Chapter 59: Can’t Be A Weakling
Facing the werewolf’s pair of bewildered and innocent eyes, Su Ran suddenly had the illusion that she was teasing a pure little boy ignorant of worldly affairs.
She no longer teased it, but seriously explained to it: “This soup needs to cool down before you can drink it~”
Su Ran made a blowing motion at the bowl again, then pushed the bowl back in front of Hui, looking at it indicatively.
And seeing Su Ran push the bowl back, the werewolf couldn’t help but twitch its ears, revealing a joyful expression in its eyes: “Ao wu~~”
Because one person drank two bowls of soup and ate a pot of seafood stewed mutton, Su Ran and Hui didn’t eat much roast meat for dinner that night.
The remaining roast meat was naturally added by Su Ran to tomorrow morning’s recipe.
After finishing dinner, they stayed by the riverside until Su Ran finished weaving a slightly larger double-shoulder backpack, and dug out two small spoons that could be used for drinking soup and one slightly larger strainer.
At this moment, only the two of them were left by the riverside again.
Su Ran found a hidden place and dug a small pit to solve her poop matter.
As for the thing used to replace toilet paper, it was a kind of grass growing on the river beach that looked like a flower bud.
The leaves of this grass were somewhat similar to lotus petals, but they had some thickness when touched, with very good flexibility.
The surface facing the inner layer was smooth, with all the leaves wrapped layer by layer, forming the appearance of an unopened flower bud.
When needed, she could just tear off two leaves from it directly.
However, in comparison, she felt that the beastmen’s method of going directly to the river water to wash their butts after using the toilet was actually cleaner…
After finishing using the toilet, Su Ran stood up and, following the beastmen’s habit, buried the poop spot with soil.
This was something that when she had just arrived here, Hui had pulled her into the woods and personally demonstrated to teach her.
If it weren’t for Hui’s serious teaching expression at the time, she would really have thought that the beastman in front of her was simply an exhibitionist plus a pervert…
When Su Ran returned to the river beach, Hui had also just finished relieving itself and come back.
At least what surprised Su Ran was that after the first teaching, Hui never again had the idea of going to the toilet with her.
Su Ran felt this should be a habit from the beastmen’s primitive genes.
During sleeping and using the toilet, it was when the beastmen’s vigilance was lowest, so they also didn’t like having others watch when they were using the toilet themselves, as it would make them feel dangerous.
Su Ran washed up by the riverside, then packed the remaining uneaten roast meat into the newly woven backpack, put the two jars of freshly made mutton fat into the basket. Only then did she pack up the other things, extinguish the campfire, check again that there were really no embers in the other campfires used by the beastmen who had already left, handed the backpack to Hui, and while she held the basket with mutton fat, slowly walked back under the bird’s nest tree with Hui.
As for why she was holding the basket, it was because she didn’t trust the werewolf and was afraid it would spill the two jars of hard-boiled mutton fat while running and jumping on the road.
When they returned under the bird’s nest tree, there were no longer any beastmen under the tree.
The sky at this moment was already dim, and as soon as Su Ran and Hui arrived under the tree, places a bit farther away were already somewhat unclear to see.
Hui flew back to the nest first and delivered the backpack up.
In just a few seconds, it flew out of the nest again, landed beside Su Ran, and reached out to hold her and fly up as well.
But it was repeatedly pushed away and refused by Su Ran.
Unless absolutely necessary, Su Ran decided not to rely on the werewolf’s help to return to the bird’s nest tree anymore.
She wanted to get familiar with the process of climbing the rope ladder as quickly as possible, including the climbing experience while carrying or holding heavy objects in hand.
She must be fully prepared for all matters, including in case one day Hui was not by her side, she needed to have the ability to face this primitive world on her own.
She must from now on little by little get familiar with the growth patterns of plants and animals in this world, and learn survival skills in the primitive woods.
Most importantly, she needed to strengthen physical training. Compared to the beastmen, forget it, at least when facing “food” like white-headed sheep, she couldn’t forever be a weak hunting chicken.
She also wanted to learn hunting.
She was no match in strength and speed, but she could try setting traps and also make hunting tools.
In short, in this world she was alone, even if she had met Hui now, even if later she really lived with Hui until old age, at most she would only have two people.
At least so far, she hadn’t seen in the settlement any beastman resembling Hui’s parents or siblings.
So if one day, once something happened to one of her and Hui, whether sick or injured, what they could rely on was at most each other.
After understanding Su Ran’s refusal, although puzzled, Hui still didn’t forcibly carry her back to the nest.
When it saw Su Ran grabbing the rope ladder with one hand and carrying the basket with stone pots and mutton fat with the other, it seemed to understand Su Ran’s intention, let out a clear cry toward Su Ran, sounding very happy.
Then it stood by the side watching Su Ran’s actions.
After Su Ran climbed a bit higher, it also spread its wings, rising to the same height as Su Ran, with the wings behind rapidly flapping to maintain body balance.
Su Ran now felt extremely grateful that she had thought of making the backpack, although at this moment what she was holding in her hand was a basket, not a backpack.
Because climbing the rope ladder was really too difficult!
Not only difficult, but also very dangerous.
When she stepped on the first step of the rope ladder, the rope ladder hanging on the tree began to sway constantly.
Her feet had to use full strength to step on the wooden sticks below to ensure the soles wouldn’t slip off the wooden sticks, causing her to fall directly under the tree.
And for her upper body, she could only hold the wooden stick of the previous rung with one hand, the basket on the other side of her body was already slung over her shoulder like a crossbody bag, and that hand was now grabbing the wooden stick of the upper rung.
Su Ran climbed up the bird’s nest tree twenty minutes later.
After both feet stood on the tree trunk where the rope ladder was tied, her legs went soft, and she nearly fell from the tree.
Fortunately, Hui had always been by her side, stretched out its long arm, and pulled her back into the nest.
Back in the nest, after putting down the basket in hand, Su Ran didn’t even care to check if the mutton fat in the basket had been spilled by her.
She plopped down on her butt, then naturally lay flat in the nest, her chest heaving violently as she panted roughly.
And at this moment, the only thought in her mind was that her physical fitness was really too poor.
Judging by her current body, probably any one-meter-tall little beastman in the settlement could easily take her down!
Darlings, still single update today, lots of things recently, a bit too busy to manage, I’ll try to resume double updates early next week ha
