"Probably these fake eggs are also laid by it, because false nest snakes have the habit of nesting one after another along the road."

Early Season looks back from Satoru's side and steals three fake eggs from the nest he just found and puts them in his backpack. So there was only one egg left in the nest.

"What are you doing with that stuff?" Truth, who was sitting on the boat in the back, asked.

"If you can't find a sailboat dog or a demon white, you can use this as the result of a summer camping project. After all, fake eggs disguised as yellow reed eggs are also very rare. ”

"But if you take it, the false nest snake will be bothered, right?"

"A fake egg is probably enough. Just let Guo Gongniao and the like think that this is not an empty nest. ”

Although Jue's explanation is reasonable and convincing, if this is the case, then why didn't the false nest snake just make a fake egg in the first place?

Even so, Early Season still had a vague feeling that this strange-looking snake had a cunning beyond her comprehension.

The strategy of the false nest snake makes clever use of the egg-holding habits of some birds.

Egg support is to lay their own eggs in the nests of other birds, so that other females can help raise their chicks, saving themselves the trouble of building and feeding their own nests. The eggs hatch quickly, and the hatchlings kick all the eggs out of the nest that have not yet hatched. Although it is for survival, this practice is also too cruel. Honey-64 on the continent will even kill the host's chicks with the spikes in its beak.

According to the "Naturalist Chronicle of the New Japanese Archipelago", a thousand years ago, the only birds that had the habit of holding eggs were Guo Gong Bird, Cuckoo Bird, and Tube Bird. In recent years, this range has expanded to dozens of species, and there has been an opportunistic egg support phenomenon that usually builds nests and lays eggs by themselves, but if other good nests are found by chance, they carry out egg support. There are even those who support the eggs in the nests of the same kind. The world of birds is really hopeless.

The work of the false nest snake imitating the bird's nest from the shape and size to the appearance and interior can not be fake, and there are also carefully made fake eggs inside, waiting for the bird to come to the door to support the egg. After that, the false nest snake regularly patrols its own false nest, and the fresh eggs in it are used as a tribute to the female.

I remembered the skeletal specimen of a false nest snake that I saw in science class. The subvertebral protrusions it uses to break eggshells are much more developed than those of other snakes, resembling a large jaw with strong molars. In addition, it does not excrete the eggshell it eats, but grinds it up and absorbs it as a material for fake eggs. Because of the large amount of calcium absorbed in the body, the eggs of the false nest snake are as hard as bird eggs, and the newborn baby snake has to peck through the eggshell with the same hard beak.

However, in order to eliminate the rivals who also covet eggs, the Snake and the Rosary Snake, the fake egg "Devil's Hand" was created, but the early season did not know of its existence until he saw it with his own eyes. Maybe she fell asleep during class.

Although this is an afterthought, there was a slight sense of disobedience at the time. Is it possible to evolve such a strong "malice" towards the enemy based on the principle of sudden mutation and natural elimination as described in the textbooks alone?

However, as the boat started again, the doubts were not clarified, and they ended with the breeze on the river.

After almost a day's journey in the dinghy, everyone boarded the river beach before it was dark. There are still faint traces of the previous class's camping on the sand.

First of all, you have to set up a tent. Digging a few holes in the sand, inserting a bamboo skeleton, attaching a canvas and tying a leather rope is unexpectedly laborious. When these people racked their brains to deal with these things, it suddenly dawned on them that it was most efficient to let one person use magic to float the skeleton and canvas in mid-air, and then the other person started to fix the skeleton in the correct position and put the canvas in a knot. So everyone did the same, and got busy. But Yuan Tianhua had already assembled a tent by himself at this time. directly envied a few friends, and at this time, Yuan Tianhua couldn't help but snort a little proudly, maybe this made him so proud.

After that, it's time to prepare dinner. Since a dinghy can carry 300 kilograms of cargo, the food is not a problem, and it is very sufficient. A few people gathered the dead branches and firewood around the river beach and lit them with mana, and then poured the water purified by the mana and raw rice into the iron pot, and put some meat and vegetables cut into large pieces, as well as dried tofu skins, so that a pot of chowder porridge was made. I could only taste the taste of the miso and salt that I added casually, but after a day of exercise, everyone had an empty stomach and a very strong appetite, and they ate it all at once.

After eating, it was completely dark, and a few half-sized bear children began to chat with interest around the bonfire.

