A furry squirrel was beating in his chest like a warm and lively heart.
Song Xu finally regained his ability to speak normally and chattered non-stop.
"Wumu, why couldn't you change back before? Was it because you hibernated for too long and forgot how to change?"
"Don't you have to do this every time you hibernate?"
"Do you remember why we left home? Yes, it was for traveling. I asked you before but you couldn't answer me. Do you have any opinions on our travel destination?"
"By the way, do you remember the tiger orc who came when you were hibernating? His name was Weishan. The tiger tooth necklace he gave you is still in the bag."
"You haven't had a full meal for several months. Are you super hungry now? Do you want to eat? Is it because you have no strength that your skin looks so hard this time?"
"You have changed back to this state now. Can you keep it in the future?"
"The stone cave you chose will turn into a mud cave after the next rain. Are you going to move here and live here permanently or leave soon? Tell me what you think?"
"Well, why are you not talking again?"
She spoke too fast, and the half-dumb snake couldn't find a gap to interrupt. When Song Xu stopped in confusion, Wu Mu began to answer the first question: "I don't...know." "
...I don't know." "
I know."
"...I don't...know."
Listening to his same answer like an echo, Song Xu was confused: "Which question are you answering?"
Wu Mu looked a little annoyed and covered her mouth hesitantly.
Song Xu pulled down his hand: "Even if I die and am nailed in the coffin, I will shout out loud: I don't want to live in this mud cave!"
She was too excited just now and didn't pay attention. Now she was shivering in the cool breeze and trembling when she spoke. Furry squirrels are not like hairless snakes. Once they get wet, they feel doubly cold.
Fortunately, the heavy rain had stopped, so the situation was not made worse.
Wumu carried the squirrel into the woods, found a sheltered root, and let Song Xu build a fire. The half-wet leaves at the bottom of the tree emitted thick smoke. The squirrel covered his nose with his tail and added firewood.
In the dense forest, even after a sudden rain, the bottom layer of roots would not be completely wet. After the thick smoke, the flames burned completely, the smoke was not so suffocating, and Song Xu stopped shivering.
She had countless things to say, and even though Sheshe's answer was like copy and paste, it did not dampen her enthusiasm. However, after being busy for most of the night, it was almost dawn. Song Xu, who had not slept all night, felt sleepy without saying a few words. She could not hold on and fell asleep beside the fire.
Wumu surrounded her, reached out and touched the animal skin bag she was carrying, and took out a tiger tooth necklace.
He lowered his head, stuck out his tongue, and felt the breath on it. It was a long-lost smell. The colorful pebbles and tiger teeth made a light knocking sound in his hands.
He picked up the necklace and hung it around Song Xu's neck.
Song Xu jumped up from the ground suddenly. The bright sunlight shining through the woods made her squint her eyes, and she immediately looked for Wumu's figure.
Seeing that he was still in the half-beast form, she immediately praised him: "Great, Wumu, you are so amazing, I thought you changed back after waking up from a sleep! Weishan also said that it is difficult to change back to the half-beast form once you stay in the beast form for a long time. You really did it, it's simply a miracle!"
Song Xu, who couldn't help but praise others when she was in a good mood, finished her own praise first, and then found that her head was heavy. Looking down, she saw a tiger tooth necklace hanging on her chest.
She weighed the necklace and guessed whether she put it on herself in her sleep last night or Wumu put it on her.
Wu Mu said, "This is... her 'courage' and 'luck'. Give it to you. Wear it."
Song Xu used his perfect Chinese reading and comprehension ability to explain, "You mean, this necklace represents your mother's courage, or in other words, wearing this will bring courage and luck. You want to give it to me?"
Wu Mu: "Yes."
Song Xu understood: "It turns out that this is an heirloom necklace passed down from my ancestors!"
Wu Mu's kindness was touching, but it was too heavy. His neck was sore after hanging it for a while. For the sake of his cervical spine, Song Xu took off the necklace and tied it around his waist.
They walked forward and did not stay here for long. There was still a vast expanse of fresh green ahead, leading to the unknown. Song Xu walked happily beside the orc Snake, and had no intention of turning back.
The route they walked was not straight, and they often went off the beaten path. Because sometimes Song Xu was leading the way, and when she saw something that interested her, she would deviate from the route to see it. Wumu couldn't stop her and could only follow her.
When the direction deviated to a certain extent, Wumu became the leader, and he would lead the deviated squirrel back to the right direction.
But sometimes, Wumu would deviate from the route. This usually happened when he sensed something, avoided large animals he didn't want to eat, and took the initiative to look for large prey he wanted to eat. At this time, Song Xu could only follow him.
