The second volume is called "One Heart" Chapter 41: One-horned White Rhino
I ran up a small hill and looked at a dozen white shadows resting and eating in the distance. I finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, I was not left behind by them. When I relaxed, I suddenly felt sore and weak all over, as if my bones were about to fall apart. I groaned, fell to the ground, and hurried to recover my strength.
Most common unicorns are gray-brown, but the dozen or so white shadows I was tracking were unicorns, which can be called the royal family of unicorns. Not only are they more powerful, but they are also snow-white and elegant in appearance. They are the best among mounts, and their value is comparable to that of a third-level magic pet. However, their population is small, and they are mobile and nomadic. They are the most active creatures in the Grand Canyon, galloping all day in the canyon, forming a beautiful landscape. Last time, Chili took me around to look for them, but I was disappointed and failed to see their true appearance. It is precisely because of this peculiar habit that, although it has attracted the attention of many pet hunters, it is difficult to run into them. Even if you are lucky enough to find a group, not many players can have enough physical strength and comparable speed to persist until they find the gaps in the protection of the unicorn group of white rhinos and rush in to capture the young animals.
Although extremely unlucky in real life, my luck in the game is not that bad. I was able to escape danger in the end after many disasters. This time, I had Taotao with me, which greatly accelerated the search. The nest of the unicorn rhino has not been found yet, but I unexpectedly discovered a group of resting unicorn white rhinos. I couldn't help but thank God for his mercy again. No matter whether it is a pet egg or a cub, Afeng should be so happy to get a unicorn white rhino as a birthday present.
I am not the first person to discover this, and I will certainly not be the last. Groups of pet hunters who heard the news have set their sights on this group of more than 200 one-horned white rhinos, staring wide-eyed and looking for a good opportunity to attack. However, the resting rhinos are the most vigilant, and there is no chance to take advantage of them. If you want to capture the young animals, you have to attack them violently, which can only be done by a large-scale pet hunting team. Moreover, once they take action, there is no room for others to intervene, and it is difficult to miss any benefits. For these voyeurs, it is not a good thing - although there is no chance at the moment, at least there is still a glimmer of hope.
Surrounded by many hostile eyes, the rhinoceros group was on guard, leaving no loopholes to exploit. When they stood up and began to gallop, most pet hunters gave up helplessly and went to find new targets - it was impossible to catch up with the rhinoceros group by two legs alone. Only players with mounted pets like me were qualified to continue tracking. Most of them were knights riding wild horses and bison. I was the only thief riding a strange skeleton horse, which attracted a lot of people's attention. Fortunately, everyone's target was the running rhinoceros group, so no one came to harass me for a while.
This kind of chase is not only a test of speed, but also a test of endurance. Newly born mounts are weaker, and with the weight of a person on their backs, they cannot get the help of the entire rhino group like young animals. When they run out of energy, they will be left behind and have no choice but to withdraw from the race. In fact, even if I continue to pursue, I don’t know what to do next. The rhino group has not revealed any flaws that can be exploited. Now I am just blindly persisting. Facing more than 200 one-horned white rhinos, I have no plan in my mind on what to do.
Unexpectedly, there was a female rhino about to give birth in this group of one-horned white rhinos. After a short rest, a dozen extremely strong one-horned white rhinos suddenly separated from the group, protecting a pregnant female rhino and leaving the group, and moving in another direction . This situation has been reported in detail by "Sky Media". It should be a sign that the female is about to give birth and must find a nest to lay pet eggs as soon as possible. As long as you can follow them, you will have a chance to get pet eggs, which is much better than blindly searching. However, this is only theoretically true. At this stage, the ability of the mounts is not high, and it is difficult to take on the responsibility of tracking, and the success rate is extremely low.
Without the restraint of the cubs, the speed of the separated team increased dramatically. Even the pregnant mother rhino ran very fast. There was no sign of adverse reactions after pregnancy. It obviously increased the difficulty of tracking them. I secretly cursed the perverted system design. How could this "pregnant woman" be "empty"? The difference is too big!
However, compared to the rhinoceros group that I can only watch but cannot attack, this small group of only a dozen white rhinos is still something I can take on. As long as I track them to their chosen nest, it will be a tough battle, which will give me the advantage of the number of zombies and give me enough time to make arrangements. Thinking of this, I naturally did not hesitate, flew on Taotao and turned around to track them.
Great minds think alike. Most of the players who have persisted here have made the same choice as me. It seems that if you want to get the pet egg in the end, you have to defeat these fellows first.
