Chen Qi's life is as ordinary as his name, so he has lived for nearly thirty years and never thought that one day he would encounter such a thing as time travel.
He has been standing in this vast snowy field for more than ten minutes, but he doesn't know what he should do now. He has been in the city with all kinds of noise all year round, and suddenly came to the desolate and quiet suburb, even if there seems to be some vague thoughts in his mind. Information was pouring in. For Chen Qi, who was almost frozen, he only hoped that this was just a dream.
One moment it was still dry and cool in September, and the next moment he suddenly stepped on several feet of snow. Chen Qi is now very grateful that he was given a few more glasses of wine by his friends during the party, and he wore it when he left. Whose black coat is it, at least it prevents him from being directly frozen to death.
But it's not far from freezing to death, is it? Chen Qi thought silently, and looked around, the withered yellow grass that was half a person's height was bent over by the snow, and what he saw was boundless white, except for a few tall trees scattered not far away, he couldn't see it. No trace of human activity.
Chen Qi gathered his coat, the cold air from the outside made his movements stiff, but what made him even more uncomfortable was the information that kept popping up in his mind, blurred and not clear, like annoying mosquitoes It's like flying non-stop in your ear.
Chen Qi didn't dare to move anywhere. This place is too strange. I don't know if there are dangerous creatures hiding under the grass half a person's height, but he also knows that he can't stand in place all the time. There is no other way out but to be frozen to death.
Encouraging myself in my heart, I shook my head, bent down and found a relatively hard grass pole from my feet, folded it off forcefully, and slapped the grass in front of me with the grass pole while looking towards the tallest acacia tree not far away. the tree goes.
Even in such a desperate environment, you still have to set a small goal for yourself. Maybe you can climb to the top of the tree to see the surrounding situation clearly. At least you have to know which side you should go to have a higher chance of survival.
The orc with white hair all over his body squatted on the tall branch of the locust tree. On the first day of the first snow, he turned into a half-beast with hair. Except for the facial features, he was covered with thick fur from the neck down, which made him feel even in the first snow. Less than any chill.
He has squatted here all night, waiting for the furry snow bear. The younger brother's partner, his only friend Ake, has been pregnant for three months, and their child will be born this winter.
For babies, the winter in the Dora Plain is too cold, especially for the delicate males. It is difficult for males born in winter to survive the first year. For a newborn child, the fur of a snow bear is the softest and warmest even if it is not tanned. Every orc with a child in the family wants a fur of a snow bear. Unfortunately, the fur of a snow bear is not so easy to obtain. In addition to being strong, it also depends on luck.
Not all fur of snow bears has this effect. The fur of snow bears will come out to look for mates within three days of the first snowfall. Their males will grow the softest and warmest fur of the year to attract the attention of females. The first snow is over. Afterwards, they will hide in the cave and wait for the arrival of summer. In summer, the fur of the snow bear will become hard and short. At this time, the fur is not as good as that of the hyena dragon. So if you miss the period of the first snow, you want to hunt again We have to wait another year to get to Snow Bear.
The white-haired orc named Aze didn't want to miss this year's first snow, so he waited here early, paying attention to the surrounding situation. As long as the furry snow bear appeared, it would definitely not escape his eyes.
Suddenly, Aze's body tensed up, his breathing slowed down, his body leaned forward slightly, God, what did he see. A male son actually walked alone in the snow.
The body acted faster than the mind, and the slender fingers grabbed the branches, and jumped off the tree after a few ups and downs.
Chen Qi was almost unconscious from the cold at this moment, if there was a mirror in front of him at this time, he would definitely be able to see himself with a pale complexion and purple lips. He didn't even know if he would still be able to walk under the tall acacia tree alive, and the straw in his hand lost its original function of detecting the danger of the grass, and he just kept walking forward persistently.
Aze used his maximum speed to rush to Chen Qi, and hugged him tightly into his arms. Chen Qi's body was very cold, and Aze felt like he was holding a huge popsicle. He hoped that he would His body temperature can slightly warm this frozen male son.
