Two pairs of sinister eyes stared at each other. In fact, they have no hatred at all. This is just a battle between the Ostrich King and the Ostrich King. But it is a battle in which water and fire are incompatible.
The two young Ostrich Kings are already covered in glory. However, the battle continues.
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In Alexander's eyes, the neighboring Ostrich King, who was as tall as himself, was no longer the same kind, but turned into a snake and scorpion, a scourge that he must get rid of.
The sun hangs brightly in the sky, but its edges are painted an uncoordinated layer of dark black. The roar of lions, the roar of jackals, and the barking of dogs all go away with the migrating team of zebras and antelopes. Looking around, there are only a few sparse groups of ostriches on the land, and the Kalahari (South Africa) presents a loneliness unique to the early dry season.
The female bird of a neighboring group of ostriches lay lazily on the ostrich eggs, absently watching the two red-faced male ostriches, as if this battle had nothing to do with them. Originally, wars between ostrich groups were equivalent to fights between male ostriches, and female ostriches could only accept the situation.
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"Pah! Pah! Pah!" Alexander suddenly jumped up, and with the inertial swing of its wings, its legs alternately drew three beautiful arcs in the air, a difficult "triple kick" "Hit the same point on the breastplate of the neighboring Ostrich King one after another.
The bird king of the neighboring flock is still standing upright, as if this heavy injury that is enough to penetrate the breastplate has no damage to it. Before Alexander could put down his hooves, it flew up and pointed its claws directly at Alexander's abdomen. Alexander, who was accustomed to confronting ferocious beasts, nimbly dodged, then feinted, and stabbed his beak straight into the eyes of the neighboring ostrich king.
The ostrich king of the neighboring group nimbly avoided Alexander's attack. It took advantage of Alexander's preparation for the next attack, raised its hoofs upside down, and struck Alexander on the left wing.
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Alexander pulled his left wing, which was bloody and bloody, and looked at the neighboring group of ostrich kings looking at each other two meters away under the gradually decreasing visibility. The two ostrich kings were pacing back and forth, staring at each other.
After all, Alexander was the mastermind of this battle. For two months, Alexander had been coveting the lush water plants and numerous female ostriches in the adjacent ostrich oasis. Today, it is crossing borders and stirring up trouble. Alexander wanted to annex the flock. Never being satisfied, or greed, is the nature of all kings.
Alexander must succeed in this battle. Otherwise, it will lose its ostrich flock forever.
The sky gradually darkened, and a strange gray-black color was reflected in the sky. The dark arc hole swallowed up half of the sun's light. The sun's disc hung dimly at the highest point in the sky, filled with an inexplicable chill, as if it were a cold moon appearing at the wrong time.
The solar eclipse has begun. This is a rare astronomical spectacle.
The combat experience accumulated when he was a young ostrich flock is Alexander's precious asset. At this moment, scenes of bloody battles are unfolding in similar situations, and every move appears mature and skillful. It was equally intense, equally thrilling, and equally likely to be the last fight in its life. However, the objects of this life-and-death struggle are the same kind, not beasts.
Thinking of this, Alexander's heart trembled slightly.
The Ostrich King of the neighboring group looked at Alexander who was eager to try. He calmly raised his chest wall, spread his hooves, and took a defensive posture.
Alexander jumped up and dived down suddenly just one step away from the neighboring Ostrich King. Alexander's hard breastplate collided with the neighboring Ostrich King's breastplate by inertia. The king ostrich from the neighboring group gathered all his strength and stepped firmly on the ground, trying hard to prevent himself from being knocked away by Alexander. However, Alexander stood up to his opponent and gained ground every step of the way. The muscles of the neighboring bird king had been stretched to the limit and he involuntarily stepped back.
Suddenly, yellow sand filled the air and smoke and dust rose everywhere.At some point, there was no trace of the sun. There was only a bottomless black hole high up in the sky, with a light white color coming out from the edge of the black hole, embedding the deepest black in the world, exuding infinite weirdness. .
This is the mysterious total solar eclipse .
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When vision is obstructed, the sense of smell will become particularly sensitive. There was a vague smell that Alexander was familiar with in the air, which reminded Alexander of his childhood three years ago, the old days on the Kalahari migration during the dry season, and the time he spent with the female bird Wendy. Under the wings, the breath of companionship...
The memory is like a cruel thunderbolt across Alexander's inner world. There is no doubt that the male bird struggling on the sand in front of him is Alexander's long-lost brother Amos. No one knows how it walked out of the oasis filled with the sounds of leopards, how it grew up in the dangerous desert, or how it became the ostrich king through its own struggles...
A difficult but happy childhood with river water The sound of pure and thrilling water emerged from the depths of Alexander's heart, and it was vivid in his mind: On the way to migration, he and the two brothers Amos worked together to catch a locust, and it emerged from the eggshell without tasting food. But Amos gave him the locusts to eat. At night, there was a cold silence in the wilderness, and Wendy held the two little brothers in her arms. Next to the thatch Alexander asked Amos to wait by the lake. But it never went back...
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Amos was twisting his body and trying to get up from the sand.
Alexander walked towards Amos with steady steps...
"Crack!" There was a sound of bones and throat breaking together. Alexander slowly pulled the blood-red tip of the hoof out of Amos's neck, drawing out the black blood flowing with tears in the dim light.
Amos gently closed his eyes. It just started to have a dream and entered a beautiful dreamland forever. In the dream, Wendy found it in the thatch of the oasis. It chased and played with Alexander, and they went to France together. Running along the evergreen banks of the Er River... Now, Amos can no longer get up.
Alexander would not let his brother get up. Although he could let the old male bird go away, which was about to become a vulture , he would definitely put his brother to death. If Amos is allowed to leave, Amos will recover soon with the flame of youth, and he will be a potential threat to Alexander's throne.
This is the way of thinking of Alexander, the Ostrich King. In the dangerous African wilderness, there are many times worth cherishing, and there are also many emotions that need to be let go. All the efforts an Ostrich King makes are just to strengthen his family.
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"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The sonorous and powerful voice of the king exploded from Alexander's chest. Nine female ostriches quickly stood up and surrounded Alexander.
Alexander led nine female ostriches toward the center of their territory. Now, they are all members of Alexander's ostrich family and will give birth to offspring for Alexander.
The solar eclipse gradually spreads out, and the sun slowly appears in the center of the sky. However, everyone knows that the original sun has been devoured.
Ostrich eggs are abandoned lonely in the wilderness.
■ Text/Excerpt from "The Ostrich Family" (written by Yuan Bo and published by Hebei Children's Publishing House)
■Editor/Wang Xiao
■ All rights reserved. No reproduction is allowed without permission
