4. Chapter 04
Ji Xiaoou got up before dawn. After packing up his things, he changed the anti-inflammatory medicine for the leopard and walked on the way up the mountain alone.
The mountain is very high and has a steep slope.
There are several sections of road in the middle that even have an angle of 90 degrees to the ground, up and down, which is very dangerous.
Ji Xiaoou gritted his teeth and used sports committee member Chen Bin's carabinet and trekking pole to finally climbed to the top of the mountain before dark.
She looked down at her watch and it took almost 12 hours at 5:43 pm.
Standing on the top of the mountain and gasping for a few breaths, Ji Xiaoou felt extremely happy when she thought of seeing her teachers and classmates later, and she had never expected to meet them again like now.
I wonder if they have looked for themselves in the past two days?
Have you notified your parents?
Did your parents be frightened when they knew she fell into the cliff?
However, when he turned his head and saw the environment around the mountain, he was stunned.
This is just an ordinary mountain top, with a few welcoming pine trees growing horizontally along the cliff. The sky behind it is blue. There is nothing else.
Where did she fall to the top of the cliff?
Where is the G80 Expressway she saw while sitting in the school bus?
Looking around, there is a rolling mountain range in front of you, surrounded by round and covered with green plants.
The mountains are surrounded by high and low in the middle, like a huge basin. However, the middle of this basin is not deserted, and many plants that cannot be named in Ji Xiaoou grow.
The outer edge of the mountain range is surrounded by a stream, which is the stream that Ji Xiaoou flowed from the forest on the other side yesterday.
The basin is endless, and the mountains seem to extend to the end of the world. The water flow winds along with the mountains, showing a completely strange world in front of Ji Xiaoou.
A world she has never touched.
Ji Xiaoou's fist, which was placed beside him, gradually tightened, and his body trembled slightly, looking down at the distance without blinking.
The speculation that had been suppressed in her heart was finally confirmed.
This is not the world she is familiar with.
She traveled to a strange continent.
It seemed as if to confirm what Ji Xiaoou was thinking, the next second, as soon as six o'clock arrived, the scene in front of him immediately turned dark.
There are no tall buildings, no science and technology, no mobile phone signals...and no sunrise or sunset.
Ji Xiaoou stood straight, his heart falling deeper and deeper.
Shocked, confused, and more confused.
Why did she come here?
How to go back?
If she really can't go back, how should she live here?
That night, Ji Xiaoou did not sleep and sat cross-legged on the top of the mountain all night.
The temperature difference between day and night here is very large, and the weather is very cold at night. She is wearing thin clothes. The black printed baseball shirt is a white vest, and the wide-leg pants on the lower body are not very warm. When it dawn the next day, she felt dizzy.
After digesting it overnight, Ji Xiaoou's mood eased.
No matter what the reason for her to come here, since she can't go back for the time being, then find a way to live here first.
Thinking of this, Ji Xiaoou cheered up, took out the cold medicine from the medicine box, poured two of them, and swallowed them in mineral water.
I took two slices of toast bread from the space and finished it with milk before I prepared to go down the mountain.
The road down the mountain is more difficult than going up the mountain. Ji Xiaoou walked very slowly. It was around 3 pm before he reached the middle of the mountain.
The road was covered with green plants. One plant had thick leaves, as big as Ji Xiaoou's palm. One or two light red flowers grew on the top of each plant. There were many Bipterite insects around the flowers. Perhaps Ji Xiaoou's schoolbag was brighter in color and rose-red. Many insects were attracted and flew towards her.
Ji Xiaoou was afraid of insects since he was a child. At first, he could use mosquito repellent water to resist it. Later, these insects became immune to mosquito repellent water and gradually became more and more surrounded.
The place where this insect bite quickly swollen and itchy, Ji Xiaoou couldn't help but reach out to scratch it, and soon the entire back of his hand turned red.
Ji Xiaoou didn't dare to scratch anymore, but it was not a solution to continue like this.
She turned around and found that there was no such insect under the tree opposite. Even if the insects flew over, they would quickly turn around and fly elsewhere.
The trees around the roots of the tree are no different. The only difference is that there is a kind of catnip growing under the tree.
Ji Xiaoou's eyes lit up and he quickly walked under the tree.
Turning around, I saw that the insects were no longer approaching me, and they circled a few times above her head and dispersed.
This plant has a faint fragrance, which is nothing to smell, but it is very exciting for this insect.
So they never get close.
In order to avoid meeting these insects again, Ji Xiaoou picked a few catnip leaves, wrapped them in white gauze, and made a simple sachet and tied them to his body.
After finishing, she looked at it with satisfaction and was about to leave, but when she raised her foot, she seemed to kick something at her toes.
Hard, like a stone.
Ji Xiaoou lowered his head in confusion, and saw two huge antlers growing in the grass, with many horns and scattered to both sides, which were very complex and gorgeous.
