Zhang Ming turned to look at the enormous bird standing on the deck and said groggily, "Isn't that... Bird Mama? Where did she come from? Or is this another hallucination?"
Little White cried out: (She flew over from the east! You... you should stay!)
"Quack, quack, quack!" The pelican spread her wings, swaggering before Little White as she boasted about the results of all her years of training.
"So it's... Bird the Great!" Zhang Ming blinked hard and shook his head. "How did she catch up?"
A pelican with golden feathers around her neck squatted on the deck, fiercely laying an egg!
At the same time, she stared in bewilderment at the haggard-looking Zhang Ming and the Spare Little Wooden Boat.
It had been years, and her old rival looked to be in terrible spirits. Perhaps he was getting old... Ah, primates usually had very short lifespans. So Pelican Big Sis thought, feeling immensely pleased with her own long lifespan. She did not know how long she could live, either. She only felt that she was in her prime, with many peak years still ahead of her.
After several minutes of straining, the egg came out with a soft plop.
Having expelled the foreign object from her body, her bird face took on an instinctive expression of blissful relief.
"Awoo!"
"Quack, quack, quack!" The pelican called out twice and noticed the terrified Little White Turtle.
Little White also let out a loud shriek, scrambled onto the pelican's head, and brimmed with tears that dripped onto the deck.
Little White recounted everything that had happened over the years.
(They've gone mad. They've all gone mad... Boo-hoo!)
"Quack, quack, quack! (After all these years, how are you still such a tiny thing?)"
"Awoo. (Our Black Tortoise Race has very long lifespans. I'm