Those are two adult beasts, although the aggressiveness is not the strongest, but now Rui is still with a little tiger cub, there must be some scruples and can't let go of his hands and feet.

Although Xitu was shocked, he also released his fighting spirit and killing intent, because in this case, he couldn't show cowardice, and either side would be suppressed if he showed a little fear or retreat, and he couldn't further drag his father back.

The first thought that flashed through Rui's mind was: to lure these two beasts away, they can't climb trees, and to seize the opportunity to let Xitu climb to the top of the tree to hide, and then I can let go of my hands and feet to clean up these two beasts.

"Xitu! Throw away the prey first. Rui spoke calmly, his eyes unblinking as he stared at his opponent in front of him.

The little tiger cub was quite calm and clever, he suddenly threw the jumping sheep in his hand far away into the bushes next to him, and then hurriedly spoke: "Father, let's go quickly, they should only come for food." ”

- This little cub is a natural hunter, and I didn't even notice to remind him to throw it far away or in the opposite direction.

He didn't need to be reminded at all, but when the jumping sheep was thrown out and the beast instinctively chased after the food, Rui had already kicked sharply, raised his speed to the fastest, and ran wildly in the direction of the tribe.

The little tiger cub bent down and hugged the beast father tightly, he quickly looked back behind him, and said happily, "Father, they didn't catch up, it's too good—"

Who knew that Xitu's words of relaxation and happiness were not finished, and the leopard orc Rui paused sharply again, and at the moment when the little tiger cub turned around, he was caught off guard, this time he was really thrown to the ground, and it took several rolls to stabilize his body.

"Xitu! Climb the tree now! Rui yelled and threw himself forward without fear.

After the little tiger cub rolled his head a few times, he immediately stood up and subconsciously glanced at his sub-father:

What to do? Is there still two in front of you? But there are no more jumping sheep......

Cetu watched nervously as Father and the two beasts wrestled together: roars, fangs, claws, bones, and bodies clashing endlessly. In the blink of an eye, one of the beasts that was violently knocked away by Rui fell not far from Xitu, and after the fierce and angry triangular eyes looked at the obviously weaker little orc in front of him, they decisively pounced on him.

- By the way, Father just let me climb the tree!

He was not so frightened at this time, but faintly excited: because he felt that he was a hunter in his bones, and the two in front of him were prey, food for the orcs, but they were only a little more difficult to deal with.

By turning around and dodging just now, Xitu glanced at his surroundings: Ah, there is a big tree next to it.

When Rui heard the movement behind him, he immediately slammed the beast in front of him away, and quickly turned around to rescue Xitu at great risk, exposing his back to the beast behind him.

By this time, Situ had instinctively taken the form of a beast under the threat, and the half-grown little tiger bravely wrestled with the beast with his claws and teeth, and tail: he would have been brave enough to sneak into the jungle alone and descend from the edge of the Sicilian continent to find the legendary Pearl Island.

Rui yelled sternly, "Go to the tree!" But his back was grabbed by the beast that had just counterattacked, but fortunately he dodged the opponent's attack in an instant, and only then did he save his spine, but he suffered some flesh wounds.

Seeing this, the little tiger cub angrily seized the opportunity to pounce on the side, and tore a big hole in the belly of the beast that had just withdrawn its claws from his father's back, and the beast's blood gushed out.

"I can help, Father!" Xitu had blindly obeyed his father's orders before, but he had just discovered that it was a bit dangerous for his father to face the two beasts, and as long as he himself was careful, even if he only took on some attacks, the battle situation would be very different.

Rui still disagreed, he still felt that the little tiger cub should climb the tree, and he was relieved enough. Since it was he who brought Xitu into the dense forest, he naturally had to do his best to ensure the safety of the other party, if something happened, this leopard warrior really couldn't face the little tiger cub's mother father Qingzhe.

- Although all the orcs have been honed to become warriors from dangers like today, this is the first time he has gone into the depths of the jungle to exercise, and it is appropriate to avoid danger when encountered.

"Father, I'm not afraid! Look, that one has fled. Xitu said excitedly, he stood majestically next to Rui, although he was still the size of a cub, he already had the momentum.

"Stand by and observe how I attack the beast, be careful yourself." Rui decided to make a quick decision, the smell of blood here is too strong, and sooner or later it will attract many carnivorous beasts.

Xitu nodded, took a few steps back, and guarded the back of his father.

Roar~

Whew~~

Both sides knew that at the last moment, the leopard and the beast burst out with a roar at the same time, and slammed into each other violently, and the upper body stood up slightly, and the paws slapped fiercely.

After all, Rui is a battle-hardened warrior, at this time the opponent only has one left, and he no longer retains his strength, in a short collision, the leopard quickly grabbed a flaw in the opponent, and the claws skillfully passed through the front paws of the beast and slapped the opponent's nose!

