Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 201 Fengbao's Egg
"Qiao Fei, can't you think straight for once?"

Looking at Qiao Fei's expression, Song Huanyan knew what he was thinking. She was so angry she almost laughed. This guy's imagination was running wild just to have puppies.

"Liuli just ate too much tonight, she's not pregnant."

Qiao Fei looked at Song Xiaoxiao, and the two of them sighed at the same time.

"Ugh."

"Ugh."

Song Huanyan rolled her eyes and poked her niece's forehead. "Why are you so eager for Liuli to have puppies? Aren't you afraid your Uncle Qiao will snatch them away?"

Without thinking, Song Xiaoxiao said, "There's no need to fight over it. It's no different for Uncle Qiao to raise puppies than for me to raise them. We're not living together."

The little girl didn't know that her aunt had already found a house and thought they would live together forever.

Qiao Fei pretended not to know and chimed in, "That's right, we'll raise them together then."

Song Huanyan glanced at him speechlessly, then turned and went back to her bedroom without arguing. "I can't be bothered with you guys."

Qiao Fei and Song Xiaoxiao exchanged a glance and then smiled at each other.

He had to admit that compared to his nephew An Zirui, he found Xiaoxiao much cuter, and her personality was more in line with his own.

The little girl is bold, daring, and innocent. Most importantly, he really likes her indomitable spirit.

She is a water-type, and before coming to Yunxi Village, she only knew how to release water. But after witnessing Qiqi turn water into ice, she put in a lot of effort to learn. She is also very clever. She studied with Du Qiyan for two months and practiced repeatedly at home. Now she can really turn water into ice.

not bad.

While everyone was hoping that Liuli would get pregnant with Xiao Wu's puppies as soon as possible, news suddenly broke that Xiao Feng had laid an egg.

The first person to discover that Fengbao had laid an egg was the old man of the Bai family.

He frequented the pet shed in the front yard the most. Every morning, as soon as he left the house, he would go there for a stroll to check if the pets still had water and if they needed changing.

This morning, as soon as I entered the pet house, I noticed something was wrong. Fengbao wasn't standing on its usual perch; instead, it was unusually squatting in its rarely used bed.

The old man found it strange; why was he sitting in bed today?
As I approached, intending to take a closer look, Fengbao tilted its head back, opened its mouth, flapped its wings twice, and then stood up.

As soon as it stood up, the old man immediately saw a small, translucent pink egg under its rear end. It was even smaller than a quail egg, clean and without any blemishes, so white that you could almost see the egg white inside.

The old man didn't touch the egg; instead, he turned around and went out to call Qiqi over.

Qiqi was shocked. He looked at Fengbao and murmured, "How come you only laid an egg? You don't even have a boyfriend, how did you lay an egg?"

He didn't understand it at first, but Uncle Qiao kept trying to get Liuli to be Xiao Wu's wife, so he gradually learned a little bit.

However, Qiqi himself probably forgot that when he was in kindergarten, his mother read him "The Different Carmela," in which the little hen Carmelito laid an egg on a boat. At the time, his mother explained to him that such an egg was unfertilized and could not hatch into a chick.

The same applies to small birds.

However, he forgot about it after being distracted by Qiao Fei.

The old man was about to explain to him when he was interrupted by the old lady who was taking the egg and examining it carefully.

"Huh? There seems to be a dot inside. Is that where fertilization occurred?"

Ok?
Which pig really stole Fengbao's heart?
The old lady was afraid she couldn't see clearly, so she asked Qiqi to go back to the house and get a flashlight. She shone the light on it for a while and finally confirmed that it really was a fertilized egg.

This alarmed the entire family.

Their birds aren't ordinary birds; they're queens.

So, is this a mate that any male bird can mate with?

More importantly, Fengbao is a cockatiel, but in their home, and even within a ten-mile radius, they have never seen a single parrot of the same species, or even any other type of parrot.

So how exactly does this fertilized egg come about?

Bai Li, seemingly lost in thought, slowly turned her head to look at the row of crows perched on the wall of her house.

Jiang Minglang stood next to her, followed her gaze, and immediately fell silent.

No way.
"Leave this egg here for now, don't move it."

The old lady put the egg back in the nest and said gently to Qiqi, "Birds usually don't lay just one egg. Let's wait and see how many it will lay in total."

"After it lays its eggs, will it incubate them? That means Fengbao will soon be a mother, right, Great-Grandma?"

