Chapter 172: A Trip to Africa (3)
It was a young female rhinoceros, and a male rhino was cautiously approaching her.
Apparently, the female rhinoceros did not like the male rhinoceros very much, and rushed towards him with her horns on her head, successfully driving him away.
She already had a place in her heart, and another male rhinoceros came over, and her muscular body only tugged at the heartstrings of the female rhinoceros, and this time, she was much more enthusiastic.
They met, approached each other, and the female rhinoceros let out a clear hum, and the male responded with a thick and heavy response.
They touched each other's kisses, felt the breath of both sides, pressed the bottom of the rhino horn against each other's heads, and exerted force on each other, one backward and the other forward, back and forth several times, and then attached to the side of the face, and the ginkgo biloba-like ears fanned with it.
"Brother, they're so powerful."
Sophia looked at this scene, a little shy, although she had not yet found a partner, she could still see that this was cultivating sentiment, and the means seemed to be abundant.
"Then keep watching, but you have to remember that it won't work for you, don't learn!"
Ralph said.
Suddenly, the first male rhinoceros returned, and he tried to break them up.
He had a pair of antelope horns on his nose, which was a novelty.
He came to their side, let out a low humming sound, and shook the antelope horns on his nose, constantly attracting the attention of the mother rhinoceros.
It seems that with his strange appearance, he has successfully captured the heart of a female rhinoceros.
The female rhinoceros came to his side, and the other male looked at the scene in disbelief and took a few steps back.
Under his watchful eye, the male rhinoceros, who was not as strong as him, left with the female.
The two rhinos came to a rather empty, undisturbed meadow.
The female rhinoceros is standing, waiting for the male rhinoceros to act.
The male rhino came to the side of the female rhino and put his legs on the female rhinoceros.
"Don't look at it, little ones!"
At this point, Ralph conjured a lightning curtain, blocking Sophia's curious vision.
Sophia was about to protest when Ralph took the initiative to remove the light curtain.
"What's wrong? Brother."
Sophia was a little caught off guard and asked suspiciously.
"That male rhinoceros is not good, see for yourself."
Ralph said to Sophia.
Sophia looked and saw the male rhinoceros raise his body and climb onto the female rhino's back with difficulty, with his forefeet on it, and keep leaping forward, but they never fit together closely, and the space was a quarter of the distance of an adult rhinoceros.
From Sophia's point of view, it seems that the big belly of the male rhinoceros is stopping his progress. He jumped twice on the female rhinoceros, and the huge weight made the female rhinoceros a little uncomfortable, and let out a dissatisfied sound.
As it turns out, the male rhinoceros may have great looks and good intelligence, but he was a disappointment.
At this point, the male rhinoceros, who had been abandoned by the female rhinoceros, walked into their side and exhaled vigorously through his nose.
There is a limit to the female rhinoceros's patience, she let out a low roar of dissatisfaction, turned to attack the male rhinoceros, and the male rhinoceros, who knew that he was at a loss, held off and did not make any other moves.
Not far away, the rhinoceros mother and son, who were drinking water by the puddle, raised their heads curiously and looked at this scene.
The mother rhinoceros teaches the children to take precautions and not to become a rhinoceros that disappoints the girls, and the children take note of it carefully.
Now, because of his own ability, the male rhinoceros is entangled by the female rhinoceros and forcibly attacked him.
Nowadays, the only way to get rid of a female rhinoceros is to pretend to be asleep.
The male rhinoceros bent his legs and began to sleep on the ground, soon snoring, flapping his ginkgo leaf-like ears from time to time, and wagging his short tail.
Seeing this, the female rhinoceros took a few steps back and slowly left, and no one knew what she was thinking at this time.
"Well, that's too bad. Is this still a male bird? Oh, is it a male rhino?"
Sophia, who witnessed everything, didn't know how to complain, "So there will be such a male."
, she thought.
"Brother, you won't in the future..."
"Ah, don't fight!"
Sophia looked at Ralph, and before she could finish her sentence, she was called out by one of Ralph's big wings.
In this rhinoceros gathering place, two larger birds suddenly appeared, chasing and fleeing, shuttling between them.
