In Song Xu's inherited memory, the original body would reduce its activities in winter, hiding in tree holes to sleep, and was not as active as in other seasons. However, her "hibernation" was not as pure as the hibernation of snakes, and squirrels could not survive like snakes. Squirrels would often wake up throughout the winter, eat, and move out of the hole.

Looking through the original body's winter life in previous years, I also saw that in the two small tribes she had stayed in, there were squirrel beastmen of a different species from her who did not even hibernate, and could still move around with thick fur on their heads. It was said that they were a population that migrated from a more distant forest.

Different species, of course there are also those squirrel beastmen who find a nest in a tree hole, store a nest of food, eat and drink in the nest when they wake up, and sleep after eating.

But Song Xu can't do that. She is a person who can't stay in one place. She has to go out for a walk every once in a while. She might as well die if she stays in the cave all winter without being able to go out!

Wumu warned: "Winter is dangerous."

Song Xu certainly didn't nod and swear to never go out. If she was such an obedient person, she wouldn't often make her father angry and call him a beast.

She was not afraid, but became curious about the "danger" that Wumu mentioned. What could make Wumu care so much that he even emphasized the danger twice?

There are also wild animals in the forest on ordinary days. Song Xu will certainly encounter those large wild animals when she wanders outside, but the senses of animals are sharp, and she is good at climbing trees. When she encounters a large beast that she cannot deal with, she will climb to the top of a high tree.

Even if there are wild animals that can climb trees, they cannot catch up with her climbing height, so they can only leave disappointed, and she will hit them on the head with green fruits and broken branches.

Since she was almost hunted by a black panther as food, Song Xu has been extra careful. She is smart and agile when walking in the forest, and nothing has happened for so long.

Wu Mu never mentioned danger when she went out before, and the winter danger he mentioned now is probably not from ordinary wild animals living in the forest.

Could it be that there is something unusual in the winter in this place?

Song Xu was so curious that she pestered Wu Mu and asked, "What dangers are there in winter?"

Wu Mu seemed to have no idea how to explain it to her. He just frowned and organized his words. Song Xu was waiting for his answer, and was almost anxious to death.

She began to guess, "The winter here is very, very cold, and the temperature is very low. You will be frozen to death if you go out?"

If it is a danger from nature, it is indeed possible. Think about it, he would take the initiative to prepare fur for her, maybe because he knows that winter is too cold.

"There is a huge blizzard, and the world is frozen, right!" But that's not right. Looking at this environment, winter shouldn't be that cold.

After Song Xu refuted himself, his imagination began to run wild in his mind: "Is it possible that in winter, some dangerous plants will grow in the snow, the kind that eat living things? Snow carnivorous plants?"

Wu Mu was still thinking about what to say, and just as he was about to open his mouth, his thoughts were suddenly disrupted by her. He thought seriously about whether there were such plants in winter, but because he basically would not wake up in winter, he was not very clear about the situation outside and could not be sure, so his expression became visibly more hesitant.

Song Xu had a new guess: "Maybe there are snow monsters in winter? Wow, there can't be snow monsters!"

Wu Mu heard a new word and repeated blankly: "Snow monster?"

Song Xu mixed all the legends she had read and explained seriously: "It is a kind of monster that appears in the wind and snow, has a tall body, moves very fast, and can confuse people's minds. People will follow it when they see it in the snow, and finally freeze to death in the snow."

Wu Mu was also unsure whether there was such a thing. He had never seen it. But she said it so clearly, could it really exist?

Song Xu was still daydreaming: "Could it be that once winter comes, this place will be blocked off, and then a lot of game players will appear and treat us as monsters?"

The more she thought about it, the more outrageous it became. Wu Mu could no longer keep up with her thoughts. The extent of his confusion could be seen from the double knots on his tail.

Song Xu: "Tell me, what exactly happened?"

Wu Mu finally spoke: "An orc... passed by."

"Alas!" Song Xu immediately sighed in disappointment. There were orcs passing by, not snow monsters, no zombies, and no game players from another world. That's it?

Wu Mu: "The beast tribe will come to the waterside."

Wu Mu fell asleep every winter, and the beastmen passing by here would not wake him up. Only once, under special circumstances, he woke up because of danger and saw the beastmen of the tribe hunting.

"They, hunting, passed by, here." Wu Mu finally uttered the key word: "primitive beast."

Song Xu felt that this was like a sentence-combination question in a Chinese test paper, and she skillfully reorganized his phrase: "The beastmen of the beast tribe will pass by here in winter and hunt primitive beasts by the waterside where we have been?"

The word primitive beast was relatively unfamiliar to Song Xu, and she did not have a specific image in her mind.

There was a vague record in the original body's memory, it seemed to be some kind of high-end prey, so rare that no one in her former small tribe had ever seen it, and the oldest and most knowledgeable beastman only knew its name.

When Song Xuke heard Wumu mention a rare thing he had never seen before, he became interested. Wumu tried hard to explain for a long time, but it had the opposite effect.

