In the cracks of the rocks, the sounds of talking and laughing gradually died down.
Near the inner side of the rock wall, the ground was covered with cowgrass. The little fox was sleeping in it with Li Mengdie in his arms, and both of them were covered with several coats.
On the other side of the campfire, four boys in short-sleeved shirts involuntarily moved closer to the campfire, as if it was a bit cold at night.
"How about we just sleep in each other's arms?" someone suggested in a low voice.
"Get lost!" They roared in unison. After a while, they could hear the sound of suppressed laughter.
In the woods near the west coast, the calls of woodpeckers continue to echo in the forest.
The calls of birds always have some meanings. For example, some are courting, some are expressing joy, and some are warnings. But the sounds in the woods at this moment are a bit strange. They are similar to warnings, but after listening to them for a long time, they feel more like cursing.
A hedgehog was out foraging at night and was quietly slipping through the open space between the bushes when it was suddenly stepped on by something. It was so confused that before it could curl up into a ball, it was kicked away.
"What hurts your feet so much?"
Wang Ping was puzzled for a moment and then ignored it. At this moment, he was holding the landlord's neck and dragging him towards the open space in the southeast. The woodpecker under the badger's arm kept struggling and screaming, flapping its wings and claws, but it couldn't break free.
"Oh, stop yelling, save your energy for work!"
"kee~! keekee!!"
The bird thought it could still be saved, and it kept shouting. It realized that it had been unlucky ever since it met this... I don't know what it is.
First, the tree hole that I worked so hard to dig out was robbed, and the bed was also occupied. Then, this guy tricked me into eating a fat insect. As a result, I found a wild insect in the woods, but was chased by a group of psychopaths, and my legs were stung and swollen. And now, I was kidnapped by this guy again.
Oh my God, we are all birds, and other birds can live carefree lives in this forest, but why is it so difficult for me
Pulling a miserable woodpecker along the way to the edge of the forest where Ding Yi had marked it, Wang Ping looked at the six clearings that Ding Yi had cleared and sighed. This was really a lot of work.
Dragging a landlord to one of the open spaces, Wang Ping stood by a tree, patted a bird on the head, then put it by the tree and released his arm.
Without waiting for Wang Ping to indicate what he was going to do, the woodpecker flapped its wings and prepared to run away. However, it flew less than 50 centimeters before being pulled back by a badger by the leg.
"Where are you going when you haven't finished your work yet?"
"kee!"
He flew up, but was caught back; he ran away, but was caught back; he pretended to be dead, but was woken up by slapping him, and almost died for real.
The bird and the badger fought bravely for nearly half an hour. Wang Ping was so tired that his arms were a little sore. He simply gave up trying to reason with the landlord. He grabbed the landlord's two paws and pressed his head against the tree trunk, hitting it like a chisel.
The first time it was hit, a certain bird was stunned. Pecking at a tree trunk on its own initiative and being pecked on the head by someone else are two completely different things. After being forced to peck at the bark by a badger for a while, it felt like its mouth was not its own.
After struggling and pecked twice on its own initiative, the badger paused, then released the claws that were pressing on its head, and just held its legs, watching it peck holes in the tree trunk as if using a bird-shaped electric drill.
When the clouds in the sky gradually thinned and stars could occasionally be seen, the sound of woodpeckers tapping on tree trunks could be heard continuously in the woods on the west bank.
Whenever a bird stops, its head will be pressed against the tree trunk again, and it won't even be able to take a break.
Hero Han slept very uneasily that night.
First, because I gave my clothes to the two girls as blankets, they were not used to wearing short sleeves. When I finally got used to the temperature and was about to fall asleep, the night wind blowing through the cracks in the rocks suddenly changed direction, and the people sleeping on the outside were the first to be blown awake.
When he fell asleep again, he felt someone approaching him and hugged him. It took Han Daxia nearly five minutes to react, and then he sat up suddenly as if he had been electrocuted. He looked at Gu Lao San who had rolled over to his side with a confused face, wishing he could beat him to death immediately.
