Professor, your turtle!

After the storm, it was an unusually calm night.

Ji Fan put away the harmonica carefully, stood up, and turned his head to look at the end of the horizon.

His shoulders sank slightly, and it was Fu Mingyuan who raised his hand to hold him down.

In the chaotic darkness, this insignificant little power made his restless heart find a trace of peace.

He groped to hold it back and grabbed the other's slender and strong fingers.

Every part of the chapped wound on his fingertips made him extremely familiar.

At least he was still around, Ji Fan secretly rejoiced.

——There are so many helpless separations in the world, and how lucky they are to still be able to touch each other.

At this moment, on the far side of the sea level, a bright yellow flare rose obliquely, soared upwards, and suddenly split the night into two halves.

A brief but bright light reflected in their eyes.

Ji Fan hurriedly turned his head and found that Fu Mingyuan was also looking at him.

"It's a boat." Fu Mingyuan looked away from his face, looked at the direction where the fireworks disappeared, and whispered, "We should go."

No, you should go.Ji Fan silently corrected him and nodded absently.

—from here, there is nothing to tie us together.

For a moment, Ji Fan felt a little empty.

Didn't hear the expected answer, Fu Mingyuan lowered his head to look at Ji Fan, but saw him awkwardly staggered his gaze, flustered, and avoided his gaze.

The man narrowed his eyes slightly—this child was always docile, and it was the first time he was so obviously awkward.

It's like a small rose with thorns, trembling and blooming in the wilderness, secretly poking the soft hearts of passers-by.

After all, a young man is a young man, and he shows all his worries on his face.Even though he tried his best to cover it up, Fu Mingyuan could tell at a glance that Ji Fan was very conflicted.

The slender eyelashes drooped down, blocking the dark eyes. It was originally a silent and stubborn resistance, but it made people tickle, and on the contrary, he wanted to bully him more and more.

Fu Mingyuan suppressed a smile, raised his hand naturally, stroked his soft black hair, and said, "Hey, wait for me here."

Ji Fan was still depressed, but the tips of his ears were shaking honestly, and slowly turning red from his earlobes.

The engine roared, and Ivan, who was as tall and thick as a monster, slowly drove off-road into the open space.

Fu Mingyuan turned off the engine and jumped out of the car, greeted him, and began to load the packed simple luggage onto the car.

Although Ji Fan was full of worries, he still took steps unconsciously, chasing after the man.

The daily necessities are only emergency necessities, and the rest of the luggage are test records and geological samples.

Although paperless research is advocated nowadays, and most of the materials are stored on hard disks, the scientific research station still retains many old-style record books. They don’t know when they will come back, and the base is seriously damaged. I don’t know how much these materials can be preserved. , Fu Mingyuan simply stuffed them all into the car, fully loaded with four big boxes.

Fu Mingyuan tied the rope tightly, fixed stacks of old documents, and tugged again, with a dignified look on his face.

He does not specialize in geology or climatology. There are still many unsolved mysteries behind the sudden change in Antarctic climate.These first-hand materials, including Mikhail's observation diary, may be crucial clues.

From ancient times to the present, the emergence of extreme weather has often heralded greater disasters.Of course, the earth can turn dangers into blessings every time, and continuously evolve new life, but, for fragile human beings, what will be the fate...

A second flare was raised in the distance, obviously urging.

quack-

Suddenly, piercing geese pierced the quiet night sky.

In the lobby of the base, Jiujiu—or maybe it should be called "Quack" now, just woke up, and he couldn't see his father when he looked left and right. He was so anxious that he flapped his wings and sang loudly, just like a living wolf whistle.

Ji Fan raised his forehead, and quickly opened the gate of the base to let his son out.Jiujiu flicked his paws and ran close, his short wings hugged Ji Fan's calf tightly, and he rubbed and rubbed coquettishly - oops, Dad is still there, he let go of his heart, and even screamed piercingly The voice became softer and softer.

"..."

Ji Fan rubbed the small gray hair on the top of its head that had not yet faded, listening to the delicate geese, his heart suddenly felt a little sour.

In order to protect the fragile Antarctic biological chain, according to the regulations, the scientific expedition team should not touch the local creatures in any case - even if there is a poor penguin left behind in the snowstorm, lying dying at the gate of the base, humans should not rescue it it.