The rhinos didn't pay much attention either, they had nothing to do with the birds, and now they could tolerate Ralph and them making a fuss here, as long as it didn't disturb their social interactions.
That's the power of water to make it possible to gather so many rhinos in one place, making it the largest concentration of rhinos on the planet.
The eastern sky gradually turned white, the night sky illuminated by the crescendo of daylight, the stars disappeared one by one, and as the last of the darkness in the west faded, the morning came completely.
Ralph and Sophia set off, bathed in the golden morning sun, neither bird summoning a cloud to cover them.
The sun shone on their golden feathers, glittering.
On the ground, there is a yellow dead grass, in the morning sun, like a golden picture, which is dotted with green gems of different shades, which are trees that grow tenaciously here.
They were flying across the plains, and a mountain lay in front of them like a sleeping dragon, its yellow-brown exterior studded with dark green gems with a yellow glow.
Mount Spikapa, an ancient volcano, stands on this plateau formed 2 billion years ago.
Time has passed, but the land has remained as it was, while the rest of Africa has long since changed.
The animals that inhabit this area have spent countless years searching for solutions to their water problems, and they struggle to survive.
In the open plains, they can only wait for rain to fall.
Suddenly, dark clouds gathered not far away, gradually spreading, and the thunder in them instantly attracted Ralph's attention.
Without further ado, they flew into the clouds.
Thunder and lightning flashed, swam, and exploded in the clouds.
Ralph and Sophia also fluttered in the clouds, squandering their magic without hesitation.
With their help, the clouds are thicker, darker, and more extensive.
With the blessing of the Forbidden Forest consciousness within the crown, Ralph felt more clearly than ever the majesty of the forces of nature and the ease of acting in accordance with nature.
Every time he flicked his wings, there was a mysterious force in the darkness that helped him, simplifying his dance, optimizing the route of his magic power, and even immersing himself in the body to affect his whole body.
The land was silently watching them, and the magic of the natural world that they could influence was much wider, and Ralph could already sense the magic of the ocean, all of which were inspired by them to work and collect water vapor.
The clouds gather, the wind rises, the thunder thunders, and the rain falls.
The sky was dark, and it was pouring rain.
It seems that it has been held back for a long time, and this rain comes and goes quickly, only for a short ten minutes. But the rain is also very heavy, and it can be called a real "downpour", as if someone is carrying the sea and pouring it here.
The impact of this rain has been extraordinary.
Ralph and the others were also lucky to encounter the occasional downpour. In this rain-making, they have gained a lot of benefits, such as the improvement of magic and magic affinity, the improvement of physical fitness, etc., and this time it is far more than any previous gain.
Although the rain was short-lived, the vitality it brought was immeasurable.
The sound of birds chirping and wings fluttering was deafening, and it reached Ralph and them, who were still in the sky.
They looked down, and a large flock of birds had gathered on the land that had just been soaked in heavy rain, and the black oppression completely obscured the original appearance of the land.
They are the red-billed quelia finch, the most abundant bird in the world, with more than 1 billion individuals in the Kalahari Desert alone, and have an extraordinary ability to sense rainfall.
Rely on a huge base
The number of magical individuals within their race is also staggering.
However, they don't have any particularly outstanding magical abilities, and in terms of survivability, they are not much different from ordinary birds, or even inferior.
The magic species of the red-billed quelia finch is equivalent to a squad leader within the clan.
They can sense the time of day and the direction of the specific location in advance of the rain, and lead the group there.
They are born with the ability to call and command the tribe, and accept the support of the tribe, so the actual survival ability is quite insufficient.
Although the magic power did not give them much curling, compared to their peers who had no magical ability, it also greatly improved their intelligence.
Under their command, flocks of red-billed quelias have almost no natural predators in Africa, whether they are elephants or lions, and they have to flee when they encounter them.
For this reason, they are known as one of Africa's most harmful birds, and both animals and humans agree with this view.
Humans in particular often breed in large numbers during the autumn harvest.
When they were eating, the birds behind them, in order to get food, flew to the front to eat, and then the birds that were in front became the birds behind them, and they also rushed forward to eat.
