In the days of surviving in the fairy forest

Elder Gulu was startled by the cry of the elephant tree. After realizing what mistake he had made, he hurriedly put away the berry cheesecake and rushed to the side of the elephant tree to comfort him clumsily.

Rick didn't care about the honey badger anymore, the chains of flames disintegrated into sparks, he let go of his claws, ran towards the elephant tree, condensed a ball of flames and threw it on the face of the purple leopard, and scooped up the squirrel by the way. Sit on top of your head.

Before the purple leopard and leaf honey badger could react and prepare to escape, the worm silk had tied them up firmly, and Fatty waved his claws up carelessly, hanging them with the hyena group.

The big trees next to the open space are full of hyenas, and when the wind blows, they howl in terror. If the sound is not hoarse and unpleasant, it is a bit like the wind chimes that Rick made out of broken pottery shards and hung in front of the stone house. .

"Little Elephant Tree! Hold back, stop crying," Foxpaw patted the tree trunk, Rick tried hard to hide the anxiety in his voice, and coaxed him gently, "You are brave little Elephant Tree, don't cry now, When you grow up, I will cook delicious food for you every day, okay?"

Elephant Tree's cries stopped abruptly.He sobbed: "Really?"

"Really!" Rick nodded again and again, flicking his tail against the branches of the elephant tree, in order to divert his attention, he began to describe vividly, "We can go fishing together, the fish soup is fresh and tender, sprinkled with chili mushroom powder, One sip will warm your stomach. There are also meat floss cheese sticks, dried beef, wrapped in a layer of cheese, and then rolled in the meat floss..."

The story of the little fox is very interesting, even the description of the food is vivid, Xiaoshu listens engrossed, and the grunts can’t stop drooling. Ali was even told by him that he was hungry, so he found a few pieces of butter jerky from his backpack , share it with Pangpang.

Even the hyenas tied to the tree stopped whining and cursing, and listened carefully with their ears pricked up.

Rick said that his mouth was dry, seeing that the elephant tree stopped crying, he breathed a sigh of relief, stopped narrating tiredly, found a sweet fruit and took a bite, the crisp and juicy flesh comforted his almost smoldering throat Not a lot.

Looking up, both the Gulu under the tree and the hyena on the tree stared at him with hungry and eager eyes. Rick was almost scared out of the plane's ears: "What are you doing?"

Elder Gulu shook his tentacles in embarrassment, and just about to speak, Xiangshu's immature voice suddenly sounded: "I want to bear fruit, be born, and eat cheese!"

"Yeah," Rick rubbed the elephant tree branch, "don't worry, let's take it step by step. Wait until the sun rises—"

"Wait!" The leaves of the elephant tree rustled, and the trunk swayed from side to side, as if shaking his head, "I want it now!"

Rick was taken aback for a moment, suddenly having a bad premonition.

Elder Gulu was also anxious: "Wait, what are you going to do? Don't be impulsive!"

Their blocking doesn't make any sense.Immersed in the temptation of delicious food, the elephant tree gave birth to flowers with excitement and anticipation: "Blossom! Fruit! Become a small elephant! Eat cheese!"

"You can't bloom now!" Rick jumped up suddenly, almost hanging himself on the branch of the elephant tree, the fox claws kicked in the air, and shouted in a panic, "It's still night, there is no sun, if you can't absorb enough natural Power, you will wither and die!"

He wanted to cry now, and almost wanted to go back in time and paw paws to the self who was so enthusiastic about describing the food.

On the top of the branches of the elephant tree, pale white flowers sprout and are ready to bloom.

Seeing that the blossoming matter could not be changed, Pang Pang flew out and began to patrol the nearby curly-haired sun sheep.

Ali also worked hard to mobilize his own racial skills-his ability comes from the natural gifts of mammoths. Although it is still his own racial skills in the final analysis, it also carries the breath of natural power. The tree stores energy as fruit.

Under the nervous gaze of Rick and the Gollums, the petals slowly unfolded.It is the outermost petals first, and then gradually blooms layer by layer, like a snow elf wearing white training at night, pure and peaceful.

However, everyone had no intention of appreciating this stunning scene.Chubby was panting heavily, holding four or five curly-haired sun sheep that hadn't woken up in his paws. Rick restrained the curly-haired sun sheep with his thoughts and shook them vigorously up and down.

