Alexander's Memoirs - The Trailblazers Chapter 10 The Giant Squirrel: Are You a Dog?
The adventurers returned to the camp in the dark. After the sun set, it was difficult to move in the dense jungle with only moonlight.
Noli nodded slightly to the soldiers standing guard, then came to the campfire and looked up at the dark night sky. After that, she picked up a piece of cold lion meat and roasted it briefly on the fire, then went to find Susie who was sleeping.
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Susie was lying in a corner of the camp, snoring from time to time. Her smooth fur looked even more supple under the moonlight.
Noli approached slowly, put the barbecue in front of Susie's nose and shook it. Susie's nose moved...and she opened her eyes in a daze: "Ouch?" Apparently the she-wolf who had just woken up was still a little guilty.
confused.
"Are you awake? It's time to eat." Noli took a look at the wound where she had applied medicine before, and then brought the meat to Susie's mouth.
To be honest, the frightening wound seemed to have gotten better so quickly. Susie looked around, and finally fixed her gleaming eyes on the barbecue and took a bite.
Alexander waved to everyone she saw, then found a place to put down the lion's head, and then returned to the campfire. She picked up a piece of barbecue and kept turning it over to heat, while observing the changes in the camp.
At this time, the captain was drawing a map, the guards were on guard, and the technicians had already gone to bed. From time to time, Alexander glanced at Noli, who was teasing the wolf. After eating the hot meat, he walked over to the captain to see what he was drawing, feeling energetic.
What's the status?
In fact, this map is not much better than Freya's map, it is just slightly more detailed. The most important thing is that the captain is not coughing much now, so it seems that there is no need to worry too much.
Freya, who was the last one to solve her physical problem, also sat by the campfire and heated up the barbecue, and Fu started eating.
After finishing, she took out the pen and paper and began to write and draw on the homemade map, adding the parts that had not been drawn before, and marked the word "danger" next to the direction arrow of the temple.
Alexander coughed slightly when he waited for the captain to stop writing. After the captain noticed him, he said: "Good evening, captain, I will report on the negotiation situation."
The captain looked at Noli, who was just sitting by the campfire: "It looks like you guys came back unscathed. The other party must at least maintain a friendly attitude."
"That's right. The other party is not hostile and is willing to exchange supplies and information with us." Alexander nodded and continued: "They don't know about the spell caster, and after listening to us talk about the relevant things, they told us
That temple is not their territory. However, there are a lot of unclean creatures occupying that place. Judging from the results of the competition between us and their warriors, eight or nine of us are not qualified to go there and have a look."
"In other words, it will be very difficult to maintain the status quo... We are at a disadvantage and may be annexed." The captain's attitude is currently more cautious, or a bit pessimistic.
Alexander shook his head and said: "I don't think so. Now those unclean creatures are our common enemy, and they have a large group of people who have no fighting ability to take care of. I think we should not be hostile now."
"That's it for the time being, but this is all we can do for now. By the way, this is a bottle of healing potion that was just extracted, which will help to recover from injuries." The captain took out three vertical glass bottles containing light red potion.
Judging from the color, this bottle of potion is similar to the one Sherlock drank. Alexander said while taking the potion: "Thank you very much, we are short of medicine."
Are all these things refined here... Technology is indeed something worth exploring. After finishing licking the wolf, Noli took a few steps to the captain and Alexander. Proper communication was still necessary. However, she also had the previous conversation.
Hearing the last sentence, he fell silent for a while.
Alexander took the medicine and estimated that it would take several days for his injury to fully recover, so he drank a bottle directly, and then he immediately felt a numbing sensation and began to scab on the wound!
"Next, I think the rest of us will go hunting to hone ourselves. There is no shortage of supplies in the camp, and then we can talk to them about exploring the direction of the temple." After Alexander finished speaking, he wiped his mouth and took out the still new wood.
Put the cork back into the mouth of the empty bottle and put it into your pocket.
"Safety comes first." The captain resumed drawing the map one stroke at a time.
"We will pay attention. Captain, please pay more attention to your health." Alexander said, returning to the campfire and picking up the lion head to go find the technician.
Seeing Alexander leaving, Noli suddenly felt that it was not a suitable plan to open up here... She forgot her previous idea of not wanting to say hello. Noli greeted the captain and returned to the carriage to look up.
That is, just above the center of the camp, you can clearly see the starry night sky through the drizzle, while the rest of the place is covered by dense leaves.
