A Ze deftly broke off a semi-dry tree branch, broke it into several sections in twos and twos, and built a simple fire frame. Chen Qi felt that he was eating free food, and couldn't stay on the tree. He shouted to A Ze who was busy under the tree: "A Ze, can I go down?"
Aze raised his head, "The food is not ready yet."
"It's embarrassing if you're the only one busy, but I can help too."
A Ze was startled, stopped what he was doing, turned over and appeared in front of Chen Qi, the afterglow of the setting sun shone through the cracks in the trees, perhaps because of the backlight, Chen Qi found that the eyes of the other party were unusually bright, Ah Ze Ze looked at Chen Qi seriously, smiled, and said softly, "Okay."
Aze squatted down and motioned Chen Qi to lie on his back. Chen Qi put his hands around A Ze's neck, A Ze was fast, but his figure was very stable, before Chen Qi could react, the two of them fell to the ground. Chen Qi couldn't help sighing again about the orc's strong physique, "Ah Ze, you are really amazing."
Aze circled his head a little honestly, cleared a separation zone beside the fire, and took out the flint to light the firewood he had set up just now. Then he dug a small shallow pit next to it. Chen Qi was still wondering why Aze was digging the hole. Aze picked up the little warthog next to him, stretched out his right hand, and the nails on his five fingers instantly became longer. The pig's neck turned around, drawing a bloodstain with deep bones visible, perhaps because it had been dead for a while, and there was no blood gushing scene.
Aze's slender fingers moved to the warthog's belly, and the sharp nails of his index finger drew a bloodstain on the warthog's soft belly. When he broke his hands, a long hole was broken in the warthog's stomach. He inserted his hand into the warthog's stomach, and pulled it hard, and all the blood, including the internal organs, fell into the shallow pit just dug.
Aze lifted the two front paws of the warthog, and his slender fingers stained with blood left two long marks on the gray-brown fur of the warthog. After cleaning the internal organs, he took the processed warthog Put it on the clean animal skin next to it, then grab the warthog's neck, twist and pull, the big head of the warthog was forcibly twisted off, Chen Qi saw that the back of the neck felt cold, and touched it involuntarily. neck.
Aze threw the warthog's head into the shallow pit, buried it together with the internal organs that had been drawn into the pit just now, and covered it with a layer of hay after finishing.
"Why did you bury these things?" Chen Qi asked puzzled.
Aze picked up a processed smooth wooden stick with bloody paws, and was stringing the processed warthog onto the wooden stick. Hearing this, he looked up at Chen Qi, and explained: "Food and blood will attract many Pulling down predators on the plains, the dirt can mask the smell."
Chen Qi nodded suddenly, and watched A Ze prepare to put the skewered warthog on the fire, and couldn't help asking: "Don't you need to wash it?" After asking, he regretted it a bit, where is there water in the wild to wash it? , the current conditions can't tolerate the outbreak of my hypocritical little cleanliness.
A Ze stopped his hands and saw Chen Qi staring at the warthog in his hand with a tangled expression. After thinking for a while, he put the warthog down, picked Chen Qi up and went back to the tree, "Wait here for a while." After finishing speaking Jump under the tree, pick up the warthog on the hide and disappear into the tall grass next to it.
Chen Qi sat on the tree trunk. He was at a relatively high position, but he could see the direction A Ze was leaving. Perhaps it was because A Ze was wearing animal skins. After a few ups and downs, Chen Qi couldn't tell if he was in the tall grass. Is it Aze or another animal that shuttles back and forth? I looked around for a while in annoyance, and silently reflected in my heart that this place is no longer the world I am familiar with, and I can no longer live by the previous standard. After thinking about it for a while, he lowered his shoulders, the food covered in blood, grass clippings and soil was still a bit hard to eat even after being roasted by fire. Well, this is really not Chen Qi being hypocritical. Until he wakes up in the morning, the last meal he remembers is sitting in the restaurant and eating normal food. Now he just needs some time to get used to it.
A Ze has been away for a long time this time, Chen Qi is not in the habit of wearing a watch, and his mobile phone has not traveled with him. The only items he has are a lighter and a pack of unopened cigarettes in the pocket of the black coat. .
After waiting for a long time, Chen Qi's thoughts turned from annoyance to worry at the beginning, and a mess of bad thoughts always popped up in his mind, like when Aze was ambushed by man-eating vines, or met a predator who was hunting. A group of lions, or a pack of wolves chasing their prey, or a hyena, the natural enemy of the orcs, what should Aze do if he is in danger? Chen Qi stared at the last ray of sunlight disappearing on the horizon and thought, maybe he would also disappear in this strange grassland, without Aze, he would not even be able to get down this locust tree.
The sky was completely dark, and Chen Qi couldn't tell the difference between the starry sky here and the starry sky in his own world. During the day, the white sphere, which was bigger than the moon, became much more transparent, and he couldn't find it unless he looked carefully. exist. Instead, the moon-like lavender sphere turned blue, emitting a soft light that reflected everything on the grassland. Thanks to its existence, the surroundings did not become completely dark.
