In the early morning, the sun had not yet risen.

Song Xu, who had woken up early because he had slept too early, urged Wumu to get up and hurry before daybreak.

"Walking in the forest before dawn is a rare experience. Let's try it! We can even watch the sunrise later!" Song Xu said.

In the forest, sunlight is the most precious thing. Everything here depends on sunlight to survive. Plants that get more sunlight can grow better.

They have walked from the dense forest to the sparser woodland. The appearance of shrubs has begun to increase, and low plants have received more sunlight and grown luxuriantly.

The change in the environment has caused certain obstacles to their walking.

In the ebony forest, there are wide gaps between the tall trees for people to walk through, but in the bushy areas, the bushes will not miss any open space. No one has passed by here for years, and no one has built roads, so there is often no way forward or in any direction.

What is even more annoying is that most of the bushes that grow in disorder have thorny vines, and the consequences of a hairy squirrel being sent to the door can be imagined.

In comparison, the big snake ebony, with its body covered with scales and smooth and without thorns, can directly press through any bushes it drills into.

Those resilient thorny bushes often bounce back and close after the big snake swims past, making it impossible for Song Xu to take a shortcut.

Therefore, on this stretch of road, you can often see the big snake swimming in the bushes below, while the squirrel hangs on the branches above, flying and flying. The

squirrel opens its body and claws to grab a branch, and uses its inertia and body's ability to bounce to throw itself out and onto another branch. It repeats this process, which seems cool, but it actually consumes a lot of energy and is easy to flip over due to the complex terrain.

There are always places where there are no suitable branches, and the squirrel has been thrown out but has not found a good place to land, or the branches are too weak to bear the weight and break, so it dives into the bushes and comes out with thorny leaves all over its body.

The increase in the amount of exercise of the flying squirrel in the air leads to an increase in her appetite.

So she flies in the air, and when she catches a branch and sees the fresh leaves on it, it seems delicious, so she will stop and eat a few bites. Sometimes she eats too vigorously, and the ebony swimming below finds that people are not catching up, and a big snake head will emerge from the bushes below, spitting out its snake tongue to look for the scent of the lost squirrel.

Found a tree in bloom, the flowers exuded a sweet and fragrant scent, Song Xu felt that it would be a pity if she didn't have a few bites, so she climbed up the tree trunk along the small branches and slid to the top of the tree.

The white flowers were trumpet-shaped, which was convenient for birds to absorb nectar. Song Xu picked a large flower with dewdrops on it by the flower stem, shook it twice, and all the dewdrops fell into the bottom of the trumpet. The juice with yellow pollen swayed in the trumpet cup. Song Xu took a sip like tasting wine and felt delicious. While

she was tasting the nectar, she saw a petite figure on another branch also busy. The other party looked a bit like a squirrel, but more like a kind of pet sugar glider that Song Xu had seen before.

It was relatively small, with a gray-black back, white belly and claws, a tail that was much longer than its body, and two small round black eyes that flashed with fear as it spotted her.

Song Xu paused in her tracks, sensing the faint breath of the other party. It turned out to be a beastman. The other party quickly moved its pink nose twice, clenched the flower in its hand, and turned around and ran away. Song Xu hadn't even gotten the word "hi" out of her throat when the other party had already disappeared.

Wumu was already accustomed to Song Xu's disappearance halfway. He was a mature snake and would come back to look for people on his own. Song Xu stood on tiptoe on the branch and looked around, and Wumu began to climb up the tree trunk silently.

It was a rare opportunity to meet an orc smaller than herself, and Song Xu, who was unable to strike up a conversation, regrettably had the entire flower tree to herself. She climbed to the top of the tree to pick the best flowers.

The sunshine was very good, and the temperature of the sunshine made people want to degenerate.

Why not have a full meal here and take a short nap? Song Xu sat astride the tree trunk, her two hind legs dangling in the air, holding the flowers in her claws to suck the nectar.

Suddenly, she caught a gust of wind from the sky, and a shadow swooped down with the wind. Song Xu instantly hid under the tree canopy along the tree trunk, and slid down several meters without stopping.

After landing in a safe area, she looked back at the place where she had just sat. A giant eagle with a wingspan of more than three meters missed its grasp and fluttered on the tree canopy.

This is an ordinary eagle, although large, not an orc.

In this world, ordinary animals and beasts also have a hunting relationship with each other. Small beasts like Song Xu are often regarded as prey by large beasts and birds of prey.

That's why Song Xu has mastered such skillful evasion skills.

The big snake that was slowly crawling around the tree suddenly went up, and almost at the same time as the squirrel ran down, he rushed to the treetop in the blink of an eye. The next second after Song Xu saw clearly that it was an eagle, the big snake had already opened its big mouth towards the wing.

Snakes and eagles are also predators and prey in nature, but here, the big eagle can't deal with the big snake and can only flee in a hurry.

