The morning line swept across the Kamuda Valley, awakening the entire leopard tribe, the morning mist dispersed, and the light jumped.
Ren walked out of the wooden house and closed the wooden door behind his back.
In the room, the girl is still sleeping, the sun shines through the window, the white halo falls on the girl's delicate cheeks, and the thin layer of skin is almost transparent.
The sun was glaring, Ji Xiaoou frowned slightly, his slender eyelashes fluttered like a delicate fan, blocking those dark and clear eyes.
After Ren rejected Ji Xiaoou yesterday, she just looked at him with those eyes and asked in a daze, "Why?"
Ren was calm at the time, and he forgot what he said afterwards. "The eastern part of Bornia is far away, ending in a place of extreme cold, which you cannot reach alone."
Ren didn't lie to her. Bernia's terrain is peculiar, not to mention that the further east you go, the more dangerous it will be. Just because of the extremely cold weather there all year round, Ji Xiaoou's body may not be able to bear it.
Ji Xiaoou pursed his lips, wanting to refute, but had nothing to say.
After all, her strength alone is really insignificant in this continent full of orcs.
There used to be "Tao Tao". Although Tao Tao couldn't help much, he could at least be a companion.
But Tao Tao transformed into a mature male orc, and she was no longer embarrassed to ask him to accompany her.
"I can talk to Eric... Eric said he happened to be going east too..."
Before she could finish speaking, Ren put the medicine jar on the bedside and interrupted: "I'll talk about it after you recover from your injury."
Ji Xiaoou: "... oh."
So this topic is gone.
Later, Ryan got up and went outside to find food.
When he came back after catching an antelope, Ji Xiaoou had already applied the medicine himself, retreated into the corner of the bed and fell asleep. Her bones were small, and she didn't take up much space after she fell asleep. There was a large space on the bed, which could just accommodate Ren's body.
However, Ren stood by the bed for a while, and finally did not sleep on the bed, but turned into a prototype and lay under the bed for the night.
…
Why didn't he let her go
At this moment, Ren stood at the door of the wooden house thinking.
The sun passed through his broad shoulders, casting a majestic shadow on the ground.
He has always known that she has only one purpose in her heart.
Countless times, she hugged him pitifully and said "want to go home" pitifully and aggrievedly, thinking of her home, her parents.
Where is her home? Why did she come here
And what about her "space" that can take out countless things. Ryan thought he didn't let her leave, he just wanted to figure it out.
Ren went to the home of Sujila, the elder of the leopard tribe. In the courtyard, a female leopard orc was sewing a buckskin animal suit.
The female orc was tall and tall, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a pair of animal ears on her head, deep eyes, and a straight nose. She was Suzana, the daughter of the elder Sujila.
Suchana's ears moved, and when she heard footsteps, she immediately put down her animal clothes and looked towards the door, her eyes lit up: "Ren—"
is a completely foreign language.
Ren walked into the yard, looked into the house, and asked in the same leopard language: "Is Sujila there?"
Suchana nodded, and then whispered: "Rod is here too, talking to my dad in the room."
Ren paused, "What is he doing here?"
Suchana shrugged: "Who knows, they never let me hear what they said."
After all, seeing that Ren didn't respond, he rolled his eyes, trying to get his attention. "But I heard... Rhodes and Laurses got very close when you were not in the clan. Rhodes often revealed your background to Raulses!"
Ren licked his teeth, noncommittal.
When Raulsis came all the way, Rhodes and Dordo no longer had any credibility with him.
After the Hui nationality, it happened to catch up with Rhodes who was planning the selection of the next leader.
Rhodes' thoughts are clearly revealed—
Let him and Raulsis fight to the death, and both sides will suffer. As the third strongest person in the clan, Rhodes can reap the benefits of being a fisherman and win the position of leader.
What a great idea.
However, after Ryan came back, Rhodes' idea was doomed to fail.
"He's looking for my dad this time. I don't know what Ann's thinking..." Suchana muttered, glanced at Ren, obviously not thinking about this topic, but she was reluctant to let Ren go, so she had nothing to say.
After a while, Su Zhana rolled her eyes and asked pretendingly, "I heard from my father that you brought a female back from outside? How about it, can't that female satisfy you?"
Ren looked at her, "What did you say?"
Suchana pointed to the sun, implying: "It's still very early."
"..." Ren understood, retracted his gaze, and said in a steady voice, "You don't need to worry about this question."
Su Zhana was just probing, but she didn't expect to get such an ambiguous answer. The corners of her mouth drooped instantly, "I haven't seen her before. You hide her so tightly that you won't let her go out? Can I go find her?" play?"
"You're going to scare her," Wren said.
As mentioned earlier, the language of the leopard tribe is different from that of humans. During the process of evolution, although they imitated the human language system, they still retain most of the pronunciation of the race itself.
Unlike herbivorous species such as reindeer and elk, they learn completely based on human language.
So when Ji Xiaoou met Rhodes for the first time, he couldn't understand what he was talking about.
And the reason why she can understand Ren's words is that Ren himself can speak two languages, one is human language and the other is leopard language.