Ji Xiaoou had never seen such beautiful antlers before. He was surprised and couldn't help but bend down and stretch out his hand to touch it.
However, before she could touch the pair of antlers, the antlers moved by themselves, and the grass around them rustled.
Immediately afterwards, a head slowly lifted from the catnip and let out a moan of depression and pain.
"Oh, who kicked me just now..."
Ji Xiaoou looked at the boy with a deer antler stupidly, his eyes widened and his legs became weaker, and he was so scared that he fell to the ground.
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"You, what are you..." Ji Xiaoou's face turned pale and asked with a stuttering look at the young man in front of him.
The other party sat cross-legged on the ground, with a strong figure, looking like a human teenager who was seventeen or eighteen years old.
A pair of complex and huge antlers grew on the top of his head, grayish-white fluff on both sides of his ears, spreading to both sides of his cheeks, and a clump of gray hair on the bridge of his nose. His eyes were big and his lips were slightly thicker. He was also looking at her.
"Me?" The boy pointed to his nose and introduced with a smile: "My name is Eric, what are your name?"
After saying that, the boy with antlers glanced at Ji Xiaoou, who was still on the verge of shock, and scratched his head, "Sorry, did you scare you just now? Don't worry, I'm in the herbivorous system. Unlike those cruel meat-eating systems, I won't hurt you."
The young man saw Ji Xiaoou as weak and delicate, and at first glance he looked like a minor and exuded the fragrance of grass all over his body, he regarded her as a "herbivorous species" of the same line as him.
Ji Xiaoou opened his mouth, his eyes moved from the boy's antler to his gray nose, his fingers tightened little by little, and he was about to turn around and run away, but he saw the boy opposite suddenly become solemn, his body tense. Without waiting for her to react, he grabbed her wrist tightly, pressed her head, and hid quickly in the grass with her.
“…”
Ji Xiaoou struggled for no reason and wanted to stand up. The boy with antler quickly raised a finger and said, "Shh."
Ji Xiaoou looked at his black fingers, which looked like fingers and deer hoofs, pursed his lips and didn't make a sound.
Eric looked nervous and stared at the opposite side.
However, the antlers on his head were too conspicuous and hidden in the grass, giving him a sense of extreme disharmony.
He seemed to have noticed this too, and he panicked a lot of catnip from the side and covered his antlers to pretend.
After a while, Ji Xiaoou felt a noticeable vibration on the ground, followed by the cries of beasts.
Eric's body became tighter.
The beast's screams were getting closer and closer. Ji Xiaoou looked away and saw two adult cheetahs covered with markings rushing towards this side.
The cheetah ran very fast. In almost the blink of an eye, two agile figures were seen passing by, and the thick and long tail drew a perfect arc in the air. The figure disappeared between several longitudinal leaps.
It was not until the two cheetahs left that Eric breathed a long sigh of relief, patted his chest, and was saved.
The mystery in Ji Xiaoou's mind became bigger and bigger, like a mess of yarn, only to find the end of the thread, and everything was understandable.
"Why do we... hide?" Ji Xiaoou asked tentatively as he looked at the boy who was taking off the straw from the deer antlers in front of him.
Eric paused and treated Ji Xiaoou as an ignorant orc in childhood, and explained patiently: "The two leopards just now were carnivorous orcs, and they were natural enemies of our herbivorous orcs. If they discovered it, you and I would be dead."
Ji Xiaoou pinched his palm hard, it hurts very much, it’s not a dream.
Her voice trembled a little: "What did you say just now?"
Eric was puzzled, but he repeated obediently: "If those two leopards discovered us, we would..."
"Not this." Ji Xiaoou interrupted in a panic, "What do you think we are?"
Eric was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "We are herbivorous orcs. You don't have a bloody smell and the fragrance of grass. I should be right?" He quickly remembered, "Oh, by the way, look at my memory. I haven't asked your name yet, what are your names? Where is your race?"
After a while, Ji Xiaoou responded in a stern voice: "Ji Xiaoou, my name is Ji Xiaoou."
Eric smiled enthusiastically, "Your name is so human."
Ji Xiaoou's heartbeats faster. Before she could ask anything, Eric continued: "But humans became extinct seven hundred years ago. There are no traces of their existence on the Bornian continent. You should have nothing to do with them."
Dropped the bombshell, Eric looked at the sky, "The sky is going dark soon. Are you separated from your tribe? My tribe is right behind the mountain, not far from this. Do you want to hide in my tribe for a night?"
After saying that, seeing Ji Xiaoou's face was pale and his eyes were dull, thinking that she had just seen the cheetah orcs frightened, but had not yet calmed down, so she comforted her: "Don't worry, although my tribe is not strong, it won't hurt you. On the contrary, if you stay here, you may be eaten by wild beasts."
Ji Xiaoou asked subconsciously: "Why?"
Chapter completed!