Not much has changed; the chicks are still adorable, their soft, chirping sounds seeming to melt the hearts of their emperor penguin parents.
We encountered some dangers along the way, but thankfully, everyone is still alive.
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Time changes as it goes on. In Antarctica, no matter the season, it is always a vast expanse of white, covered in silver, with the ever-present gales, as if nothing ever changes.
But Xu Qiaoqiao knew that eight years had passed.
Summer temperatures here are slightly warmer than winter temperatures, but still below zero degrees Celsius. However, the ice will slowly melt, and there will be day and night cycles. But the days and nights here last much, much longer than normal.
This year, when Xu Qiaoqiao and Jun Qi saw off their third little one, she and Jun Qi followed behind the group and found a new place to live, although it was still somewhat worse than their previous gathering place.
However, they are already quite old, so they don't need to worry about these things anymore.
Soon, another year passed. For these emperor penguins, they were nine years old, which made them middle-aged men in the emperor penguin colony, and they had completed about half of their life journey.
At this time, female emperor penguins who have found mates every year have already given birth to several chicks, and their beating hearts are still young.
In January, the Antarctic sky is experiencing the midnight sun, which is considered late summer.
Jun Qi and Xu Qiaoqiao led a group of emperor penguins toward the sea; they were going to hunt and feed.
The ice here is at a lower altitude than before, and some seawater has overflowed, but not much.
After the emperor penguins lined up in front of her all went into the water, Xu Qiaoqiao made her preparations and jumped into the water. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye, which was sparkling in the sunlight.
This is... a bottle?
Xu Qiaoqiao walked over curiously, took a closer look, and discovered that this was not an ordinary bottle, but a message in a bottle.
Xu Qiaoqiao exclaimed in surprise, suddenly becoming interested. She squatted down, slowly stretched out her little wings, and picked up the message in a bottle, her eyes filled with excitement.
"Giggle giggle!" Look what I found!
After seeing Jun Qi's location, Xu Qiaoqiao ran over excitedly and held the message in a bottle up to his face as if she were presenting him with some treasure.
This is the first time she's encountered a message in a bottle; she's only ever used it before on a certain Tencent app.
This is the first time I've seen a physical one.
The glass bottle wasn't very big. Inside was a rolled-up piece of white paper, slightly yellowed at the edges, indicating it was like that before it was put in. The bottle cap was a regular beer bottle cap.
Jun Qi looked at what Xu Qiaoqiao was holding and tilted his head in confusion: "A bottle?"
Xu Qiaoqiao's eyes sparkled as she nodded, then shook her head: "No, no, this isn't an ordinary bottle, it's a message in a bottle, you know what a message in a bottle is?"
This was the first time Jun Qi had encountered the term "message in a bottle," and he genuinely didn't know it.
Seeing Jun Qi like this, Xu Qiaoqiao knew that he didn't know what a message in a bottle was. But it didn't matter, she could explain it to him. The concept wasn't difficult, and some things didn't need to be explained very clearly.
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