The stone was startled by the noise and jumped up, then quickly hid behind a large tree.
Luo Pipi looked at Shi Tou's agile movements with great shame. This kid is not a martial arts master, but a professional thief, right?
"Humans?"
The stone, hiding behind the tree, was taken aback when it heard the slightly crisp sound.
Luo Pipi was also very surprised. Although she reacted faster than Shi Tou, she was not as agile as Shi Tou. At this moment, she was exposed to this unknown creature.
Squinting for a long time, Luo Pipi could only vaguely make out that the creature in front of her was humanoid, small in size, and probably female: "I am human, what are you?"
The Crimson Forest is teeming with magical beasts, but under normal circumstances, humanoid creatures shouldn't appear there. This creature in front of me, speaking very clearly, is rather strange.
"I am an orc. Have you seen my pet?" The creature claiming to be an orc was about five or six meters away from Luo Pipi. It seemed that it wasn't just humans who were wary.
Luo Pipi was a little confused: "Pet? What pet? Duo'er, come out."
Stone: "..." Are you betraying us?
"I don't know anything about pets," Stone said, shaking her head. Pets are all the same—none of them are good, especially her damn bun!
"The Soul-Eating Beast has appeared. Why isn't Mao'er here?" The orc muttered to himself, his voice soft but clear in the silent forest.
Suddenly, a thought struck Stone: a Soul-Devouring Beast? Mao'er?
Wait, before Luo Pipi knocked on the door, what was she doing? Was she throwing yarn into the basin? And then? The Soul-Eating Beast suddenly appeared... could it be...?
"I'm sorry. I don't think we can help you find your pet." By now, Luo Pipi had adjusted to the light and carefully examined the other person for a while. Luo Pipi was certain that the other person was still a minor: "Where are your parents and clan? Shall we send you back?"
Orcs, like humans, are social animals, and under normal circumstances, they live with their blood relatives and will never move unless absolutely necessary. This means there is likely an orc clan here.
only……
Luo Pipi couldn't understand why any orc family would be so foolish as to settle in the Crimson Forest.
"No need. I need to go find my pet." The other person's voice was indifferent, and before Luo Pipi could speak again, she turned and quickly left. Strangely, in this pitch-black night, she seemed to have night vision, moving very quickly, and in no time, she had disappeared into the night.
Frowning, Luo Pipi looked around for a moment. Then, turning to the stone, she asked, "Can you climb trees?"
Stone glared at him: "Are you kidding me?!"
Anyone can climb a tree. The key is what kind of tree it is. Heaven knows what kinds of trees grow in the Crimson Forest. Each one is tens or even hundreds of meters tall. Even if she could climb up, she'd be scared, wouldn't she?
"We don't need to climb to the top; we can just find a tree branch to spend the night in." Luo Pipi knew how terrifying the trees in the Crimson Forest were. She quickly added, "We didn't bring any lighting equipment; the forest nights are terrifying."
Stone looked up at the towering trees and suddenly had an urge to let Rice Noodles out and have her carry him up the tree.
"Aren't you a three-star battle qi master? Climbing a tree shouldn't be a problem, right?" Luo Pipi asked again when he saw that Shi Tou hadn't moved.
Is the Samsung Fighter related to climbing trees?
Stone looked at Luo Pipi speechlessly. When she took the Qi Master qualification exam, she didn't have to climb trees: "I can go up, but the problem is you. How are you going to get up?"
Luo Pipi hesitated for a moment, but gritted her teeth and said, "I can climb up!"
So confident...
Stone's lips twitched, and he simply crossed his arms and looked at her: "Okay, you go up first, I'll keep watch."
Luo Pipi looked at the stones, then at the towering trees, and finally made up his mind, took out a pair of shoes and immediately changed.
Stone stared wide-eyed at Luo Pipi. They were close enough that she could see her quite clearly. Those shoes didn't seem like ordinary shoes; the soles were covered in a dense array of sharp spikes, and the toes were also very sharp.
Looking at these shoes, Stone couldn't help but think, "These things are far more lethal than the high heels of my previous life! One stomp and you're definitely crippled."
Even with these seemingly professional-looking shoes, and with a pair of daggers to help her climb, Luo Pipi finally managed to climb a relatively thick branch after much effort. It wasn't that she was useless; it's just that all the trees in the Crimson Forest were like that—thick, smooth trunks, making it difficult to find a foothold.
"Phew, that should be enough now." Luo Pipi really didn't have high expectations for herself; she was satisfied as soon as she climbed ten meters off the ground.
Stone stared at her speechlessly, then pulled a bamboo dragonfly from his ring's storage space...
"You!" Luo Pipi watched in disbelief as Shi Tou used the bamboo dragonfly to float five meters above the ground, then used the tree trunk to float higher and higher, reaching her side in just a few seconds: "You little devil, you did this on purpose, didn't you?!"
"What do you mean by doing it on purpose?" Stone looked at Luo Pipi innocently, then looked around for a place to stand. Soon she found a satisfactory spot: "You said you could climb trees."
Luo Pipi watched as the stone slowly floated up and landed right above her head, and she was immediately furious: "Why did you choose that one of so many places?"
"This is a great spot!" After looking around for a while, the stone finally stopped two meters above Luo Pipi's head. It was a place where several branches intersected, and not only were the branches thick, but there was also a small, relatively flat area where one could stand.
Luo Pipi was furious, but there was nothing she could do. She just wanted to wait until dawn to see how that brat would get down there.
While thinking, Luo Pipi took out a rope from her spatial equipment and tied herself securely to the tree. She didn't want to fall off while she was asleep.
