68 Wilderness Survival
◎Light green stalactite water falls into the water.◎
Ye Zhizhi slept very deeply. After realizing that he was safe, the tense string in his heart relaxed and he soon fell into a deep sleep.
She slept all day and all night.
When Ye Zhizhi opened his eyes, he still felt confused as to what day it was. He looked up at the dimly glowing cave.
Her consciousness was still hazy. When she moved her hands and feet, it was like turning on a switch. The pain as if ants were crawling and gnawing on her quickly spread throughout her limbs. Ye Zhizhi's tears welled up immediately.
What's going on?
Why was she in so much pain! It felt like every bone in her body was broken, and every part of her body was aching. Even when she had been separated from the wolves and had been running for her life every few days, she had never felt such pain.
This ubiquitous pain made Ye Zhizhi wake up instantly. She dared not move, but the pain was still surging, one wave after another.
“Ahh…”
Woohoo, Wolf Mom is feeling so miserable...
Ye Zhizhi couldn't help but call out to Wolf Mother. She had no idea why she was like this.
“Ooooooo…”
Ye Zhizhi felt like all the bones in her body were broken. "Wolf mom, cub, it hurts so much..."
This was the first time Ye Zhizhi felt such a heart-wrenching pain.
Before she fell asleep, everything was normal. She could run and jump, hopping around and exploring the cave until she felt tired, then she went to sleep.
After such a long time, Ye Zhizhi didn't even feel the injuries on her body. She was naturally injured in the process of escaping, but these injuries were not particularly deep, nor serious enough to cause profuse bleeding. As long as the injuries were not too severe, she had long been accustomed to those minor injuries from bumps and bruises.
Ye Zhizhi didn't expect that when she woke up from her sleep, her body had changed drastically, as if she had been run over by something heavy while she was sleeping.
Could it be that there is more than just one python in the cave, and there are other creatures as well?
Ye Zhizhi couldn't understand why he was like this. His mind was filled with the word "pain" and he couldn't think of anything else.
When Ye Zhizhi was being chased by the monster, he was constantly stimulating his body's potential and breaking through his limits under the urging of the instinct for survival.
Even an adult's body cannot withstand such consumption, let alone a cub like Ye Zhizhi whose bones are still soft.
It wasn't obvious at first, but now, all the sequelae have emerged, making Ye Zhizhi feel so uncomfortable that he felt like his whole body was reorganizing and every cell was in pain.
Ye Zhizhi was in so much pain that she kept yelling "Wolf Mom."
The traces of falls and blows on Ye Zhizhi's body also appeared, especially the bruises on the joints were particularly heavy.
The previous escape run did not exceed Ye Zhizhi's endurance limit too much. With the little sequelae, she rested for a night and was a lively child again the next day.
But this time, the power that Ye Zhizhi burst out while being chased by the monster far exceeded her own carrying capacity.
It is precisely because of this that she was able to miraculously survive.
However, the sequelae are a little more serious.
Ye Zhizhi cried out in pain and kept calling for Wolf Mother. Later, he even called out to Yin Yi and Wolf King Father.
Her call did not attract the wolf, but instead attracted the python that was resting on the other side.
The python's head drooped, its coiled body winding along the ground, and in an instant it was next to the crying cub.
"Hiss...hiss..." The sound beside his ears was extremely clear, and Ye Zhizhi's cheek was touched again and again by the cold and wet snake tongue.
The python's hearing detected the cub's abnormal breath, and its pupils seemed to be scanning, sensing that the cub's body organs were in an abnormal state.
Ye Zhizhi's senses were also extremely sensitive. She had noticed the arrival of the python, but she couldn't react. The wolf she wanted to see most was not around, which made her feel very aggrieved.
I really want the wolf mother to lick her and comfort her...
The python turned and crawled away. Before its tail left the rock, it lifted up and rolled up its cub on the rock and continued to crawl out.