Wow~Wow~

The nose is the weakness of the vast majority of animals, and some are even fatal.

The beast's nose was slapped by the leopard's full force, and it immediately became dizzy, and kept backing away, lowering its head and raising its paws to try to reach its own nose.

"Hetu, up! Bite off his neck! Rui had already slammed into the other party again, knocking him to the ground, and then beckoned the little tiger cub to come over and experience the feeling of biting off the neck of the large beast, so that he would not feel afraid and strange when he encountered the beast again in the future.

The little tiger cub immediately pounced, biting the beast's throat without hesitation, while also trying to remember how to attack the beast.

This is the meaning of the little orcs following the adult orcs into the dense forest for trial. Cubs can't be born knowing how to track, distinguish, and kill wild beasts, they need guidance, they need observation, they need the opportunity to try; If they were left to grope for it alone, the percentage of young in the tribe would be horribly high.

"Okay, it's okay, do you remember Xitu? That's what beasts are. Rui nodded appreciatively, relieved that the little tiger cub was not afraid of the roaring and struggling of the beast and the stimulation of the beast's blood.

Satisfactorily, she puffed out her chest and said, "I remember, Father. ”

"Drink the blood of the beast, we should return to the tribe." Rui continued to watch around, urging the little tiger cub to drink the bubbling blood, hoping that he would grow taller and stronger in the future.

"Father~"

"Drink!"

The little tiger cub licked the delicious beast blood at the corner of his mouth, and then dared to bow his head and lean over and drink it in a big gulp.

"Xitu, the first time I encountered those two beasts, the reason why I asked you to throw away the prey was because I didn't want to face the beasts with you, and the second time I encountered them, it was a last resort; If you take a little orc into the jungle for trials when you become an adult, you must know that safety is the most important thing, don't be brave and ruthless, remember? "In order to make the little tiger cub a qualified tiger warrior, Rui really took into account all aspects.

Xitu had just finished drinking the blood of the beast, and he nodded ashamedly: "I remember my father. Sorry, I was a little too excited. ”

"Let's go, go back and talk slowly." Rui beckoned, then picked up the heavy beast and led the little tiger cub quickly in the direction of the tribe.

When they finally reached the creek at the edge of the forest, there were already many adult orcs and cubs gathered there, and today was supposed to be the day of the tribe.

Basically, the adult warriors have the same idea as Rui: with the cubs, I'm really worried about some accidents, and I definitely can't take risks, so let the cubs get familiar with the environment deep in the jungle first.

Under such deliberate control, everyone's harvest was mediocre, and most of the prey was tame herbivorous beasts, and some even only picked back some fruits that were only available in the depths of the dense forest. Therefore, the beast brought back by Rui and Xitu really surprised everyone on the side of the river meadow.

"Rui, you are so bold that you dare to take your cubs to hunt and kill the beast!" The outspoken orc first spoke disapprovingly, and his words also represented the voices of everyone present.

Beast God, this is really too risky, if something happens to the cubs, see what you have to do!

Xitu hurriedly explained: "No, Jiaangke, the father originally took me to hunt the jumping sheep, but when I came back, I ran into a beast, and the father asked me to throw the jumping sheep to them to eat, who knew that there were two more behind them, and they also took the initiative to attack us......"

That's enough, in fact, the vast majority of orcs are very simple, and basically have no malice towards the clansmen in the tribe. The conversation immediately changed, and everyone began to praise the leopard:

"Hahaha~ I'm sorry, Rui, I misunderstood you, you really deserve to be a warrior of the leopard clan, and you can actually hunt beasts with cubs!" The first to speak was Orc A, he was from the Black Bear Clan, and his relationship with Rui was actually good, and the two occasionally went into the dense forest together.

Rui lowered the beast to the river, shook his head absentmindedly, and slowly transformed into a human form, and Shetu stood behind him, taking out the powder and spreading it evenly on the wound on the back of his father.

"I'm hurt, well, little tiger, sprinkle a little more on your father, the wound is a little deep." A leaned over to look at Rui's wound and admonished Xitu.

Rui patted Jia's back, "Help me teach Xitu how to deal with the beast, I'll rest for a while." After turning into a human form, the wound on his back was not suitable for bending down sharply, so he asked this enthusiastic and honest big black bear.

"Okay, you can rest. Come with me, little tiger, and Ank will teach you how to clean up the beast. After saying that, he bent down and easily picked up the beast on the ground with one hand, and led Xitu to the river.

"The fur of the beast is very warm, and it is needed by both the female and the young in the cold season, so you should try to peel it off as completely as possible, and then make it into a blanket of animal skins...... This part can not be wanted, the meat has a taste...... The heart of the beast is in this position, little cub, you must remember...... "A slowed down as much as possible, and little by little told him the method and the places to be careful.

