39 Wilderness Survival
◎Ye Zhizhi subconsciously covered her mouth when she saw the look in Wolf Mom's eyes.◎
Regardless of the process, Ye Zhizhi's captive breeding plan was ultimately successful.
Afterwards, Ye Zhizhi asked Brother Wolf and the others to bring back some more live rabbits. This wave of rabbits was more docile than the previous one. They didn't run away once and even played happily with the first wave of rabbits.
Ye Zhizhi was puzzled, but soon put it behind her and began to imagine.
Her plan is to raise these twenty rabbits and see how things go. If she can raise them successfully, they should be able to give birth to many baby rabbits soon!
Ye Zhizhi thought of the scene where the entire valley was full of rabbits... She wiped her saliva and thought, just wait a little longer, it will soon become a reality!
Sure enough, not long after things settled down, Ye Zhizhi noticed several of the female rabbits' bellies were bulging. More than half a month later, she noticed a surge of new life in the rabbit hive. She ran over to take a look and discovered… nine more!
Ye Zhizhi jumped up and down, letting out a roar of joy. She had truly succeeded! There were now nine little rabbits, and soon there would be more! There were still three female rabbits yet to give birth! So many rabbits!
Yin Yi, who was standing by, didn't understand what was going on. After a moment, he realized that he should be happy about the extra prey, so he howled too.
The rabbits who heard the wolf howling: "..." They couldn't help but tremble instinctively, having a bad feeling.
Ye Zhizhi climbed onto Yinyi's back and called it back to the nest.
When he returned to the den and rushed to the boulder nest, Ye Zhizhi pounced on the silver wolf, howling and pulling its hair, calling the wolf mother to come and see her results.
The wolf king, who finally had time to be intimate with his wife but was interrupted: "..." Annoying wolf cub.
The silver wolf rubbed the cub whose face was red with excitement, let her ride on its back, and carried her out.
The forgotten wolf king: "..." It stood up and followed slowly behind.
The wolves know exactly what the cubs have been doing recently. Although they don't understand, as long as the older cubs don't take the younger ones out of the territory, they will let them do whatever they want. And from time to time, there are wolves patrolling the territory and can see what the cubs are doing.
At this moment, seeing the Wolf King, Silver Wolf and his cubs all running out in a hurry, Scar and the other wolves, who felt that there was something exciting to watch, followed them with their tails wagging, and then the wolves they met on the road also followed.
So when they reached the valley, almost all the wolves had come.
The rabbits surrounded by a dozen wolves: "..." trembling.
Ye Zhizhi stood on the rock, head held high and chest puffed out, pointing at the rabbit to the wolves, and roared loudly, as if to say, "This is the kingdom I have built."
The wolves looked at the pile of prey in amazement.
They all knew that the cubs brought the captured prey here to raise, but they didn't think much about it. They even indulged the cubs and didn't go in when they asked not to enter or leave the valley at will, but just took a few glances when passing by.
They saw all the prey in the valley, but these prey were marked as cubs, so the wolves would not touch them.
Can you actually raise prey and then give birth to prey?
Wolves are naturally intelligent creatures, and previously, they had no concept of captive prey. Now, this strange cub in the pack has demonstrated the process and its consequences... Many wolves are wondering: if they capture prey alive and raise it, could they also produce prey? That way, they won't go hungry during the rainy season and winter?
Silver One, Two Brown and several other wolves who participated in the whole process were howling with joy.
They said, Wolf Girl is so awesome!
Ye Zhizhi raised his little chin, squinted his eyes and grinned, enjoying the wolves' admiring gazes.
The wolves also wanted to raise prey, but large prey were difficult to catch alive and raise, so they had to settle for the next best thing and caught some small prey such as roe deer to raise with their cubs.
Before I knew it, there were several more roe deer and colorful pheasants in the valley...
Ye Zhizhi looked at her more lively valley. She looked around and felt that the plants in the valley were decreasing rapidly, and it seemed a little bare.