The flock of birds rolls forward like wheels, and everywhere they go, the seeds are not spared.
When confronted with food, the magic species within the red-billed quelia finch are also unable to command their clan as usual.
The rain and the thunder and lightning were all consumed by the cacophony of sounds, and Ralph and Sophia hurried away.
As she left, Sophia also cracked down a few bolts of lightning, killing thousands of red-billed quelias in an instant.
"There's no need to be angry with them."
Ralph persuaded.
"It's okay now, it's much better after the thunder."
Sophia's mood has indeed improved a lot.
They soar in the sky, looking at the magnificent sights of nature, the sky is high and the earth is vast, and this is probably what they have been after.
Several rivers that have long dried up crisscross the Kalahari Desert, and all the water in it has been absorbed by the thirsty earth.
But the water hasn't gone away, and there's a secret hidden deep underground here.
On the earth, which is dominated by red and yellow dotted green, a long strip of green catches Ralph's eyes.
Flying to the spot, they lowered their altitude, and could clearly feel a cool moisture rushing upwards and enveloping their bodies.
In this regard, they did not feel any discomfort, but felt very comfortable, much more comfortable than those dry places before.
It was a crack with all sorts of green plants growing on the cliff face, and it was so deep that it was difficult for Ralph to see the bottom.
The moisture rushing to the surface gives this place a beautiful name - Dragon's Breath Cave.
Ralph and the others enjoyed a moment of dampness before leaving, having no desire to explore the secrets beneath them, and the chasm was too small to allow them to enter or exit.
With the flight, they gradually came to the western edge of the Kalahari Desert.
The land is getting drier and drier, and as far as the eye can see, it is no longer a complete land, but gradually turning into a desert. Life was also becoming scarce, and Yuralf suspected that there was no living life at all here.
This is the Namib Desert, with nearly 1 million square kilometers of sand, carved by the wind spirits.
It is the oldest desert in the world, and the drought here is softened by fog from the Atlantic Ocean, which condenses into a few precious drops of water, just enough to sustain life.
A black shadow was running fast across the desert, a spider wasp looking for a moist place to lay her eggs.
Where in the desert would there be a wet place? Eucalyptus is another organism within itself.
Constantly climbing left and right on the dunes, she found a suspicious cave.
Constantly digging out the sand around the burrow, a white spider had to jump out of the sand.
The two confronted each other, and the spider bee tried to anesthetize the spider, but the spider seemed to know that he was invincible, and rolled down the sand dunes in a circle, worthy of his name "Golden Wheel Spider".
Such a small scene naturally did not attract Ralph's attention, and no matter how good their eyesight was, they could not notice such a small insect from such a high altitude.
However, the giraffe not far away still caught their attention.
The direction in which he was moving was like a green skirt on the earth.
This is one of the sand rivers in the territory of *** - the Hoanibugan River.
The roots of the trees that grow here are more than 30 meters deep in the ground, absorbing the water from the riverbed.
The leaves of these trees are the food of this male giraffe, who has ruled the area for more than a decade, enjoying the food and the female giraffes it attracts.
At this time, he is confidently waiting for the next sweetheart to appear.
However, an uninvited guest came, a young male giraffe.
None of them was willing to give up this treasure land and share it with another stag, and a big battle began.
At first, their fight seemed somewhat hilarious.
The first physical collision was the collision of the buttocks of the two, pushing and shoving, probing each other, not paying the slightest attention to the abnormal cloud in the sky.
Watching this scene, both Ralph and Sophia felt a little funny.
Then, the two began to throw their long necks at each other's long necks, back and forth, with the feeling of playing a turn-based game.
As the battle progressed, Ralph and the others put away their jokes.
The young buck aimed at the opponent's hip attack, and under the huge impact, two obtuse horns pierced the opponent's flesh, and blood spilled out.
The older one attacks the opponent's legs.
After a while, the older stag fell, and that was the end of the battle?
The next blow was the decisive blow as the young giraffe threw its neck.
But the veteran managed to dodge and deliver a heavy blow to his opponent's lower abdomen, and the young giraffe went down completely, and the older side continued his dominance.