He finally started eating. People say that "hungry enough to eat a cow" is an exaggeration, but for Wumu, this is realism.
Song Xu looked at the snake body in front of him, touched the big bulge on its belly after eating, and looked at the beast-shaped snake head that Wu Mu turned into when eating. He thought: "Can you turn back into a half-beast man?"
The big snake didn't say anything.
After he digested for a while, the two of them could set off again. Wu Mu was still in the form of a big snake, and Song Xu understood.
She was not disappointed. She hugged the snake's head and comforted it: "I guessed it a long time ago. Your half-orc state is not very stable, but you are already very powerful. I thought you could not change back before. Who knew you would change so suddenly? I was scared. Don't worry, I said, there will definitely be a chance to change in the future."
"It doesn't matter if you really can't change, as long as you remember not to eat me!"
"We should be happier, emotions will affect the body!" Song Xu rubbed the snake's cheeks with both hands, and shared the delicious wild grass stems she found with him.
Although she said so, Wumu didn't seem to think so. At night, he lay on the side to accumulate strength and try to change his form.
Song Xu witnessed Wumu's struggle with her own eyes. The last time she found him, Wumu had already turned into a half-orc. This time she watched it from beginning to end. This scene reminded me of the transformations of monsters in Journey to the West or Legend of the White Snake when I was a kid, which would scare a child to tears and Xu Xian to death.
But Xiao Songxu was not afraid and even cheered for the snake.
In the past, Wumu's transformations were always very fast, but this was the first time she saw the transformation process so carefully, which was very amazing.
The scales will stretch into the body, and the dark red color will fade into the white of the skin. The hair will also grow from the scales, and it is shiny overall. No wonder it is so long and difficult to mess up, and it doesn't get tangled or frizzy. Unlike her, her hair is frizzy and flies up when exposed to the sun, and it also carries static electricity.
If Wumu hadn't looked so painful, Song Xu would have been willing to watch it for a while longer.
But even though it was so uncomfortable, Wumu still didn't succeed in the end. A big snake lay there quietly, as if it had used up all its strength, even the tip of its tail didn't move, and the ground next to it was full of traces of its rolling and struggling.
Song Xu lay down beside him and covered the big snake with his tail: "Okay, today's efforts have exceeded the standard."
The nightingales in spring were singing in the forest. Wumu had never heard of such birds, and there were no such birds in his forest. He curled up and rolled the squirrel in the middle.
After the squirrel and the snake had traveled for several chapters, the beast tribe finally came to the vicinity of Wumu's forest cave.
Under the instigation of Shiyou, some beasts in the tribe who were not on good terms with Weishan came to see the excitement, but when they came here, they found that the smell here had become lighter. It was obvious that no one had lived here for a while, and even the skin of the primitive beasts abandoned on the side was almost rotten.
"They ran away!" Shiyou was angry, "Weishan, you must have informed them to run away!" Weishan
saw that there was no trace of Ebony around, and he relaxed. He was in a good mood and opened his mouth to reveal a rough smile: "What do you want?" Shiyou
was still thinking about hunting a crazy orc with his own hands today, but he didn't expect that the person would actually leave. During this period of time, he had thought about secretly bringing people here, but Weishan was watching closely, so he couldn't come quietly.
"Have you forgotten the rules of the tribe?"
Hearing that Shiyou was holding on to the rules, someone couldn't stand it and snorted: "The rules are to kill if there is a threat, but the person has already left. What threat is there if he is gone?"
"Yes, the person has left, go back, go back!"
"No, maybe he didn't go far, let's check around." Shiyou suspected that Weishan hid the person.
A group of people walked around the ebony forest in a noisy manner. The two groups of people cursed at each other while searching. In the end, Shiyou had to admit that the person was really gone, and he might have gone very far, and even the faint smell could not be traced nearby.
In this case, even his people were unwilling to waste time tracking a half-orc who left. What he thought was doomed to fail. Lion You reluctantly followed the crowd back to the tribe, cursing non-stop.
Weishan led the group behind, he looked back at the collapsed stone cave covered by trees, and could see many crooked snakes painted on one of the cave walls.
Wumu was expelled from the tribe when he just came of age, and has lived here ever since. This forest is closer to the tribe's forest, and it's not that no one in the tribe has ever said that they will expel him to a farther place, but Wumu just doesn't want to leave.
If someone comes back from the west and wants to return to the tribe, they will definitely pass by here. He knew that the child must want to wait here for Heisen to come back.
When winter came, he wanted to tell the squirrel beastman to let Wumu leave, but he was afraid that he would not want to, so he didn't say it in the end.
Unexpectedly, he really left here.
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