The curly-haired sun sheep was frightened, and its whole body lit up with dazzling incandescent light, like a string of pitiful light bulbs, controlled by the power of thought, unable to move, and could only float to the side of the elephant tree.

Before it floats closer, the elephant tree is surrounded by bright rays of light.

The bright moonlight fell on the stamens of the elephant tree flower, forming a cold white beam of light.The night is like ink, which makes this beam of moonlight look unique and cold, and the petals of tree-like flowers move regularly, as if they are swallowing the essence of the moon.

"... the moon is okay?" Rick was shocked, his thoughts dissipated uncontrollably, and the curly-haired sun sheep fell to the ground one after another.

The curly-haired sun sheep have woken up from their sleep, but they still don't understand the situation. Looking left and right, it's either a grunt or a hyena, and there's a scary fox in front of them, so they can't help but shrink into a ball, and take a few steps back cautiously. Ignoring them, they ran away with their hooves running wildly.

Elder Gulu was silent for a moment.He just asserted that elephant trees must bloom during the day, which was slapped in the face, and Rick and the others were frightened around, and couldn't help showing embarrassment: "The mammoth did say before that they are in the stage of elephant trees, and they will not bloom until the daytime." Gollum of results."

As for why the elephant tree cannot bloom at night, the giant mammoth did not mention it, and Elder Gulu defaulted that it was caused by the inability to absorb the natural energy of the sun.That doesn't seem to be the case now.

"Maybe it's because of the dark clouds at night?" Ali guessed imaginatively, "If the natural energy is absorbed halfway and the moon is suddenly covered, it will be over."

The Gulus raised their heads together, looked at the full moon in the sky, and worried about the dark clouds passing by.

Fatty, who was exhausted, lay on top of the fox's head, his transparent wings were drooping, and he couldn't even lift his paws.Rick patted him comfortingly, looked at the elephant tree flower that was slowly absorbing the energy of the moonlight, and was so nervous that its tail was clamped against its hind legs.

After nearly two hours of bright beams of moonlight flowing among the petals, there was finally movement.The petals withered slowly and melted into the rich moonlight, the beam of light gradually became thinner, and the remaining starlight also drifted away under the blowing of the breeze, and quickly disappeared between the sky and the earth.

A small and exquisite moon-white fruit hangs on the top of the branch of the elephant tree.

The little fox shook its tail happily: "Successful!"

There was a moment of silence.The next moment, cheers resounded through the forest: "Successful!"

Ah Li grabbed the fox's tail and danced happily in a circle. The grunts formed into stones and collided with each other to express their inner joy. Pang Pang flew in the air, using worm silk to pull the hyenas and inspectors hanging from the tree. Go back and treat their panic-stricken roars one after another as the soundtrack of the scene.

"Wait," Elder Gulu yelled loudly, "Something seems wrong!"

Stopping the bouncing movements, Rick followed the prestige.

From the roots, the elephant tree is gradually reduced to powder.At the same time, the moon-white fruit on the top of the tree became bigger and bigger, and when the trunk of the elephant tree disappeared, the fruit was already about the size of a fox.

"Blooms and bears fruit," Rick was surprised, "so the baby elephant tree is really going to be born directly?"

Then he has to think about what nutritious and delicious food the cub can eat.Speaking of which, can he take away the cub of the mammoth?Let the cute Gulus always feel very uneasy when they bring their children!

"It shouldn't be! Gulu!" Elder Gulu seemed about to pass out, "Elephant trees won't bear fruit until autumn! It's only spring now, so what if you suffer from malnutrition!"

The last branch with the fruit turned to dust.The moon white fruit floated in the air, and slowly fell to the ground. The thin peel separated from the pulp during the fall, turning into a parachute, and the pulp burst from the top.

A baby elephant shook its long trunk, shaking off the pieces of pulp on its head, and blinked its beautiful dark brown eyes. Among the countless animals looking at him, it accurately captured the gaze of the little fox.He is still not very good at walking, staggering on his feet, trying to run in the direction of Rick, with his big fan-like ears dangling, he shouted affectionately: "Little fox! I like it!"

