brother wolf

The place in front of me can be said to be a woods or a garden. Weeds are overgrown and trees are lush. They are growing freely and unrestrained. This let me know that since we left, Ignatius has restored everything. The original state - the wide garden without any artificial trimming and the natural and rustic villa.

I don't know why the boss and Golden Retriever sent me here so early in the morning, but I know very well that there must be reasons for their hasty departure. As for those reasons, I don't bother to think about them.

As a wolf, as a human soul accustomed to being a wolf, I found that my thinking has a tendency to degenerate.

I don't know if it's because wolves only rely on instinct and experience to live, or because the brains of wolves and humans are different, which leads to compatibility problems. In short, thinking has become difficult for me, or should I say— — I slowly began to forget that there is such a thing as thinking.

For this kind of change, if I had just arrived in this world, I might feel extremely anxious about this situation, and might even seek various ways to solve this problem, such as reciting pi to train memory and so on.

But now, I lay down next to the fountain in the courtyard, stuck out my tongue, and yawned boredly, thinking that this kind of life is not bad.

Part of the reason is that the process of this change is imperceptible and very long. By the time you notice it, you have already adapted to this change and regard the changed self as a normal state.

Maybe one day, I'll be a complete wolf.

I tried to ignore the cubs who were making trouble next to me, thinking about this serious question.

With a sound of "Aw--", I gave up and stood up, and got off the bear cub that was on my back. It looked at me stupidly, and didn't feel that it was inappropriate to play this game with its current weight.

Watching its bright black eyes look at me excitedly, obviously happy to finally have my attention.

But I'm not a bear sitter.

I continued on my stomach, burying my head between my front paws.

Its chubby body clumsily circled around me. Since coming here, Xiao Huo has been missing every day, going into the woods every day, and never coming back until dark. Target me.

The bear cub was scratching my fur with its fat paw, so I had to turn my head and bite that paw lightly with my mouth from time to time. As a result, it found it very interesting to play the game of scratching and biting me, and became addicted to it.

While I was playing with it, I was thinking about Xiao Hei.

It has been two days since I returned to the villa, and Xiao Hei has not shown himself in front of me.

I have been looking for it in the woods for a whole day, I can feel its breath, it is still in this woods, even not far from me, but it refuses to appear in front of me.

I know, it's probably having trouble with me being away for so long.

I raised my neck, let out low growls, and called it, but it didn't respond. Later, I got tired and gave up this behavior. I could only wait for it to calm down and appear in front of me automatically.

Now there are no human beings in this villa, and Ignatius and his servant Harik are missing. It can appear in front of me anytime and anywhere in any shape.

I heard a slight "click" of a branch being crushed nearby, and raised my head vigilantly, Xiao Hei was there, its black body blended into the shadow, but I could easily feel its exist.

I purred low, trying to communicate with this sensitive big cat.

It finally responded, jumped down from the thick branches, took human form, and walked towards me with silent and graceful steps.

It stood not far from me, naked, with leopard ears on its head lying in the soft hair, and its tail curled around its waist.

Transparent tears rolled down from the light green eyes, it stretched out its hand a little at a loss, wiped its face, and stretched out its tongue to lick the tears flowing down the corner of its mouth.

It's still a child, even though its body already looks like an adult.

I walked over and rubbed its legs, it squatted down, hugged me, wept silently, and said word by word: "It's been—a long time—I——think—for—— "

So wronged.

I licked its face to clean its face smeared with tears.

It was tickled by my licking, and it let out a thin laugh while dodging.

After I calmed down, I took a closer look at it. After such a long time, its human form has not changed much, at least on the surface.

It was sitting on the grass, and I was lying next to it. The cub seemed to be familiar with its breath, and did not have a strong reaction to its arrival. It seemed that they might have had contact before I returned to the villa.

For the next few days, it followed me every step of the way, never leaving even sleeping.

There are only two of us big beasts in the woods. We play together, hunt together, and run together. It has a great time. The black figure moves as fast as lightning, shuttling between the trees. With human eyesight, we can only see one Black unidentified object.

On the third day, we had already traveled all over the woods. That day, we chased a sheep and came to the edge of the woods. The sheep went out of the woods, ran to the grass, and rushed to the opposite woods.

I followed without hesitation, but was stopped by a scream.

Xiao Hei didn't follow, it only took a small step and fell to the ground abruptly, trembling all over, its claws desperately scratching the ground, blood bursting, its body violently hit the thick tree trunk next to it, and fell to the ground , and began to roll again.

It was in so much pain that it didn't even have the strength to growl loudly.

I ran back gratefully, and kept circling around him, whining anxiously, but there was nothing I could do, it looked bad.

When it saw me coming back, it gasped for breath and struggled to say, "Don't-don't-go."

So it thought I was going to leave after chasing that sheep just now?I licked the blood on its fur and comforted it.

This sudden emergency didn't last long. Three minutes later, Xiao Hei regained his composure and fell into a coma.

I looked around, nibbled on the back of its neck and brought it back to the grass next to the small water hole in the woods.

