly, it is not biologists who have made significant contributions to the study of foxes, but photographers. Many photography enthusiasts have traveled hundreds of light-years to the planet to see the fox in action. ”

Zheng Guo first accidentally found a 'alien creature protection list' when he was checking the information, and saw this creature on the list.

The list is published by a non-governmental animal protection organization, and does not have legal effect in itself.

The organization is currently working to gain support from the authorities, but this may not be possible in the short term, given that humanity is currently focused on expansion, not protection.

……

At this time, the fox lay on the ground with its forelimbs bent, staring at Zheng Guo.

Sharp-eyed viewers noticed that there appeared to be a stain on its back.

The camera zooms in, and I see a shocking wound on its back, and dark blue blood is still oozing out.

Zheng Guo took a few steps forward, looking at the wound on its body, thoughtful.

"Do you know why the fox is endangered? Because they are very weak in combat and do not have the alertness of ordinary herbivorous animals, they often wait for predators to find out when they are closer, so they are preyed on in large quantities, resulting in a sharp decrease in the number of species. Some predict that in a few decades the creature will become extinct. ”

"Poor."

"Survival of the fittest is true no matter where it is."

"Yan Kong said that he was distressed ( ̄~ ̄)"

……

Zheng Guo continued: "Qiuhu is accustomed to group activities and rarely falls alone...... If I'm not mistaken, this fox should be the 'messenger'. ”

"I seem to have heard a terrible word (; ￣ェ￣）”

"What messenger? Reporting? ”

"What do you mean?"

……

"I'll tell you a case first." Zheng Guo said: "Five years ago, a Swiss photographer came to Changxixing and entered the Kana Basin to look for foxes. He was lucky, and after searching for nearly a month, he finally found a community of fox foxes under a cliff, with about a dozen fox colonies. ”

So he set up camp at the top of the cliff and observed and recorded the life of the fox every day.

"One day, a predator broke into the fox camp, culled one fox on the spot, and bit several of them, incapacitating them so that they could eat slowly."

However, three foxes with minor injuries escaped. The photographer thought that they had simply escaped, but what they didn't expect was that about ten minutes later, one of the foxes suddenly rushed in, followed by another predator. ”

"There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and two predators start fighting for food, and both lose. And the group of foxes took advantage of the chaos to escape. ”

Zheng Guo explained: "This is a means of self-protection for the fox, using the blood on its body to attract other predators, luring it to the camp, causing the predators to fight each other, and they take advantage of the chaos to flee for their lives. The fox in front of me is probably here to lure me to be the wrongdoer. ”

"I know how to borrow external forces, and my IQ is very high."

"It's just instinct, it has nothing to do with IQ."

"With such an instinct, why would you become an endangered animal?"

"I don't know."

Zheng Guo shook his head: "Desperate, breaking and standing, fighting for survival in the chaos, this is definitely not the best policy, but I was forced to be helpless." ”

With that, Zheng Guo jumped to the other side of the stream.

The fox immediately stood up, turned around and ran, running about ten meters, but stopped again, turned around and looked at Zheng Guo.

This validated his conjecture.

Zheng Guo couldn't control his curiosity, gesticulating for the walker to wait here, and chased after him with his equipment.

……

The fox's running speed is not slow, and the fastest can approach 20 meters per second.

If it hadn't stopped and waited from time to time, Zheng Guo really wouldn't have been able to catch up.

The distance was much closer than expected.

A few minutes later, Zheng Guo saw a cliff standing in front of him, about ten meters high.

"The fox is used to setting up the camp under the rock mass, and if I'm not mistaken, the camp should be there."

Zheng Guo slowed down.

The fox in front saw that Zheng Guo had slowed down, so he took a few steps back from time to time to seduce him, for fear that he would give up the chase.

Zheng Guo hid behind a tree and poked his head out to investigate.

You can already see the situation in the camp from here.