This winter, Wumu's hibernation time has been greatly reduced. Most of the time, he has just become less active and likes to lie in the nest, but he will not fall into a deep sleep like the first time.
Song Xu guessed that it might be because he has become a beastman and is more inclined to be a beastman than a beast, so he is not affected that much by the beast form.
This is also a good thing for Song Xu. She is not so bored in winter and can drag Wumu to talk to her.
It's just that in the winter, staying together in a warm house can easily develop into some kind of activity. Wumu is slow in everything he does in winter, but the snake's entanglement skills are really powerful. After Song Xu experienced it a few times, she became more accustomed to going out for a run on days when it doesn't snow.
After all, once you are entangled and dragged by Wumu, you can't get away for a long time. Some things cannot be blamed entirely on King Zhou. The goblins who can transform into animals are more or less gifted.
Since this activity, new questions have arisen in Song Xu's mind.
About the reproduction of orcs.
There are no reliable contraceptive measures at this time, and the orcs basically have no reproductive isolation. It is natural for her and Wumu to have children, but she doesn't know what the children will be.
Regarding this question, she once curiously asked the orcs she met on the road, and the answers she got were varied. Simply put, giving birth in the orc world is like opening a blind box.
You don't know what form you will give birth to and what kind of child you will give birth to. But there is no doubt that the body will automatically adjust according to the type of mother and child, and when it is almost time to give birth, it will maintain the form that is easiest to give birth to a child.
If they live with the same species for a long time, and both partners have the same animal form, then the child born is likely to be of the same species as them. If not, the situation is complicated.
The more likely scenario is that the child inherits the stronger parent's ability, and a small probability event will occur, and you don't know what it will be until it is born.
Song Xu calculated based on this probability and felt that her next generation is likely to be a snake.
The round mini snake is really exciting! Thinking of being able to raise a little snake from an early age, Song Xu looked at Wu Mu with shining eyes.
In the spring, Song Xu really felt the changes in her body, and Wu Mu also felt it. This was specifically reflected in the fact that every morning when he woke up, he would swim to her side in beast form and sniff her belly, and then he would tie her up with his tail without moving, and only tie her up by her feet.
The control of the prison snake was greatly reduced, which caused Song Xu to be very arrogant for a while.
Then one day, she laid an egg.
"A squirrel lays an egg, and Darwin called it a miracle!" Song Xu sat next to the egg and observed it. The egg was white and had no patterns.
"This should be a snake egg, right?" she asked Wu Mu.
The big snake wrapped her and the egg in the nest, and rubbed her sweaty hair on her forehead with its snout. Song Xu let him rub it perfunctorily, then turned her attention to the egg, and said excitedly: "Are we going to hatch the eggs next? What temperature do we need? Do you hatch them or do I? Can squirrels hatch eggs?"
Then she watched the egg grow bigger day by day, until it was so big that the little squirrel's beastly form could no longer be covered. The squirrel sat on the egg like it was sitting on a chair.
"It looks like a large snake." Song Xu nodded, put the egg next to the snake's abdomen, covered it with dry moss, and ran out to get some fresh air.
The squirrel, who had vowed to hatch the eggs himself before, couldn't help it after a few days, and handed the task to the big snake, saying confidently: "You are a snake, isn't it natural for a snake to hatch snake eggs! You must be more professional than me!"
The novice snake father could only sleep every day with this small egg in his coil.
Finally, the little creature inside the egg showed signs of breaking out of the shell. Song Xu stayed up late to watch the egg break, and dark circles appeared under her eyes. Influenced by her, the big snake also focused its head on the egg and watched.
Under the gaze of two pairs of eyes, the egg broke, and a sparsely haired creature came out...
Song Xu's whole person turned into a question mark: "What is this? Is this a chick?"
Oval body, two small wings, a pointed beak, and two claws on the ground, isn't this a chick? Song Xu crossed her hands and held them with a deep and complicated expression: "I encountered a low-probability event."
She didn't draw the card she wanted, but from the probability point of view, her lucky halo was working, otherwise this kind of low-probability event of atavism would not have occurred.
The "chicken" cried twice, and couldn't stand steadily in the nest, and fell on her buttocks.
Song Xu had no knowledge of birds, so he didn't know what this little guy was. The big snake didn't know either. Song Xu said very generously that the child would know when he grew up.
"Since it took one night to break out of the shell, let's call it - Night!"
As the "chicken" grew up day by day, it had thicker feathers on its body, which were black and white.