After running for several hours, the speed never slowed down, and the direction was changed from time to time. It was impossible to go around and wait in front in advance, and I could only chase after it. I had to admire the endurance of the unicorn rhino, and at the same time I complained about my own situation. Looking around, except for me, the other players had been thrown off. No mount could carry a person and persist until now. Even my Taotao, who had grown for so long and experienced another evolution, was already too tired to run. Every once in a while, I had to return to the "Dead Soul Space" to rest and recover my physical strength. During this time, I relied on my two legs to support myself. That is, I had the thief's "One Ride Away" skill, and my speed was barely comparable to that of the unicorn rhino. I also had a fairly high mental support, which could be used continuously for a long time. I just happened to be promoted again, and my physical strength increased a little. When it was exhausted, I summoned Taotao to ride for a while. In this way, I took turns to move forward, and finally I was not left behind by the unicorn rhino like others.
I had already left the core area of the Grand Canyon, but now I was chased back again. I was surrounded by hostile beasts, and I had to keep up with the white rhino. It was getting harder and harder. If I wasn't careful, I might be attacked.
I continued to track them tremblingly, avoiding the harassment of the nearby beasts from time to time. If the female rhino that was about to lay eggs had not slowed down, I would have been thrown off by them. Finally, the dozen or so one-horned white rhinos entered a dense bush. I stood on a high ground a little further away and observed for a long time. They never came out again. It seemed that this should be the nest they had chosen in advance. Once they got in, they could not see anything unusual from a distance. Moreover, there were patches of bushes everywhere. Unless the target was determined, if you wanted to search them one by one, it might take ten days or eight days to complete.
He put away Taotao and sneaked in carefully. The knowledge he had learned in the Dark Forest came in handy again. He hid himself and was not discovered by the one-horned white rhinoceros. He slowly approached their hiding place.
The female rhino lay motionless in the grass under a bush, and it seemed that she was about to give birth. The dozen or so one-horned white rhinos in charge of guarding her were scattered around vigilantly, looking around from time to time. I didn't dare to get too close, and could only hide behind a bush and observe from a distance.
It is said that laying a pet egg is not an easy task. The process generally takes six to eight hours. After the mother incubates the egg, a baby animal is born in about three to five days. During the incubation period, the herd will slowly move towards this place. It is unknown when they will rush to the vicinity and move around this area. Once there is danger, they can provide support at any time. There are large and small herds of animals all over the place. Outsiders have no way of guessing which herd is responsible for guarding the pet eggs. Naturally, they have no idea where to start and can only rely on luck to search blindly.
After such a long and intense chase, my energy has been almost exhausted, and today's online deadline is almost up. Anyway, the target has been determined, and the pet egg will not be laid for a few hours. Now I have nothing to do, so I will go offline to rest for a while, and come back to fight again after I have regained my strength.
When I went online again, the pet egg had already been laid. It was an oval white egg with a diameter of about one meter. The mother rhino was incubating it right next to it. A dozen one-horned white rhinos were still occupying their own sides, surrounding the nest in the center, guarding it diligently.
I first carefully patrolled around the bushes and luckily did not find any other players. Otherwise, with neither side willing to give up, according to the game rule that the strong wins as mentioned by Afeng, my hands would inevitably be stained with the blood of other players.
Now that the rhinoceros group has not arrived yet, it is a good opportunity for me to take action. However, to be on the safe side, I endured for nearly an hour and summoned the old zombie and more than 400 zombies to surround the dozen or so one-horned white rhinos. When the time comes, we will rush out together and strive to end the battle quickly to avoid causing any trouble by making a big noise. Who knows if there is any player team nearby? What if someone wants to take advantage of the stalemate between me and the one-horned white rhinoceros? Wouldn't that cause trouble?
Faced with the sudden attack, the one-horned white rhinoceros was calm and quickly closed the defense circle to protect the hatching female rhinoceros. And they were really strong. The ordinary zombies were knocked away as soon as they came into contact. The difference in strength was too big. Fortunately, they had their duties and were in the bushes. They couldn't fully exert their strengths of strong impact. If they were determined to break through, these zombies alone would not be able to trap them. I was secretly glad that I didn't blindly choose the rhinoceros group to attack. If hundreds of rhinos attacked, even if there were several times more zombies, they would probably be scattered and defeated.
The advantage in numbers is most obvious when fighting a tough battle. You don't have to worry too much about the disadvantage in speed and can attack with all your strength. No matter how ferocious the unicorn white rhino is, dozens of zombies against one will only end in failure. With the last female rhino dying under the claws of the old zombie, the pet egg of the unicorn white rhino finally became mine.