Chen Qi, who was suddenly hugged by a huge heat source, was stunned. He felt that his brain was frozen and confused, and he couldn't react to the current situation at all. He just felt that he was in a fluffy and warm place. Burying himself in as much as possible, raising his head when he was drowsy surrounded by this warmth, he saw a handsome and cold face, but the worried expression on his face softened the cold and hard lines A few points.
In a daze, Chen Qi felt that he had been taken away from the cold snowy field. Although the surroundings were still cold, at least there would be no wind constantly blowing into your body from all directions.
After an unknown amount of time, another heat source seemed to appear around him, and the burning dry feeling in his throat made him just want to pour a few bottles of water into it to moisten it.
Just as he was thinking of something hard approaching his lips, Chen Qi could smell a bit of meaty aroma, opened his lips and took a sip, it smelled like sheep, with a bit of saltiness and astringency, it was not delicious, but at this moment Chen Qi I can't care about the taste anymore. After swallowing it, I feel that my body is slowly warmed up from the inside to the outside.
Someone beside him was speaking something, it was a strange language, Chen Qi couldn't understand it, after drinking the water, he lazily nestled into the soft and warm cushion behind him, and continued to fall asleep.
Chen Qi opened his eyes again because he was awakened by the unbearable hunger in his stomach. Looking around, he saw a gloomy mountain wall in front of him, a pile of burning firewood next to him, and his body was covered with the fur of an unknown animal. On the ground not far away was a small piece of animal skin, with a few bright red fruits on it, which looked a bit like apples, but the color was really not like any variety of apples I had seen in the supermarket. He was really hungry, and Chen Qi didn't dare to pick it up and eat casually.
Apart from the hunger in his stomach, Chen Qi didn't feel that his body was suffering from the previous cold. If he had to use one word to describe it, it would be great, which undoubtedly surprised him.
The cave is not big, and the entrance of the cave is surrounded by a circle of dry branches as barriers.
Chen Qi carefully walked around the barrier and went outside. The boundless grassland was still in sight, but there was no trace of snowflakes on the grassland anymore, as if the snowfield that was several feet thick had disappeared overnight, withered and yellow. Weeds of various colors are swaying in the wind, a white sphere five or six times larger than the moon hangs on the blue sky, and there is a lavender sphere that looks like the moon beside it, and the sun in the middle is shining warmly , the temperature was the same as the temperature in G City before Chen Qi came here, warm and cool.
Well, Chen Qi knew that he had traveled, and possibly traveled to other planets. At least the planet where he lived for nearly thirty years would not have two moons in broad daylight, and of course there would not be two moons.
Before falling asleep, Chen Qi had a headache from the annoying mosquito-like lingering voice in his head, only after waking up did he realize that those voices were a piece of information, some basic information about this planet.
The information did not mention the name of this planet, but the place where Chen Qi is now is the largest plain on this planet, the Dora Plain.
The Dora Plain and the adjacent Loya Forest divide the continent of this planet into two almost symmetrical parts. Their area is so vast that no one can ever pass through the Loya Forest. Dragons occupy it, and anyone who tries to cross the forest will be impaled by their hard and sharp sword horns.
The human beings living in this place are called orcs. There is no difference between men and women, and they have the same physical characteristics. Those who can transform into beasts are called females. The ones that cannot be turned into beasts are called males. They are smaller than females, but their survival rate is low, and they are responsible for collecting and raising children.
There are no seasons on this planet, only winter and summer. Summer was fine, the temperature was similar to the summer temperature in the place where Chen Qi lived before, although it was hot, it was not so hot as to be exaggerated. But winter is different. In the coldest time, it can even turn into ice. In this kind of place with no heating at all and only animal skins for warm clothes, even the strongest orcs cannot go out in such weather at will.
And in such extreme weather, assuming that ten children are born this year, five females and five males, then even if they are freed, as long as there is no fatal attack, these five females will live to adulthood. But even if the five males are carefully protected, if one of them survives to adulthood, the survival rate is high, so males are extremely rare here. All orcs, no matter which tribe they belong to, basically engrave the protection of males into them. The most important piece of information in a gene.
Only if the male son survives, can the orcs not be eliminated by nature.
