Chapter 27 Abandoned Nest
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong squatted in the bushes, patiently watching the honey sparrow in front of them.
The honey sparrow did not notice them, and flew around leisurely in the bushes, occasionally sticking its long beak into the pink tube flowers to drink the thick nectar inside.
It went from flower to flower, and it seemed that it would not leave in the short term.
After observing for a while, Jian Mo found that the honey sparrow was not as small as he imagined.
Although it was called a sparrow, this honey sparrow was as big as a pigeon.
Jian Mo guessed that it might be because Wu Jiong and his friends were too big in beast form, so the honey sparrow was made to look particularly small, so he named it the honey sparrow.
Jian Mo asked quietly: "Do you want to go back to the nest with the honey sparrow?"
Wu Jiong: "Yes, honey cubes are good stuff, let's see if we can get some."
Jian Mo turned around and looked around.
Wu Jiong gently pressed his shoulder: "What are you looking for?"
Jian Mo lowered his voice: "See if there are other honey sparrows around."
Wu Jiong: "No, there is only this one. Maybe it just found this patch of pink tube flowers."
Jian Mo: "Then we will go back with it later? There is only one, can we keep up?"
Wu Jiong nodded: "No problem."
Jian Mo showed an envious look.
The vision of the beastmen and sub-beastmen is indeed extraordinary. If he had only this honey sparrow, he really wasn't sure if he could keep up.
The honey sparrow didn't know that someone nearby had already stared at it. After slowly eating the honey, it flapped its wings and flew away.
When it flew far away, Jian Mo could only see a small black dot with his eyesight. Wu Jiong then let Jian Mo sit on the back of the flying beast and drove the flying beast to follow the honey sparrow from a distance. Usually
the flying beast always rushed forward, but today under Wu Jiong's suppression, it flew silently and kept a steady distance from the honey sparrow, neither disturbing the honey sparrow nor losing it.
Jian Mo didn't expect it to be able to do this, and was quite surprised for a moment.
The honey sparrow flew higher and higher, just like a small balloon rising into the sky.
The flying beast also flew higher and higher.
It was colder in the sky, and the air gradually became thinner, and the flying beast began to wheeze.
Wu Jiong protected Jian Mo tightly from behind and observed his condition: "Are you okay?"
Jian Mo felt a little uncomfortable in his chest, but he could still bear it: "It's okay. Where is the honeyeater going to fly?"
Wu Jiong stared at the front: "I'm not sure. We basically didn't see the honeyeater's nest before."
Fortunately, the honeyeater stopped rising after flying to a certain height, but flew straight forward.
Jian Mo looked at the snow-capped mountains standing on the horizon, and an idea came to his mind: "Is it going to fly to the snow-capped mountains?"
Wu Jiong observed the front: "Possibly."
The honeyeater was unexpectedly able to fly, and they followed it. It was almost noon when the honeyeater flew straight to one of the continuous snow-capped mountains.
Jian Mo looked down from the sky.
There were no plants on the upper part of the snow-capped mountains, only some dry thorns dotted on the ground.
Some hairy cow-like creatures were slowly nibbling the grass.
Maybe the beastmen seldom go to such a high place to hunt, so they are not threatened and are particularly leisurely.
After flying for a while, Jian Mo suddenly saw a small brown spot on the cliff.
He stared forward with wide eyes and couldn't help but whispered: "Nest! I think I saw a honey sparrow's nest."
Wu Jiong: "I saw it too."
Jian Mo: "So many!"
On the high cliffs, densely packed bird nests were stuck to the rocks. Looking around, there were at least hundreds of nests, maybe almost a thousand.
If they hadn't flown closer, they probably wouldn't have thought that on the shady side of the snow-capped peak, on this cliff, there was actually a large group of honey sparrows living.
The small creatures that live on flowers have made their home in the most desolate and remote place!
The honey sparrows in front of them had returned to their nests. At this distance, they could already hear a chorus of chirping.
It was the honey sparrows calling.
Jian Mo stared ahead: "I didn't expect it to build its nest in a place like this."
Wu Jiong: "It's high here, and ordinary birds can't fly up, and insects can't survive in this environment."
