Neighbors in forbidden land

"Little black."

"Do you have anything to eat? I'm hungry." The hole I dug to get water before has almost become a small lake. Not long after leaving there, Yimi who was walking in front stopped again. "I roughly calculated the time. It should be noon now? This meal is indeed at noon. I wonder when was the last time you ate, Hei?"

"what?"

"Xiao Hei? This is not the first time..." Yimi sighed softly, "If you don't know how to make a joke... don't force it, it's not funny."

For humans, in addition to water, food is also necessary.

But for me, neither water nor food is needed, but I can also eat, but I don’t feel anything after eating, and there is no such thing as "taste".

But... what do humans generally eat?Now we must think carefully about this issue.

If I remember correctly, it seems to eat animals, it seems to eat plants, it seems to eat... monsters, eh?

"I hope it's not something weird..." Yimi probably remembered that I gave her a drink of sea water just now, and sighed even more heavily.

In this case... I really can't guarantee it.

In the end, if it doesn't work, just eat me. It shouldn't be a problem to cut two pieces off your body.

"Should...forget it, now, Xiao Hei, I'll eat whatever you usually eat."

what?

What... what should I do?

I usually... eat air.

Can't say that...

"Also, don't stay too far away from me, I told you that you will be back soon, did you hear me?"

There are problems with this... There are many problems.

Although we know that humans eat animals and plants, it seems that not all animals and plants eat them.

However, there are no animals around here.

As for plants... can humans eat these thin vines on the ground?

Are those slender, twisted brown trunks edible to humans?What about the gray-green withered yellow leaves above?There are also a few shriveled brown fruits on it...

Huh?

By the way... the fruit on the tree should be edible for humans.

I remember that humans have the behavior of climbing trees to pick fruits.

Then this should be no problem, right?

I tried to stretch my claws to the branch with fruit, and moved it lightly.

Half of the few branches of the whole tree were cut off, and the criss-cross branches and sparse leaves fell directly to the ground, and only sporadic fruits could be seen scattered in the middle.

That doesn't seem like a good idea...but I'm the size, and inadvertently it can be devastating to certain plants.

"Xiao Hei? What was the sound just now?"

"Fruits...the only things I can eat now..." Yimi sighed heavily, but still nodded, "Where are they?"

"Is that so, then—"

"...you just remember."

Although I don't understand the reason for this, but since Yimi said so, let's do it.

I protected Yimi with my paws and walked slowly under the tree, stepping on the fallen branches.

"Is it... on the ground?"

After listening to my words, Yimi squatted down slowly, groping among the piles of branches and leaves with her hands, and finally lifted a brown fruit that was broken, and groped with her fingers on the dry surface...

"Just... this thing?" Yimi showed a somewhat unbelievable expression, and put the fruit under the tip of his nose to smell it, "Can you eat it without peeling the skin... it's full of lumps..."

peel?

I looked at my claws, peeling or something... It's a bit difficult.

"Well..." Finally, Yimi held the fruit and opened her mouth slightly, but did not bite it down.

"Xiao Hei... is this fruit really edible?"

I don't know... I haven't eaten it either... And if I really want to eat it, I can even eat dirt and rocks...

"You haven't eaten it before, so why don't you give it to me?"

"Is this clean..." Yimi wiped the surface of the fruit with her hand again, and after talking to herself, she opened her mouth and took a bite.

Then he spit it out, and threw the fruit aside with a flick of his hand.

"This stuff...is bitterer than sea water, it's so astringent and it doesn't even have any moisture, how can you eat it!"

Doesn't it look like this can't be eaten either...

"Xiao Hei, do you usually eat these things?"

My usual words.

do not eat.

But it certainly cannot be said that way.

But if the fruit is not edible.

Then the vines on the ground must not be eaten.

Can only go a little farther.

If there is nothing here, there should be something else.

There must be something for humans to eat too.

"..." Yimi fell into silence again, and made a decision in order not to make her angry again.

"..." In the end, Yimi just lowered her head and didn't say anything.

Does it look like it's worse than me giving her sea water...

Just when I was about to leave—

"Where are you going?" Yimi asked.

"...You left me here, what if I'm in danger?"

Animals are also good.

Even monsters.

None here.

Only plants that cannot move or speak.

And me.

So as long as I don't hurt you.

Then nothing will hurt you.

