Chapter 792: Attachment
After looking at the satellite map, there weren't many signals coming back.
Mo Qiong dropped a total of sixteen locators, but only eight of them had signals...
Excluding Gaia, there are seven other club members who cannot be located or are dead.
If you are already dead, your soul will dissipate and there will be no target. The arrow will hit the closest target, and the basic landing point is not in this universe.
It is known that Gaia’s reincarnation characteristics and places of reincarnation are all on the earth. After all, the few of them who have returned, plus the eight who have signals, are all on Earth.
Therefore, if the signal cannot be received, it can only mean that the target's soul is annihilated.
That is to say, plus the robbers who were found dead before and the members whose numbers ended in 1. Did this forced reincarnation alone kill nine elite members?
"Maybe there's something wrong with my brain. I'll try a few more times!"
Mo Qiong didn't want to give up. When he was rushing to a certain place with signal, he kept throwing out locators on the way.
He tried his best to think about it, hoping that there would suddenly be a few more return signals.
But no, he repeatedly dropped hundreds of locators, but only seven had signals.
"Let's worry about what we can find first! Some of them we arrived later may be to collect the corpses." Gongsun You said.
Mo Qiong said: "Teleport, I am the fastest."
Suddenly, Mo Qiong and Che Yun merged, and then continued to cooperate, sending everyone to various places.
And he himself came to Antarctica, the breeding area of emperor penguins.
Three months ago it was the end of May, which happened to be the time for emperor penguins to lay eggs and hatch.
The little penguins are hatched at minus 40 degrees Celsius and protected on their insteps and wrapped in their abdomens. This is how penguins raise their young.
Looking at the emperor penguins crowded together in the cold storm and lined up in circles to resist the cold, Mo Qiong had a headache.
It's so cold here that penguins face almost the harshest environment on earth.
For several months, they spent most of their time in the cold wind.
They must come to the hinterland of the Antarctic land to breed their offspring at the harshest time. On the one hand, they do not need to worry about attacks from natural enemies to conceive offspring here. On the other hand, only this time can breed offspring so that when they grow up and mature, they can reach the seaside. Ushering in the season when food is most plentiful.
"Qi Yi is among the emperor penguins. There will be no other animals in the Antarctic hinterland at this time of year." Che Yun said.
Mo Qiong is wearing a custom-made nanomembrane, making him the only African cheetah in history that can sneak around in the Southern Lights.
The same goes for Che Yun, the first fox hound in history to walk in Antarctica...
Their approach did not cause any ripples in the penguin colony. The penguins did not want to disperse and let the cold wind blow away the heat.
But Qi Yi must be in the arms of one of the penguins, and he has to open them up to find it.
"Our weather station shows that this hurricane will continue to blow for at least three days."
"Then build a wall!"
In addition to Mo Qiong and Che Yun, he also sent Mihir and several peripheral personnel.
They quickly formed a wall of ice to block the cold wind, and then separated the penguin group to find Qiyi.
The one with the locator attached to his body and who is particularly smart is Qi Yi.
When I found him, I found that he was living a very healthy life.
After all, emperor penguin chicks stay in the arms of their parents until they grow up, eating the leftovers stored in their parents' stomachs.
The hard part is for the two emperor penguins, who are parents. They take turns to go hungry and shelter their young in the cold wind. They cannot stand the hungry father or mother and travel more than 100 kilometers to the coast to find food.
After eating, they must rush back to the breeding ground immediately. If they are late or have an accident on the way, they cannot return home in time to replace the hungry penguins at home.
If the big penguins staying at the breeding ground want to survive, they can only give their young to other penguins when they are about to starve to death, and then go to the beach to look for food before their partners come home.
There is no doubt that the little penguin that was left behind is no longer theirs, but has become the chick of other penguins.
Of course, if the big penguin who stays to watch the chicks is not raising chicks for the first time, it will last longer.
However, this also often misses the opportunity to give up the cub and save herself. She will be unable to cross the distance of more than 100 kilometers to the seaside because she has exhausted her last bit of strength. In the end, she chooses to give up on herself and survive until her partner comes back, and she starves to death, or her partner never comes back, and the mother and child waiting at home starve to death.
Qi Yi was unable to awaken more memories and contact the Blue and White Society precisely because he could not separate from his parents.
In the vast Antarctic, there was nothing but wind and snow. He stayed in his mother's arms every day and couldn't go anywhere. It's not that he hasn't tried to crawl out in search of freedom, but that is undoubtedly seeking death. When the wind blows, he can't bear to shrink back as soon as he shows his head.
The awakened knowledge told him that his young self could not withstand the severe cold alone.
"I thought I had to stay here until November before I could go to the beach to fish." Qi Yi said after fully awakening.
"I think you are in good spirits. I remember that during this period, the little penguin actually didn't have enough to eat." Mo Qiong said.
Qi Yi said: "It's okay. When I was born, all the emperor penguins in the entire Landawson colony were watching me!"
