Although she is a turtle, she also needs to breathe fresh air.
Fortunately, she was a turtle and could stay underground in the thin air for so long.
There was unspeakable pain all over her body, especially her hands... No... it should be her claws now, as if they were stabbed by thousands of hot sharp blades, or as if the muscles were twisted together like twists, stimulating her
of nerves.
If she can still feel pain, that means she is still alive.
Chuanyun raised his trembling paws and overcame the pain in his body to dig towards the road he came from. Although the soil was loose, the speed of digging out was much slower than when he came down.
Fortunately, she was using her lungs for circulatory breathing, and the thin air in the soil was enough for her to survive along the way.
As she scratched and scratched, her claws gradually became numb.
I don't know how long it took, but Chuanyun felt that there was more air contained in the surrounding soil, and his heart suddenly surged with hope for life.
So I speeded up and plowed upward.
Under the moonlit night, massacres of animals in nature are quietly being planned.
Chuan Yun finally dug away the last layer of soil, carefully stuck out his little head, and looked around in the silvery moonlight with squinted eyes.
The surroundings are silent, seemingly safe, but actually hidden in danger.
Just three meters away from her, under a clump of slightly withered weeds, a small snake as thick as a thumb was wrapped around a cracked turtle shell, its beady eyes slightly narrowed, and it was licking the remaining bits inside with a satisfied look on its face.
of flesh and blood.
There were baby turtle shells torn in half everywhere, with blood and internal organs spilled all over the floor.
The turtle eggs that have not had time to hatch are already broken, with blood-streaked egg fluid and parts of the body that have not yet fully developed. Countless flies and beetles are attached to them.
This shows how innocent and tragic his death was.
My heart sank, the clouds moved, I kept my legs close to the ground and ran towards the river in my memory.
Without natural enemies from the sky at night, her chance of survival is as high as 80%.
The goddess of luck seemed to be favoring her this time. There was no sudden danger along the way. It was not until she felt the thick water vapor in the air and the weeds on the ground that the grass grew lush that Chuanyun slowed down.
It seems that she is very close to the river.
At this moment, the figure of an old friend appeared in her field of vision. It was the black snake that had just been taken away by Yu Diao.
Needless to say, he had fallen into prey, disemboweled him, and died a miserable death.
All she saw was its skin, with tens of thousands of ants clinging to it, squeezing out the last bit of flesh and blood, not even an eyeball left.
The originally dark and delicate scales were badly damaged, but still shimmered under the moonlight, but they spoke of the harshness of the world.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest.
The hunter eventually becomes the prey.
Chuanyun silently walked around its body, not because she felt sad that the rabbit had died, but because she was self-aware.
The general trend of the world is vast and powerful. Those who follow it will prosper, while those who go against it will perish. The earthworms shake the trees without overestimating their own strength, and the embankments of thousands of miles will collapse in the ant nests.
She was just a little hatchling that had just hatched out of its shell. She was hungry and tired. She could slap an ant to death, but a swarm of ants was enough to make her bleed to death.
So we have to guard against it.
It is better to return to the group as soon as possible and grow up within their protection. Only in this way can she have a slight resistance in this animal world where the jungle is predatory.
She had such good intentions in her heart, but when she reached the river and was about to sink into the water, she was unprepared and was slapped onto the shore by an adult turtle about the size of a basketball.
Sichuan Yun, who was photographed lying on his back on the shore: I'll fuck you!!!
Is there any mistake, you have such a bad temper, you are a turtle, and I am also a turtle. We need to work together to build a beautiful home, and the turtle family needs us to carry it forward together.
After escaping and ascending to heaven, I finally returned to the tribe, and you actually engage in personal heroism. It's so bad, so bad!
Chuan Yun cried out in his heart and tried very hard to turn his body over on the spot, but his limbs were too short and there was nothing he could do for a while.
Really angry!
Other adult turtles nearby heard the noise, and several of them surfaced. They opened their eyelids and glanced casually, then continued to sink to the bottom of the water with their eyelids drooped.
Finally, Chuanyun finally turned his body over, but he was extremely sleepy and tired and had no extra energy to test the territorial awareness of other adult turtles nearby.
I casually nibbled on a common aquatic plant beside me, chewed it and swallowed it with a sip of water, and my stomach felt better.
Bitterness is of course bitter, but does she still have the right to be picky now?
Chuanyun temporarily decided to let it go.
I picked a piece of dead wood hidden by water plants in a small puddle, got into the hole of the tree, closed my eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
She is too tired.
In fact, most of this water area has owners, especially since there is more than one adult turtle here, with a hot temper and strong territorial awareness.
Rabbits bite when they are anxious, let alone a group of tortoises with huge bite force.
Ordinary small animals would not dare to come here, so she slept peacefully.
In his sleep, Chuanyun unconsciously retracted his head and limbs into his own shell.
The next day, when the first ray of golden light shone on the gray sky, Chuan Yun opened his eyes.
She stared blankly at the calm water surface reflected by the morning glow, and the chirping of unknown insects in the grass on both sides of the river mixed with the gurgling water, composing a dawn movement together with the early birds in the forest looking for food.
A red sun rises slowly, bringing the dawn of hope to all things.
A…dawn of hope?
Looking at his two paws that were red and swollen due to inflammation and were completely numb, Chuanyun felt confused for the first time since he came to this world.
