54. Hiding in the stream, I want to lick it
Goo Du ~ Goo Du ~ Goo Doo Goo ~~~~~~
This small mossy swamp covered with moss and fallen leaves seemed to be awakened by the few feet that Ao Bai stepped on, and when he pulled a large area, all began to bubble as if boiling, and it looked very infiltrating in the quiet primeval jungle.
Ao Bai also knew that something was wrong, he originally wanted to retreat, but who knew that the kick that stepped forward by mistake almost instantly submerged his knees, and he was still holding Ji Mo, so the two of them fell forward instead under the unstable center of gravity.
"Ah~!" said that it was too late, that time was fast, Ao Bai twisted his waist with all his strength at the moment he fell, and threw his partner out to the right rear.
it!
Ji Mo was thrown back to the safety of hard ground by Ao Bai at the critical moment, he landed on his shoulder, his face turned pale in pain, and he gasped coldly, and when he got up with a grunt, he found that the swamp in front of him that was too mature had swallowed Ao Bai half quickly.
Ao Bai was very wolf at this time and very dangerous.
He fell sideways on top of the bubbling swamp, his right foot had already been swallowed, the swamp was submerged to the base of his thigh, and his right hand subconsciously supported when he fell, so he was quickly swallowed by the swamp to his shoulder, so he could only try to raise his neck.
"Don't come here, Ji Mo, it's very dangerous here!" Ao Bai warned loudly, and this roar woke up Ji Mo, who was so anxious that he lost his mind, that he stopped the action that had already grabbed Ao Bai's feet and was about to drag him back.
- Not really! I can't drag him at all now, and I'm going to make his head sink into the swamp faster......
"Ao Bai, don't move!" Ji Mo's face turned pale with fright from the speed of the swamp, and he quickly looked around for a moment: Wu Ji didn't even have a suitable vine and stick when he was saving his life?!
After Ji Mo turned around three hundred and sixty degrees in a hurry, his eyes lit up, and he saw several small trees with wrist thickness and a height of three or four meters growing on the edge of the swamp, he immediately rushed over and picked the tallest one, kicked it hard, and then simply pressed it violently, and broke the small tree with brute force, and then let it fall to Ao Bai's side.
"Ao Bai! Grab it! The more anxious Ji Mo was, the more he hated that his arm couldn't lift up, and he sat in front of the broken but unbroken root, grabbed it hard, and fixed this life-saving little tree with his own weight.
Ao Bai's jaw was already submerged at this time, and he was also terrified in his heart, because he had never faced such a threat before, but fortunately, the little tree that Ji Mo had knocked down came in time, he breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed it with his left hand, and then slowly pressed his body to sit up.
Ji Mo fixed the little tree and commanded nervously: "Don't panic, don't worry! Little by little, Ao Bai, your left foot can be held hard and matched with your hand. β
"Yes, very good, that's it, don't be afraid, I'll hold your ......" Ji Mo watched his partner's upper body gradually get out of the swamp, and finally didn't worry so much in his heart.
Ao Bai gritted his teeth, held his breath, tensed his body, used his left foot and left hand as a fulcrum, and after slowly turning around, his right hand finally got out of the stench of the quagmire, and grabbed the branch with both hands, and the speed was so fast that his left foot never dared to relax, and he kept it straight.
"Don't let go, pounce!" After Ji Mo looked at the distance, he made a fluttering gesture at Ao Bai, and then desperately pulled the small tree behind.
Thump~
Ao Bai was covered in black rotten mud and fell on Ji Mo's body.
The husband and wife hugged and breathed, you patted me, I patted you, my heart beat fast, and I felt the mood of successfully escaping.
"Ji Mo, you saved me just now." Ao Bai rolled over and put his partner on his body.
"You stupid dragon, you obviously threw me out first." Ji Mo looked at Ao Bai's always clean and flowing silver hair distressedly, and at this time, it was muddled into a ball by the black mud accumulated in the swamp.
"Poseidon~ The water vapor here confuses me." Ao Bai pulled his partner to his feet, and looked very frightened at the calm mossy ground in front of him.
Ji Mo comforted him: "It's okay, there is indeed a lot of water here, otherwise it would not be possible to form a swamp, the terrain is too low-lying." Ao Bai, let's go up, the upstream water should be blocked by the steep slope in front of it after flowing here, and it has become a mud pond after soaking and silting for a long time, oops~"
Fortunately, we only stepped on the wrong step, fortunately there was a small tree growing on the side, fortunately we were all fine, if we died before we could get out of the school, and both a dragon and a mermaid would die in the swamps of the Sicilian continent? Ah~
Ao Bai held his breath a little unbearably, his body was full of humus black mud. Needless to say, there must have been countless carcasses of small animals in the swamp, slowly rotting and mingling together with mud, water, and dead branches and leavesβmy god of the sea......
