Ye An

The two were walking in the fruit forest when the rain suddenly increased.

The sky seemed to have opened a hole, the rain poured down, and the gray was connected together, and they still couldn't see each other's appearance clearly when they stood opposite each other.

Thunder exploded behind the cloud, and the thick lightning climbed through the clouds, then fell from the sky, fell into the fruit forest, and split a tall fruit tree on the spot.

The orange flame rose briefly, but was extinguished by the rain again, leaving only the curling smoke.After dissipating, the location where the fruit tree was chopped off appeared, and the scorched fracture was completely carbonized.

Unfortunately, the tree hole where the red squirrel lives is nearby.

When the lightning fell, the red squirrel was quite frightened. It curled up in the hole, its big tail covered its whole body, and it kept trembling.

The flames rose and extinguished, and the small animals living near the fruit trees fled in all directions. Even if they were wet by the rain, they did not dare to stay any longer.

The shrews living underground raised their heads and moved their noses. After all, they didn't dare to stay for long. They fled quickly along the passage, and soon ran to another burrow, away from the fruit tree that was struck by lightning.

The broken canopy hit the ground, the scorched branches scattered, and the leaves turned into fly ash.The unripe fruits were scattered and rolled in the mud, the skin was carbonized, and the flesh inside couldn't see the original color.

A few beetles escaped by chance, but they were trapped by muddy water. The more they struggled, the deeper they sank, and they were discovered by the black ants living underground. Without any chance of struggling, they were dragged into the cave and disappeared in an instant.

The thunder was a little quieter, and the red squirrel lifted the tail covering its head, approached the hole with its little paws in its arms, and looked out with its head.

Ye An happened to pass by the tree, saw the poking red squirrel, felt its emotion, turned his head to discuss with Xiao Yun, put down the bag on his back, and walked towards the fruit tree where the squirrel was.

The red squirrel looked at him warily, but fortunately he did not show any hostility.

Ye An slowed down, taking every step very carefully.He knew how vigilant a frightened squirrel was, and even if he could assimilate it and understand its emotions, he had to be more careful.

Finally, Ye An came under the tree, and instead of climbing up in a hurry, he put his palm on the tree trunk, looked up, and kept a certain distance from the squirrel to ensure that it would not suddenly become nervous.

Standing a few steps away, Xiao Yun had a panoramic view of Ye An's performance.

Watching Ye An walk under the tree, stay for a while, seems to be communicating with the squirrel, then hugged the trunk, climbed neatly to the branch closest to the squirrel, bent down and sat down directly, even though he saw it many times with his own eyes, he still Will be amazed by this scene.

Ye An sat on the branch, tried to stabilize his body, raised his right arm above his head, and grabbed another branch above.With his elbows across his cheeks, he just blocked part of the rain, allowing him to clearly see the nearby squirrels.

"It's just you alone, isn't it lonely?"

Ye An tried to keep his voice down as much as possible, and at the same time activated his abilities to assimilate the squirrel on the opposite side, soothe the little guy's emotions, and then turned his own words into simple messages, which were passed on through their connections.

"Living here is very lonely, do you want to go with me?"

Ye An looked down at the squirrel, releasing his steady emotions.The squirrel gradually became less nervous, its big tail moved twice, its small paws scratched its snow-white belly, and the long hair on the tips of its ears swayed in the wind, as if it was seriously considering Ye An's proposal.

"There are many benefits to walking with me."

Squirrel didn't agree immediately, but he didn't refuse either. Ye An continued to be persuasive.

"I live in the delta, where there is abundant food, as well as habitable woods and caves. Maybe sometime you will meet your companions, who are more comfortable than living here, think about it?"

Attracted by the message sent by Ye An, the squirrel gradually leaned out of the hole, staring at Ye An with big black eyes, and its big tail leaned forward slightly, almost covering its head.

This cute look made Ye An laugh.

"bring it on."

Ye An approached the tree trunk and stretched out a hand towards the squirrel.

The red squirrel stared at the finger in front of him, hesitated for a moment, finally crawled out of the tree hole, and jumped into Ye An's palm.Just as he was about to climb up his arm, he stopped suddenly, swiped his paws at Ye An twice, turned around and ran back into the cave, and dragged out a piece of unfinished loach.

"You don't need to bring it, there are many." Ye An pointed to the tree, where there were bags of loquats and eels and loach tied to ropes.

The squirrels still didn't want to give up, and finally compromised with each other. Ye An used local materials to weave a rope out of tree bark, and took away the food in the squirrel's hole.