Rick rolled his eyes.He stroked the little elephant's long trunk, and then rubbed his chubby face: "Lively and healthy, what a cute little elephant cub, don't worry, there is absolutely no malnutrition."

Elder Gulu said messily, "...but when a mammoth cub is born, it is usually as tall as that big tree."

Looking at the tree that was at least five or six meters long, Rick scratched his head.He stretched out his claws, tiptoed on the tips of the hind paws, tried to reach the little elephant's head, and then gestured for his own.

"Just over one meter," the fat worm silk rolled up, and measured the elephant from its feet to its head. "There's no need to make gestures. It's not even high enough for the bushes."

Rick was helpless.

"I will continue to grow taller," the baby elephant shook his head, trying to stretch his nose high, to show that he could become taller and bigger. "The growth rate of a mammoth that absorbs moonlight is not the same as that of a mammoth that absorbs sunlight. Same!"

As early as when the mammoths planted elephant trees, they had told him about the various growth methods.Although the giant mammoths meant to let the baby elephants wait until autumn to grow up, just when the mammoth herds migrated past here, protected the elephant fruit to grow into cubs, and then took the cubs away directly—but he didn’t meet Little fox!

He is very smart, knowing that if he continues to grow in the shape of an elephant tree, the fox will not be able to stay with him all the time, so he has to work hard to become a small elephant and follow the fox.

Rick smiled wryly and touched the little elephant's head, then turned to look at Gulu, and discussed: "How about I take the little elephant back first? Then I will send a message to the birds flying south, telling the mammoth herd that their cubs are coming soon." News of the birth."

Elder Gulu didn't hesitate, and nodded directly.Not to mention that the baby elephant obviously wants to follow Rick, even if he stops it, it doesn't make sense, and their Gulu tribe is indeed not suitable for raising cubs of other tribes.

Besides, after Rick 'inadvertently' mentioned the various delicacies of the gourd baboons and the sand currency exchange system, he has decided to take the Gulu people to the mountain grape forest from time to time to exchange various delicacies, and then he can often see the living conditions of the baby elephants .

"There are small elephants, if the inspectors dare to make trouble, the Gulu tribe will definitely not sit idly by," Elder Gulu said seriously, his murderous sharp eyes swept over the hyena group hanging on the tree and the inspectors, "These Leave the guys to us! Don't worry, they won't appear in the forest again."

Pangpang originally wanted to deal with them directly with caterpillar silk, but when he saw the murderous look of the Gulus, he shrugged indifferently and flew to Rick's side.

"Then let's go back," he said, poking the little elephant's ear curiously with the tip of his paw. "Little elephant, if I remember correctly, you can't eat meat?"

"I don't know, it should be okay?" The elephant answered him, looking up and looking around, feeling fresh and curious about everything in the forest, stretching out its nose from time to time, rolling up beautiful flowers, and stuffing them into the backpacks of Rick and Ali inside.

After saying goodbye to the Gollums, they walked back to the vine forest.Ali bounced around the little elephant, constantly introducing the trees, flowers and fruits, and the animals that passed by from time to time. The two lively and active guys quickly became familiar with each other.Fatty lay on the tip of the fox's tail, yawned sleepily, and soon fell asleep with his head drooping.

Rick listened to the squirrel and the baby elephant chatting happily, while paying attention to the surrounding environment.The fox's paws stepped on the green grass, soft and silent.

"Why do I always feel like I've forgotten something?" He murmured in a low voice, feeling a little uncomfortable for some reason, and was about to think deeply when the squirrel patted his paw and signaled him not to look at the beautiful purple rose flowers in the distance, so the subtle The sense of loss disappeared with the wind, leaving no trace in his heart.

It should be an illusion, he thought nonchalantly.

……

Gulu Valley Forest.

"Is anyone there?"

"Rick! Ali! Gulu? Fatty, don't scare me!"

"Hiss, whoever you are in the back, at least give me a hand and pull my tail, okay..."

The waste who fell headfirst into the pit, with its two front paws stuck and its back paws facing the sky, could only cry weakly.

There were obviously many animals just now, why is there no sound at all now?He really can't get out by himself! !

Help, he also wants to pick evening primroses for the queen bee!Time is running out!