Chapter 127: Until Earth Disappears
Time had reached the fifth month since Su Ran arrived in this world. After the cold of the first month, the weather in the remaining four months had maintained a continuous trend of rising high temperatures.
Especially in the recent days, Su Ran felt that the temperature every day was almost nearing forty degrees!
The prolonged high temperatures also began to make her suspect whether this world, or rather the continent it was on, had winter at all.
Because if now was summer, then the number of days in this summer had already been at least half a month longer than summer on Earth, and there was no sign of the heat subsiding.
For this reason, Su Ran had specially gone to ask Gray how much longer such hot weather would continue.
But Gray’s answer only made her more confused.
Gray just pointed to the sky above his head, looking at Su Ran innocently and saying, “It won’t be hot anymore once Earth disappears, woo~”
Earth disappears?
Su Ran pondered this, and so when night came, she looked up and carefully observed the Blue Star overhead.
But she only discovered that not only was there no sign of that planet disappearing, but the light ring around it had become so bright that it could illuminate the ground, refracting faint blue light!
After the weather nearly reached forty degrees, Gray spent even more time soaking in the water every daytime.
His scorching body temperature in this hot weather seemed to have become a kind of torment.
Especially when sleeping at night, even separated by a person’s distance, Su Ran could feel the heat emanating from his body.
The animal hide shorts that Gray wore on his body also had to be taken off by him due to the high temperatures.
So now, after a few months, this wolf had returned to his most primitive state.
His entire body was completely naked and visible at a glance.
However, what comforted Su Ran was that Gray only stripped himself bare and lay on the heated brick bed when inside the room.
When going out hunting, he would still put on the animal hide shorts.
And those affected by the high temperatures weren’t just Gray; Su Ran was also frequently drenched in sticky sweat by the recent weather.
Recently, she had moved all the daily chores to the evening hours to do them.
Because the daytime high temperatures, even just a short time in the sun outside, would make one dizzy and bloated-headed.
Su Ran had also woven two large fan faces the size of big notebooks using the method for weaving mats with willow branches.
Then she sewed a layer of animal hide on top to prevent air leakage, and attached a handle below, making two fans.
When Gray was so hot he couldn’t stand it and lay motionless in the room, Su Ran would take a fan to fan him, at least reducing some of his suffering from the high temperatures.
And on a certain day when Su Ran woke from her afternoon nap, as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Gray slowly lifting his head, enduring sleepiness, holding a fan in his hand and insistently fanning her.
Su Ran found Gray’s dazed and cute appearance amusing, but at the same time, an endless sense of satisfaction rose in her heart.
Although Gray was just a beastman.
There was a language barrier between them, different ways of thinking, but their feelings were connected.
He could feel her efforts and would always repay her with even greater returns!
Su Ran quietly sat up, and as she did, she already saw Gray’s ears instantly perking up.
And the moment Gray opened his eyes, she suddenly pounced into his embrace!
Gray had only just opened his eyes to see her clearly and hadn’t reacted to what she wanted to do when this move from her scared him so much that he instantly bristled like an exploded furball, with the fur on his ears atop his head and on the tail behind him all flaring up at once!
But he quickly came back to his senses, tightly hugged the Su Ran who had pounced into his embrace, and responded to Su Ran’s passionate kiss.
Su Ran’s sudden enthusiasm left this silly wolf a bit at a loss, but he knew he couldn’t refuse and even had to seize the opportunity.
Two hours later, a figure flew straight from the room’s window toward the riverside.
Gray holding Su Ran flew directly to the water’s edge on the opposite bank of the river, then soaked both himself and Su Ran in the water.
This side’s riverbank was full of tall trees.
Branches cast shadows; Su Ran and Gray soaked in the river water under the shadows, so when bathing, they wouldn’t be exposed to the sun.
In such hot weather, soaking in the river for a while was actually very comfortable.
If not for the intense exercise just now leaving her body too tired, Su Ran even wanted to swim a couple of laps in the river.
After soaking in the river for a while and simply wiping down once more, Su Ran and Gray returned to the room and snuggled together for another short nap.
After waking up, it was time to eat dinner.
With the recent hot weather, Su Ran and Gray both had poor appetites; sometimes a meal couldn’t even finish one white-headed sheep.
Gray had also almost stopped hunting large prey like four-eared oxen and red-skinned pigs, because if they couldn’t eat it, it would spoil.
Today’s hunting was done together by Gray and Su Ran, just a bit deeper into the woods nearby.
With Gray there, finding traces of prey was effortless.
Today, Su Ran wanted to catch a few wild chickens to make cold mixed chicken chunks.
In such hot weather, Su Ran wanted to make as many cool-tasting foods as possible.
The blue worms by the seaside had completely disappeared; although some shellfish seafood like scallops were still there, because the weather was too hot, Gray rarely flew over that way.
Only occasionally, in the evenings, would Su Ran go to the seaside with Gray to pick some seafood to keep in a wooden basin, to be eaten the next day.
But nowadays, even at night, the heat in the air would still make one sweat profusely, so later Su Ran temporarily gave up on seafood as food.
However, her bird’s nest still had some dried kelp stored; without blue worms, Gray’s acceptance of cold mixed kelp shreds had also become very good.
The place where Gray landed with Su Ran was the trunk of a sweet leaf vein tree.
And not far under this tree, a group of white wild chickens were leisurely pecking at things on the ground.
The things they were pecking at were probably white bean fruits growing in the soil.
After landing on the tree trunk, Gray didn’t immediately go down to hunt but stood to the side waiting for Su Ran’s action.
Although with this group of white wild chickens, he could catch several just by moving a bit.
But because he knew Su Ran wanted to practice hunting, he would stay quietly to the side, waiting until after each of Su Ran’s routine practice attempts to personally go into action.
At this point, Su Ran had already nocked a bow and arrow.
Recently, her weapons and equipment had been upgraded once again.
She used back tendon from a four-eared ox to replace the original bowstring made of woolen thread.
After having Gray help extract the back tendon from the four-eared ox, she cleaned it thoroughly, dried it, broke it into strands, and finally bound it to the bow arms.
This made the bowstring much tighter, and the force and distance of shots fired were now more than twice as much as before.
