Chapter 73: Running Away From Home
It stood there blankly., its tail hanging on the ground behind it, maintaining the posture of having just heard Su Ran’s explanation, but the whole wolf was visibly emotionally vacant, seeming stunned, staring blankly at Su Ran for a long time.
Just as Su Ran was startled by its inexplicable appearance and was about to step forward to comfort it like before.
Gray’s lips suddenly trembled, it turned around, directly spread its wings and flew into the woods, no matter how Su Ran shouted from below, it silently flew away from the river beach quickly.
Moreover, no matter how Su Ran looked at it, with her shouts, the werewolf’s departing action seemed to speed up even more!
But she was completely baffled about the reason for Gray’s sad departure.
Did she say something?
Su Ran recalled what she had just said; she had only said that she wanted to live on the ground.
Could it be…
Su Ran suddenly widened her eyes!
Could it be that Gray thought she wanted to live under the tree because she didn’t want to live with it, or rather didn’t want to be
Thinking of this possibility, Su Ran felt a bit amused yet exasperated, but more than that, she was a little worried.
She quickly got up and ran back under the bird’s nest tree.
“Gray……”
She quickly climbed up the rope ladder, but after going up, she did not see Gray’s figure in the bird’s nest.
She hurriedly climbed down from the tree again and ran along the path toward the river beach where she had gone to bathe before.
At the river beach, she still didn’t see Gray, so Su Ran went to the gravel beach further upstream, but still didn’t see Gray’s shadow.
The time at this moment was already three in the afternoon.
Although there were still a few hours until the sun set, for Su Ran, who didn’t know where Qing Yu had gone or if they would return, it made her have to start worrying.
Although judging by Hui’s combat power, she didn’t need to worry about its safety.
But as soon as she thought about how Gray had left with that sad emotion before leaving, Su Ran’s heart couldn’t stop worrying and tightened in waves.
She was very afraid that this silly wolf would do something to harm itself because of sadness, and even more afraid that it would leave and never return because of this one misunderstanding.
Although even up to this time, Su Ran herself still hadn’t thought about why, from the very beginning when she wanted to build a house, she never considered living separately from Hui.
Su Ran searched all the places near the bird’s nest tree that she could reach, places she often went to with Hui, and after still not seeing any trace of Hui ever appearing there, she completely panicked.
Su Ran felt so clearly for the first time that she had already become so accustomed to the state of being with Hui every moment without exception.
Even when going out hunting every day, that feeling of clearly knowing the other’s actions always made her feel extremely reassured.
And at this time, when she had completely lost news of Hui, that immense sense of loneliness from being all alone in this alien world once again swept over her entire body.
Su Ran had to admit that, to her, Gray’s existence was no longer just that of a simple friend, a companion, or a roommate living together.
After running a lap without finding Hui Hou, Su Ran hurriedly ran back under the bird’s nest tree and climbed up.
But the bird’s nest inside at this time was still exactly the same as when she and Gray went out in the morning, without any changes.
The only difference was that, at this time, the bird’s nest, which was quiet and silent, was clearly no different from before, but every corner exuded an empty chill.
From the gray sadness of running away from home, one hour had already passed.
Su Ran stood at the bird’s nest entrance looking for a long time, the evening breeze carrying the remaining warmth blew against Su Ran’s back from outside the bird’s nest, and then blew into the bird’s nest inside.
She opened her eyes wide and lifted her head, enduring the sourness welling up in her eyes, yet feeling chilled to the bone all over her body.
Actually, Su Ran also felt a bit aggrieved,
She hadn’t finished speaking yet…
She took a deep breath, turned around and came out from the bird’s nest, preparing to go to a slightly farther place to look around.
But before climbing down the tree, Su Ran hesitated and looked toward the bird’s nest built on the opposite slope.
She wanted to ask Xiao Ju and A Jin for help in finding someone.
Not to mention how vast the woods were, she didn’t even recognize the way and had no idea where to start looking for Hui.
Just take now, the sky is already getting dark. Although beastmen have never had beasts appearing in the places where they live, once outside the range of the bird’s nest tree, it’s not certain.
When the time comes, not only might she not find Hui, she might not even be able to come back.
Thinking of this, Su Ran raised her voice and shouted toward Xiao Ju and A Jin’s bird’s nest.
As soon as her voice fell, two golden heads, one big and one small, poked out from the bird’s nest entrance on the opposite side.
Seeing Su Ran, Xiao Ju immediately kept a distance of several meters away and happily meowed “mi wu mi wu” at Su Ran.
Then, without waiting for Su Ran to call, it jumped down from the bird’s nest tree opposite in a few leaps and landed in front of Su Ran.
Meanwhile, A Jin slowly flew over following behind her.
As soon as she came over, Xiao Ju affectionately snuggled close to Su Ran wanting kisses and cuddles.
But at this time Su Ran was burning with anxiety. She could only perfunctorily hug Xiao Ju, then her expression immediately became very serious as she said to Xiao Ju: “Xiao Ju, Gray…”
She gestured as she spoke, but the phrase “running away from home” left her stumped for the moment.
Seeing the anxious expression on Su Ran’s face, Xiao Ju quickly also realized that something was wrong with Su Ran.
She realized that Su Ran had come looking for her because of some matter: “Mi wu~~Hui? Ran Ran? Wu~”
While speaking, her gaze also followed to glance inside the bird’s nest behind Su Ran, as if searching for Hui’s figure.
Su Ran hurriedly nodded, carefully stepping sideways along the tree trunk to let Xiao Ju see more clearly into the bird’s nest behind her.
She pointed into the bird’s nest, making a very anxious expression toward Xiao Ju and A Jin: “Bird’s nest, Hui, not here!”
While speaking, Su Ran pointed into the bird’s nest with her finger, then looked at Xiao Ju and shook her head vigorously.
Seeing Su Ran like this.
Xiao Ju first looked thoughtfully at Su Ran and pondered for a moment.
She circled around Su Ran to the entrance of the bird’s nest, stretched her head in to sniff, then turned to Su Ran and opened her mouth: “Hui, not here?”
“Not here!”
Su Ran nodded hurriedly. While speaking, because of worry, her eyes reddened uncontrollably again: “Hui is not in the bird’s nest, nor on the river beach. I can’t find it.”
“Mi wu~”
The little cat person immediately noticed Su Ran’s rapid emotion change.
The instant Su Ran’s eyes reddened, she immediately came closer, gently rubbing her cheek against Su Ran’s while softly making “mi wu mi wu” sounds.
Then she straightened up and turned her head toward A Jin, who had been following behind her and was frowning while peering into the bird’s nest behind Su Ran, saying a long string of beastman language in “mi wu mi wu”s.
As soon as she finished, A Jin immediately responded with a “roar~”.
It spread its wings but did not fly into the woods right away; instead, it first flew to several bird’s nests and caves that Su Ran recognized, lingering in front of them for a while.
And when it left those bird’s nests and caves, from far away, Su Ran saw A Huo, Qing Yu, and the male cat person beastman she had seen before—all following behind A Jin, some flying, some running and jumping—entering the woods…
