Big Islander 2

Chapter 594

After staying in the water source for two days, Tang Jide and the others finally bid farewell to the elephants, and at the same time said goodbye to those lovely animals. After these few days of contact, Tang Jide and the others have a deeper understanding of animals love them.

At the moment of parting, whether it is a ferocious lion, a stubborn rhino, or a speculator hyena, they all raised their heads and uttered various sounds, so that the entire water source roared for a long time, and the scene was incomparable Spectacular.

Xiao Xiami sat on the roof of the off-road vehicle, waved for a long time, and wished silently in his heart: Dear partners, I hope you will live forever like this land——

The farther you go, the more desolate it becomes, with yellow sand all over the place, and you can only see a cluster of plants on the sand after walking a long way.And Qiao Nana's work became more and more difficult, because in this environment, she needed to consume more plant essence, and it was very difficult to replenish it. In the end, she had to rely on Zijin Dan to persevere.For her, this is destined to be a bitter journey and the best tempering.After this period of training, Qiao Nana felt that the plant essence in her body was much more abundant, and she could use it more freely. There seemed to be signs of a breakthrough at any time, and what was missing was only an opportunity.

After the off-road vehicle ran out of gas, they abandoned it, and everyone changed to walking.On this day, they came to a dry river. Although there was not a drop of water in the river, compared with the surrounding sandy land, the vegetation on both sides of the river was much denser, and there were many tall trees. Several giraffes were stretching neck, eating the young leaves on the tree.

From these big trees, Brother Big Head felt the rich plant essence.Although the trees are only more than ten meters high, their roots are more than 30 meters deep underground to absorb water.Not only animals, but also plants in the Kalahari Desert are not easy to survive.

There are quite a lot of creatures near the dry river, so Brother Big Head and the others plan to stay here for a few days and wait for Qiao Nana by the way.Having nothing to do, Tang Jide led Daxing and Pheasant to catch scorpions in the sand. The scorpions here are milky white, almost transparent, and taste good when roasted because they live in the sand all year round.It was best to eat it fried, but they didn't have cooking oil on hand.

While catching scorpions, I also found a group of meerkats living not far from the river bed, and soon became acquainted with Brother Big Head and the others, planing food in the sand together.Meerkats have a relatively mixed diet, and various insects are their delicious meals.Moreover, their small paws planed the sand very quickly, and the raised sand splashed behind them, and the pheasant was accidentally lifted.

"When you're playing, you raise the soil, can we still play happily together?" Mr. Pheasant muttered, and he simply pulled a sand nest, and then lay down in it to take a bath.

The warm sun shone on his body, and the inside of the sand nest was also warm. It was very pleasant. If he was not disturbed by the sound of birds, Mr. Pheasant would almost fall asleep.

What bird is calling——Mr. Pheasant looked around, and soon found an old black raven on a sparse branch. Shake the colorful feathers on your body.

Suddenly, the black bird croaked twice, the sound was very short, and then the meerkats who were planing for food gave a whimper, scattered and fled, and all got into the hole in the blink of an eye.Then, a falcon flitted across the sky with its claws empty.

When the figure of the falcon disappeared, the meerkat came out of the cave again and continued to look for food.Brother Big Tou also looked interesting, and said to the little Xiami beside him, "It's really rare for the old black raven to partner with the meerkat."

"Uncle Big Head, that's not a crow, but a curly tail. Look at its tail, the feathers on both sides of the tail feathers are rolled up, so it is called a curly tail. They are equivalent to the little sentinels of the meerkat. When the alarm rang, the meerkats were about to go into the hole immediately. Although the meerkat family also has their own sentries, it is not as good as the curly tail standing high and seeing far." Little Xiami patiently explained to Uncle Big Tou.

Brother Datou scratched the back of his head because of his ignorance: "Cursus, the name is not bad, but I was wondering, it is responsible for guarding the meerkat, is it to learn to do good deeds?"

In any symbiotic relationship, both parties must be mutually beneficial and dependent on each other, that's why Big Brother asked this question.But soon he knew the answer, because not long after, the cursled tail uttered two more short chirps, and the meerkat once again staged a wolf run.

And one of them had just dug out a big fat worm from the sand, and didn't care about picking up food, and swished back to the cave a few times. Like food, life-saving must be the most important thing.

Before the bug got back into the sand, the curly tail flew down, picked up the bug, and swallowed it.As for the legendary danger, of course it doesn't exist, and all of this is just a small plan by Capuchin.

"This guy is bad enough—" The pheasant also looked at this capuchin with admiration, and it was smart enough to play tricks on the real and the false.

Tang Jide was also very happy to see: Don't look at this guy's dark body, he can also cheat.

