Chapter 68: Century Egg
The sun of a new day slowly rose, and on this day Su Ran woke up very early again.
Building the rain shelter had already taken two days, and Su Ran wanted to finish it completely today, otherwise it would delay her from doing other things.
The previous evening, Su Ran had already woven a small half of the roof cover to be placed on top of the rain shelter using the collected shrub branches.
What needed to be done today was to finish weaving the remaining part of the roof cover, then find beastmen to help place the shed’s frame in position, and put the roof cover on top, and it would be almost done.
Su Ran, just like yesterday, also got up and took things to climb down the bird’s nest tree when Gray was about to go out.
This time Gray did not stop her.
Su Ran guessed that perhaps it was because it felt that even if it stopped her, she would still obey outwardly but defy inwardly.
After coming down from the bird’s nest tree, Su Ran carried a backpack on her back and walked towards the riverside by herself.
The woods in the early morning still had some mist, and the air was full of dampness.
Clearly less than a month had passed, but Su Ran felt that she was already very familiar with this place.
She knew which way to go to find mint grass, and also knew how to take a shortcut to the nearby upstream and downstream river beaches.
The leaves of the sweet leaf vein tree seemed to have grown a lot bigger than when she had just arrived here, and the color of the leaves seemed a bit deeper too.
But the biggest change was that in the woods where only beastmen could be seen before, small animals like little rabbits and squirrels on Earth gradually began to appear.
Su Ran sat at the place where the rain shelter was being built, continuing to weave the roof cover while waiting for Gray to return from hunting.
Because she had already fumbled and woven a small half yesterday, after a few moves of weaving this time, Su Ran gradually regained the feel.
The shrubs Su Ran selected for the roof cover were all thin and long fresh shrubs.
Because they contained moisture, they were not easy to break during the weaving process and could be more easily pressed tightly together.
And the rope used for weaving was naturally still willow branches.
But to make it stronger, she had beforehand woven these willow branches two by two together.
On Su Ran’s fingers, the knuckles that had been rubbed while weaving the roof cover yesterday began to ache and itch after being rubbed a few more times.
This made Su Ran always unable to resist stopping her actions and rubbing that spot to relieve the discomfort.
When she stopped to rest again, the sound of wings flapping rang above her head, and then Gray landed deftly not far in front of her.
Today it had hunted two dwarf deer.
Perhaps because the weather was warming up and food was becoming more abundant, Su Ran felt that the animals eaten recently looked much bigger than in the previous period.
And besides these two dwarf deer, Gray took down the backpack on its body and handed it to Su Ran, with an expectant expression as if wanting her to see what was inside.
Su Ran curiously leaned over to look, and was surprised to find that it actually contained several green-skinned eggs!
There were a total of six eggs, each about the size of a goose egg.
Su Ran picked up one of them, tossed it in her hand; the feel was… well, the feel of an egg~
She just didn’t know if it was a bird egg or an egg from some other animal.
But Su Ran wasn’t picky; since Gray brought it back, it must be edible!
“Gray, impressive!”
Su Ran looked up at the werewolf with an expression waiting for praise, gave a thumbs up, and said to it in a very affirmative tone.
As soon as she spoke, sure enough, the werewolf in front of her happily raised its tail, wagging it back and forth behind it, just like a humanoid big dog.
But happy as it was, it still didn’t forget to ask Su Ran what the eggs were called.
“Ran Ran, what is this woo?”
“Uh…”
Su Ran looked at the eggs and hesitated for a moment, then said: “This is called an egg.”
“Egg?”
“Mm.”
Su Ran nodded, and asked Gray back: “Gray, what animal’s egg is this?”
“Woo?”
The werewolf didn’t understand Su Ran’s sentence, looked puzzled for a moment, then blankly shook its head at Su Ran, indicating it didn’t understand.
“Uh…”
“I mean…”
Su Ran thought for a moment, her peripheral vision caught the dwarf deer on the ground not far away, her eyes lit up, and she held up the green-skinned egg in her hand:
“Dwarf deer egg? White-headed sheep egg? Four-eared ox egg? Mm?”
And with each animal she named, Gray’s pointed ears on top of its head twitched slightly.
When Su Ran finished speaking, Gray looked at her with eyes that carried a feeling of looking at something strange.
Then she knew the reason why Gray was looking at her like that.
It opened its mouth, then suddenly paused, turned its head to look around left and right, suddenly half-spread its wings, and slightly folded them forward.
Then it pointed backwards at the wings behind it, and said to Su Ran: “Egg, wings, animal, ‘s egg!”
“Egg of an animal with wings?”
After sorting out the meaning of Gray’s words in her mind, Su Ran suddenly understood.
So this was a bird egg, not an egg laid by some reptile.
Then Su Ran suddenly recalled Gray’s strange expression just now; this wolf was probably imagining her backstory of having little knowledge and never having seen a bird before…
She looked at the egg in her hand and felt that the bird that laid this egg should not be small in size either.
After all, this egg was eight or nine centimeters tall, so that bird must be at least as big as a duck or even a goose.
However, when explaining the meaning of “bird” to Gray, Su Ran became even more curious.
Since she came to this world, she had never seen the existence of birds.
If she had to say, the peacock beastman with Yao Yao could be considered the only bird she had seen here.
This also made her once think that this world, or this continent, had no birds at all.
So now it seemed that either birds didn’t want to come to the woods on this side for some reason.
Or perhaps the birds here had spent the winter elsewhere and had just migrated back?
She didn’t know if this bird’s meat was tasty; Su Ran thought, she was craving fried chicken legs!
More than an hour later, after finishing breakfast this morning, Su Ran pulled Gray along to finish building the remaining part of the rain shelter.
While waiting for the roast meat, she had woven a bit more of the remaining roof cover, and now after another about twenty minutes, it was almost done, so she began to finish the edge of the roof cover.
Once the entire large roof cover was completed, she called Gray and had it go find A Jin and A Huo and the others to come help.
“Gray.”
She pointed in the direction of the woods, and said to the werewolf looking over: “Help me call A Jin, Xiao Ju, A Huo, Yao Yao over, okay?”
“A Jin?”
Gray subconsciously muttered, looked at Su Ran with some doubt, seeming curious what Su Ran wanted with these beastmen.
But in the end it didn’t ask any questions, stood up, shook its tail and wings, and flew into the woods.
Su Ran watched Gray’s departing figure and touched her nose.
She felt that if she had just said to find A Jin and A Huo, it definitely wouldn’t have been as obedient as now in helping her find them.
And it might even cause another fuss with her…
