Chapter 186: The Fire’s Too Big, Can’t Put It Out, Boo
After the beastmen’s houses were gradually all constructed, the inside of the forest returned to calm once again.
The mild early summer quickly passed, the weather grew hotter and hotter, and Gray also started not liking to go out during the blazing sun.
In the fourth month of summer, Su Ran planted the third batch of housheng vegetable and wild cabbage from the vegetable garden, as well as the second batch of radish.
After the second batch of housheng vegetable, wild cabbage, and radish matured, Su Ran left a quarter of each vegetable in the vegetable garden as seed.
These seeds were to be planted in autumn, and when they grew, they would be directly stored as food for winter storage.
Recently, the time Gray went out hunting was all after four in the evening. And the prey it hunted was mostly large prey like red-skinned pig and four-eared ox.
Red-skinned pig and four-eared ox had large builds, and recently because the weather was hot, Gray’s appetite was also declining, so hunting one was enough for Su Ran and Gray to eat three times.
And recently when there was nothing else going on, Su Ran would also take bow and arrow and go out hunting with Gray.
At the very beginning, what she could hunt were some small animals, mostly wild chicken and wild birds, dwarf deer and the like.
Actually Su Ran preferred eating two-tailed beast stir-fried with chili fruit, but two-tailed beast’s speed was even faster than dwarf deer, and most of the time, by the time Su Ran saw it, it had already left behind a tail and escaped.
However later Su Ran generated the idea to change hunting tools.
She made a spear.
The spear was made from a tree trunk trimmed straight and smooth, with a spear tip made from four-eared ox bone tied to one end, and the spear tip was polished very sharp.
The first prey Su Ran hunted with this spear was a red-skinned pig.
The spear tip pierced into the red-skinned pig’s neck, did not penetrate through, but should have hit an artery, blood flowed all over the ground, and it quickly stopped breathing.
This was the first large prey Su Ran had hunted.
For a period after that, Su Ran started to get a bit addicted to hunting with the spear.
However later one time, after she nearly got hit by a four-eared ox that had gone mad and was charging toward her, Gray no longer let her continue using the spear.
Su Ran did not insist, because she herself was indeed a bit scared.
But she still kept the spear well at home, preserved it, thinking that maybe it could be used later.
After that she switched back to the bow and arrow that could attack from long distance.
Today’s weather was a bit exceptionally hot.
After finishing lunch, Su Ran and Gray stayed inside the room, neither going out.
Gray held a fan made of animal hide in his hand, quickly fanning over himself and Su Ran.
The cool wind brought by the fan broke through the stifling hot air, but just when both were about to fall asleep, his ears on top of his head suddenly erected straight, then it suddenly sat up, gaze looking out the window.
The noise he made startled the drowsy Su Ran, the sleepiness in her brain running off completely.
She sat up following Gray, only feeling that this scene seemed familiar.
Another beastmen settlement attack?!
She had just wanted to speak when she saw Gray suddenly sniff the air with his nose, then get up, put on shoes, and walk toward the window side.
And at that moment, Su Ran suddenly heard a cry of alarm from outside the open window, ! The next second, Gray seemed to have also discovered something and jumped out the window all at once!
At this time Su Ran finally sensed something was wrong, there seemed to be a strange smell coming in from the window in the air, and it was a bit choking!
She looked toward the open window, feeling that the sky outside was a bit gray and hazy.
This gray haze was not just the dimness of the sun being blocked by clouds, even the air right in front of her seemed to have the same light.
On fire?!!
Su Ran was startled, the thought of fire rising in her mind, cold sweat instantly breaking out all over her body.
She hurriedly got up, got down from the heated brick bed, put on shoes, and ran outside the room.
Just as she reached the house doorway, she bumped into Gray who had returned from outside.
He walked very fast, visible worry on his face.
Su Ran saw it, her heart turning cold!
“Gray, what’s wrong?”
Gray had come back to find Su Ran.
He pulled Su Ran out from inside the room, then picked up Su Ran and flew into midair, signaling Su Ran to look toward the forest behind the house.
Far away, a mass of thick smoke surged out from inside the forest behind, ultimately forming a smoke pillar that flew very high, then spread outward in all directions.
It was really on fire!
In the forest!!
“Ran Ran, on fire!”
Gray pointed at the black thick smoke in the distance, saying to Su Ran.
At this time not just Su Ran and Gray, in the sky above the river beach, other beastmen also flew out, those beastmen without wings even climbed to the tree tips, checking the fire situation over there!
The location on fire was only about four or five kilometers from where Su Ran and the others lived, not far if saying far, but really very close if saying close!
Su Ran looked at that rising thick smoke that seemed endless and continuous, feeling the more she looked, the colder her body got.
In weather like this where water droplets could instantly evaporate, the sweat flowing from her forehead was cold!
The fire location was too close!
Every inch of soil inside the forest could become the next fire point, from the angle looking over from the riverside here, it still couldn’t be seen how much area of woods over there had already been burned, but just looking at that rolling thick smoke, the area was definitely not small.
And now it was visible that the fire was burning toward the settlement side!
Su Ran almost tremblingly made a sound: “Gray, let’s go take a look!”
She looked at the smoking place, only feeling her brain was a blank.
She had only just arranged and organized her living environment neatly. The beastmen’s houses in the settlement had only just been built, she had only just gained a bit of sense of security living in the group.
Was it going to be destroyed just like this now?
Could she stop the spread of a forest fire?
Hearing Su Ran’s words, Gray did not move immediately.
He sensed Su Ran’s fear, tightened his arm holding her, and said: “Ran Ran, no problem woo~ Gray take you to opposite bank of the river, then no problem~”
After speaking, he flew back to the house doorway with Su Ran and landed, then wanted to pull Su Ran inside to get things.
But was held back by Su Ran: “Gray, no, we have to put out the fire, otherwise… our home will burn down!”
“Fire too big, can’t put out woo~”
Gray patiently looked at Su Ran, shook his head: “Fire can’t burn to Ran Ran on the other side of the river, Ran Ran go hide over there from fire, I go dig pit woo~”
Su Ran’s action of pulling Gray’s arm paused, she looked at him in surprise, not knowing if the digging pit he mentioned was the same meaning as what she thought!
“Dig pit? Dig what pit?”
Su Ran frowned slightly, looking at Gray.
“Just dig pit near the fire, not let fire burn over woo~”
Su Ran was stunned, wasn’t this a firebreak?
Sorry everyone, only one chapter today, been badly stuck on writing these two days, really didn’t have time today
