The fur on his body turned into clothes but did not cover his legs. Song Xu could clearly feel the snake's tail, which was tightly attached to his legs
, twisting. Every inch of the snake's muscles would slightly tense when it swam. The cool, smooth and vivid touch was special and thrilling.
Green algae similar to duckweed grew all over the shore. When swimming through the water, you could see the shadows of large patches of green algae on the bottom of the water, as well as schools of small fish swimming among them.
The rippling light of the river shone on Wu Mu's body, which occasionally surfaced from the water. The dark snake scales also reflected a hazy light.
Song Xu held onto his shoulders and gradually became less afraid in the water. His legs, which were originally tightly entangled, relaxed and began to swing with the water. Occasionally, when swinging, he would touch his snake's tail, and they would separate as soon as they touched.
Song Xu knows how to swim but is not good at it. He used to swim in an indoor swimming pool, which was clear and transparent. Now he is swimming in a wild river, and the feeling is completely different.
Leaving the shore, he cannot see the dark bottom of the water clearly, which makes people suspect that there is a huge black monster lurking under the river. There
is a big tree in the center of the river. When the water is shallow, there is a small floating island here. When the water is deep, the floating island is submerged, and only this tree is left with half of its body submerged in the water.
The big snake stopped beside the tree and wrapped its tail around the branch of the tree. His upper body was lying on a branch, his long hair dripping with water, and the fine hair stuck to his back like tangled threads.
The moonlight passed through the sparse branches and gently fell on him. It was so quiet and beautiful. Song Xu looked at him and couldn't help but raised his hand to touch his waist.
Wumu shook the tip of his tail calmly without any reaction, and then heard Song Xu sighing again: "Baby, you are so beautiful."
Beautiful appearance and strong abilities are both advantages in pursuing a partner in the orc world, but as a half-orc, Wumu has never heard others praise him so much.
But his...partner has been praising him almost every day since she first met him. Before this, Wumu didn't know that there were so many phrases that could be used to compliment people.
Sometimes he did nothing, but would suddenly be praised. When he did something very ordinary, she would express her love excitedly. Even when she talked and said two more words, she would show a look of relief and joy.
She gave him countless positive emotional feedback. Wumu had never experienced such a strong feeling of being loved and needed, and he was undoubtedly attracted.
He could not speak beautiful words like Song Xu, and even his actions often did not know how to express himself. There was no clue on his face, but the tip of his tail had already quietly wrapped around Song Xu's ankles.
Song Xu found that he was tied with a "rope" again, and raised his feet to cheer: "Look, an anti-drowning rope!"
The river roared, nightingales were singing on both sides, and there was a breeze on the water. Song Xu felt sleepy after a while, and turned into a squirrel and fell asleep stuck in the branches. Wumu did not call her, and rested on the branches for the whole night.
The next day, the two of them went back. Song Xu rubbed her waist that was hurt by the branches and went to pick up the wild potatoes she dug yesterday. Suddenly, she shouted, "There's a thief!"
The number of her wild potatoes didn't match. There were a few small ones missing, and two of the big ones had a large piece missing from them.
Judging from the tooth marks left on the wild potatoes, the suspect should be a mouse. There are many wood rats in the forest, and they are all good at digging holes. Song Xu has met many of them. When she walks on the road, she hears rustling sounds, most of which are the movements of wood rats.
The only big snake living here does not eat small things like wood rats. The nearby wood rats have no natural enemies to kill them, and there are many of them and they are active frequently. Song Xu ate them once when she first came here, and later she kept a distance from wood rats and no longer tried to eat them.
There really are no seasonings, and the meat of these untamed wild animals is basically fishy, and some are smelly and bitter, and can't be eaten.
Before, Song Xu's food supply was small, and the food was not liked by forest rats, so it was fine. But this time, the wild potatoes that forest rats also like to eat were stolen by those forest rats in the cave just one night after they were brought back.
"I won't allow the scoundrels to be so presumptuous!" Song Xu took the beast tooth knife and set out to capture the criminals.
The beastmen have a keen sense of smell. Song Xu can track forest rats from the scent left on the wild potatoes. In the end, she found a forest rat's nest in a tree hole a few hundred meters away from the stone cave.
This kind of forest rat is also used to storing food in caves. Song Xu dug up the earth hole and found not only the stolen wild potatoes, but also the food stored by the forest rat. It looked like last year's nuts. There was a lot of food stored, and it could be said that the warehouse was full.
"Stored food? Here you go!" Song Xu shook the fat forest rat's tail in her hand, "I confiscated your property."
She returned to the stone cave with a bag of spoils and a forest rat, and tied the forest rat to a tree branch in a big letter shape with a thin straw rope.
The ebony tail was still encircled with the wild potatoes that Song Xu put in before going out, saying that it was to prevent being stolen again. Seeing her tie a forest rat to the tree branch, I thought she was going to roast it.
Who knew that she didn't light a fire, but sat in front of the forest rat with a branch, and said to it seriously: "Do you know what you did? It's burglary, you will be sentenced! You Zhang Sanshu!"
