After Lu Ao finished eating, Song Zhou still had not returned, so he simply went up to the deck with Lin Qiyan to admire the scenery of the Antarctic Continent.
"What are you looking at?"
"Penguins." Lin Qiyan handed Lu Ao a pair of binoculars while holding another pair himself. "The Adélie Penguins seem to be bullying the Emperor Penguins."
"Hm?" Lu Ao looked in the direction he indicated and found that it was true. Farther from their landing site, several Adélie Penguins were chasing after Emperor Penguin chicks and pecking at them.
It was really too far away, already close to another stretch of coastline.
The Adélie Penguins pecked fiercely at the Emperor Penguin chicks. The chicks stood back-to-back in a circle and seemed capable only of dodging, with no other way to respond.
"What's wrong with these penguins?"
Lin Qiyan muttered, unable to understand how the much smaller Adélie Penguins could bully Emperor Penguin chicks that were so much bigger than them.
Those chicks were far too useless. Faced with Adélie Penguins smaller than themselves, they could only dodge, and every few steps, some of them would fall flat on their backsides.
Lu Ao saw it too.
He had not studied penguins in depth and had no idea what was going on with them.
They could not intervene in a penguin conflict of this level.
The two of them stood on the deck watching for quite a while as the Adélie Penguins kept chasing and pecking at the Emperor Penguins.
The expedition team members had finished collecting samples on the deck. When they turned around and saw the two still there, one of them leaned over and approached them. "What are you watching so intently?"
"Penguins." Lin Qiyan handed him the binoculars. "We don't know what's going on,