A squirrel beastman and a snake half-orc stayed in a small thorn forest on the edge of their tribe's territory for several days.

This was a new thing in the Wildhoof tribe, and everyone was talking about it, but few went to see it.

"I heard it was a very big snake. Several tribe leaders said it was very dangerous, so don't go there."

"Anyway, that place is not a place that people in the tribe often go to, so stay away from it recently."

The beastmen of the Wildhoof tribe would rather waste their time leisurely grazing or chasing the opposite sex. After all, it is spring, and most animals in nature are in a state of agitation, and they don't have much energy to care about other things.

Qingzao, who was isolated from the commotion in the tribe, was very curious about the two outsiders. She knew that the other side of the Little Thorn Forest was Cangji's secret residence. She had also visited it before. Now there were two strange orcs living there. She found that Cangji would go there from time to time, which made her even more curious.

Qingzao and Cangji were the only two half-orcs of this generation who still lived in the tribe. She was a little younger than Cangji and was a sheep half-orc. Her lower body was a sheep body with white hair, connected to a human-like upper body, which was also almost all white fur. She had two small coiled horns on her head and two sheep ears under the horns.

Qingzao avoided the tribesmen on the grass and quietly went around to the Little Thorn Forest from the other side. She had the habits of a lamb, and she walked in a hopping manner. She ran too happily, and the smell of the squirrel beastman she had never seen before was too faint. She didn't notice it, and she plunged into the grass where Song Xu often went to dig sweet grass stems, and looked at the little squirrel

in surprise

. Qingzao realized that this was the strange beastman, and she bleated in fear, turned around and ran away in panic. Song Xu was digging the soil in beast form. The little cute squirrel was much smaller than a sheep, but it still scared people away. Song Xu immediately turned into a beastman and chased after him: "Wait a minute, friend, stop first, don't be afraid!"

She said to stop, and Qingzao really stopped obediently. She looked back timidly and curiously in the grass, her black eyes were round, and the sheep ears under her two horns were swinging.

What a cute lamb! Song Xu smiled and handed over the straw in her hand: "Do you want to eat some straw? It's so sweet!"

Feeling her friendliness, the lamb Qingzao took a few steps back. It was like a lamb that had never experienced the darkness of society and was happily fed by someone. It happily took the food from a stranger.

Song Xu turned into a beastman and was as tall as the lamb. Seeing that she was chewing on the straw and not forgetting to secretly look at herself, she looked shy and curious, so he couldn't help but touch the lamb's head. The hair was as fluffy and curly as the hair on her body, and it felt good to touch.

Seeing the lamb's docile appearance, Song Xu directly imagined himself going to the farm to feed the sheep.

At this moment, Song Xu suddenly felt that what he said a few days ago was not right. How could he eat mutton? The lamb was so cute. The wolf beastman was right. He would not eat mutton in the future!

"Hi, my name is Song Xu, I'm a squirrel beastman, I came from a far forest, I'm going to go to a farther place, I'm going to stay here for a few days, what about you, what's your name?"

"Qingzao, I grew up here, I've never been to other places." Qingzao whispered. It was obvious that she was very curious, but she didn't ask anything, instead she said, "I know where there are more and tastier sweet grass stems than here, it's over there."

She pointed to a place not far away, trotted over with her little hooves, and soon brought back a handful of thicker grass stems, and handed them to Song Xu: "There are many more." It was

a whole sharing process of a child making new friends.

"Thank you, you are so friendly!" Song Xu praised sincerely, "and you are so cute, your fur is white and soft, and it feels very good."

Qingzao had never been praised like this before. Although everyone in the tribe was not so averse to orcs, orcs were always unwelcome. She couldn't help swinging her short tail behind her, and whispered: "You, and the orcs..."

Song Xu understood: "Oh, the orc Snake who was with me is resting."

The lamb asked: "You don't hate orcs, right?"

Song Xu: "I like orcs very much!"

The lamb suddenly jumped up happily and jumped around Song Xu. Under Song Xu's praise, she quickly opened up her chatterbox, a chatty little squirrel, chatting with one by one, and getting to know one by one.

Just like yesterday, Cang Ji quietly lurked on the slope near the small thorn forest to look at the two strange beastmen. He came to check every day these days, but never got close.

He thought that today would be the same as the previous two days, and he could only see a squirrel beastman playing and busy on the grass. But when he came, he saw a conspicuous white mass on the grass, like a white cloud falling on the grass.

It was Qingzao. She ran happily beside the squirrel beastman, occasionally making a bleating sound. Suddenly she stopped and let a long-tailed squirrel climb onto her back, and then jumped and skipped with her on its back.

Cang Ji:?

Why does Qingzao seem to be very familiar with that strange beastman?

The pony was confused and tormented on the hillside here. He finally waited for Qingzao to say goodbye to the squirrel, and he immediately stopped Qingzao.

"It's too dangerous, how can you get close to a strange orc?"

Qingzao was startled by the sudden appearance of the pony, shaking his ears in confusion: "But Song Xu is very good, she is not dangerous at all."

"There is also a snake orc, he is very dangerous!"

"I didn't play with the snake."

