Chapter 4: Trial in the Jungle (3)
"Why did you save me?"
After tending to his wounds and lying by the campfire, the pale-faced Elven Ranger asked the dazed-looking orc in front of him.
"Well, because you're a living being. In this world, all life is equal, we are not born with high or low, so we should not kill each other, we can all live together peacefully, right?"
Faced with the question of the elf girl, Jabal's otaku nature wanted to answer that because you are beautiful, what a pity it is to hang. But the words stopped again. Because, if you answer like that, the girl in front of you probably won't have much of a good impression of herself. Therefore, Uncle Wei Zuo quickly chose another way to answer.
"You're the most rational orc I've ever met. It should be said that you don't look like an orc at all. ”
Jabbar's casual answer was in the previous life, it was simply pretending, but here, it has become a famous saying. The Elven Ranger was amazed that an orc would say such a thing. And looked intently at the orc in front of him who made him hate and surprise.
"Hey, don't be so serious, tell me your name, don't you know what your name is?"
Seeing the girl's serious face, Jabbar couldn't help but start to liven up the atmosphere. For Abdul-Jabbar, the usual conversation is so serious that he always feels unaccustomed and unnatural. You know, whether it's for the past twenty-three years, or for two months in the orc tribe, he's played a teasing role. Now the sudden serious dialogue makes Abdul-Jabbar feel uncomfortable, especially when you are facing a beautiful girl that can only be seen in movies.
"Raphael. What about you?"
Compared with Abdul-Jabbar's head-scratching posture, the elven ranger on the opposite side is very elegant, and his demeanor and gestures reveal grace and elegance.
A faint moonlight shone on the elf, glowing with a bluish glow. The melon seed face, the soft curve that extends all the way to the toes, the unvarnished face, the body without a trace of fat, in such a moonlight, Jabbar watched, saliva kept swallowing into his throat.
"Well, they all call me Abdul-Jabbar. ”
"Why did you come to this forest alone?
"No, our bitch instructor told us to come into this forest to survive on our own, and said that it was a test for recruits. **Yes, in three months, we were only given three days of rations, and I ate the fruit for four days! If winter comes, I really don't know what to use. ”
Around the warm campfire in late autumn, Abdul-Jabbar and the Elven Ranger had a wordless conversation, and sometimes even Raphael herself was amazed, this should be the most incredible scene on the planet Herrera, an orc and an elf, sitting under the same tree and chatting, and laying down each other's weapons. But maybe God has arranged it like this, so that two of the most unlikely people can sit together.
"You mean, there are other orcs in this forest?"
Hearing Abdul-Jabbar's answer, Rafael was a little uneasy. And continued to ask.
"Yes, about 3,000 people. It's just that the forest is so big, so we quickly disperse to all corners. ”
"And what about the other orcs, who are as gentle and polite as you?"
"No, no, no, they're a bunch of beasts. ”
Abdul-Jabbar asked politely, but he was secretly thinking that he was actually a beast......
"Oh, no wonder the Wood Elves consider this forest off-limits. ”
Raphael leaned against the tree, her eyes looking into the depths of the forest, as if she regretted her restless adventure.
"Orc Jabbar, you are the most thoughtful and polite orc I know, thank you for saving me this time, but, after all, our people are enemies, so I can't stay with you for too long, and when the wound is healed, I still have to leave and return to my people. ”
Raphael looked at the darkness deep in the forest for a moment, and then turned her gaze to the orc uncle in front of her.
In fact, Rafael also wanted to stay with Jabal for a while, having lived in Thermos Fort for two hundred years, and had never heard of an orc who was so full of reason and friendship. The young elves wanted to know more about the orcs in front of them, but unfortunately they were enemies after all, and if the companions and comrades-in-arms who did not know the situation knew, they would think that they were collaborating with the enemy.
"Hey, hey, beauty, you have to know who saved you just now. Are you wood elves such ungrateful people? You see, I saved your life just now, and I don't want you to risk your life to save me like me, but at least, you have to give me something in return, right? Don't you feel very unfriendly when you leave like this?"
Seeing that the girl who was about to soak in her hands was about to leave like this, Abdul-Jabbar was anxious. But you can't say it too directly, there is a way, what you want the other party to do, you have to let the other party say it yourself, so that it can be effective, Jabbar is worthy of being a modern person, and he still has some skills in speaking, unlike other orc recruits, who are impatient and speak straightforwardly.
"And what do you want me to do?"
Raphael asked calmly, her turquoise eyes still staring at Abdul-Jabbar.
"This ...... You see, it's the end of autumn now, it's going to be winter soon, I'm alone, I don't know anything, I don't have the slightest skill to survive in the wild, you see I've been eating berries for four days in a row, and if winter comes again, and there is no fruit, then how do you tell me to live? You don't want to see a white skeleton in the forest in a few months, do you?"
"You want me to teach you jungle survival skills?"
Abdul-Jabbar struggled with a lot of words to trick Rafael into it.
The elf was silent for a moment, and Jabbar guessed that Raphael must be full of contradictions at this moment. Helping an enemy of a race is hard to accept for a while. Luckily, Abdul-Jabbar met a kind-hearted wood elf who would repay his kindness, and the kindness and purity of his soul transcended racial boundaries, so Rafael finally decided to stay and help Abdul-Jabbar survive the winter.
The best time in life is to spend sweet years with your lover, no matter where you are or when you are. The best time of love starts at the beginning, warmth is in the middle, and acquaintance is at the end.
In this forest, a place that was once full of horror and killing, has now become the beginning of beautiful feelings, and every snowflake in early winter is as pure and beautiful as Raphael in front of you, decorating every sky and every memory together.
Here, Raphael, the Wood Elf Ranger, taught fellow orcs Jabbar how to use a bow and arrow, make arrows from branches, and build a log house in a tree. Dodge the beasts. In winter, where to find edible insects and how to hide and disguise yourself when hunting, these survival skills that Raphael learned through ten years of training taught his orc companion Jabbar all this winter.
But all this was seen by an orc recruit who had also undergone the trials of the jungle......