She needs to plant some more plants in there, she can't let it starve.
Ye Zhizhi diligently continued her breeding business. After a while, when she returned to the nest, she keenly heard the humming of the young cubs.
Her steps froze, her relaxed expression changed, and she walked towards the source of the sound almost uncontrollably.
Then she saw that the new wolf aunt gave birth to three little wolf cubs.
After the spring, Ye Zhizhi would run out before dawn every day and return to the den after dark. Aunt Wolf seemed to have become invisible and never appeared in her sight again. It turned out that she had been staying in the den to take care of her baby.
Ye Zhizhi stood aside, staring blankly for a long time.
The three little wolf cubs were just born today. Their eyes are not open yet. They are nestled in their wolf mother's belly, humming and looking for food.
Yin Yi walked over, lowered his head and nudged Ye Zhizhi. Beast Eyes was puzzled. Didn't he like playing with the cubs? Why didn't he go over and take a look?
Ye Zhizhi turned around and ran away.
She ran back to the boulder nest and dived into the wolf mother's belly. She burrowed in like a cricket pupa, almost burying herself completely in the wolf mother's hair.
The silver wolf lowered its head and looked at the cub lying between its limbs with only its little head vaguely visible. It felt her sudden depressed mood. Wasn't she obsessed with raising prey before and was happy every day?
The cub's mood changes so quickly.
Yin Yi came up from behind and howled at Ye Zhizhi a few times, as if calling Ye Zhizhi out, but she seemed not to hear him and remained motionless.
The silver bird had no choice but to go down to the huge rock nest. Once this winter was over, it would lose the right to rest here and would be driven away to build its own nest.
Of course, once Yin Yi grows up, he naturally can no longer live in the same nest with his parents.
It’s not that Ye Zhizhi didn’t want to respond to Brother Wolf, she just suddenly felt depressed, didn’t want to move or think, and suddenly thought of the little wolf cubs.
She was still a little sad.
A little bit……
With such a mood, Ye Zhizhi hid herself under the wolf mother's body, silently digesting the negative emotions. She didn't know when she fell asleep. When she woke up the next day, she was full of energy again, howling and pulling the wolf mother to go out.
Ye Zhizhi showed Wolf Mother the remaining comfrey and the hemoclotting grass that could heal wounds in the corner, and kept telling her that she wanted to go out and find these herbs.
She knew that these grasses were not in the territory. She and Silver One and Two Brown had run around in the territory many times but had never found any. These grasses were only outside the territory.
In the eyes of the wolves, Yin Yi and the others have grown up and they don't need to care where they go, but Ye Zhizhi is different. She is still a cub with no ability to protect herself. She can only play in the territory and under the eyes of the wolves.
Ye Zhizhi was very curious about the world outside the territory. After being expelled in a miserable manner last time, she was not in the mood to pay attention to her surroundings and did not have much impression. The only impression she had was that the scenery was very different from what she saw in the territory.
She had wanted Brother Wolf to take her out before, but Brother Wolf and the others refused and didn't even take her hunting, judging that she was not yet grown enough to hunt.
Therefore, if she wanted to find herbs to transplant, she could only ask her mother wolf and father wolf king to take her out.
Ye Zhizhi and Silver Wolf acted coquettishly for a while, and when they saw the wolf king father beside them, he also came over and howled, looking at them eagerly.
She thought, if the wolf king father was also along, the wolf mother would feel safer and would be more likely to be willing to take her out, right?
The silver wolf looked at the cub for a moment, remembered how depressed she was last night, and nudged her.
Ye Zhizhi saw that Wolf Mother agreed, and immediately climbed up and sat down with shining eyes.
"Oh~" She is ready!
When the wolf king saw his wife and cubs leaving the den, he stood up and walked behind them. As expected, the four young wolves, Silver One, Two Brown, and others followed. Soon after, Uncle Scar and Uncle Broken Tail also followed silently.
