The wounds on the snake tortoise that were bitten by the barnacles have recovered a lot, but some scars have remained. Recently, the snake tortoise is being fed by Song Wen and others every day, and its skinny body is getting worse day by day. Daily health, but it is not so easy to fully recover, it may take several years of recuperation to return to the original peak state.

Snake tortoises have a long lifespan. Even though they don’t remember how many years they have lived, for snake tortoises, it is still the most vigorous age. Otherwise, it would not have been parasitized by barnacles for so long, almost sucked Clean enough to last to the place of burial.

When the snake tortoise woke up, Song Wen told it what happened to the dolphins. The two dolphins didn’t go out today, and they were floating beside the snake tortoise in a daze. They would occasionally make some noises, as if whispering some little secret. Same.Hearing Song Wen mention his name at this moment, the dolphins raised their heads slightly and called out to him, "Hey."

"They may have smelled it." The snake turtle thought for a while and said uncertainly.

"Taste?" Song Wen was a little taken aback.

Wing sniffed his nose a few times, but apart from the familiar salty smell, he didn't smell anything special.

"I thought it was just my illusion. The smell is very weak, and you can't smell it if you don't smell it carefully." The snake turtle looked down at the dolphins, but it couldn't communicate directly with the dolphins, and it didn't know if its guess was right. . "The direction we are heading now is the direction where the smell came from. The smell becomes stronger the further we go forward, and it should be getting closer to the source."

"What could that be?" Song Wen and Yi glanced at each other. They couldn't imagine that in this vast sea, there would be something that could emit a strange smell. Could it be the island they were going to? Does something special exist?

"I don't know." The snake turtle shook its head slightly, thought for a while, and added, "It smells a bit like a broken bird's egg that has been left for too long, and it has stink."

Song Wen: "..."

The eggs in the snake turtle's mouth are naturally not the eggs of the cubs of the orcs, but the eggs of ordinary birds, but what kind of bird's eggs can emit such a strong smell, and it can travel so far in the vast sea Woolen cloth?

"Is it because of the smell?" Song Wen touched Xiao Jing's kiss and asked suspiciously.

Of course, the dolphin couldn't answer Song Wen's question, so it rubbed Song Wen's palm lightly, "Yeah."

The next day, Song Wen also smelled the smell of rotten bird eggs that Snake Turtle said, saying it was rotten bird eggs, more precisely, it should be sulfur.

It is not a good thing to smell sulfur on the sea. This proves that there is a volcano hidden on the bottom of the sea, or on a nearby island, which they don't know. It seems that it should still be an active volcano.

"Eep——."

"Eep——."

The two dolphins began to sing loudly early in the morning. Seeing Song Wen and the others come out, they jumped out of the water, made a flip in mid-air, and then swam forward for a certain distance before turning back to the turtle on the back. Several people looked at it.

Sleepy-eyed, the snake tortoise poked its head out of its shell to have a look, and said in surprise, "The temperature seems to have warmed up this morning." If this is normal, it should be the temperature at noon when the sun is at its strongest.

"What does it smell like? It's too bad." Ah Man slapped his nose with his wings, his face full of disgust.

"Hey." Fatty, who came out at Ah Man's feet, nodded in agreement with his chubby little head.

"The smell of sulfur." ​​Song Wen looked in the direction of the dolphin's swimming. There was a layer of mist on the sea ahead, and it was impossible to see what was there. "It should be a volcano."

"Volcano?" The group doesn't know much about volcanoes, and there are no active volcanoes in the southern forests, but I heard that in some remote deserts, some people have seen some tall mountains erupting flames , where the lava passes, almost no grass grows, and it also emits an unpleasant smell.

Xiaojing and Xiaoyi slapped the water surface with their tails a few times to attract everyone's attention. I don't know if it was Song Wen's illusion, but Song Wen could see a bit of reluctance on the dolphin's smiling face all year round.

"Hey." The dolphins looked at the man on the turtle's back with wide eyes.

Song Wen's heart skipped a beat, "What do they want to do?"

Wing pondered for a while, "They seem to want to go in the direction with a strong smell."

"To the volcano?" That could be an active volcano, what are the dolphins doing there?

The dolphins kissed each other, flicked their tails, and swam away quickly.

"Xiao Yi, Xiao Jing." Song Wen called out the names of the two dolphins loudly.

Xiaoyi and Xiaojing's swimming movements paused, they turned their heads, and looked at Song Wen and his party across a large area of ​​water. , raised his neck and let out a loud "嘿咕".

Then the two dolphins jumped up in unison, and neatly drew a beautiful arc in the sun, bringing water splashes, and faint rainbows of seven colors flashed past, just like when they were playing in the water on weekdays look like.

Obviously it was the same action as usual, but Song Wen felt stuffy in his heart, "Where are you going? Come back first, okay?"

