In the days of surviving in the fairy forest

Rick paralyzed in the magma for a while, sucked four or five balls that floated to his mouth like jelly and slipped them into his mouth to comfort his wounded heart.

It wasn't until his belly was full that he regained his composure. He picked up Ah Li who was playing with the flame ball for fun, took a deep breath, and decided to try again.

This time he learned to be clever, instead of catching a dumpling recklessly and leaving, he observed silently for a while, found the one with the longest interval between bouncing and falling, and jumped on the dumpling while it fell back to the magma lake , the four claws hugged the dumpling tightly.

Like hugging a big exercise ball.In the process of jumping up with the flame ball, Rick suddenly had this idea.

The flame ball popped out of the hole smoothly. Rick saw the timing, and at the moment when he was bathed in bright sunlight again, he grabbed the squirrel and jumped to the right, rolling a few times among the fallen leaves in the mountain forest. Hold on.

"We're out!" Rick cheered, bit the tip of his tail, and turned around in a circle.

Ali patted the fox's ears vigorously. It was rare that he did not celebrate their victory with Rick.

"What's wrong?" Rick asked suspiciously, and followed Ali's gaze forward, "Are you saying you want us to go there?"

"There seems to be something wrong with this volcanic forest," the squirrel said seriously. "When we first came here, the leaves didn't fall on the ground at all, and they all stayed on the trees—how long have we been in the cave? "

Rick looked around.

There were three or two leaves hanging on the bare tree trunks, and the ground was covered by layers of fallen leaves. The magma and flames in memory, and those bright red and enchanting trees had long since disappeared.

"How long have we been in the cave?" Squirrel repeated his question again, trying not to show his broken emotions on his face, "It's almost winter! Could it be that more than 30 days have passed!"

This is impossible, they worked hard, and they didn't delay for more than a day in the cave!

"Impossible," Rick said calmly, stretched out his claws and moved the squirrel to the top of his head, pricked up his ears vigilantly, and slowly backed away from the volcanic forest in his impression, "This is a volcanic forest, even the leaves are flames, so High temperature, how can there be winter?"

Rick tends to think that this is some kind of weird natural phenomenon unique to the volcanic forest.But no matter what, the turkey was also eaten, and the underground cave was also seen. The two of them were so weak that they couldn't even count as dishes, so there was no need to stay in this mysterious and unknown area.

Curiosity didn't just kill cats, it killed foxes and squirrels too!

He retreated again and again, seeing that there was no danger for the time being, he turned around and ran away.

After running two steps, there was another "bang".The poor little fox was tripped and hit his head in the thick mud. It didn't hurt, but it was very embarrassing.

"Rick!!" The squirrel, who was implicated innocently, fell headlong into the pile of flaming leaves not far away, choking on the mud in his mouth, "You have fallen several times!"

Rick got up awkwardly.

It wasn’t long before the experience of tripping over a rock in the cave and almost dying, the fox with lingering fears focused most of his eyes on the ground when he was running, but it was clearly a flat open space, why did he suddenly have ups and downs after he landed——

Maybe I was wrong.Rick felt uneasy, but he didn't tell Squirrel about it, allowing Ali to climb on top of his head again, and then walked out step by step cautiously.

He walked slowly, and Ah Li thoughtfully did not urge him, standing on top of the fox's head with his hips akimbo, poised his head vigilantly and looked around to avoid surprise attacks by unknown creatures.

The volcanic forest has returned to its usual tranquility, only the chirping laughter not far away is the flame balls jumping to the ground one after another and falling back to the magma lake.

The location of the burrow was not far from the edge of the volcanic forest. After walking for a while, Rick had already seen the path when he arrived, and he could leave as soon as he saw it.

The ground suddenly shook.

This vibration is not serious, nor is it as terrible as an earthquake or a volcanic eruption. It is a bit similar to the trampoline that Rick once played. Suspended in the air, they suddenly joined together and turned into monstrous flames, burning everything around them.

The temperature of the flame is not too high, not much different from that of the magma. Rick and Ali are in it, it seems like they have taken a warm hot bath.It's just that the bouncing ground and the bright flames made the foxes and mice unable to open their eyes. The moment before they couldn't help covering their eyes, Rick saw the turkeys laughing and queuing up into the flames , into nothingness.

When the flames subsided, Rick put down his claws, raised his head, and slowly opened his eyes.

magma.flames.Bright red trees.

Everything is back to normal.

"This is impossible, how could it be like this," Ali said incoherently, rubbing his face in a daze, "How did these trees turn back? Those leaves must not be glued with caterpillar silk!"

Rick said nothing.

