In the days of surviving in the fairy forest

The fat caterpillar is getting closer.

"It's over, it's over, it's dead!"

The squirrel screamed and kicked his legs reflexively, as if his actions could help Rick, "Who would have thought that my chestnut squirrel was not killed by the most powerful goshawk, but was killed by bugs?" It was eaten! This is too embarrassing!"

Rick couldn't laugh or cry, his head hurt from being kicked by the squirrel, he quickly interrupted him: "Stop barking, take a look, where should I go now?"

As soon as the words fell, a gust of wind blew.The squirrel and the fox shrugged their noses at the same time, paused for a moment, and then shouted in unison:

"Lynx!"

In a blink of an eye, Rick kicked his foot on the ground, and the route that was going straight ahead turned around and rushed towards the verdant bushes on the right.

There are many sharp thorns hidden in the bushes. Enduring the pain of his skin being scratched, he ran away without stopping, listening to the squirrel reporting the distance between the caterpillar and himself, and throwing a fireball with his head, which hit him not far away. At the bottom of a big tree more than three meters thick.

There was an angry growl from the bottom of the tree.

After most of the grass was scorched by the fireball, a dark tree hole was exposed. A thick, khaki-colored lynx came out of the hole with a low growl. Then the caterpillar who rushed over rushed to face the white silk all over his face.

Lynx was angry.

The big man in the house industry who has always eaten and slept was disturbed from his light sleep in the afternoon. He was so angry that the hair behind his ears stood up like a hedgehog. It stomped on the ground with its front paws, creating sharp stones out of thin air and hitting them at the fat caterpillar. .

The fat caterpillar fought with the lynx.

This lynx is indeed a powerful beast that can make Rick and the squirrel smell dangerous predators from a long distance. It was able to fight back and forth with the terrifying caterpillar. The two sides insisted on a stalemate for nearly half an hour. The lynx After gradually exhausted, Qingchong found a flaw, and its two front paws were tied up with silk thread, struggling weakly and being wrapped into a cocoon.

……

The fat caterpillar belched contentedly.After eating and drinking, roar to deter the surrounding predators:

"Hey!"

It looked up at its bright eyes, its full stomach made him no longer motivated to catch those two weak and unpalatable food, so it shook the slender tentacles above its head and slowly left here.

It took a while before Rick dared to poke his head out of the bushes.

He looked at the clean ground in front of him, thinking about the struggle and roar of the lynx just now, he shuddered for a moment.

"Hey, hey! What are you thinking?" The squirrel hopped and ran to the bottom of the tree hole, cautiously poked in with its smaller half, sniffed around, but found no smell of other lynxes, so it happily Running back, "Come on! This tree hole looks awesome!"

tree hole? !

Rick instantly let go of the sadness that filled his mind, and rushed to the side to look at the tree hole together.

This tree is already tall, Rick roughly looked at it, the diameter of the tree is about three meters, and the height is even more immeasurable. From his current perspective of a little fox, it can really be regarded as straight into the sky.

And the inside of the tree hole is even more spacious and atmospheric. From the outside, it is just an insignificant small tree hole, but there is a hole in the inside.

The only drawback is that the things are rather rudimentary. There is only a pile of thatch to form a dilapidated nest, and a pile of dead mice and rabbits piled up on the edge, emitting a strange smell.

Rick was genuinely moved.

He has been wandering since crossing, and he hasn't even found a stable place to live!Isn't this tree hole the dream home!

"Little Fox, what do you think," Squirrel said suddenly, "how about the two of us working together?"

cooperate?Rick tilted his head to look at the squirrel.

"The two of us cooperated very well just now, didn't we?" Squirrel twitched. Seeing that Rick didn't respond, he quickly added, "I know a lot about forests, and I can help you watch the wind and avoid many dangers when you are hunting."

Rick licked his paw, and seriously considered the possibility of cooperation between the two: "But there are squirrels in my recipe. Are you afraid that one day I won't be able to find food and eat you?"

"Please, if I didn't believe you, I wouldn't have asked you," the squirrel put his hips on his hips, wagging his big tail. "If you were such a stinky fox, you wouldn't have come to rescue me just now."

Rick laughed.

One fox and one mouse stared at each other for a moment, then stretched out their paws at the same time, and touched them solemnly.

"My name is Rick. Black Fox Rick."

"My name is Ali. The chestnut squirrel, Ali."

At this time, no one knew that a terrifying organization whose notoriety spread throughout the Fairy Forest had quietly established its embryonic form in a remote tree hole under the witness of dead mice and rabbits.

……

"These mice and rabbits must be thrown out!"

"Throw it far away, bury it in a pit, and burn the remaining residue and blood with fire. You must not leave any smell! Without the deterrence of the powerful lynx, the hyena will soon follow the smell!"

As the sun slanted to the west, Ali the squirrel stood on a branch, commanding with air.