"It's possible. Generally speaking, it will start hatching after it has laid all its eggs. But our Fengbao is not an ordinary bird, so even Great-Grandma can't say for sure what the specific situation is."

As someone who had been taking care of Fengbao, Bai Li had naturally looked up relevant information.

"Qiqi, when Fengbao incubates the eggs, you might find out who the father of its children is. Because when cockatiels incubate the eggs, the male and female birds take turns. That guy isn't here now, but he might show up in a few days."

Occasionally, Fengbao will go out, but it never stays for long. It never stays out overnight and always comes back the same night.

So that male bird was flirting with their queen outside?
Bai Li still couldn't bring herself to put Feng Bao with those enormous mutant crows; they were too mismatched. Her bird wouldn't be so indiscriminate.

Perhaps because it laid an egg today, Fengbao didn't go out for a walk with the old man. It was unusual for it to stay quietly in its nest. I don't know if it was to protect this egg or to prepare for the next one.

The next morning, a second egg appeared under Fengbao.

No eggs were laid on the third day; there were still only two eggs.

It didn't lay any eggs on the fourth day either; there were still only two.

The same thing happened on the fifth day.

After three consecutive days without laying any more eggs, it can be basically confirmed that Fengbao's first batch of eggs consisted of two.

They also carefully examined the second egg with a flashlight, and it was also a fertilized egg.

Two fertilized eggs may hatch into two baby parrots.

However, after stopping laying eggs, Fengbao stopped staying in the nest altogether. It stopped caring about its eggs and resumed its previous life of perching on the pole, even going for a walk with the old man every morning.

With its head held high and its little chest puffed out, it wouldn't even glance at acquaintances who greeted it.

She really is as arrogant as a queen.

Its two eggs were in its nest. If Xiao Wu accidentally glanced at them while passing by, it would swat him in the back with its wing.

That stinky bird never holds back when it comes to bullying Xiao Wu.

Qiqi runs to its nest eight hundred times a day, but each time it only sees two eggs. The egg father, who should be incubating the eggs, has not appeared yet.

On the twelfth day after Fengbao laid its eggs, just as everyone was losing interest and enthusiasm for them, a new situation arose in its nest.

Qiqi lay on the door of the pet room, staring in astonishment at a pure white cockatiel that had somehow appeared in the nest. Unlike Fengbao's pale yellow feathers and rosy cheeks, this parrot was entirely white, from the thick tuft of feathers on its head to the feathers on its legs. In short, everything on its body was white.

It was snow-white, dazzlingly white.

It was a size bigger than his phoenix, and its tail feathers were longer.

It lay motionless on top of the two eggs under Fengbao's body. Even knowing that a human was watching it from the doorway, it didn't move.

At that time, Fengbao was taking a walk outside with the old man and had not returned yet.

Qiqi quietly called his mother over, and the two of them squatted at the door of the pet room, looking at the white cockatiel with amazement.

It's almost certain that this is the father of their queen's child.

Bai Li thought to herself, "I knew it! My Fengbao is an ambitious bird that cares about looks, and it seems that only a parrot with such high looks is worthy of their queen."

"Mom, it's so pretty."

If they weren't so unfamiliar with each other, Qiqi would have liked to reach out and stroke its snow-white feathers, completely forgetting his earlier angry threat to pluck the feathers off and cook the bird that had stolen his cabbage.

"what!"

The mother and son were engrossed in watching when Fengbao returned.

Then when it saw the white cockatiel perched in its nest, it fluttered over, raised one wing, and slapped the white bird hard across the head.

The white phoenix was slapped so hard that it almost fell out of the nest, exposing the eggs under its belly.

"Ah! Ah!"

Not only did it slap people, but after slapping them, it also yelled fiercely at the white phoenix. Judging from its aggressive appearance, you could tell it was cursing the bird, and the cursing was very vulgar.

Unexpectedly, after being beaten and scolded, Bai Xuanfeng neither fought back nor talked back. She shrank her neck and obediently squatted on the egg again, clearly showing that she would accept being beaten and scolded.

Grandpa Bai, Bai Li, and Qiqi were all stunned.

Is this considered a fight between a married couple?
Was Fengbao scolding Bai Xuanfeng for being late?

In any case, the mystery surrounding the fertilized egg that had been shrouded in mystery for days has finally been solved. Now that the two eggs have hatched, it remains to be seen whether the white cockatoo will stay.

