After Turning Into An Animal, I Rely On My Face To Make A Living

There are already hundreds of thousands of Adélie in the entire colony ready to start breeding, and the scale is even larger than last year. Shi Qiao looked at the black penguins everywhere and felt that building the nest uphill was a wise choice.

It's really too messy down there, so noisy.

She also saw Adélie true lack of moral integrity, which was not limited to the old king next door, the Penguin Exchange, and the polyamory that made the little penguin gasp in awe.

She has to say that Adélie really has a lot of tricks up their sleeve.

Because they live in groups, compared to solitary leopards, the penguin colony is very lively every day. Shi Qiao also experiences the fun of reading gossip, and her knowledge is refreshed by these Adélie every day.

A ten-minute introduction to Adélie, the eight minutes the flaws deserve.

The little penguin is addicted to watching these Adélie horse-catching incidents every day, which makes Klein very disapproving. He directly blocks the little baby's sight with himself, forcibly intercepts the opponent's gaze, and lowers his head to rub back and forth with the opponent.

Shi Qiao was forced to look at the big boss, and her head was turned away by the other man, like a bent sapling.

A certain penguin was too bored, and she couldn't even look at other penguins to relieve her boredom.

As the spring Antarctic cold wave disappears and the last stage of severe weather finally comes to an end, the days on this continent are getting longer and longer, and Adélies are beginning to lay eggs.

Within a few days, Shi Qiao witnessed the birth of the first penguin egg.

Compared with the eggs of emperor penguins, Adélie's eggs are more rounded, and the shell is slightly milky white, making them look bright and cute.

The female Adélie transfers the eggs she lays to the male. After laying the eggs, it is the release day for the females. At this time, they can leave the penguin eggs and the penguin father and return to the sea to eat some food.

If it is a penguin family that lays two penguin eggs in a row, the male Adélie has an even heavier responsibility and must take care of both eggs at the same time when the female leaves.

There will definitely be some troubles along the way, such as accidentally bumping into a penguin egg and watching the egg roll down the hillside, or being coveted by another single male Adélie, turning into an egg thief and taking the egg to his nest.

There are also Antarctic skuas that have spotted the colony. Penguin eggs are a rare delicacy after they are pecked open by their hard beaks.

During the process of laying and incubating eggs of Adélies, countless little penguins fail to hatch due to these reasons, which greatly affects the birth rate of little penguins.

Even Shi Qiao was heartbroken when she saw the broken eggshells on the ground. The loss of an egg meant the death of a little life that had never seen the world.

Simply idle is also idle, the little penguin decided to take up the task of guarding penguin eggs with the big brother, especially those single-cub families that only lay one egg.

But all she can do is help drive away Antarctic skuas when they come to steal their eggs, and occasionally help her neighbors drive away other bachelors who come to steal their eggs.

He has no interest in protecting penguin eggs. A certain Antarctic bully is only interested in fighting.

Shi Qiao led a penguin community to punish evil and promote good in the entire settlement. She became Adélie who maintained law and order. She saved many endangered penguin eggs with her strong fighting power.

During this period, Klein also beat up many males who still coveted babies. It could be said that he killed two birds with one stone and made these dishonest bad guys succumb to the threat.

The entire Adélie settlement has never been so harmonious. It is completely different from the chaos and disorder before.

Going out for a small patrol every day can prevent several evil deeds from happening. After most of the Adélie had finished laying eggs, Shi Qiao felt that the burden on her shoulders was heavier, so she simply called on the single Adélie who still hadn't found a female partner this year to join them.

The grumpy old geese, who had no morals in the first place, were not willing to do such a thankless task. After being beaten, they became obedient and followed the two penguins on patrol everywhere.

There were so many penguins in the colony that it was impossible to control them all even if they wanted to. Shi Qiao could only ensure that no vicious incidents occurred within a kilometer radius of her.

Adélie number of chicks has been very low last year. She has seen countless little penguins like her that failed to survive for various reasons. Those scenes are still vivid in her mind.

Shi Qiao decided that this year she would do her best to protect the penguin chicks, even when they were still eggs.

After gaining a certain authority, patrolling is particularly effective in the Adélie group.

The male Adélie who stayed nearby had already seen Klein's power during the courtship period. The other party and the little female next to them also did this to protect their penguin eggs. This move gave the Adélie no reason to refuse, and they all actively cooperated.

When they had difficulties, they called the patrol team to come over and help, and many difficulties were solved.

After working as a security guard for a long time, a certain bully wants to go on strike from time to time.

Those Adélie eggs have nothing to do with them. It was enough for him to raise the one next to him. When Shi Qiao saw the passive-aggressive boss, she winked at him. Didn't the boss like to help geese the most? He even raised a cub he picked up on the road.