And the snow that Chen Qi saw before was the first snow on this planet. This is a rather peculiar phenomenon. Before winter comes, there will be a first snowfall. This snow will only last for three days. After three days, it will quickly melt overnight and seep into the ground as if it never appeared, and then it will remain cool for a month. If the temperature falls again in a month, it will show that it has entered winter.
If this month is divided into four seasons, then this month after the first snow belongs to autumn. Many fruits will ripen one after another during this month, and the activities of various animals will also become frequent, and they will begin to prepare for long-distance migration. At this time, all the orcs were dispatched to store food for the next few months of winter.
Chen Qi was very glad that he came here when it was snowing for the first time, at least he still had a month to prepare how to survive in this strange place, such as finding a tribe of orcs to join him.
Reminiscing about his past civilized years, Chen Qi was attracted by a gradually approaching figure.
It was a tall and strong man, wearing animal fur clothing. Even though the thick layer of white fur had disappeared from his body, Chen Qi still recognized that this was the man he had seen before he passed out on the snowy field. It seems that this person saved himself and moved himself into this cave.
The man was carrying a lamb that had been slaughtered on his shoulders, holding the prey with one hand, and holding the peeled sheepskin with the other. Two green fruits the size of coconuts were wrapped in the sheepskin.
"Are you awake?" The man's voice was a little hoarse, as if he was not used to talking to people, he seemed a little hesitant and flattering, and it didn't fit in with his cold face.
Chen Qi needed to raise his head slightly to see the man's face clearly. The man was at least half a head taller than him. It was really impossible to imagine that such a strong man would be the one who gave birth to a child.
"Did you save me?" Ever since he woke up, Chen Qi could understand the other party's words. He remembered that the other party seemed to have spoken to him in the coma, but the pronunciation of that language was too mysterious. I don't understand, but now this language can communicate with his mother tongue without any sense of disobedience. This was as incomprehensible as the information that inexplicably flooded into his mind, Chen Qi could only treat it as his golden finger, at least he didn't need to have communication barriers with the native creatures of this planet.
The man nodded, pushed aside the barrier blocking the entrance of the cave, and walked into the cave with his slender legs. Chen Qi paused, and followed him in.
The man puts the sheepskin in his hand on the ground and lays it out before putting the prey on it. Picking up one of the cyan fruits, long nails suddenly appeared on the slender fingers, and the nails were drawn across the top of the fruit, and the milky white liquid flowing inside could be seen instantly.
The man handed the opened fruit to Chen Qi, and Chen Qi took it. The shell of the fruit was very hard, and it felt cold in his hand.
"Drink." The man motioned Chen Qi to drink the juice inside.
Chen Qi took a sip lightly, the mouth was cold, although it was milky white, it had no milky taste at all, the taste was very light, more like sweetened water.
Seeing that Chen Qi drank it, the man opened the remaining fruit in the same way. The fruit was relatively large. After opening, the man walked to the fire, first pulled out a few smaller pieces of firewood that were still burning, and then picked them up. A simple shelf was set up on the thicker tree trunk next to it, and the fruit in his hand was placed on the newly set up fire, and then he used his nails to cut a few pieces of flesh from the prey next to him and put it into the fruit. After everything was done, a simple shelf was built on the big fire next to it, and the whole lamb was grilled on the fire.
Chen Qi watched the man busy in amazement, and then said with emotion that the man's nails are really not so easy to use. Looking at his manicured and bald nails, he quickly took a sip of fruit juice to suppress his shock.
He is just an ordinary person, and he can't envy him.
The man was very silent. After finishing the work in hand, he sat in front of the fire and stared in a daze at the lamb that was slowly changing color after being roasted.
Chen Qi stared at the other party's side face for a few minutes, and after confirming that the other party had not kept silent because he was bored with him, he decided to break the awkward atmosphere.
"My name is Chen Qi, what's your name?" Chen Qi said while handing the half-drunk fruit to the other party. The man only brought back two of these fruits, one of which was being boiled in the fire. Chen Qi was also embarrassed to drink up all the food in his hand, and after taking a few sips of juice, his hunger became more obvious. There was a whole lamb roasting on the fire, so he didn't want to satisfy his hunger with water.