"Let's go." Ao Bai stretched out his hand, but he was a little embarrassed and didn't dare to hug Ji Mo.
I stink so much.
Ji Mo knew that he was a human-shaped burden in the dense forest, so he took the initiative to lean over to Ao Bai's side, "It's okay, I also have a lot of mud on my body, just wait to find the stream and we'll wash it together." β
Ao Bai picked up Ji Mo again, his arm strength was strong enough, and his body was tall enough, so the mermaid could sit on one of his arms with confidence, responsible for observing the surrounding environment.
After walking for a while, the change in terrain confirmed Ji Mo's guess.
"Look, we just climbed up from that hole." Ao Bai stood at the edge of the valley and looked down at the swamp just now.
Ji Mo corrected: "It's not called a hole, it's just a large depression, depression, and valley. Hello~ It's really strange, I didn't feel it at all when I walked down just now. β
Ao Bai continued to carefully walk through the unusually lush jungle vines with his partner in his arms.
The humidity of the air here is too high, and everywhere you look is a deep shade of green, mixed with speckled yellow, and when the cold season comes, many trees bear fruit, and when they are ripe, they fall all over the ground; The sunlight was all intercepted by the canopy of the towering trees, and the underneath was oppressive and dull, not at all comfortable. The canopy and the ground are completely two worlds of feeling.
Ji Mo couldn't help but think of a joke: The ant who lived on the ground asked the bird in the canopy: Hey~ Man, how is the air and sunshine in your place? It's cloudy and smog every day here, oops......
"Ji Mo, I can be sure this time, there is really a stream or river in front of me." Ao Bai said firmly.
Ji Mo asked very excitedly, "Really?" That's great, we haven't drunk water in a long time, and your lips are a little dry. β
Perhaps because they are sea orcs, the husband and wife will quickly lose water and sweat desperately when they are exposed to the air on land.
Not long after, the sound of rushing and cheerful water in front of him was heard even by Ji Mo.
"Wow~ Listening to the sound of the water is so loud, it is estimated that the water is quite abundant!" Ji Mo stretched his neck and looked forward.
Ao Bai quickened his pace, and his most urgent thought at this time was to jump into the water and take a good wash, the sticky stinky mud on his body made him almost collapse.
A string of bright colors suddenly flashed in Ji Mo's eyes, and he immediately tracked down to see:
"Be careful, Ao Bai, there is a snake there, it's not small, it looks like it's highly poisonous!"
Following his partner's fingers, Ao Bai also found the red and black ring-shaped snake hanging upside down not far in front of him, about the thickness of his arm, which was wrapping around the trunk of the tree and slowly wriggling, and the cold inorganic eyes didn't know if they had noticed the husband and wife in front of him.
"Well, it's very calm now." Ao Bai stopped and observed and felt for a moment, and then said with satisfaction.
- The cartilaginous snakes in the sea will run away when they see me, and although you are a snake on land, you are quite familiar.
Ji Mo looked at the snake eye for a long time, and he really didn't feel the other party's intention to attack, but he still said cautiously with the idea of sailing the 10,000-year-old ship carefully: "Let's go around, don't get too close to it." β
However, as soon as he finished speaking, the brightly colored snake suddenly moved, and it writhed and climbed up the tree, and then slipped from one tree to another, and quickly disappeared from the sight of the two.
"Don't be afraid of Ji Mo, it's a smart snake." Ao Bai said with a relaxed smile, and took a big step to continue walking.
"Maybe it's because it's just hunted and eaten...... See the hoof prints on the ground? We should be walking the beast path. Ji Mo guessed with a smile.
They were shuttling on a path hidden in the bushes, and there were obvious traces that extended to the sound of water coming from the ground ahead, and there were many clear hoof prints of wild beasts on the ground, and they were trampled in a haphazard manner, all of which were of any shape.
Ao Bai brushed aside the thorns in front of him and said helplessly: "The beast that walks this path must be fat and short, otherwise why haven't the vines on it been pierced?" β
Ji Mo looked down and was happy: sure enough, the inconspicuous path only had a circular passage under Ao Bai's thighs, and there were lush vine branches and thorns on it, which were well covered.
"Bow your head and lie down, Ji Mo." Ao Bai looked at the thorny vines in front of him and told his partner that he didn't want those damn thorns to cut through his partner's skin.
"Shh~ Let's whisper Ao Bai, who knows if there are any land orcs who are ambushing and hunting nearby?" Ji Mo looked around suspiciously, but unfortunately he didn't know anything about hunting in the dense forest, and he didn't know where the hunting range of the land orcs was now, and what methods they liked to use.
Ao Bai also replied in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, the water here is so loud, and we are downstream, even if there are land orcs, they will not hear us first." β
After a while, after clearing a large patch of slightly yellowish grass, a stream of abundant water and rushing down appeared in front of them.