And the next scene was even more astonishing. When the meerkat got out of the cave again, it started to plan food on the sand. A lucky meerkat actually dug out a fat and big scorpion, so the capuchin also Flying over to grab food, the result was unceremoniously chased away by the meerkat baring its teeth.

At this moment, the siren sounded again, but this time it was not the cry of the curly tail, but the sentinel of the meerkat family issuing an air raid siren.There was no other way, the meerkat had no choice but to give up the scorpion, and squeaked back into the cave.As for the scorpion, of course it became a delicious meal in the mouth of the curly tail.

And the meerkat in charge of sentry, still standing on the spot naively, turning its head vigilantly, the alarm just now was not sent by it, but from the mouth of that curly tail.This clever black bird has learned to imitate the calls of meerkat sentinels through long-term practice.

After seeing such a good show, even Mr. Pheasant couldn't help admiring: "This old black raven is not bad, he can play around with the clever meerkat, if he plays with me, he can still make progress—"

"You can pull it down, don't harm this curly tail, I see that it lives well with this group of meerkats, mutual benefit and mutual benefit, although there are conflicts, but it does not affect their happy life." I actually like this capuchin, but wouldn't it be better to let it live in its natural state?

After seeing that capuchin was full, he felt at ease to guard the meerkat, and the little shrimp called it over, and then sent some life essence into its body, so that this capuchin will definitely be smarter than its kind , and can better survive in this difficult environment.

At noon the next day, the dry river miraculously began to flow.In fact, it can't be called water flow, it's just a thin layer of river water, slowly seeping along the surface of the river bed, without even a splash, seeping into the thirsty river bed.

"Is the rainy season coming?" Brother Big Head looked up at the sky, the sun was still shining brightly, and there were no clouds in the sky.

Xiao Xiami analyzed it, and it should be a heavy rainstorm hundreds of miles or more upstream, so the water will flow along the river all the way here.This situation does not happen several times a year.But even so, the vegetation on both sides of the dry river will be nourished by the water and will not die completely.Here, water becomes even more precious.

But in this way, Tang Jide is full of confidence in the green corridor that Qiao Nana sowed: with the support of groundwater and the nourishment of water vapor in the air, transforming the Kalahari Desert is definitely not a mirage.

After Qiao Nana's green corridor crossed the river, Tang Jide and the others continued to move forward.In the vast sea of ​​sand, Brother Datou didn’t know where he was, but Xiami was more excited, because according to her, this place is not far from Hutch’s tribe, and according to the current speed, it should be within ten days and a half months. arrive.

Half a month sounds like a long time, but in fact, based on their traveling speed, it was a distance of one or two hundred miles, so Brother Big Head sent General Heng Ha to go ahead and report a letter to Hatch's tribe.

Da Xing and Pheasant have long had objections to the speed of this turtle crawling, and after hearing Tang Jide's order, they went happily, one flew and the other ran, just like escaping from a cage.

"Be careful—" Brother Big Tou did not forget to remind him, but in fact, what he said was in vain. With the experience of the Second General Hum Ha, he had traveled to many places alone, so there was no need for Brother Big Tou to nudge.

But it turns out that Brother Big Head is still very predictable, and the pheasant flew back in a panic after a while: "It's not good, it's not good, the big star fell into the crack in the ground—"

Tang Jide and Xiao Xiami did not dare to be negligent when they heard this, and hurriedly followed the pheasant to the rescue. They also listened to the description of the pheasant on the way, and Brother Datou finally figured out that they were living a life over a barren mountain when a small rift suddenly appeared in front of them. , Daxing found a relatively narrow place and prepared to jump over it. After all, if he made a detour, he would have to take a lot of wrong roads.

The rift that Daxing flew over was more than three meters wide. It was not difficult for it. Also slipped out to the bottom of the rift.As for what's going on below, the pheasant came back in a hurry to report, and didn't bother to check.

After running for about 20 miles, I arrived at the place that the pheasant mentioned. It was a bare red soil mountain, and it was not too high.But the closer you get to the crack, you can feel the moistness in the air becoming more and more obvious, which is completely different from the dry desert air just now.

When I got to the crack and looked down, I saw a lot of vegetation growing on the rock wall, full of greenery.Brother Big Tou couldn't help scratching the back of his head: "Could it be that there's groundwater down here?"

Unexpectedly, Xiao Xiami nodded: "Very likely, this is the Dragon's Breath Cave that people are talking about!"

"Dragon's Breath Cave, isn't there a dragon down there? Daxing, Vasily, don't let the dragon eat you as lunch—" The pheasant became anxious when he heard that, and flapped his wings along the way. Fly down the crack.Below, there is a dark crack, like a huge mouth.

Tang Jide couldn't help scratching the back of his head: "Xiao Xia, is there really a dragon down there?"

Two big dimples appeared on Xiao Xiami's face: "Of course there is, and it's a golden dragon—"

(End of this chapter)