In the days of surviving in the fairy forest

Shi Mengxiong's mother stared at the two little cowards huddled together for a while, then suddenly smiled kindly.

Of course, the so-called kindness refers to Shi Mengxiong.From Rick and Ali's point of view, the big bear in front of them suddenly opened its bloody mouth, and the halazi dripped to the ground along its sharp teeth. The ferocious bear stared at them, looking like it was hungry.

The two hairy ears lay down pitifully, Rick showed the soft and cute expression of an innocent cub, but one paw was quietly stretched behind his back, holding the squirrel, rolled it up from the backpack with its tail and handed it to him secretly The sharp stone knife, ready to stab the bear's head at any time and then run away.

The bear's claws reached into the lush bear hair on the abdomen, and took out a bulging honeycomb, and handed it to Rick.

Rick, who was about to attack violently, tilted his head subconsciously: "Oh?"

He raised his head, carefully looked at the face of the mother of the Sighted Bear, and managed to see a trace of gratitude and kindness from her fierce and terrifying appearance, so he stretched out his two paws, and held the almost rifted bag from the Stone Bear. A hive that is as high as a whole fox.

"Thank you." He said politely, subconsciously hugging the honeycomb that exuded the aroma of honey.

Ali also emerged from the top of Rick's head, wagging her big tail, and said crisply and sweetly: "Thank you, Mama Bear!"

A fox and a squirrel, this pairing is a spectacle unheard of in the whole forest.Shi Mengxiong's mother looked at them in amazement. Since these two had saved her and her child twice just now, she didn't make any comments on this way of partnering. She just nodded encouragingly and took the grievance card that rushed at her. The baby bear hugged him in his arms.

Picking out his belly again, this time he took out a small fishbone stone from the bear fur, and the stone bear handed it to Rick and Ali: "I live in the bear forest to the east of the forest, if you need help Yes, just come to me."

Rick and Ali looked at each other.

They do have a little problem right now.

……

With the guidance of the mother bear who is familiar with the terrain, Rick and Ali finally know where they ran when they were avoiding the pursuit of the feathered swan.

Backed by high mountains and close to swift rivers, acacias bloom everywhere in spring. It is a frequent habitat for herds of deer and horses. Giant bears, wolves and tigers also like to hunt here.

Such a fierce battle between the fierce stone bear and the silver-ringed viper is just a small scene that is commonplace here.

Listening to Shi Mengxiong's mother's introduction, both Rick and Ali were covered in cold sweat. They couldn't help but feel lucky to meet the Silver Ring Viper and Shi Mengxiong. If they collide with wolves, they may not be able to fly.

Not daring to stay longer in such a dangerous place, the fox and the mouse quickly untied the silk thread wrapped around the snake's body and put it away, tied up the beehive with vines and put it on the fox's back, saying hello to the stone mammoth bear mother He left here in a hurry.

Originally, Rick wanted to break off the fangs of the silver-ringed viper as a weapon, but the fangs were too sharp, and the venom sealed his throat with blood. Rick, who only had a pair of hairy claws, couldn't remove the fangs without hurting himself. In the end, I had no choice but to let it go, and broke off several more pieces of the hardest snake scales located at the snake's neck, until the backpack could no longer hold more things.

Following the correct direction guided by the stone mammoth bear's mother, he rushed to the woods where the tree hole was located. Ali stood on the fox's back that was bumped up and down due to running, and fixed the dangling beehive with all four claws. Non-stop babbling: "We have honey to eat! I have only heard that honey is very sweet and delicious, but I have never really tasted it!"

"And it's still such a big pot," Rick agreed happily, "you can save it if you can't finish it. Too bad we don't have a honey pot—"

When he said this, he suddenly stopped talking, and the lessons he had studied in modern times slowly came to mind.

Plastic and metal items are hard to come by, but aren't clay pots just made from clay?

As a mysterious firefox who can breathe fire and also work as a barbecue grill and air dryer, he must be fine with things like clay pots!

……

ten days later.

The fox who had lost his dream was sadly shriveled into a ball of fur on the rabbit blanket, the tip of his nose was still an ugly lump of wet mud no matter how he scratched it, his eyes almost turned into cross-eyed.

The squirrel knocking on the chestnut next to him looked over, although he didn't understand what the little fox was doing, he patted him on the head comfortingly: "Don't worry, take your time, wait until winter, you have something to do." You can spend a lot of time nestling in tree holes and playing with mud slowly."

At this time, he said "winter is coming" in a much more relaxed and cheerful tone than before.Without him, a large box full of dried caterpillars, dried leg rabbit meat, and piles of fruit and pine nuts gave the vulpes the confidence to survive the winter safely.