Jian Mo responded: "Yes! Honey has a fatal attraction to insects. If they build their nests in a warm place, they will definitely be disturbed by insects."
Sure enough, every creature has its own survival wisdom.
However, if the honey sparrows didn't feed on honey, which has a very high energy content, they probably wouldn't have the ability to fly here.
Survival of the fittest is the same everywhere.
Wu Jiong commanded the flying beast to stop on a flat ground, and walked down with Jian Mo under his protection. He stared into the flying beast's eyes and said to it, "You wait for us here."
The flying beast squatted like a hen, holding its four paws firmly under its body, and whispered, "Chirp."
This showed that he understood.
Wu Jiong carried the backpack and held Jian Mo's hand, "Let's go."
The wind was strong on the mountain, and a lot of snow on the ground was blown away, making it thinner.
Jian Mo stepped down and stepped directly on the hard rocks underneath.
The rocks were a bit slippery, and the rocks underneath were unstable. It was easy to roll and shake after stepping on them, and it was easy to sprain your ankle if you were not careful. Fortunately, Wu Jiong held him tightly, so there was no danger along the way.
Jian Mo panted softly and said, "The environment here is too bad, no wonder the animals living here don't need to be vigilant."
Wu Jiong looked back and said, "Let's go up and take a look when we have time."
They walked forward for a while and soon arrived at the place where the honey sparrows built their nests.
The honey sparrows discovered them and flew towards them like raindrops, trying to peck them: "Tick! Tick!"
Jian Mo hurriedly protected his face with his hands, but was pecked on the hair and back by the honey sparrows. For a moment, he felt quite frightened.
Wu Jiong protected Jian Mo and roared at the honey sparrows.
The wolf's roar echoed in the mountains. The honey sparrows paused in the air for a moment, and then attacked more fiercely: "Tick!!!"
Wu Jiong stood in front of Jian Mo, and suddenly turned back into a giant wolf, stretching out his claws to clap: "Roar——"
The roar directly formed a sound wave, and many honey birds tilted in the air. They were frightened by the giant wolf, flapped their wings and turned around to escape desperately into the sky.
In just a blink of an eye, the surrounding honey birds scattered and none of them disappeared.
Jian Mo lay under the wolf's belly, staring at all this with wide eyes.
The honey birds were too decisive. These little guys gave up as soon as they said they would, and no honey birds came to attack them again.
The giant wolf turned around, grabbed Jian Mo's collar and gently threw it on his back: "Let's go and take a look."
Jian Mo hugged him tightly: "Okay."
The giant wolf ran in the mountains.
It was so high here and the air was so thin, but it seemed to have no effect on the giant wolf.
Jian Mo looked back and saw that the cow-like creatures that were originally active halfway up the mountain had turned into small black dots.
But now it seemed that if the giant wolves wanted to go up the mountain to hunt, there would probably be no problem.
They quickly ran to the edge of the cliff.
The honey sparrows built their nests on this bare mountain.
It was not noticeable from a distance, but when they got closer, Jian Mo realized that this place was densely packed with bird nests everywhere, so dense that it made one's scalp numb.
Judging from the color of the bird nests, it can be seen that the honey sparrows must have a long history of building nests here. Some of the bird nests are still light white and shiny like new, while some are already black, and more than half of them have been eroded by wind and rain.
The honeyeaters may not have returned for various reasons, so their nests are abandoned here.
The giant wolf ran to the edge of the cliff and put him down, then turned into a human and put on his animal robe: "Let's go collect honey."
Jian Mo nodded vigorously: "Okay!"
Wu Jiong pulled Jian Mo to the nearest bird's nest.
The honeyeater's nest is a bit like a swallow's nest, with pieces of objects glued to the stone wall to form a semicircular nest.
Its nest is padded with dry grass, and on the dry grass there are shiny light yellow sugar cubes.
Those are the sugar cubes they brewed and stored, which they plan to eat slowly and feed the little birds.
Jian Mo stood by the bird's nest and could smell the sweet smell of the sugar cubes.
It's so tempting.
To Jian Mo now, these shiny sugar cubes are more tempting than yellow gems.
