Night is approaching, and the mountains and forests are dark.

Qiu Yan slowly stood up, looked around carefully, and when the corner of his eyes swept around him, he was suddenly stunned, but he found that in this dark place, the little wolf cub lying next to him, that pair of eyes slowly brightened in the dark, and a faint green luster appeared, like a dark green fire, burning silently in the silent darkness.

Qiu Yan reached over, hugged the little wolf cub's head and touched it, and the little wolf cub let out a low whining sound from his mouth, as if he was responding to something.

Then, Lu Chen let go of his hand and motioned to Li Mowu to stand up and slowly walked down.

The forest was pitch black, and he couldn't see his fingers, but he seemed to be able to see things in the dark, and he walked step by step with extraordinary accuracy and composure. It didn't take long for him to come to the rocks.

He crouched down, one hand on the edge of the largest rock, and the other gently touched the bottom of the rock. The wet moss oozed water and wet his fingers. In the darkness, Lu Chen groped for a moment, and then felt something from the dark crack under the rock, and his face was happy.

He put it in his arms, turned and left.

The night was dark, and Li Mowu hid behind and didn't see what it was.

The darkness obscured all the movement of the figures, and only a pair of eyes like ghosts of fire shimmered faintly in the forest, which looked a little crazy. Especially when Qiu Yan walked back, the pair of ghost flames swooped over, making people's hearts tremble.

Qiu Yan stretched out his hand and blocked the wolf head of the little wolf cub that was shaking its head and tail in the dark, and said angrily. "I don't usually see it, you little brute is quite scary at night. ”

"Whew.. Whew.." The little wolf cub whispered twice, as if he was a little proud, not ashamed but proud.

Qiu Yan shook his head a little helplessly, summoned Li Mowu, who was about to ask a question, and said softly. "Gone. ”

Under the cover of night, the figures of two people and a wolf quietly disappeared in the darkness, like ghosts in this lonely mountain wilderness.

Qiu Yan took Li Mowu to find a secluded place far away, and then took out something from his arms, which was the same thing he had taken out from the cracks in the rocks and rocks in the mountains and forests before. At this moment, looking at it through the light of the faint starlight in the sky, it was a ball of beige fluff.

Qiu Yan glanced at Li Mowu, who wanted to stop talking, and said softly. "Ask whatever you want..."

"I'm curious about what this ball of hair in your hand is? Could it be that we are crawling there for a long time for this?" Li Mowu twisted his suspicions between his eyebrows, very puzzled, in his eyes, Qiu Yan was not such a boring person.

"You know what. Qiu Yan just laid the fluff on the ground, and the little wolf cub snorted and stepped on it to sniff something, Qiu Yan ignored it and continued. "This thing, it's the fluff shed by the two-tailed fennec fox. ”

"The two-tailed fennec fox is a rare species, and it can be said that there are no more than 100 of them in the world. When I walked by the river today, I also stumbled upon the footprints of its life in that area, so I wanted to try to see if I could catch it, as recorded in the book. However, he seemed to notice us and never returned. ”

Qiu Yan looked at Li Mowu's stunned expression, and suddenly laughed. "Have fun."

Although I didn't catch the little fox, but it was quite rewarding to get its shedding hair, Xiao Li was born cold, and she didn't like to wear heavy clothes, just this precious fluff can weave a soft hedgehog to keep her out of the cold. ”

"You know, according to legend, the fox's tail is the place where the aura of heaven and earth is stored, and when they absorb enough aura of heaven and earth, the tail will split into two until it eventually splits into nine tails. When you have nine tails, you will have immortality. Of course, this only appears in the story of the Chinese apotheosis, so the two-tailed fennec fox will be so precious. ”

Li Mowu looked at him strangely, could this be the so-called childlike innocence. Although Qiu Yan is not very old, he is not a different person, he has to bear more than others, so Li Mowu feels that he should not have such emotions, but looking at his clear eyes, he is full of sincere joy. Or that his joy did not come from the fluff in front of him, but from the woman named Lu Li.

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At dawn, when the first morning light had just fallen on the horizon, Qiu Yan woke up, and then, without any hesitation or warning, he woke up Li Mowu and took the little wolf cub down the mountain to the south to continue his journey. Until the canyon appeared in front of his eyes again, Qiu Yan did not hesitate at all, and strode forward like this, re-entering the deeper part of the mountain.

For returning to the old land, the little wolf cub didn't seem to have much resistance, but looked very excited about this vast mountain world, running and jumping everywhere in front of and behind Qiu Yan, smelling a wolf's nose everywhere, and finding several towering trees to pee along the way.

But no matter what, the little wolf cub would not leave Qiu Yan too far, and even followed him more closely than in the previous two days, almost never leaving Qiu Yan's sight.

The two of them walked all the way, and the route they took was the same as the road that Qiu Yan took Li Mowu to the man-eating flower that day, so on the second day, Qiu Yan and Li Mowu once again stood at the fork near the periphery of the canyon.

The little wolf cub stuck out its tongue and sat on the ground, looking left and right, his expression seemed relatively calm, and there was no excitement to return home, or the stupid wolf couldn't remember that a place not far from here might be his hometown.

Qiu Yan, on the other hand, glanced at the depths of the canyon in the distance, but walked in another direction with a pale face.

There, the deeper part of the land leading to the deep forest, is also the only shortcut to the Hulunbei steppe after the map is ascertained.

In the distance in that direction, there is a past buried in the years, full of blood, hatred and betrayal.

It's a barren valley.