Song Xu unexpectedly became a squirrel beastman in an ancient jungle. Her small tribe was conquered and merged with a fierce beast tribe, and Song Xu escaped alone into a dark forest. A snake half-...
Wumu picked up a rotten raft from the sea. The raft looked a bit rough, but it was big and strong, tied up with vines, so it had not completely rotted even after being submerged in the sea for so long.
It sank to the bottom of the sea some distance away from the coast, and when Wumu went to fish it out from the bottom of the sea, it was accidentally dragged up by Wumu's trawl net.
Song Xu liked to look through the net bag when Wumu dragged the trawl net ashore. She had an unparalleled interest in this treasure hunt, as can be seen from the fact that she kept weaving larger fishing nets to upgrade Wumu's equipment.
Song Xu poked at the rotten wood for today's strange harvest, wondering if this might be a raft made by someone to cross the sea. Regarding this suspicious candidate, Song Xu looked at the big tiger dozing in the sun on the reef. There
was no doubt that it was Heisen who made it. There was no other beastman here except her.
"Judging from where the raft sank, it might have sunk before it left the sea surface for a thousand meters. Was it the wood that was too heavy or the big tiger that was too heavy? And judging from the area of the raft, the big tiger should not have been as big as it is now."
Song Xu had confirmed with Wumu a long time ago that Heisen did not have such an exaggerated body shape before, and her current body shape was purely the result of eating hormones (primitive beasts).
In addition to this raft, Wumu also found traces left by other big tigers trying to go out to sea.
In order to catch more fish to feed the tiger, he took the initiative to go to the deep water area far away from the coast. If Wumu hadn't said it, Song Xu would not have discovered it. Even in the deeper area, Wumu picked up a skeleton ship stuck in the mud.
Even with Wumu's amazing strength, it took him a long time to drag it out of the mud and bring it to the shore.
Those arc-shaped skeletons were tied together tightly to form the shape of a boat, and the bones distributed on the left and right were like the ribs of the boat.
Song Xu lifted a bone on the shore and exclaimed: "This bone is so light!"
It was clearly a big bone that was almost two meters long and as wide as her palm, but she could lift it with one hand. The weight was incredibly light. The irregularly shaped hull is made up of bones like this.
"This was probably done by Heisen, it seems like she really tried hard to go out to sea... Where does she want to go?" Song Xu asked, already having a guess in his mind.
Heisen came here to find something that could turn orcs into complete beastmen, and probably wanted to go out to sea for this reason, but it seems that she failed in this sea, and even she was taken with her, becoming what she is now. The
big tiger came over and saw them fiddling with the bones. Song Xu was very ceremonial, and placed the scattered bones on the beach, as if it were some kind of art installation.
At noon, the big tiger came back with a primitive beast corpse in its mouth. It has been a while since she brought back the carcass of a primitive beast. With the efforts of Wumu and Song Xu, she has gone out to eat primitive beasts less often. Song Xu hasn't seen her take the initiative to eat primitive beasts in recent days, so why is she doing it again now?
Song Xu was grilling fish by the fire, thinking about how to make an automatic fish grilling machine. When he saw the carcass of a primitive beast in front of him, he reacted for a moment, then shook his head firmly: "No, my God, even if the primitive beast is grilled, it cannot be eaten. Moreover, our restaurant does not accept diners to take out ingredients!"
The big tiger growled, brutally tore the primitive beast apart, stepped on the belly of the primitive beast with its claws, tore out a piece of bent bone from its chest, and threw it in front of Song Xu.
Song Xu looked at the bloody bones on the ground and said seriously: "Even bone stew is not allowed!"
The big tiger was silent, then turned around and walked away, wagging its tail. Song Xu always felt that the way her mother looked at her before she left was as if she was looking at a silly child, a very humane look.
Bone stew was of course a joke. Song Xu, who was used to being playful, reached out and moved the big bone. She felt that the shape was a little familiar, and she immediately understood why when she lifted it up. This is the same as the assembled bone boat that Wu Mu picked up, and it is even lighter than the bones that sank in the sea.
Did the tiger mother see her fiddling with those bones, so she found some new toys for her?
A closer look at the primitive beast that contributed the bone showed that it had long legs and a long neck, and its body was a bit like an ostrich, but it was much larger than an ostrich, with a long flat beak and saw-like fangs in it. Song Xu often saw this kind of dinosaur running in the forest. They were huge, but they ran very lightly, probably because of their light bones.
Because their bodies were covered with feathers, Song Xu once wondered if it was a primitive beast. Later, she found that many species of primitive beasts here had feathers on their bodies.
This also solved some of her doubts. For example, when she and Wu Mu went out and encountered this kind of primitive beast, they all looked particularly fierce, but when they followed the big tiger mother out, this kind of primitive beast often fled.
This may be related to the fact that many of their companions were caught by big tigers in the past and used to make boats. If they can communicate with each other, then in their online language, Tiger Mommy is a murderer.
Too cruel! So, should she try to make a boat?