Rick took a deep breath, and then breathed out the flames, burning all the carrion left in the tree hole, leaving only the usable fur and one of the rabbits that hadn't started to rot for his own dinner.

The eyes of modern people made him look down on the tattered straw mat in the tree hole, biting one end and dragging it out with difficulty and throwing it away, planning to use rabbit skin to make a more comfortable mat for himself and the squirrel Ali to sleep on.

Ali, who left after Rick finished burning the carrion, finally returned to the tree hole after Rick finished eating the rabbit.It is carrying leaves that are bigger than its own head, and the leaves are rolled into a package shape, which is obviously bulging and contains a lot of things.

Rick leaned over curiously.

The leaves spread out, and there were hills of nuts inside. Many brightly colored fruits were mixed in, and Rick was sure he saw a peanut or two.

"This is the food I have saved up for the winter!" Ah Li proudly puffed out her chest, her nose was almost raised in the air, obviously very satisfied with her achievements, "How about it, isn't it a lot!"

Rick sincerely admired a few words.Compared with his bleak situation of being hungry and full, and relying on luck to eat, he really felt that this squirrel was super powerful.

"This is for you!" Ali the squirrel carefully dragged the leaves to the innermost part of the tree hole, plucked at the pile of nuts for a long time, and held the fruit he finally found to Rick.

This fruit is transparent magenta, oval in shape, and seems to have flames burning inside, extremely beautiful.

"This fruit is called Flame Grape, and it is the favorite food of your Xuanhuox family," Ali explained. Seeing Rick's surprised expression, he giggled, "You Xuanhuhu family can only eat meat, right! There are also many fire attributes. The fruits are edible, and can also enhance your flame ability!"

Rick blinked, looked at the flaming grapes in front of him in disbelief, and tentatively touched them with his claws.

The touch is the same as that of ordinary grapes, but it brings him a strange and warm feeling, as if it has stimulated some primitive power in his blood, which makes him want to cry.

So he swallowed the flame grapes in one gulp.

"Oh! Delicious!" Rick's eyes lit up.

Better than baked rabbit!

"Of course! This is my treasured fruit, the favorite of the Black Firefox family!" The squirrel A Li gestured happily, "I know where the flame grapes will grow, but it is now the territory of the long-tailed lizards, at least not yet. go."

Rick nodded repeatedly.

It was getting late at this time, and the fox and the mouse worked together to find a stone to block the entrance of the cave, and lay down comfortably in the cave to chat.Rick sprayed a small flame to burn off the residues and meat on the fur of rabbits and mice, while listening to Ali talking about his experiences and experiences of living in the forest. For the first time in several months, he felt sincere joy and warmth .

In the warm air, the smell of grass and burnt meat permeates.

"Autumn is almost here, and winter won't be too far away. Before the first snow falls, we must store enough food. Otherwise, when the snow beasts appear, foraging will become very difficult and super dangerous! And besides……"

Amid the excited murmurs of the squirrel Ali, Rick fell asleep in a daze.

The next day, amidst countless sneezes, he was woken up by the squirrel's restless tail.

Ali, the squirrel, was soundly asleep. His four paws were intertwined into a ball, the tip of his nose moved slightly, and he blew out a series of small snores. His tail behind him also swayed in rhythm.

He yawned, Rick rubbed his eyes, tugged at Ali's tail, and was about to wake him up. The latter had already jumped into the air with a neat sit-up, grinning and posing for an attack until he saw Rick's body clearly. The sharp eyes turned back to sleepy eyes.He breathed a sigh of relief: "It turned out to be you, you scared me."

Being in the dangerous forest, Rick accepted Ali's vigilant attitude well, and even admired him a little, "Good morning! I'm going to catch rabbits, where are you going?"

"Wait a minute, I'll have breakfast first."

After speaking, Ali the squirrel rubbed his cheeks vigorously with his paws. Rick thought he was washing his face, but after a while, he poured out a small pile of pine nuts from his cheeks, and then peeled off the shells one by one and ate them carefully.

Did you spit it out and eat it back?Rick's eyes widened in shock.

Noticing Rick's strange gaze, Ah Li paused slightly and shook his tail: "We squirrels can use the small bag next to the mouth to hold food. The reason why the chestnut squirrels are called chestnut squirrels is because the small bags of chestnut squirrels are very big. , it can even hold the biggest chestnut in the whole forest!"

"..."

Barely recalling the size of the chestnut in his memory, Rick wisely decided not to speak.

He sat there for a while, and took the rabbit and mouse skins that he packed up last night to the tree roots outside to bask in the sun. After waiting for about a few minutes, Ah Li was full of food and drink, and climbed to Rick energetically. on top of his head.

"Let's go! Let's go to the red pine forest in the east!" He tugged at the fox's fur ears and shouted in a melodious tone, "I know there are many rabbit holes with legs! Just catch the whole family!"

Infected by his enthusiasm, Rick gave an equally excited cry, and rushed out quickly.