Chapter 136: Ran Ran Is Small And Cute, Hui Likes It
This beastmen crowd really settled down in the settlement.
Several days had passed since that night battle. In those few days, the new beastmen had already built their dwellings and gradually gotten used to life here.
At the very beginning, when they saw Su Ran and Gray using fire to cook, boil water, and do other things, they were still a bit fearful.
Moreover, Su Ran felt that this fear was different from the fear the beastmen in the settlement had when they first saw fire.
These beastmen’s fear of fire was more than just a little greater than that of the beastmen in the settlement.
It was only later that Gray told Su Ran those beastmen came here because the place they lived before had a forest fire due to the hot weather.
The forest fire lasted nearly half a month, until a heavy rain that lasted two days and two nights finally stopped it.
But although the fire stopped, that forest was full of deadwood and no longer habitable.
So they traveled thousands of miles and eventually found this place.
According to Gray, the weather in the forest where the settlement now lives is already considered cool compared to the place where that beastmen crowd originally lived.
This was also why they chose to stay here after traveling a long way.
And that night battle that evening was actually a combat that beastmen must undergo when a new settlement wants to join a local settlement.
Although there are still no clear rules in the beastmen’s settlement now.
But the wild beast genes in their bodies mean that for an outsider to join a new settlement, they must find a way to gain recognition from the original inhabitants.
And for beastmen, the fastest way to gain this recognition is combat!
For beastmen, combat is survival of the fittest; those who survive naturally get the chance to live together in the settlement, while those who die are just naturally eliminated.
And for beastmen who die in such combat, except for their companions, generally no other beastmen will feel sadness or pity for them.
Because the rule in beastman society is to admire the strong.
When Su Ran learned this reason from Gray’s stumbling explanation, she actually felt a bit uncomfortable inside.
Because this way of thinking was undoubtedly cold-blooded.
She just imagined putting this matter on herself!
Imagining if she had died that night, and Xiao Ju, Yao Yao, and the others, with whom she usually got along so well, were completely indifferent to her from the moment she died.
No sadness, no sorrow, no remembrance!
Su Ran would feel chills all over her body.
Although, in truth, she definitely wouldn’t have died that night.
Because in the beastmen’s default rules, when joining a new settlement, it tests the new beastmen; only the newcomers can die.
If it caused losses to the number of beastmen in the local settlement, let alone joining, it would probably directly spark a major war between the two settlements.
However, Su Ran thought of how that tiger-type beastman’s nails had nearly poked into her eyes that day. Although the reason might be that the beastman misjudged her strength, imagining her as too powerful and thinking she could dodge that attack.
But the final result was that without Gray’s intervention, she would definitely have died that night.
So that night, was it really just a hair’s breadth from turning a test into a suddenly erupted war?
“Gray, I’m weak, I can’t hunt, I have no strength. Why choose me?”
Su Ran asked Gray, who was sitting beside her helping pack green soap fruit powder.
The green soap fruits in their hands now were the last batch of mature fruits they had gathered.
The green soap fruits in the woods were in season and almost impossible to find anymore.
“Wu? Why?”
Gray was stumped by Su Ran’s sudden question and only understood part of what she said. He tilted his head, his ears twitching: “Ran Ran is great at hunting!”
He looked at Su Ran, suddenly wagging the tail behind him, thought for a moment, and continued: “There are wild chickens and white-headed sheep. Ran Ran is great at hunting!”
Su Ran knew Gray was referring to the prey she had brought back from hunting these past few days.
There were many wild chickens and dwarf deer near the woods, but that white-headed sheep had actually wandered into the vicinity by mistake and happened to fall into the trap she had set to catch dwarf deer.
“Gray, I mean, on that mountain by the seaside, why did you bring me back as soon as you saw me? Why choose me as your…”
Su Ran thought for a while about how to describe the word companion to Gray: “Why choose to live with me, eat and sleep together? Why like Ran Ran?”
“Wu…”
As soon as Su Ran finished speaking, Gray stared at her unblinking for a good while, swished his tail, seemingly pondering the meaning of her long string of words.
Actually, Su Ran had always been very curious about this question.
Although many people in the past said she was pretty, in the beastmen crowd where appearances were generally quite high, her looks could only be considered average.
She was the shortest in height, had no combat ability, and no hunting skills.
If it was a case of feelings developing over time, and after long-term interaction, Gray saw her doing so many unique things and developed different feelings for her, that would make sense.
But clearly, Gray had already made his decision the first time he saw her!
But the previous few times she asked Gray, his answers were always off-topic.
In the end, Su Ran never got a clear answer.
“Wu… Gray likes Ran Ran, liked Ran Ran as soon as we met on the mountain!”
After thinking for a long time, Gray’s tail behind him slapped heavily twice on the heated brick bed, making “pa pa” sounds, then he nodded vigorously at Su Ran.
Today Su Ran was very patient. She followed up on Gray’s answer: “Then why like Ran Ran?”
“Ao wu?”
Gray’s green eyes blinked twice, and he opened his mouth: “Because Ran Ran’s clothes are strange. Ran Ran was on the mountain by herself, no beastman scent, Ran Ran smelled very fragrant, and still smells fragrant now.”
At this point, not knowing what he thought of, he suddenly bared his teeth in a grin, looking at Su Ran: “Ran Ran hit Gray! With shovel!…”
He suddenly waved his arm, mimicking wielding an entrenching tool, and was quickly pulled back by Su Ran.
“Don’t move around!”
Although the wounds on Gray’s body had healed a lot in just these few short days, a forceful movement might reopen them.
Gray was held by Su Ran’s arm. He grinned ingratiatingly at her and continued: “Ran Ran hit Gray, with, with weapons! Awesome!”
“Ran Ran is small, cute, Gray likes!”
So in summary, her clothes were strange, she smelled fragrant, she could use weapons to hit him, she was small…
Su Ran: …