Standing on Ye An's shoulder, the squirrel held a green-skinned walnut in its paws, gnawed off the outer skin, bit open the hard shell, ate a piece of the flesh inside, and handed the rest to Ye An's mouth.

"Thank you." Ye An bit a piece, smiled and nodded the squirrel's head.

Raw walnuts have a unique fragrance, which is different from fried walnuts. If you eat too much, it will be slightly astringent and your tongue will feel numb.

Ye An shook his head at the squirrel, not going to eat any more.He had never eaten raw walnuts before, and he didn't know whether this condition existed originally or was caused by mutation.

Sliding along the tree trunk to the ground, Ye An quickly walked a few steps to meet Xiao Yun, picked up the bag on the ground, quickly untied the bag, took out two loquats from inside, peeled off the outer skin and put them in his mouth, finally relieved the astringency .

"What's wrong?" Seeing Ye An's red lips, Xiao Yun asked strangely.

"I ate a few pieces of walnut kernels, it's a bit astringent." Ye An was very thankful that the discomfort was subsiding.It is probably because the mutated walnut kernels contain ingredients that the human body is not suitable for. The squirrel is fine after eating it, but his tongue becomes numb after eating it.

With this lesson learned, we must be more careful in the future.

He may not be able to eat what the mutant beast can eat.I haven't experienced it before, but now I experience it personally, and I must not forget it.

This is a valuable survival experience.

"Are you all right?" Xiao Yun approached Ye An, supported his chin with one hand, and looked at the corner of his red mouth.

"It's okay." Ye An waved his hand, grabbed Xiao Yun's wrist, and pulled his fingers away, "The rain is getting heavier and heavier, you have to get out of here quickly, you will be in trouble if you encounter lightning."

Xiao Yun nodded, held Ye An's wrist instead, and led him forward.

Ye Anben was a little strange, until an icy road suddenly appeared, extending rapidly from the two people's feet, leading directly to the direction they came from, that he understood Xiao Yun's intention.

"Hold tight." Xiao Yun wrapped his arms around Ye An's waist, motioning him to hug her tightly.

Ye An didn't refuse, and at the same time, he didn't forget to hold the squirrel on his shoulder to prevent it from falling as he moved forward.

Everything was ready, white frost and mist rose from under Xiao Yun's feet, and turned into a howling whirlwind in the rain, pushing the two of them to slide on the ice, more than twice as fast.

The cold wind whistled in my ears, and there was a flat ice road under my feet.

Ye Anhuan tightened Xiao Yun's waist, and when they crossed the small river outside the forest, because of the slope of the ice bridge, the speed of the two slowed down slightly, and they needed to continue to push with the wind to maintain the previous speed.

During the march, neither of them made a sound.

Ye An was surprised, since he met Xiao Yun, he never knew that Xiao Yun could control the wind direction in this way.

The two had just crossed the ice bridge when there was an explosion in the fruit forest behind them. Three bolts of lightning fell vertically in succession, and a fire rose in the forest, which quickly became one piece and quickly turned into black smoke.

The black smoke in the center of the island caught the attention of Jason, Zijing and the others, who were very worried about Ye An and Xiao Yun going there.

Fortunately, this worry did not last long. An ice bridge appeared out of thin air, across the jagged rocks. Ye An and Xiao Yun slid across the bridge and appeared in front of everyone without incident.

"City Lord!"

"Boss!"

"grown ups!"

Everyone rushed forward, except for a team that was far away and still on the edge of the high ground, the rest had returned to the meeting point, and when they saw the two, they greeted them excitedly.

"I'll talk about it later, find a place to shelter from the rain first."

Ye An signaled to Zijing and the others, and Xiao Yun also gave the same instruction.

The group didn't have time to set up the camp and didn't want to go back to the boat, so they finally found a rock belt of suitable size, hollowed out the soil and gravel below, and quickly drilled in.

The space under the rock is far more spacious than imagined, just like several connected caves.

The hunter raised the fire, watched the curling smoke drifting away from the hole, feeling tired, and yawned one after another.

"Take turns to guard, and the others rest." Xiao Yun said.

The hunters quickly assigned a rotation guard, and Zijing and the women also joined in.

Leaning against the wall, Ye An let the squirrel lie on his shoulders, feeling drowsy, greeted Xiao Yun and Zijing, wrapped his dry coat, put his head next to the furry squirrel, and soon fell asleep .

It was raining heavily outside the cave, but inside the cave was quiet.

After drifting on the water for many consecutive days, tired of coping with hardships and dangers, everyone was finally able to temporarily settle down and sleep peacefully.