Moss is everywhere, aquatic plants are still verdant and lush, and there are countless rocks of different shapes and sizes, as well as rotten trees that have fallen in twos and threes, some lying on the surface of the stream, and some lying in the stream. Because it flows from a high place to a low place, the torrent splashes and white water blooms, and those tiny droplets of water have drifted onto the couple's skin, which is extremely comfortable.
"No one, right? I didn't see anyone, did you find anything Ao Bai? Ji Mo stared at the stream with bright eyes, and forcibly calmed down and observed the surrounding environment.
They were still hiding in the grass to feed the mosquitoes, and Ao Bai waited quietly for a long time, and after making sure that there was nothing unusual around him, he quickly jumped into the stream with Ji Mo in his arms.
"Wow~ It's so cool!" Ji Mo dived into the water and washed off the dust, mud and sweat stains on his body.
They hid in the stream more than a meter deep, the water was so fast that they almost washed the two of them down, Ao Bai took Ji Mo to find a place with a stone wall in front and a stream stone in the back to calm the water, and the two of them fell comfortably into the stream together, and their bodies were comfortable to every capillary pore.
"I'll help you rub it, make sure it's clean!" Ji Mo looked at Ao Bai frowning and desperately pulling his hair, and hurried over to volunteer for a temporary cameo appearance as a hair salon junior brother.
"Is it comfortable? Is this the right force? Ji Mo's ten fingers shuttled across Ao Bai's scalp and rubbed it seriously.
The two of them hid in the water, and they rarely rested for a while, feeling that they had finally taken the first step after stepping on the Sicilian mainland.
Ao Bai lay on the mermaid's lower abdomen, and helped take off the other party's stinky mud-stained vest, "It's very comfortable, I'll help you wash your clothes." β
"Well, it's been a long time since I've been this dirty." Ji Mo sighed.
Since he became a mermaid, his body is clean and refreshing every day, and when he stayed at home at night and had nothing to do, there was a very important activity to pass the time was that the husband and wife helped each other wipe the scales: I helped you wipe the dragon scales, you helped me wipe the fish tail, using soft and tough seaweed, although wiping and wiping would ...... in the end Ahem......, but there's no denying that the scales on their bodies are really clean.
"I'll wash it for you." After Ao Bai scrubbed the vest clean, he carefully helped put it back on, and then put his hand on his partner's waist again, wanting to tear off the other party's shorts-
"Uh~ Okay, okay, Ao Bai, you don't need your pants, just go outside and soak in it for a while." Ji Mo hurriedly pressed Ao Bai's hand.
"Look, it's been washed, there's not a bit of mud left." Ji Mo put the handful of silver-white clean hair he was holding in his hand and showed it in front of his partner.
Ao Bai smiled and nodded, he hugged the mermaid and moved between the wide stone crevices behind him, wanting to rest for a while, they had just left the ocean and had been trekking and tossing in the dense forests on land for most of the day, in fact, they were very tired.
"It's so dark inside...... Ao Bai, let's take a look before we go in. Ji Mo looked at the black space in front of him composed of two huge streams and rocks, and he always felt hairy in his heart.
"It's fine." Ao Bai was relieved to swim in with people, "There are just a few big fish in it, and there is no danger." β
As soon as the words fell, Ao Bai had already fully exerted his advantages in the water, he pulled up a transparent water curtain to isolate the inner and outer spaces, and then came to catch turtles in an urn.
The stone crevices were not filled with water, and there was a closed cave roof space above, and when talking inside, the voice was hollow and slightly echoed.
After a splash of water, Ao Bai had already caught three fat fish.
"Wow~ They must have been hiding in this stone crevice for many years, and they finally grew so big, but we caught them." Ji Mo's voice echoed in the hollow cavern.
Ao Bai took the fish in his hand out of the rapids, "Fish is our food, it's a shame to catch such a big fish, otherwise I will make you hungry." His tone was full of joy.
When Ji Mo just wanted to go out with him, "Don't come out, hide inside." Ao Baitou admonished without replying, and he didn't take the lead, so he took a preliminary look at the food in the potential stream.
It's a great place to hide: quiet and off the beaten track; This is a turbulent water with splashes on it, and as long as you don't dive down against the rapids, you won't be able to find the cave below.
Not long after, Ao Bai returned with the cut fish.
"Eat Ji Mo, we'll start resting after eating, and then go upriver when it's dark."
The cave was small, too small for their home in Sicily, but they were both satisfied.
"It tastes good, it doesn't smell fishy at all." Ji Mo relaxed and changed back to the appearance of a mermaid, and flicked his tail happily, Ao Bai had no choice, his dragon form was too large, and he couldn't move in it at all.
"If you like it, it's fine." Ao Bai leaned cross-legged against the cold stone wall, habitually placing the mermaid in his lap in his arms, which was the most reassuring posture for him.
