Ji Xiaoou got up before dawn, packed his things, changed the anti-inflammatory medicine for the leopard, and walked up the mountain alone.
The mountain is very high and the slope is steep.
There are a few sections in the middle that are almost at a 90-degree angle to the ground, going straight up and down, which is very dangerous.
Ji Xiaoou gritted his teeth, and using the carabiner and trekking poles of sports committee member Chen Bin, he finally climbed to the top of the mountain before dark.
She looked down at her watch, it was 5:43 pm, almost 12 full hours.
Standing on the top of the mountain and taking a few breaths, Ji Xiaoou felt extremely happy when he thought that he would see his teachers and classmates later. He had never looked forward to meeting them again like this time.
I don't know if they have looked for themselves in the past two days
Have you notified your parents
Parents know she fell into the cliff, are not frightened
However, when he turned his head and saw the surroundings of the mountain clearly, he was suddenly stunned.
This is just an ordinary mountaintop, with a few welcoming pine trees growing horizontally on the edge of the cliff, and the sky behind is blue, but there is nothing else.
What about the top of the cliff she fell into
What about the G80 highway she saw from the school bus
Looking around, there is a rolling mountain range in front of you. The mountain range is surrounded by a circle and the surface is covered by green plants.
The mountains are high all around and low in the middle, like a huge basin. It's just that the middle of the basin is not barren, and there are many plants that Ji Xiaoou can't name.
The mountain range is surrounded by a stream, which is exactly the stream that Ji Xiaoou came from the forest on the other side yesterday.
The basin can't be seen at a glance, and the mountains seem to extend to the end of the world. The water flow follows the mountains and meanders away, showing a completely strange world in front of Ji Xiaoou.
A world she had never touched.
Ji Xiaoou's fist on his side gradually tightened, his body trembled slightly, and he looked down into the distance without blinking.
The speculation that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time was finally confirmed.
This is not the world she is familiar with.
She traveled to a strange continent.
As if to confirm what Ji Xiaoou was thinking, the next second, when it was six o'clock, the scene in front of him immediately turned black.
There are no high-rise buildings, no science and technology, no mobile phone signal... not even sunrise and sunset.
Ji Xiaoou stood straight, his heart sinking deeper and deeper.
Shocked, confused, and more dazed.
Why did she come here
How should I go back
If she really can't go back, how should she live here
Ji Xiaoou didn't sleep that night, and sat cross-legged on the top of the mountain all night.
The temperature difference between day and night here is huge, and it is very cold at night. She is wearing thin clothes, a black printed baseball shirt with a white vest, and wide-leg pants on the lower body that are not very warm. At dawn the next day, she felt dizzy.
After digesting it all night, Ji Xiaoou's mood eased somewhat.
No matter what reason she came here, since she can't go back for the time being, let's find a way to live here first.
Thinking of this, Ji Xiaoou pulled himself together, took out cold medicine from the medicine box, poured two pills, and swallowed them with mineral water.
I took two more slices of toast from the space and finished eating them with milk before I prepared to go down the mountain.
The way down the mountain was more difficult and dangerous than the uphill one, so Ji Xiaoou walked very slowly, and it was around three o'clock in the afternoon that he was halfway up the mountain.
This section of the road is full of green plants, one of which has thick leaves, as big as Ji Xiaoou's palm, and one or two light red flowers grow on the top of each plant. Many insects of the order Diptera surrounded the flowers, probably because Ji Xiaoou's schoolbag was brighter in color, rose red, many insects were attracted and flew towards her.
Ji Xiaoou was afraid of insects since he was a child, and at first he was able to resist them with mosquito repellent water. Later, these insects became immune to the mosquito repellent water, and gradually became more and more crowded.
The place that was bitten by this kind of insect quickly swelled up and itched. Ji Xiaoou couldn't help stretching out his hand to scratch, and soon the entire back of his hand was red.
Ji Xiaoou didn't dare to scratch again, but this was not the way to go.
She turned her head and looked around, and found that there was no such bug under the opposite tree. Even if a bug flies past, it will quickly turn around and fly elsewhere.
The trees around the root of that tree were no different, except that there was a catnip-like plant growing under the tree.
Ji Xiaoou's eyes lit up, and he quickly walked under the tree.
Turning around, she saw that the bugs were no longer approaching her, they circled around her head a few times, and dispersed one after another.
This plant has a faint fragrance, which is nothing to humans but very irritating to this insect.
So they never get close.
In order to avoid encountering these bugs again, Ji Xiaoou picked a few catnip leaves, wrapped them in white gauze, made a simple sachet and tied it on his body.
After she was done, she looked at it with satisfaction, and was about to leave when she lifted her foot, but her toe seemed to kick something.
Hard as a rock.
Ji Xiaoou lowered his head in doubt, and saw two huge antlers growing in the grass. There were many antlers scattered to both sides, very complicated and gorgeous.
Ji Xiaoou had never seen such beautiful antlers before, so surprised, he couldn't help but bend down and reach out to touch them.