The fire that A Ze lit before leaving had already burned more than half, Chen Qi tore off a branch with leaves on it and threw it on the fire, Chen Qi's aim was not very good, there were scattered scattered around the fire Few branches.
Chen Qi broke off another branch and threw it vigorously, this time it landed right in the middle of the fire, the branch was roasted by the fire and made a "squeaky" sound, and a puff of black smoke came out.
Chen Qi shook his dangling feet triumphantly, then raised his head a little rascally and continued to study whether the white light band in the night sky was the Milky Way.
There was a sudden howling of wolves in the distance, Chen Qi looked around vigilantly, the grass not far away shook irregularly, Chen Qi tensed his body, and carefully bent down close to the trunk, using the dense acacia tree Branches and leaves cover his figure.
A Ze carried a bunch of things wrapped in animal skins on his shoulders, and his hair was full of moisture. After walking out of the tall grass, he looked up at the locust tree where Chen Qi was. He didn't see Chen Qi's figure, and his heart skipped a beat. Throwing the things on his shoulders to the ground, he quickly jumped onto the largest branch at the top.
"Aze?"
Following the familiar voice and seeing Chen Qi appearing in front of him in good order, Aze felt that his beating heart had just calmed down, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief.
Seeing that it was A Ze, Chen Qi's worried heart finally relaxed, but he couldn't help complaining, "Why have you been here for so long? It's getting dark, and the fire is almost burnt out."
"I'm sorry, I didn't expect that stream to be so far away from here." Azetta lowered his head. It was indeed that he was too lacking in consideration. Although the Dora Plain was not as dangerous as the Loya Forest, it took a person who had no self-protection ability. The male son is still alone on the Dora Plain, it is really not the work of a female, if it is in the tribe, he has to go to receive punishment.
Seeing the other party's pitiful appearance, Chen Qi was a little amused, "I didn't mean to blame you."
"No, this matter is indeed my fault, and I will never leave you alone in the future."
Chen Qi waved his hands in embarrassment, changed the topic and said, "Did you go to clean the prey just now?"
Speaking of this, Aze remembered it, and untied a ball wrapped in animal skin from his waist, which was wrapped several times with vines. Aze directly tore off the vines, lifted the animal skin, and revealed a blue-brown The fruit, Chen Qi recognized that it was the kind of milk fruit brought back by Aze in the morning, but now the fruit in Aze's hand has a neat cut mark on the top.
Aze lifted the top shell, revealing the transparent liquid inside, and handed it to Chen Qi, "Here."
Chen Qi took it curiously, looked it over, and found that the color of the liquid inside was not the milky white that he drank in the morning, but more transparent, water? Chen Qi asked suspiciously: "What is this?"
"Water, you haven't drunk water for a day. I fetched it from the stream." After a pause, he added, "I fetched it from upstream. I tasted it and it was very clean."
Chen Qi coughed lightly, and asked a little embarrassedly: "Can I drink it after boiling it?"
Aze was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Okay." He thought to himself, Xiongzi likes to eat hot food, and he was too careless, so he can ask his younger brother how to take care of Xiongzi after returning home.
The two fell steadily under the tree, and Aze took the water-filled jelly fruit from Chen Qi's hand, set up a stand beside the fire, put the jelly fruit on it to roast, and then went to deal with the other end. A warthog that has been cleaned.
Chen Qi automatically and consciously tidied up the acacia branches that he threw everywhere. Gathering the branches to the side of the fire, Aze had already broken off a thick semi-dry branch. Chen Qiwei's tall locust tree, which had grown for an unknown number of years, was tossed and tossed away by him overnight. He mourned for a few seconds with one-tenth of the branches, and the fire of the fire was strong enough after adding new branches, so Chen Qi had no choice but to spread the gathered branches beside the fire to dry the water.
The teeth of male sons are not as good as those of female sons, and the skin of warthogs is thicker and tougher. A Ze peeled off the skin carefully while roasting. Chen Qi looked at it for a while and began to wander around the grass next to the fire. He had seen it on the tree before. Seeing a slightly familiar plant, the only bit of green in the pile of withered grass was still very conspicuous, and Chen Qi found it without much effort.
Chen Qi weighed the vines that were showing signs of withering, but the leaves were still a little green. He pulled it hard, and the vines broke at the root, and several black lines appeared on Chen Qi's forehead. Throwing the vine in his hand aside, he stretched out his claws and scratched the soil at the root a few times. The soil was very hard, and after a long time, he only scratched the ground a few centimeters thick.
Aze has been paying attention to Chen Qi's movements, seeing him squatting busy in the grass beside him, looking at the discolored warthog that has been peeled and roasted, he stops his hands and moves closer to Chen Qi's side, Curiously asked: "Chen Qi, what are you doing?"