Chapter 5: White-headed Sheep
After putting away the flint, Su Ran felt relieved, then put the multi-tool axe into the backpack, and finally placed the remaining food on top.
Then she looked at the sleeping bag, thought about it, and didn’t tie it to the backpack again.
With a 99.9% probability, she would sleep here today, so there was no need to tie the sleeping bag on anymore.
She pushed the backpack closer to the corner by the branch wall. Although these beastmen were very curious, from the werewolf’s unhappy reaction when those four beastmen entered the bird’s nest earlier, their personal territories should still have clear boundaries.
She hoped the werewolf would respect her boundaries too, and not curiously rummage through her things.
After organizing everything, Su Ran sat back down on the grass pile under her feet.
In this bird’s nest, she still didn’t dare make big movements. Even after personally feeling how tightly the branches building this bird’s nest were woven, she couldn’t help imagining the scene of stepping through the nest with one foot.
And at that moment, a clear stomach growl suddenly came from the quiet space:
“Gulu lu~”
Su Ran’s wandering thoughts paused, she touched her belly, then raised her hand to check the watch on her wrist.
It was already past one in the afternoon.
In the morning, she had only eaten one piece of satsuma cake and one ham sausage. Then after the morning’s mountain climbing exercise, the flying exercise while being carried by the werewolf, and the constant worry about whether she would be eaten, even the high-sugar satsuma cake had been completely digested in her belly.
She opened the backpack she had just put in the corner again, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally took out the last pack of satsuma cake from inside.
Now the remaining food in the backpack was only military rations, ham sausage, small spicy strips, and beef jerky. Before knowing if this world had salt, these foods were her last source of salt intake.
She didn’t want to drink raw blood, so she had to ration these foods carefully.
Su Ran tore open the packaging of the satsuma cake, took a small bite, and ate it slowly. Just as she took the second bite, she felt the light in front of her dim, then a flapping sound came, and looking up, she saw the werewolf folding its wings and walking in, its tall figure almost blocking the entire light from the bird’s nest entrance.
After folding its wings, the werewolf quickly walked toward Su Ran with light steps, looking like it was in a very good mood.
When it got close, it suddenly stopped, sniffed the air with its nose, and discovered the satsuma cake in Su Ran’s hand.
It frowned, squatted down and leaned close to Su Ran’s face, its gaze seeming puzzled, its nostrils twitching as it sniffed toward the right hand holding the satsuma cake.
Su Ran was very close to it, so close that even in the dim light of the bird’s nest, she could see its black pupils gradually dilating, almost occupying the entire green iris.
Then it suddenly called out to her: “Ao wu~”
The werewolf’s call had a soft tail tone, but it didn’t drag on.
Su Ran looked at the werewolf who had “Ao wu”ed at her again. Although she couldn’t understand its meaning, she could feel that it was interested in the food in her hand.
She hesitated, then broke off a piece from the satsuma cake in her hand and tentatively offered it to the werewolf in front of her.
The werewolf looked at the food offered to its eyes but didn’t move.
It still looked at Su Ran, locking eyes with her, its pupils rapidly dilating and contracting, its ears on top of its head twitching, as if hesitating.
After a long while, until Su Ran felt her outstretched arm getting sore, it sniffed toward her fingertip again, then ate that small piece of satsuma cake into its mouth.
After the satsuma cake entered its mouth, the werewolf chewed slowly twice, its facial expression showing no change.
Su Ran watched it and thought it probably didn’t like eating things that were too sweet.
After all, no matter how you looked at it, this group of beastmen should be carnivores.
After swallowing the thing in its mouth, the werewolf reached out and gripped Su Ran’s wrist, “Wu wu”ed at her twice, then pulled her up and walked toward the bird’s nest entrance.
When they reached the entrance, it picked her up by the waist just like when they first met. It didn’t even unfold its wings, directly weaving through the interspersed high and low tree trunks, carrying Su Ran and jumping down under the tree.
At this time, under the tree they were on, there was already a dying animal lying there.
This animal looked about the size of a goat, with black fur, its back fur hanging down from its back almost as long as its body height.
But its head was white, and it had two long, drooping ears.
It had no sharp teeth, so it should be a herbivore.
Su Ran looked at its small, perky tail like a goat’s and decided to call it a white-headed sheep.
At this moment, this white-headed sheep was lying under the tree occupied by the bird’s nest, its neck already torn open, the air filled with a thick bloody smell. Its belly was still rising and falling slightly, showing it wasn’t completely dead yet, but the blood flowing from its torn neck was getting less and less, feeling like it could stop breathing at any moment.
At this time, the werewolf took action. It picked up this white-headed sheep, then held Su Ran’s wrist with the other hand, and walked in a certain direction into the woods.
It was now noon, with the temperature around twenty degrees, the most comfortable time of the day.
Su Ran was pulled forward by the werewolf, the grassland under her feet trampled into a path shape by the beastmen living here long-term. After walking about five minutes, a faint “swishing” water flow sound came, and after the werewolf led her around a giant tree that looked three meters in diameter, the view ahead suddenly opened up.
This was actually a river beach.
The river water flowed down from upstream, turning a bend here and winding downward.
Su Ran looked toward the opposite bank of the river, but couldn’t see the scene across clearly from afar, though it seemed not much different from this side.
This should be the werewolf’s destination.
After coming out of the woods, it brought Su Ran to the riverside, looked down at her and “Ao wu”ed once, then released her wrist and walked toward the river carrying the white-headed sheep that had completely stopped breathing.
It stood at the riverside, back to Su Ran, lifted the white-headed sheep with both arms, moved a few times, and tore off a complete but bloody fur pelt and threw it aside.
Then it placed the remaining body part in the river, quickly slashed open the white-headed sheep’s belly with its sharp nails, pulled out the internal organs and threw them on the grass nearby, rinsed the white-headed sheep’s body in the river water, then picked it up and walked to Su Ran.
By this time, Su Ran had already guessed what the werewolf brought her here for.
But when the werewolf tore off a large leg of the white-headed sheep right in front of her, still oozing blood, and the nerves in that leg meat were still twitching and jumping, she couldn’t help but feel her body hair stand on end!
Wu… Was this werewolf trying to share gourmet food with her, or scaring her not to think about escaping!!