The two dolphins didn't know if they understood. They shook their tails, then dived into the water and swam away.

Ah Man poked his head out from behind, looked at the dolphins going away, and then at Song Wen, "Are they planning to leave?"

Song Wen pursed his lips, and a gust of sea breeze blew by, bringing up large waves. The dolphins jumped out of the water along with the waves, and then fell heavily into the water, leaving only waves behind them that lingered for a long time.

"Is the island we're going to go in that direction?" Song Wen asked Snake Turtle.

"Well, but I don't remember if there is a volcano on that island." When he passed the island, his consciousness was already in a daze. He only knew that the island was very large, but he had no other impressions other than that.

"Pieces?" Yi asked suspiciously.

"It is made up of many islands, but I haven't looked closely at the specific situation." The snake turtle felt a little sorry when he said this.At that time, the snake turtle only took a quick look at it, and it was already very good to be able to remember the approximate location of the island.

"Then let's go and have a look." Yi looked at Song Wen.

Song Wen looked at the two dolphins that had disappeared into the sea, and felt a sense of loss and worry in his heart. Fatty ran over, bumped into Song Wen's feet, hugged Song Wen's ankles with his small wings, and comforted him. Gently patted, "Coo coo."

Song Wen bent down and picked up Fatty. The fluff all over Fatty's body was soft, which was different from the hard thorns that seemed to be made of metal on Fatty's body. Moreover, Fatty was fed well by them, and Song Wen would help him every day After a haircut, the jet-black fluff is so smooth that it seems to be shiny.

"Well, let's go and have a look. If there is any danger on that island, we will take Xiaoyi and Xiaojing home."

"Goo."

Because there may be an active volcano in the place to go, Song Wen and his party had to be cautious, and Yi squatted on the head of the snake turtle, watching the situation on the sea with the snake turtle.

After getting closer, Song Wen discovered that the so-called dense fog was not as thick as it seemed, and it was not formed by volcanic ash spewed out after a volcanic eruption, but more like water vapor rising from sea water when heated.

There were far fewer swimming fish nearby, and the surroundings were quiet except for the wow-lah sound of the snake-turtle breaking through the water.

Fatty hugged Song Wen's arm tightly with his small wings, his black eyes opened wide, and he looked curiously at the foggy environment around him.

Fortunately, at noon, the surrounding fog began to slowly dissipate.

The smell of sulfur is getting stronger and stronger. At this time, even if you don't need to smell it deliberately, you can still smell the unpleasant smell. The surrounding temperature is very warm, as if you have returned to the warm summer some time ago.

However, these temperatures were just their illusions. A little bit of coldness fell on the tip of Song Wen's nose. He reached out to touch it and found that it was a drop of cold water.

"It's snowing." Ah Man flapped his wings and landed. He just flew into the air to observe. After the fog cleared, they could faintly see the shadow of an island in front of them, and now it fell to the ground. , with a few white spots on the braided hair.

It's snowflakes.

"Snow?" Song Wen was stunned. This was the first time he encountered snow after leaving the emperor penguin breeding ground. This snow also means that the weather in Beihai will become colder and colder. The surface of the sea they are passing through may freeze into ice.

"Hey." This was the first time Ah Fatty saw snow. He raised his head and looked, then opened his little tongue to catch a snowflake that fell in front of him. It melted into water in an instant, tasteless, but not unpalatable.

Fatty smacked his mouth a few times, feeling a little disgusted.

The snowflakes are drizzling, not big, and even if they fall on the ground, they will not accumulate. What's more, the temperature is warmer than outside, and the snowflakes have melted before they hit the ground. It is said that it is snowing, but it is more like capillaries rain.

The snake turtle slowed down a little, and the shadow of the island became clearer and clearer. As the snake turtle said before, the area of ​​the island looked very large. The most conspicuous thing was a dark mountain in the center of the island. Smoke came out, and occasionally orange-red flames flashed across. Just as Song Wen guessed, this was an active volcano, and the strong sulfur smell came from this volcano.

There are some icebergs scattered around the island in twos and threes. These icebergs are small in size and look more like floating ice. They should be left over from melting after the end of the last winter. The floating ice can still be maintained in an environment where the surrounding temperature is not too low. Obviously, these icebergs were not small in size before they melted.

Perhaps some of the islands mentioned by Snake Turtle are shadows of these icebergs.

"Be careful." Song Wen told the snake tortoise, although these icebergs seem to be far apart, but with the snake tortoise's size, it would be hard to bump into them accidentally.

"Oh--."

A weak voice finally broke the surrounding silence, and it came from a distance. Song Wen paused, and looked in the direction of the voice in disbelief. Song Wen absolutely could not have misheard this call.

That's the sound of an emperor penguin.

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