Stone saw it too, of course, but she went even further. She pulled out a thick quilt from her ring space. Putting it under her was one thing, but more importantly, it would block Luo Pipi's view.
Hehe, she didn't want to stay up in the tree all night. Well, she had her own bedroom inside the ring's space!
After patiently waiting for Luo Pipi to fall asleep, Shi Tou directly entered the ring's space. Although she remembered the yarn incident, she was too tired and decided to go back the next morning.
Early the next morning...
"Baozi... Ah!" Shi Tou had just stepped into the pet area and was subconsciously calling out for Baozi when he was suddenly startled by what was in front of him.
"What the hell are you?!"
The once spacious pet area was now mostly crammed with something. Upon closer inspection, it looked rather familiar.
"Yarn?" Is this yarn? Yarn that's hundreds of times bigger?!
"Quack quack, Master! I can't live like this anymore!" A plump white bun rolled and tumbled toward the stone, followed by a waddling little yellow duck.
"What happened? Baozi, is this yarn?" Shi Tou swallowed hard, looking at the giant yarn in the distance, and asked with difficulty.
"Giggle, it's yarn! Master, what did you do to the yarn? Why did it suddenly swell up?"
It's swollen...
This word really is...
Stone didn't know what expression to use when facing Baozi, so he could only look at Yarn: "Yarn, are you still alive? Can you talk?"
"Bad guy, bastard, stinky egg, waaaaah, the yarn wants to shrink, wants to shrink back!" Poor yarn cried, it seems that being big isn't so pleasant after all.
"Turn back?" Stone began to think deeply. She had just thrown the yarn into the basin, which wasn't empty; it contained water. In other words, the yarn's sudden enlargement was likely related to the water. But if it shrank...
"Will you shrink if I dry you out?" This was just Stone's guess, and even Stone didn't have any hope for it.
"I want to turn back! Waaah, bad guy, turn the yarn back!" The yarn didn't listen to the stone at all and just kept crying.
Stone really wanted to scratch the wall; how was she supposed to know what to do? However, remembering what the orc had said yesterday, Stone had a new question: "Yarn, did you have an owner before?"
Yarn continued to cry, completely ignoring Stone's expression.
Baozi, however, became curious: "Hehe, the yarn has an owner? That's great, hurry up and throw the yarn away!"
"You're the one we want to keep, and you're the one we want to throw away. Aren't you annoying?!" Stone kicked the bun away. "What the hell? Your owner is looking for you. How about I take you back?"
"Master?" Yarn finally answered, "What is a master? Can you eat it?"
You glutton!
Stone gritted his teeth and charged at Thread, grabbing the thread by the hair and escaping from the ring space without a second thought.
But impulsiveness is the devil, isn't it?!
The stone, so enraged that it had completely forgotten that it had been on a branch of a large tree before it came in yesterday, and although the branch was thick, the yarn was even thicker... and stronger!
What does it feel like to fall from the sky?
What does it feel like to fall from the sky with a huge ball of yarn on your head?
To be honest, Stone had no desire to experience such an earth-shattering sensation, so as soon as she sensed something was wrong, she instantly vanished into the ring's space, though the yarn remained outside...
"Aww! Luo Pipi!" After finally calming her heartbeat, Shi Tou jumped up. Well, if her memory served her right, Luo Pipi had slept under her last night, right?
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Want to know what terrible things will happen to Pipi?
Okay, we'll continue tomorrow.
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Chapter 203 Meeting an Old Friend Between Life and Death
This time, Stone knew to be more careful, so she used a bamboo dragonfly to get out. The bamboo dragonfly's levitation ability wasn't actually very strong; it could only hold a person at a height of about five meters. Therefore, when Stone came out of the ring space, she slowly descended from that height.
Staring wide-eyed down at the ground, Shi Tou hesitated. Should she run away immediately, or collect Luo Pi Pi's body first and then run away?
After hesitating for a long time, and thinking about how well Luo Pipi had taken care of her a few days ago, Shi Tou decided to go down and collect her body first!
Slowly descending to the ground, the stone looked at the yarn, which seemed to have grown even larger, and said with great resentment, "Yarn, can you still move? I don't have the strength to move you."
The yarn remained silent. The stone circled it for a long time before finally arriving at a plausible conclusion: the yarn had been stunned.
Actually, she didn't dare climb that high last night, right? Now look what happened, she knocked out the yarn and killed the leather. But the problem is, what do we do now? Are we supposed to bury the yarn along with her?
"Help, help me..."
Just as Stone was about to take a knife to cut the yarn open and take a look, he heard a very faint cry for help coming from under the yarn.
Huh? Could it be that Luo Pipi isn't dead yet?
Stone's eyes lit up instantly, and he bent down and called out, "Luo Pipi, are you still alive?"
"save……"
This time the sound was even fainter, and soon there was no sound from below.
Stone reached out and pushed, but couldn't move it. He brandished the knife, staring at it for a long time, but ultimately couldn't bring himself to chop the yarn into pieces. Sigh. What to do now?
"What are you doing?" Just as Stone was at a loss, a voice suddenly rang out behind her.
Stone whirled around: "It's you? Aren't you that... that orc from yesterday?"
Standing not far from the stone was a tiny "person." How to describe her? Her overall appearance was actually quite similar to a human's. However, her hair was silver-white. If this were the stone's previous life, she would definitely look down on this person as a repressed pervert. But this was another world, a world without hair dye.
Aside from the hair color, the orc's ears were also somewhat different from those of a human. Two small, pale white ears were actually growing on its head. Upon closer inspection, Stone suddenly realized what was going on.
"I know, you're a puppy! A dog among the orcs!" She must be from the puppy clan. Because her ears looked exactly like the small ears of a Chihuahua from my previous life.