Ye Zhizhi was hanging on the python's tail. Being wrapped and pulled like this, her whole body felt even more painful, and her tears fell on the snake's tail that was wrapped around her.
She didn't care where the python wanted to take her, she just wanted to relieve the pain in her body. Soon the python came to the edge of the hot spring lake. It didn't stop, its head slightly raised above the water, and its belly continued to bend forward and crawl, making a sound as it entered the water.
The huge body of the python slowly sank into the water, floating up and down, appearing and disappearing on the misty water surface.
The cub, tucked into its tail, also waded across the lake, making a gentle sound of water.
It swam to the largest hot spring lake, its long, thick body tumbling and swirling in the water, its tail carrying the cub atop its coiled body before it sank back into the water. The python's head rested on the small rock island, slowly coming to rest.
The rippling water surface calmed down. Ye Zhizhi was now lying on top of the coiled snake body. Her entire body was almost immersed in water, even the back of her head was soaked in shallow hot spring water, leaving only her face facing upwards, exposed above the water.
The warm water slowly washed over Ye Zhizhi's body, slowly relieving her pain.
Ye Zhizhi's groaning sound became weaker, and the pain between his brows slowly eased.
Ding! Boom!
At the place where the hot spring lake is connected to the stone wall, there are white conical stalactites hanging upside down above the stone wall. Drops of light green stalactite water fall into the water, and the sound is extremely clear in the quiet cave.
A closer look revealed that many stalactites of various shapes were inverted on this stone wall, like natural jade carvings, emitting a warm luster in the dark cave. The condensed liquid dripping down was light green, as if flowing with the legendary spiritual liquid.
The cave became quiet again.
Ye Zhizhi heard the sound of dripping water, which seemed to hypnotize him. His eyes, still filled with tears, closed slightly, and he fell asleep in a short while.
The python rested its head on the stone island and continued to rest.
When Ye Zhizhi woke up again, she found herself in the water, the hot spring she had been longing for.
When she sat up, the sound of water swaying around her was heard, the surface of the water rippled, and the "bed" underneath rose and fell. Only then did Ye Zhizhi realize that she was lying on the python.
She turned her head and saw that most of the python's body was submerged in the water, with only its huge head resting on the stone island that looked like the shadow of a monster that she had seen from afar before.
After Ye Zhizhi woke up, the python didn't react at all. Its eyes were always open, and it was impossible to tell whether it was resting or not.
Ye Zhizhi still remembers her previous experience of being in excruciating pain. She still feels a dull pain now, but it has eased a lot. It is within the range she can bear, and her reaction is not as exaggerated as before.
When Ye Zhizhi thought about herself crying out in pain, she couldn't help blushing, but after a while she became confident and said that as long as no one saw it, she had no black history.
As expected, soaking in hot springs is good, it can relax muscles and relieve fatigue. After soaking in it, she felt much more comfortable.
Ye Zhizhi treated this hot spring as the python's private bath. Without its consent, he would not go in to soak in the hot spring even if he wanted to.
Now the python brought her in and she was so happy that she washed herself.
Ye Zhizhi put his hands into the water and kept stirring. The few short fruit shell baths he had taken before were nothing compared to the natural hot spring water now. It was of a constant and comfortable temperature and it was super big!
She looked down at the untreated wounds on her hands and feet. The blood had been washed away, and the surface skin was no longer white from being soaked in water, but a healing pink color, as if she had been taking a medicinal bath.
Of course, this must be an illusion. The medicine pool cannot be like this. Large and small lakes are connected to form a huge hot spring pool.
Ye Zhizhi felt that it was because the therapeutic effect of this hot spring was enhanced that it could relieve her discomfort so quickly.
Ye Zhizhi found the part of the python that was not stuck in the water and went over to rub it. The snake was so nice. Knowing that she was not feeling well, it still took her to the hot spring. If anyone said that snakes were emotionless cold-blooded animals, she would be the first to disagree!