In the days that followed, the white cockatoo practically lived in the nest, constantly incubating the eggs. Even its food and water were brought to it by Qiqi and placed next to it.

Feng Bao?

Fengbao ignored it completely, except for scolding and beating it on the first day she saw it, after which it seemed to never pay attention to it again.

After a few days, Qiqi finally managed to touch its feathers. Just as she had imagined, they were soft, smooth, and incredibly comfortable.

"It's getting colder now. Once you've hatched the baby parrot, stay here and take care of it. Don't go out."

When you talk to it, it looks at Qiqi, and you don't know if it's listening attentively.

Coming out of the pet room, Qiqi glanced at Xiao Wu beside him, stroked its head, and sighed, "I originally found you a wife, but you're too disappointing. You still haven't won Liuli over. Sigh, Fengbao is about to become a mother, when will you become a father?"

"Wang!"

"Stop barking, go play with Liuli."

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. In early April, the white phoenix was still lying in the nest incubating the eggs. Phoenix Baby followed its own routine, ignoring the phoenix and the two eggs, not worrying at all about whether they would hatch.

At first, Qiqi was worried because her great-grandmother said that the weather was not suitable for parrots to incubate their eggs, since it was too cold.

But birds today have mutated, and it's possible they're different from what they used to be.

In mid-April, the temperature dropped to minus 25 degrees Celsius, and snowflakes fluttered all over the sky. In less than a day, Shenzhen was transformed into a silvery-white world.

Fortunately, this time it didn't rain for a whole month like last time; it only rained for a week before stopping.

Even so, the snow was still as thick as half a person.

On the first day after the snow stopped, almost everyone in Shenzhen, except for the elderly and young children, went out to clear the snow.

Having had the experience from the first time, cleaning up the greenhouse areas in Yunxi Village and Li Nan was a breeze and didn't take much effort.

After all, the temperature dropped to minus forty degrees Celsius during the last cleaning, while it's only minus twenty-five degrees Celsius now. Although it's still very cold, it's much better than before.

After the heavy snow was cleared from Baiguoyuan and Yunxi Village, Bai Yang led the villagers to start clearing the area.

Everyone already knows that this kind of snow causes serious soil pollution, so everyone tries their best to push the snow into the ditch so that it can melt and evaporate naturally.

Heading north, while clearing a main road near the city center, they came face to face with another cleanup team.

Bai Yang glanced at the group of about thirty people opposite him. The long-faced man at the head of the group was a complete stranger; he had never seen him before.

This is not surprising, after all, Pengcheng has received a lot of people in the past six months. Almost every survivor who comes to seek refuge is allowed to enter the city and then a designated area is chosen for them to live in.

As for what will happen after they move in, things will definitely be unsafe, such as robbery, assault, and bullying.

According to Brother Xu and Brother Du, although they punished some and drove others away, they couldn't possibly take care of everyone, just like how people still commit crimes even when laws and regulations were sound before the apocalypse.

The situation is the same now.

After all, where there are many people, there are bound to be many troubles.

Bai Yang guessed that these people might be a team of survivors from some of the areas they came into contact with. Clearing the snow wouldn't be a waste of their work; at the very least, they could earn points based on their labor value, and then use those points to find work in the greenhouse area.

The points system is a new policy recently introduced by the management department.

Bai Yang didn't want to argue with others, so he turned to the people he had brought and said, "Alright, let's stop here for today. We can go back now."

The people of Yunxi Village work voluntarily and do not need points because they have homes and food, and agricultural professors lead them to manage the fields and grow more grains and vegetables.

This natural sense of superiority made them unconsciously puff out their chests when facing a group of people who were clearly poorly dressed and looked unwell.

What are you listening to?

Bai Yang frowned and urged in a somewhat impatient tone, "I'll say it again, turn around and walk back."

"poplar?"

Just as they were about to leave, a voice suddenly came from the group of more than thirty people opposite them, timid yet carrying a glimmer of hope.

Bai Yang paused, then turned to look back.

Because of the cold weather, everyone was bundled up quite tightly. On the other side, because of their poor living conditions, almost all the men and women were wearing tattered, gray cotton-padded coats, with all sorts of hats on their heads and scarves around their necks.

Dressed like that, it would be difficult for him to recognize who was calling him.

good night!