Song Xu was sure: "It's a Luhua chicken!"
Of course, it was a joke. From the little guy's beak, which was harder than a chicken's, and his two big claws, it could be seen that he was assigned to the raptor group.
The chick, who was still a hen, liked to step on his father, the long big snake, and from time to time he would lower his head and peck at his scales with his beak, like a chicken pecking at rice.
This may have been learned from the mother squirrel, who often stepped on the big snake as a cushion. The stepped snake was stepped on by them, and did not move.
The chick is an active chick, probably from his mother. When he is a little older, he likes to run around in the cave, making crisp sounds and his paw prints can be seen everywhere on the ground. He also tried to get out from the gap, and the big snake, who was responsible for guarding, could only use its body to trap him in the den.
But this method will not work after the chick's wings grow a little bigger, and he can fly out of the snake's circle. He will only be quiet when he rests.
The squirrel squeezed his head under the big snake's body and put his tail on his chick. The active chick lay obediently under her fluffy tail.
Song Xu took him out to find food, wanting to see what he liked to eat. The chick was hiding in the grass, and its furry little body disappeared quickly.
Song Xu: "Hahaha, I seem to be raising chickens... Where are the chicks?"
The big snake swam into the grass and circled a piece of grass. Song Xu searched in the grass and finally found the chick that he had lost.
He was pecking at a little mouse.
Song Xu: "..." You are still a baby. Why are you catching mice? Is this the growth rate of children in the orc world? Modern babies say they are cute!
The chick is good at everything, but he is a little dumb just like his father in speaking. Song Xu has never heard him speak a word since he was born. He worriedly teaches him pronunciation every day, and even the big snake father who has not been taught for a long time has to learn to speak again.
The student chick sat in the nest with its paws spread out, looking at the chattering mother squirrel in front of it, and chirped a total of three times in one night in response.
In Song Xu's memory, the first child, the chicken, seemed to have grown up in the blink of an eye. When he learned to fly on his own, Song Xu was sure that he was a gyrfalcon, also known as the Saker Falcon.
When he couldn't fly yet, the chicken could catch mice with his little claws. When he just learned to glide from the tree, he could catch rabbits. When his wings grew to two meters, Song Xu and Wu Mu went back to the beast tribe. He caught the little beastmen in the tribe and stood on a high branch with an innocent look, looking at a group of crying little beastmen digging trees below.
The chicken, who had never lived in a tribal collective, didn't know what he couldn't catch. He only knew that he couldn't catch his mother randomly, otherwise he would be tied up by the big snake father and couldn't fly for a day.
"Chicken!" The raptor, who had a proper name but was always called a nickname so he accepted his name as Chicken, heard his mother calling, flapped his wings and flew down from the tree, landed behind his mother, and turned into a little boy with white hair, black eyes, black and white feather clothes, and sharp and hooked hands and claws.
This time, Song Xu returned to the tribe because he wanted to visit the big tiger mother, but they came at an inopportune time because Heisen had left the tribe again. She liked to run around and no one knew where she was at this time.
Only Uncle Weishan met them and told them about the commotion Heisen had caused when he returned to the tribe.
She beat up all the tribesmen who had driven Wumu away without reason. She also beat up the lion beastman who advocated killing Wumu several times. In the end, the lion left the tribe to avoid Heisen.
Weishan also invited them to stay in the tribe, but Song Xu refused. She was not used to the complicated and chaotic life of the mixed tribe, and she and Wumu had a second child. She was worried about this child recently.
The card drawn this time was still a rare atavism card, a furry snow leopard.
They returned to the tribe this time to see if there were any snow leopards in the tribe and to ask what kind of environment the snow leopards should live in.
There are no snow leopards in the tribe. Snow leopards are used to living in snow-capped mountains at higher altitudes, which is very distressing.
"Since it is black and white, let's call it Wuchang!" Song Xu said to the newly born snow leopard, and then called him by his nickname "Little Cat".
From the color matching, the kitten and the chicken are both black and white, worthy of being brothers.
"Let's go to the snow mountain!" Song Xu made a decision.
Snow leopards and snakes, one will want to hibernate when it is too cold, and the other is used to living in cold places, but the two of them have a good relationship. The big snake is very tolerant of the two children who are completely different from himself. Specifically, he doesn't care how they step on him. He doesn't care if the chicken pecks him or the kitten bites him.
Stepping on his father when eating and sleeping has since become a traditional art of the Song Xu family.
