The surrounding voices continued.
The orcs talked a lot and were very curious about this strange backpack, but they really wanted to exchange it, but no one wanted to.
It's neither good-looking nor practical, so what are you going to do
The backpack was sold by a red fox orc with long pointed ears. The initial asking price was two fish and three live chickens.
Seeing that the orcs were indifferent to this price, the red fox lowered the asking price to one fish and two live chickens.
Still no orcs were willing to trade.
"This one looks useless."
"It's not as good as the bamboo basket I made myself..."
"What's inside? Is that a fire mirror?" A weasel orc asked, pointing to a flashlight. There was a convex lens similar to a fire mirror in front of the flashlight.
The red fox orc couldn't tell either.
This backpack was given to him by a brown bear orc in exchange for a jar of honey and ten potatoes.
Seeing that the backpack was novel, and there were three other things in it, he agreed at the moment of itch.
Didn't expect it to be a money loser.
Seeing that there were still no orcs willing to exchange, the red fox orc had no choice but to continue to reduce the price and become a fish and a live chicken.
Ji Xiaoou couldn't hold back, ready to move.
If it wasn't for the fact that she didn't have any fish or chickens, she would have gone up and exchanged her backpack a long time ago.
"Sorry, sorry, please step aside."
Eric worked hard to squeeze in from behind, and the huge antler bumped into the orc next to him. He quickly apologized and turned to look at Ji Xiaoou: "Ou, what are you doing?"
Ji Xiaoou didn't have time to explain, so he asked directly: "Eric, do you know where I can get fish and chicken?"
Although Eric was puzzled, he still answered seriously: Pheasants grow on the mountain behind Ferris Village, and there are fish in the river. If you need it, I can go to the mountain to help you catch it. Glancing at the backpacks on the stand from the corner of the eye, the pitch-black deer opened his eyes wide and asked, "Huh?" Ou, this is not your…”
Ji Xiaoou immediately put up his finger, pressed it against the peak of his lips, and gave a soft "shh", not wanting to attract the attention of the surrounding orcs.
If a fish and a live chicken would do the trick, she'd rather leave it alone.
The orc world was more complicated than she thought, and she didn't want to cause trouble.
In just a short while, the price of the backpack has dropped from one fish and one live chicken to only one live chicken.
The orcs next to him began to feel excited, and the weasel orcs even planned to go home and exchange them with live chickens.
Afraid of being snatched away by others, Ji Xiaoou quickly raised his hand and said, "I, I want it!"
The red fox orc glanced at her, saw that she was empty-handed and looked like a minor, curled his lips and asked, "Do you have anything to exchange?"
Ji Xiaoou bit her lower lip, if this was the 21st century, she would buy the backpack back without hesitation.
But this is a different continent, there is no currency in circulation, so you can only exchange items of equivalent value.
In fact, there are seafood, chicken and fish sealed in ice in her space, but this is a street where beasts come and go, and she can't take things from the space in front of the beastmen.
They will definitely be regarded as monsters.
Eric helped Ji Xiaoou out of the siege, and discussed with the red fox orc: "Can you keep the backpack for us first, and we can exchange things with you later?"
The red fox orc glanced at him. Although Ferris is a peaceful village, the carnivores have always looked down on the herbivores and regarded them as the weak side, so they didn't take Eric's words to heart at all, but deliberately embarrassed, "Okay, But when you come to pick it up, you have to bring five fish and five live chickens."
Eric was taken aback, with a sullen expression on his face, "You are an unfair deal."
The red fox orc said with a smile: "The thing is mine, so I have the final say on how fair it is. If you let me wait for you, don't you allow me to raise the price?"
Eric gritted his teeth, although angry, he was speechless.
Ji Xiaoou didn't want to embarrass Eric, so he put the little leopard on the ground, ready to hide in a corner where no one was around, and took out the frozen chicken and fish in the space, and exchanged it with the red fox orc.
Before she could move, a hand appeared in front of her, easily lifted the backpack in front of her, and said to Chihu, "I want it."
Ji Xiaoou's movements were slightly slow, and he reminded anxiously: "This is what I want first."
The other party looked down at her, a little female who didn't even grow hair, cocked her mouth, and joked disapprovingly, "What did you want first? Then it's mine now."
As he spoke, he took the fish and live chicken from his partner behind him and handed them to the red fox orc, hooking up the backpack strap with his fingernails.
The zipper of the backpack was open, the body of the bag was tilted, and the flashlight slipped out of it without warning.
The other party reached out to catch it in time, holding it in his hand and playing with it curiously.
Ji Xiaoou was anxious, without thinking: "I can exchange things with you, can you give me this backpack?"
He raised his head while talking, and when he saw the other person's appearance clearly, he was stunned for a moment.
How to put it, this is the first time Ji Xiaoou has seen a beastman so close to a human in another world.
