Wumu was awakened by the rhythmic clicking sound. In the dim light, he saw that the door of the cabinet where Song Xu stored food was wide open. A furry ball was almost half stuck in the cabinet. The clicking sound was the sound of fruit shells being bitten open.

That was Song Xu eating a midnight snack.

It was not the first time that she suddenly woke up in the middle of the night to eat a midnight snack. After Wumu was awakened by the sound of her gnawing a few days ago, Song Xu swore to him that she was still growing, so she had to eat when she was hungry in the middle of the night.

In fact, she had just become an adult not long ago, and she was thin and small. She should really eat more.

Wumu closed his eyes quietly again, pretending that he was not awake, but it was too late, and Song Xu seemed to have noticed that he was awake.

"Wumu, you're awake. Do you want to have a midnight snack together?" A terrifying voice sounded.

This familiar voice was the reason why Wumu had gained weight during this period. His body shape, which had been basically fixed for several years since he became an adult, had actually grown again.

"How can I survive the winter if I don't gain some weight in the autumn, don't you think?" Song Xu was particularly happy during this period of time because she could finally eat a full meal every day.

Although she didn't starve to death during that period of time, she was hungry quite often, and she could only eat when there was plenty of food occasionally. The food she usually found was basically tender leaves, flowers, stems, etc., which could not satisfy her hunger. In the process of looking for food everywhere, the food she ate was digested, and she would feel hungry again soon.

Before she found food that could be stored and lasted for a long time, she would feel hungry every morning when she woke up because there was no ready-made breakfast. Especially in the middle of the night, she would feel hungry when she woke up. Now that she has finally achieved food freedom, of course she will add a midnight snack!

But food is something that tastes better only when it is shared with others.

As an orc, Wumu can eat other things besides meat. In this case, she certainly cannot ignore his eating alone.

Feeling that his teeth are different from hers in structure and not suitable for biting nuts, Song Xu even considerately helped him bite open the shells. As for accidentally getting some saliva on him during the process, Wumu probably doesn't care about this little problem.

Under his partner's enthusiastic recommendation, Wumu would taste a little bit of her food, really just a little bit. After eating a little, he would refuse Song Xu's feeding and let her eat by himself, but he was so obviously fat.

Song Xu measured his height with her hands and was very surprised: "You seem to have grown more than one meter taller!"

"It turns out that you still need a balanced diet, eat some fruits and nuts to supplement your nutrition, and you can't just eat meat. But the difference in our sizes is getting bigger and bigger." I don't know whether I should be relieved or sad.

Putting aside the small problem of putting on weight in autumn, Song Xu realized that Wumu was not right when he touched his tail one day.

This is her normal play. To pet a snake, you have to get your hands dirty. Not only her, but Wumu has also long been accustomed to her brushing his tail with moss, animal skins or hands.

Recently, she has been busy collecting fruit cores and has not played with it for several days. On this day, the stone cave was finally full, and Song Xu was free, so she picked up the daily snake petting activity again.

But this time, as she was touching it, the snake's tail under her hand began to twitch.

It twitched and the muscles tightened. Song Xu looked at Wumu in surprise and saw that he also raised his head and looked at her.

In silence, a guess suddenly popped up in Song Xu's mind... This reaction, could it be a natural reaction of small animals in nature during the breeding season?

She tried to touch the snake's tail again, and sure enough, she saw that the long tail twitched slightly.

This is what Song Xu saw when she watched videos of pet snakes in estrus before, like a stutter.

Generally, snakes will go

into estrus after they come out of hibernation, which is in the spring, but this is not always the case. Some snakes will go into estrus in the fall, which is after the summer heat. Song Xu raised her hand, not daring to touch it any further. She didn't dare to stimulate him now.

Male snakes are generally more irritable and aggressive during the breeding season. A snake blogger she used to follow was often bitten when his snakes were in estrus at home.

Song Xu called out carefully, "...Wumu?"

Wumu didn't look irritable or aggressive. He was the same as usual, leaning against the stone with his hands hanging on his body. If it weren't for the tip of his tail still twitching slightly, no one would have noticed that he was abnormal.

Song Xu squatted beside him with a strange expression. She felt curious and scared at the same time. Curiosity needs no explanation, but fear, a rare emotion, was mainly because she remembered that snakes have grooves and hooks with two small daisy-shaped petals...

When watching videos of pet snakes, she could still laugh and say they were cute little babies, but now as a legal partner of a snake beastman, she can only face life with a smile.

Although she was screaming for help in her heart, the more scared she was, the more curious she became. Song Xu's eyes unconsciously drifted to Wu Mu's snake tail.

The knowledge in her mind told her that the location was probably behind the cloaca, and she found the place right away, so those scales were really concerning!

