Chapter 12: Mint Grass
By the time they finished the roast meat, the time was already past nine in the morning, and the temperature was gradually rising again.
Looking at the small grass seedlings under her feet that were only as tall as a few fingers, Su Ran became even more certain that the current season should be spring rather than autumn.
This made her breathe a sigh of relief.
Because whether she needed to first adapt to this world or first stockpile food and daily necessities, she would have plenty of time.
The werewolf had already stood up and come over to pull her hand, looking like he was preparing to go back.
Su Ran quickly poured the hot water from the stainless steel mug into the thermos, then added some water to extinguish the campfire, hung the thermos and stainless steel mug on herself, and followed behind the werewolf, walking back slowly.
The air in the forest was very fresh, with a bit of coolness.
Under Su Ran’s persistent pulling and tugging, on the way back they didn’t take the small path from the bird’s nest tree to the riverside, but went directly through the woods.
Probably because it was spring, the grass and trees in the woods were not yet lush, making it fairly easy to walk.
Su Ran walked while looking around everywhere like a chick foraging for food.
The shrubs on the ground were mostly a kind of plant with round leaves the size of a fingernail, which seemed unable to grow tall, reaching only to a person’s calves at most.
Su Ran named it round grass.
Besides the round grass, there was also a slightly shorter shrub, growing in patches in the woods.
This shrub had dark purple leaves, with clusters of light purple flowers at the tips, giving it a strangely beautiful appearance.
While Su Ran was frowning at that eerie color and pondering if this world also followed the rule of bright colors meaning poison, the beastman walking in front of her suddenly bent down, plucked a handful of leaves from that plant, and stuffed them into his mouth.
Su Ran was stunned, then immediately bent down and pulled off two leaves. She rolled them up, put them in her mouth, tentatively bit down, and after chewing a few times, a faint cool sensation spread through her mouth.
Mint grass?
She looked delightedly at the remaining leaf in her hand, then looked ahead at the werewolf who was naked from behind, wagging his tail, clearly in a very good mood.
This was a beastman who knew to like fresh breath!
Su Ran broke off two more branches of this mint-flavored shrub, put them in her mouth, and chewed them vigorously against her teeth. Sure enough, they also had a mint flavor, so she could use them as a toothbrush.
Besides the mint grass, no other edible food was found on the way back.
They soon returned to the settlement. And at this time, it was very lively here.
Little beastmen with various animal ears and tails were shuttling through the woods, playing and frolicking.
If not looking at the colors of the hair, ears on their heads, and tails behind them, these little ones were almost no different from human children.
And now with these beastly features, these little ones seemed even more adorable.
On the open space under the bird’s nest tree, besides these little beastmen, there were also many adult beastmen outside, including a few faces Su Ran had seen before.
Most of these beastmen were lying or sitting on the grassland, some watching the little beastmen play, others sitting in twos and threes with their own kind.
It seemed this beastman settlement already had rudimentary social patterns.
Su Ran and the werewolf’s arrival was quickly noticed by the beastmen outside, so facing the part of the beastmen she hadn’t seen before, Su Ran once again experienced the feeling of being watched.
Even those little cubs who had just been playing ran over, tugging at her sleeve one moment, touching her butt the next, then giving her pitying looks.
Su Ran: This girl was not born into a species with a tail, okay!!
Full of tears…
Who could have thought that she, a girl who could be considered a pure beauty back on Earth, had fallen here to the point of being pitied for her appearance.
But fortunately, compared to that group of little cubs who might have directly defined her as a developmentally incomplete disabled beastman, some of the adult beastmen here behaved normally.
Su Ran felt they could somewhat realize that she might not be the same species as any of the beastmen here, which was why she looked different from every type of beastman in the settlement.
But what comforted Su Ran was that the beastmen here were all very friendly toward her, this human who had suddenly appeared.
Although this surely had something to do with the werewolf, she could still sense that these beastmen’s nature didn’t have too strong a fighting instinct.
Even if some of their beast features came from fierce beasts.
By now, Su Ran had a general understanding of the types of beastmen in this settlement: herbivorous beastmen, carnivorous beastmen, and within these two types, there were also beastmen with wings who were not birds and beastmen without wings.
But Su Ran remembered that this morning at the river beach, she had seen a rabbit-type beastman there cleaning up prey as well…
And the werewolf by her side also ate fruits like youyou fruit, so these beastmen here should have all evolved into omnivores.
Su Ran and the werewolf didn’t stay outside for long. After Su Ran was watched for a while, the werewolf gradually grew impatient, suddenly reached out, picked her up by the waist, and flew back to the nest.
Back in the nest, the werewolf directly pulled Su Ran to lie down on the grass mat inside.
Having been busy all morning and eaten a bellyful of food, Su Ran felt a bit lazy too.
She lay there, while the werewolf beside her kept rubbing her belly up and down with his hand. Su Ran glanced over and saw that even lying down, the werewolf’s belly was still slightly bulging.
She couldn’t help but chuckle; he had eaten too much!
The bird’s nest was quiet inside, and the sounds under the tree were not clear due to the height. The werewolf rolled over, hummed softly, and pulled Su Ran into his embrace.
His fluffy big tail swept back and forth under her, occasionally hitting Su Ran’s leg.
In this atmosphere, Su Ran actually fell asleep again.
She slept for two hours.
When she woke up, the werewolf was no longer in the nest.
She got up and walked to the nest entrance, looked outside, and the other beastmen were also not below.
Just as she was about to look away, something flashed in the corner of her eye; in a bird’s nest on the adjacent tree, a figure suddenly appeared.
Su Ran looked closely and saw it was the golden-haired female cat beastman she had met yesterday. She was standing at the entrance of the bird’s nest on that tree, staring at her with wide eyes.
At this moment, seeing Su Ran’s gaze, she seemed very happy, moved a bit, and opened her mouth.
The distance was a bit far, so Su Ran couldn’t hear her voice, but she could guess it was probably just a “meow~”.
To be honest, Su Ran had no resistance to anything cat-like. So she couldn’t help but wave at the little female, then saw the little female’s eyes light up, and she turned her head, moving her mouth toward the bird’s nest behind her—
Su Ran figured she was telling her family she was going out.
Then, the little female suddenly jumped out of the bird’s nest.
In just a few moments, her light figure bounced a few times on the branches and easily jumped into Su Ran’s bird’s nest.