Su Zhana opened her eyes wide and fussed and said, "You watch her too closely!"
As soon as the words fell, Rhodes just came out of Elder Sujila's room.
Rhodes froze when he saw Ren, and quickly returned to normal. He raised the corner of his mouth and showed a smile with an unknown meaning, "Long time no see, Ren."
Ren passed him by and said coldly, "You should be glad we haven't seen each other for a long time."
Rhode's face changed, and when he turned around to look, Ren had already entered the room of Elder Sujila.
During the time when Ren left, the beasts in the clan were distracted, and no one was willing to be disciplined or instructed.
And no orcs are willing to follow Elder Sujila's words and go hunting outside. The food stored in the clan gradually decreased, and the lives of the females and some elderly orcs were difficult to sustain.
Elder Sujila wanted to take advantage of Ren's return this time and let Ren lead the young males of the clan to go hunting.
First, to fill the food of the clan, and second, because Ren's majesty is there, no one in the clan dares to resist him.
Usually, Ren would agree to this kind of thing without saying a word, but this time he asked, "How long can the food in the clan last?"
Sujira said, "Ten days at most."
Ren: "I will set off again in five days, and I will bring the food back within three days."
Sujila wondered: "Is three days too urgent? Why can't we start two days earlier?" It used to take five to seven days to go hunting, and transporting food would waste one day.
Ryan said, "Something."
Elder Sujila asked, "Are you taking care of the little female you brought back?"
Ren didn't deny it: "She was hurt."
The past few days are when Ji Xiaoou's wound is healing, no one is watching, she is not familiar with this place, and according to her bullying temperament, even if she is driven out by the clan, she will only be like a deer. Like a village, he hides in the snow and weeps miserably.
"You don't have to worry about this." Sujila thought for a while, "Rhod approached me just now, and he seemed to be very interested in that female, and proposed to share the right to own that female with you."
Sujila said in a negotiating tone: "You know, the number of females in the clan has always been scarce, and it is normal for multiple males to share one female. If you agree, Rhodes should be very happy when you are not in the race." Take good care of her."
Ren's face suddenly sank, "You promised him?"
Shocked by his momentum, Sujila involuntarily slowed down his tone. "No, considering that this is the female you brought back, I didn't agree to him right away, I just asked him to seek the opinion of that female first."
Ji Xiaoou was lying on the head of the bed bored, Ba Tan had just shown her the wound, and she was the only one left in the room.
Although her words were easily vetoed by Ren yesterday, it doesn't mean she gave up the idea.
Ji Xiaoou thought, after she recovers from her injury, she will bid farewell to Ren and leave here.
Ji Xiaoou couldn't convince herself to live here with peace of mind, after all, this is the leopard tribe, after all, she still has to go home, after all... She didn't even know why he became smaller and approached her purpose.
…
Ji Xiaoou did what he said, picked up a pen and a compass, and sat on the bedside to plan his future route.
She turned on the dial of the compass, stared at the pointer on it for three seconds, and frowned suddenly.
On the compass, the compass that was supposed to point to the south swayed from side to side, as if it was disturbed by something. The arc of the pointer swings almost horizontally frames the entire disk, and the exact direction cannot be determined.
Ji Xiaoou shook it, but the pointer was still swinging back and forth.
broken? !
No way... She clearly remembered that she was fine before she passed out!
Could it be that he was frightened by Raursis and fell to the ground and broke
Ji Xiaoou twisted his face, thinking distressedly, she can't repair this kind of thing at all.
What should I do now
She was relying on it to get her way to the east of Bornia.
Ji Xiaoou looked sad, his ambition just now was suddenly emptied.
She sat on the bed blankly, and after a while, she heard a burst of slow footsteps outside the door.
Ji Xiaoou thought it was Ren who came back, so he immediately sat up straight and looked towards the door. The moment the door was pushed open, she asked anxiously, "Tao Tao, do you know why my compass..."
When he saw the person standing at the door, Ji Xiaoou fell silent like a cat whose tongue had been bitten off.
"..."
It was not Ren who stood at the door, but another leopard orc.
The hair is short, the eyes are sharp, and the sight is like a falcon. He glanced around the room, and finally landed on Ji Xiaoou.
Ji Xiaoou remembered him. When he was in the Reindeer Clan, he was the one who threw himself down without any explanation and asked him to tell Ren's whereabouts.
Ji Xiaoou thought he was still looking for Ren, so subconsciously stepped back, saying, "Ren is not here..."
"I'm not looking for Ren." Rhodes said. He is also one of the few orcs who can master human language and leopard language proficiently.
When he met Ji Xiaoou for the first time, the reason why he didn't use human language was just to test her.
Ji Xiaoou asked: "Then who are you looking for?"
Rhodes tilted the corner of his mouth, showing a smile or not, and said in a drawn-out voice, "Of course - I'm looking for you, my female."
After finishing speaking, he walked to the bed with his long legs, and before Ji Xiaoou could react, he passed an arm under Ji Xiaoou's body, supported her hips with his elbow, picked her up, and strode forward walked out of the house—