I quickly returned to the villa, took a cup, and scooped a cup of water from Xiao Hei's mouth with difficulty. The water flowed down the mouth to the grass. I was a little frustrated, but I quickly cheered up and continued my work Feed water action.

It looked terrible, its smooth and shiny black fur was covered with scars from hitting the tree trunk just now, and its paws were bloody, I licked its wounds clean, grabbed another little wild boar and put it beside me, and started to calm down Quietly waiting for it to wake up.

Maybe for a long time, maybe just for a while, Xiao Hei finally woke up. He opened his bright light green eyes and looked around. When he saw me, he finally relaxed.

I walked over, licked it lightly, it barked twice, and then tried to stand up.

I watched it wobble, and I was a little worried, did the severe attack just now mean that Xiao Hei had some serious illness?

It walked forward, turned to look at me, and I followed it with the little wild boar in my mouth.

Its destination is clear, that small bush in the middle of the woods.

We crouched down and walked through the path formed by the bushes. From time to time, our fur was caught by the thorns next to us. Enduring the pain, we finally climbed to the end, which was a small rock cave.

The inside is not spacious, but it is dry and warm. It can be seen that this is Xiao Hei's real nest. I always thought it was sleeping on the tree.

Xiao Hei walked to the side, trembling, and changed back to human form. Before, his transformation between human form and animal form seemed very easy, as simple and natural as eating and sleeping, but the transformation just now was very difficult, and it even sent out A low growl of pain.

It rummaged through the pile of sundries next to it, as if looking for something. After a while, it finally found what it needed. It was a small brown bottle. It unscrewed the bottle, stuck out its tongue, and poured out a drop of liquid carefully. on the tip of the tongue.

Xiao Hei lay beside me, hugging me, "Don't—go—"

I looked at him silently and licked its face as an answer.

This lonely and sensitive creature lives alone, hunts alone, heals wounds alone, talks to himself, grows old, sick and dies alone.

After it drank the medicine, even though it managed to cheer up and wanted to talk to me, the effect of the medicine took place very quickly, and it fell asleep almost immediately.

I looked around, and found a piece of parchment full of things in the pile of things it had turned up just now.

I walked over curiously. At first I thought that although Xiao Hei could speak, he was not literate. It seems that I guessed wrong.

When I looked at the parchment clearly, I realized that maybe I hadn't guessed completely wrong. This parchment recorded some things, and the handwriting on it showed that the recorder was not alone. If I didn't guess wrong, it should be Xiao Hei's parents.

The following are some excerpts from the content on the parchment. Through these few fragments, perhaps we can outline the basic outline of the whole thing.

"I will never be able to go home. This terrible man captured me and Amy, and did all kinds of experiments on us. We endured endless pain. In the end, we became as he wished. Human, but he's still disappointed because we don't have magic in human form, I hate him, I'm so happy to see him disappointed."

"He cast a powerful spell in my blood. From then on, all descendants of my blood will never be able to leave this place."

"According to what I, my father, and my grandfather observed, magic is gradually disappearing, so these powerful magicians panicked, and they looked for various ways to try to restore this decline, at any cost."

"We are their hope. They want to learn from creatures like us who are born with magical powers. Whether it's humans or animals, as long as the magic can last forever, these madmen are tossing us back and forth. I'm going crazy. They Even in order to multiply our bloodline, many animals of the same kind - or animals close to the same kind - were selected to mate with us."

"It has been 150 years since our ancestors crossed the ocean to come here. More than a dozen generations of interbreeding have made the blood less and less. Among my brothers and sisters, only I have become human. They have gradually paid less attention to us. , After all, apart from being able to become human, we don't help at all, but they still haven't given up, even if the hope is extremely slim."

"As Master Yunal's pet, the only fact I hide from him is probably that I can become a human being, I have learned human language and even simple writing. I am the only black man who has become a human after 100 years Leopard, the reason is probably because my parents are close relatives, now I have my own child, it is very beautiful, but I am worried about it, because its mother is my cousin. My worry has become a reality, it can really Become a human, but only a half-human. I have decided to leave Lord Junal and take my children to live in seclusion in this vast forest."

"My poor child, it is so innocent, it does not know that it is the only alien in the world, it has no companion, and I am about to die, may God be with it."

The parchment ends here, and there is no follow-up record.

I read it silently, a little surprised by the facts revealed in it, no wonder Xiao Hei became like that when he walked out of the woods just now, it turned out to be the effect of some kind of magic in the blood.

Everything that happened 300 years ago is vivid in my mind. I seem to see countless black panthers that look exactly like Xiao Hei passing by before disappearing in the torrent of time.

Magicians are really a group of people with firm belief and indomitable spirit.

Ignatius is also doing the same thing as his companions hundreds of years ago, maybe he will think it is very promising, think about it, after 300 years, he has succeeded in turning two beasts into two beasts again. He has become a human, but he is destined to be disappointed, at least for now, the boss and the golden retriever have not yet become magicians.