Chapter 6: Under the Unknown Sky
Bufan pulled two large leaves to cover his body, and only looked at everything in his line of sight through the gaps, not knowing whether those blue-feathered giant birds were full of food, or because they were not interested in creatures with long hands and feet like him, and even ignored him when they passed by the trees.
After waiting for about half an hour, "Bah!" two long whistling sounds like eagle cries resounded through the clouds, and two of the same giant birds flew back from afar, and the few that were originally hovering began to "quack" in response, and when the two were slightly closer, Bufan, who had been spying on the sky, immediately noticed the difference.
Two giant birds returning from afar are returning with their prey!
Their huge claws clearly hold three or four fish-like species the size of Bufan!
There is a water source nearby! There are also aquatic species in this world! Giant birds don't worry about food sources!
For a brief moment, Bouvan came to this conclusion.
Despite clutching the huge prey, the giant birds still flew fast, and with just a few flaps of their wings, they flew to the top of Boufan's head, and in the moment when Bufan masked his breath, they quickly landed into the huge nest next to him - it turned out to be hunting and feeding the chicks!
Bufan, a passive birdwatcher, inadvertently learns about the giant bird's habits.
With the return of the two giant birds, the few that had been circling and soaring before also fell in different directions, and the sky finally calmed down for a moment.
Bufan retracted his attention to the tree he was on, and found that the giant birds were silent, and the bat-winged birds on the tree began to get excited, stretching out their long beaks one by one, probing their brains and pecking around, and occasionally found a bug, so they competed for me.
Could it be that the giant bird and the batwing bird have a symbiotic relationship in groups? Or else the giant bird has no sense of territory?
Obviously, the latter is impossible, and Bu Fan doesn't have so much energy to pay attention to these details, and he only hopes that the giant bird will be full a long time ago, and don't look down on his little snack.
Rounding the manta-winged bird's nest, he began to make a tentative final climb to the top of the trees.
Maybe it's the thief bold, or maybe it's that I've never seen a humanoid creature like Bufan, those bat-winged birds are all very bold, watching Bufan crawl up, not only did not scatter in a hurry, but approached to test it, a few even fell on Bufan's back, pecked lightly twice, and after feeling Bufan's body tremble, they flew away again, and the whole bat-winged bird community was chattering endlessly.
The long beak of the batwing bird is very sharp, and after only two strokes, Bufan felt as if he had been stabbed twice with a screwdriver, and he did not dare to resist violently, but when they fell on him, he swung his arms and twisted his waist and so on, and scared them away.
Fortunately, this curiosity did not last long, and these thieves did not bother to pay attention to him.
After another half-ring, avoiding the end towards the giant bird's nest, Bufan finally reached the top of the tree.
The scaly tree grew really thick, even where he landed, the branches were twenty or thirty centimeters thick, and countless scaly leaves were spread out flatly, making Bufan look not like he was burrowing in the lush branches and leaves, but like he was standing on the viewing platform of a high-rise building, an experience that would not be found on earth.
Everything is in front of him, calm down, the pain in his body is still there, if it weren't for the thorn ball in the soul sea is still there, and the sky above his head is still pink, Bu Fan would really feel that all this in front of him is a dream.
The sky of this world is indeed pink, but it is not uniform, only standing in such an open position, Bu Fan found that the sky near the top of his head is actually as magnificent as the violet, and the more it spreads around, the more the splendor of this violet begins to fade into pink, and even the distant sky, it becomes pink and white.
There are still clouds in the sky, and the clouds are as white as the other side of the earth, and against the background of violets and pink sky, the white clouds are like a fairy tale.
The sky is very good, Bufan found the existence of the sun, no, it should be said that it is the orientation of the star to which this planet belongs, but unlike the earth to see the sun is a bright disk, there are two sources of light energy on this planet!
Is it a binary star system?
After squinting suspiciously for a long time, Bufan finally confirmed his guess.
In the diagonal position of his right hand, there were two small speckles of light, hanging in the sky, but they were not close, one was still in mid-air, the other was already close to the horizon, and all the objects on the ground had two shadows, and all the shadows were subordinate to them. The light spots appear to vary in size, one is a dazzling white, the other is slightly darker, and its light color is a little purple against the white light next to it?
Looking at them with his hand, Bufan's eyes were a little sour, and it was really hard to be sure.