"I remember Jiaonk." Xitu watched with wide eyes, and there was a circle of curious little orcs around him.

"Well, that's about it. By the way, the meat of the beast is too hard, you can pick a little sour grass and put some in the roast or broth so that the female can bite it. Finally, A mentioned it in passing.

- Oh, mother and father must not be able to bite such hard meat!

"Okay Jiaonke, I'll go pick the sour grass now." Xitu got up excitedly and walked towards the edge of the jungle, Rui had been paying attention to this side, and he exhorted in a loud voice:

"Xitu, I'll be back as soon as I pick it up, we should go back."

"Got it, Father."

The little tiger cub knew where the sour grass grew, which was one of the seasoning grasses commonly used in the tribe, so he went straight in that direction, but just as he was picking the sour grass with his hands and feet, a faint sound suddenly came from the low bushes not far away:

Mi woo~~~ Then an unusually small white hair ball jumped forward lightly.

Xitu's eyes lit up in surprise: Is it Miwoomon? He immediately chased after him.

The little tiger cub had already seen that many females in the tribe had one, and it seemed that the females liked it very much; Although his mother and father have never shown anything, Xitu thinks that he must also like this kind of white ball.

The small size and agility of the beasts made it difficult to capture them alive until they were raised, and the little tiger cub was bent on grabbing one for his mother and father, and slowly moved farther and farther away from the orcs by the river.

*****

Early morning in Sicily.

Ji Mo opened his eyes from the wooden bed, then closed them again, and rolled a few times unconsciously, flicking his tail, trying to drive away the sleepiness.

In order to be able to roll comfortably, he and Ao Bai deliberately made the size of the bed very large, although it was just an ordinary hardwood bed, it was already the KingSize of KingSize.

At this time, their small home was very different from the beginning: next to the large wooden bed was a boxy bedside table, with a unique shell on it, and the largest and brightest pearl on the top, which was used as a bedside lamp, and was usually covered when not in use;

On the stone wall next to it stood a simple cabinet of high and low, on which were placed Ji Mo's collection, mainly corals, shells, and various shark teeth;

Finally, there was a set of tables and chairs in the middle of the room, where the husband and wife usually sat when they were discussing things at home.

After struggling and rolling for a long time, Ji Mo finally swam out of bed slowly, opened the wooden door and swam out, and turned around and carefully closed the door before looking for Ao Bai's figure.

Crossing the fish feels like early autumn on earth now, and the sea is much cooler in the morning; However, none of the words in this world can be compared to the previous earth. Ao Bai also mentioned to him last night that when the real cold season comes, they will definitely not be able to live in the shallow sea anymore, and they chose to settle near the island only because they have just arrived and do not know the situation of the fierce beasts in the depths of the Sicilian Ocean, but now they finally have the confidence to settle down in the deep sea.

"Alas~ I'm really reluctant, this place has just been arranged." Ji Mo couldn't hide his reluctance to say that all the furniture and daily necessities in their house were made out by the two of them bit by bit, which embodyed a lot of warmth and a sense of accomplishment.

Ao Bai comforted his partner: "It's okay Ji Mo, when the next warm season comes, we can still move back to live, just when we have two homes." ”

Ji Mo's head slowly turned, and he swam to the coral reef first to look for it, Ao Bai was not there; Then he swam to the lagoon and looked, oh, Ao Bai went up to pick the coconuts.

"Morning, Ao Bai, you always get up earlier than me." The mermaid lay on the reef at the edge of the lagoon, lazily greeting her partner on the shore, since there was no longer a work alarm in the morning, Ji Mo's sleep quality was not half a little higher. However, as long as people do not have strong work pressure and go to bed as early as possible, they can generally get up early.

At this time, the smoky blue fog of the island had just lifted, and the dew on the bushes was still condensing on the tips of the leaves.

"Morning, Jimo." Ao Bai said good morning in the same way, he picked a lot of coconuts in one go and stored them under the tree, so that his partner could drink them ashore at any time.

"Ao Bai, come, I'll help you tie up your hair." Ji Mo turned into a human form, walked to the side of the white dragon, motioned for him to bend down, and used strips of rags to tie his partner's long silver-white hair neatly into a bunch, and his own was already taken care of.

Ao Bai bent down obediently. Regarding his hair, he was very worried and puzzled: why does my merfolk always want to cut off their own hair? Is it because of something uncomfortable in the body?

Ji Mo once again said: "Now, I'll just say that we should all make our hair short, if we shave a board inch, it would be so easy to eat." He was also helpless about this, because Ao Bai would not compromise no matter what: not only could he not move his hair, but he also did not allow his partner to move.

