In the days of surviving in the fairy forest

The beauty pageant lasted until noon that day.

Rick watched until the end, but he didn't see any difference between these feathered swans. In short, he was dazzled, and his eyes were spinning in circles.

"Then, everyone gets their scores well, and the most beautiful swan is about to be born!" The squirrel was still full of energy, standing in the middle of the moss blanket, jumping up and down to enliven the atmosphere.

The feather swans picked up their bark cards one after another.Those with low scores are unhappy, while those with high scores look around, lest they see someone with a higher score than themselves.

Rick lay lazily on the spot, listening to the squirrel loudly announcing the winner of the competition, the feathered swan flapped its wings excitedly, flew in mid-air and circled, and the other feathered swans sighed one after another.

Although it was very sour, this result was voted by all the geese together, so none of the feathered swans questioned it, but secretly made up their minds to work hard on their posture and strength, and protect their feathers until the next beauty pageant. Be sure to be the ultimate winner.

When the pageant was over, Rick shook his head, went to the squirrels, and said goodbye to the feather swans.

"Where are you going?" the feather swans asked him.

Most of the mossy swamps are birds, which are not suitable for foxes, which are flightless carnivores.Rick had just helped them with such an important matter, and the feather swans wondered if there was anything they could do to help.

"We are going to collect velvet fruit." Rick replied, pointing his paw at the stone mountain over there.

The feather swans looked at each other.

"Velvet fruit is difficult to collect. They grow in stones and need to be pried open."

said one of the feathered swans.There was a reluctance expression on his face, he hesitated for a moment, and flew away with flapping his wings, and after a while, he came back with a feather in his mouth.

"This is the feather that I shed a few days ago, and I gave it to you."

The feathers of the feather swan are very sharp, and the feather tail can be said to be cut like iron, and it is easier to handle than the caterpillar silk, and it is not easy to hurt yourself during use.

It's just that feather swans are always very precious to their feathers, even those that fall off naturally, they must be properly hidden in their nests, if they are stolen by other animals, it will become a life and death enemy.

For example, the gourd baboons once forcibly snatched the feathers of a feather swan. Up to now, the gourd baboons will angrily chase and peck the gourd baboons.

"Thank you!" Rick took the feather in surprise, "You are really kind-hearted!"

A few more feathered swans flew away.After a while, Ali and Rick each held four or five feathers. They carefully wrapped them with clean leaves and put them in their backpacks.

"Little foxes and squirrels like you who know how to appreciate beauty will definitely treat my feathers kindly," Facing Rick's praise and thanks, Feather Swan said reservedly, "So go ahead and use them!"

Feathered swans who like to live alone often look at each other with distaste for the same race. Now that the problem of who is the most beautiful has been solved, they don't plan to stay together for too long. After the fox took the feathers, they scattered and left.

Rick picked up the squirrel and put it on top of his head, and continued on his way to Stone Mountain.

After walking for a while, there were more and more rocks on the wet silt, and the vegetation of various colors gradually became sparse, and even the birds that could be seen became less and less.Rick hopped from rock to rock to the foot of the rocky mountain.

From a distance, the scale of the stone mountain does not seem to be large, but when you get closer, you find that the mountain is still towering, and any stone in the mountain is several times larger than Rick's entire fox. A majestic pile of rocks.

Ah Li jumped between the rocks, climbed up the rock easily, carefully looked at the uneven surface of the rock, turned his head and waved his claws excitedly: "Ricrick, come and see! Is it just to pry this open!"

"Come here," Rick climbed a little hard, the fox's claws grabbed the edge of the rock hard, his hind legs turned up, tossed for a while, and then he climbed up out of breath, "Where is it?"

Ali pointed to the rock in front of her.

On the surface of this rock, there are several large and protruding stone shells, the color is gray with black spots, and irregular moss and soil are attached to it. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary stone with an ugly appearance.

Rick scratched his head, always feeling that this thing looked familiar.He watched the squirrel take out the feather presented by the swan, and the edge of the feather was stuck in the crack of the stone shell, and he pried it open vigorously, revealing the milky white inside, and he suddenly reacted.

Isn't this an oyster that grows on land!

It's just that after the shell was opened, what was inside was not the soft, glutinous and chewy meat of an oyster, but a red long-haired fruit, somewhat similar in shape to a bayberry, exuding a pungent smell of burnt plastic.

"It smells so bad!" Foxpaw covered his nose, and Rick's expression was indescribable.

The squirrel was also so smoked that he retched: "No wonder Pangpang is unwilling to follow! You Xuanhuox clan have too strong a taste!"

"What taste is too strong, I don't want to eat this thing!"

