When Chen Qi woke up the next day, he found that he was sleeping on the straw mattress he had laid for A Ze, and A Ze was squatting by the fire, cooking rice cereal according to the method he had made yesterday. Chen Qi, who had just woken up, was a little confused. It was only when I remembered the current situation that I was so frightened that I jumped off the straw mat, ran to A Ze in two or three steps, and asked nervously: "A Ze, how are you doing? Will you hurt your wound by moving around like this?"
Aze, who was about to say good morning to Chen Qi, was startled, "It's okay, it's all over."
Chen Qi frowned. Although the wound showed signs of healing last night, how could it be possible for him to be fine all of a sudden after only one night? "Let me see your wound."
"En." Aze turned his back to Chen Qi, allowing him to undo the bandages on his body.
Chen Qi cleaned off the plantain moss that had been covered all night on the wound, and found that the healing of the wound was much better than last night, and there was no sign of cracking again. After the bandage was tied, Aze put on the animal skin coat that had been used as a mattress for two nights.
After confirming that Aze was really okay, the two hurriedly finished eating the rice cereal and planned to leave. There was nothing to pack in the cave. Chen Qi extinguished the fire and stuffed the remaining plantain into his coat pocket. Yesterday he picked all the plantains that could be found nearby, and these need to be kept for replacement next time.
Aze originally wanted to carry Chen Qi away, but Chen Qi was naturally unwilling. How could he let a wounded person carry him away when he was healthy and painless, Aze couldn't hold him back, and was a little disappointed.
A section of the way out of the cave is the pool where the two fell before. Thinking of the animal skin backpack under the pool, Chen Qi stopped, took off his coat and said to A Ze: "Wait for me here, I will go and put the backpack on." Take back."
A Ze was still stunned by Chen Qi's sudden undressing, just about to pull the other party to prevent him from entering the water, Chen Qi had already plunged into the water. Aze had never seen an orc who could swim. He had seen an orc who fell into the Chishui River and was drowned. Now because Chen Qi suddenly entered the water, he was a little anxious, but he didn't jump into the water rashly and pulled Chen Qi out.
The water in the pool was not deep, and after a while Chen Qi found the animal skin backpack at the bottom of the pool. The backpack had been soaked in water for two days and became very heavy. Chen Qi opened the backpack, and many of the fruits picked before had been soaked and swollen. Chen Qi grabbed the bottom of the animal skin backpack, turned the backpack upside down, and the wild fruits inside fell into the mud at the bottom of the pool. The originally clear water instantly became turbid, and Chen Qi took the empty backpack surfaced.
"Are you okay?" Aze put his coat back on Chen Qi worriedly.
Chen Qi shook the empty backpack in his hand, and said with a bit of regret: "It's nothing, it's just that the things I picked before were wasted."
"I'll pick them again in two days."
Chen Qi patted his head, "What are you talking about, you are still injured, you are not allowed to come here until you recover."
Aze's eyes flickered, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
On the way to leave, Chen Qi once again felt the strength of the orcs. The primeval forest was not easy to walk. Chen Qi had to open the way with a sword and horn knife.
"Chen Qi, why don't we take a break, I'm tired." A Ze looked at Chen Qi's sweaty forehead, still panting, and suggested aloud.
"Oh, good." Chen Qi stopped while supporting a tree trunk.
Heartbroken, Aze took a few steps forward to help the other party sit down, and reached out to take the backpack that had become bulging again on Chen Qi's back. stuffed everything into the backpack, and after a while the empty backpack was filled again by Chen Qi. A Ze was injured on his back, his physical strength was better than Chen Qi's, he planned to help Chen Qi carry the backpack, but Chen Qi insisted on carrying it by himself, that's why this happened.
"Chen Qi, why don't I get the backpack?" A Ze took out an apple from the backpack and handed it to Chen Qi, asking hesitantly.
Chen Qi looked at A Ze slightly frowning, with a little nervous expression, and sighed, "Okay." He also knew that his scumbag physical strength would only be a hindrance, and originally thought that A Ze was still injured, although On the surface, it was hard to see how serious his injury was, but Chen Qi still didn't want to increase the burden on the other party, and he didn't expect that he couldn't even do such a little thing. Chen Qi took a big bite of the bright red apple in his hand, and stopped talking.
At noon, the two of them used wild fruits to satisfy their hunger. After resting, they continued on their way. When they were chased by the locust dragon, they were a little panicked. While picking other wild fruits, Chen Qi found two chili trees which were beyond Chen Qi's expectation.
In the afternoon, the two of them came to the edge of the forest, and Chen Qi finally relaxed from his tense nerves that had been afraid of encountering the locust dragon again. "Ake is here." Aze turned his head and said to Chen Qi, Aze was responsible for opening the way for the rest of the journey, while Chen Qi kept telling the other party not to move too much, so as not to tear the wound.