The comforting tiredness of a day of exercise and the smoke of a campfire make people's eyes moisten slightly. For the first time in their lives, they had the opportunity to take such a big adventure away from the Eight Ding Biao, and everyone was in high spirits and very excited. When the sky turned from light green to navy blue, everyone's faces were red with flames.

To be honest, I can't remember what I talked about in the first half now. It's amazing that you can clearly recall the details of the daytime conversation, but forget the content of the happiest nighttime conversation. But words are nothing more than things that flow through the surface of consciousness.

At that time, the attention of the early season was all on the boy sitting on the other side of the campfire.

“…… Haven't you seen it in the early season? Jue suddenly turned the topic to the early season, and the little girl was a little confused. What was he asking, had she seen it? Let's make a vague answer for the time being.

"Hey, I don't know."

"Huh? Ever seen it? ”

There was no way, so I had to shake my head.

"That's it, I've never seen it." Sue: Say with certainty. Although I want to refute him, I don't even know what he's talking about, so there's no good way.

"So...... That's right! "Jue is really a crazy guy.

"I met for the first time some time ago, and I was two people. Right? The other side of the campfire nodded. How is there no impression that the relationship between these two people has become better recently.

"It's really rare, it's too heavily guarded over there."

"yes. In short, it is impossible to walk in by accident like when I was with Guiyuan. Instant said with a smile in a distinctively refreshing voice.

"Even if the door is open, there is a screen wall in front of it, and it is completely impossible to see what is in the atrium of the whole school level. Teachers are also very vigilant when opening and closing doors. ”

So, did these two people go into the atrium of the whole person academic level? Early Season couldn't help but be shocked by their audacity. The atrium of the whole school level is in the middle of the glyph building, and although it is not explicitly forbidden for students to enter like the atrium of Guiyuan, there is not even a window, so no one can see the situation inside, and ordinary people will not have the idea of getting close.

"But, on two occasions, I have seen the Sun King open the door, and I have firmly remembered the shape of the latch on the inside of the door."

What will the shape of the lock look like in a thousand years? I can't imagine it. A long time ago, the structure of a lock that could be opened and closed by inserting a code-like notched piece of iron into a shrinkage hole was about to evolve to be as elaborate as a clock. However, in our time, there is not much need for locks, and the structure of the lock itself has become very simple.

The door is equipped with twelve small latches that are distributed in a radial pattern, and because it is impossible to see anywhere from the outside, it is necessary to refer to the diagram with the configuration, or the person who can clearly remember and recall it must open the door with mana to open the door.

“…… So, when I was letting the wind out, I opened the door in an instant. As soon as you enter the atrium, the door closes. We held our breath for a moment and tried to get around the screen wall. ”

Jue paused, and looked around at the people around the campfire, wanting to see the effect of these words.

"What's the matter?" Truth asked.

"What do you think?" A shallow smile appeared on Jue's face.

"It's the same as the atrium of your garden, there are a lot of graves, right?" Early season said guessingly. Shou's eyes widened without knowing what was going on.

"Huh? And there are graves in the atrium of your garden? ”

Jue frowned.

"It's not. I also heard about it at that time. ”

"Okay, okay, don't be foolish, tell us quickly, what is it?"

“…… It's exactly the same as what I saw in Heguiyuan. Instantly replied.

"There were some flowers and grass, but there was a large open space behind it that was left unused. However, at the deepest point, there is a row of five brick warehouses with sturdy wooden doors. ”

"Did you open it and see it?"

"I walked to the side and looked, but immediately went back." This time it was Enlightenment who answered the question of Truth.

"Why?"

"I feel like it smells bad, and I really don't want to stay there for long."

I usually love to tell horror stories, but I deliberately make my words vague, which adds a bit of horror.

"What's the bad smell?"

"Very nose-punching...... It seems to smell of ammonia. ”

"Those houses aren't warehouses, they're supposed to be toilets, right?" I didn't react to my early complaints.

"That's not all. It may have been misheard, but we did hear it. As soon as the words fell, everyone was silent.

"How's the sound?" I was a little scared in the early season, but I still mustered up the courage to ask.

"It's not very clear, it sounds like an animal roaring."

That's right, these two people are definitely conspiring to scare us. Although he thought so in the early season, he couldn't deny a chill in his back. After that, the unnutritious chatter began again.

It's getting late, it's time to go to bed. But everyone still wanted to taste the afterglow of the big adventure, and Shou made a rare proposal for a night flight. Truth was quick to agree.