Ye Zhizhi soaked for a while and felt that she was ready. She could explore such a large hot spring pool.
She climbed to the edge of the python's torso and jumped directly down, but she didn't know her height. As soon as she jumped down, her feet missed the water and she sank directly. Only her two little hands were left on the water, paddling hard.
Gurgle gurgle.
Bubbles kept appearing on the surface of the water, and Ye Zhizhi took a few gulps of water.
Finally, the python's tail in the water rolled her up and brought her to the surface.
Ye Zhizhi spit out a few mouthfuls of water, still feeling frightened. Danger is everywhere. She didn't get bitten or trampled to death when she was chased by a giant monster, and she didn't die when she jumped off a cliff. But she almost drowned in the hot spring.
She was so excited that she forgot she couldn't swim and mistakenly believed that the hot springs were very shallow. Of course, it was also because she was short.
Ye Zhizhi's feet were still on empty air. She paddled with her hands and suddenly had an idea: she wanted to learn how to swim.
The python's tail just happened to wrap around her waist and abdomen to her armpits, and Ye Zhizhi's limbs were free, so she began to swing her hands and feet.
python:"?"
It didn't understand what the cub was playing, but it was aware of the direction the cub was swinging. Its huge body did not move, but its snake tail swam back and forth and left and right in the direction of the cub.
However, Ye Zhizhi was unable to play... After studying for a while, she felt exhausted and returned to the python's body. She had thought that soaking in the hot spring for too long was not good, so she wanted to climb onto the stone island. However, after she left the water, the pain all over her body suddenly doubled, so she quickly lay back on the snake.
She looked at the beautiful stalactites on the stone wall and just lay there to rest, but she couldn't fall asleep for a while.
So she chatted with the only two animals in the cave, "hiss~"
Can I give you a name?
The python didn't respond, so she took it as its consent.
Ye Zhizhi pondered and racked his brains.
She stared at the jade-like stalactites above her, saw the patterns on the python's body, and touched its scales. Even though the python had been soaking in the hot spring for who knows how long, its body was still as warm and cool as jade. Ye Zhizhi thought of a very appropriate name.
“Hiss!”
How about calling her Xiaohua? Yu Xiaohua!
Ye Zhizhi screamed twice in the same tone as Xiaohua's voice.
After a while, he called out twice more.
The python did not respond at first, but when the sound waves of the same frequency appeared many times, it reacted.
The huge snake head twisted slightly, the python's head facing Ye Zhizhi, its scarlet tongue sticking out, making a hissing sound in the air, as if asking what was going on.
Ye Zhizhi curved his eyebrows and hissed twice.
Small flower.
After giving the python a name, Ye Zhizhi felt more intimate with it.
In a way, animals with names seemed to have a special meaning in her heart.
She talked to the little chicken and duck for a long time, and finally she felt sleepy and fell asleep again.
In response, the python Xiaohua said, Ah, the little cub finally stopped.
Ye Zhizhi soaked in the hot spring for a long time, so long that her stomach growled with hunger and she wished she could just eat a raw prey.
She touched her shriveled belly and looked at Xiaohua pitifully.
She couldn't catch the changes in the light in the cave and didn't know how much time had passed.
She is so hungry!
When do you go out cave hunting?
How often do snakes hunt? Wouldn't she have to wait until Xiaohua went out hunting?
Although she was happy to be with Xiaohua, she wanted to return to the wolf pack so that they could hunt together!
After coming out of the hot spring and the pain in her body was tolerable, Ye Zhizhi was thinking about how to communicate her thoughts to Xiaohua.
In order to communicate smoothly with wolves, her desire to survive made her quickly master and put into practice the wolf's voice and body language. Now she has to learn snake language. If she gets to know other animals in the future, she will not have to continue learning, right?
【Author’s words】
The little bear who hasn't appeared yet: Oh~~
Xiao Zhizhi:......
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