Seeing Chen Qi's actions, the man was obviously a little surprised. Except for his younger brother, he had never received food from any male.
Chen Qi maintained the action of handing the fruit for a minute, and began to wonder if the other party disliked the food he had drunk, and whether it was impolite to hand the half-drinked food to a stranger like this , the man stretched out his hand to take it.
"Aze." The man took the fruit and didn't drink it. He only found these two milk fruits nearby. "My name is Aze."
After opening the topic, Chen Qi naturally wouldn't remain silent, "Ah Ze, is your tribe near here?"
Aze's body tensed up. Although the population of the tribe has decreased a lot now, he still doesn't want to bring this newly-acquainted male back to the tribe. Two years ago, he rescued a male in the Luoya Forest and brought him back to the tribe. He was snatched away by a strong female in the tribe two days later. Although Aze thought it was nothing, he still had a reaction to this incident in his heart.
"I don't live in the tribe." Aze lowered his head and rubbed the hard core of the milk fruit. He didn't lie, he didn't live in the tribe, but in a wild forest far away from the tribe, where the There are several tall fig trees.
"Do you live alone?" Chen Qi, Zou Zoumei, what are the chances of a single orc surviving in such a place? But judging from the other party's situation, it doesn't look like survival is difficult. It should be that the other party is a powerful orc. I don't know if this thigh can be hugged tightly. In the current situation, he has no other information to find the orc settlement.
Aze nodded, "Where is your tribe? I can send you back, you shouldn't have come to the plains alone."
"Well, I don't have a tribe."
Aze froze for a moment, and said angrily, "Sorry."
Chen Qi smiled a little embarrassingly, looking at the other party's appearance, he might have thought that his tribe was destroyed.
The tribes living on the Dora Plain not only have to deal with bad weather every year, but also have to deal with the attack of the hyena. Up to now, even Stegosaurus could not cope with hordes of Hyenasaurus, and many tribes had to seek shelter from larger tribes in order to survive.
The tribe Aze belonged to was also a medium-sized tribe in the Dora Plain three years ago, but a group of hyena dragons attacked the tribe in the cold winter three years ago. The powerful female was also sacrificed in that attack. The patriarch at that time could only lead the tribe to the lion wolf tribe closest to their tribe. Only some people who had lived there for generations and those who did not want to leave stayed.
Chen Qi also knows the information about hyenas. Not to mention hyenas, even ordinary hyenas on the plains cannot be handled by Chen Qi. Now he only hopes to find a relatively safe place to survive the first winter. Knowing that he only had a month to prepare, he couldn't go hunting in that cold weather like the orcs.
"Aze, how many tribes are there here?"
Aze thought for a while, and said: "I don't know how many tribes there are on the Dora Plain. Most of the tribes were established along the Dosa River. The largest tribe nearby is the lion wolf tribe. It is said that there are thousands of tribes. people."
"How many people are there in your tribe?"
Aze paused, he didn't want the other party to go to his tribe, their tribe was less than one-fifth of the previous number, and most of the rest were old females, although the hyena dragon hadn't come again in the past two years , but in winter there is more than one threat from the hyena dragon. Under Chen Qi's suspicious eyes, he still told the other party truthfully, "Our tribe was attacked by the hyena dragon before, and the patriarch took others to join the lion wolf tribe. Now there are not many people left. Up to thirty people."
Chen Qi thought for a while, then asked with a smile: "Ah Ze, I have nowhere to go now, can I go back with you?"
Aze raised his head and looked at Chen Qi, "You have to go back with me."
Chen Qi nodded, "Well, I can build a small house next to your house, do you mind having one more companion?"
"I don't have stretch marks."
"Pregnancy marks?" Chen Qi didn't understand why this topic was suddenly diverted.
Aze put down the milk fruit in his hand, clenched his right wrist, where a piece of animal skin was tied, hesitated for a while, then slowly untied the animal skin, and stretched out his hand in front of Chen Qi.
