A familiar word suddenly sounded in my mind——
The girl's voice was clear and sweet: "The "Book of Songs" says that a gentleman, Tao Tao, has a happy appearance. In addition, Tao Tao also means galloping. How about your name Tao Tao? Don't all leopards run fast? , this name just suits you."
…
Ji Xiaoou was sluggish for a long time, and the whole thing was a little uncomfortable. Unbelievably, his tone was a little trembling: "You..."
She raised her head and finally took a serious look at the person in front of her.
Human-like facial features, tough lines, nose bridge is higher than average, thin lips, slightly darker skin.
When looking at people, his eyes are heavy... exactly the same as her family Tao Tao's eyes.
But Tao Tao...it's obviously a little leopard!
The body is small, the pads are small, and the tail is also small. Unlike him, as soon as his huge body stood in front of her, it blocked all her sight.
I don't know if it was because of walking around just now, but Ji Xiaoou felt pain from the wound in his abdomen. She swallowed and asked, "You, what did you say?"
Ren didn't continue to answer her stupid question. He glanced at the hand on her waist unconsciously, bent down, and put his strong arm through the hollow of her leg, and held her slender waist with the other hand, involuntarily He carried her to the bed.
Ji Xiaoou jumped into the air, startled, and reflexively grabbed his shoulders. "Hey… "
He hasn't answered her question yet
"When did you wake up?" Ren asked directly.
From this angle, Ji Xiaoou happened to be facing his sharp facial features, her heart trembled, she hurriedly retracted her hand, not knowing where to put it. "Just, just now..."
Ren put her back on the bed again, reached out and touched her forehead, as if he had done it countless times.
…without a fever.
Ren's expression relaxed slightly.
Ji Xiaoou has been in a coma for more than ten days. During these ten days, his body temperature has been repeated. Sometimes the fever subsides, and the next morning, he suddenly has a fever again.
After burning like this, it didn't burn out the brain.
Ren's palm was down, hooking the edge of Ji Xiaoou's clothes, ready to lift her clothes.
Ji Xiaoou quickly grabbed his hand and stammered: "What are you doing?"
Ren: "Check the wound."
"You, you answer my question first." He looked at him with dark eyes and asked, "Are you Tao Tao?"
"I'm Ryan," he said. Except for the one time just now, at other times he was resolutely refusing to recognize the stupid name "Tao Tao".
Ji Xiaoou: "..."
Then, remembering something, her expression changed.
Ren... Ren, the name she had heard many times.
No wonder when Raursis first met, he asked her about the whereabouts of "Ren"; no wonder when the two leopard orcs saw him when they were in the Deer Clan, they kept quiet when they saw him... It turned out that the companion they were looking for had always been by her side.
Ji Xiaoou shrank back silently, and after a long time, he finally said, "Can you let me see your palm?"
Ren looked at her, stretched out his broad palm, spread it out, and placed it in front of her.
Ji Xiaoou carefully raised his eyes.
The palms of orcs generally retain the characteristics of the prototype, with long and pointed claws and sharp nails, which are convenient for them to hunt and hunt. Wren's is no exception.
But Ji Xiaoou's focus is not on this—
In the middle of his palm, there was a dark brown scar running through his entire palm.
Scars are ugly, long and deep.
Ji Xiaoou fell silent all of a sudden. When she first met the little leopard, she treated its wounds, and saw a long scar on its flesh pad... exactly the same as the one on his hand.
Ji Xiaoou's eyes flustered and he was a little at a loss.
What to do, is he really Tao Tao
How did he suddenly grow up? And turned into a human form
He brought her here? What about Raursis, how did they escape
Ji Xiaoou's mind was full of question marks, and just as he was about to speak, Ren got up and went to the cabinet in the corner, took out a small flat jar, and walked back to the bed.
Before Ji Xiaoou could react, he naturally reached out and lifted up her sweater.
This time Ji Xiaoou didn't have time to stop him, his stomach felt cold, and he grabbed his clothes and pulled them down in shock, "You..."
Ren held the medicine jar in one hand, grabbed her clothes with the other, paused, and explained, "Don't move, I'll apply the medicine to you."
Ji Xiaoou shook her head repeatedly, not to mention that she hadn't accepted the fact that he was Tao Tao, even any male could not let him look at her belly at will.
"I'll do it myself." Ji Xiaoou said hastily.
Ji Xiaoou originally thought he would stop there, but unexpectedly, after a while, he actually said: "When I was injured, didn't you wipe it off for me too?"
Ji Xiaoou: "..."
It's okay if he didn't say anything, but when he said Ji Xiaoou, he remembered everything.
Not only did she give him medicine when he had a fever, she also tried to take the temperature of his anus...
At that time, Ji Xiaoou wondered why he reacted so strongly.
Thinking about it now... Ah, Ji Xiaoou wanted to bury her head in the ground, how could she do such a thing!
The girl on the bed became more and more ashamed, and raised her arms to cover her cheeks.
The red ears were exposed, drooping shyly.
Ren stared at her for a while, and then calmly said something that made Ji Xiaoou feel even more ashamed: "When you fell asleep, I was the one who applied the medicine to you."
