Song Xu gradually discovered that the "jealousy" factor accounted for a relatively small proportion of Snake's behavior of driving away other snake beastmen. He was just very aware of the crisis and more sensitive than she thought.

When they stopped to rest during the journey, Wumu was used to finding a place without the scent of other dangerous beastmen, but he would not take the initiative to drive away small beastmen that were not dangerous, and he would not stop Song Xu from playing with these beastmen. The only thing he would stop Song Xu from approaching was the snake beastmen, and he had figured out Song Xu's little thoughts about liking snakes.

He probably knew that his partner would not easily choose other snake beastmen, but in order to prevent the possibility of being abandoned by his partner, he would still eliminate all crises.

The big snake coiled around the squirrel is a vigilant guardian.

Without provocation, Wumu will only attack when he encounters the same kind. The rest of the time, he is still the same character as when Song Xu first met him. Like a cold cave-dwelling little dragon girl who doesn't care about worldly disturbances, except for hunting and fighting, he is particularly clumsy in other things.

When traveling, nothing is too particular, just eat whatever you come across, live in caves if you find caves, live in tree holes if you find tree holes, and sleep in tree branches if you can't find any. Song Xu doesn't care, and Wumu is also particularly easy to deal with.

Until this time, they came to a pine forest, and Song Xu decided to stay there longer.

"It's already autumn, and winter will be here soon. Let's spend the winter here before we leave." What if Sheshe hibernates and falls asleep halfway through the journey? Should she bury him on the spot? Or should she make preparations first.

Maybe because they have been walking outside for too long, Song Xu found that after she announced that she was staying, Sheshe looked a little happy, and inexplicably felt like she was finally relaxed.

The squirrel rubbed his chin: Could it be that Sheshe is tired? If so, they can stay here for a few more months.

Wumu quickly found a cave nearby. In his opinion, since his partner asked to stay, he needed to find a shelter as soon as possible.

Although it can't be seen, Wumu was silently a little anxious when he left the beach.

The partner has expressed his desire to reproduce more than once, but without a stable environment, the female will not enter the reproductive state, so Wu Mu is also in a dilemma. She kept moving forward because she didn't find a place she liked to live, so he could only follow her.

"Live here?" Wu Mu asked.

"No, this cave is half underground, too damp, and too small. Let's build a house ourselves!" The squirrel happily said that he wanted to build a house.

The squirrel didn't realize what kind of message this behavior conveyed to the snake, and didn't know how anxious the snake was because of her repeated behavior. She didn't know anything, and only cared about how big her house should be.

The pine forest is the favorite environment of the squirrel beastmen. It is their nature. This pine forest looks particularly old. There are tall and straight pine trees. The trunks are almost comparable to the giant redwoods that Song Xu has seen before. I don’t know what kind of magical local pine tree it is.

"This tree hole is so big! Let’s build a house around this tree." Song Xu chose a tall pine tree. There is a tree gap about two people high at the bottom of the pine tree, and there is a hollow inside.

Many trees here are like this. Because the trees are too old, part of the trunk at the bottom of the tree is empty, forming a natural space.

If the space continues to expand, one day it will not be able to support the trunk and branches at the top, and the tree will fall down, becoming nutrients for the growth of the surrounding small trees.

The tree Song Xu chose was not in danger of falling down, and the space was suitable. She cleaned out the various small insects inside, and moved some stones and soil into it to raise the ground to prevent water from flowing back when it rains. She also filled the gaps in the tree that might leak air.

On top of this, she made a layer of wood mats, which would be dry and warm in winter.

This forest is a bit like the forest that Wu Mu had lived in before, and the ground is also covered with a lot of moss. She collected thick moss and dried it in the autumn sun, and then spread it layer by layer inside the tree hole to make a nest for Wu Mu.

A fire pit was built with stones and soil near the door of the tree hole, which is a necessary heating facility in winter. There is also a special vent here to disperse the smoke, and Song Xu specially built a small stove next to it to boil water for cooking.

Having worked as a chef by the sea, the stove she built is particularly useful. Song Xu, covered in dust, patted the fruits of her labor and said, "A truly good chef can even build a stove. I'm awesome!"

She turned around and called out to Wumu who was chopping firewood outside, "Wumu, come and look at my stove! I've left a place for you to burn the fire!"

There were a few pieces of wood stuck close to the fire pit and the stove, which were used to hang the pot for boiling water and for snakes to coil on.

On the night the fire pit was built, Song Xu got a lot of pine needles and lit a fire. What was burning was a large rotten fallen pine tree that Wumu had dragged back. The whole tree hole was filled with the scent of pine. Song Xu was eating pine nuts in her dreams. Of course, when she woke up, she found that she was chewing on the snake's tail in her arms.

The sober Song Xu was not only not embarrassed, but also took two more bites out of curiosity, wanting to see if it was the taste in the dream.