Chen Qi looked at him along with his movements, maybe it was because he hadn't seen the light for many years, the skin on his wrist was whiter than other places, so what Chen Qi saw was smooth white skin.
Aze's deep voice could not hear any emotion, "Are you going back with me?"
It was only at this time that Chen Qi realized what Aze was talking about.
Pregnancy marks are a line that appears on the right wrist of all orc females on the Dora Plain after birth. The darker the pregnancy marks, the higher the probability of pregnancy for that female. Females without stretch marks will not be pregnant, and there is another saying that people without stretch marks are also abandoned by the beast gods. This kind of special person will not be loved by others no matter where he is. Chen Qi really didn't expect that the reason why the tall orc in front of him chooses to live alone is not necessarily because he is strong enough to survive alone on the Dora Plain. , it is more likely that he was not accepted by the tribe and was excluded from the tribe.
Chen Qi stretched out his hand to caress A Zeguang's bare wrist. This action was too ambiguous for an orc. At this moment, Chen Qi just wanted to appease the emotions of the first friend he met after coming to this strange place. After taking off the animal skin on his wrist, he exuded a touch of sadness.
Chen Qi doesn't understand the feelings of orcs towards pregnancy marks, he is unfamiliar with everything in this world, and all the information he knows about this world is just a basic impression that suddenly flooded into his mind.
The person in front of him was the first of his kind he had ever met. Chen Qi never thought that he had a baby bird complex, but he still felt that Aze was a bit special to him. In that kind of desperate situation where his body was frozen and his life was being lost, It was the tall orc in front of him who appeared in front of him and pulled him back from the hands of the God of Death. Chen Qi thanked him, so at this moment he didn't want him to suddenly fall into his sad world.
"Of course, as long as you are willing, I want to go back with you." Chen Qi looked directly into the other's eyes and said slowly: "You know, I can't live here alone. If you don't take me away, I might have to Frozen to death or starved to death here."
Aze paused, and said hesitantly: "Actually, I can take you to the lion wolf tribe. You are a male, and they will be very willing to accept you."
"why?"
"Surrounded by mountains on three sides, the lion and wolf tribe is the largest and safest place nearby. There are many powerful females guarding it."
Chen Qi pondered for a while. At the beginning, what he considered was to find a tribe to settle down. It would be safer to seek refuge in a large tribe with many people, but in this way he would be separated from the tall man in front of him.
Seeing Chen Qi's sudden silence, Ah Ze silently moved his eyes away, took out a gray-white stone and dabbed it on the lamb that had been roasted and discolored. Although he wanted to pretend to be indifferent, his eyes suddenly dimmed. A few points of light still revealed a hint of helplessness. The male who was rescued before was very alienated from himself after knowing that he had no pregnancy marks. After bringing him back to the tribe, he was no longer willing to contact him. The person in front of him will do the same. Going with a person who was abandoned by the beast god to a small tribe that can't even deal with hyena dragons is better than going to a big tribe. Male sons can get preferential treatment no matter where they are.
Chen Qi watched as the other party silently broke off a corner of the off-white stone and put it into the boiling mutton soup. It looked like a pug waiting for its master to pronounce a sentence, with a pitiful look. It may not be appropriate to describe a tall and strong man like this, but the expression on the other side's face at this moment is really more appropriate to describe it as a pug.
Forget it, for the sake of the other party saving him and finding food for him, following the orc in front of him is not necessarily worse than going to the big tribe. If you really can't get along with each other in the future, then consider joining other tribes.
"Aze." Hearing Chen Qi calling his name, Aze's ears moved.
Chen Qi looked at him amusedly, "Can I go back with you?"
Aze turned his head to look at him, and Chen Qi continued: "Of course, if you think I'm a trouble, you can take me to other tribes, but I may be rejected by the tribe."
"How is it possible? You are a male." Aze retorted without thinking.
Chen Qi choked, he was really not used to this title, shouldn't he be glad he didn't dress as a female? "That's why I'm here."
Aze Zou Zoumei, "Were you rejected in the previous tribe?"
