Gentle Beast

Chapter 3

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Ji Xiaoou held the thermometer at a loss, why did it react so strongly? Don't you like it

But when she took the temperature of the cat at home, she didn't see how resistant the cat was. She didn't know why, so she sent the thermometer forward. This time, before it touched the leopard's body, it quickly turned forward, kicked hard with its uninjured hind leg, and put the thermometer in Ji Xiaoou's hand. The thermometer fell to the ground.

Ji Xiaoou reacted promptly and let go of his hand quickly, so that he was not hurt by it's kick.

The little leopard stood in front of her holding his breath, "Wululu" gritted his teeth, and stared at her covetously.

Looks a bit like a pissed off.

Ji Xiaoou sat cross-legged under the tree, and the leopard stood in front of her, staring at each other.

After a while, Ji Xiaoou tilted his head and finally understood the situation, "You... don't you like taking your temperature?"

The little leopard turned his eyes away and glanced at the thermometer that fell into the grass, his eyes were very unfriendly.

Well, don't measure it if you don't like it, Ji Xiaoou is easy to talk to. Its body temperature is undoubtedly a fever, and the temperature measurement is just to determine how many degrees. Since it is so resistant, let's use alcohol to cool it down first.

Ji Xiaoou dipped some alcohol with a cotton swab, but started to run into trouble.

Alcohol needs to be wiped on the meat pads to be effective. Based on the leopard's reaction just now, will it let her touch it

She stretched out her hand, raised it tentatively in front of the little leopard, and scratched its chin like she usually teases her beauty.

The little leopard didn't move, his deep blue eyes turned slightly, and his eyes fell on the cotton wool in Ji Xiaoou's hand.

"This is medical cotton, dipped in alcohol, it can cool you down, you have a fever now..." For some reason, Ji Xiaoou couldn't help but want to explain to these eyes that seemed to see everything.

The little leopard didn't resist this time, and he didn't know if he understood her words or used up his last bit of strength.

Ji Xiaoou carried it into his arms smoothly, avoided its wounds, supported its limbs and wiped the pads of its palms one by one.

Felines have pink pads, and leopards are no exception.

There is a brown scar in the middle of the pad of the left front paw of the little leopard, almost running through its entire palm.

The scar is long and deep, and it is very eye-catching. It must have been seriously injured at that time.

Ji Xiaoou resisted the urge to touch, and told himself that this leopard is not easy to mess with, unlike her family.

If it is not happy, it can bite itself to death even if it is injured.

After wiping off the alcohol, Ji Xiaoou took out another towel and went to the stream to wash it off.

It was just autumn, and the stream water at this time was so cool that it was not enough to use it for ice packs, but it was better than nothing.

Ji Xiaoou folded the wet towel and put it on the little leopard's stomach, and went to the stream to wash it again every ten minutes.

After all this work, Ji Xiaoou can finally rest for a while.

She didn't have breakfast in the morning, ran for two hours in fear, and then was busy treating the leopard's wounds, so she felt hungry.

Ji Xiaoou turned around, buried his head in his backpack, and quietly looked at the food stored in the "space".

She still finds it unbelievable, but slowly accepts this setting. If there were no things in the space, maybe she was bitten to death by a wild animal under the tree last night.

She checked the supplies in the space. In addition to the things she saw before, there were two bags of rice, two bags of flour, five boxes of instant noodles, five boxes of milk, ten boxes of mineral water, several bags of beef jerky, and two boxes of Dove chocolates. And two barrels of Snickers bars, fresh beef and seafood sealed in ice cubes, and various snacks and dried fruits...

Ji Xiaoou noticed it yesterday, after a whole night, the ice cubes used to keep the beef fresh did not melt at all. The seafood is also, it is still fresh color, here is like a pure natural cold storage.

The time in the space seems to flow very slowly, so there is no need to worry about the problem of expiration and deterioration.

After counting the ingredients, the rest are daily necessities.

Oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, pots and pans, stove gas tanks, barbecue grills, these are all available. There are also binoculars, sunscreen sunglasses, shampoo, shower gel, quick-drying towels, thermos cups, etc... The students brought miscellaneous things. Ji Xiaoou touched them casually and even took out a selfie stick.

Ji Xiaoou tidied up his things, leaving behind a bag of beef jerky, a bag of cereal, two boxes of milk and a bag of instant noodles.

She took out a small pot from the pot set, went to the stream to scoop up half of the pot of water, returned to the stream to set up the gas tank and the stove, put the small pot on the stove, turned on the switch, and started to boil the water.

The light blue flame suddenly rose, and after a while, the sound of boiling water was heard from the pot.

The little leopard lying quietly next to him raised his eyes and stared at the stove without saying a word, his eyes were dim, and his front paws were firmly on the ground.

Ji Xiaoou didn't realize it.

Ji's father is an outdoor sports enthusiast, and there are a lot of outdoor sports equipment stored at home, so Ji Xiaoou is no stranger to these. After the water was boiled, she tore open the package of instant noodles, put the noodles into the boiling water, poured in the seasoning, and stirred with chopsticks.

Taking advantage of this time, she cut open the milk box again, drank some by herself, then poured the whole bag of cereal into the milk, and put it in front of the little leopard.