After experiencing the incident of running too far and getting lost, almost losing their lives in the battle between the Silver Ring Viper and the Stone Bear, Rick and Ali became more cautious and did not leave the familiar route easily.Fortunately, there are a lot of fruits and prey in autumn. After killing the silver-ringed viper with silk thread, Rick thought of a good way to catch prey by making traps. The two little ones have reaped a lot recently.

In particular, Rick's silk thread traps for legged rabbits were a hit almost every day.Although there are many times when other predators will be there first, causing Rick to check the traps with only a few pitiful bones left, but fortunately there are many traps, and there are always a few who can get food.

Every night, he can carry several legged rabbits back to the tree hole. Sometimes he is so tired that he can't even spit out any sparks, and he can't finish packing so much fresh meat.

I don't know if it's because Rick is in the growing cub stage, or because he has used the racial talent too frequently recently, his use of flames has reached a new level again.Now he can already control the fist-sized ball of flames to levitate and burn within one meter around him, which is extremely convenient whether it is used for raids or for barbecues.

It just so happened that Ah Li found a few fruit-laden chestnut trees not far away when he was watching the wind a few days ago. The autumn is high and crisp, and it is the season when chestnuts are ripe. , After returning to the tree hole, burn it with a flame ball for a while, and you get a delicious roasted chestnut.

The soft, glutinous and sweet roasted chestnut, together with the honey given by Shi Mengxiong, has become a new favorite in the dinner of one fox and one mouse.

During the busy autumn stockpiling process, the only thing that didn't go well was the process of Rick's pottery burning plan.

"How can I make a neat circle!" Rick collapsed to the ground, with four furry paws close together on his chest, rolling around on the blanket depressedly.

Ah Li swallowed the last bite of snacks, and ran over bouncingly, holding the lump of mud that Rick had been tossing for half a night, tentatively stepped in with her two feet, and stepped on shallow pits with her claws.

"Don't worry so much if it's neat or not," he poked the fox's white belly, then stretched and retracted the tail, and the whole squirrel got into the mud, diligently turning the inside into an empty shell, "I'll help you, is that okay?"

Rick, who has been struggling for several nights because he can't pinch a jar with fox claws: "..."

Although the squirrel's claws can't make the mud smooth, they can connect the mouth of the pot to the inside and make the pot bigger. Look around, although it's still too ugly to look directly at, at least it has the outline of a pot .

Rick excitedly held the squirrel that got out of the mud, ignored his dirty mud, kissed him loudly, and then couldn't wait to move the mud to the tree hole, and waited until early tomorrow morning The mud was moved outside to dry.

"Fire this one first," he explained earnestly. "It takes a lot of experimentation to make good pottery. If you do too much at one time, it will be wasted."

Squirrel nodded hesitantly, but didn't understand what Rick was saying at all.What is good pottery?Rabbit meat will become delicious if it is roasted over fire, but can't the soil be eaten if it is roasted over fire?Is pottery a new type of food?

Ali, the squirrel sleeping on the tail of a fox, gnawed on the tip of his claws with saliva, and his dream was full of delicious clay pots, including pine nuts, chestnuts, thunderbirds, and honey...

When he woke up the next morning, Rick was surprised to find that the squirrels, who had always been dispensable to their pottery research, suddenly became very active, and even wanted to persuade Rick to use their time for gathering and hunting. to fire pottery.

"Collecting food is more important," Rick said in awe, "There's no rush for pottery."

Taking advantage of the lively autumn, maximize the effect of traps, catch more prey and stockpile food is a serious matter.

After all, the residents in the Fairy Forest are different from ordinary animals. Most of them have extremely high IQs. Rick’s not-so-ingenious trap works well for the time being. Wait until the victims such as legged rabbits and chickens are more vigilant, and then they can catch them. Those who arrived were few.

In addition, it has only been a few days, and there are already a few hyenas who like to pick up leaks wandering around the trap from time to time, and when they see prey trapped, they will jump over and eat it up, leaving Rick with only one Bare skeletons.

"Even stealing other people's prey, thieves hyenas are the most annoying animals in the forest," Ali the squirrel complained about this, "They even have racial skills—they just bite the butts of other animals!"

The self-proclaimed serious squirrel didn't even want to say the name of the hyena's racial skill, but pouted depressingly, expressing his depression at the presence of such an unpleasant neighbor.

"So the hyena is really the eternal villain." Rick was not angry, but laughed to himself. After a while, he told the squirrel worriedly, "The hyena eats everything, and the squirrel is also in their diet." Come on, you must be careful when you are around."

The squirrel nodded happily.

……

When the nearby pine nuts and chestnuts were almost picked, they went a little farther to pick mountain grapes in the east woods.

There is no shade from the mountains in the woods to the east, and the sun shines on the fox through the trees full of wild grapes, making it very warm and comfortable.

"This is the territory of the gourd baboons," Ali the squirrel sitting on top of the fox looked around vigilantly. "Be careful, the gourd baboons are xenophobic and vengeful. Once we provoke them, we will be in big trouble."