However, before she could touch the pair of antlers, the antlers moved by themselves, and the surrounding grass rustled accordingly.
Immediately afterwards, a head slowly lifted from the catnip bushes, and let out a moan of suppressed pain.
"Oh, who just kicked me..."
Ji Xiaoou looked at this young man with antlers stupidly, his eyes widened, and then his legs gave way, and he fell to the ground with a "plop" in fright.
"You, what are you..." Ji Xiaoou asked with a pale face, staring at the boy in front of him.
The other party sat cross-legged on the ground, with a strong figure, and looked like a human teenager of seventeen or eighteen years old.
There is a pair of complicated and huge antlers on the top of his head, gray and white fluff grows on both sides of the ears, spreading to the sides of the cheeks, a tuft of gray hairs grow on the bridge of the nose, big eyes, slightly thick lips, also watching she.
"Me?" The boy pointed to his nose and introduced with a smile: "My name is Eric, what's your name?"
There was no response after finishing speaking, the antler boy glanced at Ji Xiaoou, who was still on the verge of shock, and scratched his head, "Sorry, did I scare you just now? Don't worry, I am a herbivorous type, which is different from those brutal carnivorous types." , I will not hurt you."
Seeing that Ji Xiaoou was slender and weak, he looked like a minor, and exuded the fragrance of green grass all over his body, so he regarded her as a "herbivorous species" of the same species as himself.
Ji Xiaoou opened his mouth, his eyes shifted from the boy's antlers to his gray nose, his fingers tightened little by little, and he was about to turn around and run away, but saw the boy's expression suddenly became serious, his body tensed up, and he couldn't wait. No matter how she reacted, he grabbed her wrist tightly, pressed her head, and quickly hid in the grass with her.
"..."
Puzzled, Ji Xiaoou struggled a bit, trying to stand up, but the young man with antlers quickly raised a finger, "Hush."
Ji Xiaoou looked at his black fingers that looked like fingers and deer's hooves, he clenched the corners of his mouth, and didn't make a sound.
Eric looked tense, his eyes fixed on the other side.
But the antlers on his head are too conspicuous, hidden in the grass, there is a sense of extreme disharmony.
He seemed to have noticed this too, and hurriedly pulled a large pile of catnip from the side, and covered his antlers as a camouflage.
After a while, Ji Xiaoou felt an obvious vibration on the ground, followed by the cries of ferocious beasts one after another.
Eric's body tensed even more.
The roar of the ferocious beast was getting closer and closer. Ji Xiaoou looked into the distance and saw two adult cheetahs covered with stripes rushing towards this side.
The cheetah galloped very fast. In the blink of an eye, two vigorous figures passed by. The thick and long tail drew a perfect arc in the air. After a few vertical leaps, the figures disappeared. .
It wasn't until the two cheetahs were gone that Eric let out a long sigh of relief, patted his chest, and was saved.
But the mystery in Ji Xiaoou's heart is getting bigger and bigger, like a mess of wool, only need to find the end of the thread, everything can be solved in one go.
"We... why are we hiding?" Ji Xiaoou looked at the young man who was removing the straw from the antlers in front of him, and asked tentatively.
Eric paused, treating Ji Xiaoou as an ignorant juvenile orc, and patiently explained: "The two leopards just now are carnivorous orcs, and they are the natural enemies of our herbivorous orcs. If they find out, I will Both you and you will die."
Ji Xiaoou pinched his palm hard, it hurt so much, it wasn't a dream.
Her voice trembled a little: "What did you just say?"
Eric was puzzled, but he repeated obediently: "If those two leopards find us, we will..."
"Not this." Ji Xiaoou interrupted in a panic, "What do you think we are?"
Eric froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "We are herbivorous orcs. You don't smell like blood, and you smell like grass. I guess I'm right?" He quickly remembered, "Oh, yes, Look at my memory. I haven't asked your name yet, what is your name? Where is your race?"
After a while, Ji Xiaoou responded with a harsh voice: "Ji Xiaoou, my name is Ji Xiaoou."
Eric smiled enthusiastically, "Your name really resembles a human being."
Ji Xiaoou's heart beat faster, and before she could ask anything, Eric continued: "However, human beings became extinct 700 years ago, and there is no trace of their existence in the Bornia continent, so you should have nothing to do with them. "
Throwing this blockbuster, Eric looked at the sky, "It will be dark soon, have you separated from your tribe? My tribe is behind the mountain, not far from here, do you want to come to my village?" Hidden in the group for one night?"
After finishing speaking, seeing Ji Xiaoou's pale face and dull eyes, she thought she was frightened by seeing the cheetah orc just now, and she hadn't calmed down yet, so she comforted her, "Don't worry, although my group isn't powerful, it won't let you Injured. On the contrary, if you stay here, you may be eaten by wild beasts."
Ji Xiaoou subconsciously asked, "Why?"
Eric put away his smile and said solemnly: "A few days ago, the leader of the leopard tribe was injured and disappeared. They have been looking for it. On this mountain, several members of our tribe have suffered innocent disasters."