Ye Zhizhi knew this would happen, but it was okay, because then she would have plenty of wolf power to help!
The silver wolf knew that the cub wanted to find herbs, so he indulged her and took her to find them.
These plants are neither difficult nor hard to find. Basically, once you find them, you can just go back there and look for them next time you need them.
There are plants that can heal insect bites not far outside the territory.
This was the plant that Silver Wolf first took Ye Zhizhi to find.
Beyond the wolf pack’s territory, Ye Zhizhi couldn’t see enough with his eyes. The farther away from the territory, the more the surrounding scenery changed.
She couldn't help but sigh, "The territory is really barren! It's really a big difference."
After coming out, she felt that the forest was rich in resources and much more lively.
However, this kind of liveliness gave people a creepy feeling.
The sounds of birds and insects were clearly normal, and other than that the surroundings were very quiet. It was this silence that made it seem as if the air in the forest had frozen.
The wolves looked much more serious. Ye Zhizhi could see that they were highly concentrated and alert at all times, as if danger could occur at any time.
Ye Zhizhi's nerves couldn't help but tense up, and he looked around from time to time with a serious face.
In her hand she held a wooden stick with a sharp end.
This stick is not the same one as before. The one was broken after she tried to make fire by drilling wood together a few times. This one was found later and is thicker.
Fortunately, the journey was smooth and the wolves arrived at a mountain stream.
The mountain stream looks very deep, and the ancient trees on both sides grow inward, as if trying to touch each other. From a distance, the distance seems very close. The roots of the trees are rooted in the mountain wall and tightly entangled with the exposed rocks. At first glance, they look like big snakes climbing on the rocks.
Ye Zhizhi only looked at the scenery for a moment before his gaze moved to the clusters of plants growing among the rugged rocks on the cliff.
It’s comfrey!
Ye Zhizhi slid down happily and rushed over holding the wooden stick.
The silver wolf didn't realize there was any danger nearby, so he didn't stop the cub.
The wolves thought that they needed to change their grass nest, so they easily jumped onto the rocks, lowered their heads, buried their heads in the grass, opened their mouths, bit it, and pulled, tearing out a large piece.
Ye Zhizhi rushed forward and found herself very small among the rocks. She climbed for a long time using her hands and feet, but a wolf nearby carried her up.
Ye Zhizhi dug up the comfrey to look at the roots and found that they were densely growing in the cracks of the rocks. Then a black and purple main stem grew out from the root system, and thin strips of comfrey grew out along the stem.
Ye Zhizhi grabbed a stem with both hands and pulled it out with all his might as if he were pulling a radish, but it was as solid as a mountain and did not move.
She lowered her head and observed carefully, and found that the root system under the main stem was very developed, as if it was rooted in the rock. The soil adhering to the roots was as hard as stone, and the other main stems nearby grew from the same root system.
No wonder the wolves didn't bite the main stem directly, but instead pulled out the leaves. Not only could they not pull them out, they couldn't bite them either.
Ye Zhizhi thought about his planting plan, and finally he patiently broke the roots, trying his best to keep the roots under the main stem, severing the connection with other stems, and then worked hard to pull them out.
Ye Zhizhi's face turned red from exerting too much force, but when the wolf king passed by, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he pushed the cub away, opened his mouth, bit the stem, and pulled it out with force.
The rocks under his feet seemed to shake. After the stem of the comfrey was pulled out, many of the dense roots underneath were broken. Some of them were even thicker than the main stem. No wonder Ye Zhizhi couldn't pull it out.
After finding this one, Ye Zhizhi stopped pulling out the plants. Looking at the surrounding growing environment, she was very worried that the plants would not survive if they were moved to her territory.
The silver-first-class wolves on the side were pulling the grass vigorously. They had just come out of the den, which was so simple and had nothing in it. They also wanted a den with grass as a cushion.