However, with Bufan's experience, he can judge that the distance between the two stars under his feet must be much greater than the distance between the earth and the sun, so the two stars look smaller or very much in line with the space science system on Earth - if it looks larger than the sun, or a binary star system, I am afraid that this planet has already been scorched, where will there be everything in front of me?
Putting aside these trivial theories that were too far away, Bufan scanned everything in his sight with an almost greedy gaze.
The forest of scaly trees is so vast that it is impossible to see the edge in Bufan's field of vision, and the huge leaves are coherent together, as if creating a second platform on the ground.
However, this layer of platform is not horizontal, but has ups and downs and more discontinuity.
Speaking of ups and downs, Bu Fan found that the top of the tree he was living in was mostly a small sapling in the scale tree, and more than a thousand meters away from his sight, there was a more stout guy, the height of those scale trees was at least three or five times that of the tree under him, hundreds of meters high, with branches and leaves like cloud covers, and countless such huge guys were connected together, as if they were a group of tall green giants standing there and shocking Bufan's eyes.
Of course, they weren't moving giants, and behind the side of Buvan's body, a platform of scaly foliage had a fracture zone, where the planet's surface suddenly rose and fell, and a taller mountain range stretched into the distance, the top of which was white - apparently it was snow and ice that had not melted for years, and the half of the mountain was mostly green - It was another belt of plants, and between the plant belt and the scaly forest on the mountainsideline, there was a very sudden area of rock without much green, and standing in Bufan's position, under the reflection of the two stars, the rock belt reflected the light from time to time.
What's that? What is that?
Is that the house of the planet's dominant species? Or is it a naturally occurring hedron reflector, or is it some kind of peculiarly shaped glowing plant?
The distance was too far for reference at all, and Bufan didn't have a clue.
According to the words of the mindless sea urchin, he has been in this world for three planetary cycles, but from the time he woke up to this moment, it was only seven or eight hours at most, excluding the time spent looking for food and drinking water, how long did he really open his eyes and look at this world?
Half an hour?
He didn't even know the orbits of those two stars, and he didn't even have a concept of the south, south, west, and northwest, and it was too difficult for him to calculate further.
Throw away useless emotions and move on.
On the other side behind him, on the side of the mountains, that was the direction of the return of the two giant birds that had been hunted before, and the light and scenery were a little distorted there, and Bufan knew that he could not easily see the changes in space like the sea urchin, so his judgment was that there must be a water source in that direction.
Of course, he couldn't see much water at this angle and distance, and another factor in making this judgment was that there were many birds flying in that direction, and the scaly trees in that direction were slightly higher than the ones under his feet.
Finally having a general understanding of his surroundings, Bufan hid his body and stared at his surroundings in thought.
Violet and pink sky, white clouds, green tall trees, towering snow-capped mountains, two stars...... There are also giant birds with blue feathers and bat-winged birds that chirp and make trouble, if you change to an earth woman, I am afraid that your pupils will change into a heart shape and your mind will be romantic.
But in the heart of Bufan, a big man who has no romantic cells, he is full of sorrow.
The world may be beautiful, but this beauty is not for him, an outsider, to appreciate. It's like right now, in order to survive, he has to leave this seemingly safe place to stay.
The reason is simple, it's not a blessing to be a neighbor with a giant bird, and God knows if it will eat itself as a snack. Bu Fan doesn't think that there is any protagonist aura that can make the giant bird look at it differently, let alone think that he has the combat power to challenge the giant bird, and being a neighbor with a nest of big guys with a wingspan of eight meters is tantamount to living in a tiger's den.
Putting hope in the mercy of a beast or a bird of prey? Buvan didn't have that kind of virgin feeling.
It's just that...... Where can he go without this?
The scaly tree hundreds of meters high will definitely be wonderful there, but it is definitely not a place he can go now, not to mention the giant birds that may also exist, and there can be such a tall group of trees, I am afraid that there will also be a more complex food chain, and he should not fill this lonely alien species.
The water source may be a good place, but it can also be a more dangerous place, and given the size of the scale tree in this world, he wouldn't be surprised if there were land creatures as large as dinosaurs.
The rocky terrain under the mountain may also be worth exploring, where he can make a sturdy bunker as a dwelling, but is it necessarily safe? The dominant species must be sapient, and the sapient creatures are far more dangerous than the dinosaurs with sharp teeth and huge sizes!
Whatever is good will do harm, and nothing in the world is like this.