Chapter 62: Chili Fruit
The rain continued until after three in the afternoon before stopping.
After the rain stopped, the beastmen who had been cooped up in the bird’s nest and cave for a day all came out to stretch their muscles.
Especially those little ones, who didn’t care about the mud all over the ground, rolling and tumbling playfully on the wet grass, then running to the riverside one by one covered in black mud.
Su Ran also climbed down from the bird’s nest tree carrying the backpack.
The trees in the woods were all soaked by the rainwater, so she wasn’t planning to make fire tonight.
In a bit, she wanted to find some firewood to spread out by the riverside to dry, then use it for making fire tomorrow morning.
Now, taking advantage of the afternoon when she couldn’t do other things, she would go into the woods to see if she could find any food or things to use.
After coming down from the bird’s nest tree, Su Ran walked toward the depths of the woods in the direction opposite to the river beach.
Gray stayed closely behind her, so she didn’t have to fear getting lost.
The air right after the rain was full of the fresh scent of damp soil and grass and trees, and after Su Ran, who had stayed in the bird’s nest for a day, smelled it, she felt even her vision clear up.
It was just that the ground watered by the rain was a bit hard to walk on, and Su Ran’s sneakers were already covered in a thick layer of mud, making her steps sticky and heavy.
Su Ran held a long wooden stick in her hand, and when encountering obstructing shrubs, she would use the wooden stick to push the branches and leaves aside, but even so, her clothes were quickly brushed with water stains by the shaking branches and leaves.
After walking deeper into the woods for about twenty minutes, the surrounding trees began to show some changes.
The trees here were still mostly bird’s nest trees, but sweet leaf vein trees gradually increased.
Shrubs on the ground began to feature a new species Su Ran had never seen.
On waist-high light green leaves like mugwort shrubs, they were covered with densely packed youyou fruit.
There were also vines winding and growing around big trees, with clusters of bright red small red fruit the size of red beans on the vine branches.
Further ahead in slightly wider woods, the ground was covered with patches of sky-blue wildflowers.
The largest wildflowers were as big as Su Ran’s palm, with a strong floral scent that made people feel good just by smelling it.
Su Ran picked about twenty youyou fruit to take back to eat, and also grabbed two by hand, popping one into her own mouth and handing one to the werewolf looking around while following by her side.
While eating, she walked a few steps forward, reached out to pick a small red fruit from the vines wrapped around a tree, held it under her nose to smell, but detected no scent and couldn’t tell if it was edible.
With such a small fruit, there was no way to check for traces of being pecked by birds or beasts.
She crushed the small red fruit with her fingertip, and bright red juice instantly covered the entire fingertip; the burst fruit skin was thick, and there were many tiny white seeds in the middle smaller than millet grains.
Then Su Ran held the finger stained with small red fruit juice under her nose to smell, and with that sniff, she froze in place!
A slightly choking spicy smell rushed straight to her nostrils, and after sniffing a few more times, even her eyes felt a slight stinging pain and wanted to tear up.
Chili!!
Su Ran looked delightedly at the large patch of vines wrapped around half a tree in front of her; the small red fruit growing on it, which had just looked pretty before, now appeared as invincible delicacies in her eyes!
Heaven knows how tempting these chili fruit that appeared in this primitive world were to Su Ran, a century youth who couldn’t live without spice!
Just as she was about to pick a few more to examine closely, Gray, who had run ahead to search for something, came back holding a handful of things in its embrace.
But when it saw the small red fruit in Su Ran’s fingertip, it suddenly looked shocked!
It directly flung the things in its embrace to the ground, leaped to Su Ran’s side in one jump, knocked the small red fruit out of her hand, then scooped her into its arm bend and carried her back several meters before setting her down, starting to point at Su Ran and howl ao wu!
“Ran Ran, this ptooey ptooey ptooey ptooey ptooey!!! Hiss ha hiss ha!! Tastes bad tastes bad ao~~ waaahhhhh!!!!!”
To express how terrifying the small red fruit was, Gray made forceful ptooey ptooey ptooey actions while sticking out its tongue to make hissing sounds as if burned by spice, and repeated tastes bad several times.
After saying that, it placed both hands on its belly, bent over making “aaaah” bellyache motions, making Su Ran go from stunned to holding back laughter.
It was just that the werewolf, so big in size, was making such silly-looking actions, and with its serious expression, the soft ears on top of its head bounced and shook cutely, both adorable and hilarious!
She patted Gray’s shoulder with her foot, her eyes full of unconcealed amusement: “This one is delicious, but you have to wait until I prepare it to eat oh~”
“Ao wu?”
Hearing her words, the werewolf stopped its actions, stood in place looking at Su Ran for a few seconds, but its gaze was still full of doubt.
It looked at Su Ran, its pupils narrowing slightly, and after a while, it still grabbed Su Ran’s wrist and firmly shook its head: “No, this tastes bad tastes bad tastes bad!!”
It shook its head vigorously, even gripping Su Ran’s wrist tightly as if to pull her away.
Su Ran quickly struggled free and ran under a tree covered with chili fruit vines, picked a chili fruit and popped it into her mouth to show the werewolf.
While rolling the chili fruit open with her tongue, she said to the werewolf: “Gray, I can eat it oh!”
As soon as she spoke, the werewolf’s green pupils instantly widened the moment she put the chili fruit in her mouth. It strode over in two steps, standing in front of Su Ran, its tail behind and ears on top stiff, tension overflowing its entire body!
This chili fruit wasn’t very spicy, or more inclined toward a fragrant spicy flavor.
In any case, it hadn’t reached the level where Su Ran needed to drink water to relieve the spice from eating it raw.
But it might also be because it was only spring now, and these chili fruit hadn’t grown to full maturity yet.
So the spiciness wasn’t enough.
Su Ran savored the taste of the chili fruit, deciding to pick some to take back to satisfy her craving first, then mark this location, and come back after some time to see if these chili fruit would grow bigger.
But for now, she still needed to comfort the tense and uneasy werewolf in front of her.
Gray was now looking at Su Ran with both astonishment and doubt; from the moment Su Ran ate that red fruit, its gaze had been fixed on her, as if ready to carry her away the instant she showed anything wrong.
No choice, Su Ran had to face the werewolf, tilt her head up, stick out her tongue for it to see: “See, I ate it, I’m fine oh~”
Forgot to mention, this book is going on shelves this Wednesday, hope everyone continues to support ha~
Also, my nucleic acid test suddenly showed abnormal, retest results unknown, and many people are infected recently, everyone please strengthen protection and stay safe oh~
