At breakfast that morning, a group of nine people still sat around the embers of the fire, but they lost their previous laughter and seemed too quiet.

Luna was sandwiched between Shirley and Shephery, her eyes lowered, and she ate the mixed vegetable broth in the bowl with dog food biscuits.

"Quack-quack-"

The sound of Luna's chewing is especially obvious in the woods where there is no bird's call, and she seems to have a grudge against the hard biscuit in her hand, which is always inadvertently fierce.

And her hand holding the dog food biscuit has two obvious red marks on the knuckles.

Shirley and Sheffield took the opportunity to exchange inexplicable glances with Luna hanging her head, while Jon stood aside, drooping his head, and glanced at Luna with a slightly weak gaze from time to time.

Thinking of Susie's advice before leaving Santan City, Jon didn't know how many times he sighed in his heart.

It's hard –

It's hard to be a male, it's even harder to be a good male sandwiched between a future partner and a master!

It's sad for him......

On the other side, opposite Luna and Shirley Sheffield, there was a hint of chagrin on the Barri, who had returned to his human form.

The dark circles under his right eye are still there because he hasn't slept all night, but his left eye is slightly swollen and narrowed into a slit, and the entire eye socket is covered with a layer of bruises that make people hurt when they look at it.

The bright color of the scar indicated that he had only just been injured.

Barry had the same dog food biscuits and mixed vegetable broth on his hands, but he ate very slowly and chewed carefully, completely missing the slightly arrogant eating appearance of the usual rules, and from time to time he would glance at Luna opposite, obviously not knowing what to eat.

Chester didn't eat breakfast full of gossip, with an expression of wanting to smile or not, holding a peeled hard-boiled bird egg to Barry's left eye, and he was not annoyed when Barry pushed him away again and again, and so on, as if he was playing some kind of game that people couldn't stop.

And Reuben, who was sitting on the other side of Barry, scratched his head innocently, threw a biscuit into his mouth, and glanced back and forth between the crowds, with a confused look on his face, obviously not yet figuring out the situation, but instinctively feeling a little uneasy because of the breakfast in the awkward atmosphere of sudden confusion.

Compared to Reuben, Dunn and Wheeler, the two canine orcs, are much brighter.

They are also the two most hearty in the field, and they still pay attention to Shirley and Shepheld as they do every day.

From time to time, because of the occasional small movements of the two lovely females opposite, the eyes were either glowing or gloomy, and only occasionally the conscience found a sympathetic glance at their own boss, and only the hidden eagerness in their eyes betrayed their careful thinking of dragging Barry into the same trench.

"Are you full, pack up and go!" Luna quickly finished her breakfast, patted the remaining cookie crumbs on her hand, wiped her mouth, and stood up.

"Let's go!" Barry snapped to his feet, looking at Luna.

Staring at the other party's hand, who had only eaten less than half a bowl of mixed vegetable broth, Luna frowned and said:

"Don't waste. ”

"Okay!" Barry was stunned for a moment, but as Luna's words fell, he directly picked up the still warm vegetable broth in his hand, tilted his neck, and dried......

Then he stuffed the rest of the biscuits into his mouth, chewed them a few times, stretched his neck, and wanted to swallow it but it was not so easy.

"Boss......" Chester forced a smile as he snatched the bowl from Reuben's hand and shoved it into Barry's hand.

Barry's face was flushed with choking, and he took the bowl and dried it again without hesitation, and then stretched his neck hard to smooth out the dry hard biscuit stuck in his throat.

Luna, who witnessed the whole process, couldn't help but raise her hand to support her forehead, opened her mouth a few times, and didn't know what to say, but in the end she could only turn into a sigh full of powerlessness, and turned to pack her tent and bags, but she didn't see the moment she turned around, the loss flashed in Barry's eyes.

After that, the team seemed to be back to the old days.

In addition to the fading red marks on Luna's hands and Barry's swollen eye sockets that have disappeared at a visible rate, Jon still turns into a beast and flies forward from time to time to explore the way, and Dunn and Wheeler still chase after Shirley Shephey's figure with great courtesy.

Reuben walked at the back of the group in beast form, supporting the rear with his mountain-like body, and Chester wandered between the groups, stopping from time to time to pick a few herbs that could be used for trauma as Luna had instructed him.

Everything seemed to be no different from every day for half a month, but with Chester's previous sales pitch and Barry's abnormality, Luna still paid attention to it, and finally noticed that although it was vague but clearly chasing her gaze.

Thinking about it in the past half a month, whenever she has any needs, as long as Barry is in the team, she will always appear by her side in time, and her originally calm heart lake still can't help but give birth to a trace of ripples.

But she knows very well that two people who are also carrying the same weight can't just rely on this ripple to go to each other regardless of it.

"Give. ”

"Thank you. ”

Looking at the water bottle that was handed to her, Luna habitually reached out to take it after thanking her, only to catch it, but after catching it, her hand holding the water bottle tightened unconsciously, raised her eyes to the gaze of the upper chin, opened her mouth, and wanted to say something, but when the words came to her mouth, it became,

"I remember there's another deer orc in your team? he's supposed to be a healer, right? Why didn't you see him this time?"

Luna asked, taking a sip of water, a little dry.

"I thought you hadn't noticed!"

The corners of Barry's lips curled slightly, as if he hadn't seen Luna's deliberate attempt to hide her embarrassment, and continued,

"He's different from us, he's a family man! He had been delayed in Yuguo for too long, and as soon as he crossed the rift, he hurried back. And his son is going to transform in the next year, and as a father, he should be by the cub's side. ”

Barry's words reminded Luna of the manor, every time Locke left on a mission, he would run to the gate of the manor every day accompanied by his daughter to stand at the gate of the manor for a while, and although the back was a little lonely, there was always a sense of anticipation.

And every time Locke returns, even if he just goes to some very remote places, he will bring back a small gift for his wife and daughter.

"That's great......" Luna said with a sigh as she thought of the heartwarming image of the family reuniting.

"yes. No matter where you go, there are people who are thinking about and looking forward to it, which is really enviable. Barry lowered his eyes in agreement, took the bottle of water that Luna had drunk as a matter of course, corked it, and then tossed Luna around and took the empty water bottle she was hanging from her backpack and hung it up.

Although she couldn't see Barry's face, listening to the hint of envy in his faint tone, Luna couldn't help but mention,

"Aunt Jacqueline, I'm looking forward to you too. ”

"I know. Barry replied softly, and said nothing more.

It was obviously a very flat tone, but it made Luna inexplicably hear a complication.