On a relatively flat lawn, there is an old tree that has been through a lot of wind and frost. Its rugged trunk is covered with green moss. Its branches are too long to support the heavy leaves on the top, causing the middle of the trunk to fall down and droop into the soil. The twisting posture of the trunk is like a snake, so Song Xu likes this tree.
There is a lot of space between the trees here, unlike the cramped mountain forests where the crowns of nearby trees are all connected. Here, you can only see a big tree occasionally, and the crowns grow and spread out wantonly without restraint.
In the mountains where Song Xu and Wu Mu just passed, although beastmen were rarely seen, their movements could always be captured, traces of life were everywhere, and the smell of different beastmen was even more obvious.
But here, after a long distance, the traces of beastmen disappeared.
It seemed that no one lived nearby, and few beastmen passed by. After walking all day, looking back at sunset, there was always a feeling of loneliness. Song Xu liked to find an old tree with a huge crown to rest in such a place, and Wu Mu followed her and entwined her body on the trunk.
At night, nocturnal birds such as owls stopped on nearby branches to rest. Song Xu could hear the sounds of them hunting, catching mice slithering under the trees.
It was strange, how could there be mice everywhere? Their distribution range was really wide.
Ebony was silent. Some ordinary small animals did not feel the danger of the beastman, so they would treat him as a branch at night and stop nearby generously.
A cat that is much smaller than a leopard, but larger than an ordinary cat, with round spots on its body, or a wild cat? Song Xu didn't know what this guy was exactly, but he saw it jumping flexibly on the tree trunk and catching a bird that was perched on the tree trunk and cooing.
After a sound of flapping wings, the cooing sound disappeared. The little hunter seemed to sense Song Xu's prying in the dark night. It turned its head to reveal a pair of eyes that glowed in the dark night, and quickly jumped down the tree with its prey and disappeared.
Later, Song Xu encountered it again. This time it was subtly different from the last time. It seemed that its tail was longer and the pattern on it was different. It failed to hunt on the tree and fell next to the big snake and the squirrel.
The big snake was startled by the vibration when it landed on the branch and hissed subconsciously. The guy was also frightened by the big snake that suddenly revealed its true face in the dark night, and suddenly sprayed some extremely smelly liquid from its scent glands.
The squirrel nimbly hugged the big snake's head to avoid most of it, and found that the culprit had already escaped.
Although he dodged quickly and only a little bit of it touched his body, the smell still made Song Xu almost suffocate. Wumu didn't feel good either. With the stink on his body, he didn't even dare to spit out his tongue.
He looked at the squirrel and realized that it was his own fault. He shook his head and rubbed it on the tree trunk, trying to wipe off the stink.
"Don't rub it, baby, you can't wipe it off like this. Let's find a pond to wash." Song Xu said, pinching her nose.
Despite the sudden accident in the middle of the night, she was still able to laugh, and the more she thought about it while taking the big snake down the tree to find a pond, the funnier it became. The stunned reaction of the snake when it was sprayed with stinky liquid by a small animal it had never seen before was so funny that she couldn't stop laughing. As she
laughed, the big snake leaned towards her. Song Xu suddenly realized: "Ah! Don't rub it on me!"
How could Sheshe have such a bad idea? He just reminded her that there was a puddle ahead.
They wandered in the wild in the middle of the night, found the puddle, wiped off the smell on their bodies, waited until the smell of grass covered the smell, drank water together, and then found another big tree to sleep.
When walking outside, sleeping in the open, such emergencies often happen. Another time, when they were sleeping, a group of bats came to the tree.
The bats were in groups, and after flying, they all hung upside down on the tree trunk not far from Song Xu and the others, so that Song Xu could see the black shadows and pairs of small eyes on the tree with his eyes open. With so many spectators suddenly coming and watching, how could he sleep.
That's all. Bats hang there for a while and need to excrete. They won't fly away to avoid people when they excrete. They will just change their posture, head up, and then spray out.
Don't look down on these little things. Although they are small, you really can't afford to mess with them. Song Xu dared to provoke the wolf pack, but he didn't dare to reason with these spraying warriors because he couldn't communicate.
The big snake and the squirrel had to move to another place in the middle of the night.
There were some noises around and no one knew what animals made them. Song Xu couldn't always observe the source of the sound. Wumu was not interested in these sounds. He habitually put his head beside Song Xu or on her belly to detect her movements at any time and prevent her from falling off the tree when she was drowsy.
Only when those silly animals accidentally landed near the squirrel at night and became interested in her, the big snake would suddenly come alive, suddenly open its mouth to scare the passing creatures and scare them away. In other cases, even if a bird landed on him and pecked at his scales, he would be too lazy to move his tail. In
the early morning, the world was shrouded in thick fog.
The fog here was different from the fog in the forest. It felt more empty and ethereal.
Song Xu stared at the outlines of the trees in the mist in the distance, and couldn't help but think of the various horror movies he had watched. Generally, when there is a thick fog, there will be monsters in the fog.
In the white mist, there were thin and long shadows, and huge and indescribable monsters would also emerge from the mist, with perhaps countless twisted limbs and countless eyes, floating silently and approaching.
Too many associations made Song Xu lift the head of the big snake next to him and try to drill under his head, just like lying on the bed and trying to cover himself with a quilt to find a sense of security.