"No, that's fine, we're born that way. Ji Mo, do you have another headache today? Ao Bai asked worriedly.

"Oh~ no headache. If you don't cut it, don't cut it, I respect your choice. Crossing the fish said, he sighed to himself.

At first, he thought that Ao Bai also had the idea of "body hair and skin, parents who received it, did not dare to destroy it, and filial piety was the beginning", but after careful communication, he understood that this has nothing to do with filial piety, Ao Bai just thought: Since our human form is born like this, it must have its reason, why change it artificially? What should I do if I have my hair cut short and something bad happens to my body?

Ji Mo fought for a long time, but failed, and finally had to keep the current state.

"Ao Bai, wait a minute, after breakfast, let's go and see the trench near the East Continent of Sicily first, and if we still have time when we come back, we can go to the deep sea to find a suitable reef and decorate the home we want to live in the cold season in advance." Ji Mo discussed with his partner.

"Well, the cold season is coming soon, and now we can know if there is anything abnormal in the sea there." Ao Bai nodded in agreement, that trench was currently the biggest doubt he had encountered since he inspected the sealed sea, but unfortunately they didn't know the reason.

A moment later, when they were eating breakfast, Ji Mo suddenly asked, "Do you think Uncle Hu in the waterhole will know the reason?" After all, he's such an old turtle, and I forgot to ask him last time. ”

Ao Bai said with little confidence: "It's hard to say, that turtle is a little confused. There is also such a class of sea turtles in the ocean, they are born in the middle of nowhere, far from the sea where the sea orcs live, and they can only know a little from the turtle that gave birth to them; Or when they were very young, they had an accident and were forced to leave their former home – so there was no way a turtle like that could know so many things. ”

Ji Mo thought for a moment and nodded thoughtfully, "That makes sense." So Uncle Hu didn't forget it at all, but he didn't know it at all? ”

It's not a taste to think about it, maybe Uncle Hu has been living in that waterhole for most of his life? Alas~

"He always said something about evil dragons and evil dragons, maybe he was really tricked or bullied by some dragon, otherwise he couldn't say those words, you see he was so scared that he didn't dare to go back to the sea." Ji Mo analyzed further.

Ao Bai was stunned for a moment and then said with some embarrassment: "...... It should be a naughty little dragon, or some adult dragon with a bad temperament. ”

"If we need to go up the mountain again next time, let's go and see him, Uncle Hu lives alone and is lonely." Just be careful of that cliff, what is it that can have such a big impact on the dragons? Even Ao Bai didn't have such a thing in his impression.

*****

Towards noon, they swam to the edge of the ditch from the last time, and this time they were even more shocked.

"Actually...... Icing? ”

Ji Mo stared at the small area of frozen sea in front of him in amazement, shivering from the cold, he swam over in disbelief and touched the large transparent ice.

"Ao Bai, it's really frozen!" Ji Mo swam back to his partner in a daze.

The white dragon swam around the frozen area with his companion, and found that the previous trench had been completely surrounded.

"Poseidon, why is that?" Ao Bai said with some annoyance, the cold season has not really arrived, and the temperature here is so low that it is even frozen?

This phenomenon is still when Bai Long lived in the East China Sea when he was a child and was favored, his father told him an old story about the sea: a long, long time ago, the people of the sea people angered the sea god, and the sea god froze the water of the sea in a fit of anger, the temperature was very low, and many people died......

The little white dragon asked curiously, "What about later?" ”

The Dragon King of the East China Sea shook his head: "I don't know why what happened later has not been handed down. However, the father guessed that the benevolent sea god could not bear the suffering of his people, so he lifted the punishment against us, otherwise there would be no sea today.

But what's going on now? Is the Poseidon angry again for what?

Ao Bai and Ji Mo spent a longer time that day, swimming almost every inch of the nearby sea, but they still didn't get anything, and finally they could only go home with great frustration and disappointment.

*****

The beast seemed to be running slowly, but he was extremely agile, and the little tiger cub chased after him for a long time, and when he finally decided to give up, he straightened up and found that he was really lost this time.

"Father~" The little tiger cub called out in fear in his heart.

The sky was getting darker, and the forest was too big. Cetu found himself increasingly uncertain about his direction, until he faintly heard the sound of water—oops~ I'm finally back in the river!

With a cheerful step, he ran towards the sound of the water, eagerly brushing aside the bushes in front of him, and he thought that he must apologize to his father and explain why he had come back so late.

At first, it wasn't the river, but a huge, chilly lake.

The lake was surrounded by low grass, and there were no trees to shade the sky, so the sky suddenly became bright again.

The sound of the water that Xitu had heard just now came from the center of the lake, and the figure that was now paddling quickly towards the shore - it was a dragon, a white dragon.

Xitu rubbed his eyes and muttered:

"Ao Bai?"