Ye Zhizhi also helped to pull out the weeds. After pulling out a lot, the wolves bit as much as they could into their mouths and prepared to take them back to their den.
Seeing this, Ye Zhizhi wondered how many times he would have to run this way.
So she tied several strands of comfrey, braiding them into strips like a braid, and then gathered the comfrey together and tied them into a big pile.
After making sure that you won't be left behind, push it down into the wolf's mouth. That's it.
Yin Yi's eyes widened in shock. He looked at the wolf girl's claws, then looked at his own claws on the ground, and couldn't help falling into deep thought.
If its two claws were also disabled, could it also do what Wolf Girl does? It would be so convenient!
In the end, it was Ye Zhizhi who took action and tied bundles of comfrey for the wolves. Then she had an idea: if they put the bundles on the wolves' backs and carried them back, wouldn't they be able to carry more?
This means she has to bundle more comfrey. Although she is too busy to stop, Ye Zhizhi is very happy. It feels good to be able to help, and it makes her feel that she is not a useless person.
This trip was a fruitful one.
The wolves carried a large pile of purple grass back to their den. The amount they brought back from this trip was enough to replace the purple grass in their den.
Ye Zhizhi held the stalks of comfrey and looked for a suitable place to plant them in his territory.
She didn't know whether the comfrey had to be planted in the cracks of the rocks. She couldn't find an exactly the same environment, so she finally found one that was as similar as possible. Then she filled the cracks with soil and tamped it tightly before planting it.
"Aoao——" There was still some dirt on Ye Zhizhi's face, and he couldn't help but express his thoughts to Yinlang.
She felt that the comfrey was quite close, so it didn't matter if she didn't plant it in her territory. The most important thing was that it was an herb that could stop bleeding and heal wounds.
Ye Zhizhi expressed her intention to ask the wolf mother to take her to find this herb, but this time the wolf mother did not respond. She looked at the cub's actions, and a deep thought flashed in her eyes.
Considering the cub's actions of raising prey and taking care of plants, the silver wolf could easily see the cub's intention. This was a behavior that was good for the wolf pack, and the silver wolf not only did not reject it, but also supported it.
So when Ye Zhizhi woke up early the next morning, the wolf king father and the wolf mother were gone. Ye Zhizhi was immediately furious.
The wolf king and his mother must have carried her out to look for herbs!
Why didn't they take her with them? She also wanted to see the living environment of the herbs! This way, it would be easier to grow them!
While Ye Zhizhi was angry, he did not forget to check on the breeding situation in the valley, and then went to the rock pile to see the growth of the comfrey.
As expected, the comfrey is still wilting, and with no water source in the territory, I don't know if it needs watering. I can only pray that it will grow in a couple of days.
The wolf king and his mother went out for three days. When they came back, they brought back a lot of plants. Not only were they uprooted, but they were also several different types of plants.
Ye Zhizhi had forgotten about being angry with them at this time. He rushed forward happily, watched them take off the plants on their bodies, and stood aside, watching curiously.
"Aoaowu?" Ye Zhizhi made a puzzled sound. She only recognized the blood-clotting grass and had never seen the others.
The wolf mother responded with a low whimper, but Ye Zhizhi didn't know what it meant. Since he couldn't speak human language, there were still many inconveniences in communication.
People, human words?
Ye Zhizhi suddenly remembered that she hadn't spoken human language for a long time, but she had to remember how to say it, so she repeated it -
"What the hell!"
Ye Zhizhi was still speaking word by word, and his pronunciation was unclear.
This babyish little tune would be very cute if it came from a real baby, but when Ye Zhizhi heard it herself, it didn't seem cute. She felt that she was already two years old, yet she still spoke so unclearly and couldn't even make coherent sentences!
The silver wolf heard the cub making strange noises and looked over with its animal eyes.
When Ye Zhizhi saw the look in Wolf Mother's eyes, he subconsciously covered his mouth.
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