73 Wilderness Survival

◎What is it?◎

Ye Zhizhi blinked, then widened his eyes in disbelief.

Really Xiaohua?!

She must have seen it right! Ye Zhizhi rubbed his eyes and looked over again, but the most annoying thing was that the lightning that had been striking continuously just now had stopped!

Ye Zhizhi couldn't bear to look at her again, and felt even more anxious.

She raised her nose slightly and sniffed hard, but there was only a strong smell of water vapor in the air. Even if there was any other scent, it was quickly washed away.

Ye Zhizhi listened attentively, trying to catch the sounds obscured by the strong wind and heavy rain, but they were too dense and she still couldn't hear any other sounds.

As Yin Yi emerged, his eyes stared towards the jungle for a moment, as if he had sensed something. But he didn't show any displeasure; instead, he became even more serious.

Ye Zhizhi turned his head to look at the jungle, and finally saw the winding and blurry snake shadow in the hazy rain.

Crash——

Hiss——

At this moment, Yin Yi turned his head and looked in another direction, with an unprecedented solemnity in his eyes.

It's really a little flower! It actually came! Wait! That's not right!

Xiaohua's voice is wrong!

Ye Zhizhi's heart skipped a beat.

She seemed to hear the anxiety and fear mixed in the hissing sound of the rain, as if conveying something.

"Woo——" Short sounds came from Yin Yi's throat.

Ye Zhizhi's expression hardened and his eyes suddenly became sharp.

The cold and wet snake tail suddenly stretched out and wrapped around Ye Zhizhi, then swept away in an instant, and the blurry shadow quickly disappeared.

This time, Yin Yi did not chase after the python immediately or express hostility. Instead, he turned around and picked up the fur food that Ye Zhizhi had packed, and even ignored the prey in the cave. The wolves took some things belonging to Ye Zhizhi, ran out of the cave quickly, rushed into the heavy rain, and chased in the direction where the python and Ye Zhizhi disappeared.

The python didn't move very fast at first when it wrapped Ye Zhizhi around it, but as it crawled quickly in the rain, it quickly put Ye Zhizhi under its head and then moved even faster.

Ye Zhizhi was hit by the rain so hard that he couldn't open his eyes. The water on the ground had become muddy and gathered into streams.

The little flower's snake-like belly meandered on the ground, making a sound as it flowed through water.

“Hiss—”

Ye Zhizhi hugged Xiaohua tightly and hissed twice himself.

She was still confused and didn't know what was going on, but she could vaguely sense the emotions expressed in Xiaohua's voice.

Xiaohua kept expressing thoughts of leaving and staying away.

Ye Zhizhi tried hard to open her eyes. She turned her head and looked back, "Hiss!"

If Xiaohua sensed that the cave she lived in was in danger, then Yinyi and the others were still there!

No, judging by the attitude of the wolves, they will definitely catch up with us immediately.

Ye Zhizhi kept trying to sense the movement behind her, and sure enough, soon she vaguely heard the sound of wolves running, and she saw the wolves chasing her from afar.

Ye Zhizhi's heart finally relaxed a little. If the wolves followed him out, there would be no danger anymore, right?

Ye Zhizhi couldn't figure out what danger they would encounter. There were obviously no ferocious beasts near the cave that could threaten them. Their cave was so small that it wouldn't attract a group of ferocious beasts to fight over it, right?

Apart from this, all Ye Zhizhi could think of were natural disasters, mudslides? Landslides?

Ye Zhizhi thought that animals are more sensitive to natural disasters than humans, and felt that this possibility was greater.

Xiaohua's speed did not slow down at all. It climbed very fast, and even suddenly rushed into the turbulent mountain river in the jungle and swam even faster.

Ye Zhizhi was in the heavy rain, with bottomless muddy water on both sides. She was very nervous at first.

After all, water and danger were synonymous in her mind. She was afraid that crocodiles and piranhas would suddenly emerge from the water, and she was also worried that Xiaohua would not be able to understand her swimming skills and take her diving.

She is not like a python that can lurk in the water for a long time.

Fortunately, Xiaohua was swimming on the water surface all the time, so Ye Zhizhi just had to hold it tightly and didn't have to worry about it being washed away.

The only worry is whether the wolves can catch up, because they can't swim.

Xiaohua didn't swim in the water for long. She quickly swam ashore and dived into the jungle again.

Having lost his only shelter, Ye Zhizhi didn't know how to get through this rainy season. He lay on the little flower, not knowing where it was going to take him.

