135 Wilderness Survival
◎Ye Zhizhi had a bad feeling in his heart.◎
Ye Zhizhi hugged the silver wolf's front legs tightly, and her tears blurred her hairy legs.
At this time, Ye Zhizhi was as tall as the silver wolf's forelimbs and did not look so short and stocky.
In the first few years, Ye Zhizhi didn't eat well, so he didn't grow fast. He was much shorter than his peers and was a little malnourished. But in the past two or three years, he has been eating better and better, and he has grown faster.
The wolves in the den all ran out one after another, surrounding the returning group of wolves, exchanging scents and rubbing necks with each other.
Then their gaze turned to the cub, which was still small, but much larger than before.
They came back frequently before, and the wolves thought that these cubs were too attached to their nest. This time, they did not come back for two whole winters. During this period, other wolves that went out had already returned, but there was no sign of them for a long time. The wolves could not help but feel anxious, thinking that they had not passed the training and had all died outside.
Last year, Scar and other wolves would occasionally hang around the territory, trying to see when they would come back.
Even the Wolf King and Silver Wolf couldn't help but walk outside to try to find out where the cubs were, but they were so good at running that even after the Wolf King walked around the central area, he couldn't find any wolves.
The forest was so vast that the wolves spent their entire lives trying to travel through it, and there were many places they had not visited.
Who wasn't curious about everything in the forest when they were young? But after a few years of training, most wolves eventually return to their pack. Only a very small number of wolves choose to continue exploring outside.
Scar's companion, the gray wolf, is one of the few wolves that chooses to leave the pack and wander outside. No one knows where it has gone, but it will occasionally return to the pack. Of course, the number of times is very small, but it has not completely left the pack. When it gets old and its fighting power begins to decline, it may return to the pack again.
The wolves guessed that perhaps the cubs were still outside and couldn't come back.
But I am still worried. This is the first time that the wolves in the pack have had such emotions and behaved in this way in all the years they have lived together. They don’t know why they behaved like this.
It's just animal instinct that makes you do it.
For a long time, wolves that went out to gain experience would naturally come back when it was time. Generally, if they did not come back for several years, it was basically assumed that they had died outside.
But based on the wolf pack's understanding of the strength of the next generation of wolves, no matter how great the danger is, none of them will be unable to return.
The wolves were more inclined to believe that they had run too far and hadn't been able to return in a while, and most likely had run into the most dangerous central area again.
This year they thought they would never see the cubs that had gone out and never come back, but they were surprised so suddenly that they all came back.
Everything is intact, not a single part is missing.
The wolves looked carefully again and again, and then noticed the python they had seen before, which looked even more powerful.
In addition, there is a brown bear standing far away and a black python behind the python.
Great, more bizarre animals have been added. The wolves weren't surprised at all. It was something their cubs could do. It was just a bear and a snake among their training companions. It was normal.
Ye Zhizhi naturally didn't know that the wolves were trying to go out and look for them, nor did she know that they easily accepted her little friend of a different species.
When she saw the wolf mother, she only had her in her eyes. She rubbed against her and hugged her tightly, pouring out her heart.
Ye Zhizhi hasn't seen Wolf Mom for two whole years. It's the first time she's been away for so long, and she really misses Wolf Mom so much.
Seeing the wolf king approaching with his red eyes, Ye Zhizhi choked and howled, missing his wolf father and the other wolves in the tribe.
The silver wolf looked at its healthy cub with gentle eyes, but also filled with deep longing. Its cub was back.
Ye Zhizhi had finally grown up a bit and could suppress her emotions a bit. Unlike before, she just wanted to cling to the wolf mother with all her body. She reluctantly let go and then introduced her new companion to the wolf pack.
Xiaohua had been here once. Although she felt a little unfamiliar and nervous at first, she became calm after getting familiar with the smell. She happily twisted her snake body into the wolf pack's territory.
Not to mention Da Mo, they are also snakes, and the wolves easily accepted them into their territory.
However, wolves and bears are rivals. If they meet outside, they will usually fight. Their territories and food easily overlap, which makes it easy for conflicts to arise. They are not friendly to each other's cubs.
The big bear was more nervous than a snake when he saw so many strong and powerful wolves. If so many wolves attacked in a group, he would definitely not be able to escape.
But miraculously, after the wolves realized that these were companions brought back by their own tribe, they showed no hostility, and the wolf king even calmly agreed to let them enter the territory.
Ye Zhizhi climbed onto the wolf mother's back, wrapped his limbs around her tightly, and stuck firmly to her.
The wolves scattered around and followed the main group back to their den.
The wolves were not running fast, they were just running slowly.
After lying down for a while, Ye Zhizhi sat up straight and looked at the other wolves in the pack.
At first glance, there were many wolves in the tribe, and Ye Zhizhi saw a few adult wolves that he was not very familiar with.
Xiao Hei and the others also came back, and the two smallest wolf cubs in the pack also came back.
Ye Zhizhi still remembers how thin the two smallest wolves looked when they first arrived. The strongest of the two brothers, the brown wolf she named Liu Zong, has now grown into a size no smaller than the silver wolf. He has a fierce aura and looks like he has had an adventure.
Its brother, the seven-brown catfish, is not as strong as its younger brother, but it also looks healthy.
And there's Little Black...wait, isn't Little Black one of three siblings? She counted carefully, only seeing Little Black and a brown wolf. Five Brown was nowhere to be seen. Could he be in the den with Grandma Wolf?
That must be the case, right? It’s impossible that three of them went out and only two came back, right?
Ye Zhizhi comforted himself, but he had a bad feeling in his heart.