Because of the kitten, they moved to the foot of a snowy mountain and lived there for a long time.
The big snake stayed at the foot of the mountain, and the other three mother and son slept at the foot of the mountain every night, and ran to the mountain to play crazy during the day. Song Xu took the child to the end, and the child must have taken care of her. At a young age, the snow leopard learned to look for its lost mother on the snowy mountain every day.
This child with a tender voice likes to bite his own tail, and also likes to bite his mother's tail to sleep, or his father's. His brother has no tail, so he doesn't know where to bite, which once made him very distressed.
He has a pair of blue eyes and white hair. He is born with thick eyeliner, which makes his eyes look particularly big.
When they grew up, the two brothers, a kitten and a chicken, were running around on the snowy mountain. Their mother had to go to accompany their father. After all, their father, who slept alone at home because they went out to play every day, bravely climbed up the snowy mountain because he missed them. As a result, he almost froze on the way. This sounds really pitiful.
In the orc world, children are usually driven out by their mothers when they grow up. Some children who are unable to raise them will go hunting by themselves when they can run and jump, and then slowly leave their families.
There is no such habit in Song Xu's family. Everything depends on themselves. The chicken never left them too far. It grew into a large bird of prey with a wingspan of almost three or four meters. It stayed near them and made a bird's nest in the tree. But
the cat, who was very annoying when he was a child, probably stayed in this snowy mountain because of the nature of the snow leopard.
But the separation was only temporary. One day, when Song Xu saw the snow leopard suddenly coming home to visit them, he was so happy that he couldn't express it in words.
Many years later, Song Xu had his third child.
This time, it was still a rare atavism card. The third child was a girl, and the only child born in baby form. Three days after birth, the child suddenly turned into a beast, a fish, several meters long.
Song Xu was in the nest watching her child suddenly turn into a fish, much bigger than her, and her tail broke the nest she had made.
She immediately got up in a hurry, rushed to the door and yelled to Wumu, incoherently: "Wumu, fish, fish, fish! There's a fish! What should I do!"
Song Xu, who was able to swim in the sea, land and air, watched her little daughter being dragged into the lake by Wumu.
Why does this fish look so much like a blue whale? It must be raised in the sea.
"It's so big, it's almost filling up the small lake, so let's call it Tianhu."
Not surprisingly, the name Tianhu has never been acknowledged by the blue whale, and the blue whale is more used to her mother calling her a big fish.
There was no other way, Song Xu announced again: "Let's go to the beach!"
He called the chicken, and when they passed the snow-capped mountains, the cat also took the initiative to follow, and they sent the youngest child to the beach together.
This time there were more people, and the road was more difficult than the first time. When there was a shortage of water, the chicken flew back and forth for dozens of kilometers, carrying water for the big fish without complaint, so that this sister who needed a lot of water would not die of thirst on the road. When
it was too hot, the snow leopard also fell down, and could only let the big snake father carry him forward.
But there were also many happy moments.
The big fish, who was supposed to live in the sea, learned from his mother what it felt like to roll in the grass.
It was raining heavily, and the big fish turned into a fish, lying on the grass and flicking its tail. The others hid in the tree hole to avoid the rain and watched.
There were too many members, and it was hard to find a suitable tree hole. They crowded together or simply stepped on the big snake father.
On more sunny nights, they would find an open space at random, and the big snake would use its tail to surround them all, draw a circle and rest.
The big fish envied the little chicken brother for being able to fly in the sky. She wanted to fly, but the little chicken brother couldn't carry her. Song Xu watched the brother and sister try in vain. The little chicken was pressed and couldn't fly. She laughed so hard that her stomach hurt.
The big fish envied the little cat brother for being able to run very fast on the ground. She wanted the little cat brother to carry her on his back, but the little cat brother couldn't carry her either. Song Xu watched the little cat dragging his sister on the ground with his four paws trembling, and laughed to tears.
But when the big fish reached the sea, she found that she, who could not even walk on land without being in beastman form, could carry her mother and brothers across the vast ocean, so she knew that this was her territory.
At the end of the journey, they waved goodbye to each other.
"Parting is bound to come, but I'm glad to meet you." The mother said this and kissed her head.
The lovely children came one by one and left one by one. In the end, only the squirrel and the snake were left. They hid from the rain in the tree hole. The squirrel hid under the snake in the thunder, and the snake clung to her tightly.
Many years later, in the sky, on the snow-capped mountains, and in the ocean, their story is still continuing.
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