He squatted on the ground, his nose wrinkled tightly, and he spit out a steady stream of flames, but the condensed ones were not the flame balls he had already used with ease, but flame balls about the size of a palm.

"Huozhiji?!" Ali blurted out in disbelief.

"Since it's my summoned creature, why don't you change its name," Rick casually picked one up, rua contentedly licking the soft and bouncy balls, "How about calling them to store food?"

The fox paw pointed to the dumplings sitting in front of him, "This is only No. [-] grain reserve, that is only No. [-], and that is only No. [-]," and then patted the one in his paw, "This one is called the small one." Bar!"

What kind of strange naming method is this, A Li can't laugh or cry: "So you can spit out four?"

"It's not spit out!" The fox frowned, angrily, "It was summoned with flames! Usually they are still in the magma."

When he was shrouded in the flames, he had a vague premonition. He tried it just now, and he really successfully summoned the flame ball to his side. However, compared with the enhanced version in the magma, this ball has shrunk in terms of size and jumping ability. Too much, in the final analysis, apart from storing food, there is really no other use.

"Don't say that, why do you have to name it as Reserve Grain?" The squirrel has already sunk into the soft body of Reserve Grain No. [-], rubbing its cheeks happily against its smooth and soft outer skin, "Use it as a pillow It's also very good."

Rick: "Chicken jelly."

Ali: "..."

Just like that, behind the fox and the squirrel there were four more dumplings called food reserves, bouncing along all the way, and the hot flames on their bodies burned the ground one after another into dark pits.

When he was about to walk out of the volcanic forest, Rick's footsteps suddenly stopped.

The squirrel straightened up sharply: "What's wrong?"

"Did you hear—" Rick hesitated.

He seemed to hear the voice of someone begging him to stay.

It's just that the sound was ethereal and weak, the fox's ears had just picked up a little lingering sound, and then it turned into a breeze and scattered, and even the phantom of the foam could not be left behind.

Rick shook his head, turned around and put away the four flame balls, and then stepped away from the volcanic forest.

"Nothing, maybe I heard wrong."

The squirrel gave an "oh" half understanding.

……

Even if you don't count the fact that you finally got the skill to summon the fire ball, Rick and Ari's journey can be said to be full of rewards.

The squirrel Ali has a strong fire resistance, so he is no longer afraid of being accidentally injured by Rick when he uses the fire ball, and Rick's fire ability, after soaking in the magma for a long time and eating more than a dozen fire chickens, has been obtained. With a huge improvement, he can even condense three flame balls at the same time, and control them to rotate around him.

On the way back, they deliberately stopped in the wilderness for a while to visit the small tree named "Rest Point".

"Xiong Da said, if the forest is destroyed, where else can we live..."

From a long distance, Rick and Ali saw the familiar thin tree.It's just different from when I came here, the bare tree trunk is now full of birds, they are crowded close together, looking at the small tree with bright eyes, and "wow" from time to time as the story progresses.

And Xiaoshu's voice, compared to the gentle and weak voice before, was a little more confident.

Rick couldn't help rolling his eyes and laughing.He stretched out his claws and tugged at the squirrel's tail: "We seem to have done a good thing."

Ali was already happily greeting Xiaoshu.

Perhaps the combination of a squirrel and a fox cub looked too weak and harmless, and the birds all over the tree did not fly away, but stared at them curiously.One of them fluttered its wings suddenly, pointing at Rick with its feather tip: "It's you! You are the fox who talked about Pleasant Goat!"

The ground beside him suddenly split open, and thick tree roots broke through the ground, carrying Rick and Ali to the side of the little tree.Seeing them again, Xiaoshu was very enthusiastic: "Good friends of the old man! You are back from the volcanic forest!"

"What? Did you go to the volcanic forest?"

The birds chirped.

"It's so scary there, I don't dare to fly anywhere in the sky."

"It is said that a bird was not convinced and wanted to pass through the volcanic forest. When it came out, all its feathers were burned off, and it became a bald bird!"

"Is the volcanic forest so scary?" Xiao Shu was also surprised, "I remember that there used to be many animals there."

He paused, the branches swayed, thinking in distress: "Before...how long ago?"

The little tree who was [-] years old at the time and often fell asleep because of long-term boredom and loneliness fell silent subtly.

Rick scratched his chin in embarrassment, bathed in countless beady eyes, curious or eager.

"We almost didn't come out." The squirrel said with lingering fear.As an animal that lives on the branches for a long time, he gets along well with the birds. When he climbed up the branches in twos and threes, a few birds squeezed in intimately, leaving some space for him.

And Rick had already reluctantly agreed to their request to tell another story under the double coaxing of the little tree and the birds.