On a cliff with tens of thousands of nests, a female red headed duck arched her young bird with her duck beak, and two more calls urged her young bird to jump down.
The young bird had just shed its fur and grew oily and bright feathers. At this time, it stood on the edge of a 100 meter high cliff, looked down and stepped back in fear.
The red headed duck urged the young bird several times. Seeing that the young bird refused to jump, it screamed angrily, arched the young bird to the edge of the cliff and tried to force the young bird to jump down.
The young bird couldn''t resist the pressure of the mother duck, so she had to jump, flapping her wings and gliding down. With the excited cry of the mother duck, she jumped down the cliff and flew closely with the young bird.
Next to the mother and son, thousands of red headed ducks, big and small, soared in the air, and the birds crossed the arcs in the air. The scene was quite spectacular.
For these young birds, this is the first leap in life, and also a test of "life and death".
Only when they cross the rubble area hundreds of meters wide under the cliff and land on the sea, can they survive. Otherwise, they will become "delicious food from the sky" and be served as the dining table of Shanghai Chaoling residents.
This is the cruel law of nature. The fittest live and the bad die.
After jumping off the cliff, the young bird was a little flustered and rolled several times in the air to master the skill of gliding, which also greatly accelerated its falling speed.
It failed to land on the sea, but fell more than 60 meters away from the sea, and rebounded a few times in the grass.
It was a fatal mistake.
Two residents in wooden helmets and simple wooden armors just stood nearby. They waved sticks excitedly and rushed to the young bird, which scared him to "quack".
The female red headed duck flapped her wings and flew over their heads, attacking them desperately with her claws and beak, trying to drive away the enemy and protect the young birds.
But the mother duck is only more than 1 meter long, and it''s only small and medium-sized birds. The residents wear simple protective equipment, and they are not afraid of the mother duck at all. There was a scuffle between the two sides, and the mother duck was smashed so that the bird''s hair flew wildly, "Gaga" screamed and ran away.
Unfortunately, the head of the young bird is not far away.
A resident dropped the stick and stepped forward. He twisted the neck of the young bird, held it high and said with a smile:
"Vera, we have another one!"
He was Frederick, one of the earliest inhabitants of the territory, and the other was his wife, Vera.
Vera chuckled and said:
"I''ll buy some seasoning later and cook a stewed red head duck in the evening to help Betty, Bella and you."
Frederick swallowed a mouthful of water and nodded his head:
"well, I remember there are special seasoning bags for stew in the store. One silver nale can buy five bags. I heard that the meat stewed with it is very fragrant..."
After a while of excited discussion, the couple raised their heads and looked eagerly at the flying red headed duck, expecting another baby bird to fall down and a delicious bird meat meal for the family.
In the open space near the coast, nearly a thousand residents are chasing the young birds with loud and small calls. Laughter is heard from the crowd from time to time, and the scene is very lively.
Renault didn''t do it, just sent his pet.
Adanis and silly ball scurry all over the ground and bring in a young red headed duck. The efficiency of the cat and dog is very high. The two dogs (CATS) fight with each other, and no one dares to compete with them for prey.
As a result, Renault''s side quickly piled up a "hill" composed of young birds.
Millions of red headed ducks live in the Haichao islands. At the end of the first rainy month every year, it is the day when the young red headed ducks leave the nest for the first time. At this time, the young birds will perform the first "leap of faith" in their lives.
Most of the young birds can be forced to land on the sea smoothly, and only about 10% of the hapless eggs can be easily captured due to various reasons.
Although the proportion is small, the huge base makes these days a feast for meat eaters.
In order to achieve sustainable development, when killing young birds, Renault forbids residents to use attack weapons such as bows and arrows, and it is not allowed to climb cliffs or attack young birds in the sea. It can only be caught on land.
In any case, most of the young birds that fail to land will die. Even if there is no human, they will become food for other wild animals. It''s not as cheap as Renault.
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Odin island.
A white Falcon flies through the air and lands in the hawk shed. It walks a few steps on the mud and cries twice. An island guard rushes out of the hut.
After he whistled a few times, the nearly 2-meter-high Falcon calmed down, bowed its head obediently, and let the team members take a small wooden tube from its neck.
However, instead of rushing to open the wooden tube, the team members went to the pool in the corner of the eagle house, picked up some sea fish from it and threw them in front of the Falcon.
The Falcon immediately jumped on it, stepped on a sea fish with its claws, and tore off a fish with its sharp beak.
This white falcon is the young "Al" training out of the letter bird, Renault turned him to the tide islands, a large part of the reason is to establish a letter bird system.With the development of ocean trade in the territory, communication has become the biggest weakness.
The sea tide collar is far away from the mainland, and the conventional letter birds, such as the lightning geese, can''t fly so far. Even if they are used to deliver letters, because their combat effectiveness is extremely weak, they are likely to be killed in the long way, resulting in the loss of letters.
The only way to do this is to use medium-sized birds of prey that are more capable of flying, but they are often difficult to catch and extremely difficult to tame.
The former is not a problem for Renault at all. Since he was promoted to upanist, he even dares to catch Warcraft birds, not to mention medium-sized raptors.
So the key is to tame.
However, in front of Al, who has the gift of "beast channeling", everything is not a problem.
After being coaxed by some unscrupulous Lord into the sea tide collar, this innocent young man, who was looking forward to becoming a "Fisherman", not only didn''t live the life he dreamed of, but was forced to become the "chief bird Trainer" of the eagle house and accompany the birds all day.
With his strong talent, Al trained the bird to be incredibly smart, obedient and loyal.
He even knows hundreds of common words and can write on the ground with his beak to communicate directly with human beings.
The team members of the island protection team opened the wooden tube, took out a roll of sealed paper tube, and began to check the marks on the paper tube.
This is the information sent from the kingdom of Qianhu. The paint on the surface has no abnormal trace, which shows that the information is not passive.
Then he launched a civilian version of the small magic donkey from the garage of the eagle house and rode it out of the eagle house.
An hour later, a magic boat rushed to the beach of Shenci island and sent the paper tube to the Lord who was having a picnic.
Renault nibbled off the golden roast duck, opened the paper tube with read power, and took out a stack of letterhead.
Just one look, he spewed out the duck in his mouth.
The first letter had a few words on it:
"the black Orc army raided Raymond castle, the upanists took part in the battle in person, the Duke of Castro died in the battle, and the noble alliance retreated."
"War has broken out!"
That old dog died?
Renault frowned deeply.