Ji Mo felt full after eating most of it, he knelt on Ao Bai's lap, and fed the remaining fish fillets in his hand into wide slices and fed them all to his dragon.
"Hmm~ Why don't you finish eating?" Ao Bai grabbed the mermaid's wrist dissatisfied.
"I can't eat it, how can you eat so little?" Ji Mo sighed and said, they had never worried about food in the Sicilian Sea before, and of course he was clear about Ao Bai's normal appetite: how could such a strong adult dragon be full if he only ate two fish?
Ao Bai hugged the mermaid's waist and comforted him: "We just came, it's daytime again, you can't go out to fish at will, just wait until it's dark, then we will definitely be able to find a deep water area with a lot of fish and shrimp, I'll see if we can catch the shrimp you like to eat." β
Why are the dragons of this world so good? If the other dragon females found out, they would be so jealous that they would want to kill me, hahaha......
Ji Mo flicked his tail and said sincerely: "I'm really full, you are so tired today and you don't eat more, how can you have the strength to drag me away at night?" β
Ao Bai immediately said: "No matter how much I eat, I will have enough strength to hold you, Ji Mo, don't worry." β
"Hahaha~ What a stupid dragon! Let's eat quickly, it's already afternoon, let's get a good night's sleep, and then go out upstream when it's dark, hoping to find the holy lake as much as possible. β
After eating the fish supplement, Ao Bai carefully checked the protective water curtain outside, and then the mermaid who hugged him began to rest.
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Xitu had an illusion in his heart, the kind of illusion that he only dared to think secretly: Why do I feel that the life of staying in the holy lake to accompany Ao Yang is no worse than that of the tribe?
Mother and father are here, I don't have to worry about him all the time; Food is provided by Ao Yang, and there is never a shortage; Dried meat, dried fruits, and hides were plentiful, and the baskets in the corners of the huts were piled up with spikes; If he didn't come, Ao Yang would also be willing to accompany me to hunt, all the prey belonged to me, and he didn't like to eat...... Oh yes, if it was the mother and father who made the beast meat into jerky, Ao Yang would also be willing to eat a few pieces.
The little tiger cub squatted at the door of the wooden house, looking at the mother and father who were making animal skins on the shore of the lake, and the dragon-shaped Ao Yang, who was always curious to watch, and fell into deep thought.
- Huh? In the past, when the beast father was at home, it was the same: the mother and father were roasting meat and stew, the beast father was by his side, and I was waiting to eat in the back...... No, no, no, Ao Yang is a dragon, he is a dragon!
"So, you don't need sea salt now, do you?" Ao Yang asked as he perched on the shore of the lake, his silver-white slender dragon body looked extraordinarily elegant.
Elegance? Qing Zhe shook his head vigorously: I must not have woken up, how could I think Ao Yang's dragon form is very elegant?
"Yes, the father of Cetu brought some salt from the tribe." Qing Zhe was standing in the cold lake water with his trousers rolled up, struggling to wash the freshly made hide, which was too heavy to be soaked through.
Ao Yang silently stretched out his paws to take it, and easily followed the example of a female to carry the animal skin around in the lake, and humbly asked:
"Is that so?"
Qing Zhe was so cold that he kept walking in the water, "Yes, thank you Ao Yang, after the hides are dried, I will make you two sets of clothes for the cold season, thank you for giving us all the prey." β
What a waste, such a big beast, so much beast meat, you say you don't want it, you don't want it, saying that you only like to eat fish and shrimp, alas, it's really a waste......
ββ¦β¦ Well. After a long silence, Ao Yang replied with a monosyllable in a sullen voice.
Is this female actually going to make clothes for me? That's good, I can often go ashore in human form, and he doesn't want to look at me after wearing the previous animal skin skirt, which means that he also knows that he has used too little animal skin.
"It's okay, just put it on the wooden shelf and dry it." Qing Zhe wanted to take over the cleaned animal skin, but Ao Yang mobilized his strength, and directly carried the animal skin with a water rope to the animal skin shelf that had been set up on the shore of the lake, and then also got Qing Zhe by the way, saying:
"You're wet too, let's get sunburned."
"Uh~ Okay, okay, thank you." Qingzhe thanked him embarrassedly.
He turned around and pretended to wring out the hide, not thinking about the dragon behind him who was always so focused and deep. Recently, this tiger female has been getting more and more overwhelmed - Beast God, I'm actually used to the company of dragons? He always showed up on the shore of the lake when I got up in the morning and opened the wooden door, greeted me politely, and even worried about him if I didn't see him come up one morning......
Ao Yang looked at the busy back of the female, and his big brown eyes narrowed slightly: his neck was very slender, and the exposed skin was a pale honey color like mine, and he didn't know what it looked like in his clothes...... I don't know what it tastes like when you lick it......