Master of Thermodynamics

Why do you say that you can "pick up corpses"?

Because the current Boot Island is not only a large-scale mass production site, but also a cruel battlefield.

In order to compete for the harem, the male ice seals will launch a duel at the expense of their physical strength and their lives.

Of course, the end of the loser won't be too good. Scarred is a better ending. Serious injuries and even death are also possible.

But the winner may not be lucky.

Because what they face is not a duel, but a continuous fight. After driving away a competitor, there will be an endless stream of opponents appearing.

Every time a fight is over, the victor will have more scars.

What's more frightening is that as long as the group batch lasts, they will need to fight for as long as they will either drive away all their opponents or die.

Reynolds estimated that there are at least 1,000 harems on the island, which means there will be 1,000 "competitions for marriage" arena. Even if calculated at a 20% mortality rate, he can still pick up 200 corpses.

Unhappy?

Of course it's cool, you don't need to fight to death, you won't even lose a hair, you just need to wait for these fat white guys to finish, and go ashore to pick up the dead or seriously injured and dying ice seals.

The waiting time will not be long, up to two or three days.

The upcoming snowstorm is estimated to last for several days, and Renault has plenty of time.

These ice seals are full of good things.

The thick fur is the finest leather, and the fat under the skin can be used to refine oil. These are highly profitable commodities.

Seal meat can be sold to civilians in the territory. This group of turtles have eaten conch and seashell meat for several months. As long as the price is not too expensive, I believe there will be a large number of civilians willing to change their taste.

The most anticipated is the mana spar.

According to Elon, the strength of adult male ice seals is definitely higher than that of ordinary awakened ones. The ice seals who dare to participate in the group meeting must be the best. This is normal. Isn't the scum coming to look for abuse?

Therefore, the probability of them producing magic crystals will not be too low.

Even if calculated at 5%, Renault can pick up 10 magic crystals for nothing.

This is no different from a windfall.

Realizing this, Renault found that his luck was quite good.

You must know that the mating period of ice seals is quite short. If he comes a few days early or a few days late, he will definitely miss them, and it is very likely that he will miss this batch of mana spars.

In addition, Renault also gave up the plan of "sending island guards to hunt and kill ice seals."

As a result, it is too wasteful to kill female ice seals in mating period.

Ice seals have a lifespan of at least 30 years. Pregnancy plus the time to feed their cubs can reproduce once in 3 or 4 years on average. Killing a female seal means that 7 or 8 baby seals are missing. Very bad.

Secondly, if the killing is too much, the ice seals abandon this gathering place and will not come again. Wouldn't it be impossible to pick up the magic crystal again?

A fool would choose this one-off deal.

Not only that, Renault also intends to designate this area as a protected area in the future, not allowing anyone to approach it.

The good thing of "picking up corpses" is only allowed by the master, whoever dares to come, the master will beat him fiercely!

Well, this is called sustainable development.

Regrettably, Renault drove around in the skies over the Boot Island and did not find any suspected "superior class" ice seals. Obviously, the super class ice seals have been out of the low-level taste of the group.

During this period, he also watched several duels.

The scene of two 6 or 7-meter-long beasts biting and fighting in the most primitive way is indeed a bit shocking.

They hit each other with their huge bodies, constantly making "popping" dull loud noises. This level of violent impact, I am afraid that no human awakener can catch a blow.

After each impact, they would open their big mouths, biting their opponents frantically, leaving wounds on each other with their sharp teeth, and it didn't take long for both sides to be bruised and bruised.

However, due to the extremely thick skin, although the wound looked very deep, not much blood flowed out.

In addition to using the flesh, they also use natural power.

Reynolds clearly sensed that in the violent collision, there would sometimes be obvious mana fluctuations. At this time, one of the ice seals must have a large area of ​​shocking hoarfrost on the body, and there will be a burst of white mist around it.

This is exactly the result of the ice attribute ability.

An ice seal contaminated by the frost will involuntarily slow down for a while, and then another ice seal will take the opportunity to bite it.

Judging from the speed of the appearance of frost, I am afraid that the temperature is quite low. If it is in the sea, the cold is enough to freeze a large piece of sea water in an instant.

This also fully shows that the ice seal is definitely a powerful sea beast. Without more than ten human awakeners, it cannot deal with an adult male ice seal. Consider the extremely harsh environment of the permafrost snowfield. No wonder everyone knows there. There are a large number of ice seals, but very few people make their minds.

While the male ice seals were fighting, the female seals watched quietly, neither leaving nor stepping forward to interfere. This was obviously their survival strategy.

Male seals fight for the females to fight for blood, so why aren't female seals choosing males?

It is the instinct of males to ensure the continuation of genes, as well as the instincts of females.

The male adopts the strategy of "casting the net widely". Labor and capital spread the harem and sow seeds everywhere. There will always be some offspring that can survive, right? You won’t be so unlucky, you won’t die, right?

If you get 100 offspring, even if 90% of them die in the future, there will be 10 cubs who can pass on the gene.

But the females are different. They only have one child. They either have full marks or zero eggs. There is no such thing as 10% or 20%. In order not to end up, their strategy is to choose the best one.

Whoever is the strongest, my mother will accompany whoever!

This logic is very simple and powerful, but it is very useful.

Even in modern society on earth, certain specific groups will use this logic.

For example, the second girl!

Before realizing that "money" is the best thing to "fight", their eyes tend to focus on bad boys, because bad boys seem to be the most able to fight.

This is also the most primitive impulse in their genes.

In the long history of mankind, only a few thousand years can be called civilization. In the barbaric era of hundreds of thousands of years, the strategies of female hominid are no different from female ice seals.

This second-forcing cognition is also engraved in the genes, passed down from generation to generation, creating generations of brain-disabled girls.

When Renault returned to Tide, Elon had already parked the sailboat in the fjord on the south side of Boot Island.

As Renault had ordered "not disturb the ice seals", the sailboat did not approach the ice seals, but moored more than 300 meters from the shore.

The sailors on the ship and the island guards stayed on the ship honestly and didn't go anywhere.

Afterwards, Elon General Lord’s order spread throughout the ship: Without permission, no one is allowed to approach the Boot Island, and no one is allowed to attack the ice seal before being fatally threatened. Violators will be punished with high fines and hard labor. .

The subtext behind this order is that the boots island and the ice seal are the property of the master, whoever dares to move, the master will make him look good.

In other words, the Boot Island was contracted by him.

This behavior is very overbearing, because the Boot Island is far away from the Tide Islands and is more than 300 nautical miles away from Odin Island. According to the "legal principles" of other worlds, this kind of "enclosure without authorization" will of course not be recognized by anyone. .

But Renault didn't care at all, it didn't matter if he didn't admit it, he would naturally admit it after he was beaten enough by the master.

As a result, on the third day after leaving the Tide Islands, Renault's territory quietly expanded a bit.