Ender finally coaxed the black panther Edian (Xiao Hei) like coaxing a child, calming its dissatisfaction.

Ander easily jumped onto the giant tree. He didn't need to help with his hands. He could run up the vertical trunk like a flat ground with his feet and toes, and finally stopped at a branch fork.

It is said to be the branch forked, but because this giant tree is too big, the diameter of the main trunk alone is close to twenty meters, so the branch of this tree has an area of ​​twenty-seven or eight square meters, which is like a small platform.

If someone looks up from the ground, they won't see such a space above.

On this naturally formed platform, Ander specially found a wooden plank, combined with vines, bark, animal skin and leaves. After a few days, he built a small wooden house here, and a floor was emptied with wooden planks to prevent rain from seeping into the house when it rained.

This is to allow Xiao Hei to have a place to hide from the rain when it rains, and not to hide in a dark and wet cave.

Although wild black panthers don’t care much about being exposed to the rain occasionally, when the weather is cold, the fur is filled with rain. Moreover, Xiao Hei has grown up with humans since he was a child and has long been accustomed to a comfortable life. Although Xiao Hei prefers to live in the forest because of his nature, he never minds a more comfortable resting environment - he even likes to eat human food such as spicy sauce and roast chicken.

This small cabin is a bit similar to the doghouse built in the yard of Karron's house when Xiao Hei was in Hank Town, but the area is larger and it is all handmade by Ander. The structure is quite exquisite and there is a complex door buckle. This is to prevent animals like apes and other animals that can live in trees when Xiao Hei is away.

In fact, when Xiao Hei pretended to be a pet cat at Carron's house, although he had already had his own independent nest, he spent most of his time squeezing on Ender's bed and sleeping with Ender.

But later, Xiao Hei grew older and couldn't even sleep with Ende's big bed, so Xiao Hei had to go to bed in his own nest.

On the ground, the black panther jumped up, stretched out his claws, grabbed the bark and levered to trot up the straight trunk.

One person and one leopard laughed and played on the small platform for a while before they slowly calmed down.

The black panther lies horizontally on the platform, while the boy leans his body against the black panther's belly, looking up at the blue sky exposed in the gaps of the leaves.

Each person and leopard snuggled together, no longer making any sounds. They became silent. Some birds singing, which instead made the forest more quiet.

The boy moved a few moments and adjusted his posture to find the most comfortable lying position on the Black Panther, and closed his eyes and entered a false sleep state; the Black Panther Adean made a comfortable sound of "hulu" and placed his big head on his two front paws and leaned down, and slowly closed his eyes.

The boy's breathing gradually became long and distant, and then became slight indefinite; the black panther's body was slightly up and down, and a slight collision sound of "klap kalap kalap" began to appear at the spine, faintly as if the metal and iron were striking each other.

The invisible force fields slowly spread from the body of the boy and the black panther, and then merged into one without any barriers, wrapping each person and the leopard together.

Their bodies slowly rise and fall at the same rhythm. If someone stands next to them and observes carefully, you can see that the muscles and blood vessels under the surface of their skin are expanding, contracting, and gently moving according to some strange pattern!

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Time passes by little by little, and the sky gradually turns yellow from the clear sky.

As the sky darkens, the invisible force field begins to slowly gather.

Ander opened his eyes, looked up at the sky, reached out to rub Black Panther's big head, and stood up with the force, saying, "Xiao Hei, it's not too early, I'm going back. Next time I come, I'll bring you something delicious."

The black panther also stood up.

It stood beside Ender, with its back height reaching Ender's neck, almost comparable to the height of a horse. If the black panther's length is much longer than a horse, this black panther is much larger than a horse.

"Ao--" Hearing Ander say he was leaving, the Black Panther roared gently, then turned around and walked into the small house on the platform, ran back with a bag in it.

The bag was filled with ordinary clothes. Ander took off the animal skin around his waist and put it in the bag. He took out the clothes in the bag and put them on one by one.