After all, birth, old age, sickness and death are the cruelest and fairest law in nature.Once humans intervene, everything will be messed up.

On this land, traces of human activities need to be minimized.Many research teams even go out of their way to sweep away footprints after trekking through the snow—in case any hapless little penguin slips and falls into these deep pits.

Therefore, the secret hatching of penguin eggs by the Russian scientific expedition team can be said to be a serious violation of environmental conventions.

It was those people who violated the rules first, Ji Fan thought, we just helped the little penguin to be born smoothly, which is not considered overstepping the rules, but if we really want to take Jiujiu away, we will probably be obstructed by many parties...

He sighed inwardly, and looked down—the little penguin was growing extremely fast, and although it hadn't shed its feathers, the thick and shiny gray down on its body was enough to resist the cold outdoor air.

Now it has gradually started to change its voice, and soon, it will be a majestic and beautiful goose.Even so, despite this... Ji Fan's heart tightened slightly. If he was really left behind, would he be able to survive as a goose in such a dangerous environment?

This year, the penguin colony didn't even come to the breeding habitat as promised, and no one knows where they hid, alive, or dead.

If Jiujiu was forced to stay... Looking at its wet black bean eyes, Ji Fan's eyelashes trembled, and he couldn't bear to think about it any longer.

"..." He wrapped his arm around the huge and heavy leg pendant, and tugged at the hem of Fu Mingyuan's clothes.

"What?" Fu Mingyuan turned his head.

Ji Fan pursed his lips and considered, no matter what, he had to beg Mr. Fu to keep Jiujiu here, it was absolutely impossible.Having made up his mind, he mustered up the courage to look up, pointing to the little penguin hanging on his lap, pointing to himself, and pointing to the car door.

"Huh?" Fu Mingyuan tightened the rope on the roof of the car, kicked on the car frame with one leg, tied a firm sailor knot, and then turned around, "What are you doing in a daze? Where is its nest? Move to the co-pilot. You need to wind the rope twice more, otherwise the road will be bumpy for a while, and the glass may be shattered."

Ji Fan was writing anxiously, "Mr. Fu, I know this is against the rules, but..." He was stunned for a moment when he heard Fu Mingyuan's words, and the tip of his pen almost poked a hole in the paper.

After a long while, he crossed out the long and colorful excuse and wrote a "?" slowly.

"What are you thinking about?" Fu Mingyuan frowned, "Don't you want to keep it here?"

Ji Fan "Ah..."

"Absolutely not." Fu Mingyuan interrupted him cleanly, with a haughty look on his face, "Whatever hatches from me is mine."

Ji Fan "..."

"It's not a wild animal. Why do you follow those rules? As for what kind of species it is, we have to wait to go back for identification. What if it is a hybrid mutant penguin researched by Maozi? Wouldn't it be harmful to the environment if it was released casually? The harm of alien species is not serious. Have you learned it?"

Ji Fan "..." Come on, with Jiu Jiu's chubby little white face, anyone with eyes can tell it's a purebred emperor penguin, okay?However, Professor Fu Da opened his eyes and said nonsense, so he turned white into black.

The "mutated penguin" Jiujiu, who is "highly dangerous", blinked his eyes, completely unaware that he barely escaped the tragic fate of the left-behind children just now.

"That's it." Fu Mingyuan made a final decision, "Come on, give me a hand, and get this dangerous creature up first."

Ji Fan blinked, looked up at him, and smiled unconsciously.This was the first time in many days that he laughed so heartily.

Fu Mingyuan seemed to be burned by his smile, and looked away, "What, what are you doing?"

Ji Fan didn't speak, just smiled, his dimples were filled with warm yellow car lights, his eyes were soft.

Yes, what is he worrying about?Mr. Fu is such a nostalgic person. Since he said he would come to him, he will definitely come.

A brief separation, just to meet again.

Thousands of miles of glaciers, star rivers are shining, and small warm-colored headlights are lit on the desert. In the dim light, travelers look at each other and smile.Just in this lingering atmosphere, there was another burst of extremely discordant screams.

Fu Mingyuan lost his balance and almost fell from the car.

It turned out that the headlights were turned on just now, finally fully illuminating the rough and huge outline of Ivan off-road. Jiujiu happened to be standing in front of the car. Seeing this, his legs felt weak and he fell down on the snowdrift.

