"It's really you! You're finally here... wuwu..." Li Yajun felt as if the taut string in her heart had broken. She suddenly fell on the windowsill, covered her mouth, and burst into tears.
Almost all the previous activities took place at night, which made Li Yajun unable to sleep well and her daily routine disordered. As a result, she is now extremely sensitive mentally and will overreact to the slightest disturbance.
It was precisely because of this that Li Wenxi had just said hello and she had directly aimed her heavy crossbow at the two of them.
She had been on edge, thinking Xu Xin and Li Wenxi were enemies from other regions. After all, the explorer had explained the basic situation on the regional channel, and she already knew that the people around her were from other regions.
Now that it has been confirmed that they are the explorers, Li Yajun is extremely excited.
"Hey, don't cry. You are the first person we found from the same area, and the fastest one!" Li Wenxi looked up and comforted Li Yajun.
"Hmm...ah, why am I still up there? I'll get down now!" Li Yajun suddenly remembered that she was still in the tree house, so she quickly operated the tree house and got down from it.
Xu Xin and Li Wenxi also rolled off the Silver King.
The girl was shorter than Li Wenxi, about 1.6 meters tall, and had to look up to see the two of them. She was wearing a green-level leather armor set. After coming down from the tree house, she shuddered slightly and rubbed her hands.
It seems that the green-level leather armor set is not very warm.
Li Wenxi was wearing a blue-level steel armor set, and he was wearing a purple-level scale armor set. Even when the Silver King was running fast and the cold wind was blowing directly at him, neither of them felt cold. It seems that only equipment above the blue level has a built-in warmth-keeping effect, while green-level equipment is relatively ordinary.
"Are you cold?" Li Wenxi asked with concern.
"I'm fine." Li Yajun no longer cared about the coldness of her body. With an expression of excitement and anxiety on her face, she asked anxiously and cautiously, "Um, can I... go with you? Are you here to take me away?"
"Of course," Li Wenxi replied. She looked at Li Yajun's shivering body and immediately suggested, "Why don't we go upstairs and talk? You should have a fireplace upstairs, right? We can both warm up there!"
Seeing Li Wenxi was about to go up, Li Yajun immediately said, "Well, there is a fireplace! Then I'll take you up!"
As he spoke, Li Yajun manipulated the roots of the tree house and was about to take the two of them up there.
Facing the two explorers who saved her life, especially one of them was Xu Xin, who was ranked first in the district, she completely let down her guard. If the two people on the opposite side wanted to harm her, it would be useless for her to be on guard. At most, she could just return the life they saved to them.
"That... this wolf?" Li Yajun looked at the blood-stained Silver King, which was much larger than an ordinary wolf, with some hesitation. "Is this wolf... a mutant beast? Is it going up there too?"
"Ouch!" The Silver King called out to her. His voice was not hostile, but rather gentle, causing her to shudder and then open her eyes wide.
"It... can understand me?" Li Yajun looked at the Silver King, unable to look away.
"This wolf is my mount," Xu Xin touched Silver King's head, "It's called Silver King. It's a friend, not an enemy. It won't hurt you. Take it up with you."
"Oh, okay..." Li Yajun couldn't help but look at the Silver King again, then controlled the roots and led them into the tree house.
Compared with Xu Xin and Li Wenxi's tree houses, Li Yajun's two-story tree house is much simpler. After all, the area is much smaller and there is less space for things.
Although the screen is on the first floor, perhaps because the low tree house is only three meters high, which is too short and makes people feel insecure, Li Yajun used the first floor as a workshop and storage room and converted the second floor into a living area.
Although the first floor is only more than 20 square meters in area, she has kept it tidy. The tables and chairs are neatly placed, and there is a small bed by the window. The fireplace, which almost occupies an entire wall, is burning, emitting a soft red light and the occasional "crackling" sound of burning wood, as if it were a warm little home.
There was only one chair here, so she made two more on the spot, and the three of them sat down by the fireplace. The Silver King also crouched down behind Xu Xin and Li Wenxi, warming himself by the fire.
"Your place is really nice, it feels more like a home than my tree house!" Li Wenxi stroked Coco who was still sleeping in his arms, and looked at the house with a little envy.
She thought her tree house was well designed, but compared to this one, her tree house instantly made her feel like a cheap rental apartment with all kinds of decorations placed randomly.
"Actually, it was designed according to the rooms in my home on Earth. If it wasn't designed like this, so that I can feel at home, I'm afraid I would collapse..." Li Yajun sighed and explained softly. Her eyes were attracted by Coco in Li Wenxi's arms, but she looked away again, "Well, I..."
"Do you want to touch her?" Li Wenxi saw that her eyes kept drifting towards Keke, and immediately asked with a smile, "Keke is super cute!"
