"Wumu, what kind of egg is this?"
"…………"
"Turtle egg? Crocodile egg? Lizard egg? Snake egg? Or some kind of bird egg?"
The animals in this world are both familiar and unfamiliar to her world. The sizes of various animals are not absolute, so she can guess more widely. However, she started to get confused while guessing and joked, "It can't be a squirrel egg... Hahahaha, squirrels can't lay eggs!"
"...hiss."
"But no matter what kind of egg it is, it should be cooked now. Let's eat it." Song Xu picked up a branch and dug out the egg buried in the fire. Although it was buried in the pile of soil, the fire was too strong and the egg was cracked, but it didn't affect eating.
Since becoming a squirrel beastman, Song Xu has eaten less and less cooked food. This is not only to adapt to the needs of this body, but also to fulfill the lazy ghost who doesn't like to cook with others.
Until now, Song Xu occasionally makes a fire either for warmth or to boil water. If the water source found on the road is too dirty, Song Xu still can't drink it, and must heat it up before drinking. Squirrels can not eat cooked food, but they must drink boiled water!
Song Xu is interested in slowly frying eggs here, simply because the green visible to the naked eye ahead is almost gone, and the days of sufficient food will probably not be many, so she especially wants to cherish every meal she finds.
Song Xu peeled the eggs and ate them slowly, while Sheshe swallowed the eggs whole. He was not used to chewing, so he didn't even peel the eggshells. His strong digestive ability allowed him to digest bones, not to mention the small eggshells.
"Well, eating the eggshells together can be considered as calcium supplementation." Song Xu watched him tilt his head back and the three eggs disappeared into his mouth, and he muttered as he peeled his first egg.
After eating a snack, Song Xu put out the remaining fire and made sure that there was no more smoke, which marked the end.
The weather was still very hot. Song Xu looked at the exposed rocks in the distance, and his drooping tail was dragging on the ground, sweeping the ground with his tail like Sheshe. The reason she changed into beast form and hurried on her way was to reduce the area exposed to the sun, and it was also easier for the beast form to run on four paws than the human form.
But the result was not what she expected. It made her feel hotter and heavier.
There were no large trees nearby to provide shade, and the plants growing on the roadside were sparse, with thick stems and thin leaves, which were not suitable for providing shade. Moreover, it was really hard to find water in this place.
The squirrel was staggering, as if it would fall down at any time - it wasn't that the situation was really that bad, it was just that the sun was too strong and she was too hot to walk. As soon as
she fell down, Wu Mu noticed that the snake's tail rolled her up from the ground and put her on top of it.
The squirrel was like a furry vest draped over the slippery snake. The cold snake's body had been exposed to the sun for a long time and then became warmer. Song Xu lifted up his tail, shook off the dust on it, and covered his face with it to block the sun. But he took it off again after a while. It was too hot to cover his head with this furry vest and he couldn't stand it.
With a squirrel passenger on his body, the snake still swam forward at the same speed. Her weight was basically nothing to him, so this would often cause passengers to jump off the car passively and he would find it difficult to notice. Fortunately, the squirrel held on during this section of the journey and did not slide down.
They stopped to rest under a tree. Song Xu could still grab a few handfuls of leaves to quench his thirst, but Wu Mu could only bear it.
"Why don't we continue our journey at night?" Song Xu asked.
The advantage of traveling at night is that it is not as hot as during the day, but the disadvantage is that you can't see the road.
Song Xu walked next to Wumu's head, or walked behind him, holding onto the tip of his tail.
Wumu's body was pressed against the ground, so he could feel the ground shaking from a long distance, and he could also feel the water flowing. With this amazing skill, Wumu found the water source, and drank a lot of water with the squirrel by the water.
The squirrel finished drinking water, and saw that Snake was still drinking. His body was particularly long, and he needed to drink a lot of water, so he had to drink for a while. With a head buried in the water, the gills bulged regularly, and Song Xu pinched the gills with her hands.
Snake, who was interrupted from drinking water, shook her head slightly to get rid of her hand, and Song Xu chased after her and pinched it again. No matter how many times you watch it, Sheshe is so cute when she drinks water, especially when she is extremely thirsty and gulps down water.
The movement of her cheeks and swallowing are particularly obvious. Sheshe stopped drinking water, probably thinking about which is more difficult, stopping her from playing or having her cheeks pinched to help her drink water. After thinking about it, he decisively ignored her hands that were touching her randomly.
They drank enough water, waded across the river, and went to the other side. There
are quite a lot of rocks here, and there are some trees with particularly thick trunks, and these trees have thorns. In the dark night, Song Xu touched the edge of the tree and wanted to pick some leaves to taste, but was pricked by the thorns on the tree.
The squirrel howled and licked the blood spots on his fingers. The anti-theft mechanism of this tree is really good.
Sheshe approached her hand and probed his tongue, and found nothing wrong. There were too many thorny trees around, so he chose another direction to go around.
In the second half of the night, Song Xu, who hadn't adjusted his schedule yet, felt sleepy and began to yawn one after another. He changed his mind: "Let's find a place to sleep and set off again tomorrow morning."
Wumu still didn't have any objections, because it didn't make a difference to him.
There are many stone crevices and caves nearby, which can shelter from wind and rain and are very suitable for temporary nests. When Song Xu saw these caves, he thought of Sheshe's caves, although the stones and colors were different.
"How about we rest in this crevice? Do you like this crevice or the one next to it?" Song Xu fully respected Sheshe's right to choose. After he moved his coiled tail toward one of them, she happily announced, "This is it!"
