Seeing Xu Qiaoqiao's expression, Jun Qi grumbled a few times. "It's alright. If you don't tell me now, you'll find out later." Then he shifted his attention to the two emperor penguins and asked, "What are your names?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Qiaoqiao realized that, right, she still didn't know the names of these two guys.

Just then, Jun Qi changed the subject, so Xu Qiaoqiao asked as well. After all this time, she still didn't know the names of these two emperor penguins. She couldn't just keep calling them A and B, could she?

Emperor Penguin A tilted its head, blinked a few times, and looked adorably clumsy: "My name is Oka."

Emperor Penguin B looked very calm: "Jacques."

After tying the ropes, Xu Qiaoqiao and Jun Qi took Oka and Yake back. Perhaps it was a coincidence, but on their way back, they encountered Adélie penguins again. As before, several penguins were fighting over a female.

Xu Qiaoqiao: This is quite interesting; it's the first time I've seen this before.

Jun Qi wasn't interested, but seeing Xu Qiaoqiao's interest, he stopped and watched with her.

Oka and Jacques were also hesitant to move. When they saw Xu Qiaoqiao and Jun Qi stop, they stopped as well and joined in the gossip.

The four of them hid on the rocks nearby, watching the farce unfold.

When Oka saw several Adelie penguins starting to scheme against each other, he went around to Xu Qiaoqiao's side and cautiously asked, "Sister Qiaoqiao, is what they're doing a love triangle like you mentioned?"

He'd been wanting to ask this question for a long time; he'd had this thought ever since he first saw this scene.

Polyamory?

Xu Qiaoqiao blinked as she looked at the noisy group of Adélie penguins in front of her. Before, when she had nothing to do, she would tell everyone stories, all sorts of melodramatic tales.

Whether people understood her or not is another matter, but she seemed to enjoy talking, and at least she killed time.

"Gaga." It's not a love triangle.

Xu Qiaoqiao looked at the situation and rejected the result. This was obviously a fight, wasn't it?

And there were two other penguins nearby who were playing dirty tricks and stealing their stones. Stones are very important to Adélie penguins. When it comes to breeding, they are the source of their confidence to attract females. They will arrange these stones of different sizes into a circle, just a very ordinary circle. The more beautiful the stones are, the more they like them.

However, as an Adélie penguin, why would it obediently pick up stones and distinguish which stones are beautiful or ugly? The most useful method, of course, is to take stones from other penguins.

So this is also the time when everyone steals the most. Everyone has to be careful not to be robbed, but at the same time, they also have to "take" the stones they have their eye on from other penguin nests.

Oka paused for a moment. He really couldn't understand many things in the world. Although Sister Qiao Qiao had explained it very clearly, he still didn't understand why it was necessary to steal.

Just as he was still not understanding, Xu Qiaoqiao gave another example, not to answer his question, but to explain why he had this doubt: "It's like your own situation. You can easily catch fresh fish, but you insist on eating dead fish."

Oka: ...

With this understanding, he seemed to grasp it somewhat.

The cold wind was still blowing, and the distant glacier seemed to have shrunk considerably. The sound of waves crashing against the ice was constant, accompanied by a deafening roar as more snow chunks gave way and fell into the sea.

The sun in the sky was still so bright, a few clouds drifted by, and occasionally a few petrels and skuas flew by.

Jacques turned to look at Oka, who was staring intently in the direction of the Adélie penguins, seemingly lost in thought.

After the Adelie penguins finished their commotion, Xu Qiaoqiao and Jun Qi took Oka and Jacques back. On the way back, the gathering place was unusually quiet, with the emperor penguins just standing there.

Rewind to half an hour earlier. At that time, Xu Qiaoqiao led Jun Qi and Ao Ka to the place where she hid her things. Before leaving, Jun Qi told everyone that today's summary was over and everyone could rest.

Upon hearing Jun Qi's words, the emperor penguins exclaimed in surprise and quickly scattered. Oh my god, they could finally sleep! It had been so hard. They were sure to sleep soundly tonight.

They folded their little wings, lowered their heads, buried their heads in their chests, and their breathing gradually became steady and even as they began to drift off to sleep.

If we rewind the timeline to normal, they would have already fallen asleep. Most of them were standing there properly, while a very small number had found a comfortable corner to lie down or sit and sleep.

After Oka and Jacques returned, they didn't say much. They found a corner to rest. After running all day, they were overcome with sleepiness. They yawned and fell asleep within three seconds.