"You can't get too close to strangers, you can't do this next time." Thorn warned.

The lamb looked at him innocently, and suddenly jumped and ran away. Thorn thought she listened to him, but who knew that the next day, he saw the silly little white lamb playing with a squirrel on the grass again. After playing for a while, the squirrel orc took the little white lamb to the small thorn forest.

Thorn thought this might be a dangerous signal, and the squirrel orc might want to trick Qingzao into the small thorn forest to be eaten by the snake orc.

When Thorn was a child, he had heard some scary stories from strange beastmen passing by. Stories about beastmen eating their own kind scared him a lot.

He secretly looked at the snake-like beastman. With such a thick and long body, it could probably eat several lambs in one meal.

Thorn followed nervously and saw Squirrel and the lamb stopped a dozen meters away from the simple shed. He also heard their conversation.

Squirrel asked: "See, that's Ebony."

The lamb said obediently: "Yes, it's a big snake."

Squirrel said: "You can only see it here. If you get closer, it will wake up."

The lamb: "No, I've seen it before, but your home is so simple."

Squirrel: "Because we will only live here for a few days and leave, we don't need a very good house."

It was indeed a simple shed, relatively low, with hastily built walls of branches on three sides, barely keeping out the wind and rain.

The movement of Cang Ji approaching caught the attention of Song Xu and Qing Zao. Two pairs of eyes looked at him, one innocent, the other shining.

"Centaur!"

Cang Ji didn't know why he went to stop Qing Zao from approaching the strange orcs, and ended up eating grass on the hillside with the two of them.

It seemed to have started with the squirrel orc praising him. She was so sincere and didn't look like a bad person at all. She said that knowing each other's names means you are no longer strangers, and having common friends can also make you friends. Cang Ji thought it made sense and was directly persuaded by this simple rhetoric. Not only did he give up his name, but he also shared with her the dried hawthorn berries he had saved.

"Although it's sour, I really haven't tasted this taste for a long time..." Song Xu chewed the dried hawthorn berries, frowning because of the sourness but unwilling to spit it out.

"It would be nice if I could eat it with some honey, but unfortunately there is no honey." Song Xu said regretfully.

Cang Ji replied subconsciously: "I know there is a big beehive in the locust forest, but it's on a very high branch, and we can't touch it."

"A very high branch?" Squirrel repeated.

The pony and the lamb couldn't climb the tree, but the squirrel was a good climber. It was no joke that he could walk on the vertical tree trunk as if it were walking on flat ground.

Wumu woke up and took a closer look. The squirrel was lying head to head with his cheeks bulging as if he was eating something. The forked snake tongue stuck to the brown-red hair, and Wumu suddenly turned into a half-orc. His curled up upper body stretched out, and his black hair spread out, revealing the snake scales on his neck.

Song Xu also turned back into an orc at once, and said excitedly: "You're awake, open your mouth quickly, I'll give you something to eat!"

She was going to share something with a strange taste again, Wumu thought, and opened his mouth in a not-so-conscious state. Song Xu stuffed several dried hawthorns into his mouth. A sour feeling rushed into his brain, and he couldn't help but drool due to the stimulation.

Although snakes have no sense of taste, snake beastmen are different. After the transformation, they have a taste system similar to that of humans. Because of this, he has tasted countless strange tastes since he met Song Xu.

Wumu supported the ground with one hand and opened his mouth uncomfortably to spit. Song Xu saw the opportunity and threw a piece of honeycomb into his mouth, holding his mouth: "Chew quickly, it's sweet!"

Without Song Xu's reminder, the honey overflowing from the honeycomb had mixed with the sour and bitter dried hawthorn, forming a peculiar sour and sweet taste. After the overly sour taste was neutralized, the fresh and light fragrance of hawthorn became clear.

Wumu was stimulated like this just after waking up, and he woke up faster than ever before. He then discovered that Song Xu had a swollen spot on the side of her mouth. No wonder she felt that the squirrel's cheeks were a little bulging when she was in beast form just now.

Wu Mu: "Face?"

The squirrel chewed a piece of honeycomb: "I was stung by a bee. I was careless."

She fled the crime scene at the speed of light when she climbed up the tree and used a long tree trunk and a bone knife to cut the honeycomb. Before the cut honeycomb fell to the ground, she disappeared. The bees that rushed out of the nest to settle accounts did not see the shadow of the suspect at all. She was proud of her series of operations for a while.

But later, when everything was calm, Song Xu went to pick up the honeycomb. The crystal clear honey flowing out was so delicious that she wanted to take a bite first. Who knew that there was a bee under the honeycomb, which gave her a needle directly nearby.

So, the closer it gets to the end, the less you can relax. If you relax, you will fall over at any time.

Wumu looked at her puffed cheeks, and noticed the little nest she was lying on, which was cushioned with soft white fluff.

Wumu: "Fur?"

Song Xu: "This is the wool my friend gave me as a cushion. It was combed from her body. There is only this much, and it is not enough to give you a big cushion, so I used it for myself."

Anyway, he often used his head to press her when he slept, so rounding it off, it was also an extra pillow for him.