This is the one!

She bit off a few blades of grass, held them in her mouth, and began her return journey.

After returning, Xu Qiaoqiao put down the black worms and gasped for breath. She was exhausted; all the food she had just eaten had been used up by this exercise.

After resting for a while, Xu Qiaoqiao picked all the leaves of the black ferns, then found a relatively flat stone and started to knock and smash them until they were crushed. She then put them in a large leaf, bit the opening with her mouth, and slowly climbed onto Bai Fei's body.

This process took several minutes. Finally, Xu Qiaoqiao slowly climbed onto Bai Fei's face. Luckily, she was small now, otherwise, with the female lead's face being so small, she would definitely have had to step on her nose to get there.

Xu Qiaoqiao applied the herbs to the wound, then fed the female lead some water. After she finished doing these things, it was completely dark.

It's time to go back and rest.

But what should the female lead do?

How did the original white hedgehog save her?

Xu Qiaoqiao thought for a while. Although she couldn't come up with a solution, she did think of a useful piece of information. The female protagonist had been missing for three days according to her family, but considering the distance she traveled, she should have woken up on the second day.

She woke up in the early morning, and if nothing unexpected happens, it should be tomorrow morning.

So let's just stay next to the female lead. It seems that the little hedgehog used to sleep next to her too.

However, Xu Qiaoqiao was afraid that if she slept next to the female lead, she would be so small and might not be noticed by the other party. What if the other party woke up and accidentally fell on top of her, and she would die instantly?

Xu Qiaoqiao glanced at Bai Fei's body and, seeing her clothes, thought that her stomach area would be a good choice.

After figuring out a plan, Xu Qiaoqiao climbed up to the female lead's stomach, shook her body a few times to make sure all the raindrops were off, and then found a relatively dry spot where she curled up into a ball to rest.

Although I was physically tired, I was mentally very active and clearly still had a lot of energy.

After her heart gradually calmed down, Xu Qiaoqiao's mind started wandering again. She tried hard to recall some things about hedgehogs. Now that she had become an animal, a problem that had been giving her a headache before had to be considered again.

That is—the heat cycle.

White hedgehogs... There are countless white hedgehogs in this forest. If possible, I hope my partner is also a white hedgehog, not another color, otherwise the offspring won't be good-looking.

What I'm doing doesn't count as cheating, right...?

Xu Qiaoqiao thought of Jun Qi. She was already dead. If Jun Jun hadn't come into this world, she wouldn't have been able to control the animals' mating season either. If it really happened then... well, she couldn't be blamed.

Wait, she must be a female hedgehog.

Xu Qiaoqiao suddenly remembered this question: Could it be that she had dressed up as a male hedgehog? No, she had to check right away.

So she quickly stretched out her body and looked at herself.

A few seconds later, Xu Qiaoqiao breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, it was a female.

Although it's hard for Xu Qiaoqiao to tell whether it's male or female, it's generally better for it to be a female hedgehog. Since it was female before, it would be really hard for it to be turned into a male.

The forest is also very lively at night.

Many animals are actually nocturnal, and hedgehogs are no exception. So it's really difficult for Xu Qiaoqiao to find her kind during the day.