She walked about one step ahead of Sheshe, and it was this one step difference that allowed her to hit a spider web before Sheshe.
This huge spider web was in the middle of the crevice, almost blocking the entire crevice from the middle. The spider silk was completely invisible in the dark, as if it was invisible, causing Song Xu to bump into it and then discover the spider web.
Before, Song Xu passed by a mountain stream in the mountains, and there were also spiders in the green tunnel where many snakes appeared. Thumb-sized spiders with eight hair-like legs would lie on the water with their bodies raised, eating mosquitoes and small insects.
Or black and gray spiders would weave a one-square-meter web on the branches and long-stemmed weeds by the water. The fine threads would become shiny and glisten with countless rhinestones in the early morning or after the rain, which was beautiful and fun.
But now this spider web. Song Xu felt the sticky liquid on the spider web, and her mood was complicated. Other spider webs are woven with fine silk, but this spider web is simply woven with wool. How could it be so thick!
Moreover, the "wool" was coated with "glue", and it all stuck to her head and body, and she couldn't tear it off.
With a little force, the hair on her head was pulled off. Anyone with a certain amount of life experience knows that foam glue is very difficult to remove once it gets stuck on your hands. At this moment, Song Xu recalled the feeling of having his hands covered with foam glue when he was doing handicrafts in the past. It was so similar.
Wumu saw that she was covered in spider webs and wanted to come up to help, but was stopped by Song Xu: "No! Just stay here and don't move, otherwise I'll tear off the webs on my body and then I'll have to tear off yours!"
Song Xu was busy dealing with the webs on his body, and Wumu noticed the unusual movement first. A spider with a big belly appeared from the darkness and crawled down the web. A spider that can weave such a thick spider web must not be small. This one is more than one meter long, and its long legs are even more exaggerated.
This is a spider beast. It is a female spider beast that urgently needs to replenish nutrition after mating. Her mating partner this time, the male spider that also serves as a food reserve, did not die after the mating, and luckily ran away, resulting in her lack of nutrition now.
Generally speaking, beastmen will not eat their own kind, but there are exceptions, and the spider beastman in front of him is one of them. It is the nature of many creatures in nature to eat each other, and this does not change even if they become beastmen.
The hungry big spider did not give up easily when a meal was delivered to its doorstep, even if there was a half-beast who looked difficult to deal with next to it.
The spider beastman tried to tie up the squirrel caught in the net with silk, and then quickly escaped after getting it.
After she showed this intention, the big snake suddenly rushed to the web and tumbled her big web into a ball. Regardless of the webs that stuck to her body, she interrupted her way forward and tied her up.
This spider is poisonous. Because of this poison, she has lived here for many years and has never encountered an opponent. Once the prey falls into the net, it will soon be paralyzed by the toxins on it and lose the ability to resist.
At this moment, she was suddenly rolled to the ground. She turned over and subconsciously wanted to bite the snake to save herself with poison. Unfortunately, before she pierced the tough snake skin, her slender legs and body were squeezed and exploded.
This life-and-death battle ended very quickly. From the time Song Xu saw the big spider appear to the time the big spider left the stage, she only had time to exclaim: "What a big spider."
"Why do I feel a little itchy?" Song Xu felt something was wrong. She grabbed her arms and face and soon began to feel dizzy. Before she fainted, she realized the reason and said angrily, "How can even the spider web mucus be poisonous? I have never heard of this kind of spider before!" She
felt dizzy and nauseous, and the places on her body that came into contact with the mucus were red, swollen and stinging. Not long after Song Xu fainted, she was awakened by the pain again. Her body was swaying, as if someone was holding her in someone's arms and rushing.
Song Xu squinted her eyes and saw that it was Wumu in the half-orc form that she hadn't seen for a long time.
He was different from the last time she saw him in half-orc form. Although his upper body still maintained a human shape, his body was covered with snake scales. The chest where she leaned on felt a thin layer of cool snake scales.
The dark red scales with black patterns spread to the chin and mouth. At first glance, it looked like he was wearing a black mask or a turtleneck sweater.
Some people might find this form scary, like a monster that failed to transform, but Song Xu thought it was particularly handsome. Song Xu, whose face was swollen because her head hit the spider web first and who could only see through a narrow slit of eyes, whistled.
Wumu looked down at her, and perhaps he could not tell whether her eyes were open or not under her swollen eyelids, so he shook her again.
"I'm awake, stop shaking, where are we going?" Song Xu saw that most of the spider webs on her body had been torn off, but some were still stuck on her body and could not be torn off. This damn foam glue that can't be torn off!
"Water...wash." Wumu said.
"Go to the water to wash this?" Even though Song Xu was feeling unwell, she still spoke more fluently than a snake. She was brooding over this matter, "Why are spider webs poisonous?"
Wumu couldn't tell her the answer, because it was also the first time he encountered such a beast.
Song Xu actually often has various small problems, such as a swollen mouth, swollen and numb hands, and a hoarse voice. These are usually because she accidentally ate poisonous plants, but they heal quickly. Wumu had never seen her faint suddenly before, and it really scared him. She was so
scared that her hands grew out.
The arms that grew a layer of scales looked like they were wearing close-fitting clothes if you didn't look closely. They were covered with spider silk and mucus. After rubbing them clean in the water, they rubbed them on Song Xu. The slightly anxious movement touched the squirrel, and he also felt that his heart was about to be vomited out by him. He was really strong.
"I, I can do it myself!" Song Xu struggled to sit up from the water, and urged Wu Mu, "Don't just watch, tear off the spider silk on your tail."
The spider silk on his body was no less than hers, sticking to his body to form crack-like traces.
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