Chen Qi waved at A Ze, "A Ze, can you dig this for me?"
Aze squatted down, looked at the small piece of soil that had been pulled away, stretched out his claws without saying a word, and dug out three and a half fist-sized things in two or three strokes.
Chen Qi's eyes lit up, he hurriedly took it over, checked it up and down, left, right, left, right, right, and left, right, left, right, and left, right, left, right, and right. He also picked up a torn vine and looked at it carefully a few times. Sure enough, it was a familiar food that he often bought in the vegetable market. sweet potato.
There are too many strange things in this world, even if Chen Qi encounters the food he used to eat, he dare not take it casually, he puts one of them in front of A Ze, "A Ze, A Ze, is this poisonous? Can I eat it? "
A Ze took it over, wiped the dirt on it with the corner of his clothes, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and took a bite, before Chen Qi could stop it, A Ze chewed twice and swallowed the thing in his mouth, "You can eat."
Chen Qi raised his forehead and said helplessly: "Ah Ze, next time you are not sure whether you can eat something, don't just put it in your mouth."
"it is good."
"Come here, let's roast it and eat it." Chen Qi excitedly pulled Aze back to the fire, and motioned Aze to dig a shallow hole beside it.
Chen Qi ordered A Ze to move one by one, without asking why Chen Qi did it. The shallow pit was dug quickly. Chen Qi picked up a wooden stick and pulled the red-hot charcoal from the fire into the pit. The sweet potato and the sweet potato bitten by Aze were placed on it, and then covered with soil after a layer of leaves, and then a small fire was lit on it.
While smearing salt stone on the roasted warthog, Aze watched Chen Qi busy, and occasionally helped him. After Chen Qi set up the small fire, Aze had already cut a few slices of perfectly roasted wart pork and handed it to Chen Qi. The water in the milk fruit had just boiled and was being placed beside it to cool down.
"Chen Qi, what are those rhizomes just dug up? Why are they buried in the soil like this?" It was the first time that Aze saw someone bury a charcoal fire in the soil and still build a fire on it, so he couldn't help being a little curious.
"Sweet potatoes, this kind of food is delicious when roasted." Chen Qi folded two clean straws as chopsticks, took a piece of warty pork and blew it gently before putting it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, how should I say it? , not as delicious as it looks, with a bit of bitter taste of salt stone.
"Sweet potato? This is the first time I know that this kind of root can also be eaten."
"Don't you usually eat?"
"Well, I've only seen people in the tribe pick fruits to eat." Aze tore off a pork leg, and he was not as particular about eating it as Chen Qi. He directly held the pork leg in his hand and opened his mouth to eat , The action is heroic, and it is not afraid of being hot.
Chen Qi paused and asked uncertainly: "Didn't you know that things that grow underground can also be eaten?"
Aze tilted his head and thought for a while, "Well, we only eat things we can see, like fruits and animals."
Chen Qi nodded clearly, it seems that in the future he can only add recipes by himself.
The two finished off half of the warthog. Of course, Chen Qi couldn't eat that much. After eating half of the pig's leg, he felt a little bored, and the rest went down to Aze's stomach.
The two rested for a while, and Chen Qi drank a few sips of water to dilute the smell of barbecue in his mouth. After checking that the time was almost up, he removed the small fire and started digging with a stick.
The three sweet potatoes were not big. Chen Qi was afraid of being hot, so he pressed the leaves and found that they had become extremely soft. He wrapped them in the leaves and picked them up. When he broke off the orange-red flesh inside, a strong and delicious smell rushed to his face. aroma. Although it is still different from the one bought in the vegetable market before, the taste is obviously stronger.
Aze shook his nose and said in surprise, "It smells so good."
Chen Qi handed the other complete one to Aze, "Try it."
Aze took it, and just about to say it, he was stopped by Chen Qi, "This needs to be peeled, like this." Chen Qi showed Aze to peel off the skin of the sweet potato, just kidding, this thing was dug out of the soil It’s just baked, and it’s still covered with dirt, so how can it be eaten directly.
Aze peeled off the outer skin following Chen Qi's example, and took a bite after watching Chen Qi enjoy it. It was soft and glutinous, and a little sweet, as delicious as it smelled. Aze was still the first After trying this taste once, I couldn't help but take another bite.
A piece of sweet potato is not big, and for Aze, two or three bites would be enough. After eating, he still looked at Chen Qi with unsatisfied interest, only to see that the other party was staring at him with crooked eyes, and put the last one that was bitten by Aze before. Handed him a bite of sweet potato, "Here, how does it taste? Is it delicious?"
Aze nodded, but did not answer, "This is delicious, you should eat more."
Chen Qi directly stuffed it into the opponent's hand, "You dug it up, so you should eat more. I haven't finished eating my own yet."
Aze looked at Chen Qi with a bit of confusion, "You didn't eat much meat just now."
