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Ji Xiaoou came out of the house in a panic, stopped outside the door to breathe lightly, and stretched out his hand to touch his heart in a daze.
At that moment just now, she was a little shaken...
How could it be that she was willing to stay in this strange continent for a leopard
Is she crazy
Or... Was she tempted by Ren
Ji Xiaoou's face was pale, and he clenched his lips in disbelief, his heart beating violently because of this terrible realization.
No, impossible.
She is human, how could she be tempted by a leopard!
It must be because she has gotten too close to Ryan recently. She has no relatives or friends in this world, Ren is the only orc she can trust. She subconsciously regarded him as her only reliance, and let go of all her guard against him. And because he is Tao Tao, she had poured some feelings into him back then, even if he became "Ren" all of a sudden, those memories of life and death together could not be erased.
So, she mistook this feeling for a heartbeat
Yes, yes, it must be so.
Ji Xiaoou kept persuading himself, trying to get rid of that ridiculous thought in his mind.
Not to mention that the world is full of crises, how can humans combine with animals? It's simply against ethics, and it's not allowed by nature.
Coming to this conclusion, Ji Xiaoou naturally didn't dare to get too close to Ren. After thinking for a moment, I decided to visit Su Zhana.
Ever since Su Zhana was bitten by a saber-toothed tiger, Ji Xiaoou hadn't looked at her once.
This time I went, Sujila was drying the meat in the yard. Seeing her, Sujila paused for a while, but said nothing.
Since knowing that it was Sujila who ordered Wilbur to send him into the back street, Ji Xiaoou didn't know what to say to him, and only asked, "Is Suzana in there?"
Sujira nodded.
Ji Xiaoou was about to go inside when he heard Su Jila ask: "Did you instigate the leader to change the clan rules?"
"What?" Ji Xiaoou was taken aback when he heard the words, turned around, and said solemnly, "Of course it's not me."
Sujila's complexion improved slightly, but her mouth was not forgiving at all. "If you can't stay in our race for a long time, then you'd better not give the leader any hope. The leader can find another better spouse."
As the former elder of the Leopard Clan, Sujila already knew that Wen Te went to the Bornia Continent to find Pat, and also knew that Ji Xiaoou wanted to return to his own race, otherwise Wilbur would not have tricked him she.
Since Sujila couldn't prevent Ren from changing the family rules, he certainly hoped that Ren would find a spouse from his own family to ensure the purity of his bloodline.
Otherwise, with Ren's powerful genes, it would be a waste to have a congenitally disabled offspring with Ji Xiaoou.
Ji Xiaoou pursed his lower lip, and looked at Su Jila with Wurun's eyes, "Are these also the duties of an elder?"
Su Jila said coldly: "Of course not." What's more, he is no longer an elder.
"If it doesn't count," Ji Xiaoou said with justification, "it seems that the tribe does not interfere with the leader's right to choose a spouse."
"you!"
Sujila was very angry, but he was poked at a sore spot and couldn't refute. The female looked limp, and she didn't expect to see blood in such a burst of speech.
Ji Xiaoou didn't talk to Su Jila anymore, turned around and walked into the house.
Suzana was half-sitting on the head of the bed. The injured part of her neck has been treated by a veterinarian and has been sutured with needles and thread, and she is gradually recovering. Perhaps it was because of the excessive blood loss that day, Su Zhana's face was pale, and when she saw Ji Xiaoou coming in, the first sentence she said was: "You saved me that day?" Her voice was hoarse, so low that she could hardly hear it.
Ji Xiaoou nodded, after thinking about it, he added, "I just called your people, I didn't do anything."
Suchana glanced at her, and probably thought that a herbivorous female was not capable of defeating a saber-toothed tiger, so she didn't refute this sentence.
Then one person and one leopard had nothing to say.
Ji Xiaoou and Su Zana were not very familiar with each other, let alone the language, the sentence just now had exhausted all the leopard languages that Ji Xiaoou could learn.
Ji Xiaoou didn't stay for too long, seeing that Su Zhana had nothing to do, he left. Before leaving, Su Zhana said a word to her.
It was not until he was walking on the road that Ji Xiaoou figured out what this sentence meant—
"Although I don't like you very much, thank you very much."
It was exactly noon when we returned to Wren's courtyard.
Ji Xiaoou dug his head into the kitchen and started preparing the lunch.
It's been cold recently, and she plans to make a hot pot. She still has a lot of fresh ingredients and hot pot bases in her space.
It's just that I just took out the aluminum pot and scooped up half of the pot of water, when I heard a low voice asking at the door: "Where did you go?"
Ji Xiaoou's hands trembled, almost throwing the pot and water on the ground, and then, in time, a pair of hands stretched out from behind to support the bottom of the pot for her, while wrapping her whole body in his arms.
The aura belonging to Renn came overwhelmingly, catching Ji Xiaoou by surprise.
"I... I'm going to visit Su Zhana." Ji Xiaoou's ears turned red without warning, and then his whole face turned red, hesitating.
"What are you looking at her for?" Ren frowned.
Ji Xiaoou said: "She was injured so badly last time, let me see how she is doing..."
"Have you met Sujira?"
Ji Xiaoou nodded, "Yes."
Ren said: "If he said something to you, don't pay attention."