Yang Xu, who was sitting on the sidelines, was almost smiling until his face froze. He covered his mouth tightly, put his head on his knees, and his shoulders kept shaking. When he finally managed to hold back his smile, he looked up and found that Han Daxia was glaring at him fiercely.
"puff!"
Yang Xu couldn't help laughing again, leaning on his knees.
"Fuck!" Hero Han rolled his eyes, stood up and lay down in another position.
This time, I breathed a sigh of relief, as no one came over and there were two people outside to shield me from the wind. However, it felt like I had only slept for a short while when something started slapping my face again.
I opened my eyes dazedly and saw a pair of sparkling night-vision eyes staring at me, and furry little paws kept flashing before my eyes.
“I’ll go!”
Hero Han sat up with a start, and instantly broke out in a cold sweat, trying hard not to cry out.
Looking back, the others were still asleep. However, the person who was supposed to take over Yang Xu's night watch had somehow changed from Ding Yi to Li Mengdie.
Seeing that Han Daxia seemed to be confused, Li Mengdie, who was adding fuel to the bonfire, explained: "Ding Yi still has to teach everyone how to build a shelter during the day, so let him sleep a little longer."
"Oh," Han nodded with sleepy eyes, ignoring the badger that came to pull his arm, and turned his head to look outside. Seeing that it was past dawn and there was just a ray of light outside the crevice, it would still be a long time before sunrise, he sighed and lay down again.
"Fuck, ignoring me?"
Wang Ping frowned and pulled twice more. Hero Han turned over with a mutter, showing no intention of getting up.
The badger turned around angrily, and under Li Mengdie's curious gaze, he first kicked Gu Laosan in the face, and was almost pulled into his arms by Gu Laosan while he was grumbling. After turning his head and jumping away, he slapped Yang Xu's face, but he also turned over like Han Daxia and fell asleep again.
"With your level of vigilance, you think you're qualified to play survival? You don't even want to get up, right?"
A badger took a breath, put his hands on his hips and walked to the entrance of the crevice outside the group of people. He turned around and looked at the people sleeping on the ground. He took a deep breath, stretched his neck and roared.
“Ahhh!!~~”
The roar instantly echoed throughout the crevice, Li Mengdie's face darkened, and she quickly covered her ears. Then, everyone on the ground jumped up.
“Fuck!”
"What's wrong?"
"What's that sound?"
…
40 minutes later, in front of the open space on the west coast, six figures looked at the rows of tree holes neatly dug out on the trees marked by Ding Yi, their faces extremely excited.
Yang Xu frowned and touched the inside of a round hole nearly three centimeters deep on a tree trunk in front of him. He felt that it didn't seem to be dug out with claws, but more like it was pecked out by a woodpecker.
But when I saw the tree holes on the tree trunks, which were neatly arranged with a 20-centimeter interval, I immediately rejected this idea. How could a woodpecker be so idle that it would specifically choose the marked trees to dig holes, and dig them so neatly? No matter how magical nature is, it wouldn't be so amazing, right
On the other side, a badger was standing in front of Hero Han with its teeth bared and its little paws stretched straight out, its meaning was obvious.
"Okay, I'll give you everything when we get back!" Hero Han smiled bitterly.
He just thought that using food to lure a badger might work, but he didn't expect it to be so exaggerated. This guy couldn't wait to be with Ding Yi, so he did the job overnight. As a result, he disturbed people's sleep early in the morning, and he felt justified in doing so.
"How about it, Old Ding, is this okay?" Hero Han asked Ding Yi while dealing with a badger.
"Of course!" Ding Yi stroked the tree trunk and smiled, "It's better than I expected!"
On the other side, in a tree hole of a red nan tree 300 meters away from the crowd, a woodpecker that had just finished its "night shift" was lying in its nest, humming. In front of it was a small box made of leaves, with a dozen white worms wriggling inside.
Looking at the "reward" given to it by a hideous creature, the bird had no appetite at all and just wanted to have a good sleep first.
After taking a quick glance at the hole, the woodpecker first came up with the idea of installing a door in the tree hole.