Chapter 480 The Tiger Mom on the Verge of Giving Birth
Chapter 480 The Tiger Mom on the Verge of Giving Birth
169 days after birth.
"Ow~!"
Early in the morning, Cangnian let out a howl, preparing to lead his team to go hunting at sea.
Last night, we finalized the details with Noah regarding how to build the large ship.
This news quickly spread throughout the entire Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom, boosting the previously despairing, uneasy, and depressed atmosphere.
With Noah as a data life form, building a giant ship before the ice floes melt or disintegrate becomes feasible.
As long as you survive, there is hope.
However, there is still much preparatory work to be done before building a large ship.
First and foremost, there is an abundance of energy!
Industrial production is a very energy-intensive activity.
Building a real-life "Noah's Ark" capable of housing two million people would require an astronomical amount of energy.
Fortunately, the Moriguchi survivor base has developed a way to convert the corpses of evolved creatures into energy.
Therefore, in addition to daily food, they now need more prey.
However, Cang Nian was not too worried about this.
After all, given the overall strength of the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom, hunting would be a piece of cake.
But to Cangnian's surprise, a significant portion of the tigers in the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom were unwilling to go into the water to hunt.
What Cang Nian didn't expect was that there would be a Tiger Mom among them!
Ouch~!
Seeing the incredulous look on her cub's face, the tiger mom angrily revealed the truth.
Tiger Mom is about to give birth!
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, it will happen in the next day or two!
Those tigers that were unwilling to hunt were all tigresses, all because they were about to give birth.
This time, Cangnian was caught off guard.
Unlike humans, tigers don't show obvious changes in their physique when they are pregnant; at most, they may just appear slightly fatter.
However, Siberian tigers naturally fatten up during the winter, and their body fat percentage can reach around 20%.
Of course, Tiger Brother's body fat percentage is not included.
Therefore, Cang Nian was completely unaware of any changes in Tiger Mom.
In addition, according to data before the spiritual energy revival, the gestation period for tigers is roughly between three and four months.
How old are I and Tiger Brother?
She's only five and a half months old!
It's impossible for Tiger Mom to be pregnant again when she and Tiger Brother are only a month and a half old, right?
However, after communicating with Tiger Mom, Cangnian finally understood the reason.
Tigers are pregnant for three to four months. For the first two and a half months, the female tiger may not even be able to tell that she is pregnant.
Only in the last half month or so, when the tiger cubs are almost fully formed in the mother's womb, will the mother tiger notice.
At this time, the tigress will eat a lot to accumulate nutrients for the cubs in her womb.
But actually, the earliest heat cycle for the tiger parents was during the time when the temperature plummeted and a cold wave hit Cannes.
This is also a biological habit of Siberian tigers. When winter comes, they go into heat and, after about a month, find a suitable mate to mate with.
Then, three or four months later, the tiger cubs were born in spring, a time when everything was reviving and food was plentiful.
But if we calculate it this way, even if the tiger dad gets pregnant on his first try, the tiger mom has only been pregnant for two and a half months!
This doesn't match my pregnancy before the Reiki revival at all!
However, according to a large number of female tigers, just like the mother tiger, they were unaware of their pregnancy before, but now they have all suddenly gone into labor...
Cang Nian felt that it must be the effect of the second spiritual energy revival tide that happened not long ago.
Spiritual energy nourishes living beings and allows them to evolve into more powerful beings. Before the revival of spiritual energy, it was undoubtedly a great tonic.
During this second surge of spiritual energy resurgence, all living beings were elevated by at least one minor rank.
It is very likely that the tiger mothers who experienced this second wave of spiritual energy revival, as well as many other pregnant female tigers, had their cubs nourished by a significant amount of spiritual energy, which is why they matured earlier.
Once it has fully developed in the womb and reached the stage where it can be born, it will naturally be born.
For a fierce tigress like the mother tiger, hunting before giving birth is no problem at all.
However, if you go into the water and suddenly need to give birth while hunting, and end up giving birth to your cubs in the water, that would be troublesome.
Therefore, Cangnian naturally had no objection to their unwillingness to hunt.
On the contrary, he was quite happy.
In particular, among the tigresses about to give birth, there are also mother tigresses!
For Cangnian, before he could transform into a human, he was destined to never have a blood-related tiger cub.
He couldn't accept doing anything intimate with a female tiger.
However, he did like the tiger cub quite a bit.
The eldest brother is like a father. When Tiger Mom gave birth to her second child, who is his younger brother or sister, it can be considered as making up for the regret that he was destined not to have his own offspring.
Of course, the person most excited about this was the Tiger Dad.
Cangnian and Hudi grew up too fast. Before Huba could fully experience the joy of having children, Cangnian and Hudi had grown up and could stand on their own.
In fact, Cangnian is more powerful than Tiger Dad, and Tiger Brother is even older than Tiger Dad!
Now that the tiger mom is about to give birth to another litter of tiger cubs, how can the tiger dad not be excited?
"I wonder how many tiger cubs the tiger mom will have in this litter?"
Is it a younger brother or a younger sister?
Hmm... It would be best to have a younger sister, someone smart and cute.
Otherwise, if everyone were like Tiger Brother, it wouldn't be fun!
And Cangnian is also looking forward to the tiger mom's next tiger cub.
Huh~?
Tiger Brother, noticing Cangnian's gaze fixed on him, tilted his large head in confusion.
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After allowing the mother tiger and other pregnant tigresses to rest on the ice floes in preparation for giving birth, Cangnian led the hunt.
However, it was then that he realized a problem he had previously overlooked.
If the Earth has become bigger, what does the extra part look like?
Is it barren land and sea, or a complete ecosystem teeming with other life?
As it turns out, it was actually the latter.
The ice floes where the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom was located were not real islands, but drifted with the current.
Therefore, Cang Nian is unsure whether the nearby sea area is the same sea area of the "old" Earth.
But after hunting for a while, Cangnian discovered that there were many evolved creatures in this sea area, and quite a few of them were fourth-order!
However, strangely enough, by the fourth tier, most evolved creatures should already have very high intelligence.
Just like how a fourth-order shell uses blood pearls to attract prey, it will also hunt itself down.
Godzilla, which has not yet evolved to the fifth stage, will use its clones to launch feint attacks and cover its acquisition of nuclear energy.
However, the fourth-order evolved creatures in this sea area seem to only have the instincts of wild beasts, and their actions show no intelligence.
"Could it be... that this is a newly discovered sea area? And that the evolved creatures in these sea areas are different from the evolved creatures that existed here?"
This puzzled Cang Nian quite a bit.
However, the fact that brainless evolved creatures are easier to hunt is good news.
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