The forest rat squeaked in panic when the small branch poked its belly.
Song Xu picked out a nut from the food stored by the forest rat, bit it into pieces, and ate it face to face in front of it: "See, if you steal other people's food, your home will be robbed!"
Wumu was sure that the forest rat was just an ordinary forest rat, not an orc. Why did Song Xu talk to it like this?
"It..."
Song Xu was attracted by the sudden sound of the snake. Seeing that he was a little confused, he slowly said: "I don't understand."
"I know, but it doesn't prevent me from talking to it just because it doesn't understand." Song Xu thought, isn't she boring.
"Okay, you have to turn over a new leaf and be a new rat after you get out, okay?" The wood rat was let go after being taught a lesson. It was a little too frightened and huddled on the ground for a long time without daring to move. Song Xu poked its belly with a branch, and then it ran away.
Song Xu dropped the small branch and came back to announce: "I want to make a storage cabinet to store food, so that my house won't be stolen again next time!"
But before her storage cabinet was built, where to put the food was a problem.
Song Xu approached Wumu, smiling very cutely, and said in a sweet voice: "Wumu, your little cave up there is good, it's cool and dry, can you lend it to me to put some food there for a while?"
Then the snake's hiding cave became a temporary food storage place.
Looking around, his cave was almost filled with Song Xu's miscellaneous items.
The forest was full of big trees that had grown for many years. There was also a saying that there were territories among them, and the battlefield was divided into roots and crowns.
The roots in the soil grew desperately, absorbing water and nutrients from the soil, and the territorial battle on the top of the crown was also very fierce. Every tree hoped to get more sunlight and rain. They were like solar receivers. The more sunlight they received, the more energy they could produce.
Some trees will lose in the fight, and their only end is death. There
are many ways for big trees to die. They may be blown down by the wind or struck by lightning, entangled by vines and parasites, eaten by insects and hollowed out by ants, or simply die of old age. When
a big tree falls in the forest, there will be a vacant space in the dense forest. Song Xu likes this kind of small open space. Such a sunny open space is more vibrant than other places. At the bottom of the fallen tree trunk, countless new saplings begin to compete. They have enough sunlight and can grow an inch taller every day.
And the fallen tree will become her playground or dry firewood.
Song Xu was looking for something that could be used as a storage cabinet in the forest. She came across a tree that had just fallen and had a hollow trunk. She dragged it back with great effort, removed the extra branches, and only kept the bottom section.
Looking at her work from left to right, Song Xu felt that it was more suitable as a place for squirrels to sleep rather than a storage cabinet.
That night, she did not sleep in her own grass nest, but crawled into the empty tree trunk and lay down. It was quite novel. There happened to be a knot in the middle of the trunk, and there was a hole on the knot. She stuffed her furry tail into the hole.
From the outside, the ebony looked like a squirrel's tail growing on a section of the trunk. The scene was a bit funny.
Sheshe didn't know what was funny or not. He just watched his partner's furry tail swinging and laughing in the tree trunk, as if he was very happy, and he wanted to be happy with her.
He felt lonely when he was ignored, and this was his first time experiencing this emotion.
He rolled up the trunk and slept. When Song Xu climbed out of the trunk in the morning, he found that he had been a squirrel all night.
She thought to herself: Did Sheshe want a pillow?
The hot summer was long and the high temperature made people lose interest in work. They just wanted to sleep under the shade of the tree. The sound of the river in his ears was as hypnotic as the teacher's lecture in the past.
The time when she was sleepily memorizing and writing test papers in the classroom seemed to be a very long time ago. Song Xu occasionally missed the past, but it never lasted long.
Her classmates liked to call her a freak. Maybe she really was a freak. She adapted to the life of a beastman so quickly.
"Wumu, I want to swim again." Song Xu made a request.
After experiencing swimming in the river at night, Song Xu wanted to dive into the water from time to time. Why did he bring Sheshe? Wasn't it because he was afraid of crocodiles by the water?
Sheshe was a snake that was very easy to tame. He fell from the branch into the water. Song Xu happily grabbed his arm and dived into the water.
The river during the day and at night are completely different scenery. Green water plants and small fish, river clams and snails in the sand and mud at the bottom of the water spitting out soft meat, and the roots of aquatic plants growing on the surface of the water dragging in the water, everything looks like 4K ultra-clear.
The lonely tree in the middle of the river where they used to sleep at night is crowded with tourists during the day, and a group of egrets are waiting to catch fish on the branches.
Song Xu turned over and climbed onto the back of the big snake halfway, looking at the relaxed appearance of these elegant fishermen catching fish, and made an envious voice to join in the fun: "I want to eat fish too."
"First, I'll go ashore to make a fishing net. Do you think it's feasible to use a grass net..."
Wumu's snake tail flicked in the water, and a passing big fish was unfortunately knocked unconscious, and was pushed to the surface of the water by the snake's tail with its eyes rolled up and its belly turned up.
Holding the several-kilogram fish, the squirrel made a shocked sound: "Hiss!"
Ebony: "Hiss."
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