Undercover Penguin Gang

Latitude 69°72' South, Antarctica.

Although it is the warm season, the Antarctic Circle still has not broken through the minus 20°C mark. Looking down from the sky, you can still only see patches of white and blue. The white is snow, and the blue is the sea.

Pure, holy, romantic...

You can use all the beautiful words to describe this mysterious ice and snow continent, but for Han Zhen now, there is only one word left in his mind——

cold!

It's really cold!

He shivered, his teeth trembled unconsciously, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, his head to toe was cold, and even the joints of his bones were hissing with cold air.

Why is it so cold...

Slowly opened his eyes, the icicles on his eyelashes fell down, fortunately the glasses on the bridge of his nose were still there, although the lenses were covered with ice and looked blurry, at least he didn't have to look like a blind man It all depends on touching.

Han Zhen moved his stiff neck a little, and looked around, but just looking at it like this made his heart feel cold.

Right now he is lying on a small ice floe, which is why he feels so cold. Below the ice floe is the sea, and the flowing sea waves lift up and lower the small ice floe from time to time. Although the strength is not strong, Han Zhen still didn't dare to relax his vigilance, for he was afraid that someone would accidentally be thrown down by the sea to feed the fish.

Strange, why am I lying on the ice?

Before he had time to think about the reason, Han Zhen knew that his top priority now was to get away from this small ice floe that might shatter and sink at any moment. He quickly moved his numb fingers, straightened, bent, straightened again, and then his wrist , to the elbow joint...

This method of quickly recovering consciousness from a frozen state is one of the basic survival skills that every member of the Chinese Antarctic scientific expedition team must master, and Han Zhen is naturally handy in using it.

While moving his limbs in an orderly manner, he quickly recalled what he had experienced during the period of coma.

Four days ago, he and two other scientific expedition members left China's Antarctic Kunlun Station on an icebreaker to investigate the distribution of local organisms on Berkener Island. Unfortunately, during the investigation, they encountered a rare avalanche on the snowy mountain of Prince Charles. Not to mention the people scattered, Han Zhen was directly washed into the sea by the snowstorm and passed out.

How long has he been unconscious?

Han Zhen tilted his head and glanced at his watch. The time display was 12:27 am on December 06th, but his last memory stayed at 30:12 pm on December 26th, which meant that he was in the middle of more than ten hours. In a coma, he was swept by the waves to a small ice floe and drifted around, and narrowly escaped the fate of being buried by the snowstorm.

What a fate!

Feeling that the temperature of his hands and feet had almost recovered, Han Zhen sat up slowly, trying to keep his body balanced so as not to fall off the ice floe, took out the glasses cloth from his bag, and carefully wiped the lenses.

I don't know what happened to Qi Jia and Dracula.

Han Zhen was not very worried about the safety of the two of them. Not to mention Qi Jia’s background in the field army, Dracula, as the ace of the American scientific expedition team, was naturally not a vegetarian. Whichever one of those two guys picked out would be harder than his life. An avalanche should not have killed them.

What's more, Han Zhen is too busy to take care of himself now, and has no time to worry about their situation. The most important thing is to contact the organization to meet everyone!

After making up his mind, Han Zhen put on his glasses and began to look around the surrounding environment.

He seemed to be swept by the waves to an unknown coast, and there were several giant icebergs floating on the sea in the distance behind him, facing a large empty white snow field in front of him, the coastline was not far from him, only about four or five Meters away, and there is a...huh?

His eyes fixed on the shore, and Han Zhen was stunned for a moment. Because he had been lying on his stomach before, he did not see an Antarctic creature standing on the shore directly in front of him.

It is about one meter tall, with a bloated body and a big belly. It has a soft white belly on the front and shiny black hard feathers on the back. On the left and right sides, there are short wings that are completely inconsistent with its body shape, and the unique piece under the neck. Orange Feather--

Emperor penguins!A standard adult male emperor penguin!

Ashamed to say, as a well-known expert in polar science, this is the first time that Professor Han has seen a live emperor penguin.

He once described emperor penguins countless times vividly to his students on the podium of Imperial University, including their body characteristics, living habits and distribution areas, all of which he knew by heart.He can even clearly tell you the number of orange feathers on the emperor penguin's neck and the arc of the bifurcation between the flippers, but it is a pity that Professor Han has never seen an emperor penguin with his own eyes, not even a specimen!

No way, the greenhouse effect has intensified in recent years, the temperature in Antarctica has continued to rise, and major icebergs have melted one after another. Not to mention the rare emperor penguins, even the rockhopper penguins, which used to be like mice, are now rare.

So one can imagine the excitement in Professor Han's heart at the moment. He was even thinking about how to lure this charming emperor penguin back to Kunlun Station for a good study.

