It was another day without catching the ice cave monster. Muri patted the frost condensed on his body due to moisture, and shook it off as he walked, shaking off all the snow and dust.
From afar, he saw a wild beast howling and running towards him. At a glance, Murray saw that the tall and strong beast with a big nose had an arrow stuck in its eye.
That was Mary's arrow. She practiced archery in the lighthouse every day. He often saw it and recognized it at once.
Murray paused for a moment, then suddenly jumped up, scraping across the snow, and with violent anger, he rushed straight to the injured beast. He tore its neck in one stroke, peeled off half of its skin, and quickly ran back to the lighthouse with the bleeding beast.
Mary is still not used to the wind, snow and cold outside. She has always stayed in the lighthouse and never came out. The big-nosed beast has Mary's arrow stuck in its eye, which can only mean that it went near the lighthouse and threatened Mary's safety.
The more ferocious and high-level the monster is, the more it cannot accept its territory being invaded. Muri dragged the big-nosed beast across the ice, half anxiously and half angry. When he returned to the lighthouse, only half of its bloody body was left.
Mary was still on the top floor of the lighthouse holding her bow and arrow, looking out the window.
Luckily her arrow hit the big-nosed beast's eye and scared it away, but she did not dare to relax and remained alert for other enemies.
She didn't stay by the fire, and she didn't go down to warm herself even though she was too cold. If other wild animals were attracted and broke into the lighthouse, she would be the safest here, as the bigger the body, the harder it would be to get up.
Seeing Murray's familiar gray-black figure running closer, Mary stamped her feet happily and went down the stairs.
Murray stopped at the door, dropped the half-carcass of the beast in his hand, opened the door and went in. He saw Mary coming down the stairs and gave him a happy smile.
"Muri, a wild beast came to steal fish and prey just now, but I drove it away!" Mary was very excited about the fact that she drove away the wild beast.
Muri's hair, which had been standing up in anger all the way, suddenly softened. He stopped his hurried steps, said "Oh" after a while, turned around and went out again, handing a bloody arrow back to Mary's hand.
"Ah, my arrow, that's great." Mary wiped the arrow that she had found and put it away.
She only had this one tube of arrows, and no other supplies. If she lost one, it would be one less arrow.
What Murray ate at night was the meat of the big-nosed beast. He chewed it fiercely and finished half of it. Mary felt a sour taste in her teeth when she heard the crunching sound of his chewing.
Seeing that he was still sulking with his arms crossed after eating, she took a piece of candy, melted it in hot water, and brought him a bowl of sweet sugar water.
Murray drank the sugar water while holding the bowl, but he still didn't seem to calm down, and sat there with a fierce look on his face. Meili was no longer afraid of him, and when she saw that his nose was still stained with shiny sugar water, she raised her hand to wipe it off and took the bowl made of bones from his hand.
After a while of being angry, Murray's eyes followed Meili involuntarily, watching her walking back and forth in front of him, sometimes making the bed, sometimes sorting out the new animal skins and bones. She also boiled some hot water and hid aside to wipe her body.
Murri didn't know how to avoid suspicion. This was his territory, and he was used to watching Mary all the time. When he saw her hiding in the corner to wipe her body, he looked over there.
The bright part was painted with a warm yellow glaze by the orange firelight. The concave and side parts were dancing with obscure boundaries, hiding dark and unknown secrets.
Mary thought he was still sulking against the wall, but when she turned around inadvertently, she saw him sitting there with his arms folded, staring at her.
Mary: “…” The lighthouse is too small, there’s no way to hide.
She let her hair down to cover her back, quickly wiped her whole body, quickly wrapped herself in the fur, and rolled into the thick fur mat trembling.
It was too cold. If she hadn't been sweating and feeling uncomfortable, she really wouldn't have wanted to wipe herself in such a cold weather.
After a while, she poked her head out from the fur blanket and was startled by Murray who came close to her. He sat next to her, with curiosity in his round black eyes.
She lifted the blanket and looked inside, then said in a tender voice, "You don't have any hair on your body either."
Mary: “…” She pulled down the blanket that Murray had opened and covered herself with it, feeling a little embarrassed and helpless.
This stupid little bear doesn't understand anything.
Murray also wanted to have a serious discussion with her about whether humans have hair: "Men in the mercenary group all have hair on their bodies."
Yes, Mary knew that those men had beards all over their faces and thick hair on their arms and legs. They all thought that the hairier their bodies were, the more manly they were, and they would often compare themselves with each other.
No wonder Murray always snorted disdainfully when he was sitting on the side. Who could compare to him? He was covered in hair. Who said he was a little bear
Murray opened it again and took a look. "Why is there no hair at all? Is it because it's too cold and it's losing its hair?"
Meili pushed his hand away, "Don't pull it open to look again!"
Murray didn't know why he suddenly became curious about her body, but since she said so, he stopped looking at it. He was still a little confused, "You can look at mine, why can't I look at yours?"