If she doesn't work as a security guard, many little penguins like her will not be able to be born smoothly, and there will not be so many companions for the geese to kick into the sea in the future.

Compared to other reasons, Klein reluctantly accepted the latter one, but it still required one condition.

After Shi Qiao understood what the other party said, her eyes widened instantly, don't be shy!

A certain Antarctic bully glanced at her innocently. He always paid three penguins when he hired them as bodyguards. Now, of course, he needs to ask for some "benefits" when he helps other penguins.

Shi Qiao: "..."

Profiteers, big profiteers.

To save the future penguin chicks, Shi Qiao could only bear everything in tears.

Under her leadership, there are more and more Adélie with a sense of justice. Some of them took the initiative to take over the tasks of the security team after hearing about their deeds. When they have nothing to do, they will help maintain order and protect the penguin eggs from damage.

Over time, when the Adélies see the little penguins and the handlers next to each other, they will take the initiative to say hello, completely losing their previous unruly appearance.

Shi Qiao was quite pleased.

These Antarctic flat-headed guys finally understood a truth, that is, fight back, don't make fun of penguin eggs.

When these penguin eggs hatched one after another, the land was filled with the childish cries of many young ones.

Shi Qiao looked at the number of hatchlings that had hatched more this year than last year and felt that she and the boss had contributed a lot to it. She has seen the data about Antarctic penguins before and knows that the current number of penguins is not optimistic. She is very satisfied with her current small achievements.

Who made her become a member of the Adélie Penguins? Of course, she can make some contributions.

Although these penguins are usually a bit bad, the love and care for their chicks still moved the goose very much, and they unexpectedly cooperated with her plan to protect the eggs. As a result, there were more penguin chicks than last year.

Penguin chicks are very likely to die in the first few months after they are born. Shi Qiao and Klein will pay attention to the Antarctic skuas hovering in the sky every day, and wait for these malicious natural enemies to land and drive them away.

The Antarctic skua is a natural predator to its young and a mere rival to the adult Adélie.

The ferocious Adélie can also injure Antarctic skuas. With the penguin's hard beak hanging on its body, it can easily peck out several of their cherished flight feathers, impeding their flight.

Shi Qiao got angry when she saw these Antarctic skuas, which had threatened her life countless times when she was a child and would bite each other's heads hard every time.

Damn all these bad birds.

Klein would only focus on the wings of these birds. The loss of flight feathers was a serious blow to them. With their feathers messy, the Antarctic Skua came happily and left in disgrace.

Over time, these skuas have learned to be smart and stop hunting within their range and set their targets elsewhere.

It's just that no matter where they go this time, adult penguins who are always vigilant will come over to help the parents drive away natural enemies. It is not a little bit more harmonious and loving than last year.

The Antarctic skuas were puzzled.

When did these Adeleys become so united? 

It really makes the bird unhappy!

It's a pity that even if it seems outrageous, they still have to admire these penguins. Originally, they could feed themselves by hunting penguin chicks every day, but now they have to find other food to fill their stomachs.

Shi Qiao looked at the single Adélies going downhill to help drive away the Antarctic skuas and looked away with relief.

Unexpectedly, the Antarctic skua left, and not long after, there was another chaos near the place where they went uphill, and a weak cub even made a weak and urgent cry.

Klein stretched his neck: "A male is trying to snatch the cubs."

Um?

It's really an itch for someone to commit a crime against the odds.

The little penguin clapped its flippers, and immediately called the police with the boss around her, and ran to the female penguin mother who stayed in the nest with her chicks to help her protect her chicks.

After nagging the male who wanted to steal the child, Shi Qiao looked at the familiar face and discovered that the penguin turned out to be her former cheap brother, Eric.

The other party had long forgotten that he had a lost sibling, and after being scolded, he quickly fought back angrily.

Shi Qiao was angry. A year later, he still looked like a gangster. He must be taught a lesson!

When they were still in the same nest, she was often bullied by him. The little penguin snatched the chicks and handed them over to the big brother, while she rushed over to hunt the geese menacingly.

The other party lost the cub in his own den, and now he wants to snatch a cub from another Adélie den to deal with the female.

When Shi Qiao heard the accusation that the female had been robbed from behind, she thought that Adélie father had lost him when he was a child, and now that the other party had lost his cub, it was considered unreliable in the same vein.

This kind of penguin still needs to be beaten to remember it.

She couldn't beat him when she was a child, but now she can finally avenge her old and new grudges together. She wants to re-educate Adélie parents who failed to educate their children well.

Shi Qiao stretched out her head and started yelling fiercely. She also tripped the other person to the ground using the method taught to her by the big boss. When Eric couldn't get up, she took advantage of the fact that the least feathered part of the other person's head was bald.

When the other party got up in anger, turned around, and fought back at him, he was grabbed by the back of the neck ruthlessly, unable to move.

