The three of them met up.
Xia Lunong looked at his brother, then at Yan Xinian, and asked, "Are we going to Brother Liao Cheng's house to look for him?"
"No, let's go to the Great Wall and wait for him."
Xia Huoqu was tall and had long legs. He reached out and pulled his brother's collar, turning him in a different direction so that his eyes wouldn't keep moving back and forth between him and Yan Xinian.
The three of them walked very fast.
Xia Lunong had been going to the Great Wall behind the house recently. His physical strength and balance had improved a lot. He didn't fall behind, but was able to walk in front and climb to the top of the mountain without blushing or panting.
Xia Huoqu always wanted the best for his brother in his heart. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
His brother had indeed grown up, and he had grown better than he had imagined. Sometimes there was no need to be too cautious.
The three of them reached the Great Wall, and the strong mountain breeze blew over, blowing away the summer heat.
Xia Lunong narrowed her eyes, opened her hands in the sunshine, and raised her lips.
April already had a summery feel. The sun shone on her body, and the slightly hot warmth went straight into her heart, dispelling the remaining coldness coming from the shadows.
Liao Cheng had already been waiting for them up there.
Seeing them, Liao Cheng stood up and waved at them from a distance, "Here! Shall we go to Xiaoman Village today?"
Xia Huoqu nodded and raised his voice in response, "Not many people go there, we should be able to find something."
"Yeah, it's Xiaonong's first time going out, let's go to a safer place." Liao Cheng smiled, "Let's see how Xiaonong's luck is."
Xia Lunong immediately said, "My luck is average."
"Hahaha, that's not necessarily true, newbies usually have very good luck."
Xia Lunong was a little nervous, "It's okay if you think it's okay, but I'm not responsible for my own luck."
"Let's not talk yet. The sun is too hot. Let's go out early and have a rest at noon." Xia Huoqu waved to Xia Lunong to come over, and held his shoulder and said to Liao Cheng and Yan Xinian, "Let's just change into beast form, faster, we can hunt when we get to Xiaoman Village."
Yan Xinian smiled, "It's not too late to go slower. It's Xiaonong's first time going out, so walk slowly and look around."
Xia Lunong looked at his brother.
His brother pondered for a moment, "Okay."
The three of them took off their backpacks neatly and adjusted the straps of the backpacks.
Liao Cheng just shortened the straps of the backpack, while Yan Xinian and Xia Huoqu directly adjusted the two straps of the backpack to be extremely long, and then put the two straps together to adjust it to a single shoulder bag.
Xia Lunong followed their example, put down the backpack on his back, and began to adjust the straps of the backpack awkwardly.
Xia Huoqu looked up at him and said, "You adjust the straps of the backpack tighter, as I told you this morning, to a tightness that won't be thrown off and won't hinder your movement."
Xia Lunong nodded hurriedly.
He quickly adjusted it, put it on his back, lifted the floating backpack straps to his chest, tied a knot at his chest, tied another knot at his waist, and jumped in place twice to make sure it was okay.
Xia Huoqu adjusted his own backpack, put it on the ground, and came over to check on him.
After confirming that everything was correct, Xia Huoqu patted his arm and said, "I've told you that I will turn back into wolf form in a while. You climb onto my back and find the most suitable position to sit firmly. Hold the straps of your schoolbag tightly with your hands. You can also grab my fur, but you must grab a lot of it."
Xia Lunong swallowed nervously and nodded seriously, "I understand."
The voice was weak and hollow as soon as it came out.
Xia Huoqu said, "Don't be afraid. I will run slower. If you have anything to say, just shout on my back and I will stop when I hear you."
Xia Lunong nodded again.
Liao Cheng had already started to take off his clothes. Seeing that he was nervous, he grinned, "Don't worry. There is a child of 11 or 12 years old in the base who often goes out with his father. You are better than the child."
Xia Lunong forced a smile.
Liao Cheng had already taken off all his clothes, shoes and socks, stuffed them into his schoolbag, zipped up the double-headed zipper, and tied the two zippers together to ensure that the clothes inside would not fall out. He then lay down on the ground.
He quickly grew taller and bigger, and yellow hair grew on his body.
He turned into a Chinese pastoral dog in the blink of an eye!
"!!!" Xia Lunong couldn't believe it.
He never thought that Liao Cheng's beast form would be a Chinese pastoral dog!
It was the kind of Chinese pastoral dog with yellow hair all over its body, but much larger than the Chinese pastoral dog before the disaster, about the size of an Alaskan, and almost as tall as Xia Lunong's waist when standing up.
Liao Cheng smiled at Xia Lunong, with the curves on both sides of his mouth curled up, revealing a pink tongue, looking like a real dog.
Xia Lunong almost couldn't help wanting to rub the dog's head, but fortunately he reacted quickly and realized that this was not a real dog, but his brother Liao Cheng.
Liao Cheng didn't mind at all, and happily "woofed", and bumped Xia Lunong's leg with the dog's head, indicating that he should touch it.
Xia Lunong's eyes were filled with surprise, and he stretched out his hand and asked tentatively: "Can I touch it?"
"Woof" Liao Cheng bumped him again.
Xia Lunong had never imagined that his brother Liao Cheng, who smoked and drank, would look like this when he turned into a beast. He laughed "ha" and gently touched the dog's back with his hand.