"...What about the disaster?"

Calamity...

"……how do you know?"

Because of the disaster, I went to help you find food.

"..." Yimi was silent, but this should be the meaning of letting me go, right?

After I finished speaking, I jumped slightly towards the north, and before I landed, I spread my wings folded on my back and flew into the sky.

To the north where I haven't been in a long time.

"……I wait……"

Only Yimi's thin voice melted into the flowing wind.

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Sure enough, different places have different scenery.

It's been a long time since I left the land by the sea, so many days have passed, and many things have changed.

Leaving the land with only vines, dead trees and low mountains, if you fly north, the scenery will change slightly.

The mountains here are all connected together, and the height is shorter than the mountains where I stayed, but green plants grow on the clusters of peaks, which look better than where I am, and seem less desolate. .

But although the leaves on these trees were greener, they had no fruit.

After flying for a while, I couldn't see other creatures. It seemed that they had all gone far away to stay away from me.

Or did he not survive at all?

I changed direction, from flying north to west. I remember that if I went east, I would see mountains that stretched for an unknown number of meters and were nearly [-] meters high. If I climbed over those mountains——

Nothing at all.

There are no animals, no monsters, no plants, not even water.

Only the ground was charred to pitch black, more barren than barren.

So many days have passed, only there, nothing has changed until now.

If it flies westward... there is still no other active existence.

The ground has changed from sand and mud to gray rocks, and as far as the eye can see, there are patches of gray mountains with a height of nearly a thousand meters.

Because here from the ground to the mountain, it is all composed of gray rocks.

Even here the sky is clouded with gray leaden clouds, and the ground and the sky become one.

Here... has this place been restored to this...

If I did not remember wrong.

I flew to the top of the highest mountain, and after making sure that the top of the mountain would not be trampled down, I spread my wings and looked around.

Finally, he found the figure in a distant mountain group that was obviously lower than other places.

In the long time ago, when I was still walking aimlessly on the vast northern land, what I encountered——

A giant beast named Behemoth.

The huge body of tens of meters is completely different from mine, relying on four thick legs and legs that are strong enough to support the body, crawling between those peaks, the whole body is covered with a darker gray-black color than the surrounding rocks, with a pair of Huge blood-red eyes were staring at the mountain in front of him, which was shorter than his body.He had no tail or wings, but his mouth had white fangs apparently the same length as my claws.

He is now using his forelimbs to easily smash the mountain in front of him into pieces, then put it into his mouth neatly, chewed most of it with his teeth and swallowed it, and the remaining small part fell down his mouth. Around him, gray dust was raised.

I remember that he feeds on mountains, so the mountains around him appear shorter than the mountains on my side.

but.

Really long time no see.

Although I was just passing by at the time, it seemed... did I say hello?

correct.

Remember when he seemed to run away when he saw me?

Yes, just like now—

Hello!don't run!

When I saw him pull up his four legs and start running wildly with his back facing me, I immediately jumped from the top of the mountain and flew straight towards him.

He is known as the Behemoth Behemoth.

But ah, to me everything is the same.

Just as I was approaching him, he circled one mountain after another, crashed into those low mountains, crushed the gray rocky ground and made a loud roar, his running limbs threw up the sky behind him. Gray dust.

But it's still slow.

"Ho Ho Ho Ho! (Don't run, you!)"

To communicate with them, we can only use our real voice and our own language.

"Ho! Ho Ho! (Don't chase you!)"

Around the next mountain, I was almost on top of him.

"Ho! Ho Ho! Ho! (What the hell are you trying to do!)"

No matter what he is, it is the same in front of me.

"Ho! (Sorry!)"

Me now.

All you care about is whether you can eat it.

Swing a claw from above, and insert two claws directly into his back.

Work from the middle to the sides.

RIP!

It's been a long time since I heard such a rough voice.

The Bechymos beast has been torn in half by me from the middle of its body.

The blood in his body burst out in all directions, staining the surrounding mountain peaks and ground with a layer of lead red.

Of course including my body.

OK, let's go back.

I cut off the dead Bechymos's head, and then lifted Bechymos' body that I had torn in half with two claws.

If your head doesn't feel good, don't you?

This body should be enough for Yimi to eat.

Of course, the premise is that this thing can be eaten...

While thinking about this question, I flew back in the direction of Yimi.