"Ouch~" Susie had already finished her share of dinner, and her injuries had healed. She regained her former vitality and ran up to Noli and rubbed her legs vigorously.
Under the owner's touch, Susie calmed down and lay down at the owner's feet, showing a lazy posture and enjoying the owner's touch comfortably.
The evening breeze blew on Noli and Susie. If there was a painter here, their inspiration would be doubled. Noli quietly enjoyed the evening breeze and was ready to rest when the time came.
Freya saw Alexander leaving with the lion's head. After thinking about it for a while, she followed him curiously to see what she wanted to do.
"Basically, we still plan to make it into leather armor, right?" Alexander asked the technician about the processing of snake skin and lion skin.
"The lion skin can be used to make a soft couch, and the scaly part of the snake skin can be used to make leather armor." And the technician was already working on it.
"Just do what you think. Also, is there any idea of a treatment for the captain's disease?" Alexander then asked.
But the technician shook his head: "But if there are no injured people, the soft couch will be prepared for the captain to use, and he will take care of it some night."
"Well... if you need help, please feel free to tell us. Thank you for your hard work." After Alexander said that, he returned to the carriage and prepared to sleep.
Then the technician works overtime and continues cutting.
"Let me keep watch." Freya volunteered to watch the first shift. But during the night watch, she didn't know what she was thinking, and she looked a little confused.
The rain finally stopped before going to bed. Even if it was just a small drop, it would affect the mood. However, nothing happened that night. Freya also put on her clothes and went to bed after dawn.
At five o'clock in the morning, Alexander got up and planned to help the chef prepare breakfast. However, she heard a slight rustling in the grass nearby, and when she turned around, she saw that it was the red-headed, green-bodied, possibly poisonous python from before! Even the body of this snake
There is also a scar, probably from a previous arrow.
As soon as Alexander saw the snake, it slipped into the grass again and disappeared. She frowned and did not issue a warning. She just cheered up and increased her alertness to patrol.
At six o'clock, Susie also woke up from her sleep, slowly opened her sleepy eyes, lazily got up, and began to look for her master with eyes wide open.
But there was no need to look for it. After keeping watch for the rest of the night, Noli was already waiting outside the carriage for the she-wolf to wake up on her own.
Seeing Susie wake up, she stretched out her hand and gently rubbed the wolf's chin and said softly: "Breakfast should be in a while." Susie purred contentedly and nodded obediently.
Today's breakfast is dried snake meat and wild vegetable soup with dried biscuits. At least the variety of dishes can make up for the shortcomings of too few ingredients.
How long can I keep going like this? I haven't found any opportunity to leave here. Noli quietly masturbated, listened to the sounds around her, and did her daily inspections.
But in fact, there is nothing special. We eat our meals separately. Although everyone performs their own duties, it is indeed depressing.
Alexander, who had finished his inspection around the campfire, started to look at him with a frown, wondering if it would be better for him to just sit and wait to eat ready-made food.
Of course the captain didn't get up at this point, and the technicians were either busy at work or had already left the camp with the soldiers to do things.
After a while, after dinner, Alexander said to his teammates while eating: "The venomous snake I saw near here two days ago was seen again this morning. I suspect this thing lives nearby. Let's go and kill it during the day."
Find him and kill him?"
"Have you seen it before?" Noli prepared a piece of meat and fed it to Susie as usual.
"Yes, I saw it by the creek over there. I felt that it wanted to bite me and shot it with an arrow." But Alexander had shot the snake. Maybe he wanted to bite Alexander when he appeared this time.
Noli thought for a while and then said: "Okay, let's go and have a look, otherwise it will never be alive and it will be difficult to deal with if it keeps coming back."
"Then get ready to go." Alexander said, he cheered a few times and got up and walked to the place where the snake disappeared in the early morning to search for the traces left by the snake.
Noli also hurriedly finished feeding the wolf, put on her weapons and prepared to go with Alexander to see who else was awake before setting off.
"Then I'll leave it to you. I'll probably have to lie down for three or four days with my injury." Sherlock came over to prepare for dinner. When Nolly turned back, he chose to go directly to the doctor for treatment. This was no longer fishing, it was simply a trap.
burst.
To be honest, checking the grass and bushes is not an easy task. There are no traces of snakes on the wet soil, as if it had been deliberately erased, which made the two adventurers feel very strange.
Fortunately, Susie found a squirrel nest in a tree, but it was not an ordinary squirrel, it should be said to be a giant squirrel with jet black fur. There were at least three giant squirrels coming in and out of the trunk of a tree.