In its short life, Jiujiu has never seen such a terrifying giant "creature"!

Its whole goose is petrified.

After a while, it came back to its senses, trembling from its feathers to the tip of its tail three times, flapped its wings tremblingly, and shrank back behind Ji Fan.

——Really, what's there to be afraid of, it's just a lump of iron!

Ji Fan laughed, grabbed Daimao, and tried to forcibly drag the little penguin out from behind.

But Jiujiu obviously didn't think so, it hugged Ji Fan's calf tightly, dragged its neck and howled desperately, the sound was so sharp that it could almost shatter the ice.

"Shh, shhh." Ji Fan had no choice but to put his arms around the bear's big head, trying to comfort him.

The off-road vehicle doesn't move or bark, it just sits there supplely, looking non-threatening.Gradually, Jiujiu finally calmed down, carefully arched his head, and peeked at the off-road vehicle from under the wings.

Well, he is indeed a big guy, but it seems that Yazi is not very smart.

Its small eyes rolled cunningly, and it quickly re-established its sense of superiority - Dad was still busy climbing up and down on its head, but there was no resistance at all. It can be seen that this big guy must be fancy but not useful, or else ...or is dead!

Thinking of this, it felt more at ease, lowered its wings triumphantly, and rushed to the off-road vehicle with a "quack" sound in demonstration.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Fu Mingyuan jumped out of the car and touched somewhere, and Ivan Kuo suddenly let out two intimidating buzzing horns.

This time, the hornet's nest has been poked.

The stupid goose was frightened in an instant, its face paled, and it howled desperately and threw itself back into Ji Fan's embrace, refusing to get out again no matter what.

Hello!Is it intentional?It must be on purpose, right?Ji Fan was entangled by the little octopus-shaped penguin, unable to free his hand, he gave Fu Mingyuan a helpless look.

Mr. Fu spread his hands, showing no sign of apology—speaking of which, this guy even wants to eat the flying vinegar of a penguin, which is really rare.

The quack alarm rang through the night sky, and Ji Fan tried his best to comfort him, but this time, no matter how much he rubbed its neck or stroked its fat belly, the little penguin refused to let it go.

This is troublesome, they still have to leave in the car - with this posture, even if they forcefully carry it into the car, as long as they lose sight of it, it will immediately crash into the car door and jump off.

Ji Fan hugged and coaxed him for a while, but it still didn't work.Jiujiu held his neck high, closed his eyes tightly, and dared not even look in the direction of the off-road vehicle, vowing to die.

He was exhausted physically and mentally, and once again glanced at Mr. Fu, who was leisurely watching the fun beside him.

——Why is this person not in a hurry at all?Really...

Fu Mingyuan seemed to feel something, raised his eyebrows, "Please help me?"

Ji Fan "..." You are obviously the one who caused the disaster!

Fu Mingyuan pretended not to understand, squatted down in a leisurely manner, and pretended to check the parts under the car.

Ji Fan "..." The goose crowing was still in his ears, and his eardrum was about to shatter. He had no choice but to give in temporarily, and made a gesture of clasping his hands to Fu Mingyuan, and bowed.

Fu Mingyuan immediately dropped the wrench and came over, looking down at him, "Well, aren't you awkward now?"

Ji Fan "..." What is this called!In the final analysis, where is he making a fuss, it's just touching the scene and feeling a little bit sentimental!

Fortunately, Fu Mingyuan also knows how to accept as soon as he is good.The man gave a short laugh, bent down and lifted the terribly heavy penguin son.

"Don't make noise." He skillfully held it up and pushed it up, freeing his left hand to pinch the goose's beak.

Ji Fan finally got some free time, so he simply stood up and watched one person and one goose unconvinced, wanting to see what skills Fu Mingyuan had in taming this pampered cub.

Jiujiu left Ji Fan's soft embrace unexpectedly, was stunned for a moment, and then howled louder in protest.

Without saying a word, Fu Mingyuan carried the goose directly to the front of the car in two or three steps.Poor Jiujiu was pressed face to face with the "bloody mouth" of the off-road vehicle, tears were about to burst out, struggling desperately, howling almost to death.

The scream was as shrill as killing a pig, Fu Mingyuan was unmoved, and then, under Ji Fan's stunned gaze, he directly raised his long legs to the gentle Professor Fu, and kicked on the front bumper of the car.