Ji Xiaoou: "Oh..." She wouldn't say that Su Jila persuaded herself to leave him...
After being silent for a long time, Ji Xiaoou struggled a bit, and said sullenly: "I'm going to prepare lunch now, can you go out?"
"Can't I stay here?" Ren lowered his head, and the breath he exhaled just hit her ear sockets, it was hot, with a trace of scorching boredom.
Ji Xiaoou's cheeks turned red all of a sudden, "I can't." His staying here will only make her more and more confused.
Obviously, she had already figured out that she had no feelings for him, but when his body came close, her heart beat faster involuntarily, thump, thump, thump... followed by a sound so loud that she could hear it herself.
Ren finally let go of her, and Ji Xiaoou let out a long breath.
However, in the next second, Ren's words made her froze suddenly—
"Is my question difficult to answer?"
Ji Xiaoou was stunned, "What do you mean?"
Ren said: "I don't think your relationship with Suchana is that good."
It means that she would rather visit Su Zhana than answer his question just now, which is clearly evading.
Ji Xiaoou's scalp was numb, and he was a little at a loss, "I, I haven't thought about it yet."
It's not "disagree", but "didn't think about it".
There was a hint of deep meaning in Ren's eyes, as if the hidden turbulence had finally found a breakthrough line of defense, and asked in a low voice: "When can I think about it?"
Ji Xiaoou shook his head and said frankly, "I don't know."
Maybe wait for Winter to come back, or maybe never think about it.
Ren was silent for a moment, and said: "It is not difficult to admit that staying."
Like a kitten whose tail was stepped on by someone, Ji Xiaoou suddenly pushed Ren away, baring his teeth and waving his paws, "... I don't want to stay!" Run out of the kitchen.
Hasn't she suffered enough here? Almost died again and again, was chased and killed by the orcs here, fled, and witnessed countless scenes of herbivorous orcs being preyed on by carnivorous orcs... She wanted to stay here because she was crazy.
Inside the house, Ren leaned on the stove leaning on his body, his two long legs crossed at will, and a deep ravine formed between his brows.
... still too impatient.
He glanced down at the pot half filled with water in his arms, picked it up and put it on the stove beside him, got up and walked outside.
Since then, Ji Xiaoou has kept a distance from Ren all the time.
Except when they had to sit together when eating, Ji Xiaoou wished to be eight feet away from him at other times.
Let alone a hug, it is difficult for Ren to get close to her now. When she was sleeping, she prepared a small tent by herself and set it up next to the fireplace. After dark, she got into the tent on time and zipped it up, completely isolating Ryan.
After two days, Ren's complexion was very ugly.
He wanted to catch her several times to ask what she meant, but Ji Xiaoou avoided him very much, and she ran away before he got close.
This time, before Renn could speak, Ji Xiaoou took the first step and said, "I'm going to take a walk by the Houshan stream."
Her compass has never been repaired. When she passed the back mountain last time, she noticed that the stones on the side of the road seemed to be attracted by some kind of force and rolled in one direction. She picked up two stones and put them together, and the two crushed stones really stuck together.
Ji Xiaoou speculates that there is natural magnetite nearby. If the magnetic field of magnetite is used to help demagnetize the compass, it may be successful.
"It's just right." Ren said without expression, "There are some problems at the border of the back mountain, and I need to go there too."
Ji Xiaoou: "..."
After Ren finished speaking, he passed her and walked out the door.
At this time, it was too late to repent, Ji Xiaoou had no choice but to follow Lei En and walk towards the back mountain.
The back mountain is not far from Ren's home, it can be reached within a quarter of an hour's walk.
However, Ren's legs are long and his steps are wide. How could Ji Xiaoou keep up with his footsteps? He hurriedly followed behind him, and finally reached the top of the mountain. Looking at his watch, the fifteen-minute journey was hard. Shengsheng was shortened to five minutes by them.
Ji Xiaoou was out of breath, but he didn't dare to complain, and he didn't dare to leave Ren's side.
She thought about it carefully, there may be beasts on this mountain at any time, she is safer with Ren, if she is alone, no one will know if she is eaten.
Going forward, there is a small frozen river.
The ice is thick and full of animal footprints.
Ren walked in front, stepping on black leather boots, as if walking on flat ground, with steady steps.
When Ji Xiaoou saw Ren walking so easily, he thought it was very easy, but he didn't expect that when his feet stepped on the ice, he slipped suddenly, and he fell to the ground with a "plop".
The fall was so painful that she burst into tears.
Looking at Ren in front again, he didn't even look back.
Ji Xiaoou gritted his teeth, propped himself up from the ice, and tried a few times, but it still didn't work.
After tossing for a long time, she didn't even walk out of the river bank.
Seeing Ren going further and further away, Ji Xiaoou felt a little anxious, and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his fingers, "Ren, wait for me..."
Ren finally turned his head and stood in the middle of the river bank. His profound facial features seemed to be engraved in the surrounding rime, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
Ren stretched out his palm towards her, and his voice passed through the thick frost fog, "Come here."
Ji Xiaoou stood up again, took two steps cautiously, then quickened his pace, and rushed towards him quickly.
It wasn't until he grabbed Ren's strong arm that he felt at ease.
Ren wrapped her waist firmly with the other arm, leaned over, and whispered in her ear, asking slowly, "Are you still hiding from me?"