What should she do next?
Judging from the situation last night, the clan is unreliable.
It is impossible to die. The primary purpose of our current plan is to live well.
Well, in order to stay alive, let’s start by treating these paws and finding food!
Her eyes gradually became clearer and clearer, until they became firm.
Climbing out of the dead wood, Chuanyun tried not to use his forelimbs to crawl, using the turtle shell on his chest as a support, and quietly approached the other river bank with the help of the power provided by his feet.
After a while, she found Houttuynia cordata in the grass hidden by lush aquatic plants. She also discovered a hidden wild duck nest with about seven or eight eggs lying quietly in it.
Chuan Yun lay down on each wild duck egg, swallowed his saliva, and left with some disappointment after feeling the rhythm of life coming from inside.
What a pity for this opportunity to supplement calcium and protein.
Locating a Houttuynia cordata, she turned sideways and started digging up the entire plant with her hind limbs.
The leaves of Houttuynia cordata can not only reduce inflammation, antibacterial and antiviral properties, and improve the body's immunity, but its roots can also be used as food. They are collectively called Zheergen in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan.
Currently, this is the most readily available food and medicine for a young turtle whose forelimbs were seriously injured.
For now, make sure you don’t starve to death or die of illness. As for the other things, let’s wait until the injury heals.
The movement of Chuanyun was not small. Near the river bank, several old turtles with yellow carapace and dense circles on their markings emerged from the water. They glanced at her indifferently, then closed their eyes and sank again.
Chuanyun's little heart was pounding when she saw that those turtles were more than ten times her size. Seeing that they didn't come over to beat her, she breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously slowed down her movements.
I thought that even if I become a turtle, it is still necessary to respect the elderly and love the young.
In fact, she was making a living on someone else's territory after all. She disturbed people's dreams early in the morning, and even a living person would have a temper. She was afraid of making someone angry and getting beaten up by a group.
Seeing that she was almost done digging, she carefully approached the water's edge holding the muddy Houttuynia cordata in her mouth.
He found that no turtle came to drive him away, so he boldly threw the Houttuynia cordata into the water, washed it with his head, washed his face along the way, picked up the Houttuynia cordata in his mouth, and rushed back to his place as if running away.
Temporary "nest".
——In the hollow of the dead tree in the small puddle.
She threw all the Houttuynia cordata into the tree hole, continued to use the same method several times, washed the rest and carried it back as food storage.
I don't know whether it was luck or misfortune, but she accidentally slipped into the water while carrying it. The Houttuynia cordata immediately drifted away along the current. She couldn't swim fast and couldn't catch up.
Perhaps the adult turtles in this area were looking for food, so she was not in trouble.
Just when she climbed ashore, she found two wild duck eggs in the grass near the water. She could feel the warmth coming from them when she lay down on them.
It's fresh wild duck eggs!
With joy in his heart, Chuan Yun's first smile appeared on his lips since he came to this world. From the outside, it was just a slight upward smile at the corners of his mouth, making him look quite naive.
Maybe she had hope for life in her heart. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she felt that she had regained some feeling in her forelimbs.
He pressed his forelimbs and head onto the wild duck eggs, and with a skillful kick of his hind legs, he rolled both eggs back to the "nest".
She neatly stacked Houttuynia cordata and wild duck eggs in a corner of the tree hole. She bit off a few leaves, chewed them in her mouth, mixed them with saliva and spit them on her forelimbs.
And he kept hypnotizing himself: the saliva is his own, don’t dislike it, don’t dislike it.
The 'egg-breaking teeth' on the tip of the nose pecked open the eggshell, and the crystal clear egg liquid flowed out instantly. Chuan Yun quickly stretched his head over and drank half full, and filled the remaining half of his stomach with the root of the ear.
After doing this, the whole morning passed, and at noon, the sun fell through the cracks in the dead wood into the hollow of the tree.
It's already mid-autumn, and the sun isn't too scorching when it falls on me. Instead, it feels warm.
With his stomach satisfied, Chuanyun lazily leaned against the cave and began to bask in the sun. Feeling sleepy, he gradually fell asleep.
This time, she had a sweet dream.
In the near future, she will conquer all the turtles in this water area by force, and will carry forward the turtle clan.
So that the young can be taken care of and the old can be supported.
All the turtles here are convinced by her and offer her the sweetest fruits and the freshest wild duck eggs.
Just as she was drinking the freshest egg liquid, an old turtle suddenly rushed over and shouted anxiously: "It's not good... Your Majesty, Master... The Master was captured by the monster again."
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(°ー°〃)!!
Chuan Yun suddenly opened his eyes, and could clearly see the blue sky and white clouds through the cracks in the dead trees. The breeze was gentle, mixed with the smell of grass, and he felt relaxed and happy. The birds in the forest were chirping, which was pleasant to the ear.
All of these clearly told her the fact that she had transformed into a turtle, as if everything she had experienced as a human in her previous life seemed like a lifetime ago.
And that dream was just... outrageous.
As expected, I have something to think about every day and something to dream about at night.
It's a pity that she is not Sun Wukong, she can't change seventy-two, let alone cross a hundred and eighty thousand miles with a somersault cloud.
In fact, she couldn't even kill an ant when she turned somersaults. This chapter has been completed!