Wumu pulled back the tip of its tail.

Song Xu: "?" You let me bite you before, but now you don't? How can I tolerate this? He reached out and grabbed it back.

Wumu gave up the struggle with a complicated expression, lay back, and curled up the snake's tail.

He couldn't understand why his partner wasn't ready and was sending out signals so frequently. Two days ago, she came over and rubbed against him, and he hesitated before cooperating. But when he showed the intention to continue and swam around her, Song Xu giggled and asked him to let go, saying that the house was not ready yet, and then ran away to work.

He wanted to tell her not to do this, and pulled his tail back firmly, but she didn't care at all.

Wumu watched Song Xu holding his tail and swinging it to play, and the tip of his tail slowly wrapped around her arm, tightened, and dragged it towards him.

However, Song Xu shook her arms again, interrupting his action: "Get up, Wumu, get up and work! Stop playing!"

She felt that Sheshe had been getting more and more clingy recently. It must be the sequelae of turning into a beastman, crawling on her all day long.

Wumu: "…………" It's like this again. It was obviously she who started it.

His partner is a bad-hearted partner. She must be teasing him again. The snake's tail turned into legs. Wumu stood up, walked past Song Xu, and said expressionlessly: "You."

Song Xu tilted his head: "Me?"

Wumu said coldly: "Very bad."

Song Xu wanted to laugh at his consistent way of accusing. What's wrong with me? Is it bad to bite your tail?

The big snake went out to hunt. Song Xu pondered for a long time and didn't know what went wrong this time. She could only continue to build her house while having fun.

She also had to add some furniture and daily necessities to the small house and store some food. Autumn is really busy.

After the quarrel, Sheshe went out and angrily caught several prey with thick fur to make blankets for the squirrel in winter. However, when he came back, his partner waved at him happily as usual, as if they had not quarreled at all.

Song Xu: So they didn't quarrel?

At night, the big snake turned into a beast shape and coiled up like a mosquito coil, squeezed into a corner, and no longer pestered the squirrel.

Song Xu ran over curiously, stepped on him, and rolled around: "Ebony? Snake? What's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

The big snake raised its head and spit out its tongue: "Did we have a fight?"

Song Xu was surprised: "What, a fight, when?"

She remembered something and looked strange: "Are you talking about the 'you are bad' in the morning?"

The big snake confirmed: "Hiss."

Song Xu: "You call that a fight?"

The big snake: "Hiss."

Song Xu: "Okay, even if that was a fight, why did you have to fight with me?"

As he spoke, the squirrel rolled to the big snake's head, hugged his head, and rubbed him vigorously. A ball of warm fluff rubbed against the big snake, and the big snake couldn't help but raise its lower jaw and rub back, and the snake's tongue spit out like a hook.

Song Xu held back his laughter and asked in a cute way: "Wu Mu, why are we quarreling?"

Wu Mu remembered that he was angry and stopped abruptly: "You gave me the signal to reproduce, I started, and you interrupted again, many times."

Song Xu: "…………?"

The squirrel was really stunned this time. What, you can actually find out what I am thinking? What, did I send any signals? What, when did you start? What, I actually interrupted? What, how many times is it?

Song Xu had thousands of words in his heart that he couldn't say, and finally turned into one sentence: "I don't believe it, try to show me now!"

Wu Mu identified her expression, trying to see if she was teasing him on purpose this time, but she only looked excited.

Snake Tail once again tried to put her hand.

The snake coiled around its partner like it coils around its prey, its breath slow and dangerous.

It coiled around the squirrel like it coiled around a delicate tree, crawling in a winding manner.

The snake was in its worm skin, and Song Xu encountered a thunderstorm.

But the moonlight in the forest was bright at night, and the insects were chirping loudly. It was a quiet night, so the thunder only echoed in the tree hole.

In the deep night of the forest, the snake came to the pond.

The water in the pond was dark, and the water plants were also dark. The curve of the snake's body swimming freely was looming in the water, the dark red disappeared in the black, stirring the water and the water plants, and no one knew that there was a snake wandering here.

Shallow ripples rippled, and the soft water plants undulated. The water in the pond is not cold. It must be summer water, which has been exposed to the sun for a whole day. It has her warmth and her radiance.

The cuckoo is calling.

There is another bird echoing in the distance.

I don’t know what they are talking about. I can’t see their traces, and their voices are far away as in a dream.

The snake is living in the pond.

He is coiled in the land where he feels at ease.

A hand brushed his shoulder, climbed up to his face, and kneaded it gently.

"My snake, you are such a silly snake, and so cute."

The cute snake strangled her and almost broke her waist.

In the early morning, the squirrel took the snake out, and in the evening, the snake brought the squirrel back.

They repeated this peaceful and simple life, hunting, gathering, and building.

Their house was built, and they began to wait for winter.

Then wait for the next spring.