With straight facial features and upturned mouth corners, except for a black mark between the eyebrows, his appearance is almost the same as that of a human being.
If it wasn't for the two sharp teeth that he opened his mouth, she would almost have thought he was of the same race as herself.
The other party groped for a long time, and finally found the switch of the flashlight.
Hold it down with your thumb and slide it lightly.
Seeing his movements, Ji Xiaoou felt his heart rise in his throat.
I am afraid that the flashlight will suddenly light up a beam of light in the crowd.
However, after waiting for a while, the flashlight did not respond.
The other party looked up, down, left, and right, but couldn't figure it out.
Only Ji Xiaoou knew what was going on.
After she came to this world, she used the flashlight almost every night. The battery of the flashlight has a limited lifespan. Now that the battery is exhausted, it naturally cannot light up.
And there are several dry batteries in her space.
As if he had just heard Ji Xiaoou's words, the other party threw the flashlight back into his backpack, raised his eyes and looked Ji Xiaoou up and down.
Curving the corner of his mouth, he asked calmly, "What can you exchange for
Ji Xiaoou pursed his lips, "What do you want?"
Hearing this, the other party looked past Ji Xiaoou and looked at Eric behind him, without hiding the appetite in his eyes, "Oh, can anything be ok? I exchanged food just now. Similarly, you sent your companion Give us a pot?"
Eric's face paled for a moment.
Ji Xiaoou: "..."
The other party had no intention of exchanging, and said this just to tease Ji Xiaoou.
After appreciating their panicked expressions with his companions, he laughed out loud, and then he took Ji Xiaoou's backpack and walked away.
Ji Xiaoou looked at the direction they were leaving, and was still wondering about their race, but when he saw the fluffy and stubby tails behind them and heard their unconscious calls, he finally confirmed it.
"Woo-"
It was exactly the same as the voice she heard the night she first came to this world—
In packs, wolves.
Ji Xiaoou didn't take back his backpack, feeling a little depressed.
She couldn't figure out what those wolf orcs wanted her backpack for. They couldn't even use a flashlight, so what's the use of it
Eric couldn't help, his nature made him instinctively afraid of all carnivorous species, he was very guilty at the moment, and comforted him: "Ou, don't worry, I'll go back and discuss with Luther, and I will definitely find a way to help you Take things back."
Ji Xiaoou knew that he meant well, but the other party was a pack of wolves. She didn't want Eric to take risks, so she shook her head and said gratefully: "Thank you, Eric, I will find a way about this matter."
Eric asked why the backpack was lost, Ji Xiaoou recalled it, and told Eric about meeting the brown bear orc last night and spending the night with him in the tree hole. "I think he took it. When I woke up this morning, he was gone with my backpack."
Eric frowned and thought for a while, and suggested, "Ou, why don't we go to Luther's house now? We'll think about your backpack."
That's the only way to do it now, Ji Xiaoou collected his mood, found Ren, picked him up and followed Eric.
Ren leaned on Ji Xiaoou's shoulder, his blue eyes still looking at the direction where the wolf orcs disappeared.
No one noticed his cold eyes.
The Luther family lived at the end of the easternmost street in Ferris Village.
Most of the houses here are built with mud, and the roofs are made of the bark that falls off naturally from the trees, layer by layer.
As Eric said, Luther is a very gentle and friendly black bear orc.
His skin is dark, and his figure is as tall and strong as all the bear clan orcs, with a naive look.
Probably because he rarely had contact with females, when he saw Ji Xiaoou, his cheeks turned red. Fortunately, the skin is dark, even if the blush is not obvious.
Luther prepared an empty room for Ji Xiaoou, with a bed in it.
Considering that Ji Xiaoou is a female, a soft straw mat was specially laid out, and there was a fire beside the bed, making the whole room very warm.
The room was a little crude, but for Ji Xiaoou who was still sleeping in the tree hole last night, this was already an excellent condition.
"Thank you, Luther." Ji Xiaoou thanked him sincerely.
Luther touched his head shyly, "You're welcome."
It's still early, not time for lunch.
Eric was considerate that Ji Xiaoou didn't sleep well in the tree hole last night, so he didn't say much, so he left the room with Luther and asked her to rest for a while.
Ji Xiaoou didn't sleep well last night, and his mind was always groggy.
But when she was lying on the bed, her thoughts were extremely clear, and she didn't feel sleepy at all.
Any chance of getting her backpack back
What did the Wolf Clan want with her backpack
What will they do if they find that the compass and flashlight inside are not from this world
Perhaps the room was too warm and the environment was very comfortable, Ji Xiaoou thought about it, and soon fell asleep.
It's just that she slept too deeply, and her sleeping posture was a bit presumptuous. Turning over, he embraced the little leopard next to him.
She used it as a small pillow at home, hugged it tightly to her chest, even took her chin and rubbed it against the top of its head lightly, making a soft, almost inaudible grunt.