In a blink of an eye, Ande's image changed from a savage in the forest to a well-dressed and gentle and gentle boy.

"Okay, Dahei, I'm really leaving. Before the river freezes, I will come to see you and bring you some reserved grain. If there is still not enough food in winter, you can go to my house in the logging farm, and I will leave some food in the house."

Ende hugged the big black panther's head and reminded him earnestly, and each person and the leopard pushed each other with their foreheads for a while before he reluctantly separated.

The black panther stood on the high branches and watched Ande step on the treetops slowly away. Until she couldn't see Ande's shadow, she jumped down listlessly and disappeared in the middle of the dark forest again.

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The sun has set, and the sky is cloudless, leaving only a sunset glow as the setting sun.

For Baron Hank, the first lumberyard, the past day was another good weather suitable for cutting trees.

The Baron Hank's territory covers an area of ​​about 150 square kilometers, which is considered a small Baron Corps. Its economic and political center is Hank Town, which is also the only town in the Baron Corps.

Hank Town is located at the foot of the Dragon Ridge Mountains, outside the Black Forest, about ten kilometers away from the Black Forest.

This place was originally just a small village with dozens of people, or in other words, it could only be regarded as a temporary place for hunters to enter the Black Forest to hunt. Apart from some simple wooden houses and fences, there was even no formal guardrail.

However, this situation changed more than 20 years ago.

More than twenty years ago, the Kingdom of Odd ended the seven-year horseshoe war with the Kingdom of Des, and the two exhausted countries finally got back on the negotiating table.

The specific negotiation process has nothing to do with this book, so I will not go into details here.

Anyway, peace has finally come, everyone can take a breath.

However, the arrival of peace is not simply good news for the royal family of the Odd Kingdom - after seven years of war, it is a huge burden on national strength. When the war is over and rewarded by merits is needed, the royal family has no money.

What's worse is that the existing territory is all dominated by a master, and it is even more impossible to reward it on a large scale.

The royal family in this world does not have absolute dominance. They are more like the most powerful lords, leading a group of small lords to form a kingdom. The king is like the leader of the alliance, rather than the emperor who is killed and killed.

If the royal family rewards the territory directly under the royal family and loses too much land, the royal family will most likely not be able to become a royal family.

However, the meritorious ministers in the war also had to reward - merits need to be rewarded, which is the basis of royal rule, especially military merits, which cannot be discounted at all. Any ruler who delays military merits will eventually pay a bloody price in this not peaceful world.

In desperation, the Kingdom has re-emerged the pioneering knight system - if you want territory, then go to explore the wilderness.

The good thing is that there is no limit to the development of the Knights - if you have the ability, you can develop a duke and get it out, and the royal family will still dare to admit that you are the duke. Anyway, the royal family can get an extra tax, so what's wrong? But the prerequisite is that you can develop it out and defend your own territory.

Therefore, over the past twenty years, many pioneering lords have been established around the Kingdom of Odd - the Black Forest and the Poisonous Water Swamp on the other side of the Kingdom, which are the places where the most pioneering Knight lords have been established.

Of course, the poisonous water swamp and the Black Forest are not good places - this is also conceivable. After all, if it was really a good place, how could the subsequent knights take over to explore? The predecessors had long occupied these territory.

The Baron Hank is a very successful pioneering leader.

More than 20 years ago, Hank Joseph, a knight who retired from the battlefield, obtained a certificate of pioneering knights based on his merits in the war, and brought a group of old friends who retired with him to this barren land and establish his own knight leader.

As a knight, Hank Joseph's strength is said to be mediocre. Although he is already a strong man to ordinary people, he is just like that among real knights - anyway, he is far away from the high knights, so I guess he will never expect anything in his life.

However, as a knight, Mr. Hank Joseph was not very outstanding, but as a lord, his wrists were truly extraordinary.
Chapter completed!