Chapter 8: Yellow
In a forest shrouded in a faint white mist, a small stream flowed slowly through the middle, and on the bank beside the stream sat a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy dressed in white, with a small fire burning in front of the boy.
Looking at the flowing stream in front of him, if it weren't for the fact that the water was too shallow, Lin Chen really wondered if he would drown in it.
That's right, since Lin Chen came to this ghost place two days ago, until now, except for spending most of the day catching a small fish and grilling it, he hasn't eaten anything else in his stomach except water.
"What the hell is this place!" Lin Chen looked up to the sky and sighed, he really wanted to cry, Lin Chen was teleported to this strange forest alone two days ago, and the people around him, including Su Ying, didn't know where they were.
After Lin Chen walked in the forest for a day, he had never touched any living creatures except for a pig-like creature covered in spikes from a distance.
Until today, he found this stream, and after it took a lot of effort to catch a small hairy fish the size of a finger, Lin Chen didn't care whether it was poisonous or not, he found a way to make a fire on the bank of the stream and roasted it, because he was so hungry.
Looking at the fire in front of him, Lin Chen was in a daze and took out the strange black egg from the pocket in his arms.
"You're an egg, right" Lin Chen felt the hunger in his belly, and said to himself to the black egg with a smooth surface in his hand, "Brother Dan, I'm really sorry, I can only repay your kindness in the next life."
"It should be able to last for another two days," Lin Chen licked his lips and glanced at the fist-sized black egg in his hand, and after saying that, he wanted to put the egg under the fire and roast it.
Just as the black egg was about to touch the flames, Lin Chen suddenly felt that the egg in his hand seemed to jump suddenly.
"Huh" Lin Chen quickly retracted his hand and put it in front of him to take a closer look.
I saw that a slight crack suddenly opened on the surface of this black egg, and Lin Chen, who saw this, was suddenly so frightened that his hands trembled, and he almost dropped the egg in his hand into the fire again.
"Whew, it's okay... Fortunately, this egg is so small, what will it hatch?" Lin Chen exhaled, took the egg again, and shifted his gaze to it again, with an expectant look on his face.
The crack in the black egg grew wider, and a strange creature with a round red nose and several long whiskers stuck in the side of the nose, covered in fluff and with a long tail behind it, crawled out of the eggshell.
"Cang... Granary... Hamster ??!!" Lin Chen was speechless in surprise when he saw this round creature with yellow hair, especially a handful of red long hair on its head.
In Lin Chen's impression, hamsters are a very common small creature in Lingyang Xing, because many children in Lingyang Star like to keep them as pets.
And this strange creature in front of him is almost similar to the hamster of Lingyang Star in many places, except for its long tail and a pinch of red hair on its head.
"Let's not talk about why you are a hamster born from an egg, you are also a spiritual creature, why are you a hamster when you hatch" Lin Chen looked at the hamster in his hand and said with a desperate expression.
"No matter how small the mosquito is, it's meat, if you roast it and eat it, it should be quite fragrant" Lin Chen thought about it for a while, and stared at the little guy in front of him with a wicked smile.
"Squeak", after making a scream, Lin Chen actually saw the yellow-haired hamster in front of him stand upright, and looked at him with a dissatisfied expression.
Don't ask Lin Chen why he saw the expression on a hamster's face, that's right, he just saw it, the hamster in front of him stared at two dark and bright little eyes, just staring at him unpleasantly.
"Squeak..." Lin Chen saw the little guy standing upright in his hand, pointed at him with one of his front paws, and then pointed to the fire in front of him, then leaned down and bit his palm.
"Hiss" Lin Chen took a painful breath of cold air, and instinctively threw the hamster at hand to the ground.
As soon as the little guy landed, he immediately made a look like he was going to run away, and when Lin Chen saw that it wanted to run, he quickly grabbed its tail with his hand and lifted it upside down in the air.
"Squeak" The little hamster that was lifted in the air dangled around on its four short legs, and the mouse's face showed a very angry look.
"I know you understand" Lin Chen looked at the little guy who had been struggling to be lifted in the air by him, "If you move, believe it or not, I threw you into the fire and roasted you" Lin Chen stared at its small eyes, and pretended to throw it into the fire.
After hearing this, the little hamster seemed to understand what Lin Chen said, and immediately stopped struggling, and a pair of small eyes revealed a pitiful look.
"Don't bite me after you let you down" Lin Chen pointed at the little guy with his other hand, and then put him back on the palm of his hand with his tail.
The little guy seemed to be much more honest this time, smelled the smell of Lin Chen's hand, stood up again and pointed to the eggshell that had just been thrown off by Lin Chen's hand with his paw.
"You want to eat it?" Lin Chen pointed to the eggshell on the ground.
"Squeak," the little guy nodded humanely.
"Okay" Lin Chen bent down and picked up the eggshell on the ground and put it in front of the little guy's mouth.
"Click... The little guy saw the eggshell in front of him, his eyes lit up, and he immediately held the eggshell with his two front paws and gnawed it, and soon gnawed it all.
"Alas, you're full, what can I do?"
Lin Chen looked at the little hamster in his hand, and felt that the color of its fur seemed to be a little brighter than before, and the tip of the hair was faintly golden.
The little guy also looked at Lin Chen at this time, and the mouse's face showed a satisfied color.
"Hey, little guy, listen," Lin Chen stared at it and said, "It's really my fault that I was going to roast you before, but it's good that I got you and took you for a few days, and I was the first to watch you be born, do you think I can be considered half of your friend?"
Lin Chen knew that the hamster in front of him was not simple, and his IQ was not estimated to be low, after all, it could understand what he was saying.
When the little guy heard Lin Chen say this, he lowered his head and licked it between his palms.
Feeling the warmth coming from the palm of his hand, Lin Chen smiled, after all, this was the first creature he had come into contact with since he came to this unknown world and could communicate with him, and he was naturally very happy.
"Then I'll give you a name, what's the name?" Lin Chen touched the soft yellow fur on the little guy's body with his hand, and fell into deep thought.
"Hmm?... Look at your yellow hair, or call it Xiao Huang" Lin Chen really doesn't have any talent for choosing a name.
"Squeak" Surprisingly, the little guy didn't object to the name, but nodded the rat's head in agreement.
"That Xiao Huang, let's get to know me, my name is Lin Chen, and I will be your friend from now on!"
That's it, in this unknown world, one man and one mouse reached the initial tacit understanding.