14, Chapter 14
Regarding the little Nixon who suddenly appeared, Yang Fan always hid secretly on Nick and observed them carefully. When the little guy ran over, she didn't dare to touch him. She even climbed high on Nick...
If the little Nixon is close to her, she will get goosebumps.
At first, she didn't realize that the Nixon had a monkey. Because the Nixon was never followed by his parents, he always ran around and kept crawling towards other adult Nixons. Most of the adult Nixons swept him away with his tail while he leaned over, showing no mercy.
She had seen the little Nixon rolling around in the cave several times like a ball.
When she found out that the big-bellied and long-haired monkey had lost her belly, she really connected the monkey with the little Nixonian.
The sky collapses and the earth is broken!! That's just her assumption!! She never wants the assumption to be true!!!
The Nixon who raised monkeys was not interested in the little Nixon who was "should" be his child. However, the monkey would reach out to grab the little Nixon when the little Nixon passed by, but before it could catch it, the Nixon's tail knocked him away. Then the monkey would get angry at the Nixon, open his mouth and scream at him, and jump around in the spot. The Nixon let it get angry, but the little Nixon still knocked him away as soon as he came over again.
A few times later, the monkey didn't know whether it had forgotten that the little Nixon was its child or that the nature of obeying the 'male' prevailed, and it no longer showed too much interest in the little Nixon.
The little Nixon must get food from the hands of these adult Nixons themselves. He will come over when the adult Nixons start eating, and try another one when they are knocked away.
Yang Fan discovered that the Nixons were not particularly friendly to the Little Nixons, but they were not particularly vicious. When the Little Nixons came to eat, they were usually willing to give him a bite or two left.
Most of the people who do this are the ‘single’ Nixons.
Those who have a 'companion' like Nick will not give him any food.
Seeing that this little guy was so hungry that he rushed towards the adult Nixons again and again while eating, she couldn't control her sympathy, so she carefully took a piece of dried potato for him.
Then it broke.
The little Nixon seemed to know what she could come to eat from her, and he had been pestering her for a whole day. Moreover, she ate dried potatoes that were too arduous and difficult to eat, so he could easily bite them into his stomach. And no matter how much he was given, he could keep eating, as if he would never be full.
After he ate dozens of slices, Yang Fan refused to give it to him. He came up to attack her. Nick slapped the little Nixon who was slapped at the fangs and claws. She was also stunned. If the little Nixon had really pounced on her just now, his teeth and claws could easily kill her.
From then on, she even suppressed her sympathy. These animals that might seem pitiful might also be natural enemies to her.
This is how the little Nixons thrive in the indifference of their fellow tribes.
More than ten days later, the second little Nixon was born, and this time Yang Fan happened to see the end from the beginning.
The next day, Yang Fan learned why the Nixonian parents didn’t like the little Nixonian. She saw the horse cow and wanted to feed the little Nixonian breastfeeding. As long as she thought of the little Nixonian’s teeth, it made her shudder!
Fortunately, before the tragedy, the newly released father shot the little Nixons away with one tail.
The horse cow liked its children very much. It tried to let the little Nixon walk on all sides, and it was unsightly to see why he had a tail. Yang Fan was sure that several times she saw the horse cow that wanted to bite off the little Nixon's tail, but it was not successful because of the unicorn on the little Nixon's tail, and the horse cow's teeth were not very beneficial. The little Nixon did not treat it as an attack, but often stretched its tail into the mother's mouth to let it bite more.
The Ma Niu has been persistent in trying to bite off his tail. For this parent-child interaction, the Nixonian father next to him has been watching calmly, but as long as the little Nixonian is facing his teeth or claws at the Ma Niu, he will be immediately pulled away.
Yang Fan was surprised and puzzled to find that in these two times, the Nixons who had children did not take care of the children at all. They did not feed them or let them sleep beside them. Moreover, after the Linpian on the Little Nixons turned blue, they insisted not to allow the "partner" to take care of them again.
Why?
Those ‘single’ Nixons are more gentle, and most of them are willing to feed the little Nixons. And when they are in a good mood or are free, the closer they are to the little Nixons will only bring about the tail of the adult Nixons.
Yang Fan could not explain this phenomenon. She believed that the "single" Nixons may have such behavior that can be called "kind" before they have "partners". Not only is this the case for the little Nixons, but they may also be "loved" to other animals.
After they had a ‘partner’, they only had him and a ‘partner’ in their family view, and there was no place for children here.
She couldn't understand this, but this could explain why these Nixons all seemed to be alone. They had no sense of ethnicity. Even if they spent the winter together in this cave and collected food together, there was no difference between them.
This is why she only saw him, a Nixon, in Nick's 'territory'.
The Nixons may have a strong sense of territory and they do not live in groups.
Under such influence, the two little Nixons were able to draw their own 'territories' in the cave. They learned the practice of adult Nixons, circled their positions with their tails, and like other Nixons, they did not conflict with other Nixons, and carefully kept a certain distance.
When they found that adult Nixons always ran to the entrance of the cave to drag food, they did the same. Yang Fan watched them drag with their claws, bite them with their teeth, and desperately drag the frozen earth rat to the other end of the cave. What other adult Nixons could do easily took them all day or even longer.
She thought it would take a lot of effort to smash the food that had been frozen with other local rats.
The little Nixons started by dragging one by one, but later they found that dragging one by one would save more effort. They started to drag one in front and the other in the back, pushing the tail against the ground with their tails.
They also have to drag the food deep into the cave and push it into the big pit before they can be dragged out to eat after thawing.
Yang Fan thinks this may be the reason why Nixons knew about using fire since childhood. If Nixons were born in winter, then they could only use this method to eat food, so cooked food is their first choice.
Chapter completed!