Eric turned his head hard, and then he saw the face of a certain Antarctic bully. The other party held it in place with astonishing strength. He pinned it in place and could only be beaten passively.

Shi Qiao babbled hard, and the cheap brother turned into the Mediterranean Sea, and then she felt much happier.

After pinning the opponent down and beating him up, Shi Qiao shouted to Klein: "Let's go home." 

It felt like avenging the former penguin chick.

Eric just screamed in annoyance when he was frightened back by the cold eyes of the male Adélie, and left dejectedly.

After all the penguin chicks have been born for a period of time, the situation has basically stabilized, and the rest of the tasks are left to the penguin's parents, and the little penguin gives herself a holiday.

Every day she was either chasing away skuas or teaching other penguins a lesson. It was time for her to go out to sea with Klein to look for food.

It's good not to have any cubs. They don't have to stay in the settlement and have to raise their babies to starve.

Shi Qiao rubbed the fur on the boss's chest and decided to rest until daytime and then set off immediately to return to the sea for vacation.

There were only adult penguins in the colony and their little gray dumplings beside them. They didn't notice that there was an icebreaker heading in this direction dozens of kilometers away from the colony.

The team that comes to Antarctica for expeditions in the warm season every year came earlier than usual this year. An important sightseeing item during their trip was to visit the Adélie settlement, which was very popular last year, to see the newly born Adélie cubs.

This year's expedition team included another Antarctic researcher who had been there last year. Maz and the expedition guide Roy once again boarded the motorboat and drove towards the familiar Antarctic interior.

After daybreak, Maz flipped through the photos on his camera and found the penguins he had photographed last year.

These penguins are so smart that humans are surprised, and their appearance is also outstanding among Adélies. He wonder if he will be lucky enough to encounter them this year.

Roy: "There are hundreds of thousands of penguins in the colony. The probability of encountering them again should be low, and even if we see them, we may not be able to recognize them."

Maz thought for a while and showed the camera in his hand: "If it is this pair of penguins, I think we can recognize them immediately when we see them."

"Don't have such unrealistic illusions, penguin fans." Roy tidied up his equipment, turned to the other tourists, and said, "Look at the continental ice in front, we will be there soon."

The motorboat stopped near the mouth of the sea, and humans walked on the solid ice toward the Adélie settlement under the guidance of the tour guide.

Before they even got near the colony, they saw two lone penguins coming out of the colony and walking leisurely to the estuary where they came from.

Tour guide Roy stopped first, picked up the telescope in his hand, and looked at the two Adélie that were still some distance away from them. Suddenly he turned his head and glanced at the scholar behind him with great happiness.

He said in disbelief: "Why do I think they look familiar?"

When the human and the penguin got closer and closer, Maz patted him on the shoulder: "The unrealistic fantasy has come true."

The human opened the camera in his hand, zoomed in on one of the photos, and compared it with the two Adélie in front of him: "These are the penguins we saw last year."

Across the way, Shi Qiao saw a well-equipped expedition team and felt that these two people looked particularly familiar.

Seeing that all these people stopped and picked up the camera to point it at themselves, the little penguin simply stretched out its flippers, waved to the humans, and said hello. The male Adélie in front of her saw the dark camera and blocked the little penguin behind him to block the inquiring eyes of these two-legged beasts.

Shi Qiao revealed half of her head from behind Klein.

She knew that these people would not harm animals and were just here for sightseeing. She was not wary of these tourists. In the previous world, she was used to being followed and photographed every day. There was no harm in being photographed.

Maz kept holding the camera in his hand: "This female Adélie is the penguin chick in the photo. I didn't expect that they are still together a year later."

Other tourists wondered: "Aren't Adélie cubs very different from their adult forms, how can you recognize them?"

Roy nodded: "You should be able to recognize them after seeing the photos. Their eyes have intelligence that other penguins don't have, and they are easy to distinguish."

Shi Qiao was in a good mood when she heard these humans praising themselves for being smart.

It turns out that among the penguins, she and the boss are also outstanding penguins. These humans are still very discerning.

Klein and the little penguin passed by humans and continued toward the seaport. The two-legged beast behind them took photos of them growing up for a year. Roy asked: "Why doesn't this little penguin leave its parents after it becomes an adult?" 

This is indeed a good question.

Maz and Roy, who had witnessed a male mother raising his cub last year, both fell into deep thought.

Shi Qiao didn't know that she and Klein had left humans with puzzling questions. She followed the boss to the estuary and saw the humans' motorboat parked nearby.

The little penguin flapped its flippers and walked over first, jumped directly onto the motorboat, and looked to see if there was any food left by humans.

Just thinking about the food in the human world makes her drool a little, and it would be better if she had some snacks.