"You're hurt now, it's better to drink more milk, it's good for healing the wound. There's also beef jerky here, I'll cut it up later and you can eat it." Ji Xiaoou didn't speak to anyone for two days, Even a leopard can chatter endlessly, and she admires her adaptability a little bit.

The little leopard drank a carton of milk yesterday, but he didn't resist. He looked away from the stove and buried himself in the milk.

Ji Xiaoou also opened a box for himself, drank a couple of sips, and seeing that it was almost cooked, he turned off the fire and served it out.

Yesterday, she only ate two pieces of chocolate, and now she finally had a few mouthfuls of hot food. Although it was just simple boiled noodles, she felt very satisfied.

After she finished eating in small bites, the leopard across from her was almost finished eating too.

The bag of beef jerky was torn apart and thrown aside, and the inside was eaten clean.

Ji Xiaoou was worried that the smell of food would attract the wolves just now, so he hurriedly put away the pots and bowls, went to the stream to wash them, and put them back into the space together with the gas tank stove. The gas tank and the burner are not large in size, and they don't look obtrusive even if they are stuffed into the bag, so she didn't avoid this little leopard.

Leopard looked at Ji Xiaoou's delicate and compact backpack.

After a while, he moved his eyeballs and moved towards the busy girl opposite.

Ji Xiaoou would not be able to find a place to throw the garbage for a while, and he couldn't just throw it in the forest, so he dug a hole and buried the milk cartons and packaging bags under the soil.

After burying, she raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her cheeks, and a dirty gray mark hung on her face.

She probably realized it too, got up and went to the stream to wash her face, her long eyelashes were dripping with water, her eyes were bright and bright, her skin was porcelain white, and her face was smooth. Unlike animals that are covered with hair, she is delicate.

Ji Xiaoou walked back to the leopard, his cheeks were flushed by the sun, and he looked at it without blinking.

The little leopard took two steps back and looked away as if nothing had happened.

Ji Xiaoou took off the towel wrapped around its stomach, touched the pad of its palm, the temperature was a little lower than before, and giving it another medicine at night should be fine.

On the opposite side of the stream is a majestic and rolling mountain range with a high top reaching straight into the sky.

Ji Xiaoou remembered that she fell from the mountain, and she should be able to return to the place she is familiar with by climbing up from here.

She planned to go up the mountain after treating the little leopard's wound, but when she was done, she looked down at her watch and found that it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

If she went up the mountain at this time, it would be early morning when she reached the top of the mountain.

At that time, there was no one on the top of the mountain, so it was no safer than here.

After thinking about it, Ji Xiaoou decided to stay here for one more night and set off again in the morning.

Ji Xiaoou carried the little leopard into his arms, and glanced at the creek in front of him.

The stream is fast-moving and is sandwiched between forests and mountains. If you want to cross the other side, you must cross this stream.

She picked up a dead branch on the bank, dipped it into the water to test the water depth, and compared it with her own calf.

Ji Xiaoou was wearing beige wide-leg trousers, which rolled up to his calves effortlessly, and carried the little leopard slowly to the opposite bank step by step.

The opposite bank is also a trace of a primitive forest, but the growth of the trees is more gentle, not as arrogant and domineering as the trees on the opposite side.

It's sunny, lush, and inexplicably pleasing to the eye.

What made Ji Xiaoou even more happy was that she saw several familiar trees here.

Obliquely in front are several spruce fir trees, a row of willow trees grow on the left hand side, and there are camphor trees, oak trees, birch trees in the depths...

Finally, she saw a trace of something she was familiar with!

In this way, he became more convinced that Ji Xiaoou could find his teachers and classmates by climbing to the top of the mountain.

However, Ji Xiaoou did not lose his mind. After walking in the forest for more than an hour, he found a not-so-low hillside. The location here is hidden, backed by a mountain peak, and covered by a big tree with luxuriant foliage, wild beasts generally cannot find this place, and they can rest here at night.

After five o'clock, Ji Xiaoou re-administered anti-inflammatory drugs to the little leopard, and fed it milk-soaked oatmeal and beef jerky. Because she ate late at noon, she herself was not very hungry, so she only drank a carton of milk, took out a sleeping bag from the space and laid it down, preparing to wait for "darkness".

At six o'clock, the forest fell into darkness on time.

Ji Xiaoou still couldn't understand the natural phenomenon here, but he forced himself not to think about it. Turning her head, she saw that the little leopard next to her had already fallen asleep. After thinking about it, she took out a knitted blanket from the space and covered her body with it.

The night was cloudy and thick, not a single star in the sky.

Early the next morning, just after dawn, the little leopard opened his eyes, and saw that there was nothing in front of him, the sleeping bag was gone, the blanket was gone, and the milk box was gone.

Even Ji Xiaoou disappeared completely.

The spotted leopard stood up slowly, looked at the place where Ji Xiaoou had been lying last night, as if it suddenly remembered something, it turned to look at its injured hind leg.

The gauze on it was clean, and it looked like it had just been changed this morning, and it was tied with a dazzling bow as always.

The little leopard stared at it for a while, then slowly closed its eyes, licked its teeth, turned around and walked unhurriedly into the depths of the forest.