The snow has been falling for a long time, and it lasted for almost a week before it finally stopped. During the period, more and more creatures gathered around the volcanic island, and even a few killer whales came to the waters to escape the cold .

The old snake tortoise has not slept during this period, and has remained awake no matter it is day or night. Occasionally, if a predator wants to approach, its huge vertical pupils will tighten and look at the other party threateningly. Not intending to give up, the old snake turtle would spit out a jet of water to wash away those predators.

When the dolphins went out to hunt, they would bring back some sea fish to Song Wen and the others every time. The number and species were different. After all, there were more and more competitors recently. No matter how powerful the dolphins were, they couldn’t hunt more prey.

Xiaoyi and Xiaojing also mixed into the dolphin group and followed them. The fighting power of the dolphins is not weak. There are dolphins and old snake turtles watching nearby. Even seabirds rarely come near their small island.

During this time, Song Wen and the others were not idle. They went to the volcanic island several times. Besides hunting seabirds, they also brought back a lot of volcanic mud and volcanic glass rock.

In addition to the special soil in the deep pool that can make crops grow better, Song Wen also dug up a lot of ordinary volcanic mud. He spread a thick layer of this volcanic mud on the outside of the wooden house and used leaves branches to hold.

The soil can keep warm and keep out the wind. Maybe the volcanic mud has other functions, but for Song Wen, nothing is more important to them than temperature.It’s just that their log cabin seems to have completely turned into a grass-mud house, and the door and windows are also made of wood and bamboo as curtains and windows, leaving only one ventilation hole, so as not to cause carbon monoxide poisoning when the house is lit. danger.

After the snow stopped, the snow on the ground was already knee-deep. Song Wen would clean up the surrounding snow and pile it aside every morning. The clean snowflakes would be directly heated and melted into water for drinking, which would save Ah Man The trouble of flying up and down the mountain to fetch water every day.

After the snow stopped, the temperature warmed up a little bit. Both the water and the sky began to become crowded. Obviously, many creatures rushed to the volcanic island to take advantage of the better weather. After all, the place here is limited and they want to occupy it. The territory that spends the winter must arrive early.

Occasionally, I would see fights around due to territorial issues. Sometimes Ah Man would go out and fly around, and he would pick up some seabirds with broken limbs and arms without taking the initiative.

In the end, Song Wen still accepted the suggestion of the old snake turtle, and planned to leave the waters that were beginning to become chaotic early.

"Xiaoyi and the others don't plan to go with us?" Ah Man was so surprised that the deliciously roasted bird legs in his mouth fell into the basin in front of him and almost jumped to the ground. The wings blocked it, so as not to let his food get soiled.

After getting along with Song Wen for a long time, Ah Man, who used to eat savagely, has become a lot more elegant. After all, Song Wen will take the initiative to help him process the food into a size suitable for him every time, so that he no longer needs to use his mouth and feet as before. torn.

Ah Fatty's round eyes widened in disbelief, and a thin layer of mist instantly spread inside, as if golden beans would drip from the corners of his eyes in the next moment.

"Why? Aren't Yiyi and Jingjing walking with us?"

"Yeah." Song Wen rubbed Ah Fatty's little head, and comforted him: "Xiaoyi and the others have their own group, and it's good for them to stay in the group."

Having said that, the fact that he had to be separated from the dolphins made Fatty even more sad. He didn't even eat the barbecue, and ran out of the wooden house.

Since it snowed outside, they usually moved to the warm wooden house for meals. The wooden house can also shelter from the wind and snow, which is more comfortable than staying outside.

Yi put his own food and Ah Pang's food into a larger wooden basin, and then followed the outside while eating the barbecue with the wooden plate. Keeping an eye on their small island, Fatty, a cub would be easily taken away if no one was with him.

As long as they return to the small island these days, as long as there is nothing else, Song Wen and the others will try to stay in the wooden house as much as possible to avoid unnecessary disputes. The seabirds will take advantage of their distraction and take Fatty away.

Cubs are the easiest prey for most predators.

Only Yi probably used some sea fish to catch seabirds occasionally. He learned several kinds of lasso traps from Song Wen, and he didn't need to do it himself. Get caught, and if you can't get caught, Yi will jump out again. This kind of thing of waiting for the birds has actually allowed Yi to get a harvest of one or two seabirds every day.

Seeing Yi followed, Ah Man asked Song Wen, "Then do the dolphins really not go with us to the Southern Land? You know, the temperature in the Southern Land is much better than here, we have all come here, Xiaoyi and the others suddenly said to leave..."

Song Wen naturally couldn't understand what Xiaoyi and the others meant. Yi told him about this matter. He had more contact with Xiaoyi and the others. After leaving the emperor penguin breeding ground, he met Xiaoyi. Come on, even if Xiaoyi is not a beastman, Song Wen has already regarded them as companions and family members.

But after thinking about it again and again, although he was very reluctant, Song Wen still felt that it would be a better choice for Xiaoyi and Xiaojing to return to the group. After all, wild dolphins and orcs are still different.

Seeing Song Wen nod his head, Ah Man sighed softly, but asked unrelentingly: "Is it Xiao Yi's decision?"

"Well, that's what Yi said." Xiaoyi and Xiaojing didn't go out together when the dolphins went out to hunt before, but these days when the dolphins came back, Xiaoyi and Xiaojing only mixed with them. .

Although Song Wen had asked Xiao Yi this question before, he thought that Xiao Yi wanted to be with them more. Unexpectedly, the two dolphins changed their minds in a few days. Of course, Song Wen also respected their choice.

