In the days of surviving in the fairy forest

"You said just now that there are many legged rabbits in the red pine forest?"

Walking cautiously in the forest, Rick asked in a low voice while observing the surrounding situation vigilantly.

"What is a legged rabbit? Is it different from a normal rabbit?"

Ali was stunned, obviously a little surprised by Rick's extreme lack of common sense, but when he thought about his tragic life experience, this surprise turned into reality, and he just stretched out his claws and patted Rick's head pitifully.

"The rabbit you caught earlier is the leg rabbit," he explained, "the leg rabbit is the most common type of rabbit in the forest, because their hind legs are very powerful, and if they are lucky, they may awaken the racial talent— - Backspin kick, hence the name. When hunting leg rabbits, one must be careful with their hind legs. There was even a wolf who was hit by a backspin kick due to negligence, blinded one eye, and It has become the joke of the whole forest."

"Oh," Rick nodded in understanding.He was silent for a moment, but he still couldn't hold back and continued to ask, "Racial talent?"

The squirrel slapped himself on the face. After breaking down, he had a new understanding of the good luck of this ignorant fox—it was not easy to live alone in the forest for so long without even knowing what racial talent was.

"Racial talent is the ability given by the race, just like you are born to breathe fire," Ali explained in as much detail as possible, "Not all creatures can awaken the talent of the race. It is said that the stronger the race, the easier it is to awaken the talent, such as the tiger. The wolf clan or something. And like the legged rabbit clan, hundreds of legged rabbits may not have the talent of an awakened race."

Rick understood.Substituting this setting into the various cartoons I have watched, I can guess almost exactly.

Ah Li paused for a while, her dark eyes wandered around, seeing no danger, and then turned her gaze back.His voice became a little low: "The legged rabbits don't care about awakening talent, but some races will kill their cubs because they don't inherit the racial talent, or throw them into the forest to fend for themselves."

The forward pace flickered slightly, and Rick instantly realized that Ali was talking about himself.

In the final analysis, the law of the jungle itself is an eternal law in the forest. When it is impossible to feed all the cubs, throwing away the weak cubs that are more difficult to survive is a kind of selective option.But for the abandoned cubs themselves, this kind of cruelty will become a scar that they will never erase for the rest of their lives.

Rick comforted in a low voice: "You are so smart, so what if you don't have racial talent. Just looking at the food collected, how many talented chestnut squirrels can do it?"

"That's not right!" Ali quickly adjusted her mentality and cheered up again, "Isn't it just that I can't stuff chestnuts into my mouth? I don't care about this talent!"

So the racial talent of the chestnut squirrel is really to hold the whole chestnut in its cheek?Rick had a moment of skepticism about life.He was speechless for a moment, and really didn't know how to answer the words, so he heard Ah Li raised his hands high and cheered: "It's here! This is the red pine forest!"

Rick stopped at the sound and looked up.

In front of my eyes are tall trees straight into the sky. They are not thick, but they grow densely. The lush leaves on the branches explode like steel needles, forming a magnificent brown forest.

Taking a deep breath, he rushed into the red pine forest.

The soil in the forest is relatively soft, which may be due to insufficient light. There are relatively few bushes, and there is only a shallow layer of weeds on the ground.Although this makes it difficult for the fox to hide its body, it reduces the movement of the footsteps when walking.

In such a quiet place, even Ali stopped making a sound. He gently tugged on the fox's ears to indicate the direction. Rick followed his command tacitly, and the fox and the mouse walked quietly.

The rabbit hole hidden in the lush grass soon appeared in front of us.

The squirrel patted Rick on the head and pointed at the tree with its big tail, signaling him to climb to the top of the tree.

Rick's eyes widened.

"Before the leg rabbit finds out," the squirrel tried to lower his voice, "come up quickly. The view is better in the trees, and you can find other rabbit holes."

Rick also lowered his voice: "I'm a fox! I can't climb trees!"

"...?" Ali the squirrel was stunned, "No, you can! Black fire foxes can climb trees!"

"I won't!" Rick said helplessly, "I really won't!"

After arguing for a few words, knowing that he could not come to a conclusion, Ali had no choice but to rush to the top of the tree by himself, looked around, and then jumped back to the top of Rick's head, pointing his tail to the right: "There, there, and there, go there first. Spit fireballs in three places to prevent Legs from running out of those holes."

Rick looked in the direction of the tip of the squirrel's tail, but he couldn't see it clearly, but he still gathered three fireballs and threw them out, and then flew towards the leg rabbit hole.

When Rick got into the rabbit hole, there was already thick smoke billowing in it, and the rabbits ran in front of the fox in a panic. Obviously, the other holes were already on fire.Rick bit the fattest one effortlessly, and by the way, slapped the two-legged rabbit cubs one by one, and the squirrel dragged them to his back with difficulty, and then walked out swaggeringly.

When they walked out of the rabbit hole, the squirrels had already found a safe crack in the rock to hide in. One fox and the other squirrels dragged their booty and got in, looked at each other, and finally couldn't help laughing out loud.

"This is the easiest time for me to hunt!" The fox danced with four paws, its tail raised high, and entangled with the squirrel's tail, "It's so cool hahahaha!"

"The two of us are really invincible together!" The squirrel was also elated, but he didn't forget to shout at the fox, "We must learn to climb trees in the future! This is a life-saving skill!"

One fox and one mouse lost their minds for a moment, and then became serious again.Rick grilled the unlucky fat rabbit and wolfed it down. As an omnivore, the squirrel first ate a small piece of leg meat with restraint, and was soon overwhelmed by the smell of the roasted rabbit meat, and hoarded a large piece In the cheek pouch next to the cheek.

They ate until their bellies became round, and naturally the two-legged rabbit cubs couldn't eat any more. After discussing, they decided to collect pine nuts in the red pine forest and practice tree-climbing skills. eat up.

"It's a pity that legged rabbits can't be preserved like pine nuts," Squirrel said distressedly, "otherwise we can eat meat in winter."

Rick's eyes lit up, and he suddenly came back to his senses.

Oh yes, why can't he store meat, obviously before he crossed over, he had seen his parents bacon!

"Perhaps it is possible?" He said casually, and he had already decided in his heart to try the feasibility with green caterpillars that are easier to catch when he returned to the tree hole, "Grapes can be sun-dried into raisins, and the meat should also be sun-dried into meat. Just as I can spit fireballs, maybe we can try it."

As a bold squirrel who dares to cooperate with the fox, Ali is naturally afraid of chaos in the world.When he heard Rick's words, not only did he not feel the absurdity of subverting common sense, but he felt quite reasonable: "Okay! Let's go back and try!"

With the tree hole family, Ali as a companion, and now there is a good way to store meat, Rick can't help but feel that his future life is full of hope.With a happy howl, he rushed towards the tree trunk again, and then slowly slid down two scratches without any suspense...

Rick didn't learn the tree-climbing skills until after eating the cubs in the evening, and carrying three bags of leaves and pine nuts full of chestnuts to go home.

"Don't be discouraged," the squirrel Ali comforted, "Maybe it's because you are still young, and you will definitely learn it after a few more attempts."

Rick walked listlessly, his skin-worn paws stepped on the ground, and there was a dull pain: "This is unscientific, can foxes really climb trees? Ah Li, are you sure that black foxes can climb trees?"

"Uh," Squirrel felt guilty. Now that he thinks about it carefully, it seems that it is not so easy to say whether the red figure that he vaguely saw at the top of the tree was the Black Firefox, "Yes?"

He hesitated for a moment, looked down at Rick's beautiful magenta fur, compared it with the red shadow in his impression, and said firmly again: "I will definitely! You will definitely be able to learn to climb trees too! I will tell you about it tomorrow. Tree climbing skills again!"

"Well, since Black Fox can climb trees, I can learn it too!" Rick shook his head, cheered up and accelerated his pace again.Before it was dark, I had to go back to the tree hole. The woods at night were not a place for me and the squirrels to set foot in.

Back in the tree hole, the fur placed at the root of the tree is still intact.Apparently because the dregs on it have been burnt clean, even hungry foragers are not interested in it.

Rick moved away the stone blocking the tree hole, and the fox and mouse couldn't wait to enter the house.

"One, two, three, four... two hundred and one, two hundred and two, two hundred and three!" Ali took out all the pine nuts cherishingly, counted and counted, and then announced excitedly, "Today I collected all the pine nuts. Two hundred and three pine nuts! That's my usual week's work!"

There is a fox watching under the tree, and the natural enemies of the squirrels dare not approach. As long as there are no overlords like eagles hovering around, Ah Li can concentrate on collecting pine nuts without worrying about how to transport and store so many. Naturally Very efficient.

With his paws in his mouth, Rick watched the squirrel happily rolling in the pile of pine nuts with a smile on his eyes. By the way, he packed the few hard pine needles that he asked the squirrel to find today in a package made of leaves.

"Now we are short of caterpillars that can spin silk!" He rubbed his paws excitedly, and turned to look at the squirrel. "Do you know where we can find caterpillars? Silk-spinning ones—but the ones we can beat .”

As long as it's not the fat caterpillar who abused them yesterday!

Caterpillar?Ali tilted her head and thought for a while.

"The probability of caterpillars being able to master silk-spinning skills is much lower than that of legged rabbits." He spread his paws, shrugged helplessly, and then drooled by the imagination in his mind, "but we can catch more Some, the whiter and fatter ones, the more likely they are to spin silk. The caterpillars are so delicious, they must be more delicious when roasted, suck.”

"Yeah," Rick couldn't help nodding, and Ali felt a little hungry when he said this to his round belly, "You can also try roasting the green worms, which can be kept for a long time, Great to store for winter as food or save for an evening snack.”

"Then it's settled!" The tails of the squirrel and the fox curled up at the same time, and they touched each other affectionately, "Go catch caterpillars tomorrow evening!"

……

The next day, the squirrel, who was thinking about eating caterpillars, woke up early.

The two little ones got up in a hurry, swallowed a few fruits to fill their stomachs, cleaned up and ran to the red pine forest.

Perhaps it was too early, many beasts hunting at night had not yet left, and when they were halfway, they bumped into a huge owl head-on.Fortunately, Rick reacted quickly, quickly protected the squirrel under his claws, and slipped away smoothly while the owl was stunned by the weird relationship between a fox and a mouse.

Frightened by the owl, they ran fast for the rest of the journey. By the time they entered the red pine forest, Rick was so tired that he was out of breath and didn't even have the strength to catch the rabbit.

"It's finally here!" Ali jumped onto the branch deftly, smiling and looking at the little fox lying in the crevice and panting heavily, "You rest first, I'll go investigate the situation nearby."

After speaking, the squirrel bounced away.

The black fire fox cub is full of energy. Even after going through a frightening run, Rick just rested on the spot for a while before recovering, brushing out all his hair and turning back into a radiant little fox.

Ali has also quickly detected the situation, returned to Rick's side, and the two worked together, and within a quarter of an hour, they successfully chased the unlucky-legged rabbit who was out looking for food into the crevice of the stone that was used as a trap.

After eating a delicious meal of roasted rabbit meat, Ali continued to collect pine nuts diligently, and Rick also practiced climbing trees seriously-although in terms of results, his practice had little effect.

The scorching sun at noon gradually slanted to the west, and the air became humid and cool. The squirrel shook its full bag of leaves and waved to Rick: "Let's go! Let's catch bugs!"

Rick whimpered happily.