Wumu didn't know what the cute little squirrel was thinking. He was used to this feeling. Since he left the tribe as an adult, there has been this period every year. He just needs to sleep through it.

He slept next to his partner as usual, but Song Xu's eyes would look down from time to time. His tail curled up, right under her feet.

Song Xu stretched out her legs and stepped on it, and the place under her feet twisted. Song Xu immediately retracted her legs and pretended to sleep, shouting in her heart that it was exciting.

Although she still wanted to test the edge of death, she felt a vague pressure, as if she would be locked up if she did anything more, so she calmed down, was content, and fell asleep like a dead person.

Song Xu's eager attitude and strategy of escaping at the critical moment made Wumu suffer a lot during this period.

He failed to see the squirrel's intentional, inadvertent touching and probing, because he attributed all the reactions caused by her various small actions to physical reasons. After all, the little squirrel was just a little playful and didn't have any bad intentions.

Song Xu was being pestered honestly, and felt that Wumu was a little restless, so he whispered: "Wumu, are you uncomfortable?"

"Hiss." Wumu didn't want to talk, but when she felt that her partner needed a response, she would hiss.

"Baby, it's not that I'm cruel, but our size is really bad, it will kill the squirrel."

Wumu was feeling uncomfortable and didn't hear clearly what she said. He made a sound in confusion and rested his head in front of her to listen.

Song Xu did not dare to touch his snake tail. Seeing his head in front of her, she reached out to touch his dark head. The feeling of smooth hair is not much different from the snake tail, and can be used as a meal substitute.

Noticing that she was touching her head, Wu Mu raised his head from in front of her. From this angle, Song Xu was directly struck by his beauty. What kind of beautiful girlfriend's perspective is this!

He immediately changed his words in a confused manner: "Ah, of course, it's not impossible if you insist, but please be careful!"

Wumu didn't move. An An quietly wrapped her around him like a branch, and tied her very tightly.

No matter what this half-orc said, Wumu wouldn't do anything. In the orc tribe, orcs with different types can reproduce because they all have orc forms.

Half-orcs are different. They usually don't have partners. Even if they have partners, they will easily kill their partners, especially when they are dominated by instinct and possess each other. It is very dangerous. He doesn't want Song Xu to die.

Before he completely turns into a beast, he wants her to live happily in his forest.

Song Xu thought about it while tangling his smooth hair. Does Wumu not understand, can't, or can't do it?

However, her interest was only temporary. When the reaction of Wumu's tail twitching subsided and the stored food in the cave was consumed, she returned to the happy food storage activities.

Every day, she was busy picking ripe fruits, picking up nuts that fell on the ground, and developing a series of new ways to eat food.

The fruits that were picked and peeled off the outer layer of the skin and flesh can be dried and stored, buried in a fire to ripen, boiled with water, or fried.

The last method is particularly dynamic. The fruits with shells burst in the pot due to the heat, just like firing bullets or hitting stones with a slingshot. The hard fruits with shells jumped out of the pot and smashed outside, or split in the middle and the fruits inside jumped out.

Song Xu, who was standing by the pot, held a homemade wooden shovel and screamed, hiding in Wumu's corner, watching the fruit cores flying and hitting the surrounding stone walls, making a bang.

Wumu was also frightened by the explosion, thinking that she was also frightened because she was close, and took the initiative to surround her with his snake tail, just like every thunderous night.

But although Song Xu kept shouting, she was not really afraid in her heart. After a while, she climbed up the "fortress" and looked out with her head sticking out, laughing: "It's so funny, that pot seems to be vomiting, hahaha!"

After laughing, she said painfully: "It spit out all the fruits in my pot, and now they are everywhere in the cave. I have to pick them up later!"

After a while, she found a new angle to comfort herself: "But if you think about it carefully, many fruit shells have exploded, which saves me the effort of peeling them myself, hehe!"

The sound of fruit shells hitting the stone wall outside stopped. Song Xu climbed over the wall formed by snake tails and picked up the scattered fruits everywhere in the stone cave.

Many fruits fell on the side of Wumu's tail. He moved his tail and stood up to swim out. Song Xu quickly pushed him back and begged with his hands folded: "Don't move yet, wait until I finish picking them up, otherwise I can't see where these fruits have rolled to if you sweep them like this."

Wumu had to wait where he was. The tip of his tail moved, and with a light push, he pushed the fruits that fell on the side of his tail to Song Xu's hand.

Song Xu gave him a big smile: "Thank you, baby!"

After this sentence, fruits rolled to her hand one after another. Song Xu picked up the fruits that rolled to her hand and praised: "Your tail is so flexible, it's very suitable for playing with spinning tops... Do you want to play with spinning tops? How about I make one for you!"