Chapter 990 My Rabbit
Here's what happened: MIN's migration route had been pretty normal in previous years, but one year, perhaps because it was getting a little bored flying to India, it deviated from its route after flying from Siberia to Kazakhstan, heading southwest all the way to Iran...
The eagle's arrival in Iran wasn't a big deal, but the problem was: the tracking device had no signal for the entire journey from Kazakhstan to Iran! No one knew its exact location, and the eagle remained missing for five months. During this time, the tracking device accumulated a large number of unsent text messages. Once the eagle arrived in Iran, the signal was restored, and all the accumulated messages were sent to Russia.
Someone said, "It's just a few hundred text messages. What's the problem?"
This is a big problem!
This roaming fee is really unreasonable!
A single text message sent from Iran to Russia cost 49 rubles. With hundreds of messages, and all the various fees associated with the sheer volume, the amount doubled. Ultimately, the eagle, called MIN, cost the researchers nearly 300,000 rubles in text message fees.
The Russian city with the highest average salary is Moscow, where the monthly salary is less than 40,000 rubles. 300,000 rubles is almost all the research expenses of this group of scientists!
Finally, this group of scientists had no other choice but to explain the whole story on the Russian social media VK, and frankly told netizens that all their research funds were not enough to pay the phone bill, so they sought funding from netizens.
Russian netizens were also very happy to encounter such a thing and extended a helping hand. This research team can be said to have turned a disaster into a blessing. First of all, after learning about the incident, the Russian mobile operator took the initiative to offer to reduce the arrears and guaranteed that the team could use lower communication costs to carry out tracking work in the future.
This mink is quite lucky: countless people have crowdfunded it to travel internationally.
But the farthest that MIN has ever flown is the Middle East! How did this one get here? According to the inscription on the solar panels, it's also named "Anna," which sounds like the name of a female eagle.
That means there's no signal in most places in the Sahara Desert. I bet those researchers were terrified. They couldn't even afford the phone bills to fly to Iran, so if they knew this guy was flying to the southern Sahara, they'd probably be ready to die.
I don't know how long it has lived here. If it has really lived here for a few years, then once all the text messages have been sent...
If that were really the case, I guess those scientists would wish that this 'Anna' would die.
Of course, this was impossible, as the book recorded Anna's whereabouts over the years. This was crucial for their research: for example, how could the eastern subspecies of steppe eagle, which clearly migrated throughout Asia, have ended up in Africa?
Not to mention those scientists, even Xiao Peng wants to know why!
However, the steppe eagle was seriously injured. Xiao Peng didn't know what to do. He could only help it disinfect and treat the wound. As for whether it could survive, that was not something he could control. He could only leave the rest to fate and do his best.
As for that rabbit, don't waste it.
Xiao Peng skinned the rabbit with a dagger, then soaked the innards in water in a small basin. When the water was almost done, he cut the rabbit into small pieces and placed the basin near the steppe eagle. If it could make it, they'd have something to eat!
Eagles rarely drink water directly, as drinking water directly can easily cause health problems. Therefore, eagle keepers usually use this method of soaking meat in water to replenish the eagle's water. Xiao Peng thought about feeding it meat directly, but it is too weak now, and it is still a question whether it can survive. It would be a waste to feed it meat, so I'd better save it for myself!
Take out a stainless steel basin, wash the rabbit meat, cut it into pieces, drain it, pour in soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar, pepper, Sichuan peppercorns, five-spice powder, chili powder, and chicken stock, and start marinating. During this time, find some dry firewood, light a bonfire, prepare the grill, and start grilling.
In fact, he had barbecue tools in his car, but how great would it feel to be so natural?
This pickled rabbit meat was incredibly fragrant when roasted. Within moments, the aroma was so strong it practically made Xiao Peng's mouth water. He really wanted to just chew on it, but that was impossible. Eating wild game like this without cooking it thoroughly could easily lead to infection. With so many diseases in Africa, safety was paramount.
The more Xiao Peng smelled the aroma, the hungrier he felt. Oh, right! There were long loaves of bread in the car. Spread some oil on it, sprinkle some chili powder and salt on it, and it would be delicious as a barbecue!
Thinking of this, Xiao Peng stood up, opened the rear door, took out the bread and prepared to start toasting it. However, just as he was about to brush oil on it, Xiao Peng froze in place: Why is there so much blood on his hands?
His hands were covered in blood after treating the steppe eagle's wound, so he washed them. Then, when he treated the rabbit, they were covered in blood again, so he washed them again. So, how come they were covered in blood again? He took a closer look, and hey! Why was there blood on the loaf of bread?
Xiao Peng felt his brain wasn't working! What was going on? They said Africa was full of mysteries, and now he had truly seen it. Was he seeing a ghost?
Approach science and reject ghosts! Xiao Peng no longer cared about his roasted rabbit. He thought for a moment and stood up. This bread was found in the carriage. His back carriage was piled with a lot of things. He didn't look closely just now. Could this bloodstain come from the carriage?
Xiao Peng opened the rear door again and this time took a closer look: there was indeed blood! The blood had come from the tent!
After I lent the tent to Renault and the others that day, I was in a hurry to take them to see the jackals, so I took down the tent and stuffed it into the car without folding it carefully. Could it be that when I was stuffing the tent that day, I stuffed some animal into it, causing a pool of blood?
That's disgusting! I can't keep this tent!
Xiao Peng was just about to reach out and lift the tent to find out what was going on when suddenly a loud noise came from the sky. He was already very cautious, fearing that he would see a disgusting scene when he lifted the tent, but the loud noise scared him so much that he jumped up on the spot!
"Damn!" It turned out that there was thunder in the sky!
It is the rainy season in Africa now. You can't feel it in the Sahara Desert, but here near the Senegal River, the climate is humid, so you can clearly feel the African rainy season climate. The heavy rain in the sky falls with the sound of thunder! Although the rain in this African rainy season comes quickly and goes quickly, it is usually a downpour.
"My rabbit!" Xiao Peng wanted to cry but had no tears. The rabbit could not be eaten, but the steppe eagle could not be left outside in the rain. He quickly moved the steppe eagle to the passenger seat, then ran to the back of the car to close the door and get in: it would be a joke if it was struck by lightning!
Oh, and there are tents!
He pulled the tent and was ready to throw it away and be done with it, but when he did, he was startled.
"Holy shit! This is a ghost!"
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