The blue-eyed, arched forefoot had just landed and was backing away from him.Sensing Ye Xiu's gaze, the tip of the fluffy tail rubbed against Ye Xiu's back, and slid along the straight and smooth lines all the way to his waist, making Ye Xiu tremble and itch, and quickly grabbed the slippery tail. lost tail.

"Cat, thank you just now."

The snow leopard, who was not considered a cat at all, gave a cute "meow".

Ye Xiu leaned against the tree, massaging his numb and cold left leg.He recovered very quickly, and he no longer needed to fix the broken leg, but he himself knew that the healing was not good, let alone the initial recovery, and if he jumped into the fire circle to challenge the rhinoceros, he would have sequelae if he did not heal properly.

"I don't have a good rest for my leg, so I have to do all kinds of labor. What do you think is wrong with Su Muqiu? He wouldn't intend to destroy me, right? This move is so insidious!" Ye Xiu sighed.

The snow leopard's tail wrapped around Ye Xiu, and there was a soft hiss in its throat, which sounded a bit concerned.

Ye Xiu smiled, helplessly thinking that there is only one leopard left to care about him now, so he felt the plush touch on his legs disappear. He looked down and saw that big snow-white leopard with black spots was still staring at him , but the figure was like a holographic projection that was about to run out of power, hovering between solid and translucent, and Ye Xiu could even vaguely see what the stones under Snow Leopard's feet looked like.

It took five or six times to go back and forth in this state like an electric shock, before the snow leopard regained its stability, but the leopard did not show any abnormality about it, which showed that this was a natural state.

Ye Xiu: "..."

Ye Xiu took a deep breath, and murmured, "Last time, I really wasn't wrong? The creatures on this planet can breathe fire for a while, and disappear invisibly for a while. What kind of physiological structure is this? Hey, I really should try to dissect it..."

The snow leopard seemed to understand. It slapped Ye Xiu's calf with its tail. Ye Xiu quickly hopped away with his knees in his arms, apologized repeatedly, and then got back to business.

He lowered his head and scanned to identify the footprints. The traces left by those red rhinos running were not small, and it was not difficult to find them, but when there were sometimes dozens of footprints, each extending in different directions, it was maddening.

Ye Xiu bent down, squatted down to explore the depth, spacing, and size of the footprints, thought for a while, then rubbed the snow leopard's head, and when the big cat was wagging its tail and squinting comfortably, he asked in a very gentle and sincere voice: "Hey, help me smell it, which road is occupied by people? Su Muqiu explained that the living people should be framed back like radishes to exchange materials. If you know which road you don't need to go, how much delay in rescue will be saved Time, isn't it?"

The snow leopard who was regarded as a hunting dog obviously didn't mind at all. He lay down on the ground and sniffed around, then jumped up confidently, leading Ye Xiu to go deep into the forest.

After rushing out of the tribe with the head of the red-horned beast in his arms, Qiu Fei didn't know how long he had been running, his legs were numb, his arms were heavy, and the head wrapped in fur in his arms made him instinctively creepy, but he I know I can't stop.

When he ran with this head, some of the little red-horned beasts gave up making trouble in the tribe and chased him and the adults in other tribes into the forest, while the rest of them seemed to have lost their direction and started chasing after him indiscriminately. Step up.

He also clearly remembered the surprised eyes of the hunting team when he ran out, the worry in the eyes of several acquaintances when he passed by, and the sneer at his departure from a few people.

Even so, Qiu Fei knew what he was doing, and he wouldn't stop until he was far enough away from the tribe—this thought flashed through his mind, and Qiu Fei suddenly stepped on something round and heavy on his feet. With a twist, it fell to the ground with a bang.

Qiu Fei snorted, sweating all over his body, and when he sat up panting, his ankles were already swollen from red to blue.His eyes were sour, and he knew that crying was useless, but the child who was a few years old gritted his teeth, swallowed back the soreness in his throat, and lowered his head to see what tripped him up.

The object that tripped him was half-buried in the soil due to Qiu Fei's weight. It was a small smooth ball, like a green half-ripe fruit, but it was slightly transparent, and something faintly flickered at the inner core.

Qiu Fei took a close look, hesitating and trying to pick up something he hadn't seen before, but unexpectedly the green beads flickered, the smooth skin cracked, and a black shadow came directly to the front!

"what!"

Qiu Fei was frightened, and subconsciously threw the head out of his hand. The covered leather was knocked away by something popped out of the beads, and the heavy red-horned animal head slid out and landed a few inches in front of his feet.

Beside the head, a green worm with long, short and thick fingers wriggled, burrowed on the thick leather, and drilled a small hole in the animal hide while breathing, and continued to drill holes into the soil under the leather. After a while, Only a small piece of soft worm was left, and it was completely silent.

But that head, at the same time that the caterpillar seemed to be dead, gave out a soft and long "hissing" echo like the wind caressing the cave.