The snake's size was both its strength and its weakness. Its long and thick body frightened the eagle and caused it to flee. At the same time, the treetops could not bear its weight and broke. In the moment of flying and falling, the two sides pulled apart. Fortunately, the eagle escaped and was not bitten by the poisonous snake.

The eagle flew away, and the snake let go of the broken branch, half of its body leaning forward and breathing at the sky.

Song Xu, the person involved, drank a mouthful of dew nectar, jumped onto the branch next to Wu Mu, and saw that Wu Mu was still opening his mouth, so he threw the flower in his hand into it.

"Don't be angry, since everyone's hunting was unsuccessful anyway."

Such emergencies have happened countless times. This world is full of crises. Even if the person next to her is a top predator like Wu Mu, danger will still come unexpectedly. She needs to have a keen sense and agility to avoid risks.

The big snake seemed to mind this a little. After a while, it lingered on the tree and suddenly breathed into the air.

After eating, Song Xu took a nap on the tree. There was a soft snake body under him and swaying flowers beside him. The laziness after a full meal healed people's hearts.

In the undulating terrain, shrubs and vines are connected in patches. In this dense jungle, there are many tall trees that are half a head taller than the ones next to them, and each tree looks weathered. These trees have become resting places for squirrels and snakes.

Song Xu looked into the distance and suddenly patted the snake beside him: "Ebony, look at that tree, it's so strange, there are so many tumors on the tree, there are only branches and no leaves."

"Let's go and take a look!" After saying that, he leaned down from the tree and stepped on the trunk as if it were flat ground.

The tree that Song Xu commented on as being so strange was very large, twice as large as the tree where they rested. The closer they got, the clearer the shape of the "tumor" on the giant tree became.

Song Xu stopped and waved to the snake whose head popped out from below: "Come up and take a look!"

"Are those bird nests? That tree is full of bird nests, how many birds must live there!" She remembered that there was a kind of weaver bird that lived in groups, and a large group of them built their nests on the same tree.

"Can we get closer to take a look?" Song Xu asked, basically saying that she wanted to get closer to take a look.

But when she got closer, she smelled the bird scent coming over, and realized that it was not ordinary gregarious weaver birds, but bird-like beastmen living there.

"Bird-like beastmen, I have never seen one before." Song Xu muttered, looking at the big snake beside him.

If they brought the big snake over, it would be suspected of killing people and stealing eggs. Then either the bird-like beastmen would be scared to death, or the two of them would be regarded as foreign invaders.

Song Xu reluctantly decided to suppress her curiosity and just watch from a distance to avoid causing a large-scale fight.

She comforted herself here, but the big snake acted first without following the usual rules. He jumped over there, and Song Xu was stunned and stretched out his claws behind him: "Wumu...?!" He

didn't stop him, so he had to chase after him. Seeing the big snake's eager look, could it be that he was hungry and wanted to eat birds? This bird is not good to eat, my dear!

The flock of birds became noisy, and the chorus-like calls spread far away. Even at a distance, Song Xu felt like someone was carrying a loudspeaker and playing in her ears.

She thought to herself that they started sounding the air raid alarm before Wumu arrived, and they were discovered a little early.

She looked up in between runs and found that the alarm was not for the giant snakes crawling on the ground, but for the eagles in the sky.

A giant eagle was hovering over the tree full of nests, trying to get close to the nests below from time to time, but a group of much smaller birds were surrounding it and attacking it, making it unable to get close. The two sides were in a stalemate, and the small bird group was slightly at a disadvantage.

The eagle looked familiar, and it looked like the one that wanted to hunt her yesterday morning. This eagle was amazing. It was just an ordinary eagle, but it was hunting beasts twice. It was really impressive.

The giant snake approached the tree at this time. The trees were covered with nests built by birds, and not even a hint of green could be seen. There was no grass growing around the trees for some reason. A piece of land that looked very fertile gave off a slightly strong bird smell.

The birds that had just suffered an air raid and had not yet been dealt with finally discovered that there was a more dangerous predator under the tree. Their chirping became louder and louder, almost breaking through the eardrums.

Could their method of attack be ultrasound? Song Xu covered his ears and watched the ebony rush through the branches full of bird nests and rush to the top of the tree. During this process, birds kept flying out of their nests in panic. Their little cannonballs kept flying out of the bird's nest.

The little birds with golden feathers on their backs filled the branches, and those that couldn't stand flew around the tree in a panic. It was a chaotic scene of doomsday.

And Wumu was too fast. When he rushed into the battle on the top of the tree, he bit the eagle that was entangled by the flock of birds, dragged it all the way down the tree and threw it in front of Song Xu. The flock of birds was still in a panic, not understanding what was going on.

The giant eagle, whose body seemed to have undergone a mutation, twitched in the snake's mouth, and Song Xu confirmed that this was the eagle that wanted to catch her yesterday.

Unexpectedly, Sheshe, who has a bad memory, would hold a grudge so much.