“… Is it okay?” Li Yajun wanted to ask about the parasitic tree house, but was stopped by Li Wenxi’s words.
But to be honest, she really wanted to touch this cute little panda.
The two people in front of her were completely different from what she had imagined. She had thought that people like the Explorers, who were active on the front lines of life and death, were all decisive and ruthless, like killers.
But when she met them, she found that the style of these two people was really inconsistent with the explorer she had imagined. Except that their equipment was indeed much more advanced, the two of them looked like a couple in school, a talented man and a beautiful woman, talking and laughing.
Talking to them was like talking to friends, and her tense heart slowly relaxed. This feeling was very comfortable.
"You can touch it secretly while it's sleeping, but Coco doesn't want strangers to touch it. If it wakes up, you won't be able to touch it." Xu Xin was afraid of waking Coco up, so he spoke to her in a low voice as if he was whispering something.
He could tell that the girl in front of him was not in a good mental state, so he decided to wait a while before talking about the parasitic tree house. He had been running back and forth all the way, so it would be good for him to take a break before continuing.
“Then…” Li Yajun looked at Coco with wide eyes and reached out to touch Coco.
Coco was sleeping on her back in Li Wenxi's arms. She must have fallen asleep comfortably because Li Wenxi was rubbing her belly.
“Hmm…” Coco stuck out her tongue in her sleep and her tail wagged.
"So cute..." Li Yajun touched Coco's little belly. The soft and furry touch, Coco's cry, and the little expression of sticking out tongue healed her instantly.
If she had such a cute little animal to accompany her, she might not be like she is now, almost suffering from a nervous breakdown.
"…Hmm?"
Coco slowly opened her eyes, and when she saw that a stranger was touching her, she instantly jumped up from Li Wenxi's legs.
It jumped onto Xu Xin's body, climbed onto his shoulders, and hung onto his back. Then it poked its little head out and called to Li Yajun, "Bing! Bing-bing-bing!"
It seems that this little guy still doesn't allow others to touch him.
Xu Xin took Ke Ke from his back to his arms, patted its little head and comforted it: "It's not an enemy, don't be nervous."
"Bing! Bing!" Coco waved its little paws in protest, as if to say, even if it's not an enemy, how can anyone touch it!
"Keke really doesn't let anyone touch her!" It was the first time that Li Wenxi saw Coco resisting. She felt a little strange. Every time she touched Coco, she was very well behaved.
Although Li Yajun felt a little disappointed that Coco disliked her, she was still amused by Coco's appearance.
As I laughed, a tear rolled down my cheeks.
Li Yajun has been alone in this world for so many days, exploring alone, and her spirit is almost on the verge of collapse.
She didn't have a blue-level watch and couldn't make any contact outside the tree house, so she had to do all her activities alone.
Xu Xin and his friends could not understand the feelings of ordinary survivors.
For example, during the dungeon exploration, the explorers who had the ability to communicate outside the tree house were discussing and sharing strategies with each other. This was completely different from the feeling of exploring alone, losing contact with the outside world, and not knowing whether you would die next. Not to mention that Xu Xin had Coco following him at the time, so he didn't feel lonely or afraid.
Ordinary survivors can only hunt wild animals alone, explore dungeons alone, and wait alone on the second floor of the tree house for the end of thunderstorms and heavy rains.
Xu Xin and his friends had indeed never felt this kind of mental torture.
After experiencing so many events, she had long been fed up with the loneliness of surviving alone and the unknown fear that could come at any time.
She kept wondering when she could really meet other survivors, and when she could survive together with others, supporting each other.
So, after the second stage started, when the explorer notified everyone on the regional channel that the protected areas were connected and wanted to recruit members to survive as a team, she had only one thought in mind, that is, she must go!
If Xu Xin and the others hadn't told her on the regional channel that the protected areas were not completely connected and that it was best not to move around on her own as she might run into danger, she would probably have gone out to look for it on her own!
"Oh, why are you crying again? Well, from today on, we are real partners! From now on, you don't have to face danger alone!" Li Wenxi grabbed Li Yajun's hand and comforted her.
“Hmm…” Li Yajun sobbed and held Li Wenxi’s hand tightly.
Xu Xin could also understand her current mood.
Human beings are social animals. For those who have enough personal abilities to survive in this world, the biggest enemy in the first stage is not the activities that can take their lives time and time again, but their own hearts.
Even for Xu Xin, if he didn't have the company of Coco, the chatterbox who cried all day long, and the daily video calls with Li Wenxi to relax, his mental state would probably have some problems.
However, it seems that she has almost released her previous emotions, and it is time to talk about business.
Their main task today is to find Qi Xuefei, and they cannot waste too much time here.