Mellie: "…because I don't have any hair."
Murray suddenly realized what was going on and rolled her up a little tighter, "You're cold, so you can't watch."
Although he seemed to understand it incorrectly, Mary didn't want to continue this topic. Her cheeks were a little red in the firelight, and her eyelashes drooped to cover her green eyes, revealing only a little fresh and lively emerald.
As Murri watched, he suddenly reached out and opened his hand to cover her face.
Meili was covered in the bear's paw. She took his hand away in confusion and heard him say seriously, "Your head is so small."
He spoke in a surprised tone, as if he had just now discovered the obvious.
Murray then added: "Such a small head, it will break if I press it."
As he said this, he curled up the corners of his mouth happily and proudly.
Mary imagined what he was saying, and felt a headache coming on. She turned sideways and buried her face in the thick fur blanket, ignoring him.
Murray tilted his head, thinking she was sleepy, "Aren't you going to sleep on me today?"
"No, I'll sleep here today." Mary said sullenly under the blanket.
After a while, she didn't hear any movement from Muri. She felt someone gently pulling her hair. When she looked up, she saw Muri lying next to her, squinting his eyes, and half asleep, he was playing with her hair with his furry paws.
While playing, I yawned and fell asleep.
Mary, on the other hand, couldn't sleep, so she reached out and poked his wet black nose.
Murray sneezed when he was poked. Mary quickly withdrew her hand and pretended to be asleep, laughing secretly under the blanket.
Because of the big-nosed beast, Murray didn't go out for two days. On the third day, he wanted to go out and take Mary with him.
"If you stay here alone, you might get taken away by wild beasts or monsters." Muri even threatened her, "You have so little meat that you can be eaten in one bite."
He had never thought about this before and let Meili stay alone in the lighthouse, but the last incident suddenly woke him up. The wild beasts in the polar regions became more ferocious as the weather got colder. When they were extremely hungry, they would ignore the warnings of the surrounding atmosphere and venture into the territory of other ferocious beasts.
If Mary continues to stay here alone, she might be eaten.
Whenever he thought of this, Muri became so angry that he wanted to run out and fight with Warcraft and hammer the snow.
Mary always felt that Murray's words had been unpleasant to the ears recently and he was no longer the cold boy he used to be.
But she also realized that Murray was worried about her.
She had been adapting for a while and her thick fur clothes were ready. Maybe it was time for her to go out and take a look. She couldn't stay in the lighthouse forever.
She was ready to go out, wearing thick fur clothes and pants. Her shoes were modified from her previous leather boots, with thick fur soles inside and outside, which fit her feet perfectly.
After tying her shoes and pants tightly together and covering herself with a thick blanket, she followed Murray out, leaving the fortress that had sheltered her for so long.
The world outside is cold and pale, but also pure and clean.
Mary listened to the whistling wind and followed Murray forward. When she walked a distance away and looked back, she saw the lighthouse standing in the snow, lonely and eye-catching, getting farther and farther away from them.
If you look down from the sky, you can see two creatures, one big and one small, covered with white fur blankets moving on the snow. They look like some large wild animal with its cubs.
This time, Murray was also wearing a thick white blanket, but he was not cold. The blanket was prepared for Mary. If she was too cold halfway through the journey, he could wrap her in the blanket and carry her back.
"Let's go see the ice cave where the ice cave monster appears." Muri took her to the nearest ice cave.
Mary discovered that the ice cave was round and the ice was extremely thick. When she got close, she could hear the sound of water flowing underneath.
Murray saw her squatting there looking at the ice cave. Even with all the thick clothes on, she still looked very small. He thought to himself, she is really small. He subconsciously stretched out his hand hanging by his side.
Meili was about to get up when something suddenly jumped out of the ice hole in front of her, and two snow-white fangs rushed straight to her face. She was too cold to react in time, and she only tilted her head back to avoid the teeth, but the thick blanket wrapped around her head tightened and was bitten by the thing.
At the same time, a huge force came from behind and pulled her away, almost in front and behind the thing, so when she was dragged away, the thing was also pulled up.
Mary fell on the snow, and in a blink of an eye she saw a round, fat thing more than a meter tall twisting beside her. Muri had already pounced on it, pinched its protruding teeth, swung it up and threw it hard, hitting the ice and bouncing back.
After falling a few times, the thing started to howl and slowly stopped moving.
This hunting and counter-hunting happened so quickly that Mary got up from the ground in a daze before she realized what had happened.
"Is this the ice cave monster? The one that can be made into a cloak?" she asked, pointing at the fat thing.
Murri didn't answer her question. He angrily pounded the snow twice and then hummed.
When he was guarding the ice cave by himself, this kind of monster never dared to come out. Unexpectedly, when he brought Meli out, she was almost dragged away by the ice cave monster hiding below. This made him very angry.
—This ice cave monster mistook Meli for his cub, so it risked its life to come out and hunt.