Chen Qi looked in the direction A Ze pointed, and sure enough, he saw two figures getting closer and closer, and they appeared in front of them after a while, it was A Zhang and A Ke.
As soon as Azhang came to him, he cursed at the top of his voice: "What are you two doing after running into the forest for a few days and not coming back? I don't know if winter is coming soon?"
Just as Aze was about to speak, Chen Qi took the topic first and said, "We have met the locust dragon."
"What happened to the locust dragon? The locust dragon is not a carnivorous predator, will it eat you?" These two days, the worry that there was no response after the two entered the forest was confirmed at this moment. Turned into anger, even facing Chen Qi and Azhang still asked with a straight face.
"It's an angry female locust dragon." Aze stepped forward to block Chen Qi, and explained to the two who came.
"An angry female locust dragon?" The anger on Azhang's face turned into surprise, and then turned serious. He and Ake exchanged a glance, "The female locust dragon should be angry because someone hurt its cubs. This year, the forest and There are too many accidents in the plain, don't take Chen Qi into the forest alone these few days."
"Well, I understand. I have never encountered such a thing before. I was negligent."
"It's not your fault. After all, this kind of thing has never happened outside the forest before winter. After returning, tell the males not to enter the forest for a few days. We have to think about the porpoise hunting plan after winter." Azhang looked at Ake, and the only young male in the tribe was Carlo, which also told Ake not to take Carlo into the forest these days.
"Go back, Carlo and Ali didn't see you back yesterday and were worried for a whole day." A Zhang finished speaking and turned to leave, A Ze shouted to stop the other party's footsteps.
"Uncle Azhang, my back was injured by the locust dragon, can you help me carry Chen Qi back?" Given his current situation, Chen Qi naturally didn't want him to carry it, but with Chen Qi's speed, he was afraid that it would take two People have to wait till tomorrow to get home.
Azhang looked at Aze in astonishment, he didn't look seriously injured like this, why did he let other females carry Chen Qi? Instead, Ake leaned in front of Aze and asked worriedly, "Is the injury serious?"
Aze shook his head, "It's almost better after a day's rest."
Ake knew that as long as the females did not lose too much blood, they would not be life-threatening.
So Azhang carried Chen Qi on his back, Ake took Aze's backpack, and they returned to Chen Qixin's new home in the evening. Ali and Carlo were waiting outside the door, and they were secretly relieved to see the few people who came back. The little wolf cub in Carlo's arms also began to grunt and struggle to crawl out.
"Brother, didn't you say that you were coming to pick up the cub of the giant wolf god yesterday morning? Why did you come back now?" Carlo complained as he stuffed the restless little wolf cub back into Aze's arms.
Aze took the little wolf cub carefully, and the little wolf cub calmed down as soon as he was in Aze's arms, stretched out his little pink tongue and licked Aze's fingers, raised his head and groaned twice, then I nestled in Aze's arms to catch up on sleep. "We encountered a little accident and delayed a little time."
Carlo didn't really want to blame his elder brother, he planned to go back to the tribe after confirming that the two were fine.
"Chen Qi, recently I made a few bolts of cloth and brought them here for you, you can use them first." A Li looked at Chen Qi's beautiful coat, which was a bit tattered because he went to the forest. It's a pity that the cloth is not as durable as the hide.
"Thank you." Chen Qi said that a lot of cloth is needed to make quilts, but he didn't expect that Ali would find time to help him weave when he was so busy.
"Seeing that you went to the forest twice and came back exhausted, you should take a rest early when you go home. Winter is coming, so don't get sick at this time." Ali told the two worriedly.
The two agreed one by one, and Ali gave a few more instructions before returning to the tribe with the others.
As soon as Chen Qi entered the room, he collapsed on the fire pit and refused to move. Aze put the little wolf cub on the fire pit, and then turned around to light the fire.
Chen Qin flicked the little wolf cub's head with his finger, and the little wolf cub rolled on the fire pit a few times. He got up and bared his teeth, trying to bite Chen Qi's mischievous finger. Unfortunately, its little deciduous teeth hadn't grown out yet. , except for a few harmless teeth marks, it did not cause any harm to Chen Qi.
Chen Qi looked at A Ze's figure squatting in front of the fire, and murmured: "I feel like a softie."
"What?" Hearing Chen Qi's words, Aze raised his head in doubt.
"It's nothing." Chen Qi covered his face and rolled a few times on the fire pit because of his sudden shameful thoughts, got up grunting, and went to the fire pit to help.
Aze smiled helplessly, took out the lighter that he always carried close to his body, and lit the fire.