Wu Jiong rummaged through the bird's nest and grabbed four sugar cubes out of the thirteen sugar cubes: "Let's take a little from each nest, and keep the rest for them, don't take them all."
Jian Mo nodded: "Will they come back?"
Wu Jiong: "Yes, it's not easy to build a nest. As long as the nest is not destroyed, they will come back."
Jian Mo was relieved.
They touched the bird's nests one by one, taking about one-third of the sugar from each nest.
The temperature here is too low, just enough to freeze the sugar cubes hard.
The sugar cubes were put into the basket, and soon half of the basket was collected.
Jian Mo sniffed. Although it was so cold here that he almost caught a cold, he was really happy.
This is all sugar!
He had spent so much effort before that he could only make a little bit of sugar water, but these are concentrated sugar cubes!
Great!
They touched the bird nests one by one, and soon came to an abandoned bird nest.
Jian Mo's eyes fixed: "This bird nest--"
Wu Jiong also looked: "It seems to be built with honey cubes."
Jian Mo: "Really? It looks like it to me too."
He stretched out his hand and tapped the bird nest lightly, and scratched it with his fingernails: "Really, it's made of honey cubes!"
Wu Jiong also confirmed after tapping: "It is."
Jian Mo opened his mouth wide, turned his head and looked at the abandoned bird nests all over the mountain: "My God, then our harvest this time is huge!"
Honey cubes!
This kind of highly concentrated sugar has no shelf life. Not to mention a hundred years, even if it is tens of millions of years, it is estimated that it will not expire.
Jian Mo was so excited that he almost sweated: "It's really a honey block! Why don't they reuse these abandoned bird nests? Or eat it, such a good nest!"
Wu Jiong: "I don't know, but this nest should be very hard."
Jian Mo: "What?"
Wu Jiong: "Try to bend it."
Jian Mo didn't understand, and gently bent the bird's nest, but it didn't budge.
He used a little force, but it didn't budge.
Then, he used all his strength to pry the bird's nest under his hand. The bird's nest was still firmly attached to the stone wall, as if it was born as a part of the stone wall.
Jian Mo's hands were all red from prying the nest apart, but the bird
's nest was still there. He looked at the bird's nest in front of him breathlessly: "Why is it so hard to pry apart?!" Wu Jiong: "It should be to prevent the nest from being blown away by strong winds, so their nests are glued together very firmly. Let me do it."
Jian Mo made way and waited for Wu Jiong to come over
to pry apart the nest. Wu Jiong had to use all his strength to pry the nest apart.
After removing the grass fluff inside the nest, the entire bird's nest was made of honey blocks, which was shiny, hard and extremely beautiful.
Jian Mo looked at the bird's nest with sparkling eyes.
After discovering that the bird's nest was made of honey blocks, they pried apart all the abandoned bird's nests.
They did not touch the bird's nests that were in use, and only pried apart the abandoned nests.
Even so, the harvest was impressive enough.
After Jian Mo found the technique, he was able to break off some nests.
One, two, three... After half an afternoon, Jian Mo broke off sixty-nine abandoned bird nests by himself. Wu Jiong's harvest was at least three times as much as his.
Jian Mo felt that the wind was blowing through him, and said to Wu Jiong: "Go back first, or take a rest in a sheltered place. If you continue to break nests, you will get sick."
Wu Jiong: "Let's go find Jiujiu first."
Wu Jiong carried the backpack and led him back.
After a while, they found the flying beast.
The winged beast was still waiting for them there. When it saw them coming back, it cried out twice with shining eyes: "Chirp!"
Jian Mo opened his arms and hugged the winged beast.
The winged beast moved its position, stood up a little, and then protected Jian Mo and Wu Jiong under its body like a hen hugging a nest.
The winged beast's body temperature was very high. Jian Mo felt like a big hot water bag wrapped around him, and he felt warm all of a sudden.
He squinted his eyes happily, then took out a candy from his backpack, stuffed one piece into the winged beast, stuffed one piece into Wu Jiong, and ate one piece himself: "Try it quickly - hmm!"
The sweet and rich taste immediately captured Jian Mo's entire mouth, and he was almost speechless.
This honey block is so delicious!
It's so delicious that it makes you want to swear.
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