Ji Xiaoou: "..."
It was a day later that Ji Xiaoou knew what this place was.
Walking outside the house were all leopard orcs, leopards, cheetahs, black panthers, snow leopards, etc... without exception, all of them were tall, with thick and long tails behind them, exuding the unique aggressiveness of carnivorous species.
Of course, there are also those who use the beast form to walk directly on the road. With a single leap, the agile figure disappears, and other leopard orcs are not surprised.
There are very few female orcs here, Ji Xiaoou hardly saw a few of them after a whole day.
They are obviously different from the male leopards, they are relatively short in stature, but of course they are still very tall for Ji Xiaoou.
Even in human form, there are a pair of semicircular ears on the head.
Most of them are plump, with lordosis and back warping.
Strangely, although there are few females here, each seems to be an independent individual
Are they not rationed to the males of the clan
When Ji Xiaoou passed the reindeer village and the elk village, there were one female and one male...
Ji Xiaoou thought of the animal world he had seen before. Leopards are solitary animals, and they only tolerate being with the opposite sex when they are mating.
In other words, there is no such thing as a "spouse" in the leopard family
No wonder Eric once said that in some races a female needs to mate with several males...
Ji Xiaoou lay on the window, thinking wildly.
Her wound hadn't healed, she couldn't stand for too long, and she lay back on the bed after a while.
The one who treated Ji Xiaoou's wound was a bear clan orc.
Carnivora, Ursidae genus—referred to as pandas, also known as iron-eating beasts.
Before the extinction of humans, pandas were the closest species to humans, so their medical level is also very high.
Ji Xiaoou's wound was stitched up by the panda orc named Ba Tan in front of him.
Ba Tan stretched out his chubby arm, inspected the wound, and came to a conclusion: "The wound is not healing well."
Ji Xiaoou's body froze.
Immediately afterwards, Ba Tan asked, "Have you ever walked around violently?"
Ji Xiaoou thought about it, and confessed honestly. She almost fell down yesterday, when she accidentally pulled the wound.
"If you don't want to die too soon, just lie down on the bed." Ba Tan said with two dark circles under his eyes, "The last time the medicine should be used up, I made a new can, and I will apply it three times a day. Let me know when it's over."
Ji Xiaoou hurriedly nodded obediently.
Ba Tan inspected the wound and was about to leave. Ji Xiaoou endured and endured, but couldn't help asking: "Well... do you know where this is?"
Ji Xiaoou has always wanted to ask this question.
But to Ren... It was really hard for her to speak.
When she thought of what she had done to him when he was young, she felt uncomfortable.
There's a kind of... inexplicable shame.
Ba Tan misunderstood what she meant: "Kamuda Valley, Leopard Tribe."
"No..." Ji Xiaoou hurriedly waved his hands, choosing his words carefully, "Is this far from the east of Bornia?"
Ba Tan glanced at her, and slowly spit out a few words: "The world is far apart."
After Ba Tan left, Ji Xiaoou sat there for a long time.
All over the world
That is, one to the east and one to the west
How could this be... She managed to walk half of the distance, and if she persisted, she would reach the east soon and find a way home.
But in this way, all her previous efforts were in vain, and she went further and further away. Ji Xiaoou stared blankly at the wood above his head, feeling melancholy.
This was what Ren saw when he opened the door and came back from the outside.
The girl was half lying on the head of the bed, her eyes were downcast, her pink lips were slightly pursed, her expression was serious, she didn't know what she was thinking about.
There were several wounds on the back of Ren's hands and shoulders. He didn't care. He stuck out his tongue and licked the blood on the back of his hands. He strode to the bed and said in a low voice, "Has Bartan come?"
A shadow suddenly enveloped the top of his head, Ji Xiaoou raised his head, met his gaze, and nodded hurriedly, "Yes."
Ryan asked, "What did Bartan say?"
Ji Xiaoou answered honestly: "He told me to heal my wounds well and not to go to the ground. He also gave me a new can of medicine and told me to apply it three times a day..." The voice behind it became weaker and weaker, perhaps because he remembered the scene of applying the medicine yesterday , a blush appeared on his cheeks, and he pursed his lips, "He said that after my injury healed, he would come and remove the stitches for me."
Ren asked, "Have you taken your medicine today?"
Ji Xiaoou: "...No."
Ren hardly needed Ji Xiaoou's response, took out the medicine jar from the cabinet, walked back to the bed, and was about to give her medicine.
"Lei, Ren." Just as his hand was about to lift off her clothes, Ji Xiaoou called his name unskillfully.
She stared at her fingers, she hadn't realized the fact that the little leopard had transformed into a big leopard, she was always very reserved in front of him.
"Ba Tan said that this is the tribe of the leopard tribe, and only the leopard tribe can survive here." She thought for a whole afternoon before deciding on her words, and summoned up the courage to say, "I'm not your tribe... I have a place that I must go to. , after my injury is healed, can I leave here?"
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After Ji Xiaoou finished speaking, he didn't get any response for a long time.
She raised her eyes, "Ray..."
"No." Ren squeezed the clay pot in his hand, his blue eyes half closed, and his voice was heavy, interrupting her.