Unable to move, Qiu Fei sat stiffly, his heart beating gradually faster.

He stared wide-eyed, staring at the tattered rhinoceros head. In the center of the hollow eye socket, a narrow slit appeared in the mottled skull, and a leaf shaped like a tender green leaf protruded out, gradually growing outward.

──That cannot be called growth.

It was more like the soft tentacles of some kind of creature squeezed out of the empty brain. The tender green thing seemed weak and deceptive, without any aggressiveness, shaking gently in the breeze, like a newborn buds.

It grows bigger and bigger, and the thin buds blink into broad leaves that are the size of a human face. The surface is smooth, and the texture is different from any object Qiu Fei has seen. There is no light source in the forest, and Qiu Fei can clearly see that the object does not reflect light. , but I always feel that it is glowing with an inconspicuous soft light.

The thing stretched, swaying in the wind on its own, and then slowly, as if turning around, it faced Qiu Fei's direction.

At this moment, the green unknown object came out of the hole like a cunning snake and bounced towards him!

Snapped!

Qiu Fei suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.

It took a few seconds before he realized that he was still breathing.

The heartbeat in the chest was out of control, Qiu Fei carefully lowered the stiff arms in front of his face, closed his eyes tightly and dared not open them, until the sound of footsteps approaching.

He slightly raised his trembling eyelids, and was startled by the scene in front of him.

A black sharp short blade pierced straight into the skull, and nailed the unknown object in half. The soft and wide light green object seemed to be tightened in pain, and it looked like a dark green insect claw. It struggled and creaked, but nothing resembling blood came out.

The sound of rustling footsteps was close to his ears, Qiu Fei raised his head, Su Muqiu, who had saved his life, had a cold face, bent over and pulled out the short blade, his expression was as cold as a layer of frost and snow, his eyes were sharp and scrutinizing.The insect claw continued to twitch for a while after he pulled out the short blade, and finally retracted, fine white light dust overflowed from the cracks in the cracked thin shell, and disappeared in the air like water vapor.

When the light and dust were completely dispersed, Su Muqiu stabbed into the crack again and separated the red-horned beast's skull with all his strength. The end of the green insect claws that penetrated the skull came from the shrunken brain of the red-horned beast after death, like a strange sprouting potato.

Su Muqiu was immersed in thinking, and directly lifted the worm claw with his brain, and took a closer look.

The root of the insect claw is connected to the brain, and there is no gap.He gently opened the brain lobe with the tip of the knife, and next to the root of the worm claw, he found another small dark green to black tip of the worm claw, which also had no root, as if the worm claw had grown out of the red rhino's brain.

"It looks like this inside?" Su Muqiu looked at it from a different angle, "Why does it look like...something didn't have time to crawl out of it?"

The inside of the worm claw is hollow. After Su Muqiu took a closer look, he found that there was an extremely thin layer of muscle attached to the carapace, just like a crab's legs that had been eaten up. An innocent leaf flutters in the wind.

Following his movements, the brain hanging from the end of the insect's claw finally fell off with a snap, and fell into a pool of red and white meat paste. Qiu Fei let out a low cry.

"Qiu Fei? Are you not injured?"

Su Muqiu turned his head and smiled at Qiu Fei, but his mind was not on the shocking child, it kept spreading outwards, countless trivial details flashed by, but they couldn't compose a complete picture.

He wrapped up the worm claw and carefully put it in his arms, wiped off the short blade belonging to another person, the dark blade reflected Su Muqiu's side face.He whispered to himself:

"It's too slow. Where did Ye Xiu go to be lazy?"

13, 12: Drain the water and fish

The big snow-white cat lay down on the ground and sniffed around, leading Ye Xiu into the depths of the forest.

It's hard to measure how big this forest is. Ye Xiu had already explored a large area with a small radar, but under the guidance of the snow leopard, he got farther and farther away from the area he walked through, and he still didn't see the suspected forest. fringe area.

On the way, he did catch one or two people who strayed into the forest, and carried them back to work smoothly, but when he met later, he didn't need to check his breathing and heartbeat.

However, looking at the wounds, it was not because of the group of out-of-control big rhinos that died.

Ye Xiu carefully checked the wounds of the tribesmen who died. Some died from snake venom, some had broken necks, and some... were bloody and bloody, and there was no reason for it.

There are countless dangers lurking in the forest, which he knows nothing about.

Ye Xiu acted cautiously. When the footprints gradually disappeared into the dense grass and most of the surrounding plants were plants he hadn't seen before, he stood still with a spear and said lazily, "Cat, where are you going? Is there really anyone else?"

The snow leopard, who seemed to be a search and rescue dog, raised his head, circled him with his tail in a friendly manner, and continued on his way.

Ye Xiu looked back at the dense forest behind him, went round and round, relying on his own

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