He tried to wave his hand at the emperor penguin, and seeing that it was not scared away, he became bolder and said, "Hello?"

Emperor penguins:……

Han Zhen pointed to himself and then to it: "I want to go to your place."

Emperor penguins:……

Sure enough, there was no response.

But Han Zhen was not annoyed, for him the best response was for the little penguin not to escape.

He visually measured the distance between himself and the shore, and then looked at the bottom of the sea. He was thinking about whether to use his legs as a paddle or jump directly into the sea. He heard a "plop", and the emperor penguin on the shore jumped into it. nautical mile!

"Hey, wait!"

Han Zhen was in a hurry, thinking that he finally met an emperor penguin, how could he say goodbye so quickly!

Subconsciously, he wanted to stand up to catch the penguins, but he seemed to have forgotten that what he was stepping on was not the ground, but a piece of ice floe that couldn't be smaller. When he moved like this, the ice floe immediately shook violently, and he was about to because of When the center of gravity was unstable and fell into the sea, the ice floe suddenly stabilized again.

It turned out that the penguin on the shore earlier swam behind Han Zhen at some point and used his body to help him withstand the shaking ice floe, and Han Zhen managed to stand still.

He breathed a sigh of relief, slowly squatted back on the ice floe, turned his head and smiled at the penguin friendly, and said, "Thank you."

Although animals and humans do not understand the language, they can share emotions, especially animals with high IQ, which can judge your emotions from your expressions and actions.

The IQ of an adult penguin is close to that of a child aged 5 to 7. Although Han Zhen knows that this penguin is unlikely to understand what he is saying, it should be no problem to pass this gratitude to him.

The emperor penguin stared at Han Zhen for a long time, a strange emotion flashed in his black pupils, and suddenly he turned over and plunged into the water.

Han Zhen only felt that the small ice floe under him shook slightly, and he started to move slowly, and after a while, he landed firmly on the shore.He froze for a moment, and soon realized that the penguin should have helped push the ice floe to the shore, making it easier for him to go ashore.

Really good penguin.

Han Zhen remembered that when people describe penguins, they always say they are elegant gentlemen in tuxedos, and now it seems that it is not unreasonable.

He quickly packed his backpack and climbed ashore, and soon he saw the penguin come out of the sea, shaking the water droplets on his body, and climbed ashore.

In contrast, Han Zhen's clothes were not wet at all, but the penguin was completely soaked, with fine and soft fur sticking to his body, making him look a bit embarrassed.

"Do you want to wipe it?" Although he knew it was not afraid of the cold, but out of kindness, Han Zhen asked.

The emperor penguin stopped shaking its feathers, turned its head and looked at him quietly.

Han Zhen thought for a while, then took out a handkerchief from the outer pocket of his rucksack, unfolded it to the little penguin, and said patiently, "You can use this to wipe water... just like this."

As he spoke, he knelt down, covered the emperor penguin's round head with a handkerchief, and gently rubbed it through the handkerchief.

Professor Han is 28 years old. He is at the prime of his youth. As the youngest professor at Imperial University, he is already elegant and handsome. In addition, he has been soaked in books all year round. He has a gentle and restrained temperament, and he speaks slowly. Let people listen to the spring breeze, without a trace of hostility.

Even penguins are no exception.

The emperor penguin stood there silently, its eyes fixed on Han Zhen. Seeing him approaching, it squatted in front of him, wiped its wet head with a smile, turned its black pupils, and looked up again. Let go of a little defense, a little more sincerity.

The man has no ill will towards it, at least not yet.

But it's a pity that at the moment, Han Zhen's all thoughts are concentrated on that round hairy head, and he didn't notice the change in the little penguin's attitude at all.

Although it sounds a little funny, Han Zhen has really liked furry things since he was a child, and he has never had much resistance to small fur balls such as Garfield and curly-eared rabbits.

When he was young, his parents didn’t support him, so he could only pet the kitten when he went to play with his classmates. After finally growing up, his parents let him go, but because he was too busy with work and had no time to take care of the little one, so Professor Han For so many years, except for a Brazilian tortoise, I have not kept any other pets.

Han Zhen originally thought that he was almost thirty, and his childhood obsession with fur balls should fade away, but when he really met a fur ball, it was only a big one, and the sense of intimacy that he had longed for for many years began to haunt him again. .

The line of sight slides down from the little penguin's black fur head, slides over the round white belly, and finally lands on the milky yellow flippers hidden under the fur.

The little penguin was wet all over, and its supposedly soft and fluffy fur was stuck together in strands, which was not pretty, but Han Zhen still had the urge to hold it in his arms and rub it hard.

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This must not be the psychology a mature man should have...