Song Xu excitedly pestered him and asked about the "primitive beast."

"What does the primitive beast look like? Can it be eaten? Is it delicious?"

It is said that the meat of the primitive beast is full of energy and will make the beastman stronger. After the hunting action is over every year, only the most powerful warriors can enjoy it.

When Wumu lived in the tribe, he saw his mother eat it, but his mother did not allow him to eat it.

The Beast Tribe is the largest tribe nearby. They have vast forests as their hunting grounds. Every year, many beast warriors form teams to hunt primitive beasts. Primitive beasts come from far away every year, and the short rest time here is an opportunity for the beastmen to hunt.

In the winter of the past few years, the beastmen of the Beast Tribe borrowed a passage from his territory to hunt primitive beasts. Because Wumu was sleeping in a cave, the two sides were at peace.

"Will the primitive beast stay nearby? Which waterside did you just mention? The waterside where we dig wild yams, the waterside where we swim in the summer, or the waterside where we often hunt?"

Song Xu had too many questions to answer. Wumu had already said a lot today, and seeing that Song Xu was not afraid at all but very interested, he did not want to say anything more. He turned around and went back to the cave to coil himself up to avoid Song Xu's endless questions.

If Song Xu could be frightened by the "danger" mentioned by the stuttering snake, she would not have dared to be a partner with a snake-like half-orc. She made up her mind that she would definitely go and see what the legendary "primitive beast" looked like.

However, the visit of the primitive beast was as far away as the snow in winter.

It was still autumn, so she could only work diligently as a hoarder and make the cave more comfortable.

The autumn forest, the fluttering seeds, the withered yellow leaves, and the last few warm rays of sunshine dropped the temperature sharply.

She used to live in the coniferous forest, which was colder than here, so she was more resistant to cold than Sheshe. When the temperature dropped, she could still run out to play, but Sheshe would never come out of the cave again.

The corner where Wumu slept was covered with a layer of fallen leaves and a layer of dry moss, which was soft and fluffy, and on top was a large piece of bear skin. His bare and shabby ground was nothing compared to this.

These were prepared for him by Song Xu. The stone cave with various gaps patched up had the aroma of stored nuts, and the burning bonfire made the temperature inside the cave more comfortable than outside.

Wumu would fall asleep earlier in previous years, but it was a little later this year, and it hasn't fallen into a deep sleep yet.

Song Xu was chilled and came back with a bunch of small fish. She was a little surprised to see Wumu looking up at her. She dropped the small fish, knelt on the bed she had made for Wumu and asked him, "Why haven't you started hibernating yet? It's almost time to go to bed, right?"

Even if the bonfire in the cave was not extinguished, the temperature should have reached the hibernation standard for snakes.

The snake's tail wrapped around her wrist, and Song Xu was pulled forward and fell onto the fur mat. She realized something was wrong and immediately turned over to run, but her ankles were tied up again.

The squirrel did not accept her fate and turned into a beast and jumped out. Even after jumping into the air, she was tied up and dragged back, falling into a pile of snakes.

Sleeping next to a snake in the summer is indeed cool and comfortable, but it is not so good in the winter, as if sleeping next to a cold hot water bottle. But there is no way, she can't get up, Wumu won't let her go, and Song Xu even wondered if he was going to tie her up like this for the whole winter.

If that is the case, when he wakes up in the spring, he will find a dead squirrel wrapped around his tail.

"Baby, although it's normal for a couple to sleep together, it's too tight, can you loosen it up?" Sheshe not only didn't loosen it, but even tightened it.

It must be because he had lied to him too many times before, which caused a reverse conditioned reflex. This time, it was

just what he deserved. Song Xu struggled for a few times but couldn't get away: "What I'm saying is, you must let me go after you fall asleep, otherwise I'll be gone, you know?"

Wumu didn't respond. Song Xu tried hard to jump up, barely squeezed out two claws, picked up Wumu's hair that was hanging on one side, and pulled it out like a whirlwind, like a ball of yarn, but Wumu just moved his head and buried his face in the messy hair, and at the same time tightened the partner who was entangled with him.

He has indeed entered hibernation, Song Xu chattered, and the sounds he heard were no different from the sounds of the campfire and the wind.

And the reason why he clung to Song Xu so closely was because Song Xu's previous behavior made him realize that she did not listen to his warnings about danger, and he was worried that his partner would sneak to a dangerous place while he was asleep, so he had to tie her up.

This way he could feel at ease.

The bustling world gradually moved away from him, and a ball of soft and warm fur was beside him.

Song Xu waited quietly for a while, and when the snake fell asleep and there was no movement at all, she began to rescue herself. She used her claws to gently pinch the snake's tail that was tied to her to relax the snake's tail muscles.

She squeezed until her hands were sore, and finally felt the snake's tail slowly loosen up, just like a person's clenched fist will slowly loosen up when he falls asleep. With the gap, the slippery squirrel easily escaped the shackles of the snake's tail.