Ren originally just wanted to wait for her to fall asleep, but he didn't expect that when she pressed her body down, she would actually press him down.
The girl's body exuded a sweet fragrance, and the overwhelming attack caught him off guard.
Ren struggled twice, lifted one of Ji Xiaoou's arms with his front paw, and twitched his body. After his body was free, he used one paw to push away Ji Xiaoou's fingers holding his tail, and only then managed to escape from her shackles.
He stood on all fours and stood beside him, looking at the sleeping girl.
Ji Xiaoou slept very deeply, as long as she had a bed, she could sleep well.
Thick and long eyelashes covered her face, casting two rows of fan-shaped shadows, her small nose fluttered, her lips were slightly parted, and she exuded a pure and harmless aura.
That's why the pack of wolves didn't take her seriously.
Thinking of the group of proud and complacent stupid wolves, Ren's eyes quickly turned cold.
Unlike leopards, which are solitary, wolves are pack species.
The wolf clan and the leopard clan have always been at odds. A few days ago, because of the territorial grab, the conflict between the two races became more intense.
The wolves are multiplying rapidly, and the villages they live in cannot accommodate their reproduction speed, so their young patriarch Holden puts his mind on the leopards who occupy the entire valley on the opposite side.
Ren didn't give up an inch of ground, and every time the wolves invaded, they were beaten to pieces.
The fighting power of the wolves is not as fierce as that of the leopards, but because they like to live in groups and always dispatch in groups, they dare to contend with the leopards.
After coming down several times, the wolf tribe did not get any benefits, and even sacrificed many tribesmen.
However, Holden did not admit defeat because of this. Once, while Ren was traveling alone, he designed a trap and besieged him with dozens of wolves.
Ren fought alone against dozens of adult wolves without any stage fright. His claws tore their chests apart and their sharp teeth bit their necks. In the end, Holden attacked them from behind and injured one of his hind legs. What it looks like now.
Although Ren guessed that the shrinkage had nothing to do with the wolves, but just to be on the safe side, he decided to go and see for himself.
Thinking of this, Ren turned around and jumped off the edge of the bed.
The blue and deep eyes looked at the sleeping girl on the bed again, and the reindeer said that they will go down and set off tomorrow, that is to say, it only needs to come back before tomorrow's departure.
Ji Xiaoou woke up and looked at his watch, it was already half past five in the afternoon.
Luther and Eric are outside preparing dinner, which is potato stew with carrots and mushroom soup with fungus.
The smell of potatoes whetted Ji Xiaoou's appetite, she hadn't had a decent meal for a long time.
Although there are pots and stoves in the space, she dare not use them at all.
Seeing her coming out, Eric greeted her, "Ou, you're awake, dinner is ready, come and eat."
Ji Xiaoou nodded, looked around, did not see the familiar little figure, and asked, "Where is my leopard?"
Eric scratched his head and asked, "Isn't it in your room? I didn't see it."
Ji Xiaoou shook his head, went back to the house and searched again, but there was no sign of Ren.
"Did you see it go out?" Ji Xiaoou asked when he came back.
Luther put down the wooden spoon, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I seemed to see it go out at noon... I thought it was just going out to play, so there was no stopping it."
Ji Xiaoou hurriedly asked: "Then, have you seen which direction it is going?"
Luther pointed in one direction, "Over there..." Before he finished speaking, Ji Xiaoou ran out.
At this time, fifteen minutes had passed since she woke up.
It was getting dark soon, but she still couldn't find the little leopard.
The darkness here is different from her world, the moonlight is thin, and you can't see your fingers, it is really dark.
That little leopard should know the situation here better than her. If something happened, why didn't he come back
Ji Xiaoou searched in the direction Luther pointed, but after ten minutes, he found nothing.
Eric and Luther followed. Eric wanted to persuade him, but when he saw the worry in Ji Xiaoou's eyes, the words came out of his mouth abruptly: "I'll help you find it over there."
Ji Xiaoou couldn't find her little leopard, and felt more and more uneasy.
This is a village with mixed carnivores, and powerful orcs abound. It is just a juvenile leopard. If it encounters some powerful enemies, won't it be a disadvantage
I don't know when, Ji Xiaoou has developed feelings for it.
It was the first creature she met when she came to this world, and it was also a little life she saved with her own hands.
Even though it was fraught with danger, she still wanted it to be safe.
5:57 minutes.
A female sheep orc came towards him. Ji Xiaoou had no hope at all, so he asked casually, "Did you see the little leopard passing by?"
The other party thought for a while, and then pointed to a medium-sized sailboat at the ferry and said, "You mean a small spotted leopard? If I read correctly, it seems to have followed a few wolves to that boat."
Ji Xiaoou was surprised and delighted, and quickly raised his head to look towards the ferry.
Seeing that the boat mentioned by the sheep and beast population just lifted the canvas, turned the rudder, and sailed slowly out of the river bank in the evening wind.