Ah Man didn't say anything else, and took a bite of the barbecue, but the taste of the barbecue today seemed particularly unpalatable, and I don't know if it was because the barbecue was cold when I spoke just now.

"Yiyi, don't you want to go to Nanlu with us?" Fatty lay on the shore and shouted loudly to Xiao Yi who was floating in the water.

Seeing Fatty and Wing following closely behind, Xiao Yi poked her head out. The dolphin was naturally smiling, and seemed to be in a good mood, and leaned in front of Fatty, and knocked the chubby cub to the ground with its snout. Then he gently rubbed the cub's round belly.

There was a burst of itching in his belly. This was a movement that Fatty liked to play with dolphins. After all, Fatty was still young, and Song Wen didn't allow Fatty to go into the cold sea to play with Xiaoyi.

Familiar games can't make Ah Pang feel better. When he saw Yi next to him holding a large bowl of barbecue and eating deliciously, Ah Pang finally couldn't help crying loudly.

The cub's voice was a bit ear-piercing, and even the old snake tortoise, who was putting on a sculpture but silently warning everyone, couldn't help but look sideways.

Xiaoyi was a little flustered, did the cub not like playing games with him?

Yi unhurriedly took out a grilled fish from the wooden basin, tore off the charred part on the top, broke it in half, and fed it to Xiao Yi and Xiao Jing in the water.

Although the dolphins don't like to eat cooked food, they can still eat a little at ordinary times. Seeing that Shi Yi is feeding them, they obediently opened their mouths to eat.

"Eep."

Ah Pang, who was crying sadly, saw this scene through his tearful eyes, and couldn't help crying. Seeing this, Yi took out another piece of barbecue, handed it to Ah Pang, and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

Fatty pursed the corners of his lips, and confronted Yi for a while, before crying, "Eat."

Sitting on the cold shore like this, with the cold wind blowing, they ate a pot of barbecue that had lost the slightest heat.

The day before he left, Yi ran to go fishing with the two dolphins again. This time, not only Xiao Yi and Xiao Jing were beside him, but other dolphins followed closely behind Yi. There was a lot of noise and turmoil around, and even the leopard seals that had been soaking in the water cursed and climbed back to the iceberg one after another.

At night, Yi didn't haunt Song Wen back to the house to sleep as usual. When Song Wen came out holding a charcoal stove, he saw two dolphins leaning on Yi's feet, one on the left and one on the right, and the three heads moved in unison. Qiqi raised his head to appreciate the gorgeous aurora in the sky.

The turquoise aurora is exactly the same as what I saw when I was in the emperor penguin breeding colony.

"Hmm." Seeing Song Wen come out, Xiao Yi lowered her voice and greeted him happily.

The charcoal stove in Song Wen's hand was made of bamboo, with a stone sunken in the middle at the bottom, filled with glowing charcoal fire, which was continuously emitting hot steam.

Song Wen was still holding an animal skin blanket in his hand, which they usually used as a quilt cover. He sat next to Yi, covered them with the blanket, and then pulled Yi Yi's cold hand over and put it on the bed. Grilled over charcoal.

Song Wen didn't say anything to break the tranquility at this moment, he just stepped in naturally, as if he was here in the first place, and the two accompanied the two dolphins, watching the night sky all night like this.

The old snake turtle glanced down, then quickly looked away.

"Oh oh oh."

There is a rooster among the pheasants raised behind the wooden house. It always crows before the sun rises on time every day. Yi once wanted to get rid of the rooster secretly because the other party disturbed his sleep, whether it was making soup It is more useful to bake it directly than it crows every day.

Of course, because the rooster crows, Song Wen has been raising the rooster very well, and Yi's idea of ​​killing the rooster has not found a chance to be implemented.

Xiao Dao had a good night's sleep. He probably knew that today was the day for their departure, so everyone got up early.

Although he didn't sleep all night, Song Wen didn't feel sleepy at all. The charcoal fire in the charcoal stove had been extinguished long ago. Song Wen moved his body that was a little stiff from sitting for too long, and lit two fires outside. , I moved out the food that was prepared yesterday, and planned to make a hearty breakfast for everyone.

This breakfast lasted until noon, and even if I was reluctant to part with it, it was time to set off.

"Why don't we stay one more day?" Ah Man bit a bird bone, hesitated for a while, and then suggested in a low voice.

Hearing the words, Ah Fat quickly nodded his little head like a chicken pecking at rice, and almost raised his feet to agree with Ah Man's suggestion.

Yi spat out the bone in his mouth, stood up and patted the snowflakes on his body, "What are you talking about? Let's go."

Kojima had already bid farewell to the old snake tortoise, and when Yi said to leave, he finally couldn't help leaning his head over and gently entangled with the old snake tortoise's neck.

The old snake tortoise opened his eyes slightly, and scolded angrily: "The neck tortoise of the snake tortoise is an action that is only done when courting a mate. Do you know how our snake and tortoise get along?"

Kojima coughed lightly, and smiled at the old snake turtle who was still staring, "I'm leaving."

The old snake turtle snorted softly, obviously still obsessed with Xiao Dao's behavior of crossing the neck just now, but when he saw Xiao Dao turned around and was about to leave, he still endured the soreness in his heart and told him: "Be careful on the road, if you think Nanlu is not good Just come back, I will give you a good place near the volcanic island, even the coldest winter will not freeze you."

Kojima responded, shaking his long neck from side to side, as if waving goodbye to the old snake turtle.

"What a worrying child."

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