When she returned to the cave, she immediately looked around the entire den and found that not only was one brown wolf missing, but even the wolf grandmother was gone.
Ye Zhizhi pulled the hair of the silver wolf's front legs, pointed at the wolf grandmother's den, and asked anxiously.
The silver wolf did not respond. It lowered its head and licked Ye Zhizhi's face and head.
Only then did Ye Zhizhi realize that in the two years since they had been away, the only old wolf left in the tribe had also died, and she was unable to see it for the last time.
I don’t know whether Grandma Wolf aged naturally or encountered some accident.
Not only that, Wu Zong went out with his brothers and sisters and never came back. He died in the training, and even Xiao Hei had a long scar on his body.
The sudden unfortunate news diluted the joy of reunion. When she was still young and could not leave the cave, it was mostly the three old wolves who looked after their mother and the others when they went out hunting.
Two old wolves died in the battle to protect them, and the only surviving old wolf has now left them. Before she left, Grandma Wolf seemed very energetic.
Ye Zhizhi's eyes turned red again.
There are also Wu Zong, three siblings. Ye Zhizhi did not approach them at the beginning because he had a barrier in his heart. When they were young, they were mostly taken care of by their wolf mother, and the time they spent with her was not as much as that spent with the two wolves at the back.
But he also grew up under her nose. Now that she knows the news of his death, how can she not be sad?
Ye Zhizhi piled two more small mounds between the living area. She looked at these small mounds with tears in her eyes.
The silver wolf could feel Ye Zhizhi's sadness. It didn't understand at first, but looking at her actions, the silver wolf knew that she was sad for the disappearance of her companions in the tribe.
The other wolves noticed it too.
Yin Yi stood beside Ye Zhizhi, looking down at the small mounds. Wolves couldn't count, but they realized that these mounds made by Ye Zhizhi might represent the wolves that had passed away.
I didn’t know the meaning of Ye Zhizhi making these little piles of dirt in the corner before, I just thought he was playing, but now I vaguely understand it.
The other wolves in the tribe did not feel much sadness. One morning, the old wolf closed his eyes. The wolf king led the tribe in mourning for it and buried it in the territory.
This was a rare old wolf in the pack who died of old age. The pack did not feel much sadness after bidding farewell to the old wolf.
Death is a normal thing for them.
Maybe tomorrow, or someday in the future, they will die in a hunt. It is extremely rare for them to die of old age.
But at this moment, they seemed to sense the cub's deep sorrow. She was mourning the death of the wolf.
The wolves looked at Ye Zhizhi with bright eyes. If they died in the future and their cubs felt this way for them, they would be very happy. That feeling would be quite special. But despite this, they didn't want their cubs to be sad for too long. Just a little bit would be enough.
The silver wolf lowered its head and gently pushed Ye Zhizhi, making a low cry from its throat, as if to comfort her.
Ye Zhizhi hugged the silver wolf's head, rubbed it, and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
She quickly composed herself, raised her mouth, bared her teeth, and howled at the wolves that surrounded her and looked at her worriedly.
She's fine!
Ye Zhizhi grabbed the wolf mother's hair and called the wolves to the open space where five large packages were placed.
Divide the specialties!
The only best things I found were used as tuition fees, but after wandering around the central area for a year or two, I still found a lot of good things.
Some prey had very sweet and fresh meat that was only available in the central area. Ye Zhizhi specially dried it into bacon and brought it back as a local specialty.
Because they were walking towards the Xiaohua Nest, Ye Zhizhi specially went around to the nest of the monkeys and got a lot of monkey wine, more than last time!
There were also many other odds and ends. No matter what they were, as long as Ye Zhizhi found them rare, she brought them back.
With something to do, Ye Zhizhi's sadness was not as intense.
She also carefully observed the conditions of the wolf mother, the wolf king father and other wolves.
The death of the old wolf made Ye Zhizhi realize that the lifespan of wolves is far shorter than that of humans. She was still a child, but the companions she grew up with were already grown wolves.
Ye Zhizhi had never known about this before and didn't know how long a wolf lived, but she did know that a neighbor's dog lived for eleven years before dying of old age. Wolves and dogs are both canines, so the difference shouldn't be that big...
Ye Zhizhi was frightened and couldn't help but hug Silver Wolf tightly.
When she was still a baby, both the wolf mother and the wolf king father looked like adults for a long time. She had been there for so many years, and based on the growth trajectory of Yin Yi and the others, the wolf mother and the wolf king father were at least in their teens.
When humans are still in primary and secondary school, they may have already lived the life of an animal.
No, it wouldn't be like that. This forest is so magical. Not only are there many magical species that she has never seen before, but there are also magical plants. The normal lifespan of animals must be very long. Even if it is not as long as humans' seventy or eighty years or even longer, they can at least live to forty or fifty years old, right?
Ye Zhizhi looked up and observed the wolf mother and the others carefully.
After two years of separation, they seemed to have not changed at all, still the same as she remembered them, and their aura was still very strong, with no signs of aging or weakness.
Ye Zhizhi felt relieved a little. She was overthinking it. The wolf mother and the others would definitely live for a very long time.
Ye Zhizhi not only observed the wolf mother and the wolf king father, but also observed Uncle Scar and the others, all of whom looked to be in their prime.
She thought of Grandma Wolf's old age. She had already looked old when she was a baby, but now Mother Wolf's generation was obviously still in their prime and strong.
After Ye Zhizhi made this calculation, she felt that the wolf must have at least several decades of life left. She must find some good things for the wolf mother and the wolf king father so that they can live longer than humans!
Ye Zhizhi made up his mind.
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