The big snake was awakened by her. He did not find any danger in this quiet and peaceful morning. He didn't know what the squirrel was afraid of, but he still tolerantly followed her wishes and pressed her down with his jaws. He thought, just like she was afraid of thunder, she was probably afraid of the fog.
As the mist dissipated, Song Xu's fear also dissipated. She kicked the snake's chin away with one foot and moved her body on the tree trunk.
In the residual mist that had not completely dissipated, the shadow of the spotted deer passed by. With elegant antlers, several deer strolled together on the grass, like a gentleman getting up in the morning. I don't know if they had breakfast.
Then soon, one of the deer became the breakfast of the big snake.
Some snakes are good at hiding. Even a snake as big as Wumu can swim in the grass without making any sound, and then, it can kill with one strike. When Wumu bit the deer in his mouth, Song Xu realized that he was no longer on the tree trunk behind him. It was so quiet and so fast.
Wumu now eats a little more frequently than before, after all, he exercises every day and consumes more energy.
In fact, most of the time during the journey is very boring. They repeat the same life. In an area, most things remain the same, and the few interesting things need to be found.
"Mom! I found something interesting!" A baby elephant ran over, raised his trunk and made an elephant sound.
The squirrel and the big snake were found as interesting things.
It has been two months since Song Xu and Wu Mu left the forest. The land they walked on is no longer lush green, and occasionally the color of earth and rocks is revealed. The area of bare land and sand without vegetation is expanding. Small water sources such as streams, ditches and beaches are decreasing and gradually disappearing. In the direction they came from, all they can see is a big river.
Song Xu was quite happy to see traces of orcs again.
Living near the river bank are some larger orcs, elephants, rhinos, land turtles, and crocodiles living by the river. This tribe is quite a mixed bag.
Generally speaking, there are three ways for tribes to gather. One is that the same kind live together in groups to form a tribe. One is that they gather together because of similar tastes, such as being herbivorous, vegetarian, or meat-eating. The other is a mix of different sizes and different types of food, but because everyone lives nearby, they form a tribe.
This is obviously the last type. The smell of the beastmen left nearby is mixed.
Song Xu and Sheshe have seen many beastmen who retreated from them along the way. Suddenly, they saw a beastman who was not afraid of Sheshe and dared to approach them. It was strange.
Thinking about it, it is understandable. Although the first baby elephant in front of them discovered them, it is a little too big. If Sheshe swallowed him, his stomach would burst. Even if he became a human, this underage guy was estimated to be 1.9 meters tall.
The young beastman, who was not yet an adult, could not control his complete transformation. His ears looked a bit like elephant ears, and the two protruding ears were very eye-catching.
The young elephant was famous for being curious and playful. Since there were few natural enemies here, he had no sense of vigilance against strangers. This kind of innocence was quite different from the innocence of a young lamb. He was thick-skinned and fearless, and with a powerful parent behind him, he was even more afraid of nothing.
Song Xu chatted with the young elephant for a long time before an adult beastman from a nearby tribe came over. The few who came were also elephant beastmen. The heads of the elephant herd were all females. The older female elephant beastmen were more than two meters tall, almost three meters tall, with thick arms and a round waist, full of strength, and their skin felt a bit leathery when they turned into beastmen.
Looking at these sisters and aunts who were like mountains, Song Xu was a little scared and looked particularly well-behaved.
The elephant beastmen who came to see the situation and a rhino beastman who was watching the excitement surrounded them.
"This little half-beastman is about to turn into a beast. Why did he run here? There are no snake beastmen nearby, and snakes are rarely seen." The rhino beastman said.
Regarding the statement that he was about to turn into a beast, Song Xu did not comment, but only said: "We are passing by here and are going to a farther place. We are not looking for snake beastmen or snakes."
"Going to a farther place? It's not easy to walk farther."
"It doesn't matter. If it's hard to walk, we will take a detour." Seeing that their attitudes were all okay, Song Xu answered in a relaxed tone.
"Why are you going so far? I've never been to a far place!" the little elephant interrupted, and was pushed to the back by a group of adult beastmen.
"What kind of beastman are you? I've never seen a beastman like you." Some were curious about studying Song Xu and wanted to reach out and touch her hair.
Song Xu held the big snake's mouth and replied, "I'm a squirrel beastman." There were indeed no squirrels here, and it was estimated that it was not suitable for squirrels to survive.
The oldest beastman from the elephant tribe stopped the other tribesmen who were curious and wanted to touch the squirrels, and said, "You can stay here for a while, but you can't hurt people in our tribe, and you can't get close to our tribe."
This wave of beastmen left, and the second wave of onlookers came again, still mainly beastmen from the elephant tribe. It seems that curiosity is not exclusive to baby elephants.
Even if the people in this tribe didn't say it, Song Xu would not enter the tribe. She was still worried that Sheshe would be stepped on by these big beastmen.
They stopped upstream of the river.
"Let's rest by this stone at night." Song Xu decided.
"Let's change places. I'll leave soon." A voice said.
Song Xu stared at the motionless mouth of the snake, and suddenly reacted: "Who is talking?!"
She turned her head in horror and saw that the "stone" she chose had turned into a living person. The big turtle shell like a stone became a carapace like clothes on her body, and another giant over two meters tall stood in front of her.
This is a land turtle beastman.
Looking at them, the land turtle beastman was about to leave slowly, and suddenly turned back to look at the tiger tooth necklace hanging on Song Xu's waist, revealing a look of recollection: "It looks a bit familiar, this necklace seems to belong to a tiger beastman."
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