Although the little warthog is not big, most of the pig's leg is not too small for Chen Qi, Chen Qi ignored him, wiped his hands with acacia leaves after eating, "Ah Ze, what are we doing today?" Do you sleep in a tree at night?"
Aze nodded in a complicated mood. He could feel Chen Qi's unspoken tenderness, which made him a little panicked. He was afraid that he would have a greedy desire for this tenderness. What he has, he is a person abandoned by the beast god, Aze warned himself in his heart, lowered his head and pretended to be enjoying the delicious food in his hands, and suppressed the surging emotions in his eyes.
After the two of them ate and drank, they tidied up briefly, and Aze moved the remaining half of the warthog to the acacia tree, and then carried Chen Qi on his back to rest on the thickest tree trunk.
Nothing happened overnight.
No wonder.
It was the first time for Chen Qi to spend the night in a tree. Although the trunk was thick enough for him to lie flat and turn over, no one can sleep peacefully at a height of more than ten meters without any protective measures around.
Throughout the night, Chen Qi stayed stiff and did not dare to move, his hands tightly grasping the tree trunk below him, he was always half asleep and half awake, after all, after walking for a day, after midnight, although his heart was alert, his body still fell into a deep sleep. .
When he woke up in the morning, Chen Qi was still a little confused. He thought he was still on the big comfortable bed at home. After turning over habitually, he found that half of his body felt suspended in the air. When he looked closely, he realized that he was on a tree trunk more than ten meters high. , a leg has protruded from the tree trunk, shaking in mid-air, all drowsy people and those who just woke up in a daze were scared out of their minds, carefully retracted the leg, slowly moved to the trunk, patted the chest, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking to the other side, I saw that Aze was standing half-bent on the outermost branch, the muscles on his arms were stretched out with blue veins, and his eyes were staring at the sky for a moment. It's like rushing out to fight something desperately in the next moment.
"Aze?"
Hearing Chen Qi's voice, Aze turned his head, the tense and cold expression on his face instantly subsided, and he returned to the place where Chen Qi was with a light jump, "You're awake."
"En." Chen Qi nodded, "What were you doing just now?"
Aze stretched out his hand, holding a pure white feather in his palm, on which a layer of translucent light mist continuously spread to the surroundings, and then merged into the air. Chen Qi looked at the feather in A Ze's hand suspiciously, and then at A Ze, "What is this?"
"Letter eagle feathers."
"Xinying?"
"Well, the letter eagle will drop a feather every time it flies a certain distance, and the mist on it is the smell that the feather emits when it volatilizes. This is a message to inform the companions."
What kind of strange bird is this? Does losing hair all the time make you bald? Chen Qi complained in his heart, waiting for Aze to continue.
Aze's expression became serious again, "Xinying always followed the hyena dragon to pick up leaks, and the appearance of Xinying proves that there is a hyena dragon nearby."
Although the information Chen Qi obtained is very one-sided, and he has no impression of Xinying at all, but he still knows a lot about the hyena dragon, which is basically at the top of the food chain and is almost a bug-like existence. Don't dragons all live in the Loya Forest? The Dora Plain can't maintain their survival needs at all, so how can there be hyena dragons here
"Chen Qi, we need to leave immediately."
Now is not the time for Chen Qi to explore slowly. Hearing that Aze said that he would leave immediately, he nodded solemnly, "Okay, let's go now."
Aze hesitated a bit, paused and said, "Chen Qi, I am fast enough to catch up to wolves."
Chen Qi looked at the other party strangely, why did he say this at this time
Aze continued: "I'm also very strong, I can run with you on my back for a day and it's fine."
Chen Qi suddenly realized that the other party was talking about this. Of course Chen Qi would not continue to insist on leaving by himself at this time. He patted A Ze's sturdy shoulder, smiled and said, "Then I will trouble you."
Ah Ze thought that Chen Qi would still refuse, and just wanted to continue persuading the other party, but he didn't expect the other party to agree all of a sudden, instead, he didn't react and stood there in a daze.
"What's the matter? Let's go quickly." Chen Qi stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the dazed Aze.
"Oh, oh, good." Aze came back to his senses, and lowered his head in embarrassment, it was too embarrassing.
Because he was going on the road with Chen Qi on his back, A Ze only took two pieces of the softest animal skins, and tied them together with the half warthog left over from last night, and left everything else on the locust tree. Chen Qi originally suggested that he could help carry the luggage, but Aze refused.
The two buried the fire last night with soil, cleaned it up briefly, and Aze carried Chen Qi on his back and left. Aze's speed was really fast, and he was away from the tall acacia tree within a few ups and downs.
In the sky not far away, a fiery red bird with a wingspan of nearly two meters was singing in the sky, and a feather was slowly falling behind it. The feather seemed to be fading in the process of falling, and slowly changed color. It was pure white, and a trace of water mist-like transparent things began to emerge, which quickly melted into the surrounding air.