Seeing that the little penguin was so bold, Klein had no choice but to follow him and jump on the motorboat. He watched the other person stick her butt out and pull the life jacket around. Then she walked to a yellow plastic box and opened the lock of the box by clicking twice with her pointed beak.

Shi Qiao saw an unopened bag of compressed biscuits in the box, which must have been leftover after filling the backpack.

The little penguin's eyes lit up and she called to the boss: "Klein, come here and help me. I want to eat this."

The other party came over and looked at the silver-white packaging bag suspiciously. Is this food edible?

Shi Qiao stepped on one side with her feet and asked Klein to step on the other side. She used her mouth to tear open a slit in the package, and happily took out the biscuits inside and fed them to the other person's mouth.

Seeing the boss open his mouth to take it and swallow it, she looked at the other person expectantly.

Use his eyes to indicate to the other person whether it tastes good or not.

Klein has never tasted this kind of food. It has a very novel taste. It does not have the fresh and fishy smell of seafood. It is very crispy and will fall off when he chews it hard.

For the penguin who was used to eating fish, shrimp, and seafood, didn't know whether to say it was delicious or not. Thinking that it was fed by the other party, and looking at the burning eyes of the little penguin, Klein nodded.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Shi Qiao happily took out a piece of biscuit and ate it.

Although the taste of animals is slightly different from that of humans, the taste is still familiar. The little penguin unceremoniously shared all the compressed biscuits in the boat with Klein.

After eating a few bags, Shi Qiao burped after realizing it.

If she eats more food now, her stomach will probably explode. She hasn't experienced the satiety of high-calorie carbohydrates for a long time, but it is still very delicious!

The little penguin patted her belly with satisfaction and jumped off the motorboat with Klein. She felt that she no longer needed to go to sea for this trip, and she was about to vomit if she ate any more.

However, in the boss's mind, even eating this kind of food could not replace a normal meal, so Shi Qiao was still forced to eat a few fish with side stripes. In the end, it was difficult to swim, so she had to be carried by the opponent to swim and digest it.

When the humans returned to the motorboat after completing their sightseeing, they found a plastic box that had been emptied by two penguins.

There are also compressed biscuit packaging bags everywhere.

Tour guide Roy picked up the package and looked at the tear marks on it. At a glance, he knew that the culprit was the penguin they met on the road. He said with a headache: "How did they open the safety buckle?"

The others looked at each other and shook their heads together.

The next day, the news that two penguins sneaked onto a sightseeing motorboat to eat human food stocks made the news, and the cover was a photo of the two penguins taken by Maz.

Paired with the interesting eating news next to it, it looks like a penguin thief wanted by humans.

Shi Qiao knew nothing about the news that she and her boss were "wanted". When the solid compressed biscuits in her stomach were finally digested, the little penguin missed the taste a little bit.

She doesn't know when she will see those expedition teams again. Then she must go to the motorboat to search again.

After two weeks, the fur of the penguin chicks in the colony becomes darker and darker. It was a light gray dumpling when it was born, and now it is a dark gray dumpling. As it grows older, its fur will be closer to black.

The number of survivors has also increased sharply compared to last year. It is estimated that there will be many more penguin chicks that will reach adulthood this year.

The little penguins at this stage are the cutest. They have not yet reached the stage of changing their voices. Their voices are tender and green, and they sound like little chicks when they chirp.

Shi Qiao touched the boss next to her with her flipper: "Look at that penguin chick, it's so small. Was it so cute when I was a kid?"

Klein took one glance and concluded: "You are much cuter than it."

No matter how many cubs he saw, he felt that the best one was his own.

And this idea remains unchanged even after the other party gets older.

The two penguins have been traveling between continents according to the seasons over the years, swimming along familiar oceans and enjoying the scenery exclusive to penguins.

Escape from natural enemies, hunt in the sea, and return to settlements every year to build nests

When Shi Qiao felt that her life had come to an end, she miraculously did not feel sad. She recalled in her mind the last scene of closing her eyes in the grassland world and had a premonition that the same would happen in the future.

The little penguin stretched out its flippers and held Klein's hand. Her eyelids slowly became heavy, and the road ahead gradually darkened, indicating the end of life.

Below them is the ice surface of the continental margin, and the Antarctic cold season has arrived again.

Shi Qiao made herself look energetic and said to Klein, "It won't be cold again in the future."

The other party didn't answer but continued to use his body to keep her warm.

She also saw Klein's eyes full of sadness and felt his hypothermic body. Shi Qiao felt that she was gradually losing her senses. She wanted to comfort the boss not to be sad. They would meet again in the future, but she could only make a very weak sound despite her efforts.

Finally, she used all her strength to shout at the other party and then fell into the familiar darkness.

"Wait for me in the next world."

(Note: God, this arc also made me cry...)