"Beep beep-"

"Gah!!!"

Ji Fan could swear that at that moment, he even saw the feathers around the little penguin's neck stand on end.

All of a sudden, the sirens of the off-road vehicles, the screams of the little penguins, and the movement of Fu Mingyuan kicking the car all interweaved a desperate chaotic symphony on the snow.

Ji Fan touched his forehead, feeling extremely tired.

The off-road vehicle's sharp alarm lasted for a full minute, and Jiujiu also howled for a full minute.One minute later, the siren suddenly disappeared, and the little penguin was startled, and forgot to continue crying for a while, and burped sobbingly.

The noise pollution finally stopped.

"What's so scary." Fu Mingyuan put the exhausted little guy on the ground, raised his hand and patted the front of the car, "Look."

Dad's firm embrace suddenly disappeared. Jiujiu tried to stretch his short wings, wiped away the tears that didn't exist, and opened his small eyes furtively.

Daddy standing right next to that horrible monster's mouth, it's so frightening!

The little penguin shivered, and quickly closed his eyes again.

However, after waiting for a long time, it didn't hear the terrible roar again, so it couldn't bear it anymore, and took another sneak peek.

Noticing its gaze, Fu Mingyuan raised his leg calmly, and kicked "Mr. Monster"'s paw (wheel) slowly but vigorously.

Alas!Jiujiu trembled in fright at first, then its small black bean-like eyes slowly widened.

I saw that the big guy was meekly lying on the spot, even though he was beaten severely for no reason, he didn't intend to violently hurt others.

Did daddy tame it?It's really... so amazing.

Unknowingly, it lowered its wings that blocked its view.

Fu Mingyuan bent his legs indifferently, and stepped on the exposed tire rim, as if nothing had happened.

Being kicked, slapped in the face, and stepped on, the off-road vehicle always stayed where it was, except for screaming twice, very honest.

Bullying the weak and fearing the strong is the housekeeping skill of the little penguin. Seeing that the big guy who frightened him before is so quiet, it also feels itchy again.

Step by step, it cautiously wobbled and moved back to Fu Mingyuan's legs.

"Huh?" Ji Fan lowered his head, only to see that furry little white face raised up, and he was plucking up his courage to stand under the front bumper.

"Chuga!" It raised its neck vigorously, followed suit, and launched a surprise attack on the rubber ring.

It slammed into the wheel and bounced back, its face was covered with ashes, which showed that it had exerted all its strength.

However, the off-road vehicle remained motionless, not even humming.

Now, Jiu Jiu made up his mind and was extremely proud.It flaunts its wings and continues to attack.

Ordinary penguins do not have the balance ability of humans, not to mention that this guy is extraordinarily fat, round and soft, no different from a dumpling.

When it was hit hard, it suddenly lost its center of gravity, bounced back and fell down.It was not discouraged, and continued to rattle and scream at the cart while lying on the snowdrift.

——Have you heard, from today onwards, you are my new recruit.

Ji Fan laughed so hard that he hurriedly stepped forward to fish it out of the snow.

Jiujiu's gray fur was covered with a layer of white snow, and its neck shrunk in the cold, but its small face was very proud, with an expression of "I'm so good and I want to be praised".

Ji Fan rubbed its head as a compliment, brushed off the snow, and glanced at Professor Fu, who had temporarily changed his job as an animal trainer.

"How is it?" The complacent expression on Fu Mingyuan's face was exactly the same as that of his penguin son.

Ji Fan stood and watched him for a while, then slowly stretched out his hand, tiptoed, and tentatively touched Fu Mingyuan's hair.

——The short hair seems to have grown a bit, and it's not as sticky as before.He thought to himself, he didn't dare to look at anyone after touching it, and quickly retracted into the passenger seat.

"Let's go." Ji Fan buried his head in the paper and wrote, "Don't make people wait any longer." The content on the paper looked serious, but the red ears revealed his heart.

Fu Mingyuan quickly climbed into the car with Jiujiu in his arms, and stared at him with his head tilted, but he didn't directly expose it.

Sensing the eager eyes from his side, Ji Fan was a little uneasy, "Huh?"

"It's nothing." Fu Mingyuan looked away, pushed the fat penguin into his arms, and started the car with a smile, "Let's go."