Chen Qi laughed, "I don't need you to take me in. You can find an empty house in your tribe to house me. Since so many people have left in your tribe, there must be many empty houses, right? Of course If you don't mind, I would like to build a house next to your house, so that we can be companions, and you can teach me how to hunt when you are free."
"Xiong doesn't need to hunt, I can hunt enough food for two people, so don't worry about it in winter." Aze played with the off-white stone in his hand, "My house is big enough for two people, of course, you can also build another house, I will help you build it."
"Then it's settled." Chen Qi happily patted Aze on the shoulder.
A Ze staggered a bit when he patted him, of course he was frightened.
At this time, Chen Qicai was curious about the things he had been paying attention to just now. He pointed to the white stone in Aze's hand and asked, "What is this? Why did you put it in the food?"
"This?" Aze handed over the stone, "Lick it and see."
Chen Qi took it, turned it upside down and observed it for a while, then sniffed it, there was nothing special, put it to his lips and licked it, it was a bit salty and astringent, his eyes lit up, "Salt?"
Aze nodded, "This is the salt stone, which was exchanged with the tribes in the central plain."
Although this thing is salt, there are too many impurities in it, mixed with a bitter taste, can the gray part be eaten
A Ze put the boiled mutton soup in a clean fruit shell and handed it to Chen Qi, a faint smell of mutton came to his face, and Chen Qi's stomach rang a few times in response to the occasion. Chen Qi accepted it in embarrassment, thanked him, Aze smiled, and continued to play with the lamb that was almost roasted.
After blowing gently, Chen Qi couldn't wait to take a big sip. He was really hungry, maybe because the mutton soup was boiled with milk fruit juice, the mutton flavor was not strong, but the soup contained There is still a hint of astringency, although it is very weak, Chen Qi suspects that it is a problem of impurities mixed in the salt rocks. It seems that after confirming the residence in the future, he can consider refining these salt rocks. Will not be harmful to the body.
After finishing a bowl of mutton soup, Chen Qi felt warm all over his body, and Aze took the empty bowl and gave him another bowl. The milk fruit is not big, and after two bowls, it will basically bottom out. Chen Qi was a little puzzled, "Aren't you going to drink it?"
"I'll just eat the barbecue."
Chen Qi was not too polite, he was so hungry, he took the mutton soup and stared at the roasted lamb that was already emitting a strong meaty aroma. Seeing this, Aze stretched out his right hand, the nail of his index finger suddenly became longer, and neatly sliced a piece of meat from the leg of lamb, put it in a leaf and handed it to Chen Qi.
Chen Qi glanced at A Ze's index finger with sparkling eyes, and the nails that had completed the task had returned to normal length. "Your nails are so convenient."
The tips of Aze's ears turned red slightly, it was the first time he was praised by Xiongzi.
After the two of them ate and drank enough, Chen Qi stretched comfortably, and A Ze was wrapping the unfinished half of the sheep with clean cattail leaves, "A Ze, when shall we go back?"
"Is your body all right?"
Chen Qi patted his chest, "Well, it couldn't be better."
"Then I'll pack up my things and leave in a while."
Chen Qi stood up, "Do you need my help?"
A Ze shook his head, and handed over a red fruit, which looked like an apple when Chen Qi just woke up, "No, just sit by the side and eat a fruit to rest for a while."
"What kind of fruit is this?"
"Red berries."
"... berries?" Apple-like berries? Chen Qi looked at the fruit in his hand in amazement, it seemed that the things here were very different from what he knew. Take a bite, and the first impression of Wagashi is different. It is not as crisp as an apple, but soft like a persimmon. The mouth is full of juice. There can only be one word to describe it, sweet, very sweet , like fruit juice with added sugar, but surprisingly delicious.
Seeing Chen Qichi's smiling expression, Aze couldn't help feeling rejoicing. Fortunately, he was sent by his younger brother to find red berries every year, otherwise he didn't know that males would like this kind of sweet and greasy food. Find out more about Xiongzi's preferences with his younger brother.
A Ze's speed was very fast, Chen Qi finished eating one fruit, and A Ze had already packed it. Of course, the only things to take away are a few animal skins and half of the leftover roast lamb.