Out of courtesy, he only touched it once, and then he stopped and turned to look at his brother and Yan Xinian.
His brother and Yan Xinian also took off their clothes and packed their clothes.
Both of them turned their backs to people and turned into beasts directly while standing.
This change happened in just a moment.
Xia Lunong felt his eyes blurred, and his brother and his former brother were no longer in front of him. Instead, there was a huge long-haired silver wolf and a white tiger.
The giant wolf was at least two and a half meters tall, four or five meters long, with a pair of ice-blue eyes and double eyelids. It didn't look ferocious at all, but rather very gentle and peaceful.
The giant tiger stood behind, which was even bigger than the wolf his brother had turned into. Its body was full of smooth muscles. It couldn't even stand on the Great Wall and had to stand sideways.
No matter how much Xia Lunong had prepared himself mentally, he was dumbfounded when he saw this scene.
He looked at the giant wolf in front of him and called out cautiously, "Brother?"
His brother responded by nudging him with his head.
"Wow! Brother, it's really you! You're so handsome!" Xia Lunong rushed over, lying on his brother, hugged his brother's neck, buried in the long and thick hair and took a deep breath.
Damn, so happy!
Xia Lunong, who had only secretly sucked cats before, found that it was much happier for his brother to suck than to suck cats!
The giant wolf nudged him with his long snout.
Xia Lunong looked at him, then at the giant tiger behind him, and asked: "Brother, you have turned into beasts, so can't you talk?"
"Awoo." The giant wolf answered him.
Xia Lunong understood at once, he stepped back, watched his brother lower his head to pick up the bag on the ground and put it on his neck, and hurried over to help.
His brother's movements were very skillful, he put it on with a pick and a throw, then he lay down, nudged Xia Lunong with his snout again, and signaled him to climb on his back.
Xia Lunong walked over clumsily. He originally wanted to sit directly on his brother's back, but he was afraid that his brother would feel pain. He stood in front of his brother, a little at a loss.
The yellow dog Liao Cheng, who had already put his backpack firmly on his back, walked over and gently nudged him, and he fell onto his brother's soft body.
The tip of his brother's ears twitched, but there was no other reaction. It didn't look painful.
Xia Lunong didn't want to waste time any more, so he quickly sat on his brother's back and reached out to grab the backpack strap around his neck, "Brother, I'm fine."
"Ouch." Xia Huoqu responded.
Liao Cheng was the first to stand up, walked to the edge of the city wall, spread his legs, and jumped directly to the outside of the base.
Next was Yan Xinian. The huge white tiger jumped lightly on its two front legs and landed on the ground, and then followed with its two hind legs.
Xia Huoqu turned his head and looked at Xia Lunong, "Awoo?"
Xia Lunong heard the doubt in his voice and nodded quickly, "I'm ready!"
After saying that, he lowered his head, and instead of grabbing the straps of his schoolbag, he hugged his brother's neck tightly.
Xia Huoqu rubbed his head and also jumped lightly.
When jumping, Xia Lunong was thrown up, which brought him an extremely exciting feeling of weightlessness. He was so nervous that his heart stopped for a moment.
Fortunately, the feeling of weightlessness was only for a moment. The next moment, Xia Huoqu's feet had already stepped on the ground and he ran forward lightly.
Xia Lunong hugged his brother's neck and turned his head to look around.
Liao Cheng turned into a big yellow dog to lead the way in front, and Yan Xinian turned into a giant tiger to block the way behind. There was the sky above his head and grass and trees on all sides.
There was a path under his feet, but it was a place where the soil was hardened and the grass and trees were sparse, so it was not a proper cement road.
This path should have been trampled out by the people in the base who walked on it all year round.
His brother ran too fast, and the wind blew over, as if it would break his eyelashes, and dust and other things blew with the wind. He couldn't open his eyes and could only half-squinted his eyes to see.
The grass and trees on both sides retreated, and these were all towering trees.
Xia Lunong had been standing on the city wall before and couldn't see clearly. When she was really in it, she found that many giant trees and vines had various tumors growing on them. The huge and twisted tumors made people feel cold.
The forest was not quiet. From time to time, the sounds of birds and insects could be heard in his ears, and the sound was quite loud.
Xia Lunong tried to search for the location of the bird-beast, but succeeded only a few times. In these attempts, she could only see a white shadow.
The surrounding scenery was very beautiful and novel, and Xia Lunong looked at it without blinking.
After running along the path extending outside the base for an unknown period of time, Xia Lunong finally saw the cement road, or rather the damaged cement road. The
original cement road had long been destroyed by the roots of various plants, with cracks and ridges everywhere. The vines and weeds almost completely covered the road surface, and the original appearance of the road surface could only be glimpsed from a few gaps.
The condition of the cement road was worse than that of the jungle. Xia Huoqu and his companions did not walk on the cement road, but walked along the edge of the cement road.
Xia Lunong kept looking to both sides, and saw the shadows of many animals, such as a bird with two heads and a wild boar with a few extra tails.
When these animals saw them, they all avoided them from a distance, and they were running very fast, so Xia Lunong could only see their shadows.
They kept running, and they didn't stop to rest.
Walking through one section after another, the scenery changed again and again.
After turning a corner for an unknown number of times, Xia Lunong still looked forward.
This time, he saw not only greenery, but also ruins.