Ye Zhizhi was soaked all over, with rain dripping down her body continuously, but she did not feel how cold she was. It was still within her tolerance range. It seemed as if she could no longer feel the bone-chilling coldness of the past two years.

Ye Zhizhi felt that his cold tolerance threshold had increased.

Ye Zhizhi had been paying attention to the movements behind him and soon noticed the blurry figures of the wolves running in the rain.

They have already run over a hill, and if a natural disaster occurs next, it should not affect so far.

This possibility became extremely low after Xiaohua ran with her for a long time and the wolves still did not have any strong reaction.

According to her understanding of Yinyi, if he was safe, Yinyi would definitely scream angrily and ask Xiaohua to let her go immediately.

But the wolves were silent from beginning to end, following behind with all their might.

This kind of non-stop running only occurs when there is a strong aura nearby that threatens their survival.

...Has any unknown existence appeared again?

Ye Zhizhi's heart was in a knot.

She tried to sense her surroundings. Indeed, she had felt an inexplicable uneasiness and uncertainty in the cave. This feeling was not caused by Xiaohua's sudden appearance nearby, nor was it caused by the noise she heard. It was due to other unknown factors.

The wolves also noticed it, so they all behaved abnormally.

In Yinyi's opinion, Xiaohua, a local animal, could more easily take her out of danger, so Yinyi did not snatch her back immediately. That was secondary. The important thing was to avoid danger first.

Ye Zhizhi judged from their behavior that this existence was very dangerous.

What on earth is it?

While Ye Zhizhi was always paying attention to whether the wolves were following behind him, he was also sensing the movements hidden by the wind and rain.

After all, she was no match for animals. Even though she felt she was very strong, she was still far behind in this respect. She only felt uneasy intuitively, but she didn't know the source of the uneasiness.

Yinyi and the others were moving around in the jungle with something in their mouths.

Silver One ran in front, leading the way, while Two, Brown, and Three, White, followed behind one by one.

The direction they ran was always towards the wolf girl and the snake.

Although Yin Yi had not yet sensed that existence, he could vaguely sense the threat, and his instinct made him feel uneasy.

The python must have noticed the existence first, ran to warn them, and wanted to take the wolf girl away.

Therefore, the direction the python runs in must be safe for the time being.

In the face of life and death, some personal grudges can be put aside. Yin Yi followed without hesitation with the wolf pack.

Wolves generally run faster than snakes on land, but Xiaohua is not an ordinary snake. It can swim in rivers to speed up. The wolves are far behind and cannot catch up for a while, but the distance is getting closer and closer in the end.

The wolves caught up with the wolf girl and the python in the early morning of that day.

Ye Zhizhi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Yin Yi running beside him.

Only then did she notice what Yin Yi and Er Zong were holding in their mouths.

Yin Yi, really, these are all external possessions that can be discarded when encountering danger. The most important thing is to protect yourself. There is no need to escape with these things.

But Yin Yi doesn't think so. It's easy to get hypothermia during the rainy season and winter. They have fur on their bodies so they are not afraid. But the wolf girl can't be without fur, so he has to bring some and let her put it on.

They continued running and only stopped to rest the next morning, in the dense jungle, under huge tree roots and rocks.

Running at full speed for a long time in such bad weather takes a lot of energy out of animals.

The wolves put down what was in their mouths and lay on the wet and sticky ground, their bodies heaving violently under their sticky fur.

The heavy rain fell into the dense forest and formed curtains of water. The rocks and tree roots above their heads protected them from further rain.

Ye Zhizhi had already gotten off Xiaohua and ran to the wolf pack to see their condition with a worried look.

Yin Yi pushed the animal skin package in front of Ye Zhizhi, let out a low roar, and urged Ye Zhizhi to add fur and eat meat, and bring it all up.

Ye Zhizhi did feel cold, so she opened the animal skin package and took out a few pieces of fur to tie around her limbs and waist so as not to affect her movements.

Then start eating.

Instead of fresh kill, the wolf took her smoked jerky.

While Ye Zhizhi was eating, he distributed the dried meat to the wolves one by one.

The wolf and the snake now needed to replenish their energy more than she did, so they only used the lower half of their bodies to shelter from the rain, and the other half of their bodies were stuffed with several handfuls of dried meat by Xiaohua outside.

"Hiss--" Xiaohua had never swallowed such disgusting prey.

But when it sensed that those nasty predators were eating it, Xiaohua's cold snake face twisted, thinking that it could also be eaten.