"This makes me the most special one. I am cared for by almost all emperor penguins. Some emperor penguins who are single or have lost their chicks will also feed me the food stored in their stomachs."
Emperor penguins love their children as if their lives were their own. Some emperor penguins that failed to find a mate this year will even jealously fight for other penguin cubs when they see them.
As a result, many little penguins do not follow their biological parents when they grow up.
When Qi Yi was born, he caused a huge commotion. All single or childless penguins fought for him and treated him as their own child.
Once Qi Yi felt hungry, he would immediately crawl out and change his mother... Some penguins were willing to raise him...
At this time, because humans took Qi Yi away, a group of emperor penguins followed him all the way to the nearby Antarctic station. They stood in the cold wind, watching the human buildings inexplicably.
These are Qi Yi's adoptive parents... As for which pair of penguins are his biological parents, it is difficult to verify.
"I know, that pair is... I remember the smell clearly. I was born in their arms, and my body has their smell. And I can clearly distinguish the body odor of every penguin I have lived with. This is my talent." Qi Yi said.
Michelle said, "Senior, how are you going to arrange them?"
Qi Yi was very hesitant. He knew that he did not belong to this tribe. But in his human life, he was abandoned in a trash can when he was one year old because he was diagnosed with congenital heart disease.
Later, an old security guard picked him up and did not choose to look for the couple, but decided to raise him himself.
He even used his connections to invite doctors in the community to help him cure his illness.
It can be said that Qi Yi was a child who was really picked up from the trash can.
However, when he was four years old and just sensible, the old security guard died in an abnormal incident, and he saw the whole process with his own eyes.
In the jurisdiction where his stepfather retired to the second line, a shelter appeared. A steel halberd selected civilians and turned them into a man who called himself Lu Bu, who was tyrannical and selfish, killing indiscriminately in the city to show his bravery.
It was a demonic halberd that would erase a person's thoughts, transform them into 'Lu Bu', and strengthen their physical fitness three times.
If 'Lu Bu' dies, it will choose a new Lu Bu. Strictly speaking, this is a mind-distorted containment, because no matter who it is, once it is chosen, their thoughts, memories, and personality will all be changed into ‘Lu Bu’.
In a sense, it can be considered that the chosen person is dead, and replaced by a puppet named ‘Lu Bu’ with a specific personality memory.
His stepfather was not killed by ‘Lu Bu’, but after ‘Lu Bu’ was shot dead by the members who rushed over, he was randomly selected by the magic halberd to become the new Lu Bu.
A thug with the face of his stepfather, but no longer his own.
In order to prevent the magic halberd from randomly harming more people, the Blue and White Society captured Lu Bu alive and fed him well to prevent him from dying.
Because of that incident and Qi Yi’s strong request, he was allowed to join the Blue and White Society, grew up in the foster home of Xuzhou, and chose to become a member by osmosis, passed the training and assessment, and became a secret weapon in a later mission.
It can be said that he has never experienced the care of his parents since he was born. Perhaps his stepfather has given him some care, but his memory before the age of four is already vague.
Now, what makes him feel this deep emotion is a group of penguins.
"I don't know what to do. Emperor penguins are animals that are extremely caring for their cubs. I am very important to these emperor penguins that hatched me and raised me..." Qi Yi found that he couldn't bear to part with these penguins that cared for him.
He felt a kind of love from these penguins that he had never felt before.
"How did you deal with it, Mo Qiong?" Qi Yi asked.
Mo Qiong said, "I am a cheetah. Cheetah mothers raise their children alone. When they are mature and can hunt alone, they will leave quietly."
"Even if I am not a human, my cheetah mother will never have anything to do with me tomorrow. So my departure is just like one of its children growing up early. After all, the mortality rate of cheetah cubs is as high as 90%. Mother cheetahs are used to the departure of their cubs."
Qi Yi said distressedly, "But penguins are different."
Emperor penguins are very loyal. They almost never change their partners throughout their lives. They spend almost all of the year protecting their cubs.
This can be seen from the fact that all the penguins followed Qi Yi after he was taken away.
They dare not and do not know how to invade human buildings. They don't even know what happened. They just watch outside dully, wanting to get their children back.
But it would be too much to take them all away and keep them in captivity just because Qi Yi must return to human society.
"I have an idea about how to return to human form. The most feasible way is to cut the human half and inject it into your well-preserved body to revive."
"If it succeeds, you will have an emperor penguin clone. Both the human and the emperor penguin are your body." Mo Qiong thought for a while and said.
Qi Yi's eyes lit up and said, "So that's it. There is an extra clone..."
Mo Qiong said, "It is likely to be the case. I haven't tried it yet, but it should be feasible. Anyway, Antarctica needs members to guard it. Your clone can live in the tribe for a long time. It can be regarded as an alternative lurking..."
"Thank you." Qi Yi smiled.
Mo Qiong shrugged and said, "I still have to find David. You stay here first. I will come back to pick you up when you return to your original body."
As he said that, he and Che Yun disappeared in the Antarctic base.
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