Before the wreckage of the boat was found, Song Xu had already discussed with Wu Mu whether to leave.
"I don't know if my mother wants to go back to see, but she is now so ruthless that even if she goes back, she might be driven away. Oh, it's really distressing." Song Xu said.
In this two-person meeting, Wu Mu was only responsible for staring at her, waiting for her to ask and answer her own questions, and then make a decision.
Wumu didn't react to the natural words "my mother" from her mouth. After all, Da Lao Hu seemed to think so too.
"My mother's condition has stabilized a lot recently. We can't stay here and eat fish all the time. We still have to leave and go to other places. As long as we leave here, we can eat meat. Otherwise, the three of us will continue to travel!"
After Song Xu happily announced this decision, she and Wumu tried to take Da Lao Hu away, but failed.
Da Lao Hu, who was helpless about their various actions, but always got their way in the end, was very firm this time. Whether Song Xu packed up all his things and pretended to run away from home, or Wumu used force to try to take her away by force, she remained unmoved, as if she had grown up by the sea, and insisted on not leaving.
Of course, she would not leave, nor would she let her two cubs leave. The squirrel and snake, who pretended to pack their bags and run away from home, were bitten on the neck by a big tiger and taken back before they even reached the edge of the forest.
Things had come to a stalemate. Then, Ebony picked up the boats that Heisen had made before. She had tried to make at least four boats, not just one or two.
Song Xu occasionally played in the shallow waters. In the sea water that was as clear as flowing glass, she could find some bones tied with vines and half-rotten logs by stepping on the sand. Now they knew that these were all parts of the hull made by Heisen.
"Since my mother wants to go out to sea so much, let's make a boat and go out to sea together!" Song Xu announced her latest decision.
This hasty and bold decision was passed unanimously because the squirrel was the only one of the three people present who was sane and eloquent.
Song Xu is very particular about boat making, unlike the big tiger who is simple and rough. The inexperienced squirrel has a forward-looking vision. She asked Wumu to cut trees from the forest and drag them to the seaside, and then she processed them.
She specially cut a section of different trees and threw them into the sea to test their buoyancy and the degree of water absorption after entering the water, and finally selected the most suitable wood.
Holes were dug in each piece of wood, and wooden blocks were embedded to make a preliminary connection, and then peeled vines were used to regularly wrap them together. A frame was made of the very light primitive animal bones at the bottom, which was supported under the raft for further fixing.
Considering the size of the tiger and Wu Mu, this "ship" must be made very large. This huge project exhausted the little squirrel every day. She lay paralyzed on the snake with lifeless eyes and said: "Or, leave Hesen on the shore. It's too dangerous to go to the sea without her."
Wu Mu looked up at her and said nothing.
When she said this for the first time, Wu Mu thought she was telling the truth. He thought about it slowly all night and felt that what the squirrel said made sense. But the next day, she seemed to have never said that at all. She was still thinking about how to make the hull big enough to fit the tiger, and she came up with a way to let Wu Mu wrap around the mast to make room for the tiger.
Wu Mu, who suddenly had no place to stand on the boat, thought that the squirrel must be the same as him, and sometimes he would forget what he said and did.
In order to ensure the load capacity of the big ship, Song Xu also collected a lot of fruit shells. The round, coconut-like fruit will be pierced at the top by a primitive beast with a needle-like mouth when it matures, sucking out the flesh inside.
Song Xu picked up these empty fruit shells and took them back. He didn't even have to make holes himself. He strung them all together and tied them around the big ship to increase buoyancy. In case the ship was overturned by waves at sea, it could also serve as a lifebuoy.
This place has no seasonal changes. Several months have passed since Song Xu and Wu Mu came here, and the temperature is still maintained in the appropriate range. The fruits in the forest mature one after another. Sometimes the fruit is still on the branch, and flowers bloom on another branch.
If it weren't for Wumu and Heisen who had nothing to eat here except fish, Song Xu would be happy to live longer in this place that was like a holiday beach.
After a long time, the Squirrel ship was finally completed.
Lying on the ship he built, Song Xu held his face and screamed: "I really am a genius!"
"Let's go, let's try it in the water!" Song Xu pushed the ship into the sea, pushing hard... The ship didn't move at all.
"Wumu!" she shouted.
Pushed by the snake's tail, the ship entered the water little by little, smoothly and steadily, without any tendency to sink. During the production process, Song Xu had tried to launch the ship several times, and any problems were corrected in time. Of course, it was impossible for the ship to sink to the bottom of the water after launching. Song Xu
was proud and couldn't wait to get on the ship and set off. If you have a new toy, you should play with it right away to get the most joy!
The big tiger walked to the seaside, and when she was just close enough to wet her paws, she jumped lightly onto the big boat, filling the groove that Song Xu had prepared for her.
She put away her paws and looked at the sea, as if waiting to set off. Seeing that the two people did not move, she even shouted at them in a hurry.
Song Xu, who was covered in sawdust, said: "Mom, you come down first, we are not ready yet."