Susie howled in the direction of her owner, then quickly turned her head around, staring at the nest of squirrels in front of her. She grabbed the ground with her front paws, and her hind legs were slightly bent, as if she was accumulating strength. Obviously, this nest of fresh squirrels
The prey made Susie very excited. But the small prey jumped to other trees and ran away.
"Huh?" Nolly followed the sound and went over to see what Susie found: "Is this a squirrel?"
When Alexander heard the howling, he naturally walked towards Sophie to take a look: "I think the snake and the squirrel will definitely not be in the same nest. Shall we continue to look for the snake? I will come over later and let the technician chop down the tree.
See what’s inside?”
"Okay, it's too troublesome to catch them. It's easier to chop them down. The nuts and other things they hide should still be edible. Didn't the rain stop last night?" Noli looked at the tree hole.
With a whimper, Susie turned to look at her owner, then waved her paw towards the squirrel with a questioning look.
"Who knows." Alexander said, turning around and continuing to search for traces of snakes.
Then Noli could only continue to look for possible traces of snakes. Before leaving, she squatted down and patted Susie on the head: "Let's go, girl. Come back later. Do you remember what you were looking for just now?"
"Ouch?" Susie seemed to understand, her howl was a bit depressed, but she still followed her master's footsteps.
Susie's emotions came and went quickly. After all, she was a simple wolf. After a while, she left the nest of squirrels behind and went into the bushes to continue looking for traces of snakes and other small animals.
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But until lunch, the two of them couldn't find any traces, and they searched almost everywhere.
Alexander looked at the sun and decided to go back to eat and drink water to replenish his fluids. At this time, Freya was rubbing her waist in the camp, as if she had just woken up. The humidity was so high that even staying overnight was tiring.
"Are you hungry, girl? Come on, let's go back first. Why does this snake come and go without a trace..." Noli's call called back Susie who was more playing than looking for the snake.
Noli complained softly later on, not realizing the seriousness of the problem.
Today’s lunch is snake meat skewers, wild vegetable skewers, and pancakes. You’ll get tired of cooking them all, but for dinner you can make a pot of porridge with nuts.
"Well... I didn't plan the order of the vigil before. It was a mistake." Freya sighed helplessly, and then started to eat. After the meal, she took some time to move her body.
Alexander ate kebabs and drank the newly boiled water, then walked near the technicians and talked about cutting down the tree.
Anyway, Noli was not very interested in eating anymore. She took two random bites and started feeding snake meat to Susie. Otherwise, no matter how smart a wolf is, Susie would not be able to eat the meat pierced on the branches with her claws.
After Noli finished her portion, Susie faced the extra snake meat fed to her by her master and did not eat it immediately. Instead, she looked at Noli with a somewhat concerned and worried look.
"Ouch?" The she-wolf raised the bowl of snake meat toward Noli with a wolf kiss.
"Look at what I'm doing, you don't know very well." Noli scraped the wolf's nose, then picked up another piece of meat and took a bite to appease it.
Seeing that her master had eaten another piece of meat, Susie lowered her head again and began to eat the remaining pieces of meat, but her eyes still glanced at Noli from time to time.
"Thank you for your hard work." Alexander said and returned to his teammates. After eating, he sat down and waited for others to finish eating before continuing to look for snakes.
"Susie, you have to complete the task." Noli looked at Susie's actions and was speechless, but she didn't say anything.
Susie didn't make any more noise. In fact, she was busy chewing the snake meat, but after hearing the owner's instructions, the she-wolf nodded hurriedly.
Seeing that her teammates had almost finished eating, she came to Alexander and said, "Let's go together later and talk about something else by the way." After thinking about it, Noli decided to hold back and said, "Are you going out to hunt for prey in the afternoon? Now
I’ve basically searched everywhere.”
"Prey?" Freya looked at her companions with some confusion. Did something happen while she was resting?
"I saw a venomous snake near here this morning, that's it." Alexander answered Freya and then continued: "Let's take a look at what's left after cutting down the tree. Maybe the snake is really inside. Maybe the squirrel is.
Scared out."
"You have to look for it. If you are lucky, you can get something else. Otherwise, you may not be able to fight the approaching beast at some point." Susie yelled from the side, seeming to agree with her master's words.
"Understood." Freya nodded, "Then I'll join in. I've been resting for too long, so I might as well move my body." This chapter has been completed!