Rick opened his eyes wide, with a look of disgust on his face, and took a step back, a little wanting to give up picking.Ah Li held the velvet fruit with her paws, kicked her legs and rushed towards Rick, pried open the fox's mouth, and stuffed the velvet fruit into the fox's throat.

Subconsciously preparing to resist, but also afraid of hurting Ali's claws that had stuck into his mouth, Rick hesitated for a moment, but still reluctantly swallowed the velvet fruit.

This velvet fruit has an unpleasant smell, but it tastes good. It's not that sweet, but a strange taste. The long hairs are crisp and refreshing, and the inside is smooth like cream. After eating one, Rick even There is still something to say.

The shell is like an oyster, it looks like a red bayberry, and its smell and taste are similar to durian... What kind of fairy food is this!

Rick smashed his mouth, decisive and delicious: "It's quite delicious. Let's continue picking."

"Delicious?" The squirrel looked at him incredulously, and clicked its tail, "So your Xuanhuhu really has such a strong taste."

He didn't want to taste the velvet fruit, he said nothing, shook his head like a rattle, climbed up and down the stone mountain with a feather knife, pried open the rocks, took out the velvet fruit, and brought it in front of Rick .

Rick persuaded him a few times, and seeing that the squirrel was unmoved, he didn't insist. He ate the downy fruit while collecting, and chatted with the squirrel casually: "No wonder Pangpang asked us to finish eating the downy fruit before going back. It turned out that he didn't want to smell this smell."

The squirrel was standing next to Rick. When he opened his mouth to speak, he jumped back a few meters, covered his nose with his paws, and stared at him in disgust: "Stop talking! You have a big smell in your mouth! It stinks! "

Rick: QAQ

The little fox closed his mouth aggrieved, rubbed his paws on the ground, tried hard to chew and swallow the downy fruit, his tail drooped, and his originally erect ears were lowered into a parallel shape.

Ah Li took a deep breath, but still couldn't hold back Rick's downcast expression, and moved back grumblingly.

"I'm not saying you stink," he stretched out his paw to poke the fur of the fox. "Let's finish picking the velvet fruit around here, it will be dark soon."

The stone shells protecting the velvet fruit are very hard, and some of them can't even find a gap. It takes a long time to burn with a high-temperature flame to barely expose a thin gap.

Rick and Ali were busy all afternoon. Excluding what Rick ate, they only collected a hundred or so fruits, which couldn't even fill a worm silk bag.

"It's getting dark," Ali looked up at the sky, "Let's go down first, it's better not to stay overnight on the rocky mountain."

They are not familiar with the environment of rocky mountains, let alone whether poisonous snakes, lizards or other reptiles will crawl out of the gaps between these rocks. It is obviously not a good choice to take the risk of living here.

Rick nodded in agreement, picked up the cloth bag containing the downy fruit, pretended not to see the movement of the squirrel covering its nose, picked up the squirrel and put it on top of his head, and jumped down.

"It's no wonder fire-attributed animals like to eat velvet fruit." Dig out a simple hole in the soil and drill in, put the backpack and cloth bag in the deepest part of the hole for protection, Rick took out a mint leaf and put it in his mouth. "I feel warm on my body, as if I have taken a hot bath."

You know, for the Black Firefox, which is extremely resistant to flames, their hot bath must be at least the level of magma in the volcanic forest.

Rick's claws were raised, and filament-shaped flames emerged from the claw tips, entangled to form a fine fire net, and firmly fixed to the hole in the soil cave.

"My flame control ability has really improved!" Rick said happily.

At this time, he felt that, not to mention that the velvet fruit is actually delicious, even if it tastes as disgusting as it smells, he can bite the bullet and finish the velvet fruit.

"Great!" The squirrel was also happy, and he waved his paw excitedly to encourage Rick, "If you continue like this, you will evolve soon!"

As the squirrel waved its paw, a gust of wind was blown over the fox's head, blowing off several fiery red fox furs.Ali stared at the past with wide-eyed eyes, and before Rick found out, he quickly grabbed the fox fur and hid it behind him.

"Huh?" Rick noticed the squirrel's movement and raised his eyes suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Ah Li quickly stood up straight, hid the fox fur tightly, and patted the fox's ears: "It's okay, it's okay, go to sleep!"

Today, I was helping feather swans to pageant again, and I was climbing up and down to collect them. Therefore, despite the strong and unpleasant smell of the bag of velvet fruits, the exhausted little fox fell asleep quickly. Small snores evenly.

Ali raised her head sneakily, and grabbed the fox's head as lightly as possible.

Another few fox furs fell off.Rick's originally fluffy head lost a lot of hair after eating the phoenix fruit, and now it is even sparser, and even the light pink skin under the hair can be